Originating in the icy Swiss Alps, Valais blacknose sheep are renowned for their fluffy white coats, dark faces, spiral horns ...

The Valais blacknose breed, seldom seen outside their native Switzerland and often called the world’s cutest sheep, are worth up to £10,000 each – 40 times the value of an ordinary lamb.

Cofounder Tim Spittle with a Black Lion lamb fromw hich they source ... were in Kentucky to implant 40 selected Dorset Sheep with Pure Valais Blacknose sheep embryos in order to create the hybrid ...