• Question: What is the life expectancy of the average Yorkshire sheep?

    Asked by yorkshireyorkshire to Emma, Jimmy, Janet, Niall, Simon on 15 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Janet Daly

      Janet Daly answered on 15 Mar 2013:

      Sheep usually live for around 10 years, but I knew one called Pipkin (she was a bottle-fed lamb) who lived to be 16…she lived in a barn at the very end of her life.

    • Photo: Niall Crawford

      Niall Crawford answered on 15 Mar 2013:

      Depends what it’s being farmed for… food or wool.

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