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Countryside: Highland cow with royal blood

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12/11/2023

Highland cow with royal blood

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Royal cow, Armagh apples and a lonely sheep.

A Highland bull with royal blood arrives in Omagh, Richhill Apple Harvest Fayre celebrates the Bramley and Britain’s loneliest sheep is rescued in Scotland.

Farmer, Alastair Moore, welcomes a special Highland cow to his farm in Omagh – a bull called Owen that was bred by the late Queen Elizabeth II at her Balmoral Estate. It’s crunch time in Richhill as it celebrates the Bramley at its Harvest Fayre, St Killian Carnlough students, Emma Mitchell,, Alex McAlister and Peter Agnew are crowned Angus Beef Challenge champions and we find out more about Fiona, Britain’s loneliest sheep, who was rescued after two years on her own at the foot of cliffs in the Scottish Highlands.


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