Rare Of Breed

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Sian Tarrant is been to North Ronaldsay historic sheep dyke

warden appointed to look after a historic dike holds, a Rare Breed of seaweed-eating sheep on The Beach of an island in Orkney.

Sian Tarrant secured The Job on North Ronaldsay after a search that prompted interest from around The World .

your task will be to keep the 19th-century stone wall.

It will be used, managed by the municipality, But that it has become more difficult due to the recent weather damage and a decline in the population numbers on The Island .

Sian, 28, said the work was "quite disheartening" because so much of the dyke in an "unfavourable " condition".

The North Ronaldsay sheep eating seaweed

But She Said : "It's such a long history, the Association of the inhabitants of The Island , with the dike. I hope that I can repair to continue the work of love, and it. "

the structure, The 6ft built in high and 13 km long, in the 1800s, with The Beach stones.

It surrounds to keep the whole of The Island , The Sheep on the rocky foothills.

The Sheep are to be seen as an important part of the economy of The Island wool due to the popularity of North Ronaldsay mutton and.

Why do North Ronaldsay sheep eating seaweed? The dike surrounds The Island

North Ronaldsay sheep are an ancient breed.

It is believed that they originally have evolved to thrive on the diet, due to the difficult Winter and the isolated location, you could have left without the grass for months on end.

As a result, they absorb more of certain minerals, especially copper, from the algae.

The levee was built in the year 1831, to the preservation of The Island 's inland pastures for the other Pets.

This prevents The Sheep from mixing with other races, makes them rare. They also offer due to the low number of female breeding animals.

The Sheep are only allowed to in Germany during lambing season, which runs from may to August - But even then, some still hold on to their algae-only diet.

Sian, originally from East Sussex , and studied marine biology at the University of St. Andrews, and was volunteering with The National Trust in North Devon.

"I wanted to find something out, because this is what I love to do, and I saw this coming," she told BBC Radio Orkney.

Sian said, you've fallen in love with the life on The Island during the work with seals in A Number of locations in Scotland, including the uninhabited Orkney island of Eynhallow

you secured The Job , The Interview took place over Skype while she sat in a Car Park in Snowdonia with your phone.

"It was really surreal. I don't know what the thought of The Interview panel," She Said .

Volunteers come to the work on the dike, during a sheep festival

Alison Duncan of the North trust Ronaldsay, said Sian "very well-suited for The Job ".

she says, The Post , funded by the Nord-Islands-landscape-partnership, to make "a big difference", for the conservation of the dike.

"pieces to do it, they come every year, about the weather or the sea, and in The Past there were many people around these places again," She Said .

"But in the last few years, we've had major breaches of the dike, and it is more difficult to build, only the people here on The Island that up. "

The municipality has addressed the problem by an annual sheep Festival, if Volunteers to work on the dike.

Sian will be working with The Sheep Festival, and said they also wanted to win the people outside on the Orkney Islands, through things like volunteering and working Holidays

sheep, orkney

Source of news: bbc.com