I saw some female black faced lambs on leboncoin (that is the same breed as Harris our ram) and phoned the guy. He had sold them all, but had three older sheep he was selling (7years and 8 years) because they were struggling to get up the mountains in the summer. We went to look at them, but in the end decided not to buy them as they were totally wild. Sheep generally are nervous and don't rush at people they don't know, but these ones went MENTAL when the farmer went near them, we thought they were going to injure themselves flying at walls etc. They couldn't be caught to check their teeth or anything, but apparently one didn't have any front teeth left but he hadn't been able to check the molars. He said if we wanted to check them we could go back next week and he would get his young and athletic cousin to catch them before hand. However we decided that even though they were cheap and still bearing lambs we didn't need sheep that were so wild.
We realised on the way home that they were the first animals we have been to see and not bought!
They were in the mountains above Lourdes kind of near where the highland cows came from. Must be the area for Scottish breeds of animals! Didn't take photos unfortunately.
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