Sheep-rearing a new agri rehab skill
Young offenders’ sheep-rearing skills were honoured at The Balmoral Show recently. Inmate students from a prison facility in Belfast won their first red rosette for their Bluefaced Leicester sheep. Guided by Richard Graham, vocational training officer at Hydebank and part-time sheep farmer, they reared, fed and groomed the prize-winning Bluefaced Leicester sheep at Hydebank Wood College in Northern Ireland. Graham launched the agri-initiative partly to provide animal therapy to the…