Two rams were found alive after being buried 23 days in the snow in Northern Ireland. These very lucky “Rambo rams” survived in an air pocket, but more than 20.000 sheep have died.
The rams, which survived in an air pocket in a ditch covered in 6ft (1.8m) of snow, had spent 23 days without food in freezing conditions in the north Antrim hills.
As the thaw began, the Blackface rams had access to water and there are signs they started to eat each other’s wool.
The rams, each worth more than £1,000 (US$1,620.00), were trapped during a spring blizzard.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22191343
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