"This guy has it all" - A Donegal farmer has paid a record sum for a 'once in a lifetime' lamb

A Donegal farmer has paid a record sum for a 'once in a lifetime' lamb. The lamb was sold at a County Antrim livestock mart for over £13,000 to Seamus Brown of Letterkenny. He said that he will use the pedigree Suffolk ram lamb, sold for £13,650, for breeding. "You only get an opportunity to buy a lamb as good as this one once in a lifetime and when the opportunity arises you must be brave and go for it," said Brown, speaking to the BBC. "He is so correct that I can use him to breed with all my ewes, where maybe other lambs might have minor faults and you'd have to choose the ewes carefully. "But this guy has it all - nice hair, good character, good top line, good colours, good mouth. I can't find any faults with him. "He has so much presence he makes a statement when he stands up there." The lamb was sold by Gary Beacom from Fivemiletown, at the Ballymena Livestock annual Premier Suffolk Show and Sale. The sale was a record price for Ballymena mart.