The first spring lamb at Newbridge Farm Park is the result of an unplanned liaison between a black hebridean and an adventurous charollais ram.

Normally lambs are only born at the park around the end of March and the Gardner family, who run the rural tourist attraction, try to keep breeding programmes strictly controlled.

But the ram had other ideas and managed to get into a field full of black hebridean sheep.

Wayne Gardner said: "I'm afraid he jumped the fence."

The result was Fuzzy and Mr Gardner said: "He's more of a charollais but he has brownish, fluffy bits around his face."

Visitors will be able to see Fuzzy when the park, near Aylton, opens for a new season, on April 3.