This is the incredible moment a farmer rescues barely-alive sheep after they spend more than 24 hours covered in a frozen snowdrift. <br /><br />Farmer Mike Boustead from Cumbria, UK, sets out into the frozen landscape after some of his Rough Fell sheep go missing amid a cold snap in the UK in March 2018.<br /><br />The sheep, seeking refuge from the icy winds, hide behind traditional dry stone walls – but quickly become buried under massive snowdrifts. <br /><br />"We're ten short out of 90," Boustead says. "So they'll either be buried somewhere or they'll have climbed over the snowdrifts onto the fell."<br /><br />The weather is inclement, to say the least – Boustead's robust tractor even needing assistance to move in the heavy snow.<br /><br />After he feeds his sheep that are very much not buried, he starts digging. <br /><br />The farmer describes it as finding "a needle in a haystack". <br /><br />Upon digging into the massive snowdrifts, Boustead and other members of his family find some of the missing sheep – but he says many are "in a bad way".<br /><br />One can be seen limp and barely breathing. <br /><br />But being resilient animals, the sheep quickly recover – even after being covered in snow for more than a day.
