Chris and his sheepdog Joe are joined by a male pheasant to help drive the sheep from field to field (Picture: Caters)

This pheasant is having an identity crisis.

The bird is a little mixed up. It seems to believe it is a sheepdog, even rounding up a flock of 270 every morning.

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For the past 18 months, this game cock pheasant has helped bemused Cumbrian farmer, Chris Purdham and his dog, keep livestock in check.

The unnamed bird appears several times a day at Chris’s Gamblesby farm, in Cumbria, while he does the rounds on his quad-bike checking on his fell sheep.


The bird helps to herd up 270 sheep a day (Picture: Caters)

Chris, 33, said: ‘He’s there first thing in the morning, and last thing at night, and even when I go down at times during the day to check on the sheep. He just appears when he hears my quad-bike.’

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The bird first joined Chris at work last year during his 2015 lambing season.



Chris, said: ‘He first started following me around the fields and down the lonning. Then one day he just started to round the sheep up. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing at first, but I have got used to him now.

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The bird isn’t afraid of the farm’s resident sheepdog (Picture: Caters)

‘It’s definitely the same cock pheasant.’

Chris posted a video online showing his new assistant rounding up sheep from one field through a gate to an adjoining one.

Despite being considerably smaller, the pheasant isn’t afraid of the farmer’s sheepdog. Chris added: ‘They seem to have got used to each other, and the pheasant is definitely cock of the walk.’