Queensland police investigate after 5,500 sheep worth $1.7m stolen from farm

Dorper sheep on a farm in Australia. Queensland police say 5,500 ewes and rams fitted with white National Livestock Identification System tags have been stolen from a property outside Blackall. Photograph: Outback to Coast/Getty Images

Queensland police are investigating after about 5,500 Dorper sheep worth more than $1.7m were allegedly stolen from a western Queensland farm.

Police said the sheep were stolen from a property outside Blackall, about 830km west of Brisbane, between February and May this year.