Aside from illegally importing a chunk of sheep to clone one, this is just animal husbandry. They weren't using equipment to modify the genome in any way. They

Aside from illegally importing a chunk of sheep to clone one, this is just animal husbandry. They weren't using equipment to modify the genome in any way. They were just breeding and selecting for a new kind of sheep. Humanity has been doing this for tens of thousands of years.