Lambing has started slowly so far this year, at Higher Bodley, just one of the Blue faced leicesters has had triplets. Robbie has taken one of these away from mum to give the other 2 more chance of doing well. This is common practice as sheep only have 2 teets, a smaller lamb will often go hungry. I now have the pleasure of bottle feeding the spare lamb! But i'm sure he'll soon have some friends. By the way, the lamb has been named Alann by Tanitha.
Some of the swaledales have also lambed, these are much easier to deal with than the others as they are much stronger and able to help themselves a bit.
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