Advice
Consistent lamb prices throughout 2024 have increased confidence among UK sheep farmers, with more than 83% saying they had maintained or increased the number of ewes to the ram last autumn.
Attention to detail is essential when lambing indoors.
A focus on ewe nutrition during the last six to eight weeks of pregnancy can help produce healthy lambs and maintain ewe health.
Schmallenburg – keep up to date
What do you need to know about the Schmallenberg virus?
Farmers are urged to stay vigilant this lambing and calving season after cases of Schmallenberg have been identified in southern Scotland.
Sheep special
Sheep and lambing blogs
- Emma Gray's Farming Life blog series
- From the lambing shed: Hannah Murrell - "It's not unusual for me to dream about sheep at night"
Lambing essentials
Scottish sheep farmer Nicola Wordie has made a video for social media, listing all the essentials every farmer needs at lambing time.
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From the lambing shed
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