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Lambing 2025: Everything you need to know for a successful lambing season

Advice, insights and stories straight from UK farms – this is your lambing guide for 2025

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Lambing 2025: Everything you need to know for a successful lambing season

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.


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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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