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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?

ÍæÅ¼½ã½ã 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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From the lambing shed

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