But rearing healthy lambs on the bottle – and now, from an automatic feeding machine – also makes good economic and welfare sense, she said. Tracey, who is also a well-known photographer and author of ...

This final instalment of the lambing season 'Winning at Weaning' series brings you some tips for successful lamb rearing this season.

As lambing approaches and labour is harder to find than ever before, it could be time to invest in an artificial lamb feeder to lighten the workload. With a variety of ad-lib, warm milk dispensers on ...

WEARDALE farmer's wife Barbara Coulthard used to spend an average of three hours a day, for more than six weeks, bottle-feeding orphan and surplus lambs. Now an automatic feeder has slashed the task ...

Choosing a rearing system for orphan and multiple lambs that matches labour availability and numbers in combination with providing the right nutrition is key to success. Systems range from hand ...

Heightened biosecurity measures have closed lamb banks and special auction sales and few farms now have the labour required to bottle rear or cross foster surplus lambs. This has created a dilemma for ...