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

Advice

• Improving the management of surplus lambs

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.

• Top tips for indoor lambing

Attention to detail is essential when lambing indoors.

• Pre-lambing nutrition offers long-term gain

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.

• Read all the latest updates and advice here

Sheep special

• Experimenting with a new breed for outdoor lambing
• Lancashire family's passion for Dalesbred sheep spans four generations

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

If you want to feature in our 'From the lambing shed' blog during lambing, please email [email protected] 

• Read last year's blog from sheep farmer Bizza Walters

Your lambing 2025

PICTURE GALLERY: Lambing 2025

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