Sheep News

Elanco’s free Blowfly Watch service has re-launched to keep farmers informed of the risk of blowfly strike in their local area.

A Lincolnshire farm has been celebrating an unprecedented lambing season as it has just welcomed its 10th set of triplets. 

Norfolk shepherdess Hannah Murrell is gearing up for her first lambing season. The 24-year-old shepherdess is expecting up to 300 rare and native breed lambs to be born in the next few weeks at Gawdy Hall Estate in Harleston.

Yorkshire farmer Tom Carlisle wanted to put a smile on other farmers’ faces with his parody lambing track, inspired by the theme song for Only Fools and Horses.

A sheep that was shot on a Suffolk rare breeds farm has made a full recovery, having recently given birth to “gorgeous” twins. 

Farm animals worth almost £1.8 million were severely injured or killed in dog attacks in 2024. This marks a decrease of 26% compared to the previous year, NFU Mutual has reported.

UK sheep meat production is forecast to grow by 2% in 2025, however, the lamb crop for 2025/26 is predicted to fall by 2% compared to the previous year. 

Wiltshire Rural Crime Team has issued a plea for dog owners after a sheep was bitten by a dog and another ewe aborted her lambs. 

A Suffolk farmer has been ordered to pay £27,000 after he left dozens of dead sheep on his land for weeks. 

A recent survey of over 100 sheep producers has highlighted that 58% of respondents will consider feeding milk replacer cold to surplus lambs this season and view the method as a viable alternative to feeding warm milk during the busy lambing period.

MSD Animal Health has launched its 2025 FlockCheck diagnostic scheme, which offers a subsidised blood test for toxoplasmosis and EAE.

SCOPS and COWS have offered advice on using the very limited number of products available for treating liver fluke.