Baby boom as farm gets 10th set of lamb triplets

A farm's lambing season is having a baby boom as it welcomed its 10th set of triplets.

The lambs were born at Eastfield Farm in Alford, Lincolnshire, on Wednesday.

Owner Pippa Williams said it was unusual to see more than three sets of triplets from the 120 first-time mums at their farm during the season, which started on 4 February. But this year they "have their hands full".

"We never expected to have this many sets of triplets already," she said.

Mrs Williams said they had 620 sheep to lamb in total at the farm and they were hoping to have 1,000 born by the end of the season.

"I hope we don't get loads and loads of triplets because it makes it hard work but we'll have to see what happens," she said.

Mrs Williams said the farm had so far lambed 80 of their first-time mums.

She said: "They're being really good mums, we never leave three lambs on a sheep, we take one off so they're left with two.

"The extra lamb either we will feed it or try and adopt it to a mum who has only had one lamb."

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