Lambing Course

About the course

We run lambing courses each spring on a local farm. The course is geared towards people who are keen to be taught how to manage ewes and lambs correctly at this busy time. This one-day course is run as a small group to allow lots of ‘hands on’ learning.

Students will learn:

• Managing sheep in the run up to lambing – nutrition and body condition; vaccination and parasite control.
• The normal lambing process.
• How and when to intervene – Recognise and correct different presentations; use lambing ropes and snares, assist, and revive lambs. Care of the ewe after an assisted lambing.
• Recognising and dealing with prolapses, milk fever and twin lamb disease.
• How to stomach tube lambs and colostrum management.
• Injecting ewes and lambs.
• Castrating and tail docking.
• Management of hypothermia in lambs.