A Manual of Lambing Techniques

Cicely Hill, Agnes C Winter

Lambing can be a challenging prospect whether its your first or your thirty-first season. This highly practical manual will take you through the period approaching, during and immediately after lambing. Advice is given on how to deal with a range of situations: normal and malpresentations; the sick in-lamb ewe; Abortion; pre- and post-lambing prolapses; the health of the newborn lamb and finally, problems and emergencies in the first few days.

ISBN: 9781847975782

Published: June 1, 2013

Format: Ebook

£14.99

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ISBN: 9781861265746

Width: 189mm

Height: 246mm

Pages: 96

Published: February 24, 2003

Format: Hardback

Cicely Hill has 25 years' sheep-keeping experience with flocks on a frequent lambing system, lambing in batches throughout the year.

Agnes C Winter, B.VSc, PhD, DSHP, MRCVS is a specialist sheep vet who grew up on a family farm in the Yorkshire Dales and has kept sheep for most of her life. She is the past President of the Sheep Veterinary Society, President of the Wensleydale Longwool Sheep Breeder's Association and Vice President of the European College of Small Ruminant Health Management. She is now Honorary Professor of the Veterinary School at The University of Liverpool where she worked for 25 years before retiring in 2008.