[JulieWall]

Something else worth mentioning if anyone new to smallholding is reading, is when bringing in cade lambs to find out why the lambs are motherless; did the mother die and if so why? The last thing you want to do is import something nasty into your flock or onto your land and likewise, you don't want to invest time and money raising a cade for it to die on you several weeks later. If it was just a triplet then fine, but anything else needs investigation before taking it.

[Marches Farmer]

Absolutely.  Is it a cade because Mum had an infection, or it had a long and arduous birth and she rejected it, was she in poor condition and had no milk (and therefore the lamb was malnourished through pregnancy), etc.....  We usually vaccinate lambs with Ovivac P Plus at 12 weeks and again at 16.  Ewes are vaccinated a month before first lamb is due and we lamb over only three weeks so we hope that the effect will last well enough to protect the lambs.  I doubt this is the case for an extended lambing period.