We do understand that, with clients all over the County and across the Welsh border, our vets may be delayed at times but they specialise in farm and equine and have always been excellent. I'm sure there have been a number of occasions when we've called them out when, if I guddled around inside the ewe for longer, I could have lambed them myself but this is a judgement call where I prefer to err on the side of caution. If the ewe gets tired the lambs are also likely to be tired and then you're risking poor mothering up, tubing, using an adopter and so on.
We had one yesterday with one leg back where we just couldn't get the lamb back in the ewe was pushing so hard, even with her back end tipped up on a bale and lots of lubricant, so when the lamb's tongue started to go purple we just had to cross our fingers and haul away. Fortunately, probably aided by all that lubricant, it came out OK, but it was an interesting ten minutes.