[Marches Farmer]

Over the years any lamb of ours that's not up and suckling quickly has been culled from the flock.  Still get the odd one that's slow to get going but they get a jacket, a feed of colostrum from a single-bearing ewe with plenty of milk and a mark on the card index that sees them sold as a store or ending up in the freezer. They almost always get going by the end of day two - just need a helping hand at first, especially if it's been a freezing night.  My job is to get all the lambs to live and if that means a bit of extra work then that's what I'm there for.  What am I going to do with my time otherwise - get a paper round?

[SallyintNorth]

I think everyone is in violent agreement, actually 

Everyone likes lambs that are up and sooking on their own within 30 minutes, and everyone would help a weakly lamb.  Everyone knows that newborns need colostrum within the first 2 hours so will get it into a lamb that's not doing it on its own.

And no-one would breed from ewes - or her lambs - if the lambs were always dopey and needed help.

It's lambing time!