Sheep gives birth to unusually large litter of 5 lambs on B.C. farm

When Brittny Syme’s sheep started to give birth, she was hoping that it might be triplets — but she never expected the ewe to deliver five lambs.

“They were just coming out, and I think she was a little shocked, too,” she said of the mother sheep.

In the seven years they’ve been raising sheep, there’s never been this large a litter at Ida View Farms near Salmon Arm, B.C. Earlier in the lambing season, a ewe had quadruplets, so Syme was surprised when an even bigger litter showed up.

The mother is a Rideau Arcott-Dorset cross, a commercial breed known for multiple births. It’s common for sheep to have two or three

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