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Quadruplet lambs at Boston Park Farm
Yorkshire Post
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06/03/2025
David Chappell, owner of Boston Park Farm talks about Stripey the ewe who has given birth to quadruplet lambs.
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I'm David Chappell from Boston Park Farm which is an open farm near Doncaster and we keep
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a variety of animals but we're talking today especially about the sheep and about our one
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special ewe, Stripey.
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Stripey was attacked by a fly strike last summer when she got maggots in her back and
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hence a different colouring to all the others so she's had some attention but she's rewarded
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us with what we thought were going to be triplets, she was scant for triplets and when she gave
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birth last Thursday the 27th I had to deliver the first one, it should come out with the
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head between the front feet and she was, this one was coming out with its head curled back
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and only one leg and I managed to get it and deliver it and she licked it and got it standing
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up and then she had another two triplets so they're all standing, feeding, thought they're
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all okay, went to have my breakfast and when I came back, gosh, she got four which is fairly
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rare, we do get it very very occasionally in ones, twos and threes but four is pretty
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unusual and the unusual thing as well is that they're such strong lambs and she's feeding
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all four which is hard work for her, she's only two teats there so she's feeding them
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nearly constantly but they're all doing well, they're doing great and they're strong lambs,
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we are topping them up a little bit with a drop of milk in the bottle as well and made
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it a week old so they're going to go now, I think it's 25 years ago, we had four then
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and so all this time and ones, twos and threes but here we are with Striper with four.
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