Lamb Rate Trippled

TWO sets of triplets were born at St Joseph’s High School in Aberdeen yesterday kicking off a bumper spring lambing rate.

Lisa Bright, head of agriculture at St Joseph’s said while triplets were not unheard of , two sets of triplets born on the same day was a surprise.

Pete Brown student from St Joseph’s tending to one set of triplet lambs.

“It makes our lambing stats pretty good,” laughed Ms Bright.

“i mean to have two ewes produce six lambs that’s a 300 percent lambing rate which is great,” she said.

“We only have 15 sheep so things are going well this spring,” she said.

“It is odd during a drought to have multiple births and we’ve also had a cow recently have two calves,” Lisa Bright said.

Lisa had hoped to get a photograph of the two sets of triplets but it proved too tricky.