GloucestershireLive reports. Given how many of them there are, two other ewes have been drafted in as foster mums to feed a couple of the five lamps.Even giving birth to four lambs would have been worth writing about, says farm manager Andrew Eastabrook, who has worked in agriculture for 14 years.Andrew said: "In all my years working in agriculture, I've never come across a set of quintuplet lambs - it's a very special feat indeed."Apparently the chances of a ewe giving birth to quintuplets are a million to one, and it's even rarer for them to be born alive and well."When the mother was scanned to check she was healthy and that the pregnancy was all going well, four lambs showed up on the scan."That’s rare in itself because ewes tend to.
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