Price of Lamb Lambing time covers a good part of
winter and spring and it has already started. The first lambs on the farm nearest to as were four or five days old when the snow came, but the cold weather had been forecast and the flock, like most flocks round about, was folded close to the farm buildings and sheltered with straw bales. Newly born lambs seem to be such shaky, fragile creatures, but their capacity to survive is often quite astonishing and I have seen the most sickly youngsters making their way at the heels of their mothers in appalling conditions. It is, however, a sad truth that losses at lambing can be heavy, even though the average shepherd looks after his flock with a devotion that has to be witnessed to be understood, and if lamb is dear at the shop a high price has already been paid for it in labour and physical hardship.
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