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Marshall Haferkamp, not shown, is keeping his triple triplet lambs in the same pen in order to keep a closer eye on them, at his sheep ranch near Miles City, Mont. Haferkamp said this unusual bounty of babies all dropped in his pasture within two days. Because he selects his ewes for multiple births and enriches their feed during the breeding season, Haferkamp said he has triplets every year but rarely this many, so close together. The sheep are all Katahdin hair sheep, which is a hardier breed and easily handles earlier lambing, freeing Haferkamp to look after his other breeds during their later lambing season. (AP Photo/Miles City Star, Steve Allison)
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Frum Helen Back on February 06 at 12:15 p.m.
I’m grateful my feed was never enriched.
IDHound on February 06 at 4:50 p.m.
This takes me back… my grandparents raised sheep - they were bred to have twins but would have triplets on occasion. The mother often couldn’t take care of 3 so they had to be fed with bottles. As a kid, I remember lambing season was great fun - there’s nothing cuter than a baby lamb and we were given the bottle feeding jobs.