lambing

Pregnant women are also being advised to steer clear of new born lambs during lambing season due to a higher risk of infection.

He first realised he had a problem on the second day of lambing at the beginning of January.

"In February, when half term arrives, we start lambing our first lot of ewes, by Easter we're lambing our second lot," she says.

The season began in spring 1940 with goat shenanigans and the demands of lambing, a typical time in the Yorkshire Dales for the denizens of Skeldale House.

They could be doing the school run or in the middle of lambing, but when their pager goes off volunteer and retained firefighters across Scotland drop everything.