Watch: Hobby farmer Tracy Ferguson celebrating after pet ewe Luna has five lambs
A Newtownabbey family are still recovering from their pet ewe Luna having five lambs yesterday.
Cited as a “one in a million event”, it is extremely rare for a ewe to have quintuplets.
It is ever rarer for all five lambs to be born alive and healthy.
Explaining what happened, Tracy said: “I went down yesterday and Luna’s bag was out so my son and I helped to get the first one delivered.
“The first one was very big, but right after the first there was another lamb.
“So I checked her again and there was another lamb on the way.
“So that was three so I then settled Luna down and went up to Blairs to get some more colestrum and some more milk.”
But Tracy added that when she returned and checked Luna she “saw another lamb coming”.
“And after the fourth lamb I checked her again and saw another wee thing wanting to be born. So then we had five.
“I brought in the two weakest lambs in for the night to make it a bit easier for the mother. She is a great wee mother, but I think she needed some help.
Explaining that she keeps a hobby farm, Tracy says they have Zwartbles and Texels.
“The lambs are wee Zwartbles, which is a black Dutch sheep.
“Although we have a scaffolding company in Newtownabbey called K2 Scaffolding, we still like to keep animals.
“And we are over the moon that this has happened.”