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Second chance for Shaun the sheep

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Adult sheep have a built-in woollen blanket to help keep them warm in winter, complete with lanolin, which helps repel moisture, but recent heavy rain events and biting winds have made life difficult for some of our newest little lambs.

Newborn lambs lose heat quickly in the winter chill, and because they don’t yet have the layer of fat and a plush coat that a few weeks of mother’s milk can p...


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