Every new season for calving and lamb’ng brings with it a series of freak births, and in the Cambridge district this season there have been quite a number of suich pranks on the part of Nature. The most extraordinary is, perhaps, the birth of a record heavy lamb on the property of Mr A. P. Robinsoh, of Roto-o-rangi, where a ewe recently gave birth to what must surely be the world’s heaviest lamb at birth. It weighed no less than 201 b. _ The heavyweight was weak on its legs for the first day or two, but gained strength and is still alive and “ going strong.” The mother was a Southdown ewe. The average weight of a normal healthy lamb at birth is about 7 lbs to 8 lbs.
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Waipa Post, Volume 49, Issue 3506, 16 August 1934, Page 5
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