Cumbrian farmers lost hundreds of ewes and lambs during March's cold weather.
Spring is in the air and lambs are skipping through the fields.
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Grass sprouts from the rooftops of tall apartment buildings and lambs can be found grazing on these aerial pastures, the occasional ill-starred creature crossing the border of its tiny world and plummeting into traffic, only to be stolen away almost immediately by a hungry citizen.
Police have launched an inquiry after five ewes and two lambs were killed on a Denbighshire farm.
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Pregnant women should also avoid contact with sheep and newborn lambs during the lambing season because there is a small risk that an infected sheep or lamb could pass the infection on at this time.
Saarinen grew up speaking Finnish and spending childhood summers playing with lambs and cows in the Scandinavian countryside, and she began to miss that part of her identity without her parents to keep it alive.
Colin Evans, who farms at Pant y Goitre farm in the Usk Valley in Monmouthshire, said between 20 and 25 lambs born to his 800 ewes appeared to have been affected by Schmallenberg - up to 5% of the flock.
Farms in parts of Conwy, Denbighshire, Wrexham, Gwynedd, Flintshire and Powys have been allowed to bury their own sheep, lambs and calves.
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Farms in parts of Conwy, Denbighshire, Wrexham, Gwynedd, Flintshire and Powys had already been allowed to bury their own sheep, lambs and calves.
His land is 96% windswept hillsides, but provides a living for 1, 000 tenants and employees and sustains 16, 000 cattle, while producing 127, 000 lambs and 50, 000 tonnes of timber a year.
Farms in the worst affected areas of Conwy, Denbighshire, Wrexham, Gwynedd, Flintshire and parts of Powys will be temporarily allowed to bury their sheep, lambs and calves.
Farmers in Devon and Cornwall say they want more information about a disease that can lead to lambs and calves being stillborn or deformed.
It causes relatively mild conditions in cattle and sheep, but where infection takes place during the early stage of pregnancy it can result in congenital disorders of lambs and calves, stillbirths and abortions.
It's not all fluffy lambs and everything born perfect - that's not the real world.
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She even poses lambs and rabbits so deliberately that they seem to be robotic.
Instead, they're sending fresh fish from pristine waters, tender meat of coddled lambs and untainted dairy products.
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He said there was no exact figure but there would probably be thousands of lambs and sheep lost in England and Wales.
The virus causes lambs and calves to be stillborn or deformed.
He raised lambs and built sheds, fishponds, and even a primitive swimming pool, for his kids and grandkids and the children and grandchildren of his friends.
He said there was no exact figure for the number of stock lost but there would probably be thousands of lambs and sheep in England and Wales.
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"Do not assume these are cases of Schmallenberg virus infection as other diseases can cause birth defects in lambs and calves and it is important to know which you are dealing with, " he said.
The owners of the farm on Llanddaniel, near Gaerwen on the island - which has been badly hit by the outbreak where more than 40, 000 sheep have been culled - had been part of a group who successfully argued against the slaughter of their 60 ewes, lambs and three cattle.
It causes fever in adult cattle, although the animals do recover, and congenital disorders in lambs.
Thousands of sheep and new-born lambs have died in the recent cold spell, according to the National Farmers' Union (NFU).
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