A Ballintra farm has been making headlines all over the country after two sets of healthy sextuplets were born. Click on the arrows to photos from Siobhan McGowan's visit to Peter McGee's farm:
The birth of healthy sextuplets in sheep is considered extremely rare. But Ballintra farmer Peter McGee welcomed two such births on his farm this spring. And he has his hands full, helping out the ewes by hand-feeding half of the two broods.
He told Donegal Live: “I delivered all these lambs myself. They were fed every two hours for three or four days.
“They are all doing fine. I want to really thank the scanner who detected that there were six lambs in each ewe.”
Peter is hand-feeding six of the 12 sextuplets, with the respective mother ewes feeding the other six.
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