Westray welcomes a farmer’s dozen

Counting sheep may help you sleep, but when 17 lambs pop out of just three ewes, it’s hard to get a rest from the excitement!

The Harcus family of Branstane, Westray, can attest to this — having welcomed two sets of sextuplet lambs in a single day last week, straight off the back of a quintuplet arrival.

Read the full story in this week’s edition of The Orcadian, available in shops and online.