“Lambster Wheel” Keeps Lambs Happy

“Lambster Wheel” Keeps Lambs Happy LIVESTOCK Miscellaneous A New Zealand farmer has invented a novel way to keep lambs happy Bradley Stewart came up with the idea of a “lambster wheel” which is sort of a big hamster wheel he built to get his orphan lambs walking They seem to love using it The lambster wheel consists of a big expanded metal wheel that’s held onto a wooden post in Stewart’s shed The wheel rotates on a single stub axle and allows the lambs to run even when their space is confined Slats spaced about a foot apart help provide traction The wheel is a fun way to keep lambs entertained whenever they’re in the shed says Stewart “I raise up to 300 orphan lambs and even when they can run outside in the pasture they’ll still spend a lot of time in the shed either eating playing or snoozing in the sun They appreciated some ramps that I had previously built to run around on so I thought they might like running on a spinning wheel too ” he says He used the front wheel stub assembly from an old car and part of an old ewe mothering pen to weld the wheel together

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