Ewe owner and Hopea Suffolk and White Suffolk Stud principal Ellie McDonald said she had never seen anything like it before.

“I bought the ewe when she was in lamb a few years ago – she first had triplets and then last year she had a single,” she said.

“We couldn’t believe it when she had quintuplets – she is obviously a good producer.”

Miss McDonald said her dad had been a farmer for 50 years and had never heard of a ewe having quintuplets.

“Apparently it’s a one-in-a-million chance,” she said.

“They were born about three weeks ago and the smallest one was about as wide as a Coke can – it would have been less than two kilograms.”

Miss McDonald said the five lambs, two rams and three ewes, were now doing fine.

“We took three off the ewe to raise ourselves because mum only has two teats,” she said.

Miss McDonald said she was excited to see how the lambs grow up. 

“They might make up my whole show team in the future,” she said.