Capturing a loose lamb in the (large) garden

amandstu · 22-05-2026 03:41PM #1

It must have escaped from a nearby field and seems to have been here for a day or two from evidence of unexplained knocked over flower pots a day or so ago..

Any tips on how to keep it from wandering off onto the main road until such time as I can find the owner ?

Can I tempt it with any food for it to allow me to handle it?

Can I put a rope around it so as to keep it from leaving or is that likely to cause it to do itself harm

eastie17 · 22-05-2026 04:29PM

Can you hunt it back towards the field? It must have gotten in some way and it will want to go back to the flock so that would be my first suggestion.
I wouldn’t put a rope on it, unless your going to watch it 24 x7 it’ll find some way of damaging itself.

You could get some portable wire used for hen houses and with another person walk it towards a corner and pen it in. Would have to be that mesh wire as sheep are very hard to fence in

It won’t have gone far from the flock so I presume you have a field nearby with sheep in it?

And unless you know how to pick up and handle lambs you’ll probably have a hard time holding on to it

amandstu · 22-05-2026 04:51PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124490342#Comment_124490342

It has actually found itself a corner in the shrubbery with big stone walls behind it.A small clearing where it looks very comfortable ,explaining why it is still there (effectively penned now if it stays there)

I came upon it outside this space trying to get past a barrier and it has gone back in .

It must have come from the neighbour's field but our own field is large and wooded so I don't know if it would find its own way back.

Maybe the best is to ask around who owns that field so that they can pick it up themselves.(and repair their fence maybe)