Young sheep still with its dam or up to 5 months of age. Qualified as ram or ewe lamb. In commercial usage may include much older animals, e.g in Europe.
- l. bed — uterus.
- bummer l. — an American term for an orphan lamb that has to be fed artifically with milk replacer.
- l. dysentery — a severe, highly fatal enteritis with diarrhea and dysentery in young lambs caused by Clostridium perfringens type B.
- l. industry — includes stud flocks which produce rams of fat lamb breeds, e.g. Dorset Down, commercial farms breeding crossbred fat lamb mothers and fattening the lambs. The latter may be undertaken in feedlots or on special pasture fattening farms. Saleyards and sale rings, lamb abattoirs and wholesale outlets comprise the marketing side of the industry.
- l. marking — earmarking, castration and tail docking.
- l. marking rate — the percentage of lambs born which reach the stage of lamb marking. An index of lamb mortality rate.
- l. poison — see isotropis.
- l's quarter — chenopodium album.
- l's tongue — Scleroblitum (chenopodium) atriplicinum, plantago.
