article_snippet: A lamb believed to be the biggest ever born in the UK weighs as much as a toddler.
article_snippet: It tipped the scales to a whopping 24lbs 2oz - almost three times the size of an average newborn lamb.
article_snippet: The Big One (right) towers above other lambs that have also been born on the farm this week (left) Dafydd Fon Ifan, who works full-time on the farm with parents Edmund and Llinos, said: 'A lamb is absolutely huge. '
article_snippet: A lamb was delivered about five days early so A lamb makes you wonder what size it would have been if the pregnancy had gone to term. '
article_snippet: We have had big lambs before
article_snippet: It is about the size of a three or four-week-old lamb.'
article_snippet: The previous record holder for the biggest lamb in the UK was Joan, born in Lancashire in 2013. 
article_snippet: we had to take it to the vet for a caesarean because of the size of A lamb. '
article_snippet: but she just can't keep up with A lamb's demand for milk because it is so big. '
article_snippet: So I am having to feed it a lot of milk by bottle too.
article_snippet: Dafydd Fon Ifan (right), who works on the farm with parents Edmund and Llinos, said: 'A lamb is absolutely huge' A lamb's mother (left) cannot keep up with The lamb's mother (left) demand for milk, so The lamb's mother (left) has to be given a bottle by Dafydd as well . '
article_snippet: I did some research online and a lamb called Joan was born a few years ago at 24lbs, so ours is 2oz heavier.'
article_snippet: a lamb called Joan previously was around eight kilograms.
highlights_snippet: Weighs almost three times the size of an average newborn lamb .