A lamb believed to be the biggest ever born in the UK weighs as much as a toddler . The super-sized animal - christened The Big One - was delivered via caesarean section on Tuesday at Ty Mawr Farm in Denbigh , north Wales . It tipped the scales to a whopping 24lbs 2oz - almost three times the size of an average newborn lamb . 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 : 'The lamb is absolutely huge . 'It was delivered about five days early so it makes you wonder what size it would have been if the pregnancy had gone to term . 'We have had big lambs before but I have never seen anything like this . 'As soon as it was delivered the vet weighed it straight away and she was just smiling because of how big it was . 'Dad and I guessed about eight or nine kilograms - we could n't believe it when she said 11 . It is about the size of a three or four-week-old lamb . ' The previous record holder for the biggest lamb in the UK was Joan , born in Lancashire in 2013 . The Big One is 2oz heavier . Dafydd , 18 , said : 'The ewe went into labour early and we did n't even have a chance to deliver naturally . 'We had to take it to the vet for a caesarean because of the size of the lamb . 'It is healthy though , it 's spot on . The ewe is doing well too . They are together but she just ca n't keep up with the lamb 's demand for milk because it is so big . 'So I am having to feed it a lot of milk by bottle too . It will be interesting to see how he develops . The mammoth lamb was born ( left ) at Ty Mawr Farm in Denbigh , north Wales , on Tuesday and had to be delivered via caesarean section . Dafydd Fon Ifan ( right ) , who works on the farm with parents Edmund and Llinos , said : 'The lamb is absolutely huge ' The lamb 's mother ( left ) can not keep up with its demand for milk , so it has to be given a bottle by Dafydd as well . ' I think it is the biggest to have ever been born in the UK . I did some research online and a lamb called Joan was born a few years ago at 24lbs , so ours is 2oz heavier . ' The biggest lamb born at the farm previously was around eight kilograms . The family are now considering whether to send an application to the Guinness World Records to have The Big One 's record claim substantiated .
Delivered via caesarean section at Ty Mawr Farm in north Wales . The baby was born weighing just 2lbs 3oz and is the first of its kind to be delivered by Caesarean.