A lamb born without any wool has been saved from freezing to death – after being given a handmade fleece jacket.

Little Skippy was abandoned by his mother after he was born completely bald and he was found alone, dying in a field.

But farm hand Sally-Ann Fisher revived him and set about finding a way to keep him warm during the recent cold snap.

Skippy was born without a fleece (SWNS)

Cleverly, she gathered some shorn fleece from a neighbouring farm and made a wrap-around coat.

The adorable lamb is now living among the other animals at the farm near Ramsbury, Wiltshire, wearing his oversized fluffy fleece to keep him warm.

And he’s needed it during this unusually cold spell.

Sally-Ann said: “Skippy was born outside and his mother had triplets and he was the third one to be born.

The lamb has been fashioned an oversized coat (SWNS)

"The other two were absolutely fine, but unfortunately poor Skip didn’t have any wool at all or birth coat, so his mother rejected him and left him in a field, in the rain and the cold.

"On our rounds we found him, brought him inside, revived him, kept him warm and thought we’d better get a jacket on this little thing.

Farm hand Sally-Ann Fisher saved him from the cold (SWNS)



"We improvised with a bit of fleece borrowed from a neighbouring farm.

"He also has a selection of designer jackets to wear, made from old jumpers with the sleeves cuts off."

The lamb was born around two weeks ago and was nicknamed Skippy – after being compared to a kangaroo.

Skippy is now living at a farm near Ramsbury, Wiltshire (SWNS)

It is very rare for lambs to be born without a fleece, but it is not thought he has any health problem.

"Some to have a finer birth coat than others, but Skippy has just been unlucky,” said Sally-Ann, who runs the farm with her partner.



“But although he was born unlucky, he is a born survivor."



The lamb was dubbed Skippy after his resemblance to a kangaroo (SWNS)