The 'impossible lamb' that brought smiles and joy to the country during the COVID-19 pandemic has died.

Wally the lamb weighed just 900 grams and was the size of a can of Coke when farmer Ben Pohlner and his wife Sarah found him in the grass at their farm at Warrnambool in south-west Victoria in August 2021.

"Wally lived the life of no other sheep; he would get a crate of strawberries to eat regularly. You've got a sheep living in 'sheep-opia'," Mr Pohlner said.

"He couldn't have had a better life, he really couldn't."

Other farmers told the family Wally had almost no chance of survival.

Ben credits the tiny lamb's survival to his wife, Sarah.

"My wife, being a midwife, just went, there is no way we are doing this (put Wally down)," he said.

Together with their children, Georgia, Ab

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