aw bless - we had a lamb born at college, with a deformed head I have never seen anything like it - but it was not normal - I am nosey and have to learn from these things, but college couldnt tell me much about it... I personally thought it needed being PTS - but it was left?

The piccies are great!! I'll have a farm one day, now where that young lovely farmer

There is something very special about it, and I am so glad my son will be lucky enough to grow up on a farm

Ben with last year's pet lambs





The milk bar

I think he is very lucky, something I am sure he will appreciate when he is grown up..and unlike alot of kids his age I bet he understands already that its not all fluffy!

Heres one of our bottle fed lambs - such a cutie this one is - wanted to sneak it down me overalls!

Them pictures are fab - lucky boy!

We have lambing live over our cornish hedge!

Also a regular gun patrol as lambs are being taken by foxes----or so it seems.

I love it when they start to go round in clumps and dance.

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I managed to catch the last 5 minutes Moobli - if you need any help I wouldn't mind

DD - me and you both - about the farm that is. I would love to have had my mum's upbringing - but in this day of course, she saw a calf being born and it had to be shifted by wheelbarrow as the cow had had it out of the barn...She also had a ride on the back of a hay truck - all in the lovely place called Kendal in Cumbria

Moobli can I come and live with you??

DD and SLB we should all live together on our farm I hated my childhood and being on the farm gave me a way to escape it all. I even did a spot of sheep showing

My children love to hear my stories and my eldest would love to be on a farm. I had 2 lovely goats to look after, besides my own, and it was my job to milk the nanny every morning.

I remember one incident when we were dipping them when a rather fiesty sheep decided to make a break for it and I got a full blow body slam as it jumped, I went flying

I was very lucky as the farmer was the son of the Lady (literally) that my parents were Butler and Housekeeper for. So he didn't mind me following him around and let me be really hands on, I got to inject them and shear them and even pull some lambs out. He even let me drive the tractor

I only have a small flock (not like Moobli) 10 sheep, we are really dairy, but I just find lambing time really stressfull. So far I have 1 female lamb born with no probs, the second lambing was a nightmare twins one very large all mixed up inside, we lost the bigger one but luckly mum and tiny are doing ok this morning. And I have one sheep down with a hernia.
Still when I let first mum and baby out this morning it was so nice to see her sproinging (sp) in the morning sun

We could always do with extra hands at lambing time SLB Also, Kendal is where I was born and I spent the first 20 years of my life in a small town close by. My grandparents were farmers in Ireland and I think that is where I get my deep love of the countryside and farming from. I think it is in the blood.

LOL Pilgrim.

It is great you have the stories to share with your children because, even though they aren't getting to grow up on a farm themselves, they will learn so much through your stories and your clear enthusiasm and love for that way of life.