Ysgol Trefonen visited the lambing sheds on Tuesday this week. They arrived in the morning and had a brisk walk down the hill to Nantleach, whilst i pointed out on the way the damage the badgers were doing to the roadside and how they could all be countryside detectives if you keep alert and look at everything that is going on around you.
After arriving at the Lambing sheds they helped to water and feed hay to all the ewes in the shed. they bottle fed some of the tiddling lambs (Lambs with no mums) and also gave Nemo his first feed of the day. He was very pleased to share his pen with four children at a time who scratched his head and legs for him, and he just loved trying to suck on someones wellies or coat!
Some of the children would have sat the whole time and just cuddled a lamb, I'm sure - what all of we farmers take for granted is a little bit of heaven for many children and older people.......
It was a good opportunity , in my opinion, for the children to see a dead lamb. They had the opportunity to see that there is nothing to be feared in seeing death, and that the body of a dead lamb looks the same as a body of a live lamb but is cold. All stepped back when I said of here's a lamb which has died in the night, but when I said it was alright to touch him and feel him they all stepped forward and soon everyone had come running down from the first shed to share in the knowledge of the dead.
They saw the Cattle and Calves in the sheds, and also one of our bulls, they met Saffy, our hound dog who is back for the summer, and had the opportunity to play on some large stacked bales of straw. they had a wonderful time, and I actually had to throw the teachers out as it was well over the time when they should have left and they were still looking on at lambing pens.
They were fortunate to see a lamb being born,(with a little help from farmer Len) and they named him Trefonen. he will be going out side today with his mum we have marked him with a T so we can keep them informed of his growth and maybe they can see him again next time they come to visit us on the farm.
I have to say the next day a parcelforce man came to deliver a parcel to us and said he believed we had had a school visit yesterday, apparently he had a niece who had come out, she was full of it last night he said couldn't stop talking about it, but mainly she was most talkative about the dead lamb!!!!!!!
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