Relaxed Farming - our farm in your classroom

Today has been yet another fabulously warm and sunny day - we have now had four in a row and are optimistic that the grass may start to grow soon... fingers crossed.
The animals have all really made the most of it and everywhere we looked or walked today, sleeping, resting, curled up bodies were lounging around. The kids and the lambs are such tactile animals (like to be touched) and they are pretty much always to be found in pairs or more, heads and legs all intertwined such that when they are the same colour (as in Grape and Plum, second photo) you often have to look hard to see which legs belong to which bodies.
Sunshine is so good for the livestock (as it is for us humans). It helps create Vitamin D in their bodies which keeps teeth and bones healthy and whilst warmth can encourage such things as flies, lice and fleas, which we don't want; it can actually kill off other nasties such as bad bacteria, something we DO want!
In the same way that sunshine can make us humans feel happier, we are sure that the animals enjoy being out in it too. Mucking out has been soooooo much easier this week because they are all spending so little time inside the barn/field shelters.
And in other exciting news, Banana decided to spend the night in the small duck house, where we now have a grand total of EIGHTEEN eggs in the nest box. It looks as though she might be about to go broody!!! We will keep you posted!!!