Relaxed Farming - our farm in your classroom

Please check our feet: just like the goats we have hooves and pads with a hard outside covering (like your nails) and because we do a lot of walking (to find grass) but not always on hard surfaces, our hooves don't always naturally get worn down.

Like goats we have two pads in each hoof (cloven hooved) and the gap between them can get full of poo and mud which may have nasty bacteria in it.

So every now and again, it is good to check our feet, give them a quick clean and a cut of the hoof if it if getting too long or is split and then end with a squirt or two of anti-bacterial spray! The spray is usually purple and it's hilarious cos when we then scratch ourselves, we get purple all over our fleeces (well, we think it's funny...).