Relaxed Farming - our farm in your classroom

Spring has arrived when you see lambs in the field: we know our lambs are seriously cute and spring lambs bounding around green fields and open moorland definitely bring a smile to most humans' faces!

As with goats, we really need to wait until we are 18 months old before breeding. Our first lambing saw Mrs White and I having one lamb each and since then we've always had two. Most sheep are bred so that their lambs can then become your roast dinners, of course some lucky lambs end up being kept for breeding and to replace older ewes/rams.

Mrs White and I usually lamb well with very few problems but in larger flocks, there will always be some problems and a lot of farmers/smallholders make sure they are with their sheep 24 hours a day during lambing time so they can act quickly when problems do occur.