Relaxed Farming - our farm in your classroom

We are pregnant for about five months: this is known as our gestation period and like goats it is around 145-151 days long. The best time for us to give birth is March/April when the grass is growing and it is warmer and then we can eat lots of fresh grass and produce loads of lovely milk for our lambs.

As we build up to the big day, we get bigger and bigger (and with our thick winter fleece on we can look huge). The lambs do most of their growing inside us in the last six weeks (just as with goats) and in this time our udder starts to really fill with milk.