Relaxed Farming - our farm in your classroom

Smells and sounds: Those first few minutes are a lovely bonding time for us and our lambs where we get used to each other's smells and sounds. Once outside it is important we can recognise them and they can recognise us. Here on the Relaxed smallholding it is not such a problem with just the two of us but in a field or on the moorland where there might be hundreds of us, losing our lambs can happen (imagine your local a park or school playground full of hundreds of mums, dads and children...).

We use smell and sound more than sight to find each other again. We all have our own individual 'bleats' and 'baas', a bit like your human voices.