WARNING: Squeamish readers may not want to read this post, there are some quite gory photos of just-birthed lambs!
My parents live in a fairly remote Cornish village, and there are several farms within walking distance of their house. Lambing season is just starting, and one of the farmers has begun the long days of overseeing his flock as lots of lambs are being born.
Tractors pulling animal transport trailers are a frequent sight going past the window, and Georgie has even started to recognise the two main farmers’ tractors, calling out whose tractor it is driving past.
This week has been quite a hard one, as Georgie got really quite ill and spent several days lying listlessly around the house, looking pale, hardly eating, coughing a lot, and suffering from a really high temperature. Lydia has been teething and a little bit poorly with a cough, and both Dad and I are suffering too.
Thursday morning the weather eased up a bit and we finally got out of the house for a spell of fresh air, as Georgie was starting to look a bit brighter and we were itching to get outside. Typically, we got rained on halfway round, and took shelter in the lambing shed up at one of the farms.
Luckily the farmer was there and welcomed us in out of the rain & hail, and we were able to see the brand new baby lambs. We had a cuddle with one, and we even watched a lamb being born. It’s twin arrived shortly before we did, and they were so sweet snuggled up together in the hay – even if they were covered in goo!
Georgie found it all fascinating, although she was still definitely under the weather and was a bit subdued throughout.
If you want to see Dad’s amazing yet completely gross photo of the lamb actually birthing, click here!
We spent a little while looking at the lambs before continuing on with our walk. Georgie was pleased to see a lamb having it’s “mummy milk just like Lydie” which was sweet! I’m glad that she is having these sorts of great learning & life experiences while we are staying down here.
Wow! How cool to see first hand those lovely lambs newly born! Hope the girls are a lot better now! LM was ill for a few days too! Not nice! #countrykids
It was amazing, it was so nice of the farmer to welcome us in! The girls are definitely on the mend, thanks – although still not 100%. Thanks for commenting!
How absolutely special to see the birth of the baby lambs. Despite the goo, it’s wonderful for children to experience the wonders of farm life
It was very special indeed. I’m glad Georgie is getting to experience the realities of things, goo and all! She knows that beef is cows and so on, too. It doesn’t bother her a bit – I think visits to farms like this have done her good. Thanks for the comment!
wow! you are so lucky! I had never seen once before. this is a great experience. hope Georgie and Lydia are better now!
Thanks Eileen! The kids are on the mend, but still not quite right. Hopefully they will both be fine by Lydia’s birthday on Thursday.
We were very lucky with our timing to be sheltering from the rain just as a new lamb was being born, and that the farmer welcomed us in to watch, too. Thanks for commenting 🙂
That is so flipping fabulous! I absolutely love this post! Maybe it’s the midwife in me, who knows, but I wish we had more farms etc around here I would love the boys to grow up experiencing these kinds of natural and beautiful miracles 🙂 x
Thanks for such a lovely comment! I’m really pleased Georgie got to see this and see the raw reality of it all, not just the cute lambs frolicking about after they’ve been cleaned up 🙂
Oh wow how fabulous <3 showed little myz the photos and she says can you take her next time? Lol x
Haha! It was amazing, and completely unexpected 🙂
It’s amazing to see lambs being born into this world and they are so sweet. As you said it’s a great life experience that Georgie is experiencing in the Country. I do hope you are all on the mend now and thanks for linking up and sharing with Country Kids.
Thanks Fiona, I think the girls will get over their bug soon!
i live in Derbyshire, and when I was younger my dad helped out on a farm. One night I went to the farm with my dad to help fed all the sheep,pigs and a bull. When we got there we found one of the sheep in labour, and not long after it gave birth. I was about 10 at the time and it was an amazing experience that i’ll never forget
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That’s lovely to have that memory! It’s a shame that Georgie is too young to really remember this experience, but she is learning and soaking it all in.
What a wonderful thing to witness – and how sweet is it once the gunk is gone! Hope you’re all back to full health now and that it didn’t spoil your break too much.
The de-gunked ones are incredibly sweet and Georgie was very brave and stroked it’s nose 🙂
What an amazing experience!
Georgie was fascinated – we were lucky to be there at the right time 🙂