More arrivals at Longdown

Despite the wet weather things have been busy at the farm, 40 new baby goats have arrived from Dorset, which has kept Jodie and Kerry busy, as quite a few of them have never drunk from a bottle before, with these kids there are now over 100 little mouths to feed at least 3 times a day!

Kerry our celebrity cow produced a large calf on the 23rd March, she was so proud to perform in front of our animal care students, and now is the proud mum of a 80lb baby girl, any ideas of suitable names would be welcomed.

The chicks have arrived, over 50 day old Warrens and a few ducklings have been cuddled by our school groups this week.

We have caught the thief on camera!

We have noticed that a few loaves of bread were being stolen from the crates left outside the farm shop early in the morning, so we checked the security cameras to see if we could find the culprit and guess what, it was Skye the farm's sheep dog, what was interesting she preferred the 'Cottage loaf' each time, she is now on a strict diet.

Unfortunately it looks like there will no tractor rides for a week or so due to the very wet conditions out in the field.

Fudge has had a baby!

Fudge our Jersey cow gave birth to a baby girl today, after a 3 hour wait our visitors were rewarded, with being able to watch Fudge produce a bonny 50lb girl.
Amongst our visitors witnessing the event was a Midwife and a Health visitor, so we had lots of comments on comparison's of child births!

We have named the calf as Nahla, after our youngest visitor who was celebrating her first birthday, and was happy to sit in her pram and watch the entire performance without complaining at all.

Also our incubator has been very busy, popping out ducklings, some brown and others yellow.

The Geese have started to lay as well, spring must be officially here, if you have never tried a goose egg, then Wayne has a few in the Farm Produce shop - but they are very limited at the moment.

We will try to get some pictures of our new calf as soon as possible, any visitor's who were present, please post your pictures so others could see.

Many thanks

Farmer Bryan

Down on the Farm

Good evening, this is a farmer's first attempt to join the moderen world of technology!

I would like to share some of our day to day experiences on our Activity Farm www.longdownfarm.co.uk

Quote of the day:

One of our younger visitors watching a hen laying an egg, shouted to her mum,"Mummy mummy the chicken has just poo'd a real egg!"

If anyone want's to see the lambs being born we have started now two sets of twins and one single, our Grey faced Dartmoors have been obliging and lambed in front of our visitors this week.

Charlotte our Large White sow has produced 10 piglets on the 3rd March, the piglets look cute at the moment all tucked up under their heat lamp.

Hope to hear from you soon.

Farmer Bryan @ Longdown Activity Farm