Strawberry is Here!

Toffee has given birth to a gorgeous tiny foal – another chestnut called Strawberry. She is just 33 cms tall. Toffee is a wonderful mum, the foal is drinking well, cantering and trotting around like a tiny, confident racehorse. Chocolate – the proud dad – stays close and involved.

With lambs born – another due, and little Strawberry it is shaping up to be a wonderful spring at Morvern Valley.

Toffee and Chocolate had a little foal

Just in time for the Melbourne Cup Toffee our Miniature mare has had a lovely little colt. He is a chestnut and we have named him Honey. He stands just 29 cms high. The first few weeks he will be kept with Toffee under the stable roof till he gets lovely and strong. Chocolate loyally sits and stands just outside the pen, looking on, and protecting his much loved mare and new offspring. He is a handsome fellow!

A New Resident at Morvern Valley

A young guest and Braedon down near the creek at twilight spotted a new resident ‘digging in’ and we are pleased to announce we have a new wombat. We have called him Blackie as he is extremely dark – much blacker in colour than commonly seen. We are pleased as we have not had a wombat at Morvern for the past few years.

The Babies Have Started Already!

It’s certainly an early start for our Spring lambs, with little ‘Coca Cola’ being born this chilly July morning. She is a healthy, bouncey girl and suckling well on her mum ‘Baabara’.  She must be feeling the cold as she is sitting well down into a feed trough in the stable – very clever finding a place out of the winter winds. Look how mum checks the little lamb is suckling well, when properly latched on to mum’s milk a lambs little tail wiggles high in the air. Baabara is a good mum and knows to look for this important sign. 3 more little lambs are due in the next months at Morvern Valley Farm!

Excitement at the 2015 Sydney Royal Easter Show!

Baby Giant Flemish Rabbits

The other side of the Bantam enclosure houses our Giant Flemish Bunnies. They have 2 cute cottages and an above ground burrow system too. Sapphire has given birth to 7 kittens, tucked up in their fluffy comfortable nest made by their mum – they are very sweet and cute. They are almost all blue like their mum, with just one black boy.

Rabbit’s leave their kittens alone all day, only returning for feed times – this is instinctual as in the wild the mum doesn’t want to alert predators to the whereabouts of her nest.

2 Lambs and yet another due

Barbie and Barbara have already had their lambs, and another is due too! Morvern Valley chooses to breed Suffolk Sheep – the traditional English ‘Black faced sheep’ often depicted in children’s books and nursery rhymes. Sit down quietly and they will come right up to you as they are quite inquisitive and friendly.

Terrific things to do whilst in Bundanoon

For the past couple of months we have been working hard to put together another video, this one is about our great village. Bundanoon was just as popular as Katoomba early last century, and this video will show you why! Click Here >>

Gentle Bantams New at Morvern Valley

Young toddlers and pre-school children seem to prefer smaller farm animals – so Jason set to work and built a great new huge enclosure this autumn. It is really big – so there is lots of space, we have Pure Bred Bantam Pekins from Japan, White Frizzles and even Arancuana’s an ancient breed originally from Chile who lay BLUE eggs!!!!

We also have Welsummer’s from the Netherlands, and the distinctively coloured Giant Salmon Faverolle’s from France – with their tufted feet, crests and beards.

All from Champion Bloodlines – they were brought up by Julie from just a day old, and fed by hand so they love the interaction with humans. They will eat out of your hands!!!

Shearing at Morvern Valley

Every January at Morvern a rather unusual task takes place. Bernie our alpaca shearer visits, and cuts the fleece from our alpacas.

Why is this unusual you may ask? Well it is the way you need to go about it.

Each alpaca needs to be tied down each leg out wide to control the alpaca who tend to panic.

This is needed as an alpaca would struggle and perhaps get hurt. This is unlike sheep who relax and allow themselves quite easily to be shorn simply in between an experienced shearer’s legs.

Bernie is a ‘real card’ and happily shows our guests his expertise.

He always gives each alpaca a different haircut of the fleece left upon their heads – some with a fringe or even a mohawk!