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.

A Charming Keepsake -Take home a memory of Morvern Valley

Take home a quality Farm Charm. Add your Farm Charm onto your own existing European Bracelet or Charm Link Bracelet –  There are many different charms, all good quality and all just $4 each! Just leave your money on the Kitchen table each cottage has a lovely selection!

Girls are loving the Lampwork, Enamel, and Silver 925 Plate Charms of Cottages with Chimneys just like where you stayed! Horses are a firm favourite too. Saddles, Riding Boots, Chickens, Peacocks, Frypans replete with Eggs. Enamel Charms, Ducks and Donkeys, Toadstools, even some Fairies, Ice creams, Bunnies and Ladybugs.

Hand blown Glass Charms have Chickens, Pigs, Toadstools, Tractors and Ducks. For Boys a Leather Strap and the Antique Silver Charms are proving the most popular – Frogs, Tractors, Chickens, Bird Nests, Horses, Scarecrows, Windmills, and Kerosene Lamps.

Bracelets (both European Style and Chain Style) and Leather Straps are just $4 too! There are many sizes for Children and Adult sizes too – they make a lovely gift for friends back at home too! Every time you look at your special charm on your wrist or in your jewellery box, you will remember your stay at Morvern Valley.

Pan for Gold – A New Farm Activity at Morvern Valley!

Try your luck panning for gold. Our Creek is Coal Creek it leads into Bundanoon Creek, where many prospectors found gold last century. Head down to our creek in the tree line, down past the Cubby House, and you will find a picnic table.

Here are several Gold Pans, and a Sign to help you find your fortune. Swish and Swirl, Swish and Swirl – specks and flakes of gold being a very heavy metal will settle into the base of the specially designed gold pans. Be patient the longer you Swish and Swirl, Swish and Swirl, the more chance you have! Remember to congratulate little ones with all their finds.

In your cottage are little clear plastic containers – take your flecks of gold home with you – a great ‘Show and Tell’ adventure when they return to school. Children will be thrilled to be seeking treasure. A great NEW reason to get wet and muddy at the farm!

Four lambs all in a Row

Wobbly, wet and super cute – our best year ever at Morvern Valley with 4 tiny pedigree Suffolk lambs all born within 3 days! After returning from a day up in Sydney, Jason the farmer, went down to check on all the animals and what a surprise… first he sees one new little lamb drinking strongly from it’s mum ‘Baa Baa’, then turns around to look at the others – and sees yet another little lambie with its mum ‘Baabara’. Then came yet another surprise!

He looked over and ‘Barbie’ was delivering hers – OMG! All the lucky guests were thrilled too! We popped the ewes all under the stable in a side pen (very easy you just pick up the lamb which smell delicious – a lovely ‘puppy’ smell and mum follows along happily), so foxes couldn’t come and ruin our luck, and the mums and lamb could be safe and warm out of the weather. 3 days later another little girl was born. So we have 4 little lambs – 3 girls and 1 very muscley well-conformed boy – perfect!

They noisily bleat, jump high in the air, play chase and head butt. The names are Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme – not that they will ever end up in a pot that’s for sure, all our animals at Morvern Valley have an important job to do – meeting and greeting our farm guests.

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!