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!