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!

The Morvern Valley ducks were simply unstoppable…. winning the Champion ribbon, and the 1st, 2nd & 3rd places in Welsh Harlequin Ducks. In Welsh Harlequin Drakes we won 1st 2nd 3rd and 4th places. Normally it is our boys who take out the champion ribbon ‘but no!’ not this year – our girls beat them to that coveted award! Look at all our ducks on the last day of the show, looking eagerly out at us. They immediately knew our voices and that we had come to bring them back to Morvern Valley. They were proud to show us how well they had performed at the 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.