An interesting story from the world of sheep farming, which I think you will enjoy.

Sam Wilkinson and sister Stacey are currently touring farms in Wales pregnancy testing thousands of ewes a week.
Sam and her sister know it's for their own good and stand no nonsense as they do 250 ultra-scan pregnancy tests an hour. (Thats right 250 an hour)
"Some of them jump around and kick, especially some of the youngsters who aren't used to being tickled underneath. You do get a bit battered and bruised sometimes," said Sam."They do get a bit rough, especially the Welsh, who tend to be a bit lively anyway."
There are more than nine million sheep in Wales on almost 15,500 farms.
The main lambing season is March and April, although some can be born as early as the end of January.


Unlike alpacas ewes are scanned halfway through their five-month pregnancy.
Expectant women must avoid contact with sheep and lambs at lambing time because some lambs are born carrying the germs that cause listeriosis, toxoplasmosis, and chlamydia. These can be passed on to the mother and her unborn baby and can cause a miscarriage.




One of the more bizarre things we do with sheep back in the UK is have sheep races! Miniature jockeys, made from knitting wool of course, are fastened on the sheeps back and ...oh well, a picture is worth a whole lot of words so look at this.


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By Adrian Stewart