Sheep shearing

Make a date to pop down to the farm on June 6 or 7 and you can see some master sheep shearers in action. There are over 300 sheep on the farm and about this time of year it is time to give them all a major hair cut. Keeping them still and removing all their wool in a quick and painless way is quite a skill. The sheep shearers know their stuff and watching them in action will take your breath away! See you there.

Squeak piggy, squeak squeak

There are new additions at Holmbush Farm World this week with the arrival of our latest litter of piglets. Pictured here with Lesley Armstrong taking a break from working in our tea room, the piglets certainly love to squeak and squeal! The proud parents are Winston and Clementine - our famous rare woolly pigs - and their little piglets have certainly arrived full of energy and enthusiasm.  We have also adopted an additional woolly pig to be part of the Holmbush family and she's attracting plenty of attention too as, unusually, she is white!  

Come a visit soon and check them out.