Overbury Farms News

The rams have really been doing their stuff in the last 4 weeks with almost all of the ewes now hopefully pregnant.  In the first week over 600 ewes were mated, as indicated by the chalk dye that the rams leave of the rumps of the ewes during mating.  The gestation period is about 5 months so we're on for a mid April lambing, which next year will be outside for the majority of the flock for the first time.

Sunday (3rd April 2016) saw hundreds of people ‘flocking’ to Overbury to see the lambs at our Lambing Live 2016 event. Over 600 people came and enjoyed a tractor and trailer ride up to our lambing sheds where they met the ewes, their new arrivals and our Shepherd Reg and the team.   There were talks from the Warreners, a...

Overbury Farms Lambing Live event took place on Sunday 19th April 2015.  It was a chilly but dry day and the car park soon filled up.           The tractor and trailer rides proved very popular and made trip after trip up to the lambing sheds.       Some lucky visitors got to see a lamb being born.  At...

Our annual lambing live day took place this year on Sunday 13th April 2014. With the sun shining (very unlike last year) and volunteers at the ready, we opened our doors at 10 am.       What a wonderful day we had. Over 850 adults and children came to visit our lambing sheds over the course of the day. We had two tractor and...

Whilst we are gearing up for our 2014 Lambing Live Day we are thrilled to announce the arrival of our first lamb of the season.       She arrived a little earlier than expected, 4 weeks to be exact! Our shepherdess found her early yesterday morning in the lambing sheds. No one is quite sure how she has arrived so early, but on...