Meet the latest fleecy flock at Hadlow College's lambing weekend

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Spring has sprung! And with it comes the annual tradition where the grounds are opened to the public where they can meet the next generation of Lambs.  Roni Glasthal reports.

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00:00This is a little boy lamb who was born yesterday afternoon to our pedigree

00:06Clin who she actually has got a name this one they don't all have names but

00:11she does she's called random you. That little lamb and his many brothers and

00:15sisters are the stars of Hadlow College's annual lambing event a week

00:20and long culmination of the students curriculum I spoke with a few of them

00:24and their firm manager to find out more about their hands-on experiences in the

00:29lead-up to the event. I truly love livestock you know I really want to learn

00:34about it and so far Tanya our farm manager she's allowed me to

00:41experience lamb and ewes myself and getting lambs in get some units across the

00:46field so it's just been a really fun time and it's over this last week putting in

00:52the hours I would like to do it again over the course of the years whilst I'm here.

00:57Obviously lambing is a time of year where there's the care of the ewes that we need

01:02to consider and also the lambs that are being born and here at Hadlow we lamb indoors and

01:08it means that the students get involved with things from delivering the lambs to

01:12ensuring the ewes have got the right nutrition looking ringing and tagging the

01:16lambs when they're born and turning them out in the fields and checking that

01:22they're doing well out in the fields with their mums. Getting the opportunity to

01:27for the second year you're left alone a bit more so it's sort of being more

01:33involved about being told what to do sort of picking and choosing your jobs and

01:38making sure everything is done and having the opportunity as well to sort of be like

01:43that that's not okay we gotta do something about that one as well.

01:48This year's lambing weekend is expected to be the biggest yet having the event

01:52expanded across the schools campus and facilities I'm here in the expansion space

01:57now with one of the most exciting additions this year the sheep show it's

02:01about to begin behind me let's take a look

02:15it's great when you come here and you can we've got lots of vendors here we've

02:19got lots of activities bouncy castles from that perspective it's it's a

02:23lovely experience and yeah we very much enjoy it as staff and very happy to give

02:28up our time at the weekends to to oversee. Ronnie Glaston for KMTV

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