Live lambing: farmer tweets birth updates round-the-clock

If you want to experience the round-the-clock working that comes with lambing time, one farm and visitor attraction has been using Twitter to keep everyone informed about the life-and-death dramas of the latest arrivals.

It’s the season for new baby lambs. Image by Noel Reynolds / CC BY 2.0

Cannon Hall Farm, near Barnsley, South Yorkshire has been welcoming lambs at the rate of around 20 a day over the past few days and one of the brothers who runs it, Robert Nicholson, has been letting armchair farmers share in the hard work.

Mr Nicholson has been keeping the South Yorkshire farm’s 15,000 Twitter followers up to date with messages like: “Right that’s it I’m exhausted. Here is a photo of the quads. They have all fed and are doing well.”

(Press Association)