On Tuesday the eighth of May we went to Breckon farm. We all came into school bright and cheery and  all got suited up for our long walk.

First we met James O’Breckon and went to see the cows. One of the white cows was very cheeky and licked our hands. There was a bull ,who was four years old called Jamie. All the cows had really long tongues and no teeth on their top gum. Their food was made of oats, barley and hay. The cows all had different coloured tongues, depending on what colour they were. There was a metal ladder in the corner of the calf and the bull’s pen. You could go behind it for protection in case the cows got aggressive. James and his dad had a gadget that they put on the cows tail which beeped and sent a message to their phones  when the cow was having contractions. The cows had drinking tubes on the walls, the calf pen had a lower one. The tubes only let out water when the cows put their mouths on them.

Next James and his dad, Alex, showed us the way to the sheep shed. When we went in there was three pens, each pen had a sheep and a lamb. six of the lambs in the shed were born the night before, the newest lamb was born at 3 am.  The sheep had tags on their left ears to show what farm they came from. James told us that when the lambs are first born he sprays iodine on their cords so they don’t get infected. If the lambs were born outside on a cold day they put a plastic lambs coats on them to keep them warm and dry.

Almost at the end of the tour we went to see the crops that Alex is growing. Every year he grows cabbages, some for eating and some to feed to the lambs. He also harvest seeds to grow the next year. we all got to plant a cabbage seed of our own. The north side was called Heidi and the south was called Hunter.