Wolfe delivers young lambs on family farm
THERE has been a Wolfe in the sheep pens at Port Hill Farm in Stoney Stanton - but thankfully with only good intentions.
Third generation farmer Anna Wolfe was kept busy at the beginning of the year caring for no fewer than 120 lambs, born to 80 ewes in just five days.
She and her husband Andrew Wolfe were helped by Anna’s father Robert Cox tending the sheep round the clock to ensure all the young were safely delivered.
Supervising proceedings was farm dog Castro the border collie - named after former Leicester Tigers player Castro Giovanni - who kept a watchful eye on all.
Mrs Wolfe, who returned to the farm full-time with her husband just before Christmas, said: “It’s been a hectic few weeks.
“The ewes are very good mums. Of the 120 lambs born I only have three being bottle-fed.
“We’re breeding our own pedigree Texel ewe lambs as replacements for our own flock and the remaining lambs are extending the months we can sell meat lambs.”
She said pedigree breeders encourage early lambing to produce strong stock for autumn sales.
Their best ewe lambs will be kept for breeding and all others will be sold. Mrs Wolfe is following in the family footsteps at Port Hill Farm which was first run by her grandfather Oliver Cox in the 1930s.
Her father farmed there as soon as he left school and Anna was born and brought up on the site.