Mother's Day is Lambing Sunday at Bicton College

Bicton Home Farm, Animal Centre and Garden, in East Budleigh, opens its gates on 14th March from 11am – 4pm to welcome local mums and their families for a Mother’s Day with a difference. Come and see live lambing!

Take a tractor and trailer ride down to the farm and meet the Bicton Babies – lambs, calves and piglets. You might even be lucky enough to see a lamb being born!

Meet Farmer Paul, as seen in the CITV series Farm Camp*. Paul and Bicton’s shepherd Phil will be on hand helping Bicton’s own mums to deliver their babies, and they’re expecting quadruplets, triplets, twins and singles this year. Meet the new arrivals, help bottle feed them with milk, and watch afternoon milking time for the cows.

Farm Manager Paul Redmore said, ‘This is the ideal opportunity for people to get more involved with farm animals in a safe environment and for them to witness something they don’t get a chance to see everyday.’

And there’s much more. The dog show, sponsored by Now 4 Pets, has eight classes, so you really can bring the whole family along (however dogs are not allowed at Home Farm as they will distress the sheep). Watch craft demonstrations with fleece and flowers; take a delicious cream tea in the Georgian drawing rooms or visit the tropical orchid exhibition in the glasshouse and walled garden restoration project. Then there’s the chance to visit the kune kune pigs, chickens, and goats, and hold the Bicton Bugs - hissing cockroaches, giant stick insects, land snails and giant millipedes.

Bicton reminds people that women who are, or might be, pregnant, should not enter the lambing areas because of the danger of Toxoplasmosis.

* Farm Camp was sponsored by Morrisons

Entry for the day’s events is £10 per car. For more information, visit the Bicton College website or call 01395 562400.