by Fiona Holland
Ewe’re the best!
Two Loch Lomond farms came together to celebrate the NHS and keyworkers using… sheep!
Farmers Bobby and Anne Lennox of Shantron Farm near Luss popped over the road to neighbouring Shemore Farm, owned by their daughter Kay Wilson with husband Dougie, to pull off a tricky tribute.
Using a quad bike and a snacker trailer, and with help from niece Kate Nicolson, Bobby was able to drop food in the shape of NHS. And the sheep behaved baa-utifully to form the letters.
“We’ve had people thinking we’ve just got really well-trained sheep,” said Kay. “But in reality they know fine well that the quad bike and snacker means there’s going to be food and they coming running.
“We’ve been out every Thursday clapping, but no one can hear us up here, so it was Dad’s idea to try something different – just wanted to say thank you and put a smile on people’s faces and we hoped that perhaps some folk on the other side of Loch Lomond might have been able to see it.
“We tried on Monday and Tuesday with NHS and a heart afterwards, but that didn’t work as by the time dad had finished the heart, the sheep on the N had finished and moved away. So Thursday was our last ditch attempt before bringing them in for lambing. And it worked.
“We’re so delighted with it and it’s certainly caught people’s attention.”
The Lennox family featured on the BBC’s This Farming Life in 2015 and has run lambing live sessions with adults and children for the past couple of years.
Coronavirus means this can’t happen in 2020, but they will be live on Facebook and Instagram and are taking part in the Scottish Lambathon with Go Rural next Friday (April 24) at 2pm.
Follow them on Lambing on Loch Lomond on social media to see more of their farming exploits.
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