Ewe look cozy: Hand-knit sweaters keep baby lambs toasty

By Dean Murray

Yarn-bombers from across the UK have come together to knit hundreds of woolly sweaters for the lambs at a Barnsley farm to keep them warm during the cold snap.

As Cannon Hall Farm prepares to enter its February lambing season - where hundreds of ewes are due to give birth - they’ve been inundated with generous donations of woolly sweaters especially for their tiny charges.

Farmer Rob Nicholson, whose family run the visitor attraction in Barnsley, explains: “We have a lamb called Soldier that was born a week early, she was premature and tiny so we put a plea out on social media and we’ve been sent absolutely hundreds of jumpers - so many in fact that now all our lambs can keep warm in style and still have a fashionable outfit change.

“Actually we could not be more grateful, people have really done their best for us and we can’t thank them enough. The jumpers have come in particularly well as it’s been so very cold, and cold kills lambs, they need to be warm. They are toasty warm inside these jumpers.

"Whatever the weather does now these lambs are secure and they’ve got all the different designs and colours they could dream of. "

Cannon Hall Farm has appeared as the host farm for Channel Five’s Springtime on the Farm TV Show and is gearing up for it’s annual lambing festival, which runs February half term.