Yorkshire shepherdess Amanda Owen, 46, has taken to social media to appeal for warmer weather as her farm endures icy conditions during lambing season. In a video shared with her 155,000 Twitter followers, she showed the frozen landscape while wrapped in a jacket and woolly hat, expressing frustration at the prolonged winter.
“My goodness, what a day. This is what we don’t want at the start of lambing time,” she said. “Come on spring time we need you here, we need some sunshine!” Her post was captioned: “A hasty return to Springlike conditions would be much appreciated. It has truly been too longer winter.”
Earlier, the mother-of-nine shared images of the aftermath of a blizzard, writing: “The North wind doth blow and we shall have snow. The wind whipped up an absolute blizzard and the wind chill factor must have been subzero as all’s frozen.” She also posted pictures of her sheep sheltering in the barn and her daughter warming by an indoor fire.
Earlier this month, Owen introduced a surprise lamb born a week early, noting: “Not due to lamb for another week but already we have a new addition to the flock.” She added that the weather had caused problems, forcing her to bring older ewes and shearlings into the barn for protection.
In a recent interview, Owen discussed raising her nine children with husband Clive, criticising the “snowflake generation” for lacking independence and work ethic. She told Radio Times Magazine: “If you put your child on a pedestal, with no sense of independence, and think you have got to entertain them the whole time, what can you expect?”
