Cows are milked in the dairy. They are milked twice a day. The farmer washes their teats and puts the cluster on to them. The cluster sucks out the milk and it goes into the jar. When the jar is full, the farmer turns a knob and the milk goes to the bank to cool. Cows eat lots of grass. Some cows are not milked but they look after their calves. Most calves are sold for meat when they are big.

Hens

Hens are kept to give us eggs. Hens lay one egg nearly every day in summer time. They don't lay so many in the winter because it is cold and dark. Hens eat hen food and scraps of bread and vegetables. They love worms. They pick up their food with their beaks. Some hens will sit on their eggs for three weeks. After that the eggs hatch out into chicks. You have to have a cock with your hens to have chicks.

Sheep

Sheep are mammals, an adult female sheep is called a ewe. An adult male sheep is called a Ram. In the spring the ewe gets fatter and has baby sheep which are called lambs. Lambs are usually born in Spring. For the first few weeks of the lamb's life it drinks milk from the ewe. Sometimes the ewe dies after the lamb is born so the farmer will either feed it himself or give it to another ewe this is called fostering. Lambs are very playful. Lambs can be white or black and they can have long tails. Sheep grow a woolly coat. This is called a fleece. In the summer the sheep have their wool shorn off. The fleece is wound and packed into a wool pack. Then it is sold to be made into knitting wool or cloth. A group is called a flock.

Pigs

Pigs live on farms. A female pig is called a sow. A male pig is called a boar. A baby pig is called a piglet. Most people that have pigs only one boar. A sow can have up to 12 or 14 piglets.  Most of the time there is a smaller piglet or runt. Pigs noses are called snouts. There are lots of breeds of pigs. Pigs are very clever. Farmers keep pigs to sell ,when they are big for meat.We get pork , ham, sausages and rashers from pigs .

By Grace & Zara   Rang 2 

Tractors

A tractor is a piece of machinery. It is used on the farm. It is also used to bring away loads of gravel. A tractor is used for pulling trailers, ploughing ,cutting silage, making hay and sowing seeds. Some tractors are four wheel drive, this means that they pull with all four wheels and some are two wheel drive. Some of them have frontloaders and some have backloaders. They have hitches and lifts to attach the machinery.