Are you looking for where the best lambing days are are in 2025 in Oxfordshire, Berkshire and nearby counties?
Spring is such a lovely time of the year, with the long winter nights going, new buds on the trees and best of all, the lambing season. It’s a great experience for kids to visit a farm and delight at meeting these adorable lambs. There are lots of places around Oxfordshire and Berkshire to meet newborn lambs and at some places you can even bottle feed them.
Here are a selection of the best lambing days around Oxfordshire and Berkshire and we’ll keep adding more. Some of the farms have lambing everyday and others are just special weekend events. Many places also have other activities going on so you can make it a full fun family day out with the kids. Lambing often falls over Feb half term and the Easter holidays.
If you’re looking to go further afield, we also have a guide for Buckinghamshire and Surrey.
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Roves Farm is one of my favourite places to take my kids to see the lambs. The lambing season got underway again this year in January and again in April. It’s one of my favourite times of year! The picture at the top was from one of our previous visits.
Spend some time on the viewing walkway looking out over the lambing shed as the day’s action unfolds. You may be lucky enough to see a lamb or three being born! The January lambing at Rove’s Farm is the Poll Dorset’s, when visitors can go in with the ewes and lambs which is extra special.
Best Lambing Days in Oxfordshire & Berkshire 2025
January lambing takes place 24th to 26th Jan and then you can meet the lambs right through Feb half term and into March. The second lambing returns for the spring lambing season with dates to be confirmed.. There will be bottle feeding when the lambs are ready. There’s also all the usual fun on the farm with indoor play and outdoor activities for a full fun family day out.
Hogshaw Farm (Hogshaw, within easy reach of Bicester & Thame)
There’s always lambs to meet in from January onwards through to spring at Hogshaw Farm & Wildlife park and a really great fun day out with kids. Bottle feeding lamb experiences available too.
- Farmer Gows – open for lamb cuddles mid February and March 2025. (Longcot near Faringdon)
- Live Lambing at Cotswold Farm Park – with over 800 lambs due, the Cotswold Farm Park lambing event is one of the largest in the country. 14th Feb – 27th April
- Odds Farm Park – 15th – 23rd Feb and 5th – 21st April
- Greatworth Hall lambing day takes place on Sat 15th March (near Banbury)
- The Old Farm Shop – the lambing weekends March 15 & 16th and March 22nd & 23rd
This year it will be a pre booked event £15 per family.
- Millers Ark Animals – the first family lambing weekend takes place in Feb well as separate adult only lambing days and then in March on 8th, 9th & 15th 2024. (Hook near Basingstoke)
- Bishops Court Farm is has wonderful walks and this year Lambing Open Days on 23rd March & 6th April 2025. (Dorchester on Thames)
- Daylesford Farm – hop on a tractor and enjoy a lambing day on 5th April (Near Chipping Norton)
Foxglove Farm Lambing Weekend (Inkpen) 12th – 13th April
Foxglove Farm – head on down to Foxglove Farm for their lambing weekend. There will be lamb bottle feeding, lots of fun family entertainment, hot food and tractor farm tours too. (Inkpen near Hungerford) 12th – 13th April
Earth Trust Spring Festival (South Oxfordshire) 3rd – 5th May
Head to the farmyard to get up close with the animals, let the little ones take on the giant hay bale and other fun farming activities at Earth Trust Spring Festival. New for 2025 is a Be A Farmer Experience which includes bottle feeding lambs and collecting eggs. Spaces are limited each day to book on quickly to secure your spot.
- Hadsham Farm (near Banbury) – unfortunately unable to run in 2025 but they have plans for a non lambing summer event in August
2025 details to be confirmed below this line
- Warriner School Farm – fundraising lambing event open afternoon dates not confirmed for 2025
- Broughton Grounds Farm Lambing Afternoons (Banbury) tbc
- Buckleberry Farm – lambing season returns to Bucklebury Farm dates tbc
- Sandy Lane Farm – tbc
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