Schoolboy makes educational lambing videos during lockdown
A schoolboy is avoiding games consoles this lockdown- by making educational lambing videos on his dad's farm.Charlie Gauld, 12, has always lived on farms and picked up skills by watching and being taught by his dad.He posted his first video showcasing what life is like for him three weeks ago (31 March). Charlie, from the Cotswold, said: "I made my YouTube channel so I could show people what it was like.
Not everybody lives on a farm. I am not used to what it is like living in towns but I know a lot of people that are.
I want to show them what it is like for me to live."It is better for you than being in towns and cities - it has got fresher air.
I really like it."It is easier for me to go on a walk - instead of having to drive for a field I can go outside and I have got two thousand acres of tracks and fields.
It is a nice way to get away. "The people I know have seen it and said well done.
My friends knew about it but they didn't know the more detailed stuff like the different breeds of sheep of how all the farm all works."The farm now has 1400 commercial sheep and 250 pedigrees.Charlie first got involved with the sheep and lambing when he was younger and went down to the shed with his dad.After stopping two years ago because he was tired, he started going again this year."I used to really enjoy it at lambing time," he said. "I have been given more responsibility.
I feed the lambs and have been doing all the jobs like mucking out the pens. "I have been checking the sheep with one of the workers - a bit of everything."But he warned you must be 'careful with lambing.' "If you are lambing it and it is not the right way and you do not know what way it should come you won't be able to lamb it," he said. He would work from nine until 12 and two until six during lambing season."There is quite a lot of people working on the farm - if it was just my father and me it would be very difficult.
Everybody does different things and they all have their role.""Because we feed them they are timid and they come up to you and try to follow you."There was one sheep that was really over protective and she started chasing me.
I don't know what she thought I was going to do. "I kept trying to hold her lambs and she kept bashing me with her head.
They are strong but they know we are helping - she was a new mother."In the future he wants to do something in agriculture - but at just 12 he has not fully worked it out. Charlie has always lived on a farm but previously he stayed one another one also in the Cotswold.
He said he has always seen his dad farming so has 'just picked it up at home.'"Over time he has taught me," he added.
"I am very grateful - I wouldn't know anything about farming if it was not for him."His mum Sharon Gauld films the videos and they spend about an hour filming different scenes.While Ms Gauld, a former professional videographer, edits the clips for him, Charlie remains in complete control."I check it all and tell my mum what order to put it in and how I would like it to be formatted," he said.
A schoolboy is avoiding games consoles this lockdown- by making educational lambing videos on his dad's farm.Charlie Gauld, 12, has always lived on farms and picked up skills by watching and being taught by his dad.He posted his first video showcasing what life is like for him three weeks ago (31 March).
Charlie, from the Cotswold, said: "I made my YouTube channel so I could show people what it was like.
Not everybody lives on a farm.
I am not used to what it is like living in towns but I know a lot of people that are.
I want to show them what it is like for me to live."It is better for you than being in towns and cities - it has got fresher air.
I really like it."It is easier for me to go on a walk - instead of having to drive for a field I can go outside and I have got two thousand acres of tracks and fields.
It is a nice way to get away.
"The people I know have seen it and said well done.
My friends knew about it but they didn't know the more detailed stuff like the different breeds of sheep of how all the farm all works."The farm now has 1400 commercial sheep and 250 pedigrees.Charlie first got involved with the sheep and lambing when he was younger and went down to the shed with his dad.After stopping two years ago because he was tired, he started going again this year."I used to really enjoy it at lambing time," he said.
"I have been given more responsibility.
I feed the lambs and have been doing all the jobs like mucking out the pens.
"I have been checking the sheep with one of the workers - a bit of everything."But he warned you must be 'careful with lambing.'
"If you are lambing it and it is not the right way and you do not know what way it should come you won't be able to lamb it," he said.
He would work from nine until 12 and two until six during lambing season."There is quite a lot of people working on the farm - if it was just my father and me it would be very difficult.
Everybody does different things and they all have their role.""Because we feed them they are timid and they come up to you and try to follow you."There was one sheep that was really over protective and she started chasing me.
I don't know what she thought I was going to do.
"I kept trying to hold her lambs and she kept bashing me with her head.
They are strong but they know we are helping - she was a new mother."In the future he wants to do something in agriculture - but at just 12 he has not fully worked it out.
Charlie has always lived on a farm but previously he stayed one another one also in the Cotswold.
He said he has always seen his dad farming so has 'just picked it up at home.'"Over time he has taught me," he added.
"I am very grateful - I wouldn't know anything about farming if it was not for him."His mum Sharon Gauld films the videos and they spend about an hour filming different scenes.While Ms Gauld, a former professional videographer, edits the clips for him, Charlie remains in complete control."I check it all and tell my mum what order to put it in and how I would like it to be formatted," he said.
