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Young farmer shows how he cares for sheep struggling to find their feet

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This 22-year-old farmer in Buckinghamshire, UK, has made a series of videos showing how he helps struggling sheep.

Will Young is seen helping a 5-minute-old lamb get to their feet for the first time by slowly lifting it up.

He is also seen helping a ram find it's balance after being unable to get up off its back.

Young said: "I work on a family farm with my dad, and I am sixth generation. The farm was originally a cattle farm, where we produced milk.

"However, when I was a young boy, around the age of 3 years old, the family decided to sell up shop and get rid of the cows. With this, my father then choose to farm sheep instead of cows. The flock grew from 600 each year where we now run 1,300 breeding sheep.

"In the video, I am showing my day to day job on the farm and my wonderful relationship with the sheep and lambs.

"My farming career started from a young age where I would help out with lambing during the spring period. As I was still in school, my experience was very limited, however learning a lot during that time period.

"My dad was very adamant he didn’t want me or my brother to come home farming. He would want us to make our own lives away from the farm and come back to it at a later date if that’s what we decided to do.

"However, I was very eager to get involved with the farm and decided that was the route for me to go down, rather than staying in education and going to university.

"I have been working on the farm full time for 4 years, and then part-time for a year before that. The reason I worked part-time on the farm was almost a trial run, to see whether it is something I wanted to do or not.

"From the first time, I worked on the farm, I loved every second of it and believed this is something I really wanted to do."

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