I am a sheep farmer and chartered civil engineer from Co. Sligo working with the help of my family to continue the sheep farming tradition built up by my parents. I have experience working with sheep on the farm for over thirty years. Every year I lamb ewes on the farm, and based on our experience of the difficulties encountered during lambing season, I have designed products which are helping us and other farmers to have a better system of work during lambing season. They can also be used as an aid to farmers or others when educating young farmers or students how to administer treatments. Under our brand, Lambsafe, the Lamb Station is my first product to design, and I am manufacturing it in Ireland and it is now being sold to customers in Ireland and it can also be sold and shipped overseas. The Lamb Station is a portable lamb handling station that holds a lamb securely at waist height, making routine lambing tasks quicker, safer and easier while reducing strain on the farmer.

These products help reduce time and stress for the farmer during a very intensive period of farming, and this is one of the main reasons I developed the Lamb Station, and I felt I conserved a lot of energy with less strain on my body while I was testing its use throughout the lambing season. The Lamb Station was placed 2nd in the Agriculture, Horticulture and Forestry category of the 2025 National Innovations Competition at the Tullamore Show, and I have since gone on to design another potential product which I hope to develop for helping reduce the burden on farmers during lambing seasons. Additional information about Lambsafe can be found on our Lambsafe YouTube channel and Lambsafe Facebook page.

Kenneth Freehill