Episode 9

At Cannon Hall Farm, it's an early start for farmers Rob and Dave Nicholson as they cope with a variety of troublesome births during the small hours of their frenetic lambing seasons. Confused mums and stray triplet lambs push them to the limit.

JB Gill heads to a Cotswold farm to meet farming chef Louise Duck who grows her own red hot chilli peppers. Things get intense when JB tries her spicy hot sauces.

Yorkshire vet Julian Norton is called into action in Harrogate, North Yorkshire when a pygmy goat breeder is overwhelmed by the arrival of 30 boisterous newborns. Can Julian save the day when one youngster strains its knee?

Rob and Dave are called to an unexpected emergency when an adult deer is injured in a road traffic accident. The brothers do what they can until vet Matt arrives to help the stricken animal.

In Staffordshire, Sam Bailey, the 24-year-old Young Farmer of the Year, is doing his best to tend to the 600 sheep and 150 dairy cows on his farm but when he realises mum-to-be cow Mary is expecting twins, things get tricky.

The threat of a contagious disease threatens the health of Rob and Dave's free-range hens. Then they need to call in Yorkshire Vet Matt Jackson-Smith when one of their beloved Swiss Valley rams has trouble with his spirally out-of-control horns.

And West Country farmer Roger Longman gets overwhelmed when an outbreak of an infectious disease threatens the lives of hundreds of newborn kid goats.