Farm selfies craze mooves on
The craze of farmers taking pictures of themselves posing with their farm animals is taking off.
The photos, nicknamed felfies, have taken websites such as Twitter and Facebook by storm as farmers across the country show their funny side by posing while at work.
The craze started after the Irish Farming Journal launched a Christmas competition to find the best picture, claiming that if selfies were good enough for the Pope and President Obama, they were good enough for Irish farmers.
And after the Shropshire Star printed some of the best so far, a number of farmers across the county have decided to get in on the act.
One of the latest is Mark Sutton, who works on Wigley Farm in Ludlow.
Mr Sutton said: "My wife Trudie had seen these pictures going around on Twitter and kept telling me I should do one. I said alright – and a week or so passed and she kept on – so I thought that as I was at work on Saturday I'd take one for a bit of fun.
"They seem to have really taken off and when you flick through some of the ones on Twitter you can't help but laugh.
"There is something about them that is really funny.
"I can't see how it's going to stop. I think we are all going to do be doing them soon. I'm definitely going to do a few more."
On Facebook a dedicated page called Felfies has so far has been "liked" by more than 22,550 people.
It features hundreds of pictures, including a calf sharing breakfast in the kitchen, a farmworker taking a rest on the backs of a feeding herd of cows and a woman in a Christmas hat holding a duck . . . and an axe.
There is also a #felfie hashtag on Twitter, with contributions from farmers in the Netherlands and Egypt as well as across the UK.
However, one farmer's wife from Market Drayton was way ahead of the craze.
Penny Street, 20, from Mucklestone posed with one her lambs back in October.
She said: "I think I was ahead of the trend really, I did it way before it was popular.
"I was just with my lamb and thought it would be a nice to have a picture of us both and it just worked out that he started posing at the same time.
"He has got a massive grin on his face which, when I saw the picture, really made me laugh.
"I've also taken one with a cow. It's just good fun."
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