THE birth of a lamb on a remote Welsh farm attracted an online audience of thousands – thanks to the roll-out of high-speed fibre broadband by the Superfast Cymru programme.

A video of the happy event was seen by an estimated 13,000 people after being published on Facebook.

It brought much welcome publicity for the Cefn Cae’r Ferch farm in Pencaenewydd, near Pwllheli, which specialises in pedigree Texel sheep and also has a holiday cottage.

Dafydd Jones, his wife Dona and children Tomos and Carla, have been benefitting from very fast broadband speeds – up to 200 Mbps – since fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) arrived at the farm.

The video of the birth of the lamb is just one of the ways that Dafydd has used superfast broadband to promote the holiday cottage and showcase his Texel sheep to a wider audience using social media platforms, such as Facebook.

The uploading of photos of videos is now much easier.

Visitors to the holiday home have been very impressed with the superfast speed of the broadband, with some commenting it is faster than at home.

They are also able to access television on demand services such as Netflix, Amazon and YouTube and, as they can access their work remotely, visitors can also extend their break to spend more time in rural Gwynedd.

Dafydd is also able to carry out much of the farming business online.

Read the full story in this Thursday’s north editions of the Cambrian News