OUR Yorkshire Farm's Amanda Owen has defended 'breeding her own staff' after backlash for putting her kids to work. The 46-year-old shepherdess has nine children with husband Clive, 66, and the couple insist on their brood helping out around the farm.
This has been met by some backlash from viewers, but Amanda defended her family, saying on the Channel 5 show: "We all have to work together as a family.
I really don't feel that's a bad lesson. "This is what needs to happen and we all need to do it." She continued: "I don't feel like that's sort of breeding your own workforce because it's not that. "It's a fact of being involved and have that responsibility and being part of something.
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