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Archive of entries posted on August 2019

Cattle departures and arrivals

Posted by Richard on 21 August 2019, 7:08 pm

Last weekend was yet another first for us – the departure of 3 animals from our relatively small Dexter herd. We’ve never sold live cattle before so loading them into a trailer and watching as they’re driven away was quite an odd experience. We’ve done this so often when selling pigs as weaners so perhaps …

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Summary of hay making 2019

Posted by Richard on 11 August 2019, 4:09 pm

At first I wasn’t sure that we’d made the right choice when I saw our neighbours had cut and baled their hay meadows early in July. However we wanted to wait a little longer so that the wild flowers could properly set seed before it was cut. There were a few occasions when I wished …

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