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Borough farm is the home of Channel Five’s ‘Mist sheepdog tales’
David Kennard and his family farm at Borough Farm on the beautiful, rugged North Devon coast. The farm is home to a flock of 700 breeding ewes, plus their lambs which graze across over 400 acres . Working with David is his team of 8 sheepdogs, ranging from retiree Fern, now 12 years old, down Zola, born in February 2011. David is the creator of Channel Five’s children’s series ‘Mist-Sheepdog Tales’. Mist along with the rest of the Borough Farm sheepdogs, can be seen in action during weekly displays held at Borough Farm throughout the summer.
Find out more about our sheepdog & Falconry Displays or read some comments that our visitors have been kind enough to leave in our guestbook
Events in 2013
Sheepdog and Falconry
Displays
Every Wednesday* from May 29th 6pm
*Wednesday 19th June display postponed until
Thursday 20th June
Shepherding Experience
Every Thursday from May 30th
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- a lucky escape
added by David, 19/04/13 at 10:34 pmIf you’ve read some of my blogs over the past 18 months, you might have gathered that I’m hoping for great things from Zola. She’s now just over 2 years old and has been a constant companion for me over lambing. In fact there are one or two jobs that she is now doing better [...]
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- fly’s lameness
added by David, 18/03/13 at 11:14 pmFor the past 2 months Fly has been suffering with occasional lameness. In the first place she was severely lame, with a hard lump obvious on the side of her foot. A trip to the vets was inconclusive, we rested her for a month, at the end of which she was much improved. I then [...]
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- alfie’s redemption
added by David, 10/01/13 at 11:17 pmA couple of months ago I wrote about Alfie in rather disparaging terms. While gathering the flock he’d abandoned his sheep herding duties, in favor of playing with a West Highland Terrier. Consequently he was in my very bad books. So poor Alfie had a big job on his hands to regain my trust, but [...]
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- worming lambs, resting Zola
added by David, 17/05/13 at 2:29 pmThe toughest job of the year by far, for my sheepdogs is the first gather of the new seasons lambs. It’s the first time that lambs are moved as a flock, up until this point they just follow their mothers in their family group, and they can cause bedlam! In early May I need to [...]
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- lambing
added by David, 12/04/13 at 1:25 pmAs ever the last weeks of the lambing season has flown by. Although the icy east wind howled through the lambing barns almost daily, we have fared far better than sheep farmers in the North of the country. For them drifting snow must have made this years lambing a living nightmare, and I’m just grateful [...]
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- first lambs
added by David, 18/03/13 at 10:49 pmIt’s always good to see the first lambs of the year, born this morning five days early. with the Schmallenberg virus so prevalent in local flocks just before Christmas, there we’ve been particularly worried about this years lambing, so we’re all pleased to seethe first lambs arriving fit and healthy. However, the weather of the [...]
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