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Welcome to Borough Farm
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 9 sheepdogs, ranging from retiree Swift, now 14 years old, down Dart who’s just nine months. And of course including Mist, the star of Channel Five’s “Mist - Sheepdog tales”
The third series DVD of Mist, ‘Piggy Sue and other Sheepdog Tales’, is now available through the Mist Shop
“The displays season is now over for the year, and it’s back to the regular winter sheep farming work for me and the dogs. The daily routine includes an hours training with my new recruits Roy and Fly, they both show great potential but are proving a real challenge to train but I’m hoping that one of them will be up to taking part in the displays next summer. I’ll keep the Sheepdog diaries page up to date with their progress. And with lambing fast approaching I’ll keep posting the farm news on the sheep farming diary page.”
You can learn more about our displays here, then afterwards you can check our schedule of displays for next summer. We hope to see you at one of them soon!
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- roy of the rovers
added by David, 19/10/09 at 11:20 amYou may have read about ‘Roy’, my recent recruit to the pack. He arrived at Borough farm back in January and although he show great potential, he’s certainly a challenge! Roy is never unhappy, even when he’s being told off for gross misbehaviour during a training session, he just wags his tail. To look at [...]
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- fern’s unforgettable day
added by David, 18/09/09 at 11:25 amThis summer hasn’t exactly be memorable for the days of hot weather, but surprisingly there have been an awful lot of wasps around as Fern found out at our last Dunster castle display of the summer.
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Each year we hold six sheepdog and falconry displays at Dunster Castle in Somerset. It’s a beautiful setting on the [...]
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- mist’s puppies
added by David, 02/07/09 at 11:29 amIf you watched the final episode of ‘Sheepdog tales’ last Sunday morning on Channel Five, you’ll know that Mist had a litter of puppies earlier this year. We had to keep them a secret so as not to spoil the surprise for the telly, but now that the episode has been broadcast we can let [...]
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- lambing’s just around the corner
added by David, 02/03/10 at 10:51 pmThe past few weeks have been very busy with the building of the new sheep shed, but with the shed nearly complete I need to turn my attention to the coming lambing season. The ewe flock is being fed heavily in order that they produce strong lambs and give plenty of milk, and have been [...]
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- building the sheep shed
added by David, 12/02/10 at 10:21 pmWork is well underway for the new sheep shed. Although Borough farm looks like a building site I’m hoping that by the end of next week (the third week of February) the shed will be almost complete, with just the concrete alley ways left to do. As soon as it’s finished I’ll be bringing the [...]
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- return of the natives
added by David, 02/02/10 at 10:38 pmBorough farm is surrounded by steep woodland and each winter as the grass stops growing, I always seem to end up with half a dozen ewes taking themselves off for a better life in the forest. And it’s not just any old sheep, they are invariably led by one black-faced ewe, (the ‘legend of Borough [...]
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