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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, and 12 beef cattle which graze across over 400 acres. Working with David is his team of 7 sheepdogs, ranging from retiree Fern, now 14 years old, down Zola, born in February 2011 and Sweep born in 2012. 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, on Tuesday Mornings for our new Farmyard shows, and Wednesday evenings, at our Sheepdog and Falconry Displays.
Find out more about our sheepdog & Falconry Displays or read some comments that our visitors have been kind enough to leave in our guestbook
Display season again and what amazing weather!
New for 2014
Farmyard Shows
Every Tuesday Morning at 11am July 1st to Aug 26th
Sheepdog and Falconry Displays
Every Wednesday evening May 28th- September 3rd 2014
Shepherding Experience
Every Thursday from May 29th 2014
Click here to see the mugs, posters, DVD’s and books, in the Borough Farm shop.
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- Pup choosing time again
added by David, 22/04/14 at 2:25 pmZola’s pups are now 3 months old, and I’m pleased to say they are all very fit and healthy. The first pup ( we called him Smithy) went to his new home a couple of weeks ago. He is what we call the ‘Stud pup,’ The payment for the use of the stud dog, and [...]
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- zola’s arrivals
added by David, 26/01/14 at 5:27 pmWe never like to tempt fate by mentioning our new arrivals too soon, but I think we can now say that Zola has 4 healthy pups, two dogs and two bitches. They arrived last Monday night without any problems and Zola has taken to motherhood unbelievably well. She’s obviously feeding them well as they have [...]
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- jake’s been poorly!
added by David, 02/01/14 at 9:43 pmThe weeks before Christmas weren’t good ones for Jake, as he spent 3 nights in the vets! Jake is now over ten years old and at that age dogs tend to start feeling their age, but it was still a shock when Jake is not his usual bouncy self. He sleeps indoors and it was [...]
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- kestrels in the owl box
added by David, 01/07/14 at 5:30 pmBack at the beginning of March, when the first lambs were born, we began to notice a Kestrel in and around the farm. As the weeks went on he became more and more apparent, most nights he would be roosting in the Lambing barn and when I turned the lights on at night he would [...]
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- lambing’s over at last!
added by David, 20/05/14 at 10:36 pmThis year’s lambing seems to have been the longest ever. Although the flock was due to lamb in two distinct batches, the two seemed to merge into one, and lambs were born on every day from the beginning of March until the end of April. Overall it’s been a reasonable lambing. We had fewer lambs [...]
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- the fine art of fostering
added by David, 13/03/14 at 11:09 pmWith the first session of lambing now in full swing, it’s great to have a wonderful spell of warm sunny weather. It means that we can turn ewes with lambs out into the field when just a day or two old. They are happier and healthier outside and it’s a real joy to check them [...]
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