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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.
Find out more about our sheepdog & Falconry Displays or read some comments that our visitors have been kind enough to leave in our guestbook
Just arrived! Zola’s new puppies
Our next event will be
Lambing Open Days
Easter Weekend
April 18th ,19th, 20th 2014
Shepherding Experience
Every Thursday from May 29th 2014
Sheepdog and Falconry Displays
Every Wednesday evening May 28th- September 3rd 2014
Click here to see our new range of calendars, posters and mugs in the Borough Farm shop.
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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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- Zola’s outing
added by David, 10/12/13 at 10:41 pmZola is now nearly three years old, and has become a fine sheepdog. She’s still obsessively keen on her work, and although there are moments when her instinct takes over from my commands, she’s doing pretty well. In fact in October she even had her first place at a sheepdog trial, a fourth. So I [...]
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- lambs again
added by David, 02/03/14 at 10:37 pmLambing season has kicked off, a little earlier this year with 250 ewes due over the next 2 weeks. Sheep are very accurate in their gestation period, with pregnancy lasting 147 days with only a couple of days variation, so this year the first lambs arrived on March 1st, right on time. Lambing earlier allows [...]
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- mud glorious mud
added by David, 13/01/14 at 11:07 pmThe darkest times of the sheep farming year are surely the weeks around Christmas when the wind and rain turns the daily feeing rounds into the battle of the mud. In recent years we’ve been fortunate to have freezing temperatures, which turn the mud into rock and make the fields a far more pleasant place [...]
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- friday night wanderers
added by David, 15/09/13 at 3:51 pmWith just under 2000 sheep of various descriptions, spread out over 400 acres it’s impossible to keep an eye on each one all of the time, so we are always dependent on good fences and good gates to keep them in the right place. So a simple incident like a gate left open can cause [...]
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