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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.
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Our next event will be
Lambing Open Days
April 18th ,19th, 20th 2014
Shepherding Experience
Every Thursday from May 29th 2014
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- Sweep’s short legs
added by David, 17/11/13 at 10:09 pmIf you came to our displays over the summer months you may have met my new young sheepdog ‘Sweep.’ He’s one of Fly’s pup’s, born a year ago, and for the past six months he’s been undergoing his first stages of training. The first training is always an exciting time for me, all the expectations [...]
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- fly finishes fourth
added by David, 23/08/13 at 10:57 pmThe summer months are busy for us at Borough Farm, and competing at Sheepdog trials had to take second place to all of the commitments on the farm, but last Saturday I made it to the Brentor trial on Dartmoor. It’s always been one of my favorite trials, a large field amongst the high Tors [...]
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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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- 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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- sorting the ewe lambs
added by David, 04/09/13 at 2:04 pmFor the past few years I’ve been crossing the Borough Farm Romney ewes with a Blue Faced Leicester ram. The reason is simple, our Romney ewes are great at looking after themselves on our poor and windy coastal grazing, but they don’t produce quite enough lambs, and as the lamb price has increased in recent [...]
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- Fly for England?
added by David, 02/07/13 at 4:17 pmDuring the summer months I try to get to a few local sheepdog trials, there is usually one or two held each weekend, and this year there has been extra incentive to get in some practice. I’ve been heavily involved in organizing the English National Sheepdog Trials, at Castle Hill, South Molton, to be held [...]
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