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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
Spring in the Borough Valley
Our next events will be
Blue-bell walk
11th May, 2pm
in aid of the Mortehoe Museum
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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- 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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- 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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