This years summer has once again been unforgettable, and not necessarily for the right reasons! July and August were once again very wet, fortunately we only had to cancel one display, the very last at Borough farm.It was great...
This 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. Each year we...
With the silage made in June, the beginning of July gave us a chance to catch up on some of the sheep work and gather in the ewes for their ‘blue tongue’ vaccination. ‘Blue tongue’ is a disease that...
If 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...
With a week of fine weather forecast this week we cut 20 acres of grass on Monday to make into silage. Although silage doesn’t have to be completely dry (like hay) when it is baled, it makes a better...
The sheep shearing season is a short one in North Devon. In the middle of May the weather was too cold to shear, but by early June when temperatures suddenly reached the 20’s the flock were beginning to suffer...
It’s spring time again and I love the spring!We’ve had about 850 lambs born this year, they are growing really quickly at the moment. In fact some of them are as big as me, though not as big as...
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