Last Thursday we had two, or should that be three, new arrivals.
The first two we have been waiting for for about six weeks. Our new cows!
We now have a black Dexter heifer, who is in calf and due next May, and a steer to keep her company until her calf arrives. They seem so small and delicate up to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘cows’
New arrivals
Posted in Homemade, tagged cows, Dexter, Spiining wheel on September 18, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Loose ends
Posted in Chickens, Garden, Goats, Home grown food, Poultry, tagged cows, Goats, LETS, potatoes on July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well, the cows have gone and life is carrying on as it does. We are starting to think of what to get next, as we do enjoy the cows milk we will get another one, it is just a matter of what and when.
There have been other things that have happened in the last week [...]
Living the dream
Posted in Day-to-day, tagged cows, DEARFA, TB on June 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Tomorrow marks a very sad ending in our household, as both Primrose and Sunshine have come back as ‘re-actor’ on their annul TB test.
We have known that TB was a risk ever since we first got cows, Gloucestershire is a ‘hot spot’ for TB, but have always, naively it would seem now, thought that it wouldn’t happen [...]
Cheese, gardening and days off
Posted in Day-to-day, Food, Garden, Home grown food, Homemade, tagged cheese, cows, Garden, gardening, garlic, Homemade, milk, rain, weeding on August 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Ok, this weekend are my first two days off the past two weeks, and I’m really glad of them. There is only so much you can get done in the evenings once you get in for work, just making sure I’m got enough clean work clothes (work and ‘animal’ clothes are something you have [...]
In the news
Posted in About nothing really, Day-to-day, Farming News, Food, tagged cows, Food, shopping, Supermarkets on May 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Thai journalist being sued by Tesco.
I’m not a big fan of super markets and at the moment Tescos is trying to build ‘mega-store’ in one of my local towns, there are two arguments, Tesco’s will bring much need employment to the area vs Tesco’s will kill of the small, ex-mining town centre. Seeing as [...]
