Emma Heseltine: Today is a sad day. We have an old cow, Wasi, who has come to the end of her breeding days and is hanging out with the store cattle having a bit of a retirement before it time to go down the road. Today we come to Wallacefield and she is down.
24 February 2013 |
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Emma Heseltine: We are having a grand tidy up at Wallacefield in the barn. I know its traditionally spring when you do a clean but it needs it now. There is a pile of old-ish hay by the entrance and the bags of grain need putting to the edge in an orderly fashion.
18 November 2012 |
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Emma Heseltine: Some of our new shearlings have decided to escape and reclassify themselves. They have jumped out of the field with all the other ewes and the tups and have got into the field with the lambs and cull ewes.
04 November 2012 |
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Emma Heseltine: We have a goose that’s being odd. It was hanging out on its own and generally lagging behind and looking sorry for itself. We put it in the little pen in the lambing shed to keep an eye on it. Sometimes a goose goes off on its own because it’s not well. After a few days it’s just the same, although it’s eating just fine and squawking if you go in the shed. We decide to turf it out again and see what it does; it potters off to look for its flock mates.
21 October 2012 |
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Emma Heseltine: We have got a new quad bike. Ours was stolen a couple of weeks ago and ended up upside-down in the river. Not a good place for a quad, it was a write off. So the temporary new one has arrived and is ready to go in the container we have had fitted especially for it.
14 October 2012 |
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Emma Heseltine: It’s the Houghton Village flower show this weekend so we had better enter some things. I’m not much of a flower person but photography is certainly my thing so I enter some pictures. I also take a big risk and enter some of my amateur jam; plum, orange and cinnamon.
16 September 2012 |
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Emma Heseltine: This week I’m getting a special treat, I’m heading to the Great Yorkshire Show with Nicky Luckett to give a hand with the cattle and learn a few things about showing.
15 July 2012 |
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Emma Heseltine: The thistle cutter is fixed so it’s down to Tarraby with me to get the thistles under control. The cattle are a little bemused at what I’m doing and follow me about a bit mooing and testing out the mown and non-mown sides. Hayley in particular is not impressed, she keeps yelling at me.
20 June 2012 |
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Emma Heseltine: We have sorted the sheep at Willowford. The ewes are going into three groups. Bob the Leicester has the wild Swaledales and Black welsh Mountains, Magnus the Gotland has the mules and three quarters with particularly nice wool and the Suffolk’s. Geoff the Suffolk has the Dorset’s and everyone else.
07 November 2011 |
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Jack Forster: Firstly, apologies for my lack of blogging over the last few months, but I have had a lot to do and had quite a few changes. Unfortunately I have had to retire from rugby due to a neck injury that has troubled me for some time, so its back to the farm full time for me. I am lucky that I have something else to do other than rugby, but I will miss the day to day banter as well as the bumps and bruises to be fair! I may be able to return to playing at some point, but not for at least 12 months.
23 May 2011 |
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