Category: Friesland Farm

Sorry this is a bit late but I have had my hats of many jobs on this morning, after feeding time which was farmeress hat, came cleaning out the dogs and so the kennel maid hat, after that my groundsman hat, not really a gardening hat as it was watering seedlings etc, then my housemaids…

The second ewe who I have now named Mabel is still in waiting, she is showing all the signs except producing lambs! Every time I go and check on her she is just stood chewing on her hay, probably wondering why I have appeared again. Betty continues to go from strength to strength totally holding…

We have, at last, had a decent block of lovely weather, how much more we will get is anyone’s guess but we made the most of it this weekend and worked flat out! We are still waiting for the second ewe to produce her lambs, meanwhile the first is still in with her remaining lamb…

I hope you all had a lovely Easter, ours was very quiet until yesterday when it was all systems go with the ewes. We went out to find that ewe number one had lambed in the afternoon, she had triplets, all girls, sadly one was already dead and the other was cold and nearly lifeless.…

Morning bloggers, I am surprisingly chipper this morning despite the continued cold weather, could be because we had practically the whole weekend off, apart from the feeding routine morning and evening we didn’t do very much at all. Who wants to work out in zero temperatures and wet mud, not me, besides there is nothing…

I was awake and up before the alarm went off this morning! Most unusual for me, normally I am still in bed half an hour after it has gone off, however I need to get used to the earlier mornings as we are only a couple of weeks away from early morning feeds for the…

It makes such a difference to the start of the week when you wake up to sunshines doesn’t it. Unlike most of the country I actually like Mondays, after what is usually a hectic weekend, it’s nice to get back to routine and quiet! This weekend has been a busy one and a long one…

It has been very cold hasn’t it but at least the ground is hard and dry, much easier to walk on, it’s almost like everything has been freeze dried! Our Fox is still being a total nuisance and the birds are all own total lockdown at the minute, we have tried in vain to catch…

It is glorious outside this morning, just like being on your holidays, fresh but sunny and full of promise, let’s hope it stays like this for a while. There are still very wet and muddy areas but it is beginning to dry up thank goodness. This week has been a very busy one, mostly sorting…

Apologies for stating the obvious but the weather is shite again! It was just beginning to dry up nicely during the week and one of the afternoons I was even working in a t shirt, but we have gone back to square one with the downpour that occurred over the weekend and now more snow…