Our Silage Saga

Wow, it has been a busy few weeks! I’ll start off by filling you in on our silage saga and a saga it was. I don’t think I could have written about it before now as I would just have ranted and ranted so I had to get all that out of my system!

For anyone [...]

A Day in the Life of an Irish Farmerette

For someone who loves blogging, I’m very aware that I’ve been so busy lately that I haven’t been around here much! I’ve had this post in my head for some time that I must write down what I do all day (in an attempt too to eliminate any procrastination sneaking in there) so thought I’d share it with you.

7:30 – I [...]

A busy fortnight ……

It has been a very busy week. I’m working away on this anniversary booklet for ‘Mayo 200’ which needs to be at the printers in a week’s time and we’re planning to put the Blog Awards website live later this week too. I really shouldn’t be blogging at all!

It was extremely busy on the farm last week. ?Some of the calves had been poorly on and off, scouring but still drinking milk. We just got the test results back to [...]

Goats keen for supper and bed, wish children were as enthusiastic!

It is turning out to be a really busy time – partly cos of the Blog Awards, partly because I’m running 2 businesses, partly cos I procrastinate at time and partly because some calves have been poorly (2 died this morning, one of whom was Betsy one of the triplets which really upset us all) but hopefully with different treatment today, the others will rally and recover.

The goats are time-consuming too! Becky lets her Daisy suckle as she is a [...]