I noticed this photo in one of my files the other day. About 4 years ago, we bought 2 pet lambs and while one went into the freezer, we decided to keep Matilda as a pet sheep. She had one lamb the first year, all on her own which was sold to the factory. The second year she had 3 lambs, yet again, all on her own. She was a superb mother. We called them Bill, Sally and little Lucy [...]
I spotted a post over on World Irish today which highlights a new site that shows scenes from Dublin from a hundred years ago, comparing it with the Dublin streets today. Nice to see how so little had changed even over the passage of a hundred years.
We’re celebrating this weekend – at long last! It’s a bit of a long story but last spring, Dovea AI (artificial insemination) were interested in two of our bull calves to use as test bulls ?which would hopefully go on to become successful and profitable bulls for them. ?They eliminated one and really wanted the other but there seemed to be one delay after another. For example, we had one cow that was ‘doubtful’ in the TB test, she was [...]
Calves tend to suck everything, particularly after they have just had milk. They will suck at my waterproofs if they can, they will suck each other – each other’s ears, hair, navels, fetlocks – you name it, they will suck it!
It’s unusual for them to suck at each other’s mouths though and it happened with these two while I was [...]
You may remember that I mentioned some time ago that I was heading to the Charisma Bootcamp, organised by Owen Fitzpatrick. Well, that happened over the last few days. I only made it to the Gresham on Thursday and Saturday (was teaching on Friday and we have an unwritten rule that Sundays are family days – put it this way, I’d have given Brian a hard time if he disappeared on a Sunday for a farming conference so [...]
