Little Farmerette with a Little Calf
A tiny heifer calf was born the other day, no larger than a small dog! Kate has named her Honey. Here she is beside another newborn so you can see just how titchy she is.
Absolutely tiny! but she’s doing well.
Irish Countrywide, Windmills, Calves, Goats and Pigs …..
It has been one of those weeks this week, just throw in a visit from a journalist, a wake and funeral (neighbour) and a visit to a hospital to visit a friend and it seems to turn the week into turmoil, well, not quite but certainly busy!
Yours truly will be on CountryWide on Radio One tomorrow morning at 8:10, [...]
Anyone for Goat curry?
It’s been a busy week here, we reached the half way mark with the calving during the week when 64 were born and we’re now up to 70. 2 calf houses are full and were overflowing this morning until Brian got a third shed ready.
We are now down to 3 goats – Becky, Megan and Katie. ?Rolo, [...]
New Baby Calves at Garrendenny
It’s that calving time of the year when I turn into a single mother for a few months 🙂
It is always lovely when the first calf arrives though, the first one is always special and even more so if it is a heifer as this year’s was. Dairy heifer calves are worth more than bulls from a dairy British Friesien herd plus it is nice to know that they will ?live for longer!
[...]Rolo
I guess I was thinking about my regular readers rather than my new readers (from Imen’s blog) when I wrote yesterday’s post. I hesitated loads before hitting publish and then shut my eyes and clicked it and shut the laptop! ?Apologies to new readers – it’s normally a very normal farming blog I promise 🙂
This is our orphan goat Rolo who we never castrated and we now hope he [...]