Hi All Another great grass growing week with lots of soft rain and high temperatures.   Gerry Mcnamee our slurry contractor is busy emptying the slatted tanks.  We graze the fields as tightly as we can then strip the fields and apply slurry.  With conditions like these we get maximum use from our slurry,  less [...]

What a hectic week its been.  Pamela due back from Philadelphia on Wednesday, flight cancelled and she didn’t get back till Sunday.  It takes at least two to run two businesses and a family and she was badly missed.  On the farm last week all the lambs had to be crutched i.e. cleaning the woll [...]

Hello All Still hard to believe that its been a week of north winds night frosts.  In the mornings one can see where all the livestock have walked during the night, they leave a black mark on the frosted ground.  Grass is holding up well but we need heat very soon.  All thats left indoors [...]

Hello All Monday morning arrived with great excitement, finally time to let the cattle out, weather perfect.  Saddled up Spancil, my 16 year old much loved hunter.  Had just moved the first group of sheep off the silage fields and was galloping up the lawn field when Spancil discovered a hole in the ground, left [...]