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The day to day happenings on Green Farm
Jan
10 
Date |
Entry |
Comment
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| 1st |
Go and take some more buckets out for the animals
on Highside, Langcliffe and Malham. Fix another water trough.
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| 2nd | Take a few bales out. Go to Wigan to collect Coinneach of Borland who has been looking after 4 cows. Cleaned the trailer out. | |
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And where were the stewards tonight ? stood at the front because we are going to invade the pitch obviously. Not one attempt to make us sit down. |
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| 3rd |
Do the VAT. We go and see another great performance but Defoe scores a hat-trick to knock us out of the cup. |
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| 4th |
Mend a couple of water troughs that have been causing problems. |
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| 5th |
Take some tyres off the silage sheet and move the sheet back a bit. |
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| CAITEIN OF HELLIFIELD Calved |
Bull Calf
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| 6th |
Don't do much apart from watching the 2 rugby internationals. |
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| 7th |
Mick and family come to pick a yearling heifer that they want to exchange for a steer, after a lot of thought Mick decides on Andrena. |
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| 8th | Go up on to Langcliffe and then Highside where I find a cow that has calved and a dead cow unfortunately. I don't know why but Grace of Cnoc is the cow that has died, I drag her to the road side where the Tiny the knacker man will collect her. I then manage to get the cow and calf and 2 more cows into the trailer and home. | |
| Raymond and Sheila
come to have a look at the bulls to pick one out for hiring later
this year. |
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| FURAN SILEAS 4th OF GLENGORM Calved "FRANCES" |
Heifer Calf
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| "Pics please someone, anyone?......" webmaster | ||
| 9th | Cleaned the building out at
Wenningber. D Hall delivered 2 holstein bull calves for our barley
beef system. |
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| Travel up to Carlisle to see
us win on the night but lose on penalties. I hope the morons who attacked
our players and tried to goad the Leeds fans into a battle enjoy their
day out at Wembley. |
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| 10th |
Stapletons come to put spread some slurry, so I stir up the slurry in the pit and empty the underground tank. Jack and I go to Wheelton near Blackburn to pick up a cow that I have bought. Andrew Stapleton comes to get paid for his contracting work. The swine. R & R Newhouse bring a load of straw. |
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| 11th | Take a look round all the
outlying animals. Take bales to all those that have them. Take some
tyres off the silage clamp and move the sheet back. |
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| 12th | Andy is in charge for a couple of days as we are heading to Oban for the show and sale. | |
| We have a lovely drive to Scotland. When we arrive at Cladich Tom takes us on a tour of his fold, the scenery and the cows are stunning. | ||
| 13th | After a leisurely morning wandering round Oban. I have a council meeting. Then we go upto the mart for a master class given by 3 prominent breeders. | |
| 14th | Show day. I am stewarding which is very enjoyable and a great way to meet people. Well done to Alan Kennedy on having his first Oban champion. | |
| 15th | Sale day. Didn't buy anything for myself but bought some animals for other people. A nice steady trade with a top of 5600gns. | |
| 16th | Have a nice drive back from Edinburgh via Hawick and other border towns. Make it home in time to see a defeat to Walsall. This was not expected. | |
| 17th | Up early to go down to Stoneleigh to the National all breeds show. Holsteins,Jerseys,Ayrshire's,Brown Swiss and Shorthorns. A very good display of cattle. | |
| 18th | Go round all the animals on the hills. Have a visit from the FABBL inspector, another box ticking exercise. | |
| 19th | Sorted 7 of my holstein heifers out in to a separate bit of the cubicles. These are going to used as recipients for some embryo's. I also did them for BVD and Leptospirosis and gave them all trace boluses. | |
| 20th | It is a good job there is injury time as we scrape a draw. Manage to stay stood up for most of the game even though that prat no 242 was very annoying. Father broke one of the track rod ends on the quad bike so he had to take it to Clitheroe to get fixed. | |
| 21st | UISEAG OF CNOC Calved "UNA" |
Heifer Calf
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| 22nd | Took a newly calved heifer to CCM Skipton. M. Kayley took 2 holsteins home. | |
| 23rd | At last a home victory. And it was too snowy to sit down despite number 96. Show 2 young ladies from Doncaster round the yearlings and other heifers. | |
| GRAINE OF HELLIFIELD Calved |
Bull Calf
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| 24th | Brought 39 cows down off Highside. We the vaccinated them for BVD and Leptospirosis, Injected them with "Trodax" for fluke put a pour on solution on their backs for lice and then gave them 2 high iodine all trace boluses as well. They are now home for calving. We also did 10 holsteins as well. | |
| SADIE OF HELLIFIELD Calved "SOPHIE" |
Heifer Calf
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| 25th | Sorted the heifers that had calved on the moor into the Haw lane field. Weaned the last 5 calves on the moor, took the cows onto Highside after giving them all their treatments and brought the calves inside. | |
| ANNAG RUADH OF THAGGNAM Calved "ANGELINA" |
Heifer Calf
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| 26th | Bales to all lots outside. Cleaned the trailer out. Went to look at the cattle at Langcliffe. | |
| 27th | Why is it always so cold and wet in Huddersfield ?. A draw was a fair result after a poor first half. | |
| 28th | After the feeder wagon bed
chain decided to come off the cogs and an hours messing to get it
back on again, why is it always a Sunday morning. We went over to
Newton-on-Ouse for lunch with Sarah and Ben and his parents. Gary
came and collected his 4 cows that have been here since last July. |
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| MILLIE 29th OF THE KILN Calved |
Bull Calf
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