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The day to day happenings on Green Farm
June
08
Date |
Entry |
Comment
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| 1st |
1937
The 999 telephone emergency service comes into operation in Britain 1858 Charles Darwin presents his Theory on Evolution and Natural Selection to the Linnaean Society in London. |
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| Dose all the cows and heifers on Highside
sort the best 6 two year olds out and take them to Malham. |
"Back to life back to reality" | |
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ELLIT 17th OF PENNYGOWN Calves
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Bull Calf
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| LADY 21st OF CALLACHALLY Calves |
Bull Calf
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| 2nd | Finish dosing the steers
at Wenningber. Take 6 yearlings up to Malham. Go and have a look at
a potential replacement Land Rover. |
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| 3rd | Clean up where all the
ring feeders have been in winter. Bring Annabelle and Mercedes in
to get them ready for the Yorkshire show. Do the VAT. |
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| 4th | Replace the seat that
got destroyed on new years eve. Put 2 new wooden field gates on, The
old ones were rotting away. Picked some beef up from Stanforths the
butchers. |
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| Tom moved a pile of road
planings that had been tipped where we stack the big bales if we hadn't
listened to the forecast the bales would be there now. 10 steers arrive
from the Benmore fold in Scotland. |
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| 5th | Make sure everything
is ready for the Yorkshire Show. Get the caravan "cara van"
for our Scottish readers, packed as well. |
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| 6th | As we are only taking
Annabelle and Mercedes to the show is going to wash them there. He
sets off with the Land Rover and trailer as we go to Sarah's godmothers
90th birthday party. I hope I am as active in 39 years time. We take
the caravan with us and after the party go to Harrogate to set it
up and make sure Tom has got the animals settled in. 20 highland breeders
and friends all go for a meal to get us into the show spirit. |
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| 7th | Take some beef to York
and then come back to the show. The rest of the team led by Hazel
have the Highland cattle society stand set up and looking good. All
the animals have now arrived and we have the same number as last year
very good considering the Blue Tongue restrictions. We have torrential
rain which doesn't look good for tomorrow. |
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| 8th | Show day. Tom has the
animals looking good so I leave him to it. Donald McNaughton is the
judge and he does a very good job. He has to call on an umpire a couple
of times as one of the exhibitors has brought animals the judge has
bred. Andrew Morrow helps out. Annabelle wins best yearling and the junior championship and Mercedes comes 3rd in her class. Anne Barugh wins the overall championship with a very nice 2 year old. We have a lot of interest on the stand, and end the day with an excellent BBQ. |
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| 9th | The weather is kind again
at least until 7pm when the downpour returns. I work on the stand
until I go to join Bruce Elsworth who is the executive chef at the
famous Angel
Inn in Hetton, For a cooking demonstration and talk on how
we rear our cattle and look after the landscape. It seemed to go very
well ( I think) My apologies to Hazel who missed it. We shelter from
the rain on the stand with a massive chinese take away. |
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| 10th | Work on the stand all
day as Tom and the rest of the prize winners meet the Queen who inspects
all the breeds of cows on her tour round the show. The stand is still busy until the bowler hats put the security fence up to stop the public going into the cattle lines 2 hours before the wagons and trailers are allowed in to pick the animals up. Our 2 animals are going back to Robert Bradley's in Queensbury for a while until the Blue Tongue restrictions are changed. Tom has a puncture on the Land Rover on his way home. |
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| 11th | Take some beef to Stanforth's
to have some beef burgers made. Tom and Jeremy spend all morning counting the money that was put in charity buckets that we had at the show, Yorkshire Air Ambulance is our charity this year and we raised the staggering amount of £1062. Thanks to everybody who donated. And to the person who stole 2 £10 notes out of the bucket on thursday may you never have to use the service. Tidied the office out before we unloaded the trailer and all the stuff. |
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| 12th | Don't do a lot as fatigue has set in. Tom heads up to "Scotland" to do his missionary work. | |
| 13th | Go and have a look at
a Holstein heifer that M Cowgill took home by mistake when he took
his own home, He thinks he should now buy it. |
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| My apologies to all our readers who had to wait for some time for a report on JUNE. I was on holiday for a while but that does not excuse the web master for being so slow. After some retraining and an official warning she has promised to mend her ways. | "Its amazing how inspiring a bag of sausages can be" webmaster :) | |
| 14th | Bring a Holstein cow off
the moor after it has had a dead calf. As it is a bit of an idiot
I get a Limousin calf off a neighber to put on it rather than milking
it. Put the windscreen back in on the Quad bike after it fell out. |
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| 15th | Sort out the steers at
Wenningber dose the new ones from J Bowsers and sort 6 out for delivery
tomorrow to Weir. |
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| 16th | Take 6 steers to Deer View farm shop at Weir near Burnley and give them a bit of advice on handling systems. | |
| 17th | Start preparations for
the Lancashire show by bringing in all the animals we are going to
show. |
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| Spend the morning doing
a video presentation for a new web site that is being launched to
local food. www.Paganum.co.uk
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| 18th | Tom gets ready for the Lancashire show by washing Sadi, Melody and Diorbhail and is about to start on Seonaid and Samella when we find out that the show is cancelled due to the wet weather, The guy I spoke to at the show seemed more concerned with how I had got his telephone number (he gave me it 3 days previously) than telling me what was happening with the show. It will take a lot of persuading to go next year. | |
| Have a visit from the environmental health department to have a look in the shop. No problems thank goodness. Wendy and I go to the funeral of a very good friends mother. | ||
| 19th | Dave and Sam come to pick up their caravan they had left here after the Yorkshire show. Take Sadi and Diorbhail up to Wenningber as they are no longer needed for showing for a while. | |
| 20th | Mowed the lawn. 2 cows
arrive to spend some time with Calum. |
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| 21st | Stapleton's came and mowed 20 acres of grass for big bales, It could have been done 3 weeks ago but the weather and the forecast has been against us. | |
| We hang 2 new wooden gates and do some more fencing. Take a steer to CCM Skipton. | ||
| 22nd | John Fryer came and baled our haylage with big round bales, We had over 150,Tom and I moved them all to the hard pad next to the buildings where Colin Price wrapped and stacked them. | |
| WE ARE HAVING A VISIT
FROM "FWAG" ON WEDNESDAY 6th OF AUGUST MEETING AT MALHAM
CAR PARK AT 6.30 EVERYBODY WELCOME |
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| 23rd | Neil our vet who has
returned from BUDAPEST comes to PD all the cows at home. |
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| DORA OF HELLIFIELD Calves | Heifer Calf |
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| 24th | Bring 5 cows off Highside,3
of which have calved. Take delivery of our new Land Rover. Well new
to us. |
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| LUCY OF HELLIFIELD Calves |
Heifer Calf |
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| 25th | Neil returns to PD everything
up on the moor. Take 6 highland heifers to D&A Shepherdson, Ruston
near Scarborough to start their new highland fold. |
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| 26th | Laura and I go up to Penrith
show where I am judging the highland classes. It was a red hot day,
Some good classes with Tony and Lynn Ridley winning the championship
with a very good cow. |
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| 27th | To hot to do anything apart from pick raspberries. 2 cows come to spend time with Calum. Tom and Laura take the new land rover on a mountain hike to see if it runs ok. Don't ever let daughters and godsons near things with wheels. | |
| 28th | Stapleton's arrive "eventually" to mow 22 acres at Wenningber. Help Andy to put a new fence up at Wenningber. | |
| Marion from FWAG comes to do a risk assessment for the farm visit on the 6th of august. If we could shoot all the useless pen pushers (not Marion)who dream up health and safety rules the world would be a lot better place. | ||
| Take a steer to CCM Skipton
for slaughter. |
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| 29th | R Barron comes to bale the grass at Wenningber, Just as he starts the heavens open and it is torrential for about 10 minutes, I tell him to keep going. We finish picking up the bales at 11pm but they are all wrapped and has it hasn't stopped raining since it was a good decision. | |
| 30th | Tom mends a creep feeder that has seen better days. Then he heads up to Sheildig for a drunken weekend (allegedly) | |
| 31st | Do some fencing in the "Goal" field and in the Otterburn fields. The fields where we made the bales are now under water. | |
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