Posted in Farming, Food, Life, Politics, Rural Life on Mar 14th, 2012
Yesterday the 3 Chefs from the Farriers Arms came to choose their next beef animal. They chose a well covered Aberdeen Angus cross South Devon heifer, as they want marbled meat. We could not photograph this animal yesterday but will take a picture of her before she goes to Anglo Dutch Meats at Charing in [...]
Posted in Farming, Food, Life, Politics, Rural Life on Mar 1st, 2012
Here at Horton Park Farm we feed organic red clover silage through the winter to the cattle in the shed. This silage is harvested and stored in the large clamps two or three times a year. Last year’s silage was made in two batches, June and October. Depending on the analysis of the crop we [...]
Posted in Farming, Food, Life, Politics, Rural Life on Feb 14th, 2012
The snow is shrinking, slowly, and the ice is extremely hazardous around the yard, especially while we were so busy at the weekend calving heifers. We had 4 heifers and a cow calves this weekend. Friday night started with a breech birth. We could see she was starting, but was a wee while away from [...]