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June-06-07 - First Half of 2007

What a mixed start to the year, severe gales, frost, snow, torrential rain and flooding, scorching April and cold wet May…the pictures say it all.

So what’s going on down on the farm at this time of year? Taking advantage of the frozen ground in February were spreading muck and compost on the grassland, weaning the calves and sorting the cows out ready to go off to their new home Ty Mawr over on the Welsh coast. Eighty cows have gone over this time and the rest will go in the early autumn. Mr Fox visited our chickens, which was most unwelcome, and a number of losses resulted. All the spring groundwork on the fields was done in the perfect weather conditions of May. The last of last years lambs have now gone and we are now supplying milk fed lambs and first of the spring lambs to our customers. The lambs are finishing well at good weights of up to 40kg.

We have increased the size of our Bison herd buy purchasing an additional 11 animals from a herd in Scotland and they have now settled in well with the existing herd.

The office opened last Thursday to a barrage of calls from the television and press because they had heard that we had Avian Flu in our poultry flock. Thankfully they had been misinformed but with five enormous vehicles with satellite dishes bristling from their roofs parked in the car park it proved very good trade for our catering business.

Other than this everyone remains very busy looking after the animals and clearing up the devastation after the gales when we must of lost over a hundred trees.

On the Estate we have a number of cottages that have come vacant and these all need varying degrees of decoration before they can be re-let again.

Written By: Sam

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