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  • Goldie146
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    edited May 2016 #32

    Close ups (Wood Anenome, Bluebell, Blackthorn)

    And a stony hillside - still some to pick for reseeding tomorrow.

  • Goldie146
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    edited May 2016 #33

    Cows coming in for milking this morning.

  • volvoman9
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    edited May 2016 #34

    Lovely pics Happy

    v9

  • Goldie146
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    edited May 2016 #35

    This could have been posted in "what are you doing today", but it's more - "what have you been doing all week and will be doing till at least Saturday night"

    Mowing

    Scaling 

    Rowing up

    Picking up

    Pushing out into pit

    Going back for more

    Pit filling up

    And yet more mowing etc etc

  • Coltheox
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    edited May 2016 #36

    Good pictures. Mowing and silage making. Not much of that in my part of the world. Now waiting for the crops to ripen. Looks like harvest may be slightly later than normal this year.

  • Goldie146
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    edited June 2016 #37

    Not just a view - a video.

    We set up a time lapse camera when the cows came in for milking last night.

    Click here to watch. I will take you you our son's Twitter acccount, but don't panic - there's nothing untoward there. Apart from a Vegan rant

  • cyberyacht
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    edited June 2016 #38

    Not exactly "chillout TV' like that two hour Sami sleigh ride that was broadcast a few months ago.

  • Goldie146
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    edited June 2016 #39

    Not just a view - a video.

    We set up a time lapse camera when the cows came in for milking last night.

    Click here to watch. I will take you you our son's Twitter acccount, but
    don't panic - there's nothing untoward there. Apart from a Vegan rant

    I'm sorry I put this on here now. The Angry Vegans seem to have picked on us.  Please don't click. 

    Maybe a Mod could remove my post, if people find the comments under the video in the link offensive.

  • ValDa
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    edited June 2016 #40

    Goldie - I'm so sorry that your post has been subject to the rants of vegans - most of us appreciate your milk production and your happy cows!  Keep on with the good work!

  • Goldie146
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    edited June 2016 #41

    Six months on

    After the floods

  • IanH
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    edited June 2016 #42

    I guess everyone is entitled to their own view.....?

  • cyberyacht
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    edited June 2016 #43

    I don't know! These people who let the grass grow under their feet.

  • Goldie146
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    edited June 2016 #44

    A group of heifer calves, who obvioulsy like having their photo taken,

    And last night, moving them to a new field. Following the Pied Piper in front with his bag of cake.

     

  • Goldie146
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    edited June 2016 #45

    Last week Farners Guardian had an article about us as part of the preview for The Royal Highland Show. It's now online, so if you want to know a bit more about our farm - 

                 CLICK HERE

  • Goldie146
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    edited June 2016 #46

    Yesterday our son James (on the left) was elected President of The Dairy Shorthorn Society. It's an honour not just for him, but for The Strickley Herd

  • taffyY
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    edited June 2016 #47

    Last week Farners Guardian had an article about us as part of the preview for The Royal Highland Show. It's now online, so if you want to know a bit more about our farm - 

                 CLICK HERE

    Really interesting Goldie!  More to it than meets the eye then!! Laughing

  • Goldie146
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    edited June 2016 #48

    Last week Farners Guardian had an article about us as part of the preview for The Royal Highland Show. It's now online, so if you want to know a bit more about our farm - 

                 CLICK HERE

    Really interesting Goldie!  More to it than meets the eye then!! Laughing

    There is a small error towards the end - 100 school visits should read, 25 school visits. The print and App versions were correct, but this one was not corrected.

  • Goldie146
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    edited October 2016 #49

    I haven't posted any photos lately (not becasue I can't!) but I just haven't got round to it. So here's a few to make up for it - 

    Looking towards our farm (from The Helm on the outskirts of Kendal)

    Mackeral Skies & Milk Cows

    Looking for trouble

    Cows on a Drumlin (geological term - look it up!)

    Coming home

  • Goldie146
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    edited October 2016 #50

    And just a few more  . .

    Cows at work

    As we're organic we don't spray weeds etc - but if the docks get really bad (sometimes you just have to shut your eyes to them) - we use a "lazy dog" gadget to pull them out. 

    And finally for now - it's not just grassland and cows here - we have an ancient wood and a not as ancient large pond (1.2 acres, so quite a bit bigger than your average garden pond).

  • Goldie146
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    edited October 2016 #51

    Sorry - that last picture is too big - editting soon!

     

    Done!

  • brue
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    edited October 2016 #52

    I like the way you get docks out, I've given up on ours, just cut them down on our right of way when people start huffing and puffing about things getting overgrown! Wink

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