13 January 2017 – A final word »
Even though it has been Christmas and New Year, we have been busy...
Frances Graham is a young farmer who farms with her family at the top of Upper Nidderdale. The Grahams work on their hill farm throughout the year. From January 2016 to January 2017, Frances shared with us the ups and downs of a year’s farming in Nidderdale through a fortnightly blog.
Even though it has been Christmas and New Year, we have been busy...
I know it was only 2 weeks ago since I wrote about scanning the heifers...
Last week we have been busy PD-ing (pregnancy diagnosing) the heifers and cows...
Well it’s back to that time of year again and we are working with the sheep most days, getting them ready for tupping...
The day finally arrived, which we all dread, when the cows come inside after spending the summer outside...
Monday was the yearly trip to Bentham Auction Mart to go and buy some Dalesbred tups...
Well, it has finally come upon us that a week last Saturday was the start of a busy month...
Last week we finally managed to get the wool away to market...
It’s back to that time of year again when we are working with sheep and lambs most days...
Well, we have finally finished clipping...
Well, Saturday was a very different day to what we all imagined it to be. My first heifer that I had AI’d was starting to calve...
Last Monday, it was the time of year to go and gather the moor for clipping...
It doesn’t seem five minutes ago since we were clipping last year...
Well the day finally arrived, turning out day with the cows...
Last weekend we took our sheep back to the moor...
Well lambing has finally finished, with only the odd sheep left to lamb.
Between going around the sheep morning and night we have been getting the hoggs ready to go to the moor.
We started lambing on the 17th March with the first three flocks of sheep...
Last Sunday was a stressful day as we have started lambing, and I had the job of sorting fat lambs out to take to the collection centre...
Over the past three weeks we have been calving. This year for the first time, the cows which were to calve have been synchronised. Synchronising the cows is when...
This week we have being TB testing, it’s a week that we have all being dreading as it takes up a lot of time and can be frustrating work. All the cows that we keep for breeding need to be tested...
I have had a busy week moling. The mole is one of the most common..
It has been a busy week, my Dad and I have been sorting out for scanning. We scan sheep to find out how many lambs are inside them. We do this by using...