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29th April 2009
Today we had a visit from North Primary School, Southall. There were 41 children fascinated by our livestock and the milk mixer, delighted by the calves, piglets, hens and eggs and with so many relevant questions, it made for a really worthwhile day.
We rounded off the afternoon on a nature walk with Jim Storrar, collecting objects to match various coloured cards and listening to the sounds of the countryside. Don’t forget children; Jack by the Hedge pongs of garlic, White Dead Nettle has a square stem, with leaves at right angles to each other and it doesn’t sting! how high was that Skylark? Who heard the trees gurgling?
Dick and Luke have been checking fences and undertaking repairs over the last few weeks in readiness for calves going out to pasture.
Yesterday 94 calves were put out to grass.We were a little surprised then, to receive a call from a friend at the weekend to say some black and white cattle were running down a byway towards her. Surely our cattle hadn’t escaped from one of the fields at Netley which we have just taken on?
The cattle were grazing just over a brow, so Axel went up to ensure the group didn’t move off towards the village or into a garden. Meanwhile Laurence cut a hole in a fence ready to herd the cattle into a field, by then more help had arrived. It wasn’t until the cattle were moved over the brow and into view that it was clear they weren’t ours! Still, the group had to be caught and the owner found and after a fair amount of running (that’s us humans!) we managed to get the cattle up the byway and into an empty field and they seemed glad of a drink. The cattle belonged to a farmer over the hill and were about a quarter of the cattle which had escaped the previous day, these things do happen and it’s important to get the livestock into a safe place as soon as possible, whoever they belong to. Our thanks go to Jane and her gallant tennis team for their help.
Ploughing is underway in Homefield and will soon be drilled with maize and the fertilising of wheat is still underway across the farm. Cattle will be sorted at Coast Hill on Thursday and moved to fresh fields. The field they leave will be ploughed and drilled with maize.
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