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7th January 2010

Hello! did you bring any food with you?

I will re-name Sandy Meadow for the coming weeks as it really should be called Snowy Meadow! 

As ice breaking commenced at the trough,the Belted Galloways trundled up Snowy Meadow to say hello and to see whether food was on board the truck. Harvey thinks he may have found something and the 'girls' soon follow!

Out-wintering cattle are provided with fodder, as a foot of snow blankets the grassland.  Five people are working flat out on livestock feed and water, plus bedding-up the inside cattle. 

Defrosting pipes and breaking ice continued today, however it’s a never ending job for the staff in plunging temperatures.  Inevitably, troughs which were ‘defrosted’ this morning had begun to freeze over again all too soon.

Another day and another trough;

Ian breaks the ice and Amanda scoops out the slush.