The feeder wagon is mixed with a carefully balanced diet in discussion with the herd nutritionist and the Friesian x cattle are fed according to the age, weight and conformation of the cattle.  They are weighed regularly and the information saved on an electronic system so that the information can be reviewed and monitored over time.

The Belted Galloway cattle move into barns for weaning, with the dams and the calves in separate barns a mile or more apart so that the dams don't attempt to reach their offspring; and as part of increased biosecurity we now move the in-calf cows into a barn for calving.

The group below are being given some grub in a corale in readiness to try to fetch the group up next week for weaning.
The Belties do very well on a simple diet of haylage when inside, this is grass that was cut and wrapped when damp,  in contrast to hay which should be dry when baled and that is left unwrapped.

The cattle which have been grazing Steers Field for the National Trust and Natural England have done a fantastic job over the past couple of months and the National Trust warden is pleased with the results, grazing down the rougher grass into a tussocky sward and relieving the yellow meadow ant hills which had been hidden by the overgrown vegetattion. This group have recently had the gates opened so they could also graze into the Brow and dependent on the weather and no fallen trees onto fencelines they may do some final grazing in the Big Field before coming off the downs.