Wednesday 15 April 2009

Down on the farm



So we enjoyed our stay on the farm over the Easter weekend. It is an animal rather than an arable farm, with deer, cattle and sheep. The cattle are Dexters or Dexter crossed with Highland; the deer are red deer; and the sheep are a Hebridean breed. These need little hands-on management, managing lambing on their own and not needing to be sheared. In fact, if the wool is wanted, the animals have to be plucked. Otherwise, the fleece will pretty much fall off naturally - or it will be rubbed off on fences and bushes.

2 comments:

(not necessarily your) Uncle Skip said...

I saw a fella in Safeway the other day with a haircut just like those sheep.

I always thought animal farms were morre exciting than arable farms. It is no fun watching melons, beans or alfalfa grow.

Brighton Pensioner said...

Exciting? Yes, it has its moments - like when the cattle broke through a fence into a garden after dark while it was pouring with rain and we were just about to eat a dessert of baked Alaska. Julian and I had to go and herd the cattle back into the field and repair the fence before we could finish our meal. Mind, that was a few years ago.