A blue calf being born back feet first (Should be front feet/head first)
Wish i had bred her to a holstein. Replacement heifers are very valuable right now.
Music by Scottish rock band Breabach - "Cockerel in the creel"
Back to work today after the Highland Show trip.
Normally i am on the buckrake all for the entire silage season but yesterday i was on the trailers hauling the grass from field back to farm.
Music by Saxon with their classic song - Wheels of Steel.
Cows went out to graze grass this year on 5th May- 2 weeks later than last year. It's been a very wet sunless winter. It's great to see the sun again - Hopefully it will be a long hot dry summer.
The roofed silage bunkers are full. Now filling outside pit
Weather has been almost perfect this season for making silage.
Music - Hay making time by Watershed. Available as a download at iTunes
Covered silage pit with plastic sheeting and weighed it down with large barley straw bales.
Lost about a cupful of diesel after handle for turning it off jammed.
Podcast on tractor radio - Farm week from RTE in Dublin Ireland
Music - Rye Straw by Husband & wife group Brad Leftwich & Linda Higginbotham - Teachers from Augusta USA and are very popular in the Mid- west
Filmed from farmhouse kitchen in early October on one of the few dry & sunny days in 08 . Texel and suffolk lambs grazing the cows field. All the best for 2009
Cow 156 also known as big fat mamma calving a Belgian Blue bull calf yesterday. She was not making any progress with calving so gave some help with the jack. Both are doing well.
Song - Status Quo - Big fat mamma
Judging Clydesdales in Ring 1 at R.H.S. Edinburgh (Thursday)
Music from a new CD titled Gentle Giants - A celebration of the clydesdale horse in song Also available as a download at Apple's iTunes store.
The last song was recorded at Biggar primary school Scotland.
