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Belted Galloways arrive at Hoe Grange Those who follow the blog will know of Ruby, the red and white calf sold at our farm sale. We hear that she is doing well, and is being halter trained. As she was a dairy cow rather than a beef breed, I promised Felicity when she was sold that I would get a more suitable replacement- in fact two of them. We have taken delivery two Belted Galloway heifers that were reared by my cousin and her husband Robert and Jennifer Adams. They are about 18 months old and not ready for breeding until next year. They...
Animals do the naughtiest things! Those guests who have stayed with us will know Robbie the cheeky 12 hand Welsh Mountain pony. Well guess where I found him this morning? Grazing contentedly on the grass outside the cabins - the mystery of it all is how he got out of the paddock leaving the other two horses behind and apparently locking the gate behind him ?? He has always been a bit of an escape artist, but this was more like Hudini! However that was not the naughty bit - once out he decided to raid the rubbish bin and was spotted by guest...
Life on the farm is full of ups and downs, loss of life and new arivals. Last week we sadly lost one of our hens, the Black Rock – she simply disappeared without a trace. We don’t know where she went, whether she got stuck in a hole somewhere on the farm, or whether the fox had her, but unlikely as none of the others went missing and we didn’t find any feathers? We thought she might reappear, but sadly not. However on the up side we have exciting news of a new arrival today! Arrival of Flash We fetched our new Aberdeen Angus pedigree bu...
Rubbish or treasure? Everything seems extremely quiet at Hoe Grange after the hectic build up to our dairy sale - it really is quite strange - I have even made it to school sports day for the first time! The majority of sale items have now been picked up; the last few heifers have left in cattle trailers today, the tractor and feeder wagon have been taken off on low loaders, the milking equipment in the dairy is being dismantled and the scrap lorry has fetched away the large pile of what I considered to be rubbish - but as they say one m...
Our farm sale last Friday was a day of mixed emotions. Very sad and tearful at times as we watched 30 years of hard work sold of bit by bit, however we could not help but smile as things that we considered as scrap sold for £10 here, £50 there, or even over £100! Have you ever been to a live auction? It can certainly get the adrenalin going and people can't help getting carried away bidding over their original limit! Going, going, gone... I felt no regret as bits of soulless machinery and tractors were auctioned one after the other; the hea...







