Cattle
Articles, advice and information about keeping cattle.
The lambing season will soon be upon us. If you’re interested in keeping sheep or are an existing sheep keeper and want to know everything there is to know about lambing, pop over to Smallholding Courses and get yourself booked onto a lambing course. Lambing courses are extremely popular and with places limited you’ll need [...]
Series of cattle keeping articles written by Lydia Cook of Tower View Farm The Dexter breed of cow has become almost synonymous with smallholding for some very good reasons. At a very basic level, Dexters are quite cheap beasts to buy due to their unfashionably compact (we never say small) size. They are tough, hardy little [...]
Series of cattle keeping articles written by Lydia Cook of Tower View Farm If you can at all manage it on your holding in terms of your acreage, barn space and finances, do get some cows. Unlike sheep who repay you with a baleful look when you pull them out of the ditch, tip them back [...]
From our dining area window we have a great view to the field beyond. A local farmer keeps his sheep there. The field is only 10 feet away from our dining area, so we are luckily enough to enjoy the sheep and lambs. But yesterday, it wasn’t such a pretty sight. A poor sheep [...]