Category: Treathro Cottages
We have spent many years on walking holidays around the UK and wanted to create what we consider the perfect place to stay.
Rotational Grazing
31/05/2020
Our focus now is on improving the grass on the farm. Even before this lack of rain some of the fields were in a sorry state. With such a wet winter there was a lot of poaching, extremely patchy growth and lots of nettles, docks and other weeds. With this in mind we...
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Lambing Update
19/04/2020
We were able to put most of the ewes and lambs outside towards the end of March. Most seemed to be doing really well other than one set of twins, on closer investigation it appeared the ewe had mastitis on one side and both were trying to feed off the other teat which was extremely...
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New life
30/03/2020
LAMBING Most of the month has been spent lambing, unfortunately the grass has not yet taken off so they were all kept inside until the end of this month. A total of 65 lambs born, fairly trouble free but sadly one born dead. There was the threat of prolapse with two of the ewes so...
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Lambing Preparation
28/02/2020
LAMBING SHED Our first lambs are due at the end of this month, so we have spent time preparing the lambing shed. As we have more ewes lambing this year we have increased the number of individual pens (for ewes and newborn lambs) and set up the main structure in a way that makes it...
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Herd Update
31/01/2020
Lovely start to the year with the new addition of 6 young heifers from Forde Abbey, who are settling in well. This brings the total number in the herd to 21, 6 of which are in calf (from Tim). We also have the 6 calves from last year (now about 9 months old), 4 of...
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