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.
Badger vaccination
27/09/2022
We have had several clear TB tests and had become a little complacent so it was a nasty surprise when we went down with TB last year. Although we are in a high TB area, we are a closed herd, with no nose to nose contact with any other cattle and there has never been...
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New boy!
24/08/2022
Very sadly Trevor our original Texel ram had to go to slaughter. He had real problems with his feet and had got to the stage where we could do no more for him. We will always remember him for his quirky character, nothing he loved more than a bit of rough and tumble with David...
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Chickens finally!
15/07/2022
We planned to have our own chickens from the very start of our move here but with one thing and another…….! We know we have 2 or 3 very confident foxes that roam our fields so our main priority was making sure the run and shed were completely fox proof. David put a lot of...
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Calving 2022
15/05/2022
We had a list of priorities when choosing which breed of cow to bring onto the farm. They needed to be of good temperament, live on scrubby land (ie coastal!), to be good calvers and to be a native breed. Our Red Devons have proved to be all of these, again calving was relatively easy. The...
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Lambing 2022
20/03/2022
The ewes were brought inside in the middle of February as we wanted to keep a good eye on a couple prior to their due date (lambing due to start 18th Feb). We had one ewe which had been absolutely huge for over a month (expecting triplets) and a couple which had threatened prolapses. We...
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