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.
Our Cattle Gene Pool
19/08/2021
We have twelve breeding cows, six from the Northmoor Herd and 6 from Forde Abbey. Tim (the bull) is from the Bollowal herd….. It is really interesting to see the difference in their colouring and build. All are pedigree and conform to the breed traits and characteristics. All of our cattle are easy going, easy...
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Time Out
30/07/2021
We have discovered that taking a break from farming is the hardest thing to do. There is always something that needs doing or some animals that need attention, we were warned by several farming friends that it really is 24/7 and they were right even on our small scale. Farming apart we are having a...
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Calving 2021
15/05/2021
We have 12 breeding cows, Tim (our bull) was put in with them from June until September last year. A cow is pregnant for approximately 253 days (give or take a few days!) so this years calves were due at the end of March just as lambing finished. We usually bring them down to a...
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Laminitis
03/05/2021
We have had a difficult time with one of our welsh mountain ponies which graze the headland…..they are usually very low maintenance and have come from generations of semi wild ponies used to conservation grazing and minimum input from humans. Unfortunately one of ours developed laminitis this year – very unusual for these ponies, more...
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Lambing 2021
23/04/2021
What a roller coaster it has been! Having had the ewes scanned in December we separated the twins and triplets and put them on better grass in readiness for feeding their extra lambs. Looking rather large some of them!! We set up the lambing shed taking into account everything we had learnt from last year. ...
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