Matty's Blog
I'm still a young'un and love to farm - this blogs about me and my road to agriculture.
Sign in
|
Join
Home
Contact
RSS
Atom
Comments RSS
Receive Email Updates
Subscribe
Search
Tags
2008
accident
bales
barley
birthday
blagdon
breeds
brenda
canada
cereals
chickens
combine
cultivations 08
deere
dog
drier
driving
dryer
education
farm
farmers weekly
farming
fontburn
fox
FW
grandad
happy
harvest
harvest 08
herbert
HSE
incubator
interview
Isabel
isabel davies
JCB
jimmys
jimmys farm
job
john
kansas farmer
kubota
lambing
lambs
lamping
lexion 570
lexion 580
mules
Own fred
pasty girl
pen
pens
pheasants
pictures
pigeons
pigs
polutry
pond
post
potatoes
poultry
poults
problems
prom
protection
public
quad
rabbits
rain
ramblers
rare
rarebreed
sainsburys
Sam Harrison
school
shed
sheep
shoot
Shooting
space
spraying
spreading
spring
spuds
sting
summer work
sun
sweets
tim relf
timesheet
tom
tony cooke
topper
topping fields
tractor
tractors
turkeys
walkers
wasp
weather
News
Please feel free to leave me a comment - its great to hear some feedback!
Navigation
Home
Blogs
Forums
Photos
FWi home
Archives
October 2008 (2)
September 2008 (8)
August 2008 (16)
July 2008 (16)
June 2008 (10)
May 2008 (11)
April 2008 (8)
March 2008 (7)
February 2008 (3)
Browse by Tags
All Tags
»
lambs
(
RSS
)
accident
ATV
bear
big
big bear
campaign
costs
daffodills
deere
diversification
driving
eco
ewes
farm
feed
feeding
footpaths
gears
grandad
john
lambing
march.
mules
organic
pens
pheasants
pictures
pigs
potatoes
public
quad
rainbow
ramblers
rarebreed
sainsburys
shed
sheep
shoot
spring
tractor
walkers
warrior
Agressive Jumping pigs and injured lambs
by
matty s
Yesterday was a different day - I never ever have the same day on the farm! My whole plan was to get the turkey pen just about done but i got loads of distractions. First of all I had to go over to a neighbouring farm to chat to a farmer about geting...
Filed under:
deere
,
john
,
lambs
,
pigs
,
driving
,
rarebreed
,
grandad
,
pens
,
accident
,
shed
,
tractor
Dealing with walkers.
by
matty s
Well, today was my first encounter by myself with the public on the land. I am quite confident with talking to people i dont know and when i pointed out a load of orange jacketed, zippy gaiter walkers out to my boss he just said keep an eye out while...
Filed under:
lambs
,
sheep
,
quad
,
public
,
ramblers
,
walkers
,
costs
,
grandad
,
footpaths
,
pens
,
organic
,
feed
Gearing up
by
matty s
Well, we still have 5 ewes left - which is an improvement from the 6 i told you about 2 days ago?! They still refuse to give birth, much to my boss' annoyance, happy days! But, getting to the story in here. Now we arent so busy lambing, it free's...
Filed under:
lambs
,
shoot
,
lambing
,
quad
,
gears
,
ATV
,
big
,
feeding
,
bear
,
driving
,
rarebreed
,
ewes
,
big bear
Lambing, Farm Diversification and the Shoot.
by
matty s
Lambing I have finally managed to bring myself to type more than a sentence! As i said in my last post, I was on night duty on sunday. The boss hadn't had a night off since lambing and I thought as i would only be sitting watching crap TV or on FW...
Filed under:
lambs
,
sheep
,
farm
,
sainsburys
,
lambing
,
rainbow
,
diversification
,
potatoes
Lambing proves to be positive
by
matty s
Evening! What a day! I am knackered! I been lambing today and were in full swing. Lambing proves to be positive with results around 200% so the boss seems to be pleased. We have a few sets of triplets and a couple of ''poddy'' lambs which...
Filed under:
lambs
,
sheep
,
farm
,
mules
,
lambing
,
pictures
Eco Warrior
by
matty s
Howdy! This weeks see's me going all ''eco warrior'' like. Tomorow, I am marching around my local town (god help me) to promote the environment. I am not normally your marching, campaigner type of guy, but I am in charge of promoting...
Filed under:
pheasants
,
lambs
,
daffodills
,
sheep
,
eco
,
campaign
,
pigs
,
spring
,
march.
,
warrior