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216 total photos Last updated on Thu, Dec 16 2010
FW's farmer focus writer Robert Neill sent in these pictures of the snow in Jedburgh and tells us that <!--StartFragment-->It is a full time job just feeding stock at the moment. With temperatures plummeting to minus 14 the day has been spent trying to defrost water troughs.
The digger and forklift have been busy digging out roads so they can reach some of the out-wintering cattle and sheep. Even bedding cattle has become a time consuming job when the netwrap is frozen or covered in snow. We had to bring in extra feeding trailers for the sheep because they were all so desperate to get to the silage they were jumping on each other. Even the hens had to be dug out of their hen house yesterday morning. <!--EndFragment-->