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Moving wood for the new release pen

Posted to Matty S's Gallery (Gallery) by matty s on Sun, Apr 12 2009
Its all going on up ere.....

Its been a while so i thought i had better get my figer out and get a blog written. YFC panto went well despite us not winning (biased judges some would say - of course i would not be of this opinion). Northern Area weekend kicks off next saturday (I will have lots of pictures to follow hopefully) and...

Posted to Matty's Blog (Weblog) by matty s on Sun, Mar 15 2009
Lambing...again!!? And off to colege we go......

Saturday see's out last official shoot day. Its been a decent season with a few hiccups but all in all, its been good. Lambing just seems to be around and corner....i dont seem to know where the time has gone! I can still feel the pneumonia of sitting in a cold shed waiting for some sheep to lamb...

Posted to Matty's Blog (Weblog) by matty s on Tue, Jan 20 2009
Happy New Year everybody

Well this weather is a nice change it's lovely and cold out on the farm. We had our shoot last Saturday. The bike was used all day to ferry beaters and the odd walking gun around the farm. It's amazing how many people you can get on a bike and logic trailer (4 on the bike 6 in the trailer), but...

Posted to Farm Tested Blog (Weblog) by oliver robinson on Mon, Jan 5 2009
Turkey tantrums and bloomin' bales!

Had a busy weekend! Hopefully, harvest shall we starting in a weeks time, its been a bit handy that it hasn't been sooner for us - this is due to my delgihtful turkeys. After running them with chickens they are going to have to be moved after the worry of contracting a disease off the chickens which...

Posted to Matty's Blog (Weblog) by matty s on Sun, Jul 20 2008
Jack of all trades

Its all go at the moment. We have contractors over to do pig fencing and we also have all our fields to top to try and get rid of the thistles/nettle things before they all re-seed. On top of this we have a load of work on the shoot to do. So today, whilst I was meant to be assisting in clearing the...

Posted to Matty's Blog (Weblog) by matty s on Sat, Jun 7 2008
38 hour fox

What a few days! As I said in my previous post, we decided to do an early morning shoot for the fox. So, I stayed at my mates house as he, his bro and his bro's mate were going. So, we didnt go to sleep till midnight (i didnt fall asleep till 1) and then we were up 3. 2 hours sleep didnt go down...

Posted to Matty's Blog (Weblog) by matty s on Sun, Jun 1 2008
The Hunt is still on.....

Your right, you guessed it.... we havent caught old Charlie yet. Last night was unsuccesful - we seen a fox cub but didnt manage to shoot it. So, as you guessed it didnt go down well - especially at 1 AM filling the car up with a petrol can! Tonight grandad and I are going out to try and get him, tonight...

Posted to Matty's Blog (Weblog) by matty s on Thu, May 29 2008
Rabbit riot rant

DID YOU LIKE THE ALLITERATION IN THE TITLE!! Its been a canny few days! Ferreting on saturday, we got a bag of 7, although it was cold and very windy, it was a good day! Unfortunately, we got a few milky does (they are/were preganant). They aint that good for eating so Mr C Fox has them now. We still...

Posted to Matty's Blog (Weblog) by matty s on Sun, Feb 24 2008
1st Blog post!

Helloo! I'm Matty. This is my 1st post on here and it was a hard one to think about- what do you do, say, talk about??? Well, a brief overview - I am not a farmer, nor a famers son (definately not a farmers daughter - that i am aware of). I live in a town but have a big interest in farming, shooting...

Posted to Matty's Blog (Weblog) by matty s on Wed, Feb 20 2008

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