AUGUST 2005
Home page
Those cute little ducklings and chicks have grown fast since the Cheshire show and here they are now nearly fully grown the lawn is currently covered with feathers as the ducks are moulting their baby feathers and growing their adult ones.
The old saying being “every good duck and goose should start to lay by St Valentines day” We wish them well. Angus calves a plenty this month with 4 bulls and two heifers most of these are from the group of heifers we brought home from "Norcroft" except one escapee who having calved, kept the calf “hidden” so we couldn’t bring her home. It took 3 days to finally catch up. Mid month saw much stress amongst our younger members with Simon ,Hannah and Lucy awaiting "A" level results - all passing with Hannah going to Manchester for teacher training, Lucy is studying Law at Bristol and Simon is studying agriculture at Myerscough.
As the month ends we see the oats ripening and will silage some big bales from the Humpety back and Peacocks fields once the Milestone field is clear. Last month I mentioned we aim to have a road-show for next year and here it is in its raw form the Greenheyes Farm road-show trailer.
We will be taking bookings for such as school fetes for 2006. Andy is currently talking to the county archaeologists about our possible river find see the nature page for details. More as this develops. Finally the annual Cheshire ploughing match for which my friend Norman Lawson is the secretary is being held on the 28th of September at Little Heath farm Dunham Massey Altrincham (Junction 19 M6) Try this to learn more about ploughing or to find a match near you http://www.ploughmen.co.uk See you next month PHIL ?
|