After the mad rush of Christmas the shop seems strangely quiet here at Briddlesford Lodge Farm, but the farm remains as busy as ever.
Unfortunately we lost one of our top cows on Friday night, in fact the face of ‘Buttercup Milk’ - Briddlesford Greg’s Daisy 7th (above) died while calving, fortunately for her calf another cow calved at the same time so she took the orphaned calf on.
With all the animals housed indoors there is always a lot going on and in this weather it is hard to keep them dry, the wind blowing the rain in all over the place. Everyday the milking cows get a fresh new straw bed. We are milking 150 cows at the moment giving approximately 3000 litres a day, which for a Guernsey herd is very good.
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