6.31pm - Wednesday 1st November 2023 6,516

So on today splitting the sheep up, so we are deciding what tops will go with what Sheep now this determines the type of lambs that will be born in spring and also how hard they will be to lamb and therefore how time-consuming it will be. I’m trying to be a bit cleverer about how much time is put into Leeming this year, I think I will try to sell the Dutch spotted sheep and the top as a packet so somebody can start off with them it’s not that I don’t like them. It just seems a bit of a fad to me and we will eventually be more numbers driven unless shape driven as we use the collection centre, it’s more based on Karkus quality less on what people think and what colour they are as we all know the auctions don’t seem to like a black sheep. This hasn’t changed through the years a quick talk or the pneumonia in calves what the signs are what to look out for and how we will treat this, giving the calves, their intra nasal will be tomorrow’s video.


in 2009 i had no experience of farming or the realities that came with it. That soon changed when I met my other half Roy, I had a job as a carer and in every spare moment threw myself into farming. I had only ever driven a Nissan Micra and had experience with horses, I learnt the hard way as nobody had the time to show me and soon after arriving I found myself mothering on calves to three quarter bred limmy cows. We spent every available moment on the farm between our day jobs. Fast forward to 2016 two children later we moved into our very own farm overlooking the northern Pennines, Laitha.

we are in a transitional period at present and will finally be milking cows and making the final switch later this year, after years of planning and implementing infrastructure we will be milking 120 Jersey cows on two Lely robots. This will be a huge change and a steep learning curve

I will be taking you all along for the ride so hit that subscribe button and see you every other day for farming vlogs.

I am overjoyed to be a farmer. I feel so fortunate every day to wake up and do what I love and even better share it with the world and hope it inspires more young people from Preston to spread their wings and think outside the box the world doesn’t need more childcare workers or hairdressers it needs more farmers.

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