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How To Keep Your Animals Warm In Winter

February 6, 2021 by farmerswifeandmummy Leave a Comment

Do you keep animals on a small holding or farm? They could be horses, sheep, goats, pigs, or cattle. Sometimes it’s easy to think that these animals have natural protection for the weather and will be fine during the colder months. They do have some protection, but like you and me they need extra layers when … [Read more…]

Posted in: Farming Tagged: animals, farming, snow, Weather, winter

The Weather Situation-Drought and Rain 2018

August 22, 2018 by farmerswifeandmummy 3 Comments

We thought winter 2017-18 was bad enough with all the rain but as we have all come to realise, a long spell of dry weather is not great either. The impact on farming has been in the news recently and while we have not escaped completely, compared to some farms, we have been ok. I … [Read more…]

Posted in: Farming Tagged: drought, farming, lamb, sheep, Weather

It’s Not Too Late to Boost Protein Levels in Your Milling Wheat

June 9, 2017 by farmerswifeandmummy Leave a Comment

Recent weather is, once again, giving some farmers cause for concern.  The good weather that the UK has been experiencing of late is giving farmers, especially those in the South and East of the country, only 10 per cent of the rainfall they expected in March and April.  If normal levels of rain do fall … [Read more…]

Posted in: Farming Tagged: crops, farming, oilseed rape, summer, Weather

5 Ways You Know it’s Winter on the Farm

January 20, 2016 by farmerswifeandmummy 1 Comment

We are in the deep, dark depths of winter on the farm and my, do we know it. I have therefore come up with five reasons you know it’s winter here. 1.My hands look like I am a bricklayer. They are so cracked and sore. Having animals and children means I wash my hands all … [Read more…]

Posted in: Farming Tagged: animals, farmng, sheep, Weather, winter

St Swithin’s Day-weather crafts

July 15, 2014 by farmerswifeandmummy Leave a Comment

So it’s St Swithin’s Day. If you don’t know the tale, the feast is named after a ninth century bishop who wished to be buried outside the door of Winchester Cathedral but, his body was moved in the tenth century and that is when the legend began. The old rhyme goes: St Swithin’s day if … [Read more…]

Posted in: Parenting... Tagged: Crafts, kids crafts, St Swithin's Day, Weather
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