Honeyburn
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Honeyburn

Charlie is helping our neighbour with sawing his firewood today, the kind neighbour that leaves bags of logs by our doorstep. He uses a hand powered bow saw, but Charlie has an electric chainsaw that will make lighter work of the tiring job. In the afternoon, we drove to the

Charlie is helping our neighbour with sawing his firewood today, the kind neighbour that leaves bags of logs by our doorstep. He uses a hand powered bow saw, but Charlie has an electric chainsaw that will make lighter work of the tiring job.

In the afternoon, we drove to the farm to collect a bail of haylage. One of the coo's had a prolapse during birth, and so a vet had been called. The newborn calf was placed into a wheelbarrow and was used to lure the prolapsed coo into the crush, the vet arrived five minutes later and quickly fixed the prolapse. I watched over the calf for several minutes until the mother coo returned; could not help but feel sorry for this wee fella, all alone, new to this world.

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Diary Honeyburn Farm Cattle