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Silage time……….

June 19, 2019 By admin_rb With Comments are off for this post

It soon comes around, grass grown and ready to be cut and collected, then put into the silage pit, covered over and getting ready for Winter feed for the cattle, a bit like soaking the fruit to get the Christmas cake ready!!  Some of the grass we have left to wilt a little longer and

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Byre by the Sea.

May 29, 2019 By admin_rb With Comments are off for this post

Work is well underway at with our new barn conversion, Byre by the Sea.  At present the kitchen is being installed, the mulitfuel burning Charnwood Arc 5 is in situ, patio nearly finished, and the glass balconies are going up.  The beds and mattresses have arrived, along with the Ekornes Stressless chairs………..its all go.  Opening

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The Bug Hotel…….

May 28, 2019 By admin_rb With Comments are off for this post

Having recently visited the Cream O Galloway and attended the Ethical Farming Conference there earlier this month, David and I had food for though (pardon the pun!)  We have already planted some wild flower areas on the farm to encourage the bees and butterflies, but we thought we could do more so watch out for

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High Spring tides and splashes………

February 25, 2019 By admin_rb With Comments are off for this post

Lovely February weather with the high spring tides encouraged along by some wind saw a few splashes on the rocks in front of the cottages this week!  Its great to see and hear nature at its best.  All undisturbed down here for pleasure and enjoyment.  The peace and quiet with just the birds singing, daffodils

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Kirkcudbright Festival of Light………..au naturale!

October 11, 2018 By admin_rb With Comments are off for this post

Well, Kirkcudbright is celebrating with the festival of light, the town looks amazing with all the displays, light projections, trees in the Soaperie gardens lit up along with the shops and house windows lit up in a display of glory. Here down at Ross Bay we are more familiar with the real dark skies, no

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Four leaf clover – good luck everyone…..

August 22, 2018 By admin_rb With Comments are off for this post

Whilst out walking the dogs, David was inspecting the meadows for the newly drilled seeds, and look what he found, yes a four leaf clover.  The animals really enjoy eating the clover whether it be in the fields, or whether it has been cut and made into Winter feed. We have opened a new holiday

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More action……………tractor power.

June 15, 2018 By admin_rb With Comments are off for this post

Hay made, we then concentrated on making haylage – baling the dry grass, and wrapping it with the black plastic to give the animals a great tasty alternative to dry hay and clamp silage (grass in a silage clamp fermented to a great winter feed). Trying to balance the diet for the animals is hard

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Red sky at night…….

May 18, 2018 By admin_rb With Comments are off for this post

……..shepherds delight as they say, well we are certainly due some nice weather, and nice it has been so far in May. Long may it continue. Beautiful sunny days and gentle tides, all gives a relaxing feeling of summer!!

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Hereford heifer for the future.

April 19, 2018 By admin_rb With Comments are off for this post

This little cutie is a hereford cross heifer which we intend to keep as a replacment cow in the future. Her dad is the handsome red chappie with a white face who is huge but as quiet as a mouse as he patrols the fields looking after his girls. Hope you enjoy seeing him on

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Goosing around.

March 13, 2018 By admin_rb With Comments are off for this post

Our farm geese are mooching around, in the orchard, thinking about laying eggs, and lighter nights, spreading their wings, running and threatening to take off but its too nice to leave Ross Bay!

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