And yet more rain!!

 After Nidderdale show we headed home and drove round to check the land and stock at Fewston. We keep the Mule sheep there and some of our Beltie Heifers.
There is Spinksburn beck running through the land which is prone to flooding but I dont think we have ever seen it as bad as this.
 The animals luckily had the sense to get to the higher land and no one was lost in the water. The bottom picture is the road!!!

Nidderdale Show, Piglets & more rain!

  Ive got a bit behind with my blogging so today its a bit like waiting for a bus, nothing at all and then loads come along at once. These pics were taken at the Nidderdale Show on 24th September. Once more, like every event this summer, it was a wet day. A very wet day, in fact it never stopped raining at all, the following day the field was completely submerged.
These little piglets looked much more comfortable after their tour of the judging ring to be back inside in the warmth with Mum.

Belted Galloways at Castle Douglas

We are just  back from an interesting trip 'Up North' to Castle Douglas.
The reason for going was to attend the Belted Galloway Annual Society sale at Castle Douglas mart.
We went up on thursday with a couple of friends and in the evening we attended the Annual AGM which was followed by dinner. There were about 140 members there, their highest attendance to date. The dinner was held at Threave Gardens, a National Trust garden just outside the town, a beautiful place to visit if you ever find yourself in the area.
The sale was yesterday and kicked off at 9am with the judging. The top picture here shows one of the Bull classes being judged.
The picture below shows the overall Champion of the day, Mosston Muir Irish Primrose, who was being sold as part of a dispersal sale from Mr & Mrs Rennie from Mosston Muir, Forfar and realised a price of 5200 guineas. We didnt buy it!!
The top price of the day was a bull, Lullenden Hector, from Miss Hamilton, Innerleithen, Peebleshire, which made 9000 guineas, we didnt buy that either!!!
We did however buy a couple of heifers, one in calf for the spring  and another which will go to the bull next summer to calve spring 2014.
All in all a great couple of days, I think we will definately be going again next year!