Tag Archives: farming

Hip-op, hooray!

Hip-op, hooray!

A lifetime of strenuous outdoor exercise protects against suffering a broken hip in later life, research on farmers found. Those who work the land had a 40 per cent lower risk of suffering the injury ...
The colour of Autumn

The colour of Autumn

So summer is over and it’s back to school. Many of us grandparents have been helping out with childcare in the long summer holidays and while I love having the grandkids it is very tiring, so I can no ...
Ewe beauty – a record number of lambs born

Ewe beauty – a record number of lambs born

A new British record has been set with SEVEN healthy lambs born to a single sheep, beating odds of more than a million-to-one. The Texel cross ewe starting lambing at 6am and within just half an hour ...