Shropshire Farming Talk with Helen Cork
At the time of writing in early December the weather is unseasonably mild, with cattle still out grazing.
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And the week’s forecast is showing more of the same, which is quite welcome!
Pens will be made in the barn this week, ready to bring cattle in when the temperature does drop, which reading and listening around, some seasoned and wise men and women of the countryside think it rapidly will, with comments about a ‘hard winter being due’.
When rearing calves, dad would say the frost was good to kill off the bugs, and never complained as he disappeared off with pails of hot water to defrost water pipes early each morning, whilst calves lay in the comfort of their straw beds, awaiting buckets of warm milk.
