Flank Farm

It was a Good Morning, we talked about Goats, Bird Flu and an old farming Gentleman called Gerald Dancer!  What do you think… shall we get goats?

How did the scanning go?  

Chapters: 

00:00 Introduction 

00:40 The cows have a cough 

03:10 Staying positive during lambing 

04:45 Sheep Scanning Results 

06:45 Sheep in the garden 

07:30 Preparing sheep for lambing 

07:45 Feeding sheep for lambing 

09:00 Sheep are cheap(er) 

09:50 Sheep more profitable than cows 

11:45 Pig update 

12:50 Admin to sell meat 

13:50 Importance of the butcher 

15:00 Jamie Oliver fan 

16:20 When someone brings you a rabbit 

19:30 Gestation of a pig 

20:20 Lockdown Piglets 

21:00 When does lambing start? 

21:50 Close

Chapters: 

00:00 Introduction 

01:55 What's in the freezer at the moment 

04:30 Chickens love Spice 

06:00 Chickens smarter than you think! 

06:40 Sheep scanning coming up? 

08:40 Itchy livestock 

09:15 How much is straw? 

09:30 How long does straw last? 

11:40 Can cows eat straw? 

12:30 Fresh straw for calving 

14:00 Learning how much farming costs 

15:40 Closing message 

16:30 Tommy Tamworth

What's your New Years resolution then?  

Chapters: 

00:00 Introduction 

00:45 Rufus the townie 

01:45 Positive news 

02:30 Christmas 

04:45 Reaction to Xmas special 

05:55 Pig clothes 

06:30 Ear tag technique 

07:30 Happy New Year 

08:30 COVID affected farming 

09:00 New years resolutions 

13:00 Meat as a luxury 

15:30 Butchers  

17:15 How are the animals? 

18:15 Hobbley sheep 

19:30 Broadway sheep 

21:20 Chicken monologue 

22:30 Joe Stanley's Longhorns 

23:30 Tommy's new mates

Good morning (and Merry Christmas) from the farm!

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

01:30 Take 2

04:10 Christmas prep

06:00 Shin of beef

6:45 Selling our own beef

09:30 Cooking your turkey

11:20 What’s a good farmer to mum?

15:00 Promoting Denne Engineering Co

15:30 How to start in farming

Chapters:

00:00 – Introduction

00:37 – Opinions on Bolus video

01:55 – Why does livestock need a bolus?

03:30 – Cattle get used to the crush

05:55 – Lambing percentages not great

07:05 – Cow Scratching

07:15 – Why do farmers get subsidies?

09:40 – Single farm payments

11:10 – Farming environmental grants

12:15 – Subsidies to farmers NOT land owners?

14:20 – Are subsidies a good thing?

15:55 – Why we worry about mum

16:55 – How many cows does mum have?

18:35 – What if we closed down the farm?

20:10 – Shall we do a farm tour?

21:10 – Mum loves Dexter cattle

23:00 – Dexters are little sods

24:30 – Mum goes shopping

When on earth was farming in the UK profitable?  

Chapters:  

00:00 – Introduction 

00:55 – Cold weather and fingerless gloves 

01:40 – Foxes like the fog 

02:30 – Foxes hate Alpacas 

03:30 – Alpacas and TB 

06:45 – When was farming profitable? 

10:10 – Dairy farmers paid to leave 

16:00 – Affording large farm machinery 

21:15 – Famous mincemeat recipe

In this episode we dive into some unfamiliar lingo (Hoggets) and go through what on earth made mum get into the farming business in the first place.

The ducks got eaten by the fox... 

Sorry just needed to get that out there.

This week we talk all about markets, selling meat locally and the ducks getting eaten by the fox. Let us know what you think.

This is the very first in a new series of conversations between 2 generations. Farmer (mum) and digital marketer (son).

Find out what to do when you find eggs hidden in random places, what's happened to the live markets, and how people used to eat meat compared to now.