I’ve spent the last week working on a dairy farm in Somerset. I’d never done any work with cows before (except briefly when I spent a week on a sheep farm) so it was a new experience for me. What I didn’t realise until arriving there the night before was that the farm was only a [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Farm Work’
Saturday 3 May 2008
April Showers (cont. at the farm)
During Easter I came back from a long week on the farm in Devon which I worked on in February. This time I was helping during their lambing season so it was much busier, and so much harder work, than my week in February. The farm has about 2000 lambing ewes, all of the ewes just having [...]
Friday 7 March 2008
It’s A Hard-Knock Life
Over my half term I spent a week working on a farm in Devon, it was very hard, tiring work and from the first day of my week on the farm I was thrown straight in at the deep end. Straight after arriving there I was taken down a road to a gate into a field [...]
Wednesday 27 February 2008
Don’t Stop Me Now
The last few weeks have been really hectic for me, I’ve been constantly doing loads. As well as general college work, I’ve been writing; my plan for my chemistry practial (an acid/base titration), a chemistry mock open book test on atmospheric pollution and my visit report for biology which is on pathgenic bacteria and bovine [...]
Wednesday 16 January 2008
The Farm
The past couple of weeks have been very busy; I’ve have 5 AS-Level exams, been to the vet’s twice, visited family and a pig farm. The exams all went well and there were no major mistakes (as far as I’m aware) on my part, and at college we are already well into the next batch [...]
