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Are Dexters beautiful?

November 28, 2010

Here we have one of our two yearlings. This being Flame, a red Dexter steer. Is it only me who thinks Dexters are beautiful? Please do comment and let me know what you think?   His mother is away at the moment, running with a red Dexter bull about 7 miles away. He missed her [...]

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A fleeting reunion with an old friend

October 12, 2010

I took a trip today down to Lin Blackwell’s farm near Wantage in Oxfordshire – in fact I took a Dexter heifer, Clare, her 4 month old calf Ulrik and a Dexter cow, Diana, to run with Lin’s very handsome Red Dexter Bull for a couple of months. Lin has one of the larger herds of [...]

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Is there a connection between my pigs and Sir Winston Churchill?

August 30, 2010

Sir Winston has always been a firm favourite of mine, despite the tragic decisions he made both as First Sea Lord and as PM – the Dardanelles for one…but let us not go there. He was a great man, without whom the world would be a very much poorer place today. Whenever I look at my [...]

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A tour of the kitchen garden

June 1, 2010

I was taking Georgie, my parent’s aged Retriever, for a walk yesterday morning. It struck me our kitchen garden was about to burst into life. Unfortunately it may well be a bit behind all you keen gardeners out there – the redoutable Mr Tony Broad has been unwell for several weeks. Tony has worked the [...]

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Aprodite, Akna and Isis have triumphed in the duck park too

May 23, 2010

The various goddesses of fertility have blessed us at Fallowfields today, with our 10 new weaners born this morning into the Oxfordshire countryside, and  now just hatched our very first ducklings. This a breed you will be familiar with – the Aylesbury – is a traditional British native species. Developed around 150 years ago form [...]

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Ophelia has done it again! Nine tiny piglets.

May 22, 2010

We woke this morning to the news that our Oxford Sandy Black gilt, [now technically a sow as this is her second litter] gave birth overnight to ten smashing little squealers. This is her first ltter to “Thriller” our big Tamworth pedigree boar. Just a reminder that the Oxford Sandy and Black was almost extinct 20 years ago, [...]

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Thriller – life is a dream at Fallowfields

May 15, 2010

Thriller comes up in conversation quite often on Social Media, people asking about him and sending him good wishes. On my regular farm tours, he is always one of the key attractions too. Having realised that there were no photographs of him I decided to remedy that today. here he is with one of his [...]

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A bull calf is born – our first – we call him Ulrik

May 4, 2010

What a magical moment to see my beloved Clare this morning at about 1030 with her waters breaking. This is the moment we have been waiting for since last summer when we ran her with a “little red bull” for a couple of months. Clare is a 2 1/2 year old red Dexter Heifer. This [...]

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A good little pig eats his greens!!!

April 29, 2010

This is a delightful little video of my prime Tamworth boar Thriller. Nearly 4 years old, he sires some beautiful little weaners here at the hotel’s farm. He is part of our efforts to get real taste and flavour onto the plate……sustainably. Link to You Tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGKwUk_w5TY

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Why my restaurant & farm loves Dexter Cattle

March 30, 2010

Originally, my beloved Dexter came from South Western Ireland and originate from cattle reared by the early celts. So Dexter go way back, they are a traditional breed, and I love tradtion. This is an ancestral cow – wonderful start - Reason number 1. The breed aquired its current name around 1750 and then came to [...]

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