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Hi! I’m Holly, here to give you an unfiltered insight into my life and the world of Agriculture, hopefully making the countryside a little more accessible along the way. I’d love to hear from you, get in touch at onegirlandhercows@gmail.com. Find out more about me here.

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A smiley No. 367 to brighten your Monday! 🐮 Sometimes sassy (with other cows, especially when her hormones are raging after calving), always sociable and wondering what food you might have, and a complete Supermum (with a tendency to be a bit of a Helicopter Mum at the beginning!). She's a homebred cow. Her father is the Limousin bull we've just sold, Clifford- giving her the genes to produce calves with Beyoncé-like behinds, and her mother was half Friesian (a Dairy breed) and half Aberdeen Angus- so she thankfully inherited her milkyness! She's turned out to be a brilliant cow, considering we never meant to keep her... She was an accidental teenage mum who we couldn't bear to part with once she reared her little accident 'One-Ball-Billy' (I'd say the name explains itself pretty well 😂). I'm really glad we did keep her! #MeetTheMooMonday
Had a second case of suspected rotavirus (the runs) this week 🙄 This time, it was Ginny's heifer. Thankfully, after being filled to the brim with electrolytes to replace everything she was losing out the other end, she's made a full recovery and is wondering why she's still in isolation from her friends. Ginny, on the other hand, (this is her) is quite enjoying not having to prep for battle and fend off the other greedy hippos every feeding time. Sorry, Ginny, but you better make the most of it, you'll be back in the centre of the scrum in a day or so! • • • #FarmersDaughter #CowsOfInstagram #CowsMakeMeHappy #OneGirlAndHerCowsBlog #UKAgriculture #FarmTales #OnTheFarm #Calving2020 #FarmingUK #FarmBlog #CountryBlogger #CountrysideBlogger #LincolnRed #SucklerCows #Farm365 #YorkshireFarm
Saving that bit for later? 861's version of stockpiling... She just found out those yummy brewers grains she's been scoffing might soon be in short supply. But have no fear, turnout is near! Well, for the light-footed black cows... the Lincoln Red elephants might have to wait quite a bit longer 🐘🐘🌱 • • #Stockpiling #FarmersDaughter #OneGirlAndHerCowsBlog #FarmTales #CowsOfInstagram #CowsMakeMeHappy #Cowstagram #AngusCross #CountrysideBlogger #CountryBlogger #FarmBlog #YorkshireBloggers #MessyEater #WheresTheFood #HappyCows #HappyPhotos
When the day seems too much, find cows 🐮 M E E T E E Y O R E - or Queen Eeyore to have her full name! She's quite a special one, and she knows it! Always getting scratches and extra nibbles from my dad, we joke her and Glenda are his other wives 😂 She really showed just how amazing she is the other week... one evening, there was her signature, foghorn voice, constantly bellowing from the shed, at about 10pm. We didn't think much of it at first, but after a few minutes she was still going, so, my dad went to investigate and see if a calf was out. It turned out to be Eeyore alerting us to the fact her calf was very ill and needed attention! It was scoured (diarrhoea) due to a virus and needed fluids and electrolytes to stop it becoming dehydrated. It was touch and go for a couple of days. Thankfully, because of Eeyore sounding the alarm so quickly (the final checks had been done in there a couple of hours earlier and it was seemingly healthy then, so it wouldn't have been found until morning), her calf is now 100% recovered and keeping up with the others. Worth her weight in gold. She's a fantastic mother, and probably one of the only ones we've got who would've made such a racket ❤ #MeetTheMooMonday
Good Morning 🌞 Let's see what today brings! Another heifer calved yesterday (first-time mum), it always completely amazes me when that 'Mother switch' flicks. They go from fish-out-of-water, not knowing what's going on, to instinct kicking in and telling them exactly what to do. She had the calf clean and fed before we found them... then proceeded to spend the day washing it. Constantly. It'd lay down to have a snooze, she'd give it maybe 5 minutes, then rush over and wake it up and bath it some more... She obviously doesn't yet know the multi-species rule of NEVER WAKE THE BABY! I think it's going to take her a few days to really get this whole mothering lark properly. She's a little ditzy, and not entirely sure about the uncomfortable sensation of feeding it. She'll crack it though! _______________________ Just a sidenote, I'm taking a little break from scrolling through posts, so if I miss yours, apologies in advance! Just finding it a little difficult to see mine, and many others', daily life refererred to as 'quarantine'. I can completely understand where people are coming from, it's a huge shock to the system for most, and change is a very scary thing, but the implication that my everyday is now someone's nightmare come true... It's a little frustrating to keep seeing in black and white, if I'm honest. So, I'm going to keep sharing, hopefully giving someone a little relief and an escape to the unchanged reality of farm life, but I'm just going to limit how much I see, because I quite like my reality 😊
Connection is more than face to face contact. It's drinking from the mug one of your best friends gave you. Your phone pinging with a text containing a tiny moment of someone's day they've shared with you. Hearing a song which evokes a memory so clear you can almost touch it. Looking out at the everchanging sky, or a tiny bird meticulously collecting material to build their nest, and knowing the world must still be turning. Photos can be lifelines, expanding your world and immersing yourself in a reality that isnt your own. A smaller life is still fulfilling. Many of us already know this, others are on the path to learning it. • • 📸 No idea whether Lucy or I took this of # 367 and her calf- I found it on my phone from a day last March 🤷‍♀️ • • • #OneGirlAndHerCowsBlog #CowsOfInstagram #FarmersDaughter #LiveTheLittleThings
FLORENCE If you've been following along with our farm's shinannigans for a while, you'll probably already recognise Florence- she's usually at the front of everything, game for any photo opportunities! She's Hilda's full sister; another Ermintrude daughter. Ermintrude passed more than her good nature onto her though... she also passed on her addiction to milk, despite her being weaned a few years ago. Florence is in the bad books this week, and is currently sporting a very fashionable green, spiky, plastic nose ring, the same her mother used to wear, after being caught sucking another cow. Hopefully, the plastic spikes will touch any udders she tries to suck and prompt the cows to kick her off. She looks like butter wouldn't melt though, doesn't she, so you can't be annoyed at her for long. But still, we can't have her taking the newborn calves' milk! 🐮 #MeetTheMooMonday • • • #OneGirlAndHerCows #OneGirlAndHerCowsBlog #FarmersDaughter #MooMonday #CowOfTheDay #CowsOfInstagram #Cowstagram #BritishFarming #UKFarming #Countryside #FarmBlog #CountrysideBlogger #FarmLife #BeefFarming #HappyCows #ThisIsFarming #Farm365 #FarmingLife #Farm24
Two Alpacas. Three People. Two Six-Wheeled, Powered Wheelchairs. One End Goal- Get said Alpacas into the barn. What could possibly go wrong? Head to the link in my profile to find out! I figured we all needed a smile at the moment, and our tale (and video) of Alpaca-related unfortunate events will certainly give you one! 📸 Photo of Douglas, by Lucy... they both feature a lot in this blog post! 😂 • • • #OneGirlAndHerCowsBlog #FarmersDaughter #FarmBlog #CountryBlogger #CountrysideBlogger #FarmAnimals #FarmingLife #Alpacagram #AlpacasOfInstagram #TalesFromTheFarm #FunnyStories #CuteAnimals #Alpaca
Seeing new life arrive into the world never gets old ✨ Had the absolute privilege of watching Elsa calve yesterday (and freezing in the process during the 3 hour wait!). Swipe to see those wobbly first steps! Just magical. • By the way, this photo isn't the new arrival. She decided to wait until the light was failing to grace us with her presence, so she's yet to be photographed without 'demon eyes' from the flash! • • • #OneGirlAndHerCowsBlog #FarmersDaughter #Calf #CuteAnimals #UKFarming #BritishFarming #Cowstagram #Farming #CowsOfInstagram #Countryside #CountrysideBlogger #FarmBlog #FarmLife #BabyAnimals #Farm365 #ThisIsFarming #Newborn #FirstSteps
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