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Farming through the eyes of a child
This April we bought an Oxford Sandy and Black boar called ‘’Alexander’’. As you can see he is very handsome.
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By Oliver Harry Pye and Isla Lily Pye
My name is Oliver and I am 3 ½ years old. I live with my Mummy and Daddy and little Sister Isla who is 19 months old in Arkholme in Lancashire. My Gran, Grandad, Daddy and Auntie Sarah are all farmers and my Mummy helps on the farm too when she isn’t working at Nursery looking after other people’s children. On our farm we have pedigree Jersey cows and pigs. Our herd prefix is Bayview Jerseys. One day my Grandad decided to take me to the auction and he bought some Pietrain weaners for me and that’s when we started to keep pigs. Then we bought a British lop boar and then we soon had lots of piglets. Then piglets grew bigger and then off they went to be sold at the Auction. That same day Grandad brought back 4 Oxford Sandy and Black gilts for myself and Isla.
We named them ‘’ Minnie, Blackberry, Charm and June’’. We like being on our farm with all the animals, playing on our ride on and pedal tractors around the farm and helping milking the cows and looking after the pigs. We often watch Daddy working in the fields and often in Summer we will have a picnic.
We also show our pedigree Jerseys at Westmorland County Show in September. Last year we took a heifer calf called Bayview Charity (Chaz) and I (Oliver) showed her in the ring with my Daddy. When Oliver was asked what his favourite thing to do on the farm was he replied ‘’feeding the cows with the mixer wagon. That is my job! ’’ When Oliver was asked what his least favourite thing to do on the farm was he said “nothing. I want to be a farmer like Daddy when I grow up’’
When helping on the farm we wear our wet wednesdays waterproofs, our boilersuits and wellies to help us keep clean and dry but this isnt always the case especially when we both like playing in the water at milking time!
When we aren’t at the farm, at Nursery, the childminders or Pre-school we like to play at home with our toy farm, tractors, animals and toy kitchen and we go out on ‘’adventures’’ with Mummy and sometimes Daddy to the beach, park, woods, on walks and days out to different places and attractions.
