After a year away from the girls, the Woodhill Herd’s Sussex Bull Gorgeous George was reintroduced to the herd last week. George, who was too young last year for breeding, was separated from the young heifers and the cows in the herd. After a whole host of inspections, George has now been clas[...]
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Mayfield Win at Surrey County Show
We watched the Mayfield herd’s Snowdrop take Best of Breed in the Sussex breed Bull born after 1st January 2009 category at the Surrey County Show this morning. Four of the original heifers in Andrew Cameron’s Woodhill Herd, that you will have read about on this site, came from the awar[...]
May 25th, 2010 - 9:35 pm § in Farming
TB Test for the Woodhill Herd
Its been a fairly anxious couple of days at Upper Woodhill Farm as the Woodhill Herd undergoes its routine Bovine TB test. Although Surrey is free from TB there are plenty of badgers around the area. Anyone following the news will know the link between badgers and the spread of the disease. [Click f[...]
May 15th, 2010 - 1:08 pm § in Farming
Q&A With Surrey Hills Cattle Farmer Andrew Cameron
Three weeks on from the last birth in his herd, we catch up with Sussex breed cattle farmer Andrew Cameron to see how it all went. [Click here for the full interview and pictures] Q. Andrew, visitors to the site have watched with great interest and bated breath as you brought a number of lives [...][...]
April 29th, 2010 - 11:40 pm § in Farming
Snowdrop gives birth to a bull calf
The last of the Woodhill calves was born on Wednesday afternoon at Upper Woodhill Farm. Heifer Snowdrop, so called because of a white spot on her nose that looks like a snowdrop, gave birth to a healthy bull calf – with wait for it – a similar white mark on its neck. Andrew assisted with[...]
April 19th, 2010 - 7:58 pm § in Farming
Another heifer born to Woodhill herd
Another heifer calf was born into the herd on Saturday night, putting an end to a rather quiet week at Upper Woodhill Farm. The last calves to be born, a bull calf and a heifer, arrived on the 8th April. Saturday’s calf was born with a little gentle help from cattle farmer Andrew Cameron. I [.[...]
April 9th, 2010 - 4:21 pm § in Farming
First pictures of a birth taking place
Two more Sussex calves were born at Upper Woodhill Farm last night, a heifer calf and a bull calf. The bull calf needed a little assistance but the heifer had a natural birth. Both are doing well. For the first time we are able to bring you a series of pictures showing the full birth [...][...]
Video clip of a calf being born
With all the calving going on at Upper Woodhill Farm I thought that visitors to the site might be interested to see a video of a calf being born. I haven’t yet had the opportunity to film one of Andrew’s heifers giving birth, but I found this short clip from the Discovery Channel whic[...]
April 6th, 2010 - 7:42 pm § in Farming
Fifth Sussex Calf at Upper Woodhill Farm
A fifth calf was born at Upper Woodhill Farm on Monday night, but this one had not been expected and its mother had been out in the field rather than in Andrew’s pen that serves as Upper Woodhill Farm’s labour ward. Andrew found the calf, a bull calf, several meters from its mother who h[...]
April 4th, 2010 - 8:41 pm § in Farming
Another Sussex Calf born this morning
The Woodhill herd saw another new addition in the early hours of this morning. There seemed to be no actvity late last night when Sussex cattle farmer Andrew Cameron checked on the heifers in his herd. When he woke to check the pen again in the early hours of this morning he was delighed to fi[...]
