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Famous farmer and mother-of-nine Amanda Owen on coping with trolls, living apart from her ex and making life normal for her brood

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Amanda Owen, 47, who lives in North Yorkshire, is the star of Channel 5s Our Yorkshire Farm. Shepherdess says career adviser in school told her she wasnt bright enough to work with animals.

Sometimes a lowly cattle shed is just too . . . lowly. Not to mention outdoorsy.  Ciara the Cow — so called because she arrived during Storm Ciara in February — would rather spend the festive period indoors, with the family, thank you very much. She was fed by hand as a calf because her mother didnt have any milk, so she thinks shes a human, says Amanda Owen, aka the Yorkshire Shepherdess and the woman who is possibly the most famous (not to mention glamorous) farmer in Britain. If a door ...