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Hurrying back home one morning last week, I rounded a sharp corner on a back road and was greeted by an oncoming herd of cows, travelling at a decent trot and unaccompanied by an farmer.
This is the one time of year that the stereotype of a large-animal vet is fulfilled — most of the day is spent with my arm in a green glove, shoulder-deep in a cow’s rear end. Classy.
“The man that made time made lots of it and the man that made twine made balls of it”. It’s a phrase I heard lately and it fitted perfectly the scene that I drove toward last week.
We loaded up what seemed like half the house into the back of the car last week for what is quickly becoming the annual trip to Westport, Co Mayo.
Suckler farming is in the spotlight again. The National Beef Welfare Scheme, like all schemes before it, has already come in for criticism, even before it has gotten off the ground.