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Amanda Owen, 47, who lives in North Yorkshire, is the star of Channel 5's Our Yorkshire Farm. Shepherdess says career adviser in school told her she wasn't 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 didn't have any milk, so she thinks she's 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 is left open in the house — and with nine children there is always a door left open — she j...