Oldaport Farm Cottages

Here's some highlights of what happened during 2010 at OLDAPORT FARM.........
Bluebells were late in flowering this year (May/June) - almost a month late but when they finally flowered, Oliver and Bella had a great time exploring the woods!
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Devon County Show 2010 (May)
We did very well with our shearling ram - Jester - He came first in the shearling ram class then he went on to win the male championship and finally taking the Lleyn breed championship
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Foals: We have had some new foals born this year - Xenia and Faith had their colt foals late April then Tansy had her filly foal in June.
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Left: Kit-Kat (Xenia's foal) playing with his friend - Kola (Faith's)

Right: Tansy with her new born foal - she was only 1 day old when this photograph was taken......
Lambs: we had a good lambing - here's some photos taken this spring.....
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We had little rain this summer and as result the grass grew very little and went brownish as seen in the photograph below on right side
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Autumn colours were late and slow coming out but once out we had some nice displays...........
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December saw two early snowfalls before Christmas - It was the earliest we have had for many years and temperature went low as -10c (not as low as some other parts of UK though!) but it still was very cold and icy.