Princess Pooper
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- Location
- East Mids
Interesting few days acting as 'cattle steward' to stop the dry cows/in calf heifers/bull from disrupting ground investigation works in preparation for a major road project that will be going through the corner of our fields. 4.5 m deep holes for geotechnical assessment. A mixture of river alluvium, (clays, sands, gravels) overlying glacial tills. In most cases as soon we hit the gravel strata, the sides caved in and the hole collapsed. Nothing interesting on the archaeology front, although we did find a deer jaw about 3 m down on gravel which will be sent away for dating.
No problems with the bovines, a bit inquisitive but nothing worse, I wasn't expecting anything different. Nowhere else to move them to at present, hence they agreed to pay me to help out for elf and safety reasons.
Apparently on one of the other farms there was a group of beef youngstock that got a bit over excited and one of the team (not working on ours) threw a bit of a wobbly about safety hence they were anxious to avoid a repeat on ours.
Quite a novelty to have lots of time to watch the cows and enjoy the environment down by the river. Buzzards, kites, herons, little egret, kestrel, hobby, meadow pipits, skylarks, long tailed tits, goldfinches
No problems with the bovines, a bit inquisitive but nothing worse, I wasn't expecting anything different. Nowhere else to move them to at present, hence they agreed to pay me to help out for elf and safety reasons.
Apparently on one of the other farms there was a group of beef youngstock that got a bit over excited and one of the team (not working on ours) threw a bit of a wobbly about safety hence they were anxious to avoid a repeat on ours.
Quite a novelty to have lots of time to watch the cows and enjoy the environment down by the river. Buzzards, kites, herons, little egret, kestrel, hobby, meadow pipits, skylarks, long tailed tits, goldfinches
