Welcome to Borough Farm

David Kennard and his family farm at Borough Farm on the beautiful, rugged North Devon coast. The farm is home to a flock of  700 breeding ewes, plus their lambs which graze across over 400 acres . Working with David is his team of 9 sheepdogs, ranging from retiree Gale, now 11 years old, down Dart who’s just a year old,  and of course including Mist, the star of Channel Five’s “Mist - Sheepdog tales”

Borough Farm Sheepdog and Falconry displays.

This year will be our twelfth year of Sheepdog and Falconry displays at Borough Farm. I’m hoping that Fly will be joining the team for the displays this year, she’s just over 2 and becoming a very good sheepdog. Also new for this year will be some under cover seating for those occasional wet evenings.

Every Wednesday 6pm

The first display will be on June 23rd, then every wednesday until September 8th

You can learn more about our displays here,

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• fly’s surprise
  added by David, 25/07/10 at 10:23 pm

  We have lots of arrivals on Borough farm, mainly expected, some unexpected, like the lamb that was born on Morte Point this week (in the middle of July!) but when  I opened the kennels one morning a few weeks ago I had a surprise to beat most…..
  Fly failed to materialise so I poked my [...]

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• the old timers
  added by David, 30/06/10 at 1:05 pm

  As I always seem to write about the younger members of the sheepdog team, I thought it was  about time that the old timers got a mention!
  Gail is now over 11 years old and moved into the kitchen several years ago. She spends most of her time sleeping, and eating just about anything that she [...]

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• the joy of Roy!
  added by David, 08/06/10 at 2:22 pm

  It seems a long time ago that I last wrote about Roy, and I guess that the reason that I haven’t felt the need to update for so long, is that his progress has been so very slow!
  He’s now over 2 years old and some but not all of his puppyish over enthusiasm has gone. [...]

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• sheepdog displays
  added by David, 15/07/10 at 10:32 pm

  It’s the middle of July and we are already well into our season of Sheepdog and Falconry displays at Borough farm. Although the weather has been much better than it has the last few summers  (in fact I’ve been hoping for a little rain to make the grass grow) for the last couple of weeks, [...]

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• a dry time
  added by David, 30/06/10 at 12:31 pm

  There is a saying the ‘the weather always pays its debts’ and so it seems this year. The past three summers have been disastrously wet causing as many problems for farmers as it has for the local tourist industry, but this year it seems to be all change. We haven’t had much rain for over [...]

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• treating the lambs
  added by David, 09/06/10 at 11:00 pm

  We hardly seem to have finished lambing, when it’s time to get the lambs in for their first round of treatments. It’s been a difficult spring for the sheep, the long cold dry spell meant that the grass was slow to start growing and although the ewes were fed extra pellets, they didn’t produce as [...]

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