Flank Farm

Flank Farm

Videos, photos and endless gratitude from life spent working our family farm here in the UK.

March from the farm

March from the farm

February from the farm

February from the farm

Alone with 130 sheep

Alone with 130 sheep

British Farming with quirks

British Farming with quirks

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  • @markcoyne6540
    @markcoyne654023 күн бұрын

    Hi there. I loved the video of your Renault tractor. What model is it? I looking at a Renault 751 4S next Saturday. It's a 4x4 with a loader. Any advice or things to look out for would be greatly appreciated. We're looking for a basic reliable economical tractor to lift silage bales and stack them with the loader, clean out sheds, Topping, fertiliser spreading and trailer work. Do Renault tractors give any bother starting from cold or electrical faults? Look forward to hearing from you and thank you in advance for your advice. Best regards Mark

  • @markcoyne6540
    @markcoyne654023 күн бұрын

    Hi there. Loved the video. What model Renault tractor is it? I'm looking at a refurbished Renault 751 4S 4x4 tractor similar to yours next Saturday. It has a front loader as well. Any advice or things to look out for would be greatly appreciated. We're looking for a basic reliable tractor thats affordable for lifting silage bales of trailers and stacking them. Topping, trailer work and spreading fertiliser. Look forward to hearing from you and thank you in advance for your advice. Best regards. Mark

  • @carlyamandaart
    @carlyamandaartАй бұрын

    Wonder update and wishing you a wonderful wedding ❤

  • @flankfarm
    @flankfarmАй бұрын

    Thank you Carly !!

  • @lukehubbard5644
    @lukehubbard5644Ай бұрын

    I think your mum is amazing her style of farming you can tell she adores them cows n sheep in today's world your defently not doing it for the money. Hats off to her absolute trooper 👍

  • @paulhayday8212
    @paulhayday8212Ай бұрын

    Great to see all the lambs and calves on the farm. Mum is looking very well despite all her hard work and missed sleep. All my best wishes for your June wedding - I hope the sun shines the whole time! Paul WW Village

  • @flankfarm
    @flankfarmАй бұрын

    Thanks so much Paul! Really looking forward to it & definitely hoping for some good weather. Contingency plan isn’t as comprehensive as it probably should be - positive thinking! Have a great June !!

  • @alanm6454
    @alanm6454Ай бұрын

    You mean there were farmers before Jeremy? Wow where have you been?

  • @ennoriemersma73
    @ennoriemersma73Ай бұрын

    Hello Sarah and Rufus. Thanks for the update from the farm. Such a joy to see all the new life. Next month will probably bring all kinds of activities to get some hay in the barn. Rufus, best wishes to you and you bride. God bless all of you.

  • @louisecampbell2479
    @louisecampbell2479Ай бұрын

    All the best Rufus, hope we get to see a pic on the next video. Please tell your mum that I put an extra egg in my yorkie pud mix and whoosh! I couldn't get the bugger out the oven.! I think of her every Sunday now so thanks Sarah 👌🏼

  • @flankfarm
    @flankfarmАй бұрын

    Ahhhahaha, the extra egg!! I can’t wait to tell her, she’ll be ecstatic!

  • @lionelmarytravels6003
    @lionelmarytravels6003Ай бұрын

    Super update with mum again, Rufus. Your mum never gives up on any animal, be it lamb or calf. The weather seemed to change all of a sudden this month. The sun came out and everything looked better. The trees are green once again and the birds are singing. I loved the way her cows were standing at the gate watching all their mates out in the grass, while they were still locked in. But they weren't complaining. They appeared to understand what mum was saying to them. So sweet!

  • @flankfarm
    @flankfarmАй бұрын

    It was a nice one wasn’t it… little stroll around! I agree, it’s felt like an incredible weather change this month- thank you for sharing your thoughts 💭

  • @nicholascummins4430
    @nicholascummins4430Ай бұрын

    Great to see you and Rhu glad you had a good calving and lambing

  • @flankfarm
    @flankfarmАй бұрын

    Thank you 🙏🏼

  • @cassieoz1702
    @cassieoz1702Ай бұрын

    Great to see your world warming up. We're at the end of calving with a few less than expected, but then Barry the Bull isn't as young as he used to be (and some of our ladies are pushing 'elderly'). We're going to keep one of our little boys intact so, when he goes back in in December, it will be Barry's last hurrah. A friend gave us a young, proven dorper ram (in return for Beef and homemade bacon😉) so he's currently understudying Patches the Ram, who will soon be retired to a friend's property. Older chickens are scaling back for winter and the newer girls won't come into lay for 3-4 weeks, so not many eggs. Bees are still out in profusion on sunny days but we didn't take honey this year. We've had our first proper frost this week (-5C), four weeks later than usual. Standard autumn-going-into-winter here.

  • @flankfarm
    @flankfarmАй бұрын

    Barry is a great name for the bull! 😂 I hope the understudying is going well ! Enjoy what’s left of your Autumn 💛

  • @adamfontana537
    @adamfontana537Ай бұрын

    Hi guys great to see it all going well. Ru i don’t think i own any light coloured clothes except for my overalls but i don’t care what colour they turn😂

  • @flankfarm
    @flankfarmАй бұрын

    Hahahah, love this! No beige trousers for you? 😂

  • @adamfontana537
    @adamfontana537Ай бұрын

    @@flankfarm billy Connelly has a lot to say about beige people 😜

  • @philroach7074
    @philroach7074Ай бұрын

    Fantastic video thank you brought back so many memories for me

  • @flankfarm
    @flankfarmАй бұрын

    Amazing to hear that, thank you Phil

  • @michaelhartley9450
    @michaelhartley9450Ай бұрын

    Thanks Ru for the May catch up alls looking great as is your mum so happy the lambing and calving has gone well , can’t wait for the next one and you both keep safe and well , thanks 👍

  • @KeithHill-wc3ew
    @KeithHill-wc3ewАй бұрын

    Thanks for the update from the farm Ru all the sheep and cattle look well and it’s nice to see them all enjoying the sun,take care both look forward to your next update enjoy your sabbatical and hope your wedding goes well and best wishes to you and you bride🎉

  • @alastairwallis9499
    @alastairwallis9499Ай бұрын

    Good video. Hope all goes well for you both in the coming weeks. Cheers

  • @DWP13
    @DWP132 ай бұрын

    I feel REALLY ripped off now lol. Im waiting to pick up 3 breeders at 450$ USD each

  • @flankfarm
    @flankfarmАй бұрын

    Oh gosh!! They’ll be worth it I’m sure 🤘

  • @Samir12Nizzar-wn7cc
    @Samir12Nizzar-wn7cc2 ай бұрын

    Hello, please, I am looking for work in the field of agriculture and animal husbandry. I have experience living in England. Thank you

  • @dangarlakha6259
    @dangarlakha62592 ай бұрын

    Nice video friends

  • @flankfarm
    @flankfarm2 ай бұрын

    Thank you 🙏

  • @dreamweaver4886
    @dreamweaver48862 ай бұрын

    Hi, what a great channel. As we've just suffered a mysterious hay barn fire I was wondering whether you know what caused your barn fire? Sorry to bring that unpleasant subject up by the way.

  • @flankfarm
    @flankfarm2 ай бұрын

    Great to hear from you, and I’m sorry that you’ve experienced something so difficult! We don’t know and the only thing you can do in that situation is slowly move forward 🙏

  • @paulhayday8212
    @paulhayday82122 ай бұрын

    Looking fwd to seeing all the bouncy lambs (and loads of piglets!) Paul WW

  • @flankfarm
    @flankfarm2 ай бұрын

    Thanks Paul, always appreciate your comments 🙏

  • @margaretburns2635
    @margaretburns26353 ай бұрын

    Thank you Ru.. enjoyed watching.

  • @flankfarm
    @flankfarm2 ай бұрын

    Thank you Margaret

  • @PAfarmboy
    @PAfarmboy3 ай бұрын

    I hope the lambing season goes well for you this year. I'm looking forward to seeing those little fuzzy critters running around.

  • @flankfarm
    @flankfarm2 ай бұрын

    Excited to share that! 🙏🏼

  • @cassieoz1702
    @cassieoz17023 ай бұрын

    Great video Ru and crew. We're calving atm. Five live and bouncy, 1 deceased (malpresentation), 10 still to come, as we head into cold weather

  • @flankfarm
    @flankfarm2 ай бұрын

    Go Cassie !!! 💪

  • @nancysmith-baker1813
    @nancysmith-baker18133 ай бұрын

    Loved taod in the whole and the cows sounding off . Thankyou .

  • @flankfarm
    @flankfarmАй бұрын

    Thanks Nancy 🙌

  • @nancysmith-baker1813
    @nancysmith-baker18133 ай бұрын

    I missed this one , so I watch . Love the new trackter . I also liked the old trackter . She need to hang on to yhat and totally refurbished it . I saw the old tracktors are not available . Farmers are buying them up for several reasons . One they are lighter and csn get on the fields not ripping them up so bad , two yhey dont have computer chipps . Would love to have a vidio you Mum yelling us the different breeds of sheep 🐏🐑🐏🐑 and what all she got . I love old style clothes .you two are funny .

  • @nancysmith-baker1813
    @nancysmith-baker18133 ай бұрын

    Hello , Happy belated birthday to your Mum . What a nice video 📸📸📸 Thankyou . You and your Mum have such a nice relationship.like best friends . Ive been watching lambing all over the uk . Been a realy ruff start for many . Crowly farm lost fifteen lambs , they ehere big and all developed . Your Mom talk about a fly that causes problems , I eonder if that what it was ?? .She is so knowledgeable about farming . She watches yhe times and season .Its realy intersting .and she knows her animals . Lovly scenery . Thankyou Rue for this . Hope all well . Look forward to the next one and lotts of lambs . Mite of been a good yhing her labms coming late do to the weather . Take care .

  • @KeithHill-wc3ew
    @KeithHill-wc3ew3 ай бұрын

    Thanks Ru another quality video from you both.

  • @flankfarm
    @flankfarm3 ай бұрын

    Wahoooo, thank you Keith!

  • @lionelmarytravels6003
    @lionelmarytravels60033 ай бұрын

    Thanks Rufus and mum(who's name escapes me). But belated happy birthday to you.🎉🎉. Come May and it should all be happening . It's amazing how those pigs have grown. Doesn't seem long ago when we first saw them. How long was it, 6 months?

  • @flankfarm
    @flankfarm3 ай бұрын

    I know they’ve grown so much! It’s completely crazy. I think 6 months sounds about right. So lovely to hear from you! Loads of love from the Sarah, Ru & the farm 🤘

  • @alastairwallis9499
    @alastairwallis94993 ай бұрын

    Nice video, Cheers

  • @flankfarm
    @flankfarm3 ай бұрын

    Thank you Alastair!

  • @MerryChristmas-pw2zz
    @MerryChristmas-pw2zz3 ай бұрын

    Great 🎉 I love this video

  • @flankfarm
    @flankfarm3 ай бұрын

    Appreciate it 🙏🏼

  • @flankfarm
    @flankfarm3 ай бұрын

    That’s awesome. We really appreciate it 🙏🏼

  • @BlissfulMel
    @BlissfulMel3 ай бұрын

    Lovely! Thank you

  • @flankfarm
    @flankfarm3 ай бұрын

    Thank you 🙏

  • @ekogranitocbrm4724
    @ekogranitocbrm47243 ай бұрын

    Hey i am indonesian want to give you purple ketela it is good to eats and moissy. Will you tey to farm it? Ya

  • @pilapila3580
    @pilapila35803 ай бұрын

    I always forget the name of this channel though I can always remember a few letters, L, A, K, PH?, or F?, and then I add 'English', and then I am finally here again. Hopefully, remembering 'the enemy's FLANK' will bring me back instantaneously in the future ....

  • @flankfarm
    @flankfarm3 ай бұрын

    Thank you for pulling through & finding us. Excited that you’re here !

  • @abdulaalsahoki2735
    @abdulaalsahoki27353 ай бұрын

    Do you want a family that works with you?

  • @MerryChristmas-pw2zz
    @MerryChristmas-pw2zz3 ай бұрын

    I am in sri lanka but I love uk I love these video

  • @user-qv5ve1sh4c
    @user-qv5ve1sh4c3 ай бұрын

    All the best for spring. We all having a tough time with rain and flooding push on your doing great

  • @flankfarm
    @flankfarm3 ай бұрын

    Thanks Brendan!! Hope you get on well too 🙏

  • @user-fq5kg6gk1g
    @user-fq5kg6gk1g3 ай бұрын

    Support British 🇬🇧 Farming 🚜👨🏼‍🌾👩🏼‍🌾🧑🏻‍🌾🐑🐄🐖🐓

  • @sydneymathuka4228
    @sydneymathuka42283 ай бұрын

    Clean

  • @sydneymathuka4228
    @sydneymathuka42283 ай бұрын

    Ok

  • @alinaalina1538
    @alinaalina15383 ай бұрын

    Sheep very nice I like lamb yummy

  • @alinaalina1538
    @alinaalina15383 ай бұрын

    Sheep are good

  • @alinaalina1538
    @alinaalina15383 ай бұрын

    The ugly and unclean animal. Pigs eating them own feces, slop, garbage, everything. Cow and lamb is clean animal which eating only grass and hay and them meat yummy and clean

  • @user-qr7wq2yi5d
    @user-qr7wq2yi5d3 ай бұрын

    Excellent

  • @paulthompson8467
    @paulthompson84674 ай бұрын

    Very good video Ru and Sarah all the best for the lambing we have just 4 ewes left to lamb out of 96 but think I will lamb a couple of weeks later next year as the weather here in Ni has been awful and shed space was limited think you guys have picked a nice time of year to start all the best with the wedding preparations 🙂

  • @ambroisemetz2611
    @ambroisemetz26114 ай бұрын

    I've never seen toad in the hole outside of the UK, I didn't know about it before my second time there (I'm French). It is very British. Same with Yorkshire pudding, we know of it, but I only had it in Yorkshire.

  • @flankfarm
    @flankfarm4 ай бұрын

    Thank you, so great to hear this perspective. It’s known, but not made - you fancy the recipe 😅 ?

  • @nicholascummins4430
    @nicholascummins44304 ай бұрын

    Lovley video again Ru looking forward to seeing a photo of your mum when she is in her wedding clothes and it will be great for her to have a day away from the farm,she works so hard

  • @flankfarm
    @flankfarm4 ай бұрын

    Thank you, really looking forward to it. Just a few lambs to see first. Lovely to hear from you 🙏🏼

  • @lionelmarytravels6003
    @lionelmarytravels60034 ай бұрын

    Good morning from Ludgershall. That was a slightly different format, but it worked well! No real need to worry over cows pushing each other around. As your mum knows, each group have a pecking order, but when another group are introduced, that order has to be reasserted. It's what animals do. But without horns, no damage is done, except to their pride! Yes. It's been a wet start to the year. The water table is very high, hence the flooded fields. We've also had some very mild nights. Frequently, the temperature has only fluctuated by one or two degrees in 24 hrs and with very few frosts, many flowers and shrubs are blooming early.

  • @flankfarm
    @flankfarm4 ай бұрын

    Lovely update! Water table is so high isn’t it - too much rain! Great to hear from you 🙌

  • @deannamoreton8253
    @deannamoreton82534 ай бұрын

    Great vid thank u. I make 12 individual yorkshire puds with one Goose egg and OMG perfection x

  • @flankfarm
    @flankfarm4 ай бұрын

    Wow! Sure sounds it

  • @cassieoz1702
    @cassieoz17024 ай бұрын

    We had first calf of the season last week (we breed on an 18-month cycles, not 12-months), just as the weather cools off in Autumn. Best of luck for your calving season🤞 Our 700L deep freeze died last weekend and it had 1 steer, 1.5 sheep and half a pig in it. We managed to parcel it out to friends and family while we waited 5 days for a replacement. The dramas of farm life. 😉 My recipe of the month is Hot Cross buns

  • @flankfarm
    @flankfarm4 ай бұрын

    Oh goodness !!! Good job you noticed !!! Come on then, share the recipe !! Great to hear from you Cassie 💛