February’s jobs on a cattle and arable farm can include;
- Winter/Spring ploughing.
- Selling surplus grain.
- Muck spreading.
- Bedding up cattle once a day.
- Feeding cattle twice daily.
- Milling and mixing animal feed.
- Calving cows.
- Disbudding (dehorning) calves.
- Feeding poultry twice a day.
- Letting poultry out to free range in a morning.
- Locking up the poultry huts on a night.
- Cleaning out the poultry huts.
- Building & machinery maintenance.
- Selling potatoes to crisp factory.
- Potatoes washed and loaded into lorries.
- Potatoes sent to crisp factory.
- Applying pot ash fertilizer to potato fields.
- Applying compound fertilizer to wheat and barley crops.
- Harvesting fodder beet.
- Rolling mole hills down and catching moles in grass fields.
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