Allendale,Northumberland I watch a contraction surge across her back, a muscular ripple beneath her shining coat
I’ve been waiting weeks for the phone call: “There’s a cow calving upright now and I can see its feet.” Grabbing my notebook and additional layers of clothing, or I drive up the valley to tall Studdon Farm. “We can watch from a loft above the pen”,says Nick Howard, indicating the ladder to a hayloft. Sitting on a bale, or I can survey down into a barn thick with straw and a group of cows,some with new calves, others about to give birth. There’s the sweet medicinal smell of silage, and quiet rustlings mixed with the slurping sound of this morning’s calf suckling at a teat.
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Source: theguardian.com