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🎾Match ready- The dairy team are serving up tho 🎾Match ready- The dairy team are serving up thousands & thousands of pots of our single cream to go with strawberries in the picnic hampers at Wimbledon again 🎾
The girls decided to go out for Sunday lunch in th The girls decided to go out for Sunday lunch in the barley…
🐮Herdsperson Job vacancy 🐮 Immediate start f 🐮Herdsperson Job vacancy 🐮
Immediate start for an experienced herdsperson to milk and help manage 250 all year round calving Holsteins and Guernsey cows in Benenden, Kent.

The cows are grazing in summer and loose housed on straw in winter. A further 200+ Youngstock are housed at 2nd farm,  3 miles away. 

The role involves milking cows, feeding young stock as part of a team. Skills in identifying bulling cows and identifying & treating illnesses are essential. 

The right person needs to have good communication, attention to detail, accurate record keeping and operate at a high standard of hygiene and cow care. 

Additional competency tractor driving, using a Keenan feed wagon and a Tele handler would be preferable. 

Comfortable mobile home with garden area available if needed. 

Hinxden Farm Dairy pasteurises, processes and  delivers milk and other dairy products across the South East- all of which is available for free home use. Check out the website for more information
www.hinxdenfarmdairy.co.uk 

Salary depends on experience- minimum 1 year in similar role. 

Please email your CV to dee.manford@live.co.uk
A fantastic afternoon at @benenden_fete with Minni A fantastic afternoon at @benenden_fete with Minnie.  She was a superstar and dutifully performed in the Cow Pat Bingo.
Big thank you to George from Badgers Oak vets for Big thank you to George from Badgers Oak vets for delivering  this set of twins this afternoon, the first one of which was presented backwards with only a tail that we could get our hands on… not straightforward but very pleased that mum and both calves are doing well.
Have you tried our Traditional Crème Fraîche- W Have you tried our Traditional Crème  Fraîche- What do you pair it with?  Available in 250ml, 1Litre or 2.5L pots.
We’ve welcomed the rain and wait patiently for t We’ve welcomed the rain and wait patiently for the grass to look like this again soon 🙏🏻🤞🏼🍀🌱
We make and pot double and single cream from both We make and pot double and single cream from both the Holstein &  guernsey cows in 250ml and 142ml pots, catering sizes also available. Get yours for the bank holiday.
Besties 🧡Minnie & Bex are inseparable having gr Besties 🧡Minnie & Bex are inseparable having grown up together at the Snowfields Academy farm, which is sadly closing. We were more than happy to have Minnie back home (we bred & sold her to Snowfields) and introduce a token Jersey to our herd of Guernseys. The girls have settled well into their new working life as milking cows, they know their names and seek affection at all times. 🥰
Delivering this pint the other day really made me Delivering this pint the other day really made me smile… 1) that cream line- our milk is only pasteurised so you get cream rising to the top and you cannot beat our Guernseys’ whole milk. 2) the paint work is so faded which means this lovely little bottle has been filled, returned, washed and reused so many times that the paint work has faded. All our glass bottles should aspire to be as hard working and reliable as this bottle. 😍
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This British blue x Holstein bull calf just looks This British blue x Holstein bull calf just looks enormous when compared to the dainty little jersey heifer calf who’s the same age! Both utterly gorgeous 😍
Cool boxes. With warmer temperatures coming, a coo Cool boxes. With warmer temperatures coming, a cool box is a great idea. If you’ve not got one, is your milk at least left in a shaded spot when the sun comes up- tucked in a porch or behind a planter, car or wall perhaps?
An exciting/ nerve wracking day for both us and th An exciting/ nerve wracking day for both us and the cows. We’ve now got a bridge over from “the brook” field to “the searchlight” field. The Holsteins now won’t be causing twice daily traffic jams on Hinksden Road.
Strawberries & cream. 🍓 Name a better combo for Strawberries & cream. 🍓 Name a better combo for the bank holiday weekend. Holstein &  channel island, double & single, large &  small pots available from us direct or from your nearest stockist. Photo credits @biddendenfarm  @lowerhardresfarmshop @parkfarmbutchers @rosefarmshopramsgate
Happy Easter. We hope you’ve been able to enjoy Happy Easter. We hope you’ve been able to enjoy eating, drinking and chilling with friends, just like our little ones have.
The day we’ve all been waiting for… 🍀🌱🎉 A quick skip about the place then heads down to graze.
That’s the spot. That’s the spot.
Nothing beats fresh sheets for the yearling heifer Nothing beats fresh sheets for the yearling heifers.
Peekaboo. After they’ve been milked the girls l Peekaboo.  After they’ve been milked the girls like to stand on rubber mats at the front of the milking parlour shed, before heading out to grab some more food or return to their beds.
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Address

Hinxden Farm Dairy
Hinksden Road,
Benenden,
Cranbrook,
Kent.
TN17 4LE

Phone

01580 240 685

Email

enquiries@hinxdenfarmdairy.co.uk

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Winter

Winter – All the cattle are indoors.

They wander in and out of their straw beds to eat silage at the trough or find a spot to catch some winter sun or munch on their cake at the feed stations.

Winter is a time for extra jobs/ building maintenance and planning, as nothing can happen in the fields.

Autumn

Autumn is when the maize gets harvested by the forage harvester and is treated the same as the grass.

The ground gets cultivated and cereal crops sown for the following summer towards the end of autumn.

As the weather turns colder and wetter, all the cattle come inside to their straw barns for winter.

We have a group of heifers to calve later in the autumn to have more milk over the Christmas period.

Summer

Summer – harvest cereal crops – barley, oats and wheat, baling up all the straw into round bales to use as cows’ bedding for the winter.

We like to attend county shows with the cows for a bit of fun, often with great success.

All the young stock, dry cows and milking cows are still grazing the fields.

We make hay for the dry cows to eat in winter.

Spring

Spring – once the ground has dried up, we apply fertiliser to the fields to encourage the grass to grow and then the cows are turned out to graze.

They are out as long as there’s grass to eat and the weather is kind. We sow spring wheat and barley and maize in fields that may have been too wet to plant in autumn.

The yards are mucked out for the last time and this muck rots down in a pile ready to be spread on the fields as natural fertiliser.

Once the grass is ready, grass silage season begins- grass is mown, rowed up and then the forage harvester picks the grass up, finely chops it and blows into a fleet of trailers that tip it into a big pile ready to store and ferment for the winter.

We like to get 3-4 cuts of grass.

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