@WhitriggsStuart

Young Scottish farmer living the dream!! Organic Cattle, Deer and Arable farmer. Mob and bale grazing, Low input system that works for family, animal & farm

 Denholm, Scotland
Joined January 2018
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How its done at @RandJOglesby Calving while bale grazing and them moving them onto new grass with our "Whitriggs calf bunker" trailer
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99 cows and calves chomping away quite happy. Daily moves of 0.75 ha. Nothing other than grass.
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Chapelton Farm@beefshorthorn16 Sep 2025
It’s that’s time again. James R out with the bale unwinder offering some hay to our AA cows to slow the very wet lush autumn grass in thier rumens. We see ☀️ here but it feels very autumnal. @WhitriggsStuart
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From Problem to Product, The Whitriggs Bale Unroller Outwintering cattle raised a new challenge, how to feed them without wrecking the ground or using a tractor. Stuart Mitchell came up with a simple, effective solution, he designed and built a bale unroller that...
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We bought a bale unroller from @WhitriggsStuart last winter and it's been brilliant! Definitely got us out of a few tricky situations in the snow 👌
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@RobHavard117 Jul 2025
Stuart is a customer and a really innovative farmer. Please check out his bale unroller, which we use. @WhitriggsStuart
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Philip Skuce@philip_skuce5 Jun 2025
Fab day with our @SEFARIscot Environmentally-sustainable Livestock Farming (ELF) Working Group @MoredunComms today, including a trip out to our institute farm at Firth Mains, lots of great discussion and ideas for future research! Thanks to all concerned! 👍🐑 🌳 🐄 🐦 🌺 💩 🪲
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Wool on the new hedge doing well fighting off the drought and now the weeds
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Well that's the quickest I've jumped out my bed for a while #run #iykyk
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Could get used to this weather for calving time. 3 weeks in today and just clocked 80% calved. Just another 3 weeks to go. Cows bunching up into their mob for ☀️ @ScottishOrganic @PastureForLife
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What glorious weather!! 🌞🌞🌞
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Some year for frog spawn! It's everywhere
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That great time of year again!!
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What a glprious week it is for doing some drainage and installing an extra water tank. Awesome place we live. The spring sun fairly lifts the mood. 🌞🌞🌞
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Tom Church@TomHillbil8 Mar 2025
Replying to @WhitriggsStuart
And we have one of your bale unrollers - fantastic bits of kit.
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New hedges getting their wolly jumpers on. All the song birds 🐣🪺 should have lovely cosy nests this year.
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And just like that the snows all gone and were back to wind and rain
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During this cold snap, we have been very happy having this frost free trough. As always, modifications to the infrastructure needed but no need to worry about frozen troughs is brilliant. Its quite funny watching the cows walk back and forward across the hill in single file to it
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Howemill@howemill5 Jan 2025
❄️❄️ O U T W I N T E R I N G ❄️❄️ On this cold, wintery day - here’s a thread about outwintering 🧵 I’m going to share what we do, why we do it, what we have learned and answer some questions along the way. 1/
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School boy error on the hill bale grazing this morning!! Wind causing havoc @WhitriggsRobert... 🙄😂
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Last couple of bale unrollers of the year away today. We have built alot more that I thought we would. Thank you to everyone who has bought one and also to the @PastureForLife team for your endorsement. Merry Christmas 🎅
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