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We have been emailing the people who own the cottage for our trip to Ireland in a few months. Its kind of neat because its on an active farm, but as she told us the history of the place...first being a dairy farm, but not making any money with that they went to laying hens. Predators took their toll on them, so they now run a "suckling operation".
I have never heard of a "suckling operation", but it sounds to me like they run what we would call a replacement heifer farm. The "sucklings" being the heifers that they raise from calf to motherhood and then sell the now lactating cows to working dairy farms. Does anyone know if that is what the Irish call a "suckling farm"?
On a side note, they seem as eager to have us there as we are to go. They said they will be very busy on the farm at that time, and that they have never had farmers stay at their cottage before. We are pretty excited as well, but were a little saddened that they did not have sheep. They said few sheep farms exist there because the land is flatter and more arable then the "hills region" where sheep farms are numerous.
I love vegetarians...slice them real thin, dip them in ranch dressing and they compliment lamb quite well! :-)
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I've never heard that particular phrase, but you'll find that there's a lot of different words used in Britain.  "Bonnet" for the hood of a car, "boot" for the trunk etc. etc.Whereabouts in Ireland are you going? I was there years ago when I was about 9 and I still remember it fondly. Beautiful, beautiful country.
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| Where's B.B. on this one?
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| It's hard to tell from searching, but it looks like it is a cow/calf beef operation. http://www.farmersjournal.ie/indsup2004/beef02.pdf I can't find a good definition. My forst thought was a nurse cow type setup but when I read that article it was sounding more like just beef cows raising their one calf.
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