Kylebroughlaun Farm 🇺🇦

Belted Galloways, hardy hill cattle, on species rich meadows & mountain, encouraging nature, #HNV farming Also @

[Kylebroughlaun Farm 🇺🇦 @Beltie1]

Delighted to be involved in @farmfornature awards and to be included as 1 of 10 Farming for Nature Ambassadors for 2019 The process really highlights the value of nature in farming Have a look at the videos on the following link and vote for your favourite https://t.co/paAVKoYWlK

[Kylebroughlaun Farm 🇺🇦 @Beltie1]

Corncrake numbers rising as a result of conservation measures - ecologist - Fairplay to fellow Galway birder & Ecologist Dr Andrea Parisi on his Corncrake & breeding wader research https://t.co/TYKBq3J5sH

[Kylebroughlaun Farm 🇺🇦 @Beltie1]

Yorkshire Dales Farmer Network to host upland cattle grazing meeting https://t.co/PbsNdAh5Yp

[Kylebroughlaun Farm 🇺🇦 @Beltie1]

INHFA calls for dedicated research into farming in uplands https://t.co/zPEG7TTKkf

[Kylebroughlaun Farm 🇺🇦 @Beltie1]

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[Kylebroughlaun Farm 🇺🇦 @Beltie1]

Lovely day yesterday Inis Méain. Circumabulation of island by bike & foot,counting birds.Nice to see a Redwing amongst small movement of Blackbird & Brent goose on Trá Leitreach, ringed Iceland May 2014 seen by myself in same location in March last year. https://t.co/DqSyVhzrkp…

[Peter Mawson @HighFarndale]

Just a little hint of snow.

It’s just below freezing; hardy beef cattle shrug off winter.

The short legs and deep body are a characteristic of the Belted Galloway breed.

Moving them twice per day, using electric fenced paddocks to mimic the natural movement of a wild herd, there’s plenty to eat and a good cushion of plants to prevent damage to the soil.

Looks like a shepherds delight sunset glowing on the hill in the background.

Eat real red meat and animal fat; buy the best you can.

[Kylebroughlaun Farm 🇺🇦 @Beltie1]

@elonmusk Sustainable abundance is declining at an alarming rate and has an inverse relationship as human population has grown. Run away consumption is causing mass species extinction and biodiversity loss. Our planetary abundance is in freefall with nothing sustainable about our existence

[Kylebroughlaun Farm 🇺🇦 @Beltie1]

Nice to see a Glaucous Gull today in Spiddal, Galway, a scarce winter visitor from its summer breeding grounds in the high arctic, attracted ashore to feeding on a seal carcase

[James Rebanks @herdyshepherd1]

Well that’s a lovely way to spend 22 mins whilst having a cup of coffee

What a great ambassador for the breed Richard Wilson is - thank you

On Your Farm - 14/12/2025 - BBC Sounds https://t.co/gm0325b45q

[James Rebanks @herdyshepherd1]

I’m totally convinced that high value/margin grazing can take place round highly biodiverse landscapes

We are too often encouraged/forced to make bad ecological choices or presented with false choices

[Andrea Meanwell @ruslandvalley]

Weathering the storm.

[James Rebanks @herdyshepherd1]

Paper on why people resist what sound like good eco goals in the uplands

We’ve seen it all before
We’ve fought it before
Work with us not against us

“Is it really about the trees? Exploring the roots of resistance to tree-planting on the Welsh commons https://t.co/1vxy9QagSc

[Peter Mawson @HighFarndale]

A welcome dry day; more rain this week.

Lots of dead thistle and dock in this paddock; still plenty of feed though.

Mindset - they’re not ‘weeds’ they’re ‘soil signals’.

These particular plants are telling me, for one thing, there’s compaction, where instead the soil should resemble a sponge with space for air and water.

Now, I could spray poison, but the soil condition wouldn’t change. The weed root is part of the solution, as are the cattle.

There’s also some mechanical work to do, to update a 150+ years old stone made water pipe.

Focus your diet around real red meat and animal fat; buy the best you can.

[Kylebroughlaun Farm 🇺🇦 @Beltie1]

#Belties are 1st class foragers amongst cattle breeds.Searching out Ivy, can involve hazzard such deep drains.They learn dangers & I believe pass these learnings on to calves. New unfamiliar cattle can get themselves in trouble. Today i played safe,let them into last bit of grass

[Kylebroughlaun Farm 🇺🇦 @Beltie1]

Delightful & educational afternoon on marketgarden farm 'An Garaí Glas' of @farmingfornature Ambassador Aonghus Ó Coistealbha Inveran, Sth Connemara, rounded off with lovely food from the farm. Aonghus markets his beautiful produce through Galway restaurants and shops & farm gate

[Kylebroughlaun Farm 🇺🇦 @Beltie1]

Buff bellied Pipit from North America at Frenchman's beach, Árainn, Galway, a Rock Pipit for comparison & a colour ringed Curlew, likely ringed Shropshire, England (Awaiting details). 5th weekend in a row seaching out migrant birds on our Atlantic islands. A Pied Flycatcher also

[Kylebroughlaun Farm 🇺🇦 @Beltie1]

@hilltopfarmgirl Id one at that recently, but discovered on rising the mother, that it wasnt even her own calf, and she wasnt a new mother

[Kylebroughlaun Farm 🇺🇦 @Beltie1]

Took this group off the higher hill today. Took the bull away, and let Cows & calves onto upland heath for a week or two, before moving on to lower grassland. Doing a good job grazing out the different parcels

[Kylebroughlaun Farm 🇺🇦 @Beltie1]

Cattle eat more than grass. Trees & shrubs are an integral part of their diet. They learn this foraging from a young age. It provides the natural balance in their diet, creating the diversity they need for health & wellbeing.

[Kylebroughlaun Farm 🇺🇦 @Beltie1]

Wonderful day Saturday on farm of Tommy Early, learning lots of things farming, particurly bog hydrology & formation, moth traps moth id & community market gardening.Thanks Tommy for having us & all @farmfornature crew for organising & wonderful food Hobesty Farm Kitcgen, Carrick

[Farming For Nature @farmfornature]

What a day in Roscommon this weekend 💚. Farmers from North and South came together at Tommy Earley’s farm to share, learn, and celebrate nature-friendly farming.

Huge thanks to Tommy and his wife for the warm welcome 🌸

#FarmingForNature #SharedIsland #FFNNetworkDay