Do come along to the AGM 30th January 2012 at the Cowick Barton at 8:00 p.m.
The speaker is Vicki Mills who is an RBST Council Member and expert on pigs
Our stand this year featured an Exmoor pony Sweetcombe Sunbird (Birdy) with her three week old colt foal Sunny Boy, lent by members Sue and Trevor Glasper of Branscombe. The foal attracted a lot of interest on the Saturday when it was the subject of the guess the weight competition. Sue and Trevor have 10 brood mares on steep farmland a mile from the East Devon coast. Exmoor ponies are one of the oldest and rarest British native breeds, thought to be little changed from the wild ponies roaming Britain thousands of years ago. Today they still run free on Exmoor and are used in a variety of conservation grazing projects around the UK. They are a favorite with BBC Countryfile’s Adam Henson who came on the Friday, a great supporter of rare breeds.
Devon members of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust (RBST) were involved in showing livestock (sheep, pigs, cattle, poultry and both Exmoor and Dartmoor ponies). On the stand we had hens with chicks, ewes with lambs and of course Birdy and her foal.
If you did not come to the Devon County show, why not come along and help at one of the other Shows for 2011. At some of the shows you can bring a rare breed animal whether that be chicken or cow - please contact committee members for assistance.
Fibre Fest event
I have also received advanced notice of the Fibre Fest event which will be held at Bicton College in East Devon on 20th and 21st August 2011. The organisers want to have displays of live animals and are inviting breed societies or individuals to attend with sheep. If you are interested please contact Richard Vickery on 01884 881234. He is very keen to have as many sheep as possible and wants to have the pens lined up as people walk into the show area. So it would be outside, and he suggests people back their trailers to their pen area, and put up the pens around the trailer with something like a gazebo for any display material. Email: info@fibrefest.co.uk and website www.fibrefest.co.uk
NEWS
*Richard and Barbara have to drastically reduce their Manx and Heb flocks - click here for details
* N.B. we now have a search facility (top left) - you could type in say 'Manx' and it would do a Google search just on the RBST Devon website (plus you might get the occasional Google Advert)
Why not join the Rare Breed Survival Trust? It does not cost much per year and you get the pleasure of knowing that your money is helping retain rare and native breed farms animals across the UK - click here for details
Why is the RBST Devon here?
Our objective is to educate the people of Devon about rare breeds, why they are useful and
what they can do to help the breeds.
To that end the group holds many activities during the year. Some are
social gatherings, visit to members holdings, to other venues and to
the county and other shows. At the shows we have a stand where visitors
can meet members and get to know some of the rare breed animals that
we have brought along to meet children of all ages. Often members show
their animals formally in the show ring, further helping create awareness
Click here for events. On top of various shows, we are hoping to have some social events during the year - they are always a lot of fun. Do come along. Ring Liffy 01548 560342
If you would like to help with the merchandise at shows (free entry) please contact Liffy 01548 560342
Please have a browse around the pull down menus at the top and the side
menus to get a feel for what we are about - then if you want to join
or help contact us
To join RBST please click here
Please Note - this web site is kept up to date in my spare time. All contributions and
comments welcome.
The webmaster is Richard Barker - click here to email
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