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Wester Kittochside farm house

Working farm

Get close up and personal with our animals on the farm, visit our Georgian farmhouse and working farm with many traditional 1950s farming methods. Each season there's something new, from lambing and sowing to hay-making and harvesting.

Ayrshire cow in field

Ayrshire facts

Scots dumpy chickens

Scots Dumpy chickens

Tamworth pig

Tamworth pigs

Mairi the Clydesdale

Mairi the Clydesdale

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