This sixteen-minute Scottish heritage download captures a time before intensive farming animal husbandry took place in Aberdeenshire. From October to May cattle were tied up in the byre two to a stall. They were fed twice per day morning and night. This clip highlights the process called sortin the nowt which involved the following.
• cleaning out the forestall
• giving the cattle bruising
• hashing neeps
• getting neeps in a wire basket Skull
• mucking the stall
• bedding the nowt with fresh straw
• filling the hake with hay
• sweeping the greep
• experience the bond between the farmer and his nowt
• understand some of the terms used