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Country Focus: Cowslips & Shires

Cowslips & Shires

BBC Radio Wales - Country Focus, Cowslips & Shires

Counting Cowslips and the Shire Horse off to join the Household Cavalry

A pioneering project to reduce the use of antibiotics on the farm; what Cowslips can reveal about the grassy places where they grow and the Shire mare from Eglwyswrw

Reducing Antibiotic use in Livestock - the Arwain Vet Cymru project has been training up a network of Veterinary Prescribing Champions.  It's now set to be a blueprint globally to promote responsible use of antibiotics in livestock.


Trying to refreeze the North Pole  - the Bangor University scientists who've designed an ice machine which runs on renewable energy. 


How Cowslips, one of our best-known spring flowers , are an important symbol of our once flower-rich meadows.  See below for details of how to help the count.


And the first mare from the Dyfed Shires Horse Farm in Pembrokeshire joins the Household Cavalry.  It's a fond farewell to 8 year old, Willa Rose but they're looking forward to the return of Celt after 11 years as a drum horse.

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