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Voices, views, stories, news and chat from Northern Ireland’s rural community, hosted by Nicola Weir. Including essential livestock and weather reports. 

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Countryside: Ducks, deodorant and a taste of haggis

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Ducks, deodorant and a taste of haggis

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Duck rescue, world’s best haggis and feisty rams.

Duck rescue in Moira, bTB compensation cuts, world’s best haggis and feisty rams in Norfolk.

Presenter, Nicola Weir, visits the Battery Hen Rescue Centre in Moira to meet 60 abandoned ducks taken in by Barbara Mladek and she looks at a consultation to cut bTB compensation rates in Northern Ireland. Scottish butcher, Laura Black, won the first World Haggis Championship and she reveals how she jumped from a career in banking to butchery, while Norfolk sheep farmer, Sam Bryce explains how she keeps her feisty rams, Casper and Cash, from fighting with each other by spraying them with Lynx Africa. And Hannah Quinn-Mulligan speaks to Donegal farmer, Leonard Toye, about his heartbreaking battle with mica on his farm.

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