‘It focuses the mind': Jeremy Clarkson on Diddly Squat's TB outbreak
He said the unexpected TB diagnosis, the first for the television presenter, had thrown operations at Diddly Squat Farm in Oxfordshire into disarray, admitting that he was on a 'very steep learning curve'.
It has been a bad week for Clarkson, who also revealed that one of the 12 puppies in a litter by his dog Arya had died. His partner, Lisa Hogan, named the puppy on social media as 'Mr Grey', saying: 'Sad news this morning. Mr Grey has gone to fur and feather land.'
TB testing on Thursday had found it was 'probable' that one cow at the farm had the respiratory disease, Clarkson said, and two other cows were suspected to be possible cases. His farm, made famous in the Amazon Prime series Clarkson's Farm, has what he calls a 'tiny herd' of nine cows, seven calves and one bull.
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