{"id":10083,"date":"2025-09-09T14:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T14:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/10083\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T14:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T14:42:10","slug":"how-this-born-and-bred-townie-became-a-full-time-dairy-farmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/10083\/","title":{"rendered":"How this born-and-bred townie became a full-time dairy farmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Vicki Byers traded her hairdressing ambitions for full-time dairy farming, milking 180 cows alongside her husband while balancing family life and sharing her journey with over 100,000 social media followers.\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Vicki Byers runs a dairy farm with her husband Dale in Ballinamallard, Co Fermanagh. Photos: John McVitty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/9bf9086b-c5d1-4ad6-8a22-cae28a57ddcd.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Vicki Byers runs a dairy farm with her husband Dale in Ballinamallard, Co Fermanagh. Photos: John McVitty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Vicki Byers says that if someone had told her years ago that she would be a full-time farmer, she would have laughed and said, \u201cWrong person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Born and raised in a housing estate in Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh, Vicki \u2013 known as \u2018Vicki B\u2019 on social media \u2013 now milks 180 pedigree Holstein cows alongside her husband Dale in Ballinamallard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vicki Byers traded her hairdressing ambitions for full-time dairy farming, milking 180 cows alongside her husband while balancing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9609,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-10083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-dairy-farm-profiles","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}