{"id":267917,"date":"2026-01-28T07:26:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/267917\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T07:26:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:26:19","slug":"i-can-go-from-being-covered-in-cow-dung-to-glam-meet-the-23-year-old-tiktok-star-who-quit-her-job-to-become-a-full-time-dairy-farmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/267917\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I can go from being covered in cow dung to glam\u2019 \u2013 Meet the 23-year-old TikTok star who quit her job to become a full-time dairy farmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft5 indo-1d70522a_marginright5 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Anna Downey from Co Down on losing more than 70 cows to TB, rebuilding the herd, and working with agri, beauty and fitness brands online\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Anna Downey uses her phone to create social media content of calves on the farm. Photo: Jonathan Porter\/PressEye\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/a33669d5-5237-48b1-8d14-af2f34539d42.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_marginleft5 indo-1d70522a_marginright5 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Anna Downey uses her phone to create social media content of calves on the farm. Photo: Jonathan Porter\/PressEye<\/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)\">Anna Downey had been waiting for a clear TB test before returning to the family dairy farm full-time. But after repeated outbreaks wiped out more than 70 cows, she decided to take the plunge anyway.<\/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)\">Over the past two years, Anna and her father, Hugh, have seen their herd nearly halve on their Dromore, Co Down farm. They currently run 130 pedigree Holstein Friesian cows, with plans to rebuild to 180.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anna Downey from Co Down on losing more than 70 cows to TB, rebuilding the herd, and working&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[52079,9609,9608,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-267917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-catherina-cunnane","tag-dairy-farm-profiles","tag-dairy-pedigree","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267917","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=267917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}