As winter arrives, Stevie experiments with a radical buffalo feeding idea, David is anxious to find out if his cows are in calf, dairy farmers the Roan family set up a milkshake stand at the Dalbeattie Christmas lights-on event and Robin and Penny's family arrive in the Highlands for the annual festive ceilidh.

Alone on the farm, Mel must act fast to help a trapped bull, the Holstein Society assessor comes to judge the merits of the Roans' herd, an avian flu scare puts Robin and Penny's hens on lockdown and David is called to the rescue when a cow gets stuck in a bog.