Today is a not so nice day for us as later this afternoon we
are loading our last years calves to go off to the sale yards. I know, we are a
bit soft now days, at least we are putting them in the Friday sale. Friday
meaning restocking/people after breeders and not the butchers. We think our
calves are too good for the butchers we'd like to see them go to good homes. I
hope the heifers go to someone who wants breeders, they are great looking
yearlings. Hopefully the steers will go to someone who wants to grow them out
for ages. People probably say you have to be tough and not be so soft well,
pish posh this is the way we are. We love our animals and it's a bit hard
sometimes to block out the nasty thoughts i.e. slaughtering animals etc. I'll
give them good luck, happy good vibes as they hop on the truck. That will do
the trick.
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| Last years calves. |
We now have nine new calves on the ground and they are
looking great. The oldest of them born in September and the youngest born in
November. Genevieve our Guernsey cow had a bull calf this time to Monty our
Hereford bull. The little fella is a
very rich dark red colour with nice white markings. The pigs have all finished
farrowing at the moment thank goodness. We still have lots of piglets in
varying stages of ages running around the place. They are so cute and I never
tire of their antics. We are about to start fencing up the paddocks into
smaller areas so we can rotate the stock better. Something we have learnt while
living here, smaller paddocks are better. So used to large paddocks in
Queensland. We fertilized for the first time this Spring as well. The benefits
are showing through now with lush grasses adorning the paddocks. We bought a
windmill recently, you can't have a farm without a windmill, it's just not right.
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| Genevieve and new calf for 2013. |
We had a couple of floods go through while the geese
were nesting this Spring so not as many goslings as we usually get
unfortunately. We have sold a lot of geese this past week as we had to get the
numbers down. They were getting out of control and getting onto the neighbours
place and eating their grass, naughty geese. My two ewes Gwendoline and Clover
are still two no lambs to be seen. One had a still born and the other one, well
I don't think she is in lamb. They both need to be shorn very soon too. They
reside in a paddock near the house as they were banished from the house yard
for nibbling my fruit trees around the trunks and nearly ringbarking them. I've
never had sheep do that before. Apart from that there's not much else to
report.
Michelle.
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| 2013 goslings. |
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| My ewes and some of the Saddleback piglets. |
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| One of the new 2013 calves. |
