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Hi all, We are in outback Queensland, Australia and have a charolais/charbray cow herd. Speckle Park cattle have recently gained a lot of traction over here and we are considering buying some bulls. Does anyone have any photos of what colour cattle we could expect in the progeny? Would they...

Hi all, we still have one more cows to relocate on agistment, having been given our marching orders with 350 cows and calves at the start of the month. Some of them we have already shifted. We will do the rest next week....we are going to bring them here, sort them up and sell some dry ones as...

Thankyou so much mwj....that is so heartening to hear, very kind of you...

Glad to hear you guys are still on. Life has been hectic as usual but we are living at home again now. I see I last posted a year ago when we were living at Injune which we continued to do until about November last year. Our home property had great winter rain last year in June. All the dams...

Is anyone still on Australian Talk these days? Sorry for my long absence!

Hi all. Well I still don't have a pretty picture to paint, our longreach property is shut down and will stay that way for the rest of this year at least. We've only received 10mm (40 pts) there this year, unbelievable. We're going into our 5th year of drought. I am living mostly in our camp...

Thanks all

Thanks JMJ. What is our Aussie equivalent of banamine I wonder?

Thanks Rafter S. Yes the vet said on the phone that it wouldve been as you suggested, swelling which occurred later. I just wonder if those nerves will repair. He did not know. Thank you.

Just asking if anyone has ever seen a calf come good again in this situation.....thankyou

Hello, anyone out there? Any Aussies still on here, I've been MIA for a while....

Last week I pulled a calf out of a heifer. It wasn't a bad pull, once the head and shoulders came through, the rest of the calf fell out after about 10 seconds. The heifer bellowed mightily while I was pulling the calf and went down when the calf came out. She got up again when I opened the...

Yes its ridiculous the amount of kms we're doing between us. We have lots of frequent flyer points from racking up feed bills on the credit card so I can fly longreach to Brisbane to Roma for just the tax component when I can get a seat. Plenty of flights in and put of Roma because of the gas...

We've done another weaning on our northern place and trucked another 200 head down to our agistment. The second beast broke its leg coming off the transport and hubby had to shoot him. By far the biggest and best steer calf in the mob of course. A freak accident. Seems to be a fair few cattle...

We've managed to lease another small place at Roma about 3000 acs so that makes it even more worthwhile I suppose to be there with the stock. That's four places we're on down that way - crazy! Son and I mustered and trucked heifers down there from the last of our agistment N of here and they...