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Our town is a popular destination for car and truck clubs to hold rallies, this week the Chevies are in town. I know many of you out there are Chevy devotees. I hope this link works. Ken

I have taken some photos of my DB Iconic daughters I have retained. @elkwc has mentioned he has some in his tank but is a bit worried about the frame size. It is hard to judge frame from photos but these do have a lot of volume. The first group are bred heifers, due to calve early July. I don't...

My Kelpie bitches are about 3.5 years of age and to date I have not had problems with them when they come in season with male dogs around however Jedda is a real bitch of a dog and will dominate the others. If she was a girl at school she would be the leader of the "Cool girl group" and say who...

I weaned my calves last Wednesday, 38 of them in the yards only about 30 metres from the house. The noise doesn't worry me but then they tend to settle down during the night and start up again in the morning when Mum comes up expecting to feed them. I'm not too popular with Pam and daughter Jo...

I went to Toowoomba last week for a doctors appointment, turned out to be an expensive appointment as I went browsing at side x sides. I placed an order for a Kawasaki Mule, I'll pick it up on the 13th April when I go back for another appointment. I have had a bit of interest in a new one for a...

Just a morning stroll through the cows. They are hoping I'm going to open the gate to the next paddock but they will be disappointed as they have another 2 days to go here. The calves have got 6 weeks to go until weaning. a few are over 300 kg now. I have 6 steers to go to the weaner sale on the...

As part of your metrification education I'll let you all do the conversion to pounds shillings and pence. I put our average rainfall at about 860mm so we did well. Last summer was dry but we had good moisture in the ground left over from a couple of very wet years so we got by and then had good...

I went out this arvo to get some photos of my 1st calf heifers/cows and try to match them with their calves. I think they are doing a good job and they should get to my target of 300kg at weaning in March with a couple getting around 350kg This is S7, a GAR Ashland followed by her calf U4 a DB...

I have been getting genomics done on the heifers I retain right from when they first became available through Angus Australia. I always save the before EBV's so I can compare to the genomic enhanced EBV'. Most of the time there are only subtle changes up or down to the EBV's. I had two heifers I...

I've been doing a bit more clearing of my feed containment area. It is surprising the size of the trees that my D4 will deal with. I do push her to the limits though. My sandy granite soils do help as well. Ken

I've sold 6 of the 8 bulls I wanted to sell. I got $8000 for my 2 yr old, another 2 Yearlings (13 mths) brought $6000 ea, 1 yearling at $5000 and 2 yearlings at $4000 ea. I consider myself very lucky to have unloaded these and to get those prices, the bottom has fallen out of the cattle market...

I have just finished breeding my cows again. I am very happy with how things went. There was only one cow that I gave up on, a 1st calver that was being a bit of a "female dog". I did 36 cows and 9 heifers. I use cidrs for 8 days with PG and a bit of help with oestrodiol which you folk don't get...

I got my 2nd new eye put in late yesterday. Pretty exciting now waiting to see how good the vision is going to be as the pupil goes back to normal and things clear. So far things are looking good just a bit furry. I hope yours goes well today Warren. Ken

I'm off this morning to have my first eye done. I'm going to have a good talk to the anaesthetist, I don't want to know anything about it happening. I'm not good with things coming towards my eyes, eye drops are impossible to get into my eyes so none of this half awake nonsense. Ken

As a follow up to my random photo in the other post. I started calving at the beginning of July and now have 27 calves on the ground w3ith another 4 coming in the next couple of days leaving just 5 to go over the next couple of weeks. I am pretty happy with that even though this year it was more...

I've been using a Chinese range of cordless tools, drills, impact drivers, angle grinder and other for several years and have been very impressed with them however the main weakness I find with the drills is their keyless chucks, they quickly wear out and won't hold drill bits well. I drill a...

Well, 4 of them. I've had a group of 9 of my best cows go missing for a few weeks. My cows at this time of year are in my bush block which covers over 600 acres up until mid June and they start calving in July at home. It is fairly thick scrub so you can't go in and do a head count but will...

My old Chamberlain tractor wouldn't go into 2nd and 3rd gears, 1st and reverse were OK but when moved across the gate it wouldn't move up into 2nd or 3rd. My neighbour who was driving it for me doing some deep ripping of my oats paddock with my Keyline plow decided he wanted a project so pulled...

I don't know what it is here but my calves seem to grow 2nd to none. My soil would be the very worst sandy granite possible and the country is very difficult to get around with rocky outcrops and clumps of trees and I grow just about every weed known to mankind but the cattle do well. I went to...

Last year we only had to have a forecast chance of 40% of 1-5mm and we would be guaranteed something like 20-40mm of rain. This year we see 90% chance of 10-20mm a few days out only to have it fizzle to nothing by the due date. I think the good times are over for a bit as the La nina fades. I...