I haven't been able to really digest what is happening with Actons and ACC but it seems to me when you start to get really big the desire to get even bigger just gets out of control and these sort of things happen and usually to the detriment of the original entity.
No sign of any snow here so far, yesterday was a beautifull sunny day although the temp didn't get above 7 on my verandah. Cloud came in last night and there has been light rain but no sign of sleet or rain at 1pm it is 5.7 on my verandah, I think the wind is just coming too much out of the west and a couple of degrees too high for snow or sleet. It is 23.4 in the house so very nice. I will stay inside until 3.30 when I go and feed the bulls and a few cows that are in for calving.
I have been outside all morning doing jobs and I am a bit relieved to be having a break. I thought I was going to have to do a search for my heifers, they are in the back along the border, a lot of scrub. They hadn't come down to the front bit for their feed for about 3 days and when I went up there on the bike yesterday arvo I did not see them on the open parts and again no sign of them this morning so after smoko I got all rugged up to run the fence line to see where they could have escaped from and as I went up to the gate here they were all standing at the fence so I was much relieved. I might take their feeders up there and feed them there as they are preferring to stay up there.
I am exactly half way through calving, only 26 this year, all by AI so far and still a few to come. After 7 calves I had 6 heifers and 1 bull calf, now after 13 the boys have hit the lead so 7 bull calves. No surprise really as the girls were a day or two early and the bulls a day or two late. I bring all the cows that are close to calving into a small paddock behind the house and yards, it is handy for keeping an eye on heifers and then tagging and weighing the calves as they are born. I also like to get feed to the cows in the day or two after calving as they neglect themselves a bit when the calf is so precious initially and if I keep the hay going into them they don't get that hollow look plus it lures them into the yards where I can get my hands onto the calf.
Oh well maybe there will be another southerly blast come through and we will get some snow, still a bit of winter to go yet.
Ken