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 they are older cows, move half the rest onto an agistment with others already there, and keep the rest here and feed them as necessary. Ho hum, the merry go round never ends! Then hopefully we should be okay for a couple of months before we start to get kicked off other places where we are!
Late last year hubby bought me two beautiful pure Guernsey heifers from the roma store sale. They were victims of a dairy dispersal on the downs and somehow ended up in Roma sale. They both calved in January about an hour apart. The next week we had a box-up while shifting a big mob of cows and calves between agistments in stinking hot weather and I ended up with 5 mismothered charolais calves, all bulls, one with a badly broken back leg. We had the horsefloat with us, son and I set the broken leg properly with fibreglass stuff, and we were able to bring all the little guys home, after electrolytes, eggs, milk, water and whatever else was required. Anyway the Guernseys were given three, along with their own calves, and they've reared them magnificently well, such good girls. Maisie and Betty. The broken legged one and another poorly one I hand reared but they are looking great too. Taking a body truck load of weaner steers to the Blackall tomorrow for Thursday's sale.
Gosh you are a goer Ken, now into the cropping! Glad to hear you're fine Diana and Andrew. What do you all think of Speckle Parks? There's certainly been a rush on them lately. Friends up this way who formerly had a well known droughtie stud have gone into them in a fairly big way, crossing over the droughties, and also buying F1 cows.