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<blockquote data-quote="jilleroo" data-source="post: 1417155" data-attributes="member: 8192"><p>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 were filled the first night it rained, a miracle since they had been dry for years. They have not had another run in them since even though the rain continued on and off through to September. Initially this rain brought us a crop of decent herbage, pigweed and lamb's tongue etc and the cattle grew fat. We brought a few home, heifers and calves mainly, but no cows. That herbage died and was replaced with a vast swathe of bright green Black Rolypoly....on every inch of the place! How could there be a seed on every square inch I ask you?? </p><p>Totally inedible and nasty stuff. So the stock we had here for a while have left again to agistment. This last wet season failed totally for us again. Our fifth Feb-March with no rainfall, unbelievable. As for the cows....they are still all away. The feed ran out at Injune and Muckadilla and we parcelled them all up and shifted them to various places further north and closer to home which had fared better than us. We currently have them on 6 properties and looking for more....agistment is scarce as hen's teeth. None of the agistment will last through the winter so we are starting to stockpile hay and have contracted cottonseed ready to bring them home and feed them. Selling them still doesn't seem to be an option for hubby and our son. Our Winton place is also dry this year and some of those cows are agisted. We are going to feed the rest apparently! With all this cattle shifting and craziness, I've been very busy, here there and everywhere! I just put my bike on and go, sometimes at 4 in the morning.</p><p>On the bright side, we received great prices for the steers and heifers we've sold. Just amazing money and we hope it lasts a bit longer! We've sold quite a few through Roma and some at Blackall. Charolais always sell well at those sales.</p><p>All the family is well, my mum is ok and there have been no more additions to the family! Because our house dam was filled, in November we hopped in and re-did half of our garden. This was a huge effort by hubby as the soil had to be prepared, even though we had it all covered with a heavy layer of mulch and gypsum. We scraped that off and bought a couple of big loads of soil and barrowed it all through. Hubby created a nice area of rock garden and paths and we bought in turf from Emerald to create instant lawn. All expensive but worth it and it was ok to spend some money on ourselves for a change! Our succession of lovely caretakers had done their best of keep the house nice inside and we will keep in touch with most of those kind folk.</p><p>Would love to hear what everyone has been up to and will read through some of the Board posts in due course!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jilleroo, post: 1417155, member: 8192"] 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 were filled the first night it rained, a miracle since they had been dry for years. They have not had another run in them since even though the rain continued on and off through to September. Initially this rain brought us a crop of decent herbage, pigweed and lamb's tongue etc and the cattle grew fat. We brought a few home, heifers and calves mainly, but no cows. That herbage died and was replaced with a vast swathe of bright green Black Rolypoly....on every inch of the place! How could there be a seed on every square inch I ask you?? Totally inedible and nasty stuff. So the stock we had here for a while have left again to agistment. This last wet season failed totally for us again. Our fifth Feb-March with no rainfall, unbelievable. As for the cows....they are still all away. The feed ran out at Injune and Muckadilla and we parcelled them all up and shifted them to various places further north and closer to home which had fared better than us. We currently have them on 6 properties and looking for more....agistment is scarce as hen's teeth. None of the agistment will last through the winter so we are starting to stockpile hay and have contracted cottonseed ready to bring them home and feed them. Selling them still doesn't seem to be an option for hubby and our son. Our Winton place is also dry this year and some of those cows are agisted. We are going to feed the rest apparently! With all this cattle shifting and craziness, I've been very busy, here there and everywhere! I just put my bike on and go, sometimes at 4 in the morning. On the bright side, we received great prices for the steers and heifers we've sold. Just amazing money and we hope it lasts a bit longer! We've sold quite a few through Roma and some at Blackall. Charolais always sell well at those sales. All the family is well, my mum is ok and there have been no more additions to the family! Because our house dam was filled, in November we hopped in and re-did half of our garden. This was a huge effort by hubby as the soil had to be prepared, even though we had it all covered with a heavy layer of mulch and gypsum. We scraped that off and bought a couple of big loads of soil and barrowed it all through. Hubby created a nice area of rock garden and paths and we bought in turf from Emerald to create instant lawn. All expensive but worth it and it was ok to spend some money on ourselves for a change! Our succession of lovely caretakers had done their best of keep the house nice inside and we will keep in touch with most of those kind folk. Would love to hear what everyone has been up to and will read through some of the Board posts in due course! [/QUOTE]
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