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<blockquote data-quote="jilleroo" data-source="post: 892281" data-attributes="member: 8192"><p>Wish I was in Waikiki too, Diana! Would love to be doing what you're doing - enjoy looking at all those beautiful black cattle.</p><p>I've heard of Coors - I used to get a Western art mag from the States. Now I get Western Horseman - its way cheaper to order it from over there than buy it at the newsagents. They had a special deal for the mag's 75 years - $1.50 an issue plus freight, a bargain, so I got two years worth. There's a painting on most covers and always some nice light reading inside. I wonder if many people in the states get our Outback mag?</p><p></p><p>Three day sickness has struck. 44 degrees celsius again today. Have carted water to a couple but they're still too sick to drink.</p><p>Pulled a calf at lunchtime. So hot for the little heifer, just pulled it out to save her the effort. Crows were perched on her back, a grim scene in the extreme heat! Both are doing okay now, just checked them.</p><p></p><p>Our calved heifers are in a paddock somewhere between 3-4000 acres, maybe more, not sure. There is a beautiful big full dam on the creek, surrounded by large shady coolibahs. The dam's backwater is also full - this also has plenty of coolibahs and, indeed, the whole creek which runs the length of the paddock is lined with coolibahs. Where do the bulk of the heifers and calves water?? On a little borewater trough which has a couple of straggly whitewoods near it. They cross the creek to get to it. They jostle and push to get into the sparse bit of shade and some of the black calves have their tongues hanging out today. Yesterday I had to bike some of the youngest calves into shade. This is nothing new - whatever cattle we have in that paddock always shun the dam for the trough. Except the char stud cows - those girls luxuriate in the dam and trees! Tomorrow we're going to go out at daylight to try and muster the bulk of the heifers down the creek and hope they head into the dam. Charolais calves are very heat tolerant but the baby brangus are not.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jilleroo, post: 892281, member: 8192"] Wish I was in Waikiki too, Diana! Would love to be doing what you're doing - enjoy looking at all those beautiful black cattle. I've heard of Coors - I used to get a Western art mag from the States. Now I get Western Horseman - its way cheaper to order it from over there than buy it at the newsagents. They had a special deal for the mag's 75 years - $1.50 an issue plus freight, a bargain, so I got two years worth. There's a painting on most covers and always some nice light reading inside. I wonder if many people in the states get our Outback mag? Three day sickness has struck. 44 degrees celsius again today. Have carted water to a couple but they're still too sick to drink. Pulled a calf at lunchtime. So hot for the little heifer, just pulled it out to save her the effort. Crows were perched on her back, a grim scene in the extreme heat! Both are doing okay now, just checked them. Our calved heifers are in a paddock somewhere between 3-4000 acres, maybe more, not sure. There is a beautiful big full dam on the creek, surrounded by large shady coolibahs. The dam's backwater is also full - this also has plenty of coolibahs and, indeed, the whole creek which runs the length of the paddock is lined with coolibahs. Where do the bulk of the heifers and calves water?? On a little borewater trough which has a couple of straggly whitewoods near it. They cross the creek to get to it. They jostle and push to get into the sparse bit of shade and some of the black calves have their tongues hanging out today. Yesterday I had to bike some of the youngest calves into shade. This is nothing new - whatever cattle we have in that paddock always shun the dam for the trough. Except the char stud cows - those girls luxuriate in the dam and trees! Tomorrow we're going to go out at daylight to try and muster the bulk of the heifers down the creek and hope they head into the dam. Charolais calves are very heat tolerant but the baby brangus are not. [/QUOTE]
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