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<blockquote data-quote="waihou" data-source="post: 1381135" data-attributes="member: 6511"><p>HDRider, Idyllic weather in NZ? </p><p>I don't think so-Regolith will vouch for that. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> </p><p> Less extreme than some places may be more descriptive. We are currently having the wettest November for years, nearly 8 inches, with temperatures not above 20C, but other places have reached 33C this week-not a 2 hour drive from here. Granted we don't often get snow here in winter, well only ever 20 to 30 years, just an inch or 2 for 24 hours-but places further south, in the South Island, expect snow every year and there is good skiing on the mountains. We don't get many frosts just here and it never gets really hot, like Australian hot, but we should see summers in mid 20's. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> </p><p></p><p>You probably haven't heard the news that parts of NZ experienced a 7.8 earthquake on Nov 14th and a small town on the East coast has only just had a road reopened to access it, as it has been cut off except by sea or helicopter for 10 days and several high rise buildings in our capital city, Wellington will have to be demolished due to cracks, including relatively new buildings. We felt the quake here, it was like riding a dinghy on a rough sea! Always something mother nature can fling at you!</p><p></p><p>Yes they are Murray Greys. We calve July /August /Sept, so that bull calves we sell at 14 months are ready and able to work in dairy herds when mating starts for them October onwards. They are usually used as a follow up to an AI programme.</p><p>Not sure of Steamrollers frame size but I expect he would be about a FS 6. Most of our cows are pretty large, maybe 700 to 800 kgs.</p><p>Mid winter (July ) mud feeding baleage (baled silage) to the cows pre calving.</p><p> <a href="https://postimg.org/image/j216r1j0b/" target="_blank"><img src="https://s17.postimg.org/j216r1j0b/IMG_7029.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>Home bred bull currently out with the heifers, by Aussie sire Wallawong Under the Radar 570 kgs at 445 days, gain of 1.3kgs (2.86lbs) per day since birth, over winter-no hard feed-just grass and hay.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://postimg.org/image/l3v1naj8p/" target="_blank"><img src="https://s12.postimg.org/l3v1naj8p/IMG_0840.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p> Another home bred bull who weighed 670kgs (1477lbs) at 439days (by same sire) same feeding regime-grass in various forms! We have mated him to some mature cows as his birth weight is a bit extreme for heifers! His weight gain to that age was 1.5kgs/day, pictured on 10th October.</p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="https://postimg.org/image/urlaqaeb7/" target="_blank"><img src="https://s21.postimg.org/urlaqaeb7/IMG_7472_445.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="waihou, post: 1381135, member: 6511"] HDRider, Idyllic weather in NZ? I don't think so-Regolith will vouch for that. :D Less extreme than some places may be more descriptive. We are currently having the wettest November for years, nearly 8 inches, with temperatures not above 20C, but other places have reached 33C this week-not a 2 hour drive from here. Granted we don't often get snow here in winter, well only ever 20 to 30 years, just an inch or 2 for 24 hours-but places further south, in the South Island, expect snow every year and there is good skiing on the mountains. We don't get many frosts just here and it never gets really hot, like Australian hot, but we should see summers in mid 20's. :D You probably haven't heard the news that parts of NZ experienced a 7.8 earthquake on Nov 14th and a small town on the East coast has only just had a road reopened to access it, as it has been cut off except by sea or helicopter for 10 days and several high rise buildings in our capital city, Wellington will have to be demolished due to cracks, including relatively new buildings. We felt the quake here, it was like riding a dinghy on a rough sea! Always something mother nature can fling at you! Yes they are Murray Greys. We calve July /August /Sept, so that bull calves we sell at 14 months are ready and able to work in dairy herds when mating starts for them October onwards. They are usually used as a follow up to an AI programme. Not sure of Steamrollers frame size but I expect he would be about a FS 6. Most of our cows are pretty large, maybe 700 to 800 kgs. Mid winter (July ) mud feeding baleage (baled silage) to the cows pre calving. [url=https://postimg.org/image/j216r1j0b/][img]https://s17.postimg.org/j216r1j0b/IMG_7029.jpg[/img][/url] Home bred bull currently out with the heifers, by Aussie sire Wallawong Under the Radar 570 kgs at 445 days, gain of 1.3kgs (2.86lbs) per day since birth, over winter-no hard feed-just grass and hay. [url=https://postimg.org/image/l3v1naj8p/][img]https://s12.postimg.org/l3v1naj8p/IMG_0840.jpg[/img][/url] Another home bred bull who weighed 670kgs (1477lbs) at 439days (by same sire) same feeding regime-grass in various forms! We have mated him to some mature cows as his birth weight is a bit extreme for heifers! His weight gain to that age was 1.5kgs/day, pictured on 10th October. [url=https://postimg.org/image/urlaqaeb7/][img]https://s21.postimg.org/urlaqaeb7/IMG_7472_445.jpg[/img][/url] [/QUOTE]
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