Tuesday, 5 May 2020

Up early again - preg. testing the herd so need to get them in the yards and draft them before Mark and Bronwyn arrive to do the job. Late yesterday we added another dimension to the day’s work. After getting the herd in we would hold heifers and steers in the yards and neighbour Kevin arranged for his agent to come and look at them with a view to selling them on line which we have not done before. As the agent, Hayden, had the scales and camera with him we decided we had enough time to weigh and video them and they will be on ‘Auctions Plus’ tomorrow - decision made and done - all by 10.30 in time for the Preg testing.

Let the heifers and steers into the bull paddock and then herded the cows into the yards. Rob Erskine came down to help as did Darren who bought the Hidden Valley block. Kevin and Hayden stayed on so we had oodles of help - in fact Mark commented at one point he thought we had more helpers than cattle. Job done quickly (all cows pregnant) and then back home for morning tea break on the verandah.

Quieter afternoon recovering from chasing those cattle first thing. Just finished an early tea when a truck arrived with a huge, heavy compressor on the tray. Went over to assist with headlights in the dark so he didn’t get bogged. The compressor will drive the drilling rig for the new bore at the cottage. All good. Hopefully they will be drilling the bore before the end of the week. Pics tomorrow.Read more