Father's Day 2020

Very frosty this morning. As is often the case after a frosty start, it was a lovely sunny day.
With two calves to feed, and one mother cow in with one of them at the moment, it's a two person job. Janette has decided to call this calf Omen (Nemo backwards). Nemo comes to the bottle, but Omen doesn't yet. She has to be cornered first and the bottle put to her. Once she realises that it's food, she feeds well. Before doing this, mum needs to be out of the way.
After her bottle, she suckles on mum but I'm sure mum has no milk.
Spent the day on fencing. Thirty-five steel posts knocked in along my 'string line' made of barbed wire. Eventually that wire will be the bottom wire of the fence. Ran the two top wires on the two sections of this job. You do a lot of walking when fencing. I must have walked the 150 metres ten times at the same time carrying steel posts, driving posts, pulling wire etc.
So often, one job leads to another. This job is no exception. This new fence has formed an area near the double gates where the animals are getting 'trapped' and need to be driven back to the gateway further back along the fence. The solution is to put a little gate in the spot where they get trapped and wait for someone to open the gate that isn't there yet.
One of Janette's favourite sayings is, “you can't have too many gates.”Read more