06/08/2024
This occasion marks 5 years, of onna the biggest MOOves we'll ever make/mAche!
Great thanks to Lucy McEachern, for our longtime love 'n cattle connection -it's been a very special (and altogether challenging) chapter/s, with few dull moments (MOOments, too), yet before us! We are rooting for your every further success, Luc! ♡♡
*Pictured are some 'Spring-Spring Run' beauties, only two days after we brought our collective herds off the big trucks, 'n through the bush, following from the Great Ocean Road.
The new neighbours gave permission (plus sideways glances), knowing that these, mostly once-before sighted beasts, if they were their own 'blacks' -would have little chance of being adequately herded, the few kms onto our Forever FARm, but alas, the Southern-OtWAYians were WAY dumfounded, when the Hereford's signature temperaments kicked in ('n not much udder kicking nor fussing occured), and all but one came along 'n through the cut fence, as though we'd done it, plenty times before! It was TOO EASY!! ♡♡
We managed, Ryan Spykers and I, plus my brUdder 'n 1 ute (as far as the ute could go -then solemn footwork was in order!). Oh, the things we have MANaged, without recources/reSOREces, much, but for ALL the blind belief, grit 'n workaBull Cows!!!
We've made further inroads, with our breeding, in this time, and will be eager to share over the next couple of years and beyond. The McEachern bloodlines, have had no insignificant influence, being a pArt of our story, journey, since the 1960's.
Did I mention, that the name 'River Recede' was settled on, years before any of our own land, let alone w. river-frontage, had been settled -it's serendipity of the most satisfying degree, if you'll believe it..check out the 'River Recede' in the background of this vid -that's 70+ acres of backwater, that fluctuates throughout the year, here.
The River does rise and recede, while our Love does not, not for the land, nor for the cattle!
What udder breed, could be managed, on tiny agistment blocks (7), across 50km of drought-stricken diStrict, where half of the locations, didn't even have yards? Withtout any dog, bike, TRACTOR? We saved THOUSANDS upon thousands of dollars, upon the (fat) backs of these docile red 'n whites, and the $$ in this land, continues to grow. I've been at it, for decades, without any injury nor close-call, 'n if that's not money, an all-round approach that makes the biggest SENSE (let alone cents/kg), then we're the silly sausages, indeed!
Speaking of sense/$, well I've not had to invest in any Psychologist, over the years, and pArtly, perhaps, that the cows have always been welcoming and comforting, where I can enjoy them, pet many of them, in the paddock (MOOditation), as in the yards, and at calving time, there would be 5% of our herd, perhaps, that you have to give special space to, allowing for some bubbling Mummy-sensitivity, which is fair enough 'n very doaBull! These are not show-cattle. These are not pampered w. feed. These ARE timeless quality! Herefords!
Herefords -Herefords -Herefords!!! ♡♡♡
Ok, Imout!
Miri xo
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