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Vagabond Highlands Cattle

Our very own little piece of paradise with our coos in SE Qld www.vagabondhighlands.com.au

31/10/2026

Haylee welcomed her 2nd calf for the season… a tiny little bull calf. Diamond is being a great mum under the watchful eye of Donkey. Congratulations Haylee (and Diamond and Peter Pan). She’s have to come up with a halloween name now 🥰

29/10/2026

A bit of an education post tonight. Highlands can loose parts of the outer area of their horns in extreme weather including flooding. Infact, you’ll see rings on older cows horns that relate to every stressful event (ie winter drought, flood, illness etc). Its often how I roughly tell how old they are. This is an example on Mikey, it doesn’t hurt them, its just how it is and they recover just fine.

27/10/2026

Haylee has started her external exams … but last week they had a bit of fun. The year 12 students did spirit week. Each day they dressed up as something different. Monday was celebrity or character, Tuesday was come dressed as your future career (Haylee pictured below as a vet), Wednesday was ‘anything but a bag’ (one of the students brought a kayak to school instead of a school bag 🤣), Thursday was come in your primary school uniform and Friday was come as your favourite teacher. It was so great to see how creative her outfits were 🥰 who else knows a year 12 student, did they do spirit week too?

26/10/2026

All this beautiful grass and the babies decided to sit on the mud pile. The mummas are less than impressed.

25/10/2026

We had 31mls in an hour this afternoon. Our dams went from nearly empty to almost full 🥳
As the downpour was in daylight, I was able to see how our new earthworks performed…. I’m so impressed by how well the new pipe under rhe track did! I also think I’ll need to run a little chanel about 50m out from the new dam as the inlet is higher than what the water level was. Bring on the sunshine so all this beautiful grass can grow 🤠 so wonderful

24/10/2026

We’re keeping a close eye on our Bonnie at home with us. She had tickfever earlier in the year and thankfully did recover. After the attotted time post Imodox, she’s had the vaccine and is now in the active watch stage.

23/10/2026

Its a bit of a stressful and exciting time coming up….. In the next 5 weeks I have 7 and Haylee had 3 cows due to calf. This includes one of my old girls Ginger 🥰

22/10/2026

We’re all ‘dancing in the rain’ excited about all this beautiful wet stuff falling from the sky. 38mls of soaking in rain with more to come!! Well, donkey’s not so excited, he opened up the gate to Haylee’s farm visit area and let himself in so he could stay dry 🤣

21/10/2026

Picture perfect. Dan dan infront of Haylee’s ute. He stands there every afternoon waiting for his 4pm feed justlike he did before he went to the Ekka.

20/10/2026

I’m not sure why but this week seems to be the week to get your head stuck. First we had a weaner with her head stuck in a hay feeder. Then I have no idea how but Peter Pan got his head through the rails of a steel gate. Turns out the neighbours cows were along the creek on the other side of the railway line and being a bull he decided that instead of going through a barbed wire fence, he’d try and go through a metal gate instead. Lucky I had Haylee with me to get him out. I needed all her physics knowledge on angles and pressure to maneuver his horns and massive head which were clearly way bigger than the space between the bars. Lucky he’s so quiet he just let us do it.

Address

Calvert Near Rosewood
Ipswich, QLD
4340

Website

http://www.vagabondhighlands.com.au/

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