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30/08/2026

Our cows. Chewing through hay like it is going out of fashion and enjoy every little barely sprout on offer.
They should begin to calve down towards the end of September, early October. We scored 13mm of rain earlier in the week, and the green tinge is appearing. Temperatures are to be 30 plus by the weekend, so the green will burn off just as quickly. We can only cross our fingers that more rain is on the horizon as some weather pages suggest rather than the dreaded El Nino other pages and the BOM suggest.
Wherever you are and whatever you are doing this week, enjoy and stay safe.

23/08/2026

SOLD.

Not Lowlines, but our dorper/droper cross mob of 8 mixed aged Ewes and Ram (Willis) are looking for a new place to call home.
Lambs and wethers are not for sale.
All ewes have lambed or are in lamb to Willis.
Quiet and easy to handle. Due to the wild dogs around, they are locked up every night. Wormed with Q-Drench in July.
Pic number required. $1200.00 for the lot.
We are changing our direction with sheep and would like to find these girls and boy a new home first.

22/08/2026

Today, we delivered the last of our weaner heifers we had for sale. They have gone to a lovely home with some older Lowline cows.

19/08/2026

The added extras when buying hay. Not toxic, and stock won't eat because of the smell of the plant, but it can cause injury or death in an animal if the claws get stuck in or around the mouth. Particularly, sheep (Merinos)it is get stuck in the wool on their face.

15/08/2026

Friday was grocery shopping day.....

Just the usual feeding out of hay and lick this weekend.

Have a good one, everyone.

09/08/2026

Cuteness and genetics sometimes just don't cut it. And neither does structural incorrectness. We had said we would castrate this red calf from the day he was born. We did, however, give him a chance as he looked promising and had hoped that our one and only show for 2026 (Gatton) he would have been shown. Although wrist surgery recovery is still ongoing, and it turns out this red calf had structural issues. So, the only prepping he had was the lining up a vet appointment.
Can the issue be picked up by our experienced breeders in the short clip? It is hard to see. But the issue can be seen.
You will need to excuse his bad hair day. His winter coat is not doing him justice in looks.....promise he is Lowline and not Highland.

**any of our bulls moving forward will only be used for our own use. Not stud leased or sold.

07/08/2026

A few months ago, we castrated the baby bulls. During this castration process, one bull only had one testicle down to remove. The other could not be felt at the time to try and manipulate down for removal. And subsequently forgotten about. Fast forward to a few weeks ago, while walking the weaners back to their paddock, one of the steers began to misbehave. Trying to work out why, as this particular steer was always quiet to work with. It was soon discovered he was not really a steer. His missing testicle had dropped. Explaining why he was beginning to act, not his usual casual self.
Well, today, he, the black one, had a date with the vet. As did the red one. More to come, on of why the decision was made to cut the red one too.
Also, another reason why we use a scalpel to castrate and not band.

05/08/2026

Now that the steers have gone, the cows enjoyed their first taste of fodder.....the equivalent of 24 hoover vacuum cleaners....

01/08/2026

Little bit of cattle work today. Weaner steers were tick fever vaccinated. The older steers were tagged and ready for the truck on Tuesday.
And the heifers, well, they were under the microscope again today to make sure they are worthy contenders for the breeding paddock. There are a couple that are not ticking the boxes, but they are growing at what we call the ugly, gangly teenage stage and they are a few months younger than the older heifers. So, back out the paddock to be left for a few months before bring back in for the final box ticking.
And in the distance, this afternoon was a sneaky shower was seen when putting out the lick.

26/07/2026

Where are the months going? Didn't July only just start? How can this be the last week of July?

Winter here on the darling downs has been very mild (touch wood, it stays that way, not a winter fan) and extremely dry. Only a couple of frosts, but it is so dry here that the frost doesn't really set.
So, there hasn't been a lot happening here in the way of cattle interactions apart from feeding out and topping up the lick troughs. The long-range forecast has been mentioning the dreaded El Nino coming, but to be honest, we have been in drought since the end of March. We had a few scuds go over, which dropped a few mm here and there. Nothing to rush to the rain gauge to measure. Our landscape is lacking the paddocks of beautiful wheat and barley crops of winter cereals and the paddock of lush green oats.
Hay is hard to source now, it will be very hard in the coming months if the spring and summer rain does not come. Not to mention expensive.

Enjoy your week, everyone! It will be Sunday again before you know it.

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