Showing posts with label cattle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cattle. Show all posts

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Weekend Work.

A week of school and learning, and then time to get out and get dirty.

There are more cattle to scan, a busy day in the cattle yards.
Lots of noise as calves call for their mothers, gates open and shut, and motorbikes move.

Dad and PopPop work the cattle in the yards, I watch everything going on with my baby doll Annabelle!


My job starts when the man has finished a mob. We will take the mob back to the paddock. One of my aunties has come home to help, so I am going to ride with her.
Mum will be on her own.
A big job for a Saturday morning, but by lunchtime all the cows and calves are back in the paddocks and happy.

PopPop is also happy. Nearly all his cows are going to have baby calves in August.

All hands on deck Sunday, a beautiful morning for blackberry picking!

Dad is very clever at finding things to do, so on the way home from picking blackberries, we do a little bit of fencing.
Dad says many hands make light work so we ALL get busy!

Down with the OLD....


and UP with the NEW


It will be so much better, it will keep the sheep and cows in the right paddock.
AND maybe even keep the kangaroos out too!


My job is to pick up all the old timber posts, then Mum will drive along and pick them up, they will make good firewood.


Dad says we have done really well...and thanks us for our help.

Teamwork!

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Fat and Finished!

Weigh in time....some of PopPop's steers are fat and finished and ready for sale.


All the steers need to have special ear tags put in, so the buyers know which farm they came from.
My job is to load the tagging gun.


Dad checks their teeth to make sure they still have their baby teeth.
They don't look much like babies anymore.


Look at the size of that BUTT, he is really FAT!


When my job is done, I find something that is even better FUN.....

MUD PIES!

Mum and I went to the cattle sale to see PopPop's steers sold.
PopPop would really like $2.00/kg for them, fingers crossed..................


 
As we leave the sale yards the big trucks start rolling in to truck the cattle away....I wonder where PopPop's steers will go?










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