Yesterday morning we took Liquorice over to the neighbours, where there is more grass than we have for now, and I must say that he is not very impressed. Even though there are eight other steers in the same large paddock, he is being a baby and missing his mum, but at 10 months old [...]
We have started slowly the process of weaning Liquorice and drying off Sweetie Pye before she has her next calf in January. She didn’t need to be dry until november, but with Daisy having calved we didn’t need the milk so decided to just take it slowly and dry her off slowly.
All was going well, [...]
Its been awhile since I have written, as there hasn’t seemed to be anything that stands out to write about. That isn’t to say that we have not been doing anything, but just life been going through one of those times when it just chugs on, while you seem to just do the same things [...]
On Wednesday, my beautiful horse Graphic was returned to me, as she has been out on lease, supposedly until October. I am not unhappy to have her back and had a lovely ride to reintroduce her back home.
She went really well, although my legs are reminding me that it was my first ride in six [...]
Yesterday it was time to move the older lambs – they had been in their paddock for a few weeks now. Mum and daughter had attempted this earlier in the week, but with the long grass around the gates, the lambs were reluctant to go where they were told. This resulted in five lambs in [...]
After several days of reasonable weather and not much rain about, we decided it was about time to water the orchard from the tanks and fix all the waterers I’ve run over with the mower over the last few months.
It wasn’t too bad a job – mostly just tedious and wet (as I remove existing [...]
Today we had our fourth late lamb born for the year – this girl brings the mix to two boys and two girls. We are now waiting on just one or two more of the ewes to lamb late.
This is an online diary for our little farmlet. Situated in Northland we are the proud owners of 13 acres (approx), complete with chooks (hens, roosters, and chicks), horses, cows, sheep, pigs, dog, cats, budgies, and the orchard.