Well, I think I am going to have to write down what we did each day, when you string 14 of them together and try and recall what you did it is a bit difficult.
We (the royal we, meaning Lindsay) brought the rams, ewes and lambs into the yards. The Rams were drafted off and taken to the ram paddock – they have done their job for now and will get a rest for about 5 months. We had some friends come and help with the marking and tail removal of the lambs we have 179 ewe lambs and 160 ram lambs that were made into wethers – oops best not forget our 2 little bottle-fed ones – one ewe and one ram.
Lindsay has been using our hard hose boom irrigator to water where we planted the lucerne – he is concerned about not having a good strike rate (it appears not much lucerne has come up) time will tell very soon. It is very disappointing to purchase good quality seed, spend time and money to plant the seed and then spend money on electricity to water the crop to have nothing come up! Not only is it disappointing it is a costly exercise with the seed costing just under $900, I am waiting for the electricity bill, and I have not figured how much the fuel was. So we take another breathe and keep going!
Offset paddock 5 in preparation to plant Maxa millet.
Chisel plowed the balance of paddock 2 may plant soya beans here.
We try and grow all our own fodder for the animals, as part of our business plan we do not plant crops that cannot be fed off at any stage of its grown to the sheep. There are certain plants (grain sorghum) that can be poisonous to animals if the plant is stressed or fed off at the wrong time in its life cycle.
The usual trips to take the sheep to be slaughtered and then across to the butcher for processing, then our trips to Pomona and Caboolture for the markets on the weekend.
Lindsay often goes off to help our neighbours unfortunately there have been a number of feral dog attacks recently and Lindsay will go out at nighttime if our dogs are barking.
Jack (our son) has been business with his Bimbury Design business etching our livestock tags (NLIS tags, with our PIC (property Identification code) this assists with traceability of livestock within Australia) currently our tags for sheep are not required to be electronic, so the tags represent the year of birth (by the colour of the tag, this year is black) if the animal is a boy it goes in his left ear and girls go in their right. As we lamb twice a year the first lambing get one tag and the second lambing get 2. This enables us to tell at a glance if the animal is male or female, what year it was born and what time of the year it was born.
Bimbury Laamb 