Thursday, September 18, 2008

Finding his feet

The calf is doing great, had a quick cuddle this morning and it looks good, full tummy and mum is still looking after him well. He is pretty steady on his legs now has even had a few runs around, managed to fall over, which was hilarious (he didn't think so, looked very sheepish about it all).
He had a sniff through the fence with his aunts and uncles and they are mildly interested but not been bugging him at all. Mind you he seemed to spend most of yesterday snoozing in the sun. Today has been a bit showery but he's been hanging out under the trees a lot. His mum is loving all the grass and we'll start her on some pellets today too, to help her out a bit. We're pretty low on hay now but she is first priority (am sure the ponies won't be impressed to hear that).

Will move the rest of the mob into a new bit of paddock today or tomorrow, they have been in the same one for about ten days now and am surprised it's lasted that long. Red (funnily enough she is the red one) is looking good although the three Murray Grey steers could do with a bit more cover over their backsides. Having said that Red is the greediest, noisiest and first to complain if they are low on feed.

Ben planted some cucumbers yesterday and had a nice bit of rain overnight for them. Still seems to be hard to find seedlings anywhere though, bit nuts really.

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