Well, we are half way through January now , and the weather this winter has really been exceptionally kind , if you discount a couple of extremely windy days. Worth remembering though that the Winter still has a good few weeks to run its course so best to stay on the wrapped up side of things, as these two young trendy girls are demonstrating. Blue is just SO their colour.
I am using these jackets to keep the calves just that little bit warmer and hopefully the will convert their food into growth more than just trying to stay warm.
The two "glamour" girls are the newest members to the Chloanne herd.
Chloanne Twist Gracious is out of Chloanne Moscow Gracious and is by Cogent Twist.
She was born on the 6th January.
Close behind her , being born on the 8th January is Chloanne Doberman Gracious, out of Chloanne Goldwyn Gracious 2, and sired by Coppertop Doberman.
It is unreal the amount of grass that grew last year , and also the amount of grass that was still in the fields after the cows had grazed them . We have been wintering sheep for the last month and they will stay here till the end of January. They really do have their work cut out for them , as there is acres of the green stuff to get through. Another few weeks and we shall be looking towards this years grazing and before you know it the fields will be getting rolled etc etc.
The cows are milking fairly well with some of the fresh calvers now up to the dizzy heights of 55 ltrs/day. Always great to see cows doing yields like that effortlessly.
Cow fertility too, has been on the up side lately, hopefully as a result of the feeding they get . We have some good pregnancies lined up for through the year , to bulls like Ralma Gold Crown, Hydaways Goldmine, Chloanne Lowick, Bomaz Marion Emerald, Regancrest Clinton, Coldsprings Garner and some young bulls too.
