Farm Diary
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Farm Diary |
17th Annual Sale Friday 27th May 2011 on property 2.30 a.m. 24 Rising 2 year Bulls
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17 April |
Semen tested the bulls for quality, and checked the equipment for any sign of disfunction. |
8 April |
Weaned the last mob of calves, 160 off the hill - they have run out of feed there in the last week. Nice fleshy type calves - good to view the SRR Bandolier 2446 calves performed up there with our NZ bulls - not sure about the temper of his daughters, who jumped a bit in the crush. |
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7 April |
Client topped the 2nd Gore calf sale today with a nice line of steers by a Kowai Dateline son. |
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26 March |
Finally cut and chopped 100acres of grass and barley/grass for silage pads for cows and R2 heifers - days have been overcast with rain predicted that didn't arrive till just after the cover was on the second pad. Volume is down on what we hoped for so will hope for a mild winter. |
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23 March |
Client topped the West Otago calf sale with his steers and his heifers later in the sale topped the steers! |
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23 March |
Scanned the bull sale prospects and the replacement heifers for EMA and IMF%- research is now suggesting that the IMF visible in a scan doesn't well represent the true marbling visible in a cold cut of meat, but our scanner is predicting which females will be easier doing in the winter - something we need to be mindful of for given where and how our bulls progeny winter. |
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17 January |
Today
the silage was chopped for the yearling |
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28 November |
Sorted the yearling heifers to go in individual mobs with 4 yearling bulls:- Kowai Intrepid 697; Kowai Trend 631; Kowai Meridian 468 and Kowai Meridian 779. |
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25 November |
Stern 608 put out with the 2 year old heifers. |
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24 November |
Started sorting cows for mating - the late calvers are going straight to Fossil Creek Update and Kowai JD 552, whilst a selected group of about 100 will be AI'd as they cycle. We use the self adhesive scratch and wins and check the cows three times a day, with AI usually happening twice a day. Last year struck 80%. This is also when we take samples from calves to verify their sire, as experience has proven that a calf 5 days late to AI can actually be by the followup bull, and that calves to AI can be 15 days overdue. |
Wendon Valley, 3 R.D. Gore, NZ |
E-mail:bulls@kowai-angus.co.nz |
Ph: 64 03 2072895 |
heifer pit.
Will use the heifers and two year olds to clean up the fence
lines then shut the paddocks up again for another cut of silage
the beginning of March.