Banal .. Open to any topic on and off topics etc

[Helen Grose]

Hi Janelle and everyone else
All the breads they are mostly beef cattle is that right I grew up on a dairy farm very different to beef farming it sounds interesting i dont think the land ever leaves your blood Mind you been so many years i have forgotten more than i learnt
Is it dry where you are take care
Helen the fat fingered boring one hehehe

[GoinBush]

Hi Helen, yes beef. We are in the Eastern Desert of NT. I have worked on dairy farms too. Lovely critters dairy cows.

[GoinBush]

Hi Helen,

I have since found out they run about 25,000 head.They brand about 10,000 calves a year. Usually by themselves as noone wants to work, an amazing, hard working young couple who love country and cattle.

[bob r]

Gee Janelle that would be a big job for two people do they cut the bull calf's or ring them?
Wouldn't matter still a big job just the 10,000 implants ear tags ear marking and inoculation and a maybe drench
A bloody long time in the yards.

Bob

[GoinBush]

Hi Bob,

No drenching up here, too hot for parasites, all organic...not that you can call it that without certification.

They cut the bull calves and ear tag/ear mark and brand.

This is as well as bullock mustering, drafting and trucking from the five stations they have.

They are totally amazing and bloody nice people to go with it.

[bob r]

Evening Janelle that's why I said maybe drench do they implant up there?
And inoculated ....how long does it take them to do 10.000 calf's ?

Bob

[Lance]

So is that place run by only hubby & wifey
No full time helpers at all ?

[GoinBush]

Bob, yes you did say maybe drench, sorry. I don’t know about implants, what are they for? No innoculations, no diseases. Tennant Creek north maybe?
Don’t know how long it takes over the year. Sorry, not much use am I? Are you a farmer yourself?

Lance, they have occasional help and two awesome teenage kids but they are away at school most of the year.
How are you down in sunny Wantirna?

[Lance]

We're good down here Janelle, probably a tad cooler than you, but good all the same.
Getting a bit excited about the Blackwood Music Festival over the weekend, gonna be a bit of fun amongst all the aged hippies

[Dot]

Hope you have your weed all packed as all good old hippies do