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  • Not so many bulls about farms these days

    Not so many bulls about farms these days, particularly the dairy herds. Before the advent of Artificial Insemination, you often reared a bull calf out of one of your own best cows, the resultant heifers coming into your herd and completing their first lactation, would be very hit and miss. Also you had...
    Posted to Owd Fred's Blog (Weblog) by Owd Fred on Sat, Oct 29 2011

  • Carting & cutting Kale 65 years ago with the cowman

    This was tale about what happened to my brother and I when I was 9 years old and my brother just over 6years . I was just old enough to work helping the then cowman Philip to load kale for the cows, a job he did every afternoon ready for the following days feeding. Philip had a tremendous scramble to...
    Posted to Owd Fred's Blog (Weblog) by Owd Fred on Thu, Oct 27 2011

  • Lost a Cow

    A sad end to a good old cow who had produced a calf every year of her productive life. Every now and then you loose a cow, and in my life time in farming three such cases will stick in my mind forever, one of which died a few days ago. The very earliest one was when I was at home, and when the cows were...
    Posted to Owd Fred's Blog (Weblog) by Owd Fred on Sat, Apr 16 2011

  • The Persistent Escapee (cow)

    I remember father counting, cattle each and every day, He counts and looks at every one, to see they're all OK, A cow that persistently gets out, gets better at it, she learns to jump or hop over slack wire, learns to push rails down and push at the legs of electric fence posts, and push through...
    Posted to Owd Fred's Blog (Weblog) by Owd Fred on Mon, Dec 13 2010

  • Dairy Cows of Old

    Milked by hand some cows had teats almost as thick as your wrist , with front teats sticking out "east west". Dairy cows of old, bore little resemblance to the diary cows of today. Back in the 40's every herd had its own bull often reared out of one of your own cows, served by a neighbours...
    Posted to Owd Fred's Blog (Weblog) by Owd Fred on Fri, Jan 22 2010
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