Work
OK, so I'm a little busy, so this will be fairly short. Shit, I've wasted time typing that already. Oops, did it again. Anyway, some of you may remember that talked Da Boss into taking a gamble and planting a couple of paddocks into moisture on the off chance that we may get enough water to irrigate them. Well, two (count 'em, two!) days before we either had to plough them in or pay the licence fee for using the genetic material, we got news from Sunwater that we would be able to pump 800megs out of the river, starting in a week. In an average year, this would be just enough to water the extra paddocks. In an ordinary year. Unfortunately this season has been hotter than (Insert unobtainable object of desire here), which means that we'll probably be one water short. Still a profitable gamble, though. And who get's the credit for it? Da Boss, of course. Oh well.
In other work related stuff, we must have set something of a local record the other day when three neighbours and I pulled down and cleared away 1.3k's of fenceline and erected a brandspanker in its place - before lunch. Pretty good, huh? Impressed? I was.
Remember the widdle baa lambs? They've gone, but the ewes remain, being supplementary fed.
It's been so dry around here that Da Boss has been shopping around for a lease block in adjoining districts so that he can de-stock this place altogether and use the lease block for feedlot backgrounding.
Speaking of the feedlot, guess what I have to do this morning? Give up? Ok. I have to go up and draft off a couple of steers who have swollen dicks, give them each a few injections and..., here comes the good part..., rub some ointment on the swollen parts.
And you thought that city folks have all the fun.
posted by Dirk at 1:57 am
13 Comments:
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The poor chappies... bet you'd be glad for a little medical intervention if you had an infected foreskin (I assume that's the problem? Hayseed in the sheath? For them, I mean, not you. Or maybe you too. Whooooo knows.)
1.3km of fence? Three strains? Not a bad effort. Steel fence pegs for intermediate posts? How far apart? Etc etc.
Better you than me Dirk...
Rat,
yup.
Adie,
yup. Also, they're steers, dunno if they can get stiffies. Or maybe I'm just not very good at it.
Hooch,
it's a reaction to the change in diet and the hormones they are given when they are inducted into the feedlot. Doesn't happen very often (less than 0.5%)
Steve,
SIX strains, top two barb, the rest plain. They used to be sheep farmers and I think that maybe old habits die hard. The end assembly was made out of bore casing and there were two more bore casing strainers in the middle section. The other end assembly was a gum tree. Steelies every ten paces. Marvellous what you can do with a D6, a grader and a tractor with a hydraulic post rammer, huh?
Ranger,
dunno about that...
Dirk's playing with cow pee-pees!
I appreciate your comment my dear, however I find I'm running shorter & shorter on patience!
Cant,
umm, not quite cows pee-pees.
Atari,
speaking of deceased fish, my Barcoo Grunter, of Yellow belly vanquishing fame has shuffled off this mortal coil. I think the heat got to him. Ah well, back to badger baiting, I guess.
P.S. Atari,
I don't know how to say this, but..., this month's Cleo has some really good makeover tips.
goin fine thanks Atari. been giggling quietly at my desk with your "hooray for everything" week.
Dollop,
Threesomes aren't all they're cracked up to be. Also emus. We have an emu plague at the momnent, how many can you take?
Atari,
so is there an after photo?
Also, before and after what?
Will a 22 take out an emu, or do you need something like a 30-30? I can probably take... 200. Unless I buy some more ammo. If a 22 will take one out I can take 15000 more or less.
Atari,
OK, I have to ask - is 'stubble' a euphemism.
Sorry.
og,
buggers of things to shoot, emus. Practically bullet-proof, if you are at all humane. Unless you are lucky - or using an RPG, they just don't fall down from anything other than a headshot. Bored city boys sometimes shoot them with pig-guns - anything from .222s to .308s - and they just keep running. Poor buggers. However a .22 to the head will drop them in their tracks. Anything with a flat trajectory will do, .222, .223 etc. I'd imagine that on a still night an old .17 BSA fox gun would be perfect. Haven't seen one in over twenty years, though.
Oh yeah, unless you're aboriginal, don't get caught, they're protected.
"Oh yeah, unless you're aboriginal, don't get caught, they're protected."
Well,that's no damned good at all. At least here, when a species gets overcrowded, the Fish & Wildlife is bright enough to conduct thinning hunts.
I have a handmade 30-06 bolt action that has a bucketload of reach out and touch someone. Dead flat out to about 100 yards, very predictable after that. Dime sized groups all day. When they wise up and let you thin the herds down, gimme a holler. I'd love to come visit. Butt heads. Have a brewski. Make Emu roasts on the barbecue.
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