Desert

By this day in 2015, this area had gotten just over 60mm of rain. So far this year we have only had 0.2mm. The grass is dying, brown and short. We’re feeding hay to all our stock because there’s literally nothing else for them to eat.

Photos on the left taken in September last year, photos on the right taken in December, in the same area.

 

We’ve started drying off cows in preparation for the next calving. The first calf is due on March 10. And within the next three weeks from then, there are over 100 others due. We’re still feeding milk to most of the calves that were born in Sept/Oct. A group of the oldest “milk mob” were weaned a few weeks ago. Today the three biggest from that group joined the “pizza mob” (calves from March calving last year) and were sent away to a place where they will get some better grass than what we have here.

 

So that’s my life right now. There’s something else that I didn’t mention, because he deserves his own blog post with a heap of photos, which I don’t have yet.