My family is from New Zealand. I was born there way back in the last millennium but felt the pull of the bright lights and moved off to Australia when I was 18 months old. One thing from New Zeal...
https://grasspunk.com/2023/11/08/thank-you-for-the-swanndri-anonymous-new-zealander/
Two first-calf heifers and five calves. There may be some confusion here.
https://grasspunk.com/2021/03/12/first-thing-in-the-morning/
We started using Angus bulls a few years ago. It’s the number one cow breed for grass-fed beef so we wanted to give it a try. We started with Angus bulls and have now added a set of Angus cows ...
https://grasspunk.com/2021/02/23/all-enzos-calves-are-black/
Walking through the Yukon pasture the other day I heard the sound of running water under the ground. Now we have limestone bedrock on the farm which is porous and can get underground streams but ...
I posted a photo of chicory flowers the other day just before I moved the herd in. When chicory gets to this stage the stems become fibrous and far less palatable to the cows. A day later I moved...
Chicory grows wild here in SW France. Earlier in the season the cows love it but in the height of summer the stems get too fibrous for ideal eating. Pretty, though.
https://grasspunk.com/2020/07/11/chicory-flowers-brighten-my-morning/
This is a set of heifers that are fattening up over the next few months. Most are dairy crosses but they’re all great at eating grass. We have a few paddocks set aside for them and they rotate ...
Spring is my favorite time of the year. There are new calves running around, weather is getting warmer and the grass looks super green. The legume here looks like some kind of wild pea. We have s...
https://grasspunk.com/2020/04/04/spring-growth-with-wild-pea-and-some-new-angus-cows/
This hay-loving cow is Itsy Bitsy. The paddock they are on has a bit too much agrostis so I’m feeding a bit of hay there to push down the agrostis and allow the taller grasses to push through. ...
I went to the Aveyron to see a man about some cows. It is great when you visit someone’s house and look out the window and see things like this: Since it was all about the cows and not the arch...
https://grasspunk.com/2017/02/01/visiting-some-heifers-in-the-aveyron/