Beef Are Bulking

I've been reflecting on past posts about beef -  more importantly my last post about the NEW ADDITIONS - Part 3 and I can't believe how fast time has gone.  Our calves will be 12 months in July and we will look to let them go over the next few months.  Hopefully Bullet has done his job again, which means the 4th additions will arrive around July-August this year and we have to make way for them to arrive.  We simply don't have enough land to sustain them all.

In saying that, all our beef are conditioning well and we get some great feedback from neighbouring farmers about it.  The beef industry is pretty strong at the moment and will continue for some time as the demand for beef keeps rising so the better the conditioning the better the return.

Out of the 7 calves we have this time round, two are bulls which means they should fetch some good dollars as they tend to condition better than the heifers.  The better of the two is Rua (aka tipi bum bum) and our neighbour has his eye on him for future breeding, but we will see how it goes.  We sold our last lot of calves to our neighbour and he had to take them to one of his other properties as they kept wanting to come back home.

Our beef is pretty low maintenance really.  Apart from making sure they have enough feed, water and keeping their health in top order, they pretty much look after themselves.  Although calving period will be a demanding time but it's a challenge we signed up for and I'm excited to see what happens this time round.

Happy living peeps!