We had a good old fashioned farming day yesterday. Mama and Mia were shifted into the rat house paddock, separated from the lambs now for a good while. Mia has gone for company and Mama because that naughty Meadow is still stealing a drink every now and then and Mama needs to be in tip top condition for the tupping. 
Mama decided that she would rather be worked by a dog than a pig though, much to Sheila’s surprise.
Speaking of tupping. The steer who is not a bull but still reacts to a heifer coming into heat has demonstrated for us that Queenie is indeed a fertile girl. I thought this was a funny shot as Queenie looks profoundly under impressed.
Anyway this is excellent news as there was some question about whether Queenie could indeed become a mother having been a twin. This steer was very very attentive all yesterday so I am feeling positive about my little Hereford Heifer. Though she is too young to be breeding quite yet. Another year for her, she is only one. The Big Bobby will be off for his ride in the trailer on Tuesday. He is going in a little early as we might be short of feed for ruminants this year if it is a bad winter, and also a number of families are getting short of feed in their freezers. So off he goes.
Hairy has a message for Laura. 
He has to wait until Mama has been flushed on the good grass, and also he has to wait for his collar and he is sure that Laura is behind it all.
Good morning. As you can see I am back to the Purse Camera, she is such a dependable wee thing but it is not the same. But the D70 is once more out of commission. I am now on the third memory card for the D70 this month and still taking the new battery in and out to get it to connect and a shutter that only sometimes clicks. And of course the latest card has been corrupted two days after I bought it and is not loading now. However it could be worse and I think I am getting closer to a solution. I just hate to give up on dear old Camera.!
More boring is that I am no longer receiving any notifications from the weblog pages I visit. Not for days now. None at all. So I am relying on your comments to give me the web addresses to pop back and forth and visit. Over the next few days if the fates are kind I shall visit and unfollow and refollow. It is very odd and unsettling. As though WordPress has decided I am finished. So leave me a quick comment if you think it will help me locate you.
I will find you all again one way or the other.
I am a little late in posting this morning as the internet was down when I got up and so I had to do the milking and the chores first, then Sheila decided to take herself right down the back at walk time and I had to bribe her to follow me home by feeding her tiny bits of bread every time she caught up with me, on the long walk back which was kind of amusing.
The other good news is that the Tall Teen has finally got his own drivers license and not having to drive him to and from school has given me back two hours a day.. Phew.
Have a lovely day. And thank you for reading yesterday.. that was one of our special days!
celi
There was not post on this day a year ago, but tomorrow’s is simply one of my favourites, I look forward to showing that one to you.
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Had this as well went to my reader… blogs I follow… and found all the notifications had been switched to “Never” just re activated them and all was well again…
where is that switch?.. c
http://wordpress.com/#!/read/following/
Oh dear, WP in THAT mode again?
Happy to report that I’ve now played the full game of catch-up of reading your blog, after my vacation. It took me a while, but I’m back on track now.
you are a star, read one after the other it must really feel like a soap opera!! hope you had a grand vacation.. c
Okay, why can’t I stop laughing at your comment while looking at Queenie LOL. She definitely looks so unimpressed.. almost like “Hurry up and get this over with” look LOL. Love this post
poor queenie and all for nought as the steer is indeed quite incapable! morning kay.c
Err hemmm Hairy, I’m not the body ordering the harness 😉 and I’m sure it will all be worth it when it arrives, but in the mean time I have asked Miss C to give you extra head rubs from me and ear scratches if the post is really slow. Does Father Christmas still have your address for an early birthday/christmas present …. especailly for photogenic NZ vistas and family of course? Laura
PS Teens getting licences usually means you lose a car 🙂
I hated that jeep anyway, and the cooking oil car is a manual so he Won’t drive it.. phew! now never fear Laura as I told Hairy I called the man and he is shipping the harness today!! So all will be well by the end of the week. Mama is not quite ready yet anyway, we are fattening her up! c
Congrats to Tall Teen; I have tall son-6’5 – give my esteemed regard to the animals at the farmy
You don’t follow me, Celi, but I know you recently started following Syd at Embracing Homelessness http://embracinghomelessness.wordpress.com . So there you are.
Good Morning, Celi. I’m late, but I’m here.
There is so much I don’t know I would love to “hog” your time and ask a list of questions. But I’ll go for just one at least this time! In the world of animal husbandry, is a twin frequently infertile? That’s interesting to me. I’m also closely following your references to feed getting low. I have a good friend on a ranch in Texas and I’ve learned to be sensitive to how this affects the cycles of a ranch or farmy! I am sorry about the WordPress issue at the moment. I have trouble from time to time and waste a lot of my time trying to figure it out. I think the next time it happens to me I will just need to do as you are doing…go through the links! *sigh* Debra
Ahhhh Queenie IS IN HEAT!! They (the bulls and steers and cows) all know. You will have another Mom to help raise meat! Wonderful!
Linda
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Well, we know you’re not finished, anyway, and a good thing too!
WP seems to be doing “stuff” again. My comment and like notifications have changed, and over the weekend weren’t appearing in any logical order… My reader shows predominantly blogs I unfollowed months ago, and when I click on them it still says following despite that they’re not in Blogs I Follow. Good luck, following your commenters DIY style rather than WP style makes so much sense 🙂
Aw! Queenie and that gymnastics girl have the same “expression”!
Good to see all is tickerty boo on the farm. My wordpress does that too, you think you are signed up to follow some blogs but nothing comes through!
ah well, thank goodness wordpress is not our whole lives!.. c
Lots of farmy words I don’t know, but it’s nice to hear a friendly voice when I’m so far from home. Tomorrow we’re off to Barcelona. Hoping the weather stays toasty and warm. Good luck with the camera, these electronics can be so frustrating,
Poor Camera. 😦 And Hairy. It’s really sad around the farmy!