June 2014

This year for the first time we have separated the weaner hinds and stags into 2 separate sex mobs.  Our past experience suggests that red weaner hinds do not tend to grow over the winter months but stags will do so.  We wanted to ensure all stags get the best feed available for the winter in order to maximise the growth over this period. The weaner hind mob would get lesser quality feed and we will monitor the mobs with EID (Electronic Identification) and weighting. The 3rd weaner mob remained mixed sex. It contains the fawns from the AI hinds and first calvers.  June also started off extremely wet for us, receiving 100mm over 2 days, however we got off lightly as some areas not too far away got 200mm over the same period of time and were seriously flooded.