A harsh life sometimes…even today…
….almost daily, we hear of heart-breaking stories of cattlemen who have had to give up because of the drought which has killed everything green in so much of the country. There is no magic or modern miracle to save them. And most of the country isn’t even aware of the tragedy.
Nature really can’t be tamed. Easy to forget today in cities where everything is at the push of the button and the meat in the grocery stores comes from “animals that were not harmed” in the process. Easy to forget even at Thistle Hill, though we’ve lost calves on rare occasion in snow drifts or bitter cold.
So we feel great sympathy for these farmers in Ireland.
http://blogs.reuters.com/photographers-blog/2013/03/28/no-happy-endings-in-nature/
One Comment
mike ortwein
Very sad. I thought it was always best to calve or in this case lamb in sync with nature. For me I like to see my calves hit the ground the same time the deer have their fawns, May – June. Another thing with all the people fighting drought is the renewed interest in fodder, which was prevalent before World War 2 in this country, but after the war with the cheap surplus grain, the art and science of fodder production was lost. Today there is renewed interest in this process, and this would be a good topic at this year meeting at the Devon conference–let’s push that idea.