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Keeping her young….
….though she didn’t seem to appreciate my thoughtfulness. Wooz getting plenty of fresh air and exercise this morning, cutting the wrapping on a bale of hay for the main herd. I’m supervising from the warmth of the tractor cabin. Michael Ortwein may be proud of his horned steer doing the same job; but I’ll put up Wooz and her knife against him anytime. The main herd had weathered the storm over the hill and it’s quite a climb in difficult footing. The only thing worse would have been for us to have tried to take the tractor with the half-ton bale of hay down the steep hill.
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Jumping the gun….
…that’s what the smart folks did at Thistle Hill’s recent Open House. Advertised for Sunday, we had our first visitors on Friday. Here, Wooz talks about our breeding program with Dr. Bill Walker of South Carolina, Jim Varnados of Louisiana and Regina Tesnow of Tennessee. Before the weekend was over, Regina was to sell a bull she had purchased several years ago to Jim and Ronnie Bardwell and then buy a new Thistle Hill bull. Our heifers were a particular hit, the deep ruby red hides are a Thistle Hill trademark and Linda Hendrix and her son, Dr. John Hendrix, would quickly snap up five of our best. The females will stay…
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White Gloves and Party Manners
This morning while watching our young herd of first-time mamas, yearlings and babies moving into their new pasture, I found myself remembering a book that my mother gave my daughter. It was called White Gloves and Party Manners and was about being mannerly in all you do. Now, you say, whatever was the connection? Everyday we move our girls from the small pasture they grazed yesterday to a new one full of fresh lush grass. Even in November we have managed to keep verdant pastures. That’s due to a trick called mob grazing that we’ve written about elsewhere. Now, I want to tell you how these young ladies and one…