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WBVS alerted me to this thread and asked me to comment based on any knowledge I have of this type of activity. It certainly isnt done commonly - it leaves too much room for too much to go wrong and serious accidents! There are plenty of scrub (mickey) bulls in the Northern Territory, North Qld...

Love just looking at that grass! Lovely cattle too...

Fantastic photos Randi. Noticed the Australian-style saddle on the black horse too.

Sorry to hear that news HD. Stuff like that happens. We have heifers away on agistment. 363 joined heifers are in one paddock which is crossed by a seldom-used private road. After some consideration, I had sent a nice bucket-reared heifer which we had given to one of our grandsons to start...

We have an RAU immobilizer like Stocky - anyone who needs to work stock on their own should invest in one of these little beauties. We don't need to use it for cutting small calves, but its great for cutting or banding half-grown or grown males in the crush (chute). We use a cradle (calf table)...

Great photo!

I've noticed that cattle mostly sleep in the early hours of the morning, up until just before dawn. Our main cattleyards are not that far from the house and we get some serious "moo music" when we're weaning calves. Usually though, they're quiet during those hours. Also, I've seen a steer...

I doubt that chasing the calf caused its death. Many times I've run a calf with a bike until it was exhausted and I could grab it by the tail or kick it over so I could drag it onto the bike and bring it home. In our large paddocks I'd probably never find it again if I left it, so its either...

Must try that Anazazi. I have always used the method described above, I'm a middle-aged female, and I can roll over a fair lump of a cow like that. My husband would say "that's nothing to be proud of!" Congrats Molos on getting her up - I knew you'd get the job done.

We had the "no lifting" idea stuck in our heads too over the years, just let everything heal, but we've come to realise that careful lifting twice a day is very beneficial and reduces the down time dramatically, sometimes by weeks. It depends how difficult it is for you to lift her - if she's...

Chris - if you put the time and effort in your heifer will most likely get up again. She needs time for the nerves and bruising to heal, don't expect a miracle and they seem to get worse before they get better. Sometimes they can be down for 5 to 6 weeks but you should be able to minimise...

In our sort of country, my husband always says you need a thousand cows per family to make a good living, pay a mortgage and maybe go ahead a little if you get a run of seasons. We are drought-prone here in the outback so need to allow for those years when the cows must be agisted away, or sold...

Yes, we don't see it as good as this all that often.... it's "opportunity only" in this arid grazing country out here. We used to live south of Winton and had a very tough trot there in the early 80s. I can remember the horses setting off one morning and walking right round the whole property...

Things are about as good as they can get here in our part of outback Oz! We had some good rain early December and another 250mm late Jan/early Feb. Lately we've been branding and weaning and its a pleasure to be out and about, working the stock. Hope you enjoy these photos....

robert, they often do that, it's very rarely they don't let them nurse at all. Many will kick them away for quite a while but eventually the calf will persist and succeed. If you search on here though, there's plenty of advice on what to do when a heifer is determined not to let them suck. We...

LVF we use scoop dehorners when we brand to get as much horn as possible off them. We've tried a dehorning knife but didnt like it. Almost half would be natural polls. We tidy them up again at weaning of course. There's some spikey horns on the batch of weaners we've got in the yards off those...

OME we're in Central West Queensland - have 1000 + females here and have another slightly bigger place where we run breeders but also grow steers to feeder weight (when the season permits.) A son and his family run that one. Also have some females on agistment most of the time. Have been...

Thanks Isomade. Ken, we need all those calves and a lot more besides to keep the wheels turning! That mob came up well number-wise with calves, we weaned some beauties too. There werent really any suspect dry cows - a small number lost their calves to mishaps - I found a dead one while...

had a few more of the branding cradle but it's not letting me upload any more today....will try tomorrow if I remember

some photos of branding the calves a young friend turned up yesterday to give a hand, very welcome. Our son came over also to do the muscle work for dad.