Annie left Abe behind and came to milking without him this morning. This is the first major stage in a freshly calved cow coming back into the milking rhythm. It means she is comfortable that he is safe with the rest of the herd and that her protective hormones are settling down. It's a milestone that signals that milking will become calmer and get into a rhythm.
The calves are on 10 litres each now, and still chugging it down.
We set up an electric fence around the silage so the cows could be let into the rye grass paddock and clean up the long grass around the edges. We ended up with a mystery however, when the earth wire put a charge into the earth peg and the live wire wasn't putting any charge into the fence. I tested all parts and couldn't figure out how that was happening, so we left the unit turned off so it wouldn't cook the battery and went on to other jobs.
We turned off the unit on the soak fence, as the grass has reached the live wire and is shorting it out and flattening that battery. There are no cows putting any pressure on that fence so having it off won't be an issue. Then we went and checked that Jaffa and Sorcha still had feed in their area, another week I think.
A round of the nests to collect eggs and a quick check on the ones we'd treated... the lice are still moving.
Ash cooked a tasty vege stir fry and we ate that with pumpkin and fetta quiche.
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