Village Voice December 2012/January 2013 | Seite 15

the arrival of Harriet’s two New Forest ponies,
a story for another day!
October’s weather continues to be extremely
wet, sunny days seemingly rare. With the
temperature dropping, the nights drawing in,
it’s time to move cattle off their summer grazing
sites. First Alton, with the holding pen erected;
I must say, the high hurdle/gates seem to be
getting heavier, maybe it’s an age thing? To
encourage them into the pen I feed them daily,
cows are fine but their calves are
unpredictable. All the preparation paid off with
all cattle contained on the first attempt and
apart from a puncture in the trailer tyre (luckily
when empty), the move went well.
The hurdles/gates then moved from Alton to
Easton, again daily feeding. The smaller store
cattle taken to graze Magdalen Hill Down
Butterfly Reserve at Winchester (opposite St
Swithun’s School), and the larger stores home
to be wormed and sorted for selling.

determined the best way would be to
synchronize their heat so they came bulling on
the same day, this required my vet to inject
them twice with Estrumate eleven days apart.
Meanwhile, Genus, the AI specialists, provided
me with a catalogue of available bulls. Update
in next report.
The end of Octob