Rename, the cows

[D & S Chamberlain]

The story is simple. We have had about 8" of rain since last May spread over about 50 days. Currently we should be in our rainy season but officially we are a declared drought zone. All our pasture is shrivelling up and crunches when we walk on it, most unpleasant. Through out this dry spell we have had temperatures over 100F and hot dry winds, in fact over 2 million acres of this state have been burnt out in bush fires. Our cows have built up to fat condition and held that condition even now, I put this down to the quality of the feed due to our FB and the fact that I changed our calving times to fit in with the natural feed cycle of the area. The amount of feed in the paddocks would not normally maintain even good condition. It appears to me that while we have never had an abundance of feed through this period, we have always had sufficient, can't wait to see what happens when it rains. David C ----- Original Message ----- From: Gil Robertson To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 21 January 2002 3:03 PM Subject: Re: David Chamberlain I would like you to invite David, as it is his story. He contacted me from the list and we have been exchanging information and had a very long phone call. Gil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Gil I would very much like to know more about Davids cattle if possible. AllanE