Dead Horse Creek Walnuts

(some of our steers in pasture that we had hoped to cut for hay but the ground is still too soft)

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Summer 2011

We had just let our cattle into this portion of our main flat paddock. We usually cut hay from this area but, with the rainfall again this year, the ground is just too soft for the tractors and implements. It is really too long for good pasture feed but it was either let it go stalky or let the steers loose on it. They manage to eat most of it but trample a fair bit in the process. However, it does open up the ground a lot and help it to dry out.

In the photo above, just to give you some sense of size of the cattle, the Hereford on the right would probably weigh in at 700 kg while the Angus calf on the left is one of our newest batch and still has his baby winter coat of longer fur.

The walnut trees are growing much better this year. While the ground is still high in moisture this year, it is not totally sodden as it was all through last Summer. At least we did have actual floods last year like some growers up in northern Victoria suffered ....

(18/12/2011)

About DeadHorseCreek

Dead Horse Creek is situated in picturesque Neerim East in a valley in the southern foothills of Victoria's eastern ranges. We have enough rainfall (about a metre a year in non-drought years) to remain green all through summer and, with 2 permanent creeks, we manage to escape the Australian archetype of the "Wide Brown Land" during summer.

We are surrounded by bush* on two sides and farms on the other two (see Farm Photos).

With the bush to the south and east, we are protected from the worst of the bushfire season with the prevailing wind pattern in summer coming from the north and west, especially on hot days.

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