The weather continued much in the same vein throughout October, very warm days with plenty of sunshine and very little rainfall. The only difference was that the end of the month brought some very cold conditions and the first ground frosts.
Traditionally on the farm October is a quiet month and a good chance to take a well earned rest or even a holiday. After a busy summer harvesting and haymaking, these are much in demand. But with livestock someone always has to be here and the work goes on. The muckspreading was finished just in time before the ground got too wet! October is also a great time to do grassland topping and we managed to cut all the grass on the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, this will make a huge difference in the spring to grass growth and is our only tool in combating weeds.
Our bull Grove Wellington was housed in late October, he is now in his winter quarters for 6 months until the spring. We do this because as last years calves get bigger and stronger there becomes a risk that they might get served by the bull and this would not be good because they are too young.
Two brand new rams were purchased early in the month and are ready to go with the ewes, with the 2 that we already had. When you get new rams they need to be shut in with the old rams in a small pen until they are used to each other and to make sure they don’t have any run up and chance of fighting each other.
As we look ahead to November, we will be starting to organise Christmas orders and finalise delivery dates. We plan to sell some cattle and they must be TB tested.
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