This has definitely been a week of wildlife action as I have seen lots of different critters getting around. The most exciting though was definitely the bear! I was driving down the driveway at about seven and was looking for some bulls that had been dropped off earlier in the day. I saw something black and thought to myself that's a funny looking bull and all of a sudden it dawned on me…it was a BEAR. It was about 100m from me and in some grass so I didn't re...

Well after 6 weeks I can't believe that I haven't talked about how awful the gates are here. Apparently they don't believe in gates that swing and they have what we call cocky gates. They call them wire gates here and it's hard to believe that they don't do something about improving these considering you can go into a paddock up to six times a day. Anyway they are probably even worse than our cocky's gates because they don't even have a lever on them like we do....

The week began with quite a full on introduction to roping. A couple of weaners managed to escape the adgistment paddock they were in, then make their way about 10 km south crossing the 4-lane TransCanada highway on their journey. So off I went with Perry, Bert, Looney and the gooseneck to capture these rogue cattle. Before setting off I asked Perry what the chances were of us actually roping these cattle and getting them on the gooseneck. He just laughed at me ...

Well I know I have definitely been in Canada too long because the first thing I am going to talk about again is the weather!! But in my defence it pretty much does determine what we actually do here. So this week has been quite a nice one with plenty of sunshine and warm days. With the warm days though, it has become quite hectic work wise. Pretty much as soon as it starts to get warm and dry out everything needs to be done at once. All 800 weaners have been...

Quite a crazy week weather wise this one. Started off with sunshine on Monday and then on Tuesday we had quite the cocktail of events. It was humid in the morning and then hot/sunny around lunch. Then late afternoon there was a hail storm, followed by a thunderstorm that night. The rest of the week was a mixture of rain and overcast days so not much sunshine at all. Unfortunately for me I was out in the paddock when the hail storm hit and there wasn't much c...