3 cattle on site

3 cattle are now back on site after TB testing

Bovine update

Just spoke to Rosie. They weren't able to test them this week but we can expect 3 cattle on site by next Thursday 'all going well', plus one more eventually.

Teasel plus 1 other will be heading to Great Bramshot on Foxlease so that'll be nice for her.

That's all I have for you for the time being folks.

Lesson 1 - Check blog before going out (in the rain) to check cows.................to find they have been moved for TB test.  However, trough OK!!!

Monday 8th October.

Checked in on the cattle this afternoon. Found them all around K13 and they quickly came over to check out what treats I had in the vehicle.

Straight away I noticed that Lola has a problem with her left eye - a white dot just off centre and the front half of the eye beginning to cloud over and lots of tear staining. It looks like she has a about of New Forest eye so I reported this to the grazing team immediately.

This herd were due to be temporarily moved to Foxlease South on Thursday for TB testing, however, as the grazing team will be herding them up tomorrow to treat Lola's eye problem, they will take the opportunity to move the herd over tomorrow (Tuesday) instead.

The three steers were all on good form. Trough working ok.

At 0945 hrs today Lola was on her own in H14 browsing bits of bramble in amongst the bracken; the boys were in E15 taking sweet chestnuts.  All fit and well.  Trough OK.

Looked at 3.30pm. Restricted access due to army training so unable to find cows. Checked trough - looked OK. Walked the path from the trough to the railway line but unable to follow path from N4 up to N14. Suspect cows were hiding in the gorse in the center of the field among the army cadets.

All seen.

Found the cattle in N14 this afternoon. All looking fit and well and Cronus in fine voice as always!

Cantor's eyes were looking fine today. Think this will be one of those conditions that will flare up every now and then but fortunately doesn't seem to particularly bother him.

Just about spotted them at 11:10 where they were in L6 & K6 spread out in the gorse.  Then at 12:10 we saw them heading away from the trough along the fence on the Pyestock edge, guessing they went to find out what all the noise was about lol.  They all looked fine but didn’t get too close to notice any issues.  Trough checked ok too.