Rain Drops Falling On My Head!!!

OH!! Yes!! The drought has finally ended, all that dancing under the full moon finally paid off:)

It IS a relief i can tell you, no rain since November, things were getting really desperate for all the animals, and the the heavens opened, just slightly and continued to feed the parched earth gently for three days.

The earth was sighing with relief as it tried not to waste a drop of this precious water, the animals were grinning and scampering around under the rain drops.

Things were so desperate, we had no almost grass in the paddocks and we trying to sustain our animals and a neighbour’s rams who invited themselves in for a feed, but we went collecting apples from a local commercial orchard.

The wind falls and apples that ‘don’t’ make the grade, that are thrown on to the ground to rot. There is nothing wrong with them apart from the are too small, or not the right colour. A friend asked us to help them collect them, as their animals were starving, and I am not joking when I say, we collected several TONS in the 4 or 5 weeks we have been going to collect them. It has been a godsend for us as there is NO feed to be brought in the country for love nor money.

But, at least we did what ever it took to keep all our animals alive

Far be it for me to point put a few home truths: Excuse me while I have a rant now…
Being the smallest plot on the block, we are often caste out for NOT being farmers, although, it is funny,
that, my paddocks had just enough grass to keep my animals alive.

When, all around, stock was literally dying, and who dropped dead from no feed or water, were, left in situ until they decomposed all on their own. I thought it was common sense to remove dead animals and dispose of them correctly???

Was there a herbal ley or a cover crop in sight, I mean we are talking farmers here, you would think after twenty years of farming they would have it sussed…yet…

I have been appalled by the lack of responsible farmers in the near vicinity.

Take a drive from our plot to the nearest town, an hour away, and I can barely count on one hand, how may paddocks have a water tank in them, I mean, even a make shift bucket system and old baths was the system we used and filled them up once a day.

Mention a herbal ley and I get blank looks, and a slight shake of the head…as in WHAT would you know kinda thing. WELL, quite a lot actually, but I wont share it with them because I will be wasting my breath.

Poison, was being dropped in our area to kill the possums and crickets..who told us?? Were we officially notified??? Err !! NO and the answer I got from a farmer was ‘oh you only have two acres they are not interested in you’ h so poisoned animals don’t travel??
I have animals and have tank water, don’t poisons get into the water and water runs from one farm to the next?

Funny that after a poison drop to kill the crickets in ONE farmer’s paddocks, up to 15 goats in a near by farm were poisoned the next day, as it rained the next day after the poison drop, 5 of those goats died and the others are just hanging on to life. When I mentioned this to the owner of the goats. The reply was, the poison wasn’t dropped on their land and anyway, they had thrown some branches they had cut down the day before over the fence and they COULD have been poisonous, they weren’t sure.

I rest my case…

URRRGH!!! It makes me SO mad…

OK I’m done…:) What I am going to do is put up some articles on herbal leys, poisonous plnats etc for all of you that would like the knowledge to keep you and your animals healthy

Watch this space…:)

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