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Richard Assistant Gardener
Posts : 591 Join date : 2009-03-15 Age : 63 Location : Hurunui District South Island NZ
| Subject: Re: Introducing Polly Fri Apr 03, 2009 6:26 pm | |
| need more clues, where do the blues come form, | |
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Betty Gardener
Posts : 1067 Join date : 2009-03-17 Location : North west Victoria
| Subject: Re: Introducing Polly Fri Apr 03, 2009 8:54 pm | |
| Lovely cow, Richard. Every cow we've had here as a house cow has been a jersey. Daisy, Millie, Emma, Sarah, and maybe one or two others I've forgotten. We liked to run a couple at a time. It got too difficult finding bulls for them though and we couldn't get anyone to do A.I. so they eventually had to go. Plus back then we used to feed them chaff, but go the whole way from cutting the hay with a binder, stooking it, carting it, putting it through the old chaff cutter etc. - too much work for us now. Yours look a particularly nice animal. | |
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Mary-Anne Unionized Gardener
Posts : 3783 Join date : 2009-03-14 Location : The Sunshine State.
| Subject: Re: Introducing Polly Fri Apr 03, 2009 9:38 pm | |
| A Fat one that's for sure.. | |
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otamot Garden Sherpa
Posts : 255 Join date : 2009-03-16 Location : WA
| Subject: Re: Introducing Polly Fri Apr 03, 2009 11:34 pm | |
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Richard Assistant Gardener
Posts : 591 Join date : 2009-03-15 Age : 63 Location : Hurunui District South Island NZ
| Subject: Re: Introducing Polly Sat Apr 04, 2009 4:11 am | |
| - Betty wrote:
- Lovely cow, Richard. Every cow we've had here as a house cow has been a jersey. Daisy, Millie, Emma, Sarah, and maybe one or two others I've forgotten. We liked to run a couple at a time. It got too difficult finding bulls for them though and we couldn't get anyone to do A.I. so they eventually had to go. Plus back then we used to feed them chaff, but go the whole way from cutting the hay with a binder, stooking it, carting it, putting it through the old chaff cutter etc. - too much work for us now. Yours look a particularly nice animal.
I know what you are saying Betty,a lot of people make too much work for themselves,that paddock shes in has not been renewed since we bought the place 9 years ago and the grasses and clover are all self sown,what you see behind her in the photo will see her and the pet sheep through winter,as grass stops growing here for about two months. The Jerseys you had were they as tall as our Polly? | |
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Daniel Dirt Poker
Posts : 44 Join date : 2009-04-03
| Subject: Re: Introducing Polly Sat Apr 04, 2009 4:27 am | |
| Hey Richard - the only old cow I have to cope with is....welll I might leave it at that....safer! I once heard a lady say that her calves were hurting. her husband said...."Thay're not calves...at your age hey are fully grown cows!" I know nothing about cows but your's looks preety cool to me. I hear movement here - BTW, nothing wrong with dirty knees...working man. Oh funny story...I saw a bloke hit on a chick at bar the other night...he put in some hard work, only to find she as "a working girl" and told hm so! | |
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Richard Assistant Gardener
Posts : 591 Join date : 2009-03-15 Age : 63 Location : Hurunui District South Island NZ
| Subject: Re: Introducing Polly Sat Apr 04, 2009 4:48 am | |
| That bloke in the bar Daniel,its just like fishing,some days are good fishing some bad,some ya gota throw them back but as long as that bloke carried on fishing afterwards | |
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Little Miss The Estate Unionized Gardener
Posts : 2542 Join date : 2009-03-14 Age : 63 Location : The Garden State
| Subject: Re: Introducing Polly Sat Apr 04, 2009 6:24 am | |
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tessa Garden Sherpa
Posts : 378 Join date : 2009-03-15 Location : Dangling from the planet's bottom
| Subject: Re: Introducing Polly Sat Apr 04, 2009 9:01 am | |
| yes...the blues are from carlton, a suburb of melbourne. they were once a mighty team...but as of late have been cellar dwellers. now they are pulling themselves from a deep, dark hole. let's hope they can teach fremantle how to do that too. | |
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Mary-Anne Unionized Gardener
Posts : 3783 Join date : 2009-03-14 Location : The Sunshine State.
| Subject: Re: Introducing Polly Sat Apr 04, 2009 9:03 am | |
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Val Garden Sherpa
Posts : 406 Join date : 2009-03-15 Age : 84 Location : Melbourne - Mornington Peninsula
| Subject: Re: Introducing Polly Sat Apr 04, 2009 9:19 am | |
| A great looking cow, Richard, and she's certainly not starving! It must be nice to have pet cows and sheep. Sigh. Two good looking kidlets as well I'm not going to be rude about your knees either! | |
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Betty Gardener
Posts : 1067 Join date : 2009-03-17 Location : North west Victoria
| Subject: Re: Introducing Polly Sat Apr 04, 2009 10:03 am | |
| - medburygardens wrote:
I know what you are saying Betty,a lot of people make too much work for themselves,that paddock shes in has not been renewed since we bought the place 9 years ago and the grasses and clover are all self sown,what you see behind her in the photo will see her and the pet sheep through winter,as grass stops growing here for about two months. The Jerseys you had were they as tall as our Polly? It's not that we wanted to make work for ourselves, Richard. This is NOT New Zealand, we have only a 17 inch average rainfall, so unless you can afford irrigation, which isn't there anymore anyway since this drought/global warming began, then you either hard feed stock or forget having them. It's a sheep and crop area anyway, cattle only if you can have a great big shed full of hay bales. Our jerseys were bigger than Polly. I made sure I asked Ian what he thought and he agrees. I can only find one photo, of a broken coloured jersey, a redhead I nicknamed Sarah after a certain member(back then) of the Royal family. LOL. Sarah would have been getting old judging by her topline. Stylish Emma, a pale coloured stud book cow was big, ditto for Daisy and her mother, a cow Ian called "Mother" believe it or not. When we bought Sarah there was another cow we bought from the same herd, a muddy coloured cow, but I can't for the life of me remember what we named her. Millie was smaller though, maybe like Pollie but a finer style of cow. Anway, I showed Ian your photo's and he was muttering things like "a lovely deep bodied cow, nice frame, very good topline" and that he'd like to have her. LOL. Too bad, so sad for him, hey? | |
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Little Miss The Estate Unionized Gardener
Posts : 2542 Join date : 2009-03-14 Age : 63 Location : The Garden State
| Subject: Re: Introducing Polly Sat Apr 04, 2009 10:46 am | |
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Betty Gardener
Posts : 1067 Join date : 2009-03-17 Location : North west Victoria
| Subject: Re: Introducing Polly Sat Apr 04, 2009 11:03 am | |
| They come in a large range of colours, Cheryl. Millie was a lovely rich red jersey, a bit like a bay in the horse colours. We have not had one as dark as Richard's though. Ian's memory is better than mine, he said we had one named Sally too(Daisy's daughter?), and then there was the cow he kept just one day. LOL. Boy, was she wild, she'd have crushed Ian against a rail if I hadn't have been there, or have broken her neck trying to get out of the bail. This talk just makes me want another cow, darn it. I just like them as big pets, I actually don't like milk, the worst is milk with cream in it -eeerk! - and if I never had to wash another separator I'd be happy. In other words we made our own butter. Loved the calves though and how friendly cows are. | |
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Little Miss The Estate Unionized Gardener
Posts : 2542 Join date : 2009-03-14 Age : 63 Location : The Garden State
| Subject: Re: Introducing Polly Sat Apr 04, 2009 11:06 am | |
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Betty Gardener
Posts : 1067 Join date : 2009-03-17 Location : North west Victoria
| Subject: Re: Introducing Polly Sat Apr 04, 2009 11:35 am | |
| We had a wooden butter churn too but I don't know whether we still have it or not. I think there are two separators though. I don't mind cream, on hot apple pie, or on pikelets with apricot conserve, and naturally on a pavlova, but hubby used to live on it. Yuk! | |
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Little Miss The Estate Unionized Gardener
Posts : 2542 Join date : 2009-03-14 Age : 63 Location : The Garden State
| Subject: Re: Introducing Polly Sat Apr 04, 2009 11:36 am | |
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Betty Gardener
Posts : 1067 Join date : 2009-03-17 Location : North west Victoria
| Subject: Re: Introducing Polly Sat Apr 04, 2009 11:46 am | |
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Little Miss The Estate Unionized Gardener
Posts : 2542 Join date : 2009-03-14 Age : 63 Location : The Garden State
| Subject: Re: Introducing Polly Sat Apr 04, 2009 11:51 am | |
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Betty Gardener
Posts : 1067 Join date : 2009-03-17 Location : North west Victoria
| Subject: Re: Introducing Polly Sat Apr 04, 2009 12:03 pm | |
| Just spoke to hubby and he said that guy had been warned that the bull would get him, and it did. And yes, he fussed over it because he used to show it. They're the most dangerous bull, yet the cows are just lovely. | |
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Little Miss The Estate Unionized Gardener
Posts : 2542 Join date : 2009-03-14 Age : 63 Location : The Garden State
| Subject: Re: Introducing Polly Sat Apr 04, 2009 12:06 pm | |
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Betty Gardener
Posts : 1067 Join date : 2009-03-17 Location : North west Victoria
| Subject: Re: Introducing Polly Sat Apr 04, 2009 12:21 pm | |
| It would be a horrible death for sure, Cheryl. He should have listened to the guy who warned him though as from memory he'd owned a dairy farm and knew what he was talking about. Hubby tells me our old wooden butter churn is still here. We didn't use it much at all, in fact I'm darned if I know why we bought it. It was supposed to be, I think, for the times when we didn't have big quantities to churn, but so much work to clean it, it wasn't worth it. | |
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Daniel Dirt Poker
Posts : 44 Join date : 2009-04-03
| Subject: Re: Introducing Polly Sat Apr 04, 2009 12:26 pm | |
| Polly looks great Richard - but no chance I would be having one...would not know the first thing about them. | |
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Little Miss The Estate Unionized Gardener
Posts : 2542 Join date : 2009-03-14 Age : 63 Location : The Garden State
| Subject: Re: Introducing Polly Sat Apr 04, 2009 12:57 pm | |
| clean it up and use as deco in the kitchen would look great on display | |
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please remove me Garden Sherpa
Posts : 159 Join date : 2009-03-15
| Subject: Re: Introducing Polly Sat Apr 04, 2009 4:04 pm | |
| I have always wanted a Jersey cow. I love the softness of their eyes and the colour and ... I would love one. But need more acres and more money to feed it.
Polly is simply beautiful Richard. Lucky lucky you! And I agree, Polly has some lovely human kidlets to fuss over her.
Awful story about the man killed by the bull. How terrifying for him! | |
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