Calves – Pukeatua Farmstay

Summer greetings

16 January 2024
bbq, christmas, dinner, family, farm, food, friend, land, landscape, rain, weather

Half of January is over, and you be wondering what we have been up to.

Welcome to 2024

2 January 2024
family, farm, friend, land, muriwai, nature, people, scenery, weather

Bring on the challenges, 2024. It won’t always be easy, there may be hard work, there may be tears, but we will grow stronger together.

Our 2023 Newcomer calves

11 August 2023
animal, calves, caramello, caramilk, family, farm, feed, feeding, rescue, sea, twi

When our son did a placement on a nearby dairy farm during calving season, they forgot to book a calf for the bobby truck. That was the beginning of Caramel’s story.

Time to head out before the bad weather

18 August 2020
drainage, farm, fencing, fire, firewood, grass, house, land, rain, scenery, sky, sun, valley, weather

Time to head into the valley and do some paddock maintenance. Checking fences and gates, continued to dig a drainage trench, checked up on the alpacas and moos, mowed some swamp grass and sprayed some other areas of swap grass. Chopped some firewood, loaded up the trainer and brought it back up to the house to keep us warm over the next couple of days.

A break from the rainy weather

21 July 2020
animal, family, farm, fencing, kids, land, rain, scenery, valley, water, weather, winter

First day in a long time without rainy weather, so we went down into the valley for fixing things, moving things and play things.

Day 1 of NZ COVID-19 lockdown

26 March 2020
fire, firewood, shady, sun, sunset

Day one of not going out to anywhere, not having contact with anybody outside the property in an attempt to flatten the infection curve. National state of emergency.

Calf feeding during hail storm

9 September 2017
abigail, agnes, angela, feed, feeding, la, land, weather

Video: Our new calfies Agnes Moo, Abigail Nosy Moo and Angela Moo just arrived last weekend. Agnes has been scouring for the past two days and gets some special care. That day we had a hail storm coming up outside.

And this years newcomers are:

4 September 2017
abigail, agnes, angela, animal, calves, la

Our new babies Agnes Moo, Abigail Nosy Moo and Angela Moo.

Calf Diary 2016

30 October 2016
animal, cheeky, family, farm, kids, la, school

Every year our daughter’s school holds an agricultural day, where the children have to raise a farm animal and show it at school. Jolan has created a video diary about her calf Cheeky. I think she’s done an awesome job with her idea, have a look and enjoy.

Happy for the endless rain to be over

19 October 2016
cheeky, grass, land, rain, school, shady, shelter, waimauku, walking, water

Mr. Shady is happy in the new grass strip. Just two weeks ago the alpacas have been in there and kept it nice and short so he does not get overexcited. After all that rain, the ground is getting better and the grass has been growing since. It must have been drowned in water before.

Our new calfies

24 September 2016
cheeky, grass, moon, rain, sun, weather

Our new calfies have arrived last Sunday. So cute they are. They have not picked the best weather – it has been raining for a few days and all is soaking wet. I remember last year was beautiful and they were enjoying fresh spring grass. They also arrived earlier. Looks like all is later this year.

Category: Calves