Vale 'Patch' (20 March 2004 - 29 Nov 2005)'Patch' is leaving the property tomorrow. He'll be picked up by the Walcha Meats butcher and transported to his yards, from where he'll go to Kempsey abattior.
We would have liked to keep his hide, but the abattior lowers the slaughter cost by selling the hide and we'd have to be on-site to retrieve the hide as it was removed. Which isn't practical currently.
Our eastern neighbour has some cattle yards and a loading ramp and so we organised to move him there this afternoon. He has electric fences around the property and we were shown how to disable the energiser and then use our own lines to make a corridor to help guide him to the yards.
Then we had a blackout from 2:20PM till 7PM.
But with the wire in place he took the hint and was no trouble at all.
'Lady' (our Jersey/Friesian heifer) has been with 'Patch' since birth and she's calling out to him from time to time, between mouthfulls.
Here is 'Patch' in profile and with myself to give a sense of scale. I'm 1.7M tall and 'Patch' is definitely heavier.
