Host: Liveringa Station Written by Jed O’Brien – Manager, Liveringa Station. Last week we embarked upon our first muster for the 2014 season. We usually start with the paddocks closest to the homestead yards; we are on high ground here, the access is good. We do a few paddocks here while we wait for the […]
Host: Anna Plains Station Written by Helen Stoate – Owner, Anna Plains Station. It is still early in the season on the Plains. In the early part of the year it is all about getting ready for mustering. The lead up to mustering is a bit like the feeling you get when playing cricket and you are […]
Host: Noreena Downs Station Written by: Kate Paull – Owner/Manager, Noreena Downs Station. Cattle can have a great sense of humour; so far as to rattle their dags and leave us for dead or play a mystery game or show you what they are really capable of which to no ends are amusing. So I […]
Host: Blina Station Written by – Connie Gray, Station Hand, Blina Station. Our horse plant is an integral part of the operations at Blina, as we do not use buggies, bikes, or toyotas when handling our cattle. In total we have about 70 in our plant, with quite a few young ‘colts’ (young and newly broken […]
Host: Blina Station Written by – Connie Gray, Station Hand, Blina Station. Hello Central Station, Today we completed our last Breeder muster for the 2013 season. When we muster our Breeder paddocks we pull in all of the breeding cows, draft off the unproductive breeders (cows that aren’t having or rearing calves), wean any young that […]
Host: Warrawagine Station Written by – Caitlin, Station Hand, Warragine Station. It is officially over, our 2013 season is done and dusted . . . and what a eventful year it has been. We were off to a flying start in April, and by June we had all the cattle done around the homestead. We […]
Host: Warrawagine Station Written by – Caitlin, Station Hand, Warragine Station. Each year after the breeder cattle around the homestead have been mustered and processed we start to prepare to head out bush. This usually takes a few days, the step deck gets loaded with the portable race, crush, and loader, the ‘wild thing’ gets […]
Host: Warrawagine Station Written by – Caitlin, Station Hand, Warrawagine Station. I don’t think there is any such thing as a normal day on a station. One day, your rip roaring through the wattle after a scrubber and the next day your knee deep in leaves cleaning the pool . . . gotta have some […]
Host: Yeeda Pastoral Co. Written by – Vicki Burton, Owner, Yeeda Pastoral Co. Yeeda Pastoral Company purchased Springvale Aggregation from E G Greens (Harvey Beef) in 2003. Springvale was once owned by the legendary stockman Tom Quilty, from 1948 to 1978, Tom and his wife Olive built the homestead as it is today. These days […]
Host: Yeeda Pastoral Co. Written by – Vicki Burton, Owner, Yeeda Pastoral Co. Kilto is a hive of activity; it is the Yeeda Pastoral hub. On Kilto we have our export accredited yard, we grow hay under centre pivot irrigators, it is our truck depot, and our main workshop is run from here. Irrigation Today […]
Host: Yeeda Pastoral Co. Written by – Vicki Burton, Owner, Yeeda Pastoral Co. Yeeda Station has great history, it was the first pastoral lease settled in the Kimberley in 1881. Yeeda is approx. 1 million acres and has the mighty Fitzroy River running through it, so has great flood plain country. The homestead is 50km […]
Host: Mystery Park Written by – Tess Camm, Owner, Mystery Park. It’s a steady start getting all the little people’s horses saddled and sorted in the morning, but they more than make up for the effort during the muster! Lending a hand. Today we are mustering a mob of young cows with their first calf […]
Host: Mystery Park Written by – Tess Camm, Owner, Mystery Park. As a grazier, paycheques are few and far between, and most commonly result from the sale of livestock. This time of year is our ‘dry season’, and is often signified by slower sales and less demand for cattle. The market will bounce back as […]
Host: Liveringa Station Written by Karen O’Brien – Manager, Liveringa Station. For several weeks at a time (and for three months of the year) our ringers go out to “stock camp”. This means dragging a trailer with supplies and the camp kitchen, otherwise known as “the gypsy wagon” (a rough kind of caravan with an oven/stove, sink, fridges, […]
Host: Liveringa Station Written by Peter (Jed) O’Brien – Livestock Manager, Liveringa Station. Comprising about 265,000 hectares of pastoral cattle lease, Liveringa is situated 120km southeast of Derby; the Fitzroy River forming more than 100km of its southern boundary. We are a large cattle holding with 14,000 breeding cows and 22,000 total head. While our main focus […]
Host: Dampier Downs Station Written by Anne Marie Huey – Station Manager, Dampier Downs. There’s a smell of Avgas in the air and the faint ‘whump, whump’ of rotor blades in the distance. This can only mean one thing – it’s time to muster. The aim is always for a calm, controlled muster where the […]
Host: Yarrie Station Written by Annabelle Coppin – Manager, Yarrie Station. The girls at Yarrie Station are drafting cattle for greener pastures in the South today and getting sweetened up by truckies.
Host: Noreena Downs Station Written by Kate Paull – Owner, Noreena Downs Station. At Noreena we have one main set of yards at the homestead, and work off two areas where we have portable yards. These are called Stock route and Peadonah. At the mo we are at Peadonah, we have a stock camp there […]
Host: Noreena Downs Station Written by Kate Paull – Owner, Noreena Downs Station. A typical mustering day on Noreena will be an early wake up say 4.30 to 5.15am approx, then breakfast. After breakfast we will travel out to where we have left our bikes overnight at a holding paddock (holds cattle a day or […]
Host: Anna Plains Station Written by Helen Stoate – Manager, Anna Plains Station. A day with “Mrs Plains”, Helen Stoate. Anna Plains homestead. It won’t be the longest walk I take today, but the walk from the house to the camp kitchen will be my most important. The things that run through my head . […]
