Host: Noreena Downs Station Written by Kate Paull – Owner, Noreena Downs Station. In the video below I explain and view a bit of our mustering equipment, and it is all run on oil and petrol. As much as I appreciate horses and horses working with cattle, I also understand they would do it hard […]
Host: Noreena Downs Station Written by Kate Paull – Owner, Noreena Downs Station. Today’s post follows yesterday’s post about growing up on a cattle station. Poddy Calves – I remember our first poddy Bobby that Dad gave us – when she grew up we used to ride her around. Us kids loved poddies, we would […]
Host: Noreena Downs Station Written by Kate Paull – Owner, Noreena Downs Station. “What did you get up to as a kid?” Well my siblings Niffy, Chooky (nicknames), Joe, and I had a blast as kids, we all grew up on Noreena. We were so lucky we had the most divine time! Those that haven’t […]
Host: Noreena Downs Station Written by Kate Paull – Owner, Noreena Downs Station. So yesterday you saw some videos of us moving cattle along, well in today’s blog we are gonna catch up with them again for the last bit of the walk. In the videos I talk about the young heifer emulating the older […]
Host: Noreena Downs Station Written by Kate Paull – Owner, Noreena Downs Station. First blog off the rank for Noreena this year is a series of videos of us moving a mob of cattle along, in the video I will explain what is going on, unfortunately it will be in four parts so I could […]
Host: Noreena Downs Station Written by Kate Paull – Owner, Noreena Downs Station. Moving out of the Homestead. For those of you that don’t know what stock camp is it is where everyone packs up and moves to a distant part of the homestead and set up camp, allowing the mustering team to muster distant […]
Host: Noreena Downs Station Written by Kate Paull – Owner, Noreena Downs Station. Living on a cattle station isn’t all hard work and no play so when the opportunity arises for a few days off work and a party everyone jumps at the chance whether it’s a local rodeo, horse racing, pre/post muster party, or […]
Host: Noreena Downs Station Written by – Jenny Jones, Camp Cook, Noreena Downs Station. Arriving at Noreena I was welcomed by Tex, Niffy, Joe, and the dog gang Major, Ding, and Bruce, and shown to my new digs. For those that don’t know what a donga is, it’s best described as a long tin can […]
Host: Noreena Downs Station Written by – Jenny Jones, Camp Cook, Noreena Downs Station. Jenny Jones from Wheaton Aston in Stafford in the West Midlands of the United Kingdom will be telling her Australian station experience today, Jenny worked at Noreena as a station camp cook. So over to Jenny now. – K.P. As like […]
Host: Noreena Downs Station Written by: Kate Paull – Owner/Manager, Noreena Downs Station. During the summer months the jobs can change and vary a lot. Below are a few examples of my days and sometimes my family members. 1) When it buckets down with rain, I get super excited. Yes this will grow the grass […]
Host: Noreena Downs Station Written by: Kate Paull – Owner/Manager, Noreena Downs Station. So I’ve come home to have lunch after my bore run and I realise there is a wee boo boo, I did say to Central Station that I was going to produce seven blogs and I don’t like to go back on […]
Host: Noreena Downs Station Written by: Kate Paull – Owner/Manager, Noreena Downs Station. The main house (kit home) that my mum lives in was built by my Dad with the help of Mum and us four children who worked out how well gyprock broke when you rammed into it. I bet we were an awesome […]
Host: Noreena Downs Station Written by: Kate Paull – Owner/Manager, Noreena Downs Station. Yes, some of you reading this are probably thinking “Who in hell would do a blog on poddy calves?”. Well none the less they are an interesting species in their own little way and are a big part of station life. A […]
Host: Noreena Downs Station Written by: Kate Paull – Owner/Manager, Noreena Downs Station. Bore runs are one of my favourite jobs, its well known in my family that if I go on a bore run I will either complete it in time just about or I will not be due back for some time due […]
Host: Noreena Downs Station Written by: Kate Paull – Owner/Manager, Noreena Downs Station. A day of yarns again for you’s my dear readers. Quick white nasty spaceship and yard up dilemma One day I managed to score an invitation to go mustering with Nathan my then boyfriend and his awesome crew at Roy Hill Station, […]
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: Noreena Downs Station Written by Kate Paull – Owner, Noreena Downs Station. Well as promised here are some pictures and descriptions of the stock camp where we camp out at for five to six weeks of the year every year. This year it is six to seven weeks. We hang out at Peadonah camp […]
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. Wow yipee yi yo yeah another load of export Mickeys on board today, lovin it! More Mickey bulls please from Peadonah stock camp (yes siree we are out at stockcamp at the moment where we will spend six to seven weeks and […]
Host: Noreena Downs Station Written by Kate Paull – Owner, Noreena Downs Station. So today is the day where I get to tell you about Noreena’s weapons of the two legged variety – the management and the staff. Due to Noreena being a family run business not everyone can be chief, so it goes something […]
