Host: Southampton Written by – Kylie Savidge, Owner, Southampton Station. The bang tail muster of Easter 2017 has come and gone, with weaning taking place earlier than normal due to our season turning dry again. There has been no rain of any significance since Sept 2016. This has led to minimal grass growth and cows […]
Host: Southampton Written by – Kylie Savidge, Owner, Southampton Station. Find part one of this article here. I have sat in the yards daily with a sick bull, hand feeding and watering him, pleading with him to hang on, hoping that we could save him only to lose him after three weeks of treatment, too […]
Host: Southampton Written by – Kylie Savidge, Owner, Southampton Station. Let me say that what I am writing here is based solely on personal experience in my area, and on Southampton with contributions from friends who live in this district. These are our first hand observations (Warning: For those of a more sensitive nature some […]
Host: Southampton Written by – Kylie Savidge, Owner, Southampton Station. Continuing the theme of children and animals, the story I am about to tell you occurred during the Easter muster, fortunately with a happy outcome. Please be aware that there is one photo in this story that may be a little off putting for some […]
Host: Southampton Written by – Kylie Savidge, Owner, Southampton Station. After four years as a contributor to the Central Station blog, I feel like I am an old campaigner and have told all the stories that one can tell about their lives living on the land in rural Queensland. But it seems that I have […]
Host: Southampton Written by Kylie Savidge – Owner, Southampton Station. Our rainfall over the 12 months since I last wrote has been rather incredible. We had excellent falls in the middle of summer, with December totalling 107.5 mm (430pts) and January’s total 136.75 mm (547pts). We had good heavy falls which ran water and helped […]
Host: Southampton Written by Kylie Savidge – Owner, Southampton Station. Easter brought around our annual bang tail muster and much planning was afoot. All our cattle were home from their various places of agistment and numbers needed to be tallied, calves marked, and weaners weaned. There were steers to be sold and heifers to select […]
Host: Southampton Written by Kylie Savidge – Owner, Southampton Station. As I said earlier, Paige joined us in December to get her Aussie legs under her before heading off for her adventures in Australia. She settled in to our family like she had always been a part of it; being very much a country girl […]
Host: Southampton Written by Kylie Savidge – Owner, Southampton Station. As you all know from my previous blogs, my eldest son, Jack, has been away at boarding school the last four years. This year it was Ben’s turn to go to boarding school. I have always worried about how my children will fare without me […]
Host: Southampton Written by Kylie Savidge – Owner, Southampton Station. Let me say that I never wish to go through this experience again and nor, do I think, my family want that to happen again either. It was my turn to get an emergency flight out on the CareFlight air ambulance. Very similar to the […]
Host: Southampton Written by Kylie Savidge – Owner, Southampton Station. Greetings to you from the Southampton crew, I hope this last year has treated you all well and you are happy and living the life you love. So much has happened since I last wrote and I will attempt to fill you in on some […]
Host: Southhampton Written by Kylie Savidge – Owner, Southampton Station. We are very lucky in our country to have the Royal Flying Doctor Service and luckier still to be able to call on them in times of need. One such time occurred in September 2014 when we were mustering in drought cows and calves, these […]
Host: Southhampton Written by Kylie Savidge – Owner, Southampton Station. Lastly I would like to talk about depression and my journey with it, not because I like talking about this but because I feel that if I talk about it and just one person reading this gets help then I think it is worthwhile to […]
Host: Southhampton Written by Kylie Savidge – Owner, Southampton Station. The last two years have been very tough years on us with little rainfall, no grass growth, battling bushfires, and battling to keep the livestock fed. This year has been a little easier on us as the rain has fallen a bit more consistently this […]
Host: Southhampton Written by Kylie Savidge – Owner, Southampton Station. And now to the two legged variety. Oliver joined our crew in September 2014, a young English gamekeeper who had come to Australia for adventures abundant and adventures he has had!! Olly was given my phone number by a friend of a friend of a […]
Host: Southhampton Written by Kylie Savidge – Owner, Southampton Station. Considering that 12 months have gone past since I last wrote some things have changed. Old friends have passed on and new ones have come along – two legged and four, so I thought I would introduce some of the new characters and touch on […]
Host: Southhampton Written by Kylie Savidge – Owner, Southampton Station. Hello once again from the crew at Southampton, St George. I cannot believe it is time for me to write about our year and what has happened since I last sat down at my computer and thought, “what in the heck will I talk about […]
Host: Southampton Written by – Kylie Savidge, Owner, Southampton Station. After reading our story you may wonder why the heck do these people continue to do this, to stay in a place that often brings heartache, challenges your very soul, and quite regularly rips away at your emotional borders. Sunrise, April 2012. Why? Because it […]
Host: Southampton Written by – Kylie Savidge, Owner, Southampton Station. As all school holidays revolve around some form of cattle work these holidays proved no different. The gyrocopter had been booked, the mustering team of humans, dogs, and horses had been spelled for a week and it was time to up and at ‘em again. […]
Host: Southampton Written by – Kylie Savidge, Owner, Southampton Station. In my job, my dogs and horses are not only team members but are also part of our family and very much valued. I take good care of them and they take good care of me. A well-educated stockhorse and working dog are vital tools […]
