Host: Southampton Written by – Kylie Savidge, Owner, Southampton Station. April and May were the months we started de-stocking again. All heifers and steers that were saleable went onto the trucks to feedlots and to the Roma Saleyards. In amongst this were medical appointments, boarding school interviews, injured animals, and school holidays! Talk about squishing […]
Host: Southampton Written by – Kylie Savidge, Owner, Southampton Station. There have been plenty of people and charity organisations helping out those of us who are drought stricken and in need of a little extra help, whether this be a bag of dog nuts, a fruit cake, or a few bales of hay. Buy-a-Bale organiser […]
Host: Southampton Written by – Kylie Savidge, Owner, Southampton Station. By early March plans were well under way to bring all our agistment cattle home. It was getting too costly for us to have them away much longer and with the rain that had fallen in February, we had a good green pick growing, it […]
Host: Southampton Written by – Kylie Savidge, Owner, Southampton Station. Hello again! It has been eight months since I first hosted Central Station and after having read through what I wrote last year I find that some things have changed and some have not. Jack pulling out a bogged calf, whilst the mother watches on. […]
Host: Southampton Written by – Kylie Savidge, Owner, Southampton Station. What will happen when it rains? Who knows how far away we are from drought breaking rain? What will be left of our lifetime’s hard work? A multimillion dollar question. When it rains, dams will fill, creeks, rivers, and water courses will flow again. It […]
Host: Southampton Written by – Kylie Savidge, Owner, Southampton Station. In recent years we have also had to do battle with our enemy, the wild dog. In years gone by when Southampton used to run around 10,000 head of sheep we had no wild dog problems due I believe to the vigilance of our neighbours […]
Host: Southampton Written by – Kylie Savidge, Owner, Southampton Station. Every now and then we meet people who think that we are driven by our dollar line and don’t care for our livestock. We feel that they are so far removed from reality it isn’t even slightly amusing. Money does help but that isn’t why […]
Host: Southampton Written by – Kylie Savidge, Owner, Southampton Station. Whilst many things are the same day in day out, every day is different with the challenges it brings. Sometimes these can be a real curve ball and you have to think on the run and make split second calls on what will happen. There […]
Host: Southampton Written by – Kylie Savidge, Owner, Southampton Station. To further explain our lives I will just elaborate a little about our background . . . My husband and I lived and worked about four hours away from Southampton until the end of 2004, coming home to do all the cattle work when required. […]
Host: Southampton Written by – Kylie Savidge, Owner, Southampton Station. Acacia aneura or Mulga is part of the wattle family and grows rather well in our country. This tree is a life saver in dry times such as we are having and is known as a living haystack. Cattle do well on mulga as long […]
Host: Southampton Written by – Kylie Savidge, Owner, Southampton Station. February 2012 was the last water making or grass growing rain that we have received. Yes, there have been some falls of rain since then but none of them did much good, just enough to make a nice green pick grow and bring in a […]
Host: Southampton Written by – Kylie Savidge, Owner, Southampton Station. Morning Central Station! Our crew on Southampton consists of myself, my husband when he is home, my parents, our children, and “our” backpackers. I am Kylie; I was born and raised on Southampton apart from my years away at school. This is all I have […]
