****************************** If bulls are symbolic of Spain it is the humble Coo who reigns in this part of NZ. The Waikato (where we are) is riddled with dairy animals, which to our eyes are just plain skinny. In Egypt they could easily have been the ones eating the fat cows .(Think of Stephen Sandison's animals on the Lyde Road).It seems that farming methods have intensified so that more animals are farmed on less land with feed supplements rather than grass. One guy here has 800 milkers on a farm with less than 200 acres. However they are well trained and head for the milking shed unprompted twice a day, and the kiwis proudly tell us that they invented the herring bone shaped parlour. Since this post went up last week I learn that the Cows are only on each 5 acre paddock for a day or at the most two in any week and the gate is opened automatically at milking time so they know when to leave the field. Some other farmers just send a message from their mobile phone to open the gate if they are running late. Furthermore the farmer measures the grass on each paddock every day with a ruler. The guy who started Anchor butter used to farm here but before that he came from Scotland and yes, the butter is good but I miss Lurpack!
****************************** If bulls are symbolic of Spain it is the humble Coo who reigns in this part of NZ. The Waikato (where we are) is riddled with dairy animals, which to our eyes are just plain skinny. In Egypt they could easily have been the ones eating the fat cows .(Think of Stephen Sandison's animals on the Lyde Road).It seems that farming methods have intensified so that more animals are farmed on less land with feed supplements rather than grass. One guy here has 800 milkers on a farm with less than 200 acres. However they are well trained and head for the milking shed unprompted twice a day, and the kiwis proudly tell us that they invented the herring bone shaped parlour. Since this post went up last week I learn that the Cows are only on each 5 acre paddock for a day or at the most two in any week and the gate is opened automatically at milking time so they know when to leave the field. Some other farmers just send a message from their mobile phone to open the gate if they are running late. Furthermore the farmer measures the grass on each paddock every day with a ruler. The guy who started Anchor butter used to farm here but before that he came from Scotland and yes, the butter is good but I miss Lurpack!
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