We were going to cut some late autumn grass back in October, November time but it has rained every darn day since.
It would have made some good winter eating for the young stock to eat alongside the very dry almost hay that we made in the summer.
We wrapped this so it does come out like haylage now that we are feeding it.
The heifers that are eating it are the ones that should have calved in September, along with some more younger ones and the Friesian bull.
Odd ones keep springing and calving but there are still half of them left to calf yet.
I'm sure it was the wily old blonde bull George just spreading his option for the majority of winter and the summer as well.
He's now running with the milking herd and there's only a very few of these come for a repeat service.
He does produce very good beef calves even out of the Holstein-Friesian, but we are getting too many of his own daughters now.
So come spring we'll have to replace him.
We had a tuberculin test last week where all the herd are given a vaccine, two small injections, then four days later the vet comes back to see if any have reacted to it.
The cows really aren't very happy to see the vet the second time – even though its only to measure the reaction.
All passed and luckily for us its only every four years now not like the farmers down south.
They have a much bigger problem, along with their infected badgers.
In my opinion its time someone took the bull by the horns instead of just sending reactors to slaughter and costing thousands.
If it's going to make some difference and the boffins say 50% to the amount of reactors, then why not clean the badger infection out, give them two or three years, and then introduce clean and healthy ones back.
There are so many in the Esk Valley just now I think we could restock the whole of the south of England.
As it is, with so many trying to find food, even the badger has gone urbanised and is descending on the towns, following the fox between them tipping bins, digging out plants and digging under garden sheds.
They look so cute and harmless so people put food out for them.
I wonder what will happen if rabies comes over from Europe?
They seem to be sending everything else over here.