We have had another new addition to the herd with six month old Rise View Jessamine coming to live with us. Jess is the daughter of Damolock Destiny who we affectionately call Daisy. Daisy was sold to Rise View stud about twenty months ago and it was a sad parting as Daisy was a special girl who was born very premature and stole our hearts as we struggled to keep her alive ( the whole story is attached to my very first blog). However we had checked out that where she was going to was a good place and she would be well loved and time has proved that we were right. Not only has Daisy been happy and well looked after the owners of Rise View have become good friends of ours.
As Jess is the daughter of Kooringal Ironstone the resident Dun shortleg bull at Rise View we have swapped her for one of our double polled longleg cows "Fiesta" so Rise View has a different line and Jess is away from her sire and can be mated to one of our bulls when the time comes. She is a chunky little shortleg girl with an attitude but loves a cuddle. We call her princess Jess as she lets you know if you are not paying her enough attention! Most of all I am glad to have Daisy's line back in the Damolock herd again as we lost that line that came down from Damolock Wisteria when we sold Daisy. I will post a pic of Jess on my calf page along with the three newly arrived calves soon. All four of them are polled and we hope Javelin and the newborn little girl are double polled but wont know for sure until the tests come back from the USA in a couple of weeks.
Hope the New Year will be a good one for you, cheers, Gillian