Birrahlee Angus | Angus Cattle

Welcome to our new website

As our site devolops you will see many changes and lots of new articles and photos.

This is a home made website, no fancy IT mob running the show here, all in house,

direct from our farm to you.If you're interested in producing your own web page with

your very own domain name and free webhosting do drop by and have a read of

how we got our site up and running for $9 per year and some spare time.

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We hope to publish lots of general information on how we got into farming cattle.

How we learnt how to run a small farm.The highs and the lows.The breakdowns

of equipment and the neverending repair of just about everything, how we use

fertilizers to grow grass.And of course the pleasures of country living. We will

also pass on some farming secrets picked up along the way, and how we manage

our Angus herd. Maybe we will have something of interest to you.

We are a small Angus cattle property on the Mid North Coast near Port Macquarie NSW.Our total herd comprises 60 third generation Booroomooka blood commerical females.We have used Booroomooka stud bulls for the last 7 years.Recently we have introduced a new Farrer herd bull.Our cattle have done very well 20kms from the coast and have adapted to our environment well.We are not a stud so our breeding is only for our own herd replacements.We are always trying to improve our cattle genetics to see what suits our costal country.We have had setbacks with our breeding replacement program due to management and environmental issues, but as each year goes by we are learning another piece of the puzzle.Hopefully we are now back on track to achieving our goals of having a productive self replacing herd.If we can't get our breeding program working for us we will just run a cow calf operation with a fresh herd every 8 years or so.

So how long have we been in the cattle business ? Not very long, we started our business in 2002 so we are one of the new generation of cattle producers in our part of the world.Because we are a small farm we also have off farm incomes to support the running of our farm.

Our property is a small productive drought proof farm of 80 odd acres which supports 40 breeders and one bull.We manage another 100 acres we have under a lease agreement,20 minutes from home, where we grow out our female calves.The older heifers are brought home for calving at around 2 years and 9 months of age. Each year we have around 20 weaned female calves to go to our leased property each year.The female calves we don't end up culling spend around 1.5 years to grow out before they come back to the home property for calving. Our pastures are mainly a mix of clovers, kikuyu and paspalum through the spring and summer with annual rye over-sown through the winter.