The Jones's experience their first calving on the farm.

This was a great day for all of us to catch up with calving time at the weekend, especially for Sophie & Chloe to see first hand what it was going to be like for them to get up close in the paddock with the mother giving birth.

It was a cold, wet, windy Saturday morning and we witnessed the mother giving birth and even got close up to the calf and tagged this one as a boby calf destined for the wagon in 4 days time.

Sophie & Chloe got up close and really enjoyed their big day they were fascinated by it all and were intrigued with the after birth also and inspected it with caution.

Sherren has stated in earnest calving and learning all the aspects of calf rearing, so she will be very busy over the next few months until at least November, all in all we have around 35 calves a day or night being born. Its good seeing her happy again I haven't seen that for a while especially since we returned to Auckland, so I am happy we have made the right move to Dannevirke and into a new career of farming this is us now we have finally found the lower end of the North Island fascinating to say the least. City life is too restricted and too fast pace of life boredom sets in and you have nothing to look forward too most of the time, at least here we are kept busy.