Most people think they're scary because they have
horns but they're actually quite friendly.
We want them to be nice and clean. So when we go in the
show ring, they don't look filthy and they don't look like we
haven't brushed them or washed them, we've only broken them in
and made them calm.
Our biggest steer we've got actually belongs to Johanna, our
daughter, and he's just cracked over 100 inches. So that's 2.54 metres.
We started with one heifer, which soon became a few more
heifers, which became a registered mob. And now I think
we've got about 95 registered females.
I love about doing this, communicating around my cattle.
What about you Jacey? I like brushing her.
Our youngest, who is now four, started showing Longhorns when
he was just two. He particularly enjoys it. So we are at
Parraweena, which is a property in central Queensland, between
Banana and Theodore. So it's 16,000 acres and these kids are
fourth generation Lambs on the property.
My grandfather came from cane farms at Mackay with a few dairy
cows. And then he bought his first beef cattle property in
1962. And we've been only beef cattle for 60 years this year.
He lived here with us up until two years ago, he spent the last
few years of his life here with us. And he got an immense amount
of enjoyment sitting on the veranda and watching the three
generations below him working together and doing his life's
work, I suppose continuing it.
They are gentle giants pretty much. She's looking shiny Jacey?
They're unique in in colour, in horns, but also their
personality. And I just enjoyed getting to know each and every
animal. We've all got our favourites. And yeah, I enjoy
that we can all do it together as a family,
We'd come down and we keep brushing them. And we sometimes
wash them and blow them. And then we go and then we go back
to doing school and then in the afternoon, when school is done,
we come down and lead them and feed them and let them go.
We are showing sort of generations of cattle now. You
know, we've shown heifers, mothers and now we're showing
the heifers and and so on. So I think that we know their
personalities so much that we just trust them. And the kids,
yeah the kids are pretty aware. I think having grown up with the
horns, they are aware of how to move their body around them.
So we measure in a straight line from there to there,
Leila is my Lola and Maybelline they only lead from me and you
only have to say Come on, and then give her a yank.
Seeing them for the first time and you know, their personality
and their nature and then creating a bond and, you know,
trusting them and leading them around. It's good. Yeah.
It teaches them responsibility for another life. You know, it's
not all about them.
It teaches you a lot of lessons because like life's not going to
be easy. And you're gonna have struggles, you just got to
work through it.
Oh, itmakes us extremely proud. Yeah. These kids are sort of
fourth generation here on this place. So yeah, to see that
tradition continuing on is very humbling. How's big's Envy do
you reckon? About that big.
(Whispers)
About the height of mum.
And how long are Envy's horns?
That long.