Host: Jenny Underwood Written by Jenny Underwood – Owner, Pine Hills Station. This week’s blogs are from one of our regular hosts, Jenny Underwood, formerly from “Eversleigh” Station south of Hughenden in north-west Queensland and now of “Pine Hills” Wallumbilla in south-west QLD. Before going to live on Eversleigh, Jenny was the sole teacher at a […]
Host: Jenny Underwood Written by Jenny Underwood – Owner, Pine Hills Station. This week’s blogs are from one of our regular hosts, Jenny Underwood, formerly from “Eversleigh” Station south of Hughenden in north-west Queensland and now of “Pine Hills” Wallumbilla in south-west QLD. Before going to live on Eversleigh, Jenny was the sole teacher at a […]
Host: Jenny Underwood Written by Jenny Underwood – Owner, Pine Hills Station. This week’s blogs are from one of our regular hosts, Jenny Underwood, formerly from “Eversleigh” Station south of Hughenden in north-west Queensland and now of “Pine Hills” Wallumbilla in south-west QLD. Before going to live on Eversleigh, Jenny was the sole teacher at a […]
Host: Jenny Underwood Written by Jenny Underwood – Owner, Pine Hills Station. This week’s blogs are from one of our regular hosts, Jenny Underwood, formerly from “Eversleigh” Station south of Hughenden in north-west Queensland and now of “Pine Hills” Wallumbilla in south-west QLD. Before going to live on Eversleigh, Jenny was the sole teacher at a […]
Host: Jenny Underwood Written by Jenny Underwood – Owner, Pine Hills Station. This week’s blogs are from one of our regular hosts, Jenny Underwood, formerly from “Eversleigh” Station south of Hughenden in north-west Queensland and now of “Pine Hills” Wallumbilla in south-west QLD. Before going to live on Eversleigh, Jenny was the sole teacher at […]
Host: Eversleigh Station Written by Jenny Underwood – Owner, Eversleigh Station. They say that experience is a good teacher. My husband was born and bred on the land and he has experienced his fair share of the good along with the bad times. When the wet season failed to eventuate early in 2013 he knew that we […]
Host: Eversleigh Station Written by Jenny Underwood – Owner, Eversleigh Station. I remember the first time I ever heard the famous Dorothea Mackellar poem “My Country”. I was in primary school in Year Five; I was 10 years old. The poem struck a chord with me and in particular the two contrasting descriptions – “Her beauty and […]
Host: Eversleigh Station Written by Jenny Underwood – Owner, Eversleigh Station. As livestock producers we not only look after our cattle but we also take great care of the land. We make sure that we stock the paddocks with the right number of cattle in proportion to the amount of grass available; we ensure that native trees […]
Host: Eversleigh Station Written by Jenny Underwood – Owner, Eversleigh Station. As beef cattle producers our aim is to raise livestock which we either sell to restockers (graziers who will continue to grow the cattle to mature size), feedlots for domestic and export grade cattle, or to abattoirs for the wholesale beef market. Our principle is to […]
Host: Eversleigh Station Written by Jenny Underwood – Eversleigh Station. We’ve all been in that situation, haven’t we? You’re driving along the road, often in a hurry to get somewhere, and up ahead you see… a truck. So now you have to slow down, and at times, finding a suitable place to overtake that truck can […]
Host: Eversleigh Station Written by Jenny Underwood – Owner, Eversleigh Station. A Royal Flying Doctor Service plane coming in to land. The Royal Flying Doctor Service (or “The Flying Doctor” as it is more commonly known) would have to be among one of the most well known symbols of the Australian Bush. The Reverend John Flynn, founder […]
Host: Eversleigh Station Written by Jenny Underwood – Owner, Eversleigh Station. When living and working on the land is your business inevitably you will need quite a variety of vehicles and miscellaneous types of machinery as “tools of the trade”. First up you need to have at least one ute – the number of different […]
Host: Eversleigh Station Written by Jenny Underwood – Owner, Eversleigh Station. Water is vital for the survival of all living things. Many properties have at least one dam that provides water to its stock. On “Eversleigh” we only have one large dam with all of our other watering points connected to a system of tanks […]
Host: Eversleigh Station Written by Jenny Underwood – Owner, Eversleigh Station. Cows enjoying cottonseed in a trough. As the name suggests, cottonseed is the seed of the cotton plant that is left after removing the lint and fibres from the cotton plant. Generally it is very cost effective (well, it used to be before the […]
Host: Eversleigh Station Written by Jenny Underwood – Owner, Eversleigh Station. A sound and fertile bull is fundamental to any successful breeding operation. The number of cows which will be joined to a bull is generally calculated on paddock size, country type, length of joining period, and other seasonal and environmental factors. Most bulls will […]
Host: Eversleigh Station Written by Jenny Underwood – Owner, Eversleigh Station. Rainman and Gauge, two poddies that we reared in 2014. A poddy is a baby animal that is reared by hand. Most cattle and sheep stations rear poddies from time-to-time. While it is always best for a calf or lamb to be reared by […]
Host: Eversleigh Station Written by Jenny Underwood – Owner, Eversleigh Station. As a teacher my year was organized into four terms of about 10-11 weeks with school holidays in between each term. During the year there were various public holidays as a bonus. As a grazier I basically work seven days a week, 52 weeks […]
Host: Eversleigh Station Written by Jenny Underwood – Owner, Eversleigh Station. Nothing gives me more pleasure than to see a new-born calf with its mother, especially if it a first-calf heifer (i.e. a first time mum). Her innate mothering skills kick in not long after the birth of the calf and she is rapidly transformed […]
Host: Eversleigh Station Written by Jenny Underwood – Owner, Eversleigh Station. The majority of cattle properties throughout northern Australia naturally mate their cows – bulls are put into the paddocks with the females and then nature is allowed to take its course. A lot of cattle operations use controlled mating – the bulls are joined […]
Host: Eversleigh Station Written by Jenny Underwood – Owner, Eversleigh Station. They say that “Life Begins at 40”. I still had one year to go to reach that milestone, but certainly my life changed completely, and for the better, in 1998 when I resigned from the Department of Education and became a full-time grazier. I […]
