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Turn off to farm and position of
farms |
La Rochelle yellow |
Driefontein red |
Stoetvlei light blue |
Eighty grazing camps al with good
water allows for excellent grazing
systems for at least ten herds |
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Two of the four pivots and the
river. Google earth is not up to
date. Our winter feed pivot is in
the centre of the two smaller
pivots. The new bigger pivot and the
two others are all under Lucerne. |
After stopping all forms of
irrigation for nearly 12 years, we
started up 2 pivots in 2010 and then
another one in 2012, and the bigger
one in 2017. Three with Lucerne for
storage for times of droughts and
one for winter grazing. And in 2015
/16 it proved to be a real GOD SEND. |
Grass, clover pastures all now under
permanent permaset sprayers at the
homestead with the house and flat
attachment, big shed, sale complex
and the fabulous crawls and handling
facilities. (Google outdated) |
Driefontein’s yard and fountain dam
with excellent Bass fishing |
All over the farms streams from the
hills are dammed up to flood the
veld. |
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One of the two big dams in the river
with extra masses of summer feed |
Another dam with more masses of
summer feed |
Partial photo of the house before
the new flat extension and part of
the lands |
Part of the house before the built
on flat. |
River in Winter. Even in Winter the
weir holds a vast amount of water. (Driefontein) |
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River running over. 22/1/2011 (Driefontein) |
26/08/2006 (Driefontein) |
26/08/2006 (Driefontein) |
22/1/2011 Weir running over (Driefontein) |
22/1/2011 (Driefontein) |
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River Flowing (La Rochelle) |
One of the weirs where we used to
pump to irrigate (Stoetvlei) |
The excellent state of our veld due
to good grazing systems. (Driefontein) |
Young bulls at the river. (La
Rochelle) |
South Africa’s Boran Platinum cow of
the year and her calf in summer
veldt (25/2/2009) (Driefontein) |
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Meatmasters on the veld 10/3/2014
(La Rochelle) |
Platinum Cow rearing her calf on
broken veld. (Driefontein) |
Red grass utilized by cows in the
vlei veld |
Borans grazing in the riverbed in
the summer. |
Young Boran bulls down at the river
in a good year |
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Meatmaster ram in typical summer
veldt with his 50 ewes at mating
time |
Bull and cows in typical
summer veldt |
Bulls keeping condition well, even
when in large group of cows on
typical summer flat veld. (Driefontein
fountain camp) |
Boran pregnant heifers in hill
camps, warm during winter. (La
Rochelle) |
Rams in one of the dams that serves
only to strengthen the underground
water and flood the veldt |
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One of smaller dams also just to
conserve underground water
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Commercial ewes with their lambs on
the veld in the drought of 2015/16.
This group of 157 ewes and 192 lambs
received NO, extra feeding, or lick.
This was our own on farm test to see
how far we could push the limits.
Hammel’s were put into a on farm
feedlot where more than 50% of them
were sent to the abattoir within 13
days with an average growth of 710g/
day |
The hills are full of Olive, White
Stinkwood, and other edible trees
and shrubs that the Meatmasters and
Borans thrive on especially in
winter. |
Meatmasters group instinct keeps
them in a tight group even in the
mountains |
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