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Jamestown cattle producer CJ Broad and his father Michael run Old Canowie Cattle Co near Jamestown.
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00:00Not so much water coming down this way where we are here, so back up in that valley is quite
00:04good.
00:07Pretty good, you wash your car you get a residue on it but no it grows roses fine so yeah
00:12the
00:12water quality is pretty good. Our aim is here ideally to not get them too heavy, otherwise
00:21we've sort of got to take them all the way. A feedlot weight range from 350 to 500 thereabouts
00:27is sort of a sweet spot, just depends on the year. Some years we've had them down to they're
00:31getting trucked down to us at 70 kilos. That's where we started dabbling with nutritionists and
00:36whatnot trying to work out how to feed a 70 kilo animal and keep it alive and very handy to
00:41have
00:41the nutritionists they get you set up with what you got. Probably a little bit labor intensive for
00:46dad to get in and out of tractors opening gates but it's yeah we find it's not none of this
00:51is
00:51permanent you can sort of if we don't need to use it you don't have to.
00:54Lock the trucks, pull the scans straight away, you start loading down before you can bring them back
01:00and this way you can draft them straight off the truck, into their lines.
01:11A lot of that's been any matter because it's still a good cat.
01:14Oh that's, yeah, don't get in the road. Yeah, that's what I was saying, yeah you've got to have
01:20a lot of that though. Yeah. Yeah, I guess if they own it there.
01:27Yeah, most people who produce hay are just happy to find someone who'll buy it so
01:31more often than not, I've got hay hooked up throughout the year.
01:50yeah.
01:51yeah
01:52You can run more shape, you can run more shape.
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