Hello, We ended the month of May with a sweet note of welcoming Vennila, our new baby calf ❤️🌝 Vennila’s arrival was a pleasant surprise to everyone at the farm, including her caretaker Prema akka. We knew that her mother, Gowri, was pregnant but we had no clue that she was about to deliver. The…
Category: Livestock Rearing
நாட்டுமாடு / देसी गाय and Farm update – April 2022
The month of April saw a lot of evening showers making the summer tolerable for the cows, humans and other animals. Even in the scorching heat, there is still greenery around for the cows to graze. We replanted ginger and turmeric in our existing zero till raised beds and also in the new beds that…
நாட்டுமாடு / देसी गाय update – March 2022
Hello everyone! It is getting hotter every day and all the wild grasses had almost gotten fully consumed. The last 3-4 days have brought us rain and the grasses will start growing again. This is the summer month when will start chopping the perennial napier and super napier cow grass that we had planted over…
நாட்டுமாடு / देसी गाय update – February 2022
In March 2021, we raised funds from our friends, family and well wishers to buy, protect and raise cows native to Tirunelveli, of the Thenpandi (தென்பாண்டி) breed. We have been sending monthly updates to them the last 12 months. This month onwards, we are going to send the update to the followers of our blog…
Our Fountainhead of Inspiration : Prabhanjan Farm
When we bought this land at Vikramasingapuram, I faced buyers remorse and therefore several sleepless nights for several weeks. We were a family who had uprooted our comfortable city life and were planning to set up shop at a town that we had not even visited earlier. When we settled down and started to meet…
Native cows arrive at the farm
After a long wait, native cows a.k.a naatu maadu arrived at our farm on 28th February 2021. We were rearing hybrid cows (cross between jersey with native breeds) until last month. But their high maintenance needs made us re-evaluate our decision. It was two years ago, between February and April 2019, that 3 cows :…
Farm Obituary 2020
Kapila It is with a lot of regret and grief that we are informing you that Kapila, the 2nd cow we brought to the farm last year, passed away on 21st November afternoon. She was grazing when her rope got stuck to a young tree and she fell from a 3 feet ledge on her…
Introducing Kabir and thoughts on bull rearing
Introducing Kabir, the first calf born in our farm, the newest addition to our family. Kapila was the 2nd cow who arrived at the farm last year February had just delivered a male calf Krish then. We knew of the impending delivery on account of Kapila’s demeanour from 22nd June morning. Seshaiyya had volunteered to…
Faux pas
I think people share a lot of positive and success stories of themselves and loved ones who have ventured into farming. I, for a change, would like to share parts of my journey which have been tough (and sometimes, funny). Just today morning, we had one of the events which Noushy and I would remember…
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