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Cheers Gary! Not looking too bad are they, let’s hope the markets stay positive!

Thanks very much! Cheers!

Thanks very much!

Thanks! Ideal, glad it was entertaining! I hope the milking season is going well!

@@HillCountryFarmer lifes good. grass is going well. best spring in 20 years.

@@ridgeveiwfarms6260 Happy Days! Good to have a bit of positivity!

Thanks Robert!

Cheers!

Thanks very much! Cheers for watching!

Yeah I wouldn’t say expert more like have a go Harry😅. Cheers

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If I miss them then they find their mother when the mob goes back to the paddock. It depends some that were missed I gathered up but some I left.

It’s for Scabby mouth, a parapox virus. It causes scabs around the mouth and can cause lambs to struggle to eat or suckle.

Docking 😅

We don’t use mineral blocks for the steers, I don’t really know the studies behind copper and selenium but it depends on your soils and your location. I know inadequate copper levels in cattle can reduce growth rates as well as impaired reproduction in cows. I would be interested to get some post mortem biopsies done to know if we are giving enough, maybe you could also try that. We just know if you put it under the skin they’ve got it, there are no excuses after that.

I believe anything with dairy genetics will be less susceptible. The theory is that Angus haven’t been bred to eat high energy feed but all dairy animals do is eat feed with a high energy and clover content so the ones that get bloat have been culled centuries ago. But at the moment I’m happy with Angus cattle, we receive a premium at slaughter and the yield (Live-weight to Carcass weight) is a few percent higher. (56-57%)

@@HillCountryFarmer Thanks for the reply!

That is the beauty of them, steel and concrete, haven’t had to fix a rail since they were constructed! Cheers!

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They do. They’re all pretty respectful but I find a few of those speckled parks hard to trust on their own.

Cheers mate!

Thanks!

Oh right, yes we share them with one neighbour. I guess we don’t have a lot of disease here that spreads easily. BVD, lepto and TB are probably our biggest concerns.

Thanks mate! Will do! I tried looking but couldn’t find it, I’ll have another look

Cheers, we sell them locally

Yeah good aren’t they, I think they will repair them for free too

Thanks! Yeah no worries. Happy horse!

Haha. Okay thanks

She’s 3 months

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Thanks mate

Fair enough I bet it is, the only other thing I can think of could be velvet or venison, I’m just not that keen on working with deer. Thanks very much!

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Hey Mate, We’re pretty good for Staff at the moment. These farms currently struggle to be profitable with Mutton and lamb prices so low. It’s a hard time to find work here. Dairy farming has proven that it’s profitable through a hard economy, there could be positions in the dairy industry as they are projected to have a very good up coming season. I don’t know how you would go about finding work with them but you could start looking on the Dairy NZ site. Best of luck, Will.

Nice to have though don’t you think? I was able todo three jobs on my own safely. And if I had wanted I could have drafted them into three very even lines. I do agree with you our yards are over engineered but still so much more usable than most in NZ.

Yeah I’ve heard that helps hugely, although I’d need to have a good way of feeding it. One person I know feeds straw to his sheep all winter long to help with digestion and that was the first thing my grandfather said when I talk to him about bloat, put a bale of straw in there

@@HillCountryFarmer we used to just feed some rough hay in bad bloat paddocks, when we put cattle in them, if the clover was really evident, and a bit of moisture in the air, this was before big bale days, I would just have a bale available in the paddock

Thanks mate!

Oh okay, thanks!

Good question. I don’t think they will be any more than 300 kg. I need to get them in for a drench. I’ll find out then. Mid October last year they were 330

That’s it, we need it!

True, to average 2.7-3kg/day for that amount of time will be a challenge but I do have all three of those.

Two of those paddocks are annual grasses (Tetraploid). They’re all sowed with clover. We only really use a single grass type with white and red clover.

Thanks for watching! They’re looking like they’re already growing!

No I haven’t, I feel like I’ve always been onto Copper supplementation so haven’t seen the full effects of not using it but I’m sure it makes a big difference. It is a good point, maybe I should be getting some biopsy’s done at slaughter to make sure our program is upto scratch. We put “Jivet” (Annual Rye Grass) in two of those paddocks and they will be resown in the next 6-8weeks. Very thick leaf isn’t it!

Thanks for watching!

Cheers for the support!

We don’t sorry mate, we can’t export live animals from NZ I believe.

Yeah prices have improved since autumn. The Taihape sale yards have been pulled down unfortunately. Because Feilding is so large and relatively close, all of our store stock is sent there.

Hey Andrew, I actually don’t recall sorry. Where was this? Sometimes I have a memory of a goldfish😅

Yeah I think it must. It’s amazing how they are fairly oblivious, they’re much more concerned with making sure they find their mother. I’ve found 1 dead since docking (9 days ago) and that didn’t look to be related to docking. Some will be playing the next day. The iron is so hot it seals the scar and must numb the nerves. Cheers for watching!