Less Cows More Milk! Best Year Ever. Our Family Has Grown...I'm Getting Outnumbered
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 พ.ค. 2024
- The 23/24 season has come to an end, this morning I'm Drying off the rest of the cows, not the best morning for it but I cant it.
A brief review of the season but it was our best one ever and we are more than happy with it but the weather was kind to us which played a massive part.
I also pick up our newest family member! Been keeping that bit of a secret. - บันเทิง
Hei! U are at the end of the season, while we are at the start in Northern Norway. Would be nice to se New Zealand. A dream of mine. Nice videos and a nice farm you got!🙂
Hopefully you make it down here one day, I’ve been to Oslo for a night, I couldn’t get over how expensive it was there 😂 we went out for a beer but could only afford one 😅
Congratulation to the entire family on your new baby girl. All the best of good health and fortunes to her and the rest of her family :)
Thanks mate 👍
Congratulations on your fourth child Andrew, enjoy your break from milking 👍🏻🍻
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Congratulations on the new arrival.
Well done on the production too
Fantastic news all round
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Beautiful family- so precious!
Thank you so much!
Congratulations from all in United Kingdom 🇬🇧
thanks!
Congratulations on your newest addition to the family.
Thank you!
Congratulations on the new addition to the family. As always another great video Andrew thanks for going the extra lengths to video what you are doing. Be great to see a video of you and your dad sitting down over coffee and having a chat about the season and plans moving forward. Also all the blocks you have fenced over and planted out you should name them all like one after your grandad and your dad maybe family name and other names tied to your family 😊
That's not a bad idea, he is a bit camera shy but he's becoming more used to it now.
I always think that generally in NZ dairy farmers use numbers for their paddocks where sheep and beef name there ones after certain things ie family like you say
@@TheOnceADayFarmer yes you can tell your dad is getting more comfortable around the camera and is still commenting more and seems abit of a hard case . And yes you seem to hold a great appreciation for the history of your family farm why I thought naming those you fenced of block . And I think you talked about doing a small block and plant it out with the families. Maybe put in a bench seat to look over it
Congratulations on the baby Andrew! I can relate, Oldest of 4 children with 3 younger sisters! Also well done for the milk production for the season. :)
You definitely can then! Thanks mate
Cute baby, At that weight you wife deserves a medal or at least a big present. 🙂🙂🙃😇🥰
I think so too!
Congratulations on the new addition. As a milk farmer you must be glad that it's a heaver.
And very well done on your years performance.
Thanks! Haha it is nice the bigger babies they feel a bit more robust 😅😂
Congratulations on your little baby girl, I hope your good lady wife is doing well too
have to say I think the coos look gorgeous and so do your paddocks I hope even though the herds are being dried off that we will still get the odd video from you. ❤😊
Congratulations Andrew and family, beautiful girl, what a head of hair, beautiful girl. We hope Mum is OK 😊
Thanks! Everything going well so can’t ask for much more 👍
We use to drycow, massage in a bit and teat seal all cows all at once. Primo content and always look forward to these vids.
Cheers mate 👍
Congratulations on your secret. ❤
Thank you! 🤗
Congratulations to ye on new arrival to the family
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Congratulations on your new Daughter first time I've seen heavy rain ☔ in your videos
Thanks so much
Im a mum to 6, my biggest was 8p 3oz, always go over edd. Well done to your wife 💜. I think our rain is skipping us and hitting NZ, im in Vic Australia! Cant make money in dust 😭. All the best for next season.
Wow that’s a big family! Well done you 💪👌
Hopefully you’ve had a bit by now or it’s not to far away 🤞
Congratulations on your new arrival!
Thank you!!
Congratulations on your new baby. She is a whopper. Well done mum for handling that one. She is absolutely gorgeous, perfect .
Thank you so much 🤗
@@TheOnceADayFarmer Absolutely no problem what so ever. 8:36 pm at night and we are having what you like to call a bluebird.
Beauty! Summers coming 👌
Great video, mate, and congratulations on your new addition to the family. I hope you went well at golf lol
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Awe!! Congratulations Little Cutie ❤️
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Congratulations to you all on the new arrival x
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Congratulations on your beautiful new daughter.
Thank you!
Congratulations on your new New arrival thank you for taking us down the path of knowing what to do when cows are in the condition that they are in West Blocton and support to you. I love your health and love the way that you talk and explain about your animals.
Congratulations to you and your family. & Well done on a good production year.
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Congratulations!!!! Gorgeous kids
Thank you!!
Congrats on through new member
Congrats for you, your wife and the grandparents! Cheers from Spain!!
Thanks mate!
Well done for your season, topped of with a beautiful daughter. Congratulations!
Thank you very much!
Congrats on the new addition
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Congratulations to the whole family on your new baby girl. And I ask Allah to give good health to the rest of your family.
And good luck to all
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Thanks mate much appreciated 👍
Congratulations on the new family member! Calving ease might be something you need to keep an eye on. Also congratulations on your record season. We sow ryegrass in Canterbury any month, so I'm sure it'll be well established by calving.
Congratulations to you all on the birth of your baby love seeing how you farm in NZ from Wales 🏴
Thanks mate, hope you make it down here one day 👍
That’s a Bonny baby! Congratulations to you both.
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Congratulations on the baby mate!
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Congratulations Andrew and family 👍
Thank you so much 😀
Congratulations to you all I watch your videos every week and really enjoy them (from the old country) take care 🏴👍
Awesome! Thank you!
Congratulations on beautiful baby
Thank you so much 😀
crazy your short on grass and then there's me with APC of 2630 in te kōwhai bloody beauty autumn
All my new grass is ready to go just need the weather to be nice to eat it off
@@TheOnceADayFarmer better than my new grass that's only been planted for 25 days😂
What a pleasant surprise. Congratulations.
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Congratulations mate..
Thanks!
Great video just started watching a while back
Welcome aboard!
Congratulations on the birth of your daughter.🎉
Thank you!!
Congratulations .
Thank you!
Good Video and enjoy it thanks Andrew. Kiwi Shayne in the UK
Awesome thanks Shayne 👍
Congratulations on the new arrival
Thank you!
congratulations on the new princess!
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congratulations!
Thank you!!
Congratulations to the whole family. Just a question for your dad ,I'm unsure if you've answered it before . How long has he been farming,is he from a farming family as well and is he still enjoying it
Thanks! He’s been farming since he left school, this is our family farm so he grew up here aswell, he’s still enjoying it, still got a couple more years left in him 😉
I'd like to hear about how farming was when ur dad was a young kid and man. I'm not a Kiwi so I'd love hear how New Zealand was back then
I don’t think it’s changed heaps since he was young but might be a good point to ask him, his dad would’ve been very interesting to speak to as he grew up through 2 world wars and the Great Depression but he died ages ago
What a nice baby.
Enjoy your SMASH (?) event. 😊
Well done on your season 👏 👍
Thanks! Will do!
When I dried cows off i massaged the treatment in the udder have no clue if it actually helped but thought the treatment will just set in canal.
Interesting question to ask my vet and see if it is worth it 👍
@@TheOnceADayFarmeri wouldn't say it makes a difference but with treatments for mastitis i would.
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The same here
You're not supposed to massage dry cow tubes up into the udder- yes milking cow/ mastitis tubes. The idea is to let the solution disperse itself into the udder, insert tube end partially into teat end, press all the solution into teat, give it a quick rub up the teat canal and that's it.
And of course congratulations with a new baby girl🙂
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Congratulations on another gift from God.
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Congratulations on the latest addition to the family. Fine big healthy girl god bless her.
Enjoy the lie ins Andrew, you'll never feel calving coming round 🤦🏻♂️🤣
Thanks Connor much appreciated 🙏
Getting up at the same time now..just instead of the cows it’s for the kids 😂
@@TheOnceADayFarmer 🤣🤣 good man. The early bird and all that. 👍🏼😉
Congrats on the season-what do you and your father think of Fonterra re the selling of assets
Thanks! I don’t know to be honest, I’m kind of on the fence 🤷
You’ll find that you don’t need to warm up that dry cow
She's beautiful ,well done wife lol
Cows dried off but with a young growing family I don’t think you will get much of a sleep in 😂. Hey when you and your Dad were standing in the cowshed reviewing the season I couldn’t help thinking how many more seasons has the old fella got left in him. 13 degrees still warm 🥶bloody freezing for us North Queenslanders. See Fronterra putting their Australian assets up for sale as they have to pay their suppliers currently 30% above the World Dairy price so in fact you NZ suppliers are subsidising the Australian suppliers. Crazy hun 🤔🥴
have you tried using cepravin on those high scc cows helps heaps but the withholding on it is like 54 days i think
Nah I haven’t but I have heard that some people have had issues with milk at the start of the season with it
Nice baby
17:56 Fence is shorting out somewhere close to the camera
Hello Andrew. Congratulations on the birth of your new daughter.
Last year did you not seal all the cows teats? If so, why have you decided against sealing the teats this year?
Thanks!
Never done the cows, they get dry cow only and the heifers get sealed but I’ve talked to marth the vet in the past about it and I think we decided that I don’t get many mastitis issues around calving so it wasn’t worth it I’m pretty sure
@@TheOnceADayFarmer thank you Andrew.
Good video beautiful baby girl
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Do cows feel any discomfort with being dried off? How long does a cow produce milk for after giving birth?
A couple of years if you feed them well 👍
Oh wow i would of come if i wasnt fixing our races 😅
all I keep hearing are "holidays" and "golf days".....bloody once a week farmers aye guys ;-)
haha yeah its all a con, I only actually work 1 day a week!
👀🙄🐾👍congratulations on your latest issue
Are you going to get fixed?
Probably 😅😂
How many cases of Mastitis did you have this season?
I haven’t added them all up yet but probably around 50-60
Andrew why don’t you teatseal the cows? I think you do your heifers don’t you?
Yep do the heifers, I’ve talked with Martha about it in the past and I don’t seem to get to many problems around mastitis at calving so don’t really need to do it (touch wood!)
That’s really interesting, do everything here in the UK although we do calve indoors so probably not as clean as your cows
So now you dried all the cows, so now you pay 50$ a litter for milk😅😅😅
Haha feels like it 😂
Nice
Why do you only milk once a day. And why don't you milk year round seems like you would make a good bit more money. Ŵe milked twice a day year round more dry cows in the winter
Here in NZ over winter our grass growth slows down from frost etc and because its cows main feed we dry them off now so when spring comes their calving with grass growth and feed to keep their milk up. A few NZ farms milk all year round and calve during spring and autumn, but they have set their farm up to handle it with lots of supplement feed brought onto farm.
I don’t have the infrastructure to milk through the winter. You need concrete as in a wintering barn or feed pad that could handle it, plus a lot more supplement feed. Also I don’t want to, I need a break and reset to get ready for the season so it’s just not worth it for me.
There’s a lot of benefits that come from OAD, less lameness, improved repro and my cowsheds not big enough to milk twice a day. It would mean I would be in the pit for 7-8 hours and that’s to much.
I have a system that fits once a day and love it 👍 production is not be all and end all.
Hope that makes sense
Congratulations on great season and a even better end 👍🏼
Thanks!