Drying Off, Last Milking Of The Season! All The Cows Are On A 10 Week Holiday
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 พ.ค. 2022
- And that's a wrap! so I'm drying the cows off early but I'm using dry cow again this year so hopefully that should reduce mastitis and the SCC for next season again.
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Hey I’m Andrew The Once A Day Farmer, I farm alongside my father on my family dairy farm in New Zealand.
Our Dairy system is quite unique as we only milk our 320 jersey cows Once A Day (hence the name), and they stay outside on grass for 365 days of the year!!
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Must be a good time of the year! Well earnt rest
We DCT everything over 150 as well, we also test sealed them also this year, as well as teat sealing all the other cows except for the R2’s at the lease block
Enjoy the break..I appreciate our Irish rain here.able to graze for 9 to 10 months off grass without feeding out .we wouldn't cope with your drought s at all.
Well Andy the tired pasture you showed is where having your own drill would come into it's own rather than paying a contractor
Not a big fan of how teat seal is used in nz it was designed to be used inconjunction with dry cow therapy with older cow's that run milk
I wouldn't use it on incalf maiden heifers
Enjoy the down time. Summer here in Ireland, so it’s all go on farms
Have a good sleep in
Enjoy the break from milking. Used to think putting 12 to 15 cows dry at once was a chore but putting tubes into 60 would be an enormous task. 🏴
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We dry cow and teat seal everything, even our heifers. Main reason is because our farm is ex-swamp (Bay of Plenty) and gets very wet over the winter months. Enjoy watching your content Andy! Keep up the good work.
That must work wonders then! And fair enough, you must have pretty low mastitis and SSC levels 👌
@@TheOnceADayFarmer average SCC is around 150-180 for the whole year. mastitis on the other hand changes from year to year
How did ya go wid the rain hopefully ya got heap made grass grow CHEERS FELLA,S
We r in ashburton and teat seal all our 350 heifers in April the biggest reason for us down here is because of the wet/muddy conditions when they r on kale or fodder beet for 8 weeks +
Yep 💯
Hi Andrew. I’d highly recommend doing test seal on heifer you won’t regret it. On a bad year I might have one heifer come in with mastitis.
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Dried off 260 odd cows here in Canterbury on Thursday and will plan on drying off the rest by end of may. Everything gets combo (dc therapy and teat seal) and all heifers get teat sealed by the vets. Well worth it having ya heifers sealed as reduces mastitis in them dramatically in early spring. This will be second season have done full dry cow combo on herd and currently sitting at 78 scc average for the season for 1020 cows. Mastitis has been minimal this season and will probably take a look at selecting cows next season for combo and for teat seal only.
That’s really awesome 👌👍 you’d be pretty happy with it then!
Here in Ireland we clean and disinfect the teat before we put the tube we also use sealer
Looks like you might have a compaction problem I'd use a old spring tooth drag it will break up all the manure and scratch ground up a little 😉
Yep that’s the proper way to do it, next year I’ll use the wipes
Yeah we use a lactating dry cow tube and a teat seal tube for our cows
The vacuum pump upgrade has made a noticeable difference when it comes to noise That is the second time it struck me in recent videos
Yes it certainly has! It’s so nice milking in there now 👍
Hello
Would you consider using that paddock the cows are in for maize this season?
Enjoy your extended break this year Andrew, you'll get more done around the farm now 😉
I can’t unfortunately, it’s nice a flat but prone to flooding and working it up makes the paddock lower which floods even more 😅
@@TheOnceADayFarmer ah I get you Andrew. You'll just have to stitch it I reckon.
Any leads on the maize pit invaders?
Be very careful teat sealing it’s very easy to introduce infection and seal it in
I’m not sure about putting the tubes in warm water. I get the reason. I think if you could dry cows off over the course of 2-3 days it would be easier on yourself.
Yep you shouldn’t, not going to next season
I've been keeping an eye on rain in your area...were you lucky enough to get a few mills today?
Yep had a bit lately which has really helped 👍
How often can you get cows trucked to the meat works? Our area is twice per week and we send anybody we want.
There was about a 2 week wait but at the moment you’d get them away pretty quickly
Hello here things are alot different here milking is year round with dry cows every month. Production is the same about every month.
No one down here really does it that way and production is never the same ever month. Pretty different aye 😂
@@TheOnceADayFarmer yes but it's all the same end result milk to feed people
How many are U milking now
What size of Honda do you use? You have a wonderful heard of Jersey.
I think it’s a 190 👍
Do you use a teat sealer on the ones that don't get any antibiotics?
Really enjoy the videos
Should have waited till the end of the video
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Do you keep the both herds separate when dried off ?? . Selling cows here in Australia at the moment the price is real good
Yep and then draft them in 2 equal herds based on calving date 👍
I see u didn’t use any teat wipes while dry cow the cows, so are u going to use teat wipe if u do teat sealer as u will push up any bugs on end of teat, so if u not going to teat wipe it be a waste of time teat sealing heifers
We don’t wipe the teats and it works perfectly fine
When using teat seal
Yep I didn’t and you should, probably use them next year 👍
How much earlier did you dry off this year in comparison to a normal year? Isnt it economical to keep milking at the current milkprices? Or maybe a part of the herd?
I think there getting short of feed which is part of the reason.
About 3 weeks, had to make the call, just ran out of grass and need to think about next season too 👍
Please excuse my ignorance but what does the dry cow injectable do?
helps with stopping the cows get mastitis while they are dry
@@timmcgowan4448 Thanks :)
Do you not push/ massage the dry cow tube up into the quarter.
Yes you should
Nah I don’t 🤷
A well deserved break for yourself and your dad , not the nicest working hours milking
You won't know yourself now with the lie on in the morning's. Enjoy the break but calving won't be long Coming round again.
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How do you survive with no money for 10 weeks
Plenty of folk get paid not via a weekly in a wage. You budget your money, so what you do earn covers when you wont. You heard him mention at the end he was down about 40K, he could have made that 40K in milk solids by buying in feed and feeding out. But if you have to spend 40K to make 40k or even if it was less to spend to make the same with all the messing about etc. Its about planning and budgeting.
I’ll explain it in another video