Fire Up The Milking Machines, Calving's Started!! Sexed Semen worked.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ค. 2022
- Early calves....It's always bound to happen, and luckily 2/3 of them are heifer calves which will become replacements in the future.
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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!!
Email Enquiries to:
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macknit@gmail.com
If you want to send me something my address is:
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118 Bank Road
RD3 Ohaupo 3883
New Zealand
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I must say your cows are very quiet especially the heffors it’s all how you handle them and u have done a great job
Beautiful farm!
How i wish i was there love farming actually..
Wish that i can work over there...and if that somebody would helping me out for my visa..🙏🙏❤❤
Thank you for another very interesting video :)
You guys are great! Like😘👍👍
Good luck with the calving season Andrew. That heifer really is a smasher, really quiet and a good shape 👌🏼
Andrew, I just love your ytube vids, they are so awesome... there's no one on TH-cam doing it better than you and the way you can present dairy farming as a beautiful way of life and with so much passion and the love for the animals and industry. I just love it.. thank you
Thanks Jamie really appreciate it 🙏
Like the video it’s 1 all in the rugby!
This weekends gonna be exciting! ABs got some massive work to do 😅
@@TheOnceADayFarmer can’t believe it we won the series it’s even better than last November when we beat abs and cows were still out!
It sure doesn't be long coming around again Andrew and Dad, busy times ahead, good luck with the calving.
No always comes faster than expected 😂
Love the videos mate I tell the old man what’s going on your farm
That’s awesome 👌
Back on early starts soon. No more sleep in. Oh well the joys of dairy farming. I hope you have the best season available and the All Blacks chalk up another win on Saturday 👍
I hope not !
Almost back on them 😂
Thanks John I hope we do too! Jeez this rugby series is a goodie! The decider on Saturday is gonna be awesome 👌
The heifer is very nice. Hope they are all as quiet as her.
Same here 😅🤞
There is an old saying the LEPRECHAUNS had we were all small onetime. Good start that happens alot now cows calving compared to 20 years ago
We’ve got a calf thats 3 weeks early nice little jersey cross heifer,she’s healthy and no other calves atm 💪
That’s mint then 👌
I have serious grass envy.
So do I, I don’t have much around 😅
We’ve had near 100mm rain locally this week. Very wet Friday all day.
Definitely feels like winter 😩 some sun wouldn’t hurt 😅
Good luck Andy you sound better how's your father
Feeling much better and he’s good thanks 👍
Man, can't beat green winters like that! I wonder what the summers are like...
dry
Brown
@@NZFarmboy80 Then why aren't they called winters like in the rest of the world?
Hot and dry unfortunately 😅
@@realemonful our summers December to February the grass is brown, due to the lack of rain
Could you share a video on fixing the concrete tank and which product you use please? Have a similar issue we need to fix!
Oh yes I can do! 👍
Ah well back to work 🙂 holidays over .most people here are calving 10% before due date
Really that’s quite a bit 😳
No matter how long the dry period its always hard to be ready.i always dread the start of calving but once it starts you get the buzz again.no Mon no fun.
Yep that’s true 👌👍
Sure do enjoy your videos ! What were you drenching with ?
Just a mineral drench, I really need to do a video on it! 🤔
Well ware on the new feeder , would you recommend the chain bale feeder or chainless one , I’m thinking of buying one
To be honest I haven’t used a chained one before but the chainless goes pretty well 👌
Doesn't look like that older one is dropping all her milk . That wasn't much. When my jersey freshened she was making 5.5 gallons to 6.5 gallons a day. She is 14 months since she calfed and she is making 3.5 gallons one milking now . It sucks hand milking 3 gallons a day . She had a beautiful heifer this year. I wish the guys bull I used was still available he made a nice heifer. And he always threw bull calfs for his owners I think that's why he got rid of him. Can't wait to see how this jersey Angus cross comes out. Those calfs are so cute I love jersey cows.
No she wasn’t but she is now, that’s a nice cow you got there Noah 👌💪
Good luck with calving! I do have a question for you - Why wood chips? Is there a benefit to keeping calves on woodchips? I've seen aspen bedding (in US) and straw done in a deep pack method but never the type of chips you seem to use. Is there a cost benefit or a benefit to the calves?
Kia ora Leslie :)
I'm just a vet student, so don't take my word as gospel, but wood chips are usually fairly free draining, and retain warmth more than say river stones.
Sometimes calves may also be inclined to have a nibble on things like hay or straw, which could lead to increased disease transmission.
Lastly chips can also then be applied to pastures or composted, to hopefully boost grass growth in following seasons.
It is relatively more expensive than some other substrates, but old mate Andy surely has a mate on the inside :P
Yeah that’s pretty spot on Michael, but also because NZ isn’t a very big grain growing or arable country we don’t have a lot of straw around so it would probably be pretty pricy,
But also wood chip is very free draining and we find it works pretty well, hope that explains it 👍
I could get sawdust which a lot of people use from my local contractor but it packs down to hard on concrete where the big chip doesn’t 👌
Andrew what breed is the black and white cow? Is the drench a calcium drench? I bet you feel the down time of not milking went fast. It sure has for me. Thank you, Dale
She’s a jersey, but I would think that somewhere down her breeding there would have been a bit of Ayrshire in there somewhere 👍
And yep calcium, magnesium and trace minerals. Also a bit of apple cider vinegar 👌
@@TheOnceADayFarmer I may have missed it but do you have free choice mineral in every paddock when you move the herds?
Hi Andrew. Are your reel electric fences live?
Yep they sure are 👍
I see you wearing a coat what's the temperature ovee there. It's 100° here in USA .Good day mate
We live nearby. At the moment we have approx 0 deg C to 6 deg C in the mornings. We’ve had one or 2 frosts and heavy foggy days recently.
Highs around 57 and lows of about 40 ish 👍
We're a whole month and a half early thanks to a neighbour's bull helping himself to some carryovers...
Ooo that sucks!!! 😩
Bit of Ayrshire in the black jersey?
Yeah I probably think so, would be somewhere down the line 👍
Are you sure those cows are letting all their milk down. We use oxytocin for the first few milkings
That cow didn’t but she’s good now, we use it too but just on the heifers at there first milking 👍
What you reckon them calves are? My guess is 25 kg
Ooo I would probably say a bit lighter than that 🤷
the black and white one a jersey Holstein cross?
No I would say there would’ve been a bit of Ayrshire in there somewhere, we used to have a few red and whites 😅
@@TheOnceADayFarmer why don't you cross with Ayrshire and red white anymore?
What's the latest on the rats?
Well I think I’ve made a massive dent in the population because I haven’t seen any around 🤷
Are the most of them jersey cows
Yep all jerseys 👍
@@TheOnceADayFarmer the best milking cow u can get but for beef special in Ireland we don't kill Jersey meat is not the best
Hopefully you have multi minerals in that drench,especially selenium to help your fertility. It starts now not at mating time.Sorry bro not a Jersey fan.,even though Dad bred stud Jersey's. Sleep ins are about to finish.
Yep It’s in the mineral mix 👌
Ah well each to their own 😂
60 cows calved only
We started calving early too 🫣
You set ur drench up for three cows? We dusting in paddock untill we have a row before we start drenching but I guess either way works 😎🤘
Yep we get that drench into them asap, but once it’s made it’s good for a while 👍
Everyone does it that little bit different aye 😂