I watch you have this done every year and still say it’s the best easiest and safest way I was speaking with a stocksman few weeks back and he agrees this is by far the best way for the calves 😊
Yes Andrew I have seen a cow in the herd with quite large horns. She must be quite a good producer otherwise I think you would have on the truck. Thanks for the video Mate
Usually one or 2 is a trainee in this case and hence doesn't cost as much, Some universities offer the trainees on a very low rate to help with passing there study :)
Hope your vets are better value, than here in UK. In last few years their charges are ridiculous, it’s difficult to get large animal vets , the new vets want to stand around in surgery, not travel to farms.
I was about to say you are lucky to get a UK vet to come out. What a brilliant team of ladies. You would need a second mortgage for that service in the UK
We must be lucky we have a good large animal practice. Will home out any time day or night if needed. North Lincolnshire UK. Yes it costs a bit of money £150 generally for a basic visit plus bits but if you need them you need them
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Still not convinced this is the best way, or at least its not necessary. We still disbud with the crush and hot iron and with the use of trisolfen i cant think of a reason to change. Would be interesting to cost it up too?!
Nothing wrong with doing them like that too, Its just easy to do them in the pens by knocking them out. If its working then definitely no need to change
To knock them out , has to be done by a vet. Whereas farmers can only use the local anesthetic and have to be trained to put that in the correct place. I do the same as the Andrew
Great stuff Andrew, I do it the same way, vet comes out as I dont have any staff and i dont fancy a training course on injecting the local I dont have the time really on any one day. So im the shaver person. He does the rest 😂
Hi Andrew - enjoy your channel. We have family in NZ who milk (we are Aussies). You may have mentioned it previously but probably missed it - what do you do with the bull calves and excess heifers calves? Cheers
Those extra or pseudoteats are a hereditary trait. So it would pay to trace the bloodline and try to breed it out rather then only snip them off. It is also why you see more of them over the generations.
Good to see you didn’t kill your calves😉😁. Have you thought about using a gate timer for the cows going to the feed pad early in the morning and give them a 24h break in the paddock. Freeing you up in the avo. Great video
Thought I’d give it a go again 😂😉 I have thought about doing it in the arvo, but I don’t I can do 24hour grazing as some of the paddocks and the feed pad are too far away. If the cow shed was more central then I’d definitely consider it. I read another one of your comments but I hadn’t responded yet sorry, but you should undersow your damaged areas and just fence them off if they’re big enough, your drills perfect for doing it 👌
59 in 1 1/2 hours that good going and completely stress free for operator and animal. Would be interesting to know what the vets charged for that but even if it was £10 to £15 each it would be money well spent in my opinion. Economies of scale will work in your favour
You can also take a cell phone photo of the original white copy of the vet paperwork, as it's easier to read and then just email it to your computer and save it to file.
I lost my best cow to a freak horn stabbing We had a small number of calves that didn't get properly dehorned when the bosses sons were practicing for college as a result we ended up with a small number of cows with horns and one liked to use them bullying others in the collecting yard at milking And this particular day she was thrashing her head around and stabbed my best cow inside the wall of her vagina despite the vet arriving fast she had to be put down as she was bleeding out and she couldn't be saved I was gutted she was my best milker and on course for over 11,000 litres that lactation Needless to say I got the vet to cut that cows horns off whilst he was there with the cheese wire
@@sharoneastwood.1025 why have a go at me for something that happened 30 years ago I take it your part of the clueless vegan brigade slating farmers when you know nothing about it and shouting at people in capitals is extremely rude and bang out of order as is calling me incompetent when you don't even know me or anything about what I did or didn't do
You shouldn’t complain about the price of milk and still call out the vets!!!! Band the bulls the day there born and dehorn every week there after. Vets, lawyers, realtors, thy can’t justify the money. When milk prices get lower I guess you’ll roll up your sleeves and save money by doing it yourself
I get your point. They are vet techs but still an awesome job. I could do them my self but I think I would have to do a course or something to be able too, so we just use them, and cost wise its not to bad, just one of those costs that's built in and we can look to save in other areas.
With all the Vegan and Animal Rights groups, anti-milk campaigns, the more humanely you can show dairy farming is, the stronger the public will continue to support dairy.
A very good and kind way to dehorn the calves Andrew
As a city slicker, it is great that you explain why you do things, keep up the great work and hope the milk price increases
I saw you do this last 2 years. Was the very first video I saw from your channel. Have stayed forever due to your compassion. Way to be!!❤
That is when and how I found this channel too. 😊
Love watching the new calf feeding, and the start of a new season, best time of the year....
Very efficient veterinary team 👌💪
I watch you have this done every year and still say it’s the best easiest and safest way I was speaking with a stocksman few weeks back and he agrees this is by far the best way for the calves 😊
You’ll be glad when calving is finished, such a lot of work to do now Spring has arrived.
Yes Andrew I have seen a cow in the herd with quite large horns. She must be quite a good producer otherwise I think you would have on the truck. Thanks for the video Mate
Great job Andrew 👍
It will be interesting to see if the cows with extra teats create more calves with extra teats. I believe that that is a genetic trait.
Sounds like one of those bulls you picked throws extra teats!
Interesting point, I need to wait to get my DNA results back and then I can see how many of them had the same sire
Loved your line, " when i leave the farm i start spending money "😅😂😊
Three Vets cannot be cheap.
Usually one or 2 is a trainee in this case and hence doesn't cost as much,
Some universities offer the trainees on a very low rate to help with passing there study :)
@jessegregory4667 my wife's Niece is now a qualified vet having graduated from Glasgow Vet school.
I don’t think all 3 were Veterinarians - other two, Vet Techs
Do you look to see if particular cows or bulls are throwing the extra teats? We get them in our sheep and generally cull for it.
Hope your vets are better value, than here in UK. In last few years their charges are ridiculous, it’s difficult to get large animal vets , the new vets want to stand around in surgery, not travel to farms.
We used to just inject a local then use a hot disbudding iron . never put them to sleep or had a vet out.
I was about to say you are lucky to get a UK vet to come out. What a brilliant team of ladies. You would need a second mortgage for that service in the UK
We must be lucky we have a good large animal practice. Will home out any time day or night if needed. North Lincolnshire UK. Yes it costs a bit of money £150 generally for a basic visit plus bits but if you need them you need them
What's going on here? Why are the vets putting them to sleep? This is disturbing.
He has an accent and hard to understand him.?????
Good afternoon...sitting in Muscat waiting for the Opening game of the World Cup. Just want to drop a message - Go the Blacks, Hope for a big win against the French tonight. Chemistry expat teacher from SA, in Oman
Same here in Ireland got very expensive
Still not convinced this is the best way, or at least its not necessary. We still disbud with the crush and hot iron and with the use of trisolfen i cant think of a reason to change. Would be interesting to cost it up too?!
Nothing wrong with doing them like that too, Its just easy to do them in the pens by knocking them out. If its working then definitely no need to change
To knock them out , has to be done by a vet.
Whereas farmers can only use the local anesthetic and have to be trained to put that in the correct place.
I do the same as the Andrew
Great stuff Andrew, I do it the same way, vet comes out as I dont have any staff and i dont fancy a training course on injecting the local
I dont have the time really on any one day. So im the shaver person.
He does the rest
😂
Just makes the job so quick and easy
Hi Andrew - enjoy your channel. We have family in NZ who milk (we are Aussies). You may have mentioned it previously but probably missed it - what do you do with the bull calves and excess heifers calves? Cheers
Great video
Hi I like your video
Vets doing good
How do you get your cows to calve so close together?
Are you allowed to use that grass hormone to increase growth , RyzUp or similar?
Love the video
I'm vet from indonesia , 😊
No sure if you will see this bro but i use adobe scan on my phone to scan document. Saves going to my house to scan stuff
Cheers mate I’ll definitely look into that one, sounds good thanks 👍
Those extra or pseudoteats are a hereditary trait. So it would pay to trace the bloodline and try to breed it out rather then only snip them off. It is also why you see more of them over the generations.
What do you drench the valves with Andrew? thanks
I love this farmer for doing this. Dehorning is painful and traumatic when they are awake.
Good to see you didn’t kill your calves😉😁. Have you thought about using a gate timer for the cows going to the feed pad early in the morning and give them a 24h break in the paddock. Freeing you up in the avo. Great video
Thought I’d give it a go again 😂😉
I have thought about doing it in the arvo, but I don’t I can do 24hour grazing as some of the paddocks and the feed pad are too far away.
If the cow shed was more central then I’d definitely consider it.
I read another one of your comments but I hadn’t responded yet sorry, but you should undersow your damaged areas and just fence them off if they’re big enough, your drills perfect for doing it 👌
@@TheOnceADayFarmer i thought that might have been the case that your feed pad was to far away. 👍 might have to do some drilling then
@FamilyFarmingandFun yeah I reckon, give it a go, I’d be interested to see how it turns out 👍
Are there any good jersey PP bulls available, that would do the trick as well.
We do oure own dehorning the vet only puts them down and i never heard of not feeding them fore 3 ours before but i think it makes sence
It's the same when humans get put to sleep for various reasons, they cannot eat prior to that
Can you not do the dehorning yourself in NZ? Like we do here in the UK?
If you get the right tickets you can 👍
59 in 1 1/2 hours that good going and completely stress free for operator and animal. Would be interesting to know what the vets charged for that but even if it was £10 to £15 each it would be money well spent in my opinion. Economies of scale will work in your favour
You can also take a cell phone photo of the original white copy of the vet paperwork, as it's easier to read and then just email it to your computer and save it to file.
What do they knock them out with adrenacaine or something stronger?
They love the camera aye :-)
Do you think the extra teats are caused by unproven genomic bulls Andrew ?
I lost my best cow to a freak horn stabbing
We had a small number of calves that didn't get properly dehorned when the bosses sons were practicing for college as a result we ended up with a small number of cows with horns and one liked to use them bullying others in the collecting yard at milking
And this particular day she was thrashing her head around and stabbed my best cow inside the wall of her vagina despite the vet arriving fast she had to be put down as she was bleeding out and she couldn't be saved I was gutted she was my best milker and on course for over 11,000 litres that lactation
Needless to say I got the vet to cut that cows horns off whilst he was there with the cheese wire
@@sharoneastwood.1025 why have a go at me for something that happened 30 years ago I take it your part of the clueless vegan brigade slating farmers when you know nothing about it and shouting at people in capitals is extremely rude and bang out of order as is calling me incompetent when you don't even know me or anything about what I did or didn't do
How do you know all the calves got to eat their share?
Some will drink more than others but they all get some, and have full tummies
Easy
Would I be correct if I guess NZ has just one university for teaching and licensing vets?
So does the neathrlands
Hi sir I'm interested to work your farm
When I was a kid we would dehorn our calves without any pain killer or anesthesia… wow
De horning your calves is an important job to do so that they don't have horns Latter
Why do you need to de- horn them?
I explain why at the end
Ok that's what I was thinking!
Why this vet's are cute
What the heck are you doing to those poor baby😢
Watch the video and you’ll find out
😂
very sad
😂😂😂
Check-out how many views for this
crazy aye haha
Brother very nice plese send me some kids plzzzzzz😂😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉
You shouldn’t complain about the price of milk and still call out the vets!!!! Band the bulls the day there born and dehorn every week there after. Vets, lawyers, realtors, thy can’t justify the money. When milk prices get lower I guess you’ll roll up your sleeves and save money by doing it yourself
I get your point. They are vet techs but still an awesome job. I could do them my self but I think I would have to do a course or something to be able too, so we just use them, and cost wise its not to bad, just one of those costs that's built in and we can look to save in other areas.
With all the Vegan and Animal Rights groups, anti-milk campaigns, the more humanely you can show dairy farming is, the stronger the public will continue to support dairy.
Hi I like your video