These Bales Are Massive! I've Never Brought These Before
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- Finch's are delivering a unit load of straw which I ordered a couple of weeks ago as I was running out of feed fast.
I've never brought straw before and it's come all the way from Canterbury which doesn't make it cheap but I think its the best feed for my situation
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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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You should have put a couple bales on your back spikes,anything helps for balance.
The bales are ryegrass straw,a by product of harvesting grass seed.
Rye is a straw by product of harvesting ryecorn.
I did think of that after I had unloaded them, live and learn for next time
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Hi Andrew as always a great informative video. Just wondering what time should i turn up for the steaks on the bbq 😂. You most welcome to our canterbury rocks as they say sharing is caring 😉. Yes the bales are a cost to get there but at the end of the day money well spent to reduce other issues with the cows. Can i suggest using the bales likely to get wet first
A good tip with the straw bales is to cut the strings at the knot. That way you can pull them out easily and not snag the knot all the way.
Definitely giving that a go! Thanks
And having that knot at the end makes it far easy to use when you need a piece of string
Yes, definitely easier that way, and easier still if you put the bale on its edge.
ahhhh. noted! cool
You may find there is still feed available in Canterbury you could buy directly from the baling contractors. Some of it will still be stacked on farm so you would avoid paying for double or triple handling.
I am looking from Bangladesh, I want to buy a jersey calf
that cow 72 with the horns you can remove them putting castrating rings on them close to the head not sure if there are restrictions in nz doing it but works well takes around 1 month to fall off and they dont bleed much
I don’t think we’re allowed to do it anymore to be honest.
Another great video Andrew, yea we find feeding silage thats gone to seedhead fantastic for dry cows, low in potassium and keeps them full, looks bloody awful in the field tho, keep the videos coming 👍
Great dry cow feed, Thanks mate
We are completely opposite up here cows are calving early 27 in this morning, officially start calving on the 25th. That straw will be good value. Great video
Cool video Andrew. Is this sexed semen calves on the floor
To be honest I haven’t even looked, there was only a handful of them 🤷
Great video as always. That meat looks really yummy. Your explanations are very helpful
Have you ever thought about or done crossbreeding? I thought you said something about Ayrshire many videos back. What happens with the jersey bull calves?
No not really, happy to just have pure jersey. My cousins had Ayrshire herds but there’s not a lot of them around now
The royalties we pay in Canterbury for ryegrass straw ia defiantly starting get out of hand. With increasing costs for baling along with high royalties I can see people moving off straw if they can 😢
Yeah you could definitely see why and I guess it’s never going to get cheaper 🤷
If you load bale on it’s side you don’t have to drag strings thru, just cut and walk around it. Just have to have it sitting nice so it doesn’t fall off side. They do 8 string 750-800 kg Lucerne bales over here in Aust. Ya know when ya got them on the FEL.
Wow really! I never new they had an 8 string baler but far out those would be massive!
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I remember in February 2020 buying bales up from a big well known station near Taupo or somewhere like that, cost me $150 each
Great catching up with cousins 😊.
Long haul for straw.😮
Great video.
A guy over here on TH-cam grew some forage rye this year to cut for round bale haylage for his beef suckler heard it was 6ft high when he cut it and so thick the mower only just went through it
He also had herbal leys and between the two he had an enormous crop of over a 1000 round bales off his first cut
👀🙄🐾👍It will be good to hear what you think of the meat looks like you could do to invest in some rear wheel weighs for the tractor
As they say mate fat adds flavour. That steak will be excellent.
Those steaks look amazing Andrew 👌🏻👌🏻🍻
Can you mix the straw bales in your mixer wagon
I wondered that mix it in with the maize
Unfortunately no, my Keenan doesn’t have straw choppers in it
Their is usual plenty of rye straw advertised on Trade Me after Christmas
Hello mate.nice positive video.thanks and take care.
Better than those small idiot bricks ;)
Big heavy bales are good value for money cause some bales you get can be hit and miss.... There should be a standard... I've found the stuff you get from Canterbury is well baled by good contractors... How much did you pay
$250 delivered
Good morning Andrew have a great day today ❤🇨🇦
Do you mind me asking how much is each bale costing Andrew?, they cost about €60 here in Ireland. In euros please if you can Andrew. Just interesting to compare.
Looks like they would be around €85 not including freight
@@TheOnceADayFarmer wow that's expensive
Good to try something new 😄
3 by 4’s are the way to go .
I bale close to 20 thousand of them each season.
You did a good job for the first time handling them.
Jeepers thats a few!
@@TheOnceADayFarmer 90% of them are baled at night. We have to chase the moisture.
Your cows don't seem bothered about being seperated from their calves
Nah they just want to eat grass 😅
KIA ORA! I am new to farming after 12 years in the building industry. Thank you for the inspiration to start my own TH-cam channel!
Thats awesome Duncan! Geez having a building skills would be bloody handy farming! Where abouts do you farm?
@@TheOnceADayFarmer Yeah it’s pretty handy alright, ah we up in Coroglen on the coromandel peninsular. In the heart of calving, but going really good. How you guys doing?
Andrew how many cows are you going to be milking this season
Plan on 300 bob, how’s things over your way?
Tip with big bales is to remove a few strings before placing on the feeder
Might give that a try too! Thanks
Put your knots at the top and string pull out easy
Perfect 👌
I bet having a cab on the tractor in the wet weather is a game changer
Very handy!
You don't put any molasses on the straw ?
Nah but it’s a good idea
Love your videos mate
Thanks
You should of put a bale on back spikes as a counter weight
I did think about that.. after 😂
@@TheOnceADayFarmeror just the bale feeder 😂
Very interesting video.. I guess the straw/hay comes across Cook Strait on the inter-island ferries or is there a dedicated ferry for such large loads and semi’s?
Yes, the hay/ straw between the NI & SI is usually brought across on curtain-sider truck and trailers on the ferries. Hay/ straw has to be well tarped if on an open deck truck. Bluebridge rules- "Hay and straw must be booked through our Freight team on approved sailings only." Towed barges have been used at times of drought to shift hay between islands. (Jim Barker- Freightlines/ Otorohanga & Strait Shipping, was one of the people who made the between-island 'on-truck' ag-product trade more common)
@@alanb9337 thank you, that’s very interesting, having travelled on the ferries before I had not thought about how freight is moved :)