What I'm Feeding My Cows In The Autumn
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2024
- The diet of my 300 Jersey dairy cows. Today I show you what I feed them in Autumn, it's still a grass based diet with a little bit of supplement fed to keep good condition on the cows as we are coming to the end of our milking season. Feed is also getting a little bit tight as we haven't had any rain for a couple of weeks.
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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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118 Bank Road
RD3 Ohaupo 3883
New Zealand
Thanks For Watching!!!
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very good video,,so many cows , be kind to cows
Its up to you but i have always found it best to skin the bale 1st before you pick it up then you only have to take the net wrap off you would find it easier if you only had 2 tines in the fork that you use
Ahh yeah I might give that a go, sounds like it would work pretty well too
We all have our Party paddocks close to the shed. Great job Cheers..
Great comments at the end about PKE and Carbon emissions. Good to keep the info out there for those that don’t know.
Cheers 👍
Congratulations to N Z !! Your stock always 🐂looks so good. Thank you for sharing! 👍😷
Farm is looking good.
Excellent operation going on...
... and you just gotta love those jerseys 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Thanks!
Boy it's a nice looking farm lovely and green for March
Watching cows grazing is one of the greatest sights! Our grass is just starting to green up here in northern Wisconsin, so hopefully in 4 to 6 weeks we will have grass that is 4 leaf or more and be ready to start grazing
How long do you put the cows outside for?
Thanks for watching!
@@TheOnceADayFarmer On a typical year, I hope to have cows out grazing the paddock system around May 1st and typically graze paddocks through september, then I start grazing cover crops until november, then feed hay and silage until May again!
Good evening I am very much enjoying your videos & fondly remembering my early childhood growing up in Te Awamutu in the 1960’s.
My father was very involved with the establishment of the yacht club & us kids grew up in a very wholesome environment. Looking at your farm and the old red shed next to the disused cow shed reminds me of Ian and Margaret’s farm. They ran from memory a pedigree Ayrshire herd and I was extremely lucky to care for a calf for calf club on their farm. I am now living in Australia and just starting a small beef farm as an interest, which I guess all started many years ago with Ian’s generosity lending me that calf. Would Ian have been by chance your grandfather?
It was a very long time ago and my apologies for being so presumptuous.
Hi David, it really is a small world! Ian’s father and my grandfather were brothers so he’s my Dads 1st cousin.
Yes they did have pedigree Ayreshire’s, when we brought the new block of land, it was off Ian’s son, and he sold the cows about 3 years ago .
I’m living in Ian and Margarets house at the moment but Ian passed away probably 5-6 years ago maybe and Margaret before that.
Thanks so much for your reply Andrew, I have wanted to reach out, but wasn’t sure if my childhood memories were that accurate!! I was fortunate to have stayed in your house sometimes during school holidays.
I can also remember Ian’s old Land Rover, a paddock planted in potatoes each year and the construction of his new herringbone shed.
I wish you well with your channel it’s really great to have you showcasing farming life in NZ and of course the Waikato.
Best
David
Thanks David!
A great video, my first time here! I just LOVE the jersey cows. They are so beautiful looking. You have a great life style, enjoy it! 😊
Thanks Linda!
One girl got to keep her horns. I wanna hug her! lol I don't care, I think Jersey's are cute as a bugs ear with their horns.
Yeah there’s a few that have them and they are super mean to the other cows with them unfortunately
This is great to watch as a townie working in the public sector in Wellington. Great content to see the 'other side of the fence'
Mate that’s so cool to hear and one of the main reasons I started TH-cam!
That dairy NZ study was interesting i though Australia has been lower than in Canada. I guess huge transport distances probably was the undoing. Still, though it would average out with most milking cows still grazing. Thanks for the video!
Cheers Bro! love watching your videos.
Just watched this video again.
“Cant beat the jerseys I reckon “
😂
In my opinion haha
Greetings from Ireland. Love the video
Thanks! 🤙
I love your set up works well 👍
Thanks 👍
G'day great video mate and love the chickens 👍🐔
It would be cool to see you attempt the 3 bale challenge!!!!!
If someone had of challenged me I might have, but we won’t be feeding any bales out till...Jan/Feb now 👍
Cows in great condition mate 👌
Beautiful views.
Nice
Awesome! Great job! Keep going
Or once every 2 days love your channel buddy there great
Gonna try posting every Tuesday and Friday, but I don’t think I have enough on at the moment to film more than that 🤙
Another great video mate¡
Thanks 🙏
I am from Uruguay. We are second in the list. We have a similar feed sistem, with cows in the padock all day. Nice video and chanell!!!! Bye
Sweet that’s cool! Haven’t had anyone from Uruguay message before!
They run a NZ system over there aye?
@@TheOnceADayFarmer We have a similar sistem. We use diferent pasture and more concentrates in the diets! I worked en NZ in a dairy farm for a year in 2009.
Ahh fair enough 👍 that’s cool then, hope you had a great time in NZ
Great videos,brings back good memories of my time in NZ,how many cows do ye milk?
Thanks! We milk 320 at peak 👍
Awesome video, keep it up
Thanks!
Im just someone who loves dairy farming stuff would love to be are dairy farmer one day
That’s awesome man, and once day I’m sure you will be!
I like newzealand,nice city christhchurch 😊😘🇳🇿
Bring on the smell O vision. I can smell it now, all that stank fodder goodness.
😂👍
we just done maze stacking yesterday and we leave it for 11 days
You leave it for 11 days before you do what with it? Feed it out?
@@TheOnceADayFarmer yep
Landini's are the best tractor!
Ring hustler or check their website re the bale feeder
Great video. What is your herd average Liters per cow/day?
It varies through the season but at the moment about 8 litres/cow.
Wow I didn't know you had a fiat can we have a tractor tour and what do you do with your male calves
Yep one day I’ll do one 👍
Try to sell as many as we can to the calf rearers and the rest go as bobbies
ok could you not try on farm veal
Great vid your cows look so happy running down that hill
we don’t have enough room for that unfortunately
Also, could add a few beats while you do time lapse?
Yeah I should’ve 👍
Jersey cows are nice, but in Germany (where i come from) we have trouble buying them because nobody is breeding them.
Is that because you get paid in litres and most people milk Friesian’s because that produce more?
@@TheOnceADayFarmer That is the main reason. Another reason is that male Jersey calvs (2 weeks old) sell for round about 17 New Zealand Doller (if you are lucky).
@@TheOnceADayFarmer You don't get paid in litres?
Yeah fair enough. Nah we get paid in milk solids.
@@TheOnceADayFarmer Is that because in NZ most of the milk is used to produce products rather and for retail sale is liquid milk?
Is the 1 black cow still a Jersey . And is that Ruepehu (probably spelt wrong) in the background.
Yep still a full jersey, no not Ruapehu, it’s mount Pirongia. You can see Ruapehu down the road a bit on a clear day tho
What price are you getting for your milk and what is your cost of production. Has it risen as has ours has in the last month.
We won’t know till the end of the season but at the moment the mid point for the milk price is $7.60. Don’t know currently what cost of production is but it would be around the $3-4 mark maybe a little higher.
Not really, some products have gone up a little due to shipping costs increasing but it’s not to bad..yet
@@TheOnceADayFarmer hard to work out your system . We're cent per litre. We're around 31 cent per litre base and cost vary between 23 and 25 cents per litre. You have a great advantage having cows out all year with your costs and low machinary costs. Two big costs on irish housing and machinery.
I roughly worked it out that we’re getting 44 cents to the litre (presuming your currency is euros??). But yeah it’s a massive cost saver for us being able to winter cows outside on grass and like you said our machinery costs are pretty low as we just use contractors for the big stuff.
@@TheOnceADayFarmer Jersey milk always gets higher price alright. We're not Jersey here as we're pure fresian as we finish all our cattle from dairy herd. It's our system and its suits our farmWhich is not in one block. Interesting comparison s of different systems. Ta
Palm kernals I am surprised you are using that as a feed product - have you read about buttergate in Canada
No I just had a look now, interesting. Although our butter still goes soft at room temp 🤷
There is a dairy man in Canada called “The big little farmer”he was discussing this just recently have a look
@@TheOnceADayFarmer interesting to see if the info from NZ Dairy came out at the same time as the Canada issue raised it's head - normally a reason any big company comes out with info without being asked
Do you have problems with your father bringing the new ideas, programs and costs ?
Good question! But no not generally, I have to have good reasons behind my ideas but he usually gets on board and most of the time they work well 👍
How you find the pk for lame feet as we got a few wen we started yousing it now we changed to straight canola now we get hardly any
Nah not really, I’ve heard that maize softens there feet up a bit but we hardly ever get any lameness issues.
Can I please try posting once a day
Haha that would be way to hard and I would run out of material really fast! Thanks tho
How much would c couple of loads of maize cost over in NZ?
I think it’s about 31cents /kgDM, so around $700-800 maybe.
That sounds expensive...you'll have to grow more. Great vids by the way.
Yeah it’s bit of a toss up, i think to grow it yourself your looking at around 22-25 cents so would be cheaper but it takes up more land. Thanks much appreciated 👍
Problem is not that anyone would use a bi product that would be dumped anyway. Problem with palmeolie is the deforestation and destruction of soil that follows just so the industries can use it at a cheap filler in products. That part should be banned immediately. And I'm sure that farmers can find something else to add to the feed. Because farmers that use it for feed are not at all creating the problem.
Girls are in good condition
Gopal sutaria diary in India. They have 185 cows. During the time of milking they just call particular cow by her name the cow and his calf voluntary come for milking. They just take milk from two tits other 2 are for the calf. They have just 7 acre and fullfilling the requirement of green grass from that 7 acre. They just buy feed.
Average 12 to 16 times their cows give calf.
I mean can u try posting one a day