The Milking Herd Is Getting Bigger, Officially Another 6 Days Till We Start Calving Though
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ค. 2023
- 4 cows calve today which has more than doubled the milking herd.
I'm pretty much ready for it to start now as everything mostly ready
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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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Great to see you starting the next human generation off as well wirh calf feeding. 😊
We had a cow who was due to calve the next day, she wasn't that bagged up, but still calved.
Everything is looking good. The cows calving early may be a blessing. Would rather milk a few than just 1 or 2
Thats true!
We just had our first cow calf today! 5/8/23
Great looking heifers, looks like your ready to go. Here in KY we are in the dog days of summer, warm and humid, AI breeding winding up, our 1st season with collars, i'd say it was worth it, makes the heat detection a whole lot easier, enjoyed your video as always.
I take that as Kentucky??
Thanks I think they are looking good too.
Its awesome aye! It just takes the guess work out of it and makes life so much easier
Yep im the same back into it 🐄 , seems to sneak up every year. Hoping the weather comes right
Its looking pretty good now, Every year I think I'm going to be more organized than the year before but it never quite happens
Another good video nice to see calving underway albeit a bit earlier than planned
Cracking looking heifers great udder confirmation and in good general condition
Thanks keith
Hello mate.nice catch up video.thanks..take care.
Hi those heifers look amazing good size and condition well done
Good to see how the Heifers are coming along nicely. Great video like always
Thanks 👍
I like seeing the calves
Another wicked video andrew love ya work mate
Cheers mate
Hey mate, love the vids. Have you seen a huge difference in reduction in mastitis in hefiers using teat seal ? Does the cost outweight the benefits ? Love to know some more info (Southland Dairy Farmer)
Thanks! Yes have noticed a massive difference and definitely think its worth while. a couple of seasons ago we had 6-7 that picked up mastitis from calving, then last year was our first year using teat seal and we didn't have any, so a pretty massive improvement.
I think it depends on how much mastitis you get in them in the first place.
Hope that helps, personally I wouldn't not do it again
Lovely heifers Andrew 👍
Thanks
Beautiful video Andrew. Are the collars showing what cows have calfed. Would be Interesting to know what you dad thought of the condition of the cows this year
Ill ask him in one of the next videos, good idea!
Not yet, the update got pushed back a week so hopefully it will soon
I think I started following you when the heifers were being born.
Good point! you've been here for the whole cycle now!
I love watching you're channel but the 1 thing I hate is the alkathene pipe. Shouldn't need it unless you are with bulls Is what I was taught. And the I worked on a farm with 2 Polish guys and they loved it. Every time i found abit of it, guess where it went?? The roof of the shed. We bought a herd of cows and they wernt used to a rotor, so they grabbed pipe. As soon as I saw them do that, I told them to get lost and I will get them in the parlour with out a bit of pipe. And they walked in fine.
The sticks are an extension of our hands, pretty handy for backing cows out etc, there not used as weapons.
Do you have in shed feeding?
@@TheOnceADayFarmer very true but after seeing what those lads did I hate the sight of them lol
@@jacobkay5670 fair enough I’d be pretty ropable if someone was doing that to my cows
👀🙄🐾👍Great video Andy
Thanks 👍
For the reluctant new calf, you might try straight putting the calf onto a teat feeder rather than a bottle, teat feeder allows you to cover both the calf's eyes. Might put out some molasses blocks or similar for the springers as occupational therapy.
Geez that sounds terrible!
One calf and two milkers down here in Te Kuiti... 3 weeks from official start date!
Ahh bugger!
😂😂@@TheOnceADayFarmer
Q. Do you Andrew give any mineral and vitamin supplement, fluke dose, or calf scour vaccine to the calving livestock. As their looking great. Thanks.
Yes we drench for minerals or put it in their feed on the fed pad, but I dont vaccinate for scours or fluke
How long du you have the cow calfes and what happens to the bull calfes?
I keep the heifers as replacements for my herd and the bulls are sold of go to veal
Mate had first calf drop sunday in taranaki
Wont be far until some more arrive
we underway mate have had half of heifers calve thankfully have had to many naughty ones
Wow your definitely into it alright, Ohh that sucks! hope the other half are better
Quick question (from a not a farmer)I also watch another dairy farmer in the UK ( Tom Pemberton) and Irish farmer ( I farm we farm) When they milk the cows are eating at the same time I assume to keep them calm🤷♀️Is there a reason you guys don’t do this is it just personal preference for every farmer or a country thing?
They’re is a farming TH-camr in Ireland called farmer Phil and he went and visited a feed mill and has a tour of up online , it’s maybe a year old at this stage but try typing in “farmer Phil” or “Liffy mills” and you might be able to see the tour of the feed mill if your interested, hope this answers your question 👍
Hey, and I think that's awesome you don't farm but like to watch farmers!
Great question and I think I get what you mean, so over here in NZ we call that in-shed feeding, so when the cows are being milked they are given grain or feed. We don't do do it as it costs a bit to set up and I have a mixer wagon and feed pad so they get that feed on there instead.
I hope that makes sense
I have inshed feeding here in NZ
So they eat while i milk them, was already setup when arrived
Mine are eating a blend of Pke, DDG, Tapioca and a fibre pellet along with minerals.😊
Hi Andrew, just wondering do u freeze your good colostum?
No I dont but I should, If we had a decent cowshed office I'd have a freezer in it and I would then
Do you give your cows cake ❤🇨🇦
No not cake but Buy Palm Kernel
What do you do with the bull calves
Sell them or bobby them
Where do you buy a colostrum tester from
The sources like Shoof/ Shoof stockists (for NZ)
Yeah shoof make them but you can find them in most farming stores like the vets or farm shops
Are you going to twice a day or staying at once a day
Stay OAD
How comes u have calved 10 but haven’t got 10 calves to feed
Slips
They have had a couple of aborts.
some of the early ones don't live as they are too premature
Half an old milk liner, Bit of a choking hazard would u not say u dont want milk in the lungs.
Was thinking that my self , need to b so gentle in the early stage, so the calf comes to you .
Have never had a problem using it before or milk in the lungs, I'm pretty careful
Hello
Sikth season, shouldn't it be sixth season
You sound like my wife. 😂