First Time Teat Sealing The Heifers & Building Plan Revealed For Old Milking Shed Site
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 พ.ย. 2024
- I’ve convinced Dad to let me try teat sealing the heifers for the first time ever this year to hopefully reduce mastitis at calving.
Reese is also making great progress with the digger and the cowshed area is really looking tidy and a lot different.
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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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118 Bank Road
RD3 Ohaupo 3883
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Nice looking heifers Andrew
Great job ladies
Great video Andrew
Very enjoyable video, Being a kiwi who hasn't been on a NZ arm for a few years I can still smell the air of the land as you show the beautiful winters evening xx
Nice and still winters evening are soo peaceful 👌
You could totally sell your cows as house cows at the end of the season, they seem so quiet and well handled. Get more money for them too then sending them to the works.
Yes they are quite quiet but I don’t think there’s a market for house cows unfortunately
Wow !!! That project got big pretty quickly.
To Andrew it’s really nice too See achieve you goal. But it’s also really nice that you are cleaning up the farm too.And the Works finished Andrew it’s going to look really nice. I would like to See all your tractor implements in Sheds too especially as they Cost So much. And l really enjoy your farm Videos too Andrew
Slowly tidying it up, dads a real neat freak which is a good thing!
Most of the implements are but yes I don’t have enough room for some of them 🤷
Thanks for watching, really appreciate it 🙏
It's amazing how thin your topsoil is. Nice work on the teat sealing and future shed.
Happy for your new shed.
Thanks 🙏
Got a Rata claw about six months ago, it’s awesome, has so many uses.
Awesome! I reckon you’d use it way more than you think 👌
Yes sir
Great video Andrew, looking forward to seeing how teat sealing works going forwards , those Heifers were really well behaved
Be great to have the new shed up and have more storage and calf rearing space.
So glad you got some decent rain at last especially for that new sown grass
Same here! Hopefully it works 🤞
Can’t wait for the new shed!
Brilliant Andrew, great video.
So good to see the rats are taking the bait, it's be great if some die in the nest as the others will eat the poisoned body. 👍🏼
Can't wait to see the new shed go up and how the field turns out after the bully is finished with it. 👌🏼
Yeah they’re nailing it big time!! Surely their numbers must be dwindling massively 🤞
@@TheOnceADayFarmer 🤞🏼 hopefully. Keep feeding the bas@#$d's and perhaps your pit will finally be left alone.
Here’s hoping 🤞😅
The Rata grabs are awesome, we got some last year for our fire wood and other farm work
Very jealous 😂
Very interesting video Andrew. Hope the teat seal reduces instances of mastitis 👍
Same here 🤞
Sad sometimes to see the old infrastructure go, reminds ya about the times past and how the old boys did it but then always looks tidy and clean when gone. We have done teat seal for a few years now been good didn't have one case of mastitis in the heifers when they came in and didn't loose any quarters which happened in previous seasons
I totally get what you mean, but didn’t have to much sentimental value to me I do like my history so try and keep what I can 👍
Hopefully they test seal works really well 🤞
I was hoping for another feed pad lol, not sure if that location was gonna suit but here was hoping haha....however I'd be terribly jealous if it was lol
I suppose storage space is also needed too lol
Haha it would be good having a proper one, I could use for both herds 😂🤞
Can’t have to much space 😅
We have teat sealed our heifers the last 3 years, we calve at Feb/March in australia and the dust used to cause us mastitis issues. Which then lead to weak quarters and culls like you said. Definitely worth doing we think
That’s what I’m hoping I’m going to avoid cows like that, saves money doing it if it cuts down mastitis cases I reckon
Cracker video Andrew, I'm going to help a mate teatseal his heifers today and doing ours on Friday, those Rata grabs are great multi tools there's Anbo and The Taupo hand aswell. Having all your replacements in one place will be great 👍
Never heard of Anbo but those Taupo hands are built pretty well, a bit pricey tho 😅
@@TheOnceADayFarmer yeah I think they are an American company rino attachments were a supplier in NZ.
Great video again Andrew, if we dug a hole that deep here in Ireland it would be full of water with springs and surface water. Great job done there mate. The teat sealing is a good job. Are your heifers easy to train in the parlour?.
😂. They’re usually not to bad to train but you always get a few that take a bit longer, hopefully this year all this will have made it a bit easier 🤞
Isn't teat sealing excessively painful for the cow, during their dry-off period?
No, they don’t seem to mind to too much, but it’s far better than them getting mastitis 👍
I was just wondering what difference a grader blade for the back of your tractors would make on the farm roads?
They work alright I think, haven’t used one before but dad used to
Looking good. A good way too get rid of rats is milk in a bucket 3/4 full they climb up fall in can not get out more efficient than any poison all so no chance of poisoning pets
That sounds like it’d work pretty well, and you’d get to see how many you got 👌
@@TheOnceADayFarmer I got 7 rats in 24 hours
Jes those jerseys are so quiet.i would like to do my heifers but they kick like hell.its terrible when heifers get mastitis..with your heifers outside would u get much mastitis.ours would be on cubicles and more likely to pick up infection.
I was really surprised as well at them being so quiet! Depends how wet the winter is, but last year I did have a few cases so hopefully I don’t get many now 🤞
Why do you use jersey sweeper bulls if you don’t want the heifer or bull calf offspring from them?
Easy calving
@@JamesOBrien2253 Surely there are other easy calving beef options?
@@andrewgardiner251 who would want a beef calf off a jersey cow anyway never get enough weight on them
Yep easy calving, I could use beef but not many people want jersey beef calves, where as I can sell some jersey bull calves for calf rearers for service bulls
Got a Rata grapple on my list to
Would be soo handy!
Heh Andrew, can we have an update on the new pup? Cheers
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Hello can i ask does a dairy farmer producing the methane?
Cows produce methane
@@TheOnceADayFarmer its caused by farmers why cows produce methane?
No farmers don’t produce methane, cows do when they burp
@@TheOnceADayFarmer does the NZ govt. doing something to eliminate or minimize cows producin methane?
Yes there’s a lot of research going into lowing it. How ever methane is a short term gas which lasts for about 12 years compared to CO2 which is about 300-1000
Was it orbaseal you used?
Ooo I’m not sure what it was called sorry
Any advice for someone just coming into dairy farming in nz?
Have a great attitude to want to learn and listen.
Being on time is late.
And own up to your mistakes, everyone makes them just be honest about it and it makes it so much better 👌
@@TheOnceADayFarmer thanks for the advice man! I'll start making sure I'm on time (early) and work on bettering my attitude, I'm already all about farming haha. I think working on closing my mouth and listening a bit more is good too 😅
I've been honest about my mistakes and it really does make things easier and better on the coworker relationships too, I can testify to that advice!
Thanks heaps! I really enjoy watching your farming style and learning from your experience in my downtime.
Keep it up dude, Kia kaha and I'll see u in the next upload
I have to say I'm confused why you are teat sealing hefier, yes I absolutely understand the benefits, but why not do the cows? I've done cows for many years, but never attempted to do hefiers, I should add mastitis rates in hefiers have always been twice as high as in cows
Works well with cows, it can work well with heifers but you have to be very careful as you’re introducing a foreign object into a heifers teat which has never been opened before which brings a risk in itself, hygiene is essential or you can end up doing more harm than good, It’s commonly practiced in Nz much less so in Ireland where I’m farming
To be honest I’d love to do the cows, I just need to get the boss man onboard 🤞
It was an easier pitch to do 70 rather than 240.
Alot of people around my area also just go there heifers as well.
Interesting how in America we call a bulldozer a dozer, but you folks call it a bully. I guess we each just cut of one end. Good video, keep them coming.
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Why don’t you teat seal the cows? We used to do the cows and heifers last season we just did the cows worked fine. And save some money and get some mates to help you👍
Small steps first 😂 ideally I would love to do the cows but I’m not allowed. Had quite a few mastitis cases in the heifers last season so looking to improve it this year 👍
@@TheOnceADayFarmer 👍
If you have a good heifer and she is dry why do u not give her another chance to get pregnant
Doesn’t fit with our system and we usually one get 2 that are empty and we need meat for the freezer so they go in there 👍
Andrew why spend money on vets to do something that can easily done by you and dad.
Just easier for them to do it, I’d rather pay them, they do an awesome job. Be bit of a mission but could probably do them ourselves 🤷