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Thanks mate. It’s 30 bale but was originally 16 bale. One person milking takes about 1.5-2 hours for 230 cows.

@ awesome mate i milk 160cows 16aside milking takes 1.5hr how are the girls doing production wise?.

Thanks for your comment. It’s so nice to hear that kind of feedback. I’m hoping to make some preserving content this summer as the produce comes in from the garden.

Perfect. We do that with our home garden, it’s a little more tricky on larger scale. Good luck with your crop. 👍

@@ballymullinfarm you don't cut round bale hay?

Thanks so much for watching. 👍

Awesome. Thanks for the advice about Sean’s Yellow. I completely missed that in the description when I bought it. 👍

We really love it. 👍

They get lots of use here on the farm. Very handy.

It’s awesome to be able to bring them up this way. 👍

Yes. That is how we like to grow potatoes in our home garden. It would be a bit tricky for us to do that on such a large scale.

Also, what does "op shop" stand for? I'm assuming it is the same as a thrift shop here in the US? :)

Thank for your comment. Agee Jars are NZ jars that were originally made in NZ but now made in China and unfortunately ones bought today are pretty poor quality. I have found using Le Parfait awesome.

Yes that’s right. It stands for opportunity.

Thanks for watching!

Thanks Michelle. 👍

We don’t actually wash our calf feeders. With our old feeders we would always take them outside and leave them in the rain to wash and the sun to kill bacteria. Our new feeders are in the outside part of the shed so they are in the weather all the time. We do wash our milk tank that we use to fill the feeders.

Thank you, that’s really great to hear!

Thanks Hamish 👍

We have more planned really soon. I’m pleased you enjoyed them.

I usually feed the calves on my own too. Having a simple system makes it heaps easier. Thanks for watching.

Hi there. We do not hire and staff here on our farm. Our farm is not big enough to need extra help. 👍

Our highland herd don’t calve at the same time as our main dairy herd so we kept him separately until he was big enough to go back into the herd.

@@ballymullinfarm got you

Hi, I’m sorry but we don’t have experience will steep land, so I don’t feel like we could be of help to you there.

@@ballymullinfarm that’s ok, thanks for your honesty

Thanks for watching. 👍

@@cowboy2180 awesome. Thanks heaps for watching and subscribing. We appreciate it. 👍

This was an existing shed on the farm. It would have probably cost us $5000 NZ to set this up including timber, gates, new calf feeding equipment. We also try to keep costs down by using things we already have around the farm. Keep in mine that this is the first time in the 20 years we've been farming that we've spent more then a few hundred dollars on our calves.

We have been working towards the goal of milking once a day for the last few years by reducing our debt level and culling for high cell count. At the moment, we milk our heifers once a day all season and we milk the rest of the herd twice a day through until the end of mating and then we go 10 and 7.

@@ballymullinfarm do some farmers milk twice a day until after the peak season then change to once a day for the rest of the season

@@ballymullinfarm could you do a video about twice a day versus once a day for us

@@lukeduke3001 yes that’s in essence what we do but we go 10 in 7 instead of OAD.

That was a really helpful video thanks team. Excellent tips and tricks for what to do. I’m subscribing

Thanks for your comment. To be honest we have pretty relaxed/easy systems since it’s just Lance and I on the farm. I think if we left the calves for too long there would be too many cows and calves in the paddock to manage. We find that it’s a good system because the calves get fresh gold colostrum and we don’t need to worry about keeping that seperate in storage.

Hi Rebecca. Thank you so much for your comment. I am so pleased that you found our video useful. I love canning as well and hope to provide more kiwi content about this over the summer months. Thanks for watching.

@@ballymullinfarm Thanks Claire for your nice reply. An update on my canning: I checked my AGEE 5 jars this morning after canning them yesterday. Interestingly, when I tapped the lids, three of them sounded good, and two of them sounded different. Those two had siphoned and not sealed properly once I took the rings off. I may have filled them a little too much for the type of contents I was canning, so maybe my fault. It was a raw pack Chicken meat cubed in Salsa Sauce with some raw chopped onion and no extra liquid added because the Chicken would also release it's water. But there is definitely a problem with those AGEE Lids with their Rings. So I'm going to sideline them and use better lids and rings next time. Looking forward to your next video.

@@rebeccatiller8413 wow that sounds delicious, it’s a pity about the lids. If you are ok with purchasing from Amazon ForJars lids are really awesome.

Thanks so much for watching. I haven’t tried Kates Kitchen but I haven’t heard great things. How cool is it that back in the day an old coffee jar could be reused for preserving.

That’s awesome. Thank you for watching. It’s exciting when we get to start seeds again aye!! I’m always tempted to start way too many tomatoes.

That sounds awesome. It’s exciting when seed starting time rolls around. I just got some seeds for Artisan Blush, I’ll be excited to see how it goes in our garden and what we think.

Thanks for watching! 👍

Where about is your property? Looking at the mountain you are somewhere south of Opunake.I now live in Aussie, but I was born on the farm at Pihama

Good spotting! It's a small world. We have the best view of the mountain from Pihama!!

@ballymullinfarm Certainly agree about the view,Was back there in May and its changed so much.On the Waitino Rd massive farm amalgamation since I lived there back in the 60s.Cousin still has the original home farm

No problem 👍

Awesome. Sorry it’s taken so long. We’ve had a few ready and waiting editing, just tricky finding time to sit down and do it.

@@ballymullinfarm that's fair enough, it's a busy time of year.

We are really trying to get a bit more consistent with our vlogs. Nice to know you are enjoying them. 👍

@@ballymullinfarm appreciate that hope your season has started well