ON THE TRUCK | Selling Sheep & Cattle before winter.

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  • Опубликовано: 17 май 2023
  • Selling lots of cattle and cull ewes before winter starts to bite.
    #sale #cashflow #winter
    My Name is Alistair Bird and My wife Genna and I farm on 'The Grange" near Oxford, North Canterbury, in the South Island of New Zealand.
    Join me as I document our daily life bringing you the highs and lows on a New Zealand Sheep and Beef farm.
    Thanks so much for watching.
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    Our on-farm accommodation is listed on Air BnB www.airbnb.co.nz/rooms/20445220
    Email: kiwifarmernz@gmail.com
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Комментарии • 45

  • @briananderson5634
    @briananderson5634 Год назад +4

    I never cease to be amazed at the range of skills that you need just to operate your farm! Awesome!

    • @kiwifarmernz
      @kiwifarmernz  Год назад +5

      Thanks very much. That is what I'm trying to get out to school kids, that farming is not just shifting animals.

  • @SamoanFarmer
    @SamoanFarmer Год назад +2

    Glad I came across your channel mate.

  • @user-jr3it2ys9b
    @user-jr3it2ys9b 5 месяцев назад

    Hi I like your video

  • @azamyahmad
    @azamyahmad Год назад +1

    Bonjour Monsieur .. welcome back Sir .. loved watching your video channel documentary lifestyle countryside content and as always beautiful sharing and you doing an excellent great job, respect your hard work, keep it up Sir .. take care and stay safe .. Merci beaucoup Monsieur ..

  • @happy-go-luckymammy
    @happy-go-luckymammy Год назад +2

    great video love animals ❤👍

  • @karenr67
    @karenr67 Год назад +1

    This is the first of your videos I've watched. Did subscribe.

  • @garymadden2656
    @garymadden2656 Год назад +1

    Great video Alastair as always 👌

  • @markmeredith5521
    @markmeredith5521 Год назад +4

    Sorry about the empty heifers. Did you pin down a reason..Bull maybe.
    Ewes look really well, did the fly strike calm down,just about to shear over here(flies are about!)

    • @kiwifarmernz
      @kiwifarmernz  Год назад +1

      Thanks. Haven't sorted a reason. Bvd came back negative. Fly has calmed down which is great.

  • @rodmackinnon8497
    @rodmackinnon8497 Год назад +2

    Sure have a lot of stock . . . your fall weather looks a lot better than our spring. Cheers.

    • @kiwifarmernz
      @kiwifarmernz  Год назад

      Our Autumn is generally better than our springs here.

  • @EastmanGav
    @EastmanGav Год назад +2

    Running in gumboots, great training for the next Godzone

  • @ronaldlucas5360
    @ronaldlucas5360 Год назад +1

    Nice video and enjoyed

  • @tonymckeage1028
    @tonymckeage1028 11 месяцев назад

    Great Video, I really enjoy the practical day to day stuff, that shows the modern challenges of farming, thanks for sharing

  • @user-mi7ui8sw1g
    @user-mi7ui8sw1g Год назад +1

    Yeah you can also send your sheep to the Alliance they can handle mutton too. Buy yourself shares with the Alliance more stock you supply them more shares they give
    you. With having flat land as well sheep will get used to you when you are feeding out and shifting brakes every 2nd day. It is good to have cattle to when you have done the sheep side of things over the spring/ summer with selling the lambs and hoggots.

  • @johnjordan4647
    @johnjordan4647 Год назад

    Nice video Alistair. Shame you couldn’t afford to keep the dry heifers but hey as you said “That’s Farming”. You seemed to be a bit flat mate so maybe a jog over a few hills or a spin on the mountain bike to get the energy levels up and the brain in the right space, Mate. Just keep on keeping on 👍

    • @kiwifarmernz
      @kiwifarmernz  Год назад +1

      Thanks John. It's been a tough/busy couple of weeks. Definitely need to get into the hills.

  • @thenewaquarist6318
    @thenewaquarist6318 Год назад

    Missing your videos these days brother as I was and still i am stuck with hectic work.

    • @kiwifarmernz
      @kiwifarmernz  Год назад +1

      Thats no good Ram, hope you are well tho.

    • @thenewaquarist6318
      @thenewaquarist6318 Год назад

      @@kiwifarmernz will surely spend time for my brother n his lovely videos

  • @barbaraharpur360
    @barbaraharpur360 Год назад +1

    Weird question but what happens to their cute suits when they go to the meat works? Do they get biffed or sold to leather workers? Do you profit from them if they are sold?

    • @kiwifarmernz
      @kiwifarmernz  Год назад +1

      Everything gets used and its all built into the price we receive.

  • @user-tf7ju8ix3j
    @user-tf7ju8ix3j Год назад +1

    Do you take the cows down to the lease block and clean up after ewes??

    • @kiwifarmernz
      @kiwifarmernz  Год назад

      We have done in the past but we don't have cattle yards down there which is a pain.

  • @j.r8213
    @j.r8213 Год назад +2

    Great vid Alistair you guy's have it easy here in Ireland cattle are registered national database when registered we get a blue passport back (about a week) with name and address of owner, tag number, herd number, dam tag number on it the passport/card it will also have it's records of tb tests on it 12 month annual tb test can't be sold out of test the card goes with a animal when sold, if that heifer missing a tag was mine I couldn't sell her until i ordered and received a new tag with her number and retagged and now cattle have to have a eid tag too. Ah man yeahs don't know how easy yeah's have it.

    • @kiwifarmernz
      @kiwifarmernz  Год назад +2

      Wow that's intense. Hope that doesn't come here.

  • @patrickaherne3598
    @patrickaherne3598 Год назад +1

    Yeah, you can't afford to keep feeding those heifers over the winter if they're not in calf.

  • @KiwiJim13
    @KiwiJim13 Год назад +1

    👀🙄🐾👍It Looks like you have been getting the rain how do you find the Canam quad?

    • @kiwifarmernz
      @kiwifarmernz  Год назад

      Sure have. I love the outlander it's a great bike.

    • @KiwiJim13
      @KiwiJim13 Год назад

      @@kiwifarmernz Ok any issues?

    • @kiwifarmernz
      @kiwifarmernz  Год назад +1

      @@KiwiJim13 not really. Just usual r and m

    • @KiwiJim13
      @KiwiJim13 Год назад

      @@kiwifarmernz Ok thank you Alistair

  • @Adventure--Vlog
    @Adventure--Vlog Год назад +1

    Hi sir how many acres you farming on

    • @kiwifarmernz
      @kiwifarmernz  Год назад +1

      We have 625 ha so about 1540 acres

  • @user-zc3yk7pf9y
    @user-zc3yk7pf9y Год назад

    Why do you use so many different Agents and companies to sell your livestock?

    • @kiwifarmernz
      @kiwifarmernz  Год назад +4

      Just looking for the best deal, so we are not taking the advice or price from one company.

  • @kennethfromnewzealand8782
    @kennethfromnewzealand8782 11 месяцев назад

    Your confidence, hard work and abilities with a lovely family are admired. NZ not the country I once knew and loved. The socialists and greens in their madness and stupidity taxing and legislating NZ farmers off the land! This is very sad.

    • @kiwifarmernz
      @kiwifarmernz  11 месяцев назад

      Thanks mate. It is a challenge.

  • @user-jr3it2ys9b
    @user-jr3it2ys9b 5 месяцев назад

    Hi I like your video