If you ever want a complimentary house wash to get the house as sparkling clean as the new garage doors hit us up we are just down the road and happy to do it for you
Evening Andrew. Try stacking your hay bales on old wooden pallets. Saves the bottom ones going rotten as you get air circulating underneath them. Keep up the good work.
Oh man,it's like only yesterday you were getting baked with the sun and now you're dealing with Noah's flood. Great to see the calves are arriving safe and sound 👌
Bloody hell from one extreme to another.appriaciate our shed for cows here during the winter. We're going into temperatures of 30 + .both cows and us not used to this heat
Andrew your doing great pal. Love the farm life of a nz farmer. Hope you and family are well. Its good to see your channel grow as well. Amazing pal. 🏴
Yep the rain has overstayed it welcome plenty of black spots around and we have always run compartments feeders to start . Always easier in the sunshine 👍
Hello Andrew nice to see your cows starting calving. Have not seen a video yours lately nice to watch. Looks like a little to much rain but it will drain and fill up your reservoir for later use. Maybe mice chew you bale string. It's been warm and to dry here crops are suffer some but still good. Have a great day.
it's good that the feeder is lower, it makes the calves bend their neck into the proper position to open up the esophageal groove so the milk goes into the proper stomach. I see so many people hold a calf bottle way up high. Not good. Also, the slower feeding nipple produces more saliva which is highly beneficial to their digestion.
if you were to resow the paddock that gets wet alot of years, you should consider sowing fescue grass, or a fescue/ryegrass hybrid (festullolium). the fescue grasses have deep roots, and can withstand longer during flooding, while penetrating the ground more, making it shed water faster.
Andrew until we switched fully to round bales we made 30-40K of little square bales every year. We always edge stacked hay. It will cure better that way. Plus it protects the strings better too. If I put my cows out on that wet of ground here, they would destroy the field and grass.
Woah that’s all of of bales 😅!! I’m pretty sure they only do the bottom layer here (or that’s what I’ve been taught from a few people anyway 🤷) We are pretty lucky we can have them outside in the winter, all though it does come with it’s challenges
If you built some sort of loafing barn how would that effect your effluent management? Separate to the build cost is there an increase in operating costs?
Would most probably have it running into the cowshed sump, would need to have more storage I think. There’s a ongoing cost annually buying wood chip/sawdust
Afternoon from the uk. It doesn’t seem like twelve months have past since the last batch of calves were born. Bring on the chaos! Your first three look well. What’s currently happening with last years group? Have you picked out any definitive keepers/cullers? Best wishes to the family, stay safe Scott, sub276
I really need to make a trip to Merv’s to see them it’s been to long! But they’re a good group so looking forward to seeing how they go in a couple years time 👌
Andrew when are you going to be able to start shipping milk again and is it legal to sell raw milk in new Zealand and if you built a new parlor would you get a rotary and is delaval popular in new Zealand for milking equipment
Hey Mate. An answer from another kiwi farmer because Andrew looks busy. All milk is meant to be pasteurised but a small volume can be sold as raw milk but it’s not the norm. A lot of NZ dairy shed run DeLaval. We have DeLaval. It may be 1/4 to 1/3rd of sheds are DeLaval. Hope this helps.
Thanks Adam! Great reply I also think that if you sell raw milk it can only be sold on farm, so people have to come and buy it, you can’t deliver it, not 100% on that one tho. Our location would be good for selling raw milk tho. If I went new I would probably stick to herringbone as they are a bit cheaper, depends on the amount of cows your milking too
With that amount of water around have you every thought of putting in an irrigation pond for the summer and could you not have a paddock with an area of wood chips on it for wet weather cheers Andrew
It’s have to be a massive pond and I don’t think I could get a resource consent for it to be honest. Could do in one corner of a paddock but would have questions regarding effluent seepage from it 👍
Sexing that calf hilarious, good on you Andrew. Wish I could wrap up some better weather for you guys. But then again if you could the mail service worker would be overloaded and having a bad day, so better not.
Hi Andrew not been a know all or prick,cause I really enjoy your videos but are your cows getting enough nutrition?.To me the cows aren't bagged up enough and calves are to light,signs cows are struggling. It's easy to work out dry matter per heactare and therefore m/j of every. Divide cows by area etc to see if they are getting enough to eat.
@@harryfoot7752 what are you talking about?? Cause they are dry but not getting enough energy to put on weight and produce a good size fat calf.Thats why they are calving early,cows are struggling so mother nature cuts in and looks after the cow by getting the calf out early.Dont worry done all this years ago and learnt big time.Feed feed feed equals good condition cows equals money in the bank
Yep it’s been a hard summer and cows are definitely lighter than I would’ve liked, there’s not much grass around so very hard to open them up and feeds pretty short so in bit of a tight situation. All though I’m looking at buying more feed this summer to save for next winter. Your definitely right, but I’m looking to fix it in the future 👍
To Andrew l think you Should consider having a bigger food Pad and Shelter for all your Livestock tho really.IT would take a lot of pressure off your Paddocks which are under Water really. IF you where too do this Soon tho . I T would Save you from problems in the Future tho really.l think as you are building a new Calf Sheds you Should consider making it bigger So you can have all your Cows and heifers under cover really. New Zealand weather is changing like here in the UK tho Andrew hotter Summer and Wetter Winters due to Climate change really Your farms looking really good tho . But do consider what l have Said in my message . Thanks Andrew you Send rain too the UK tho it’s So dry especially for the farmers here really all the best Kiwi Shayne in the UK
It would be a huge investment to upgrade the feed pad NZ regulations are getting stricter, he'd be looking at$80- $100k plus just for a covered pad, that would be hard to have 3 separate herds on together then you have to upgrade effluent and so on then to be told oh you'll have to upgrade this aswell the list goes on, we're going through it at the moment he said they would look at it if they were to build a new shed which would be in a different area of the farm from my understanding.
We have had some pretty mild winters in the past couple of years which has made things easier but this is what the winters used to be like, really really wet. Would love to have a covered area where I could put all my stock but to look at doing something of that scale I’d be looking in the millions I reckon. One day tho 🤞
Have you ever had a heifer start making milk before she is bread .mine is I think it's either she's getting hormones from drinking off her mom when I'm not looking or false pregnancy. I don't know what to do.
If you ever want a complimentary house wash to get the house as sparkling clean as the new garage doors hit us up we are just down the road and happy to do it for you
Cheers I’ll keep it in mind 👌
Evening Andrew. Try stacking your hay bales on old wooden pallets. Saves the bottom ones going rotten as you get air circulating underneath them. Keep up the good work.
Great idea 👌
We feed a lot of hay so I put my old half ton urea bags on the floor of the barn.... The bottom bales are as clean as the day they were put away
That’d work great 👍
Oh man,it's like only yesterday you were getting baked with the sun and now you're dealing with Noah's flood.
Great to see the calves are arriving safe and sound 👌
One day at a time, try to minimise the damage, has been a rather wet winter, the joys of being a farmer:)
There’s always something 🤷
Would be keen to see some compost barns and how they are performing through the Winter. Also the cost. Thanks for the videos.
Bloody hell from one extreme to another.appriaciate our shed for cows here during the winter. We're going into temperatures of 30 + .both cows and us not used to this heat
Tough going Andrew, from drought to flooding so quickly, but it will get better 👍
Andrew your doing great pal. Love the farm life of a nz farmer. Hope you and family are well. Its good to see your channel grow as well. Amazing pal. 🏴
Thanks mate 🙏
Jersey babies are so tiny and cute.
Yep the rain has overstayed it welcome plenty of black spots around and we have always run compartments feeders to start . Always easier in the sunshine 👍
92F today in Maryland. No rain. Need a little. Good Luck.
We had a decent flood through ours in South Otago so cleaning fences today, hopefully it drowned the grass grub 🤣
Ohhh that sucks 😩
Hello Andrew nice to see your cows starting calving. Have not seen a video yours lately nice to watch. Looks like a little to much rain but it will drain and fill up your reservoir for later use. Maybe mice chew you bale string. It's been warm and to dry here crops are suffer some but still good. Have a great day.
Enough rain already! Flooded paddocks second time 2022! Enjoy the sun this weekend!
Love seeing the calves.
it's good that the feeder is lower, it makes the calves bend their neck into the proper position to open up the esophageal groove so the milk goes into the proper stomach. I see so many people hold a calf bottle way up high. Not good.
Also, the slower feeding nipple produces more saliva which is highly beneficial to their digestion.
I was thinking it’s much more normal like a calf suckling off a cow.
Interesting about the saliva, never thought of that but makes sense 👍
Hi I like your video
Nice
It’s a luxury having a herd home. Great video
Certainly is and there’s some pretty nice ones around 👌
Just found your channel bro....nice. Keep up the good work.
Thanks mate 🙏
if you were to resow the paddock that gets wet alot of years, you should consider sowing fescue grass, or a fescue/ryegrass hybrid (festullolium). the fescue grasses have deep roots, and can withstand longer during flooding, while penetrating the ground more, making it shed water faster.
Interesting 🤔 thanks 🙏
Andrew until we switched fully to round bales we made 30-40K of little square bales every year. We always edge stacked hay. It will cure better that way. Plus it protects the strings better too.
If I put my cows out on that wet of ground here, they would destroy the field and grass.
Woah that’s all of of bales 😅!! I’m pretty sure they only do the bottom layer here (or that’s what I’ve been taught from a few people anyway 🤷)
We are pretty lucky we can have them outside in the winter, all though it does come with it’s challenges
I heard you on the radio at 12!!
Haha awesome 👌
Wet… why don’t you put annual Italian in the low wet paddocks in Spring and get heaps of grazings through summer.
Possibly, don’t know if an annual will be able to handle the summer tho 🤷 was thinking that’s what I might do tho 👌
Don't have that issue with a chain type bale feeder
No that’s certainly one good thing thing about them 👌
I like cow 🐄
If you built some sort of loafing barn how would that effect your effluent management? Separate to the build cost is there an increase in operating costs?
Would most probably have it running into the cowshed sump, would need to have more storage I think.
There’s a ongoing cost annually buying wood chip/sawdust
Have you and your father changed your minds on extending your existing cowshed?
Great video
No we still want to do it, but it’s a massive cost so hopefully we’ll seriously look at it this season or next 👌
Afternoon from the uk. It doesn’t seem like twelve months have past since the last batch of calves were born. Bring on the chaos! Your first three look well. What’s currently happening with last years group? Have you picked out any definitive keepers/cullers? Best wishes to the family, stay safe Scott, sub276
I really need to make a trip to Merv’s to see them it’s been to long! But they’re a good group so looking forward to seeing how they go in a couple years time 👌
Andrew when are you going to be able to start shipping milk again and is it legal to sell raw milk in new Zealand and if you built a new parlor would you get a rotary and is delaval popular in new Zealand for milking equipment
Hey Mate. An answer from another kiwi farmer because Andrew looks busy. All milk is meant to be pasteurised but a small volume can be sold as raw milk but it’s not the norm.
A lot of NZ dairy shed run DeLaval. We have DeLaval. It may be 1/4 to 1/3rd of sheds are DeLaval. Hope this helps.
Thanks Adam! Great reply
I also think that if you sell raw milk it can only be sold on farm, so people have to come and buy it, you can’t deliver it, not 100% on that one tho.
Our location would be good for selling raw milk tho.
If I went new I would probably stick to herringbone as they are a bit cheaper, depends on the amount of cows your milking too
Andrew where are the hens?
Previous videos I saw lots running about 🤷♂️
They’re all up at dads place 😂
With that amount of water around have you every thought of putting in an irrigation pond for the summer and could you not have a paddock with an area of wood chips on it for wet weather cheers Andrew
It’s have to be a massive pond and I don’t think I could get a resource consent for it to be honest.
Could do in one corner of a paddock but would have questions regarding effluent seepage from it 👍
Thanks for your reply Andrew really enjoy your videos keep up the good work I see those carp r a pest so you mite have to do some fishing lol
Is that the old vacuum pump in your Grandfather’s cow shed that you use for a calf pen?
Yep I’d say it is 👍
Sexing that calf hilarious, good on you Andrew.
Wish I could wrap up some better weather for you guys. But then again if you could the mail service worker would be overloaded and having a bad day, so better not.
😂👍
Hi Andrew not been a know all or prick,cause I really enjoy your videos but are your cows getting enough nutrition?.To me the cows aren't bagged up enough and calves are to light,signs cows are struggling. It's easy to work out dry matter per heactare and therefore m/j of every. Divide cows by area etc to see if they are getting enough to eat.
@@harryfoot7752 what are you talking about?? Cause they are dry but not getting enough energy to put on weight and produce a good size fat calf.Thats why they are calving early,cows are struggling so mother nature cuts in and looks after the cow by getting the calf out early.Dont worry done all this years ago and learnt big time.Feed feed feed equals good condition cows equals money in the bank
Yep it’s been a hard summer and cows are definitely lighter than I would’ve liked, there’s not much grass around so very hard to open them up and feeds pretty short so in bit of a tight situation.
All though I’m looking at buying more feed this summer to save for next winter.
Your definitely right, but I’m looking to fix it in the future 👍
do you warm up the milk for the calves? Best regards
No just give it to them luke warm 👍
@@TheOnceADayFarmer thanks for your answer
Is a french drain or tileing an option for the flooding paddocks?
Nah not really, tiles won’t drain if they’re under water 🤷
@@TheOnceADayFarmer yeah! When you showed all the fields with the drone it made it clear there isn't anything you can do. :(
To Andrew l think you Should consider having a bigger food Pad and Shelter for all your Livestock tho really.IT would take a lot of pressure off your Paddocks which are under Water really. IF you where too do this Soon tho . I T would Save you from problems in the Future tho really.l think as you are building a new Calf Sheds you Should consider making it bigger So you can have all your Cows and heifers under cover really. New Zealand weather is changing like here in the UK tho Andrew hotter Summer and Wetter Winters due to Climate change really Your farms looking really good tho . But do consider what l have Said in my message . Thanks Andrew you Send rain too the UK tho it’s So dry especially for the farmers here really all the best Kiwi Shayne in the UK
It would be a huge investment to upgrade the feed pad NZ regulations are getting stricter, he'd be looking at$80- $100k plus just for a covered pad, that would be hard to have 3 separate herds on together then you have to upgrade effluent and so on then to be told oh you'll have to upgrade this aswell the list goes on, we're going through it at the moment he said they would look at it if they were to build a new shed which would be in a different area of the farm from my understanding.
We have had some pretty mild winters in the past couple of years which has made things easier but this is what the winters used to be like, really really wet.
Would love to have a covered area where I could put all my stock but to look at doing something of that scale I’d be looking in the millions I reckon. One day tho 🤞
Have you ever had a heifer start making milk before she is bread .mine is I think it's either she's getting hormones from drinking off her mom when I'm not looking or false pregnancy. I don't know what to do.
I had one that came into milk with out having a calf I think the hormones from flushing fucked her up
Bred NOT bread!!
I haven’t before sorry 🤷