Such a neat video. I absolutely love getting tours of peoples properties, hearing about the history of the place, and how they use it. Thanks for sharing!
Nice video mate. Came here on the back of a Tom Pemberton Farm comment and here to stay. Keep up the amazing job. It blows my mind to see in New Zealand you milk outdoors.
Incredible views. Interesting tour. Thank you for sharing. Very nice looking stock. I visited NZ once and throughly enjoyed the visit and friendly people. 🐂🐂😷👍
Amaizing vídeo! Cheers from Uruguay! I was in new Zealand un 2012 & 2013 fairy farming. Wathing this video make me rememeber those incredible years and amaizing expirience I had in nz.
What a lovely place!! I have been dreaming of sleeping overnight in a wooden shed in a farm like this! With food and plenty of black coffee and sleeping on hay all wrapped up in warm blankets!!
I've just started work on a dairy here in AU, we milk about 400 cows twice daily on a 20 per side. I must say your vat room and store room is very well kept, mine is covered in dust and cobwebs and insects.
@@TheOnceADayFarmer 3 hours all up once everything is hosed down. Thats with two blokes milking and just me on the hosedown. Normally one of us goes and does odd jobs that need doing while milking and that can result in a little longer milking or sometimes we can run half an hour quicker if the cows are in good spirits and move around easily.
Hi, Just sitting here in N.Ireland with my sister Genny who lived in New Zealand for a few years. She was wondering what part you live in. Cheers. Great videos and fantastic cattle. Love the Jersey. Cattle that is.
Been going through all your videos and New Zealand definitely has a far different farming style then here in the states. Also your farm is beautiful and I’m jealous of that milking parlor with a view!
Thanks! we have a really mild climate compared to you over there. We don’t get any snow, tornados or cyclones. So the need for infrastructure is a bit less
@@TheOnceADayFarmer that’s awesome! Makes me super jealous because here in Washington we get freezing temperatures and like 4 feet of rain every year lol
Still dairying like the seventies , not that there is anything wrong with that , just labour intensive, my dads friend farmed the same but when they dried the cows up , they worked on clearing and fencing . Lovely spot by the looks of it , I'm in tassie
Hey thanks for watching! yeah I realise some of our practices are pretty old school but it works for us, I would like to update a few things in the future, to save a bit of time here and there.
your videos are great, thank you. amazing how many differences there are between NZ and Scotland. also, all of your cows are Jersey?Some of them look like they have some Guernsey in them, with the white patches. I spent a lot of time in the island of Jersey as a child, and they are one of my favorite cattle.
I found this channel from a Tom Pemberton Farm video comment too. I'm looking forward to seeing more of how farms run in NZ. Viewer from California, USA.
@@TheOnceADayFarmer the Bale Off Challenge video he just posted. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-glcuMGhaxVY.html. @ Scott Bradley gave you a shout out!
Awesome video mate, no frills just the way it is. Beautiful herd and block of land. I'm heading to Ashburton next week. Leaving Auckland and going back to milking cows after 40yrs. Happy with my decision. Make some more vids man. Thanks
Hi Mate, I have a massive 7 ha block in Pirongia, All the gear with no idea type, if you ever need some free weekend labour i am always keen so i can learn more about stock as i have 10 of my own which has been a step learning curve for a guy new to rural life
Ok I'm from Michigan in USA. You're talking about drenching your cattle. What does that mean? Here to get drenched means to get soaked with water. Like getting caught in the rain
Great looking farm..I grew up on a 250 head Jersey dairy.. we had 186 on line ..did our own A.I Our milk barn was a 12 stall flat ( oh my back 🤦😂) Do you measure the butter fat content? We sold direct to a creamery so the better the butterfat the more $
That’s awesome 👍 sounds painful milking that way tho 😩 Our fat percentage at the moment is about 5.9%, we get paid in milk solids here so about 10 litres is a MS give or take
Beautiful farm !!! How much are your cows producing oad in the season ? I'm dairy farmer in south chile So enjoy your videos ..... Please keep coming . Cheers
@@TheOnceADayFarmerHello from Ireland been on OAD for 5 years. what is the variation between the high production group and low. Do you know what your hiefers are doing? I find its nearly third lacation before i am happy with thier level of production?
@@michaelfitzgerald1259 Hey! Thats a good question and to be honest i'm not to sure what the difference is, but I will be herd testing soon so i'll try and work it out. The production from the individual heifers ranges quite a bit but I reckon through the peak they might average about 0.9 - 1 I find in their 2nd lactation they do pretty well but yeah they pump in the 4th. OAD in ireland would be quite rare?
@@TheOnceADayFarmer Nice, respect man. You must have really efficient pasture management and good forage yield since you are able to feed there more than 300 cows.
Not to sure, it’s had more rain this year tho. Our neighbour has done a trial so be interesting to see what he finds when it comes off. No I always keep the population the same, it’s on the low side but that’s what I want
Brother farmer. Forgot your name. Bro. Hearing the history, of your family farm & cowshed & how you introduce your pop ( grandfather, got to have a grandmother to.) Alsum. Will subscribe your channel.
Yeah would be easier probably but I like drenching as I know all the cows are getting the same amount. If we built a new shed one day I’d definitely look at getting a dosatron tho!
@@TheOnceADayFarmer yeah ACR's are the go, I wouldn't be able to go back now. The different milking times between cows are seen easily and very surprising.
@@TheOnceADayFarmer yeah I do 300 friesen cow in a 28 a side with the acr's and inline shed feed in 2.5 hrs in spring and now with 260 in 1.45hrs twice a day on my own . But with a 16 aside the wouldn't make to much difference and once a day make it easy. Keep up the good work
Suits our system and lifestyle. We have a small cow shed and milking takes a while which isn’t to bad if your only milking once a day. Also easier on the cows. Plus we can get really dry in the summer so a lot of people go OAD at some point, we just don it from the start 👍
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At 0:24, what is that triangular thing floating in the sky in the background? Is that a drone or a kite or? Also, at 2:01, is that Kapiti Island in the background? I grew up in Paraparaumu but live in Europe now, as far as i know from family back home all the back farms that we used have have behind the house are all developed now. Here in Poland I've got 9 Dexters for meat and one Jersey for milk - I only milk her once a day too, all the neighbors laughed at me and thought I was crazy and that OAD milking was impossible. But I proved them wrong.
Hi there, there's a wire going from the tractor shed to water tank that carries power to the farm fences and that triangle thing is just a visual aid so truck drivers can see it. No not kapiti Island, i'm up in the waikato. Thanks for watching
Hey are you that guy on Instagram coshquin farm? Also seems kind of bizarre to me that you milk in the 16 a sidr even though you have a larger although older shed which is right next to the feedpad and closer to your house
Yep that’s my Insta page. Yeah I know what you mean, but that older shed is really run down and would cost a heap to get back up running, where the smaller shed is well set up with Effluent storage etc and it’s right next to the calf shed. A new 30ashb shed would be nice one day.
Nice setups. really cost effective. But as european i dont quite understand how you time the Calving season. Here in northern Germany farmers just AI all year basically. How does it work out with the heifers then? When do they get set of milk and when do they get the first calve?
Hey man, good question. All the replacement heifers are born within 5 weeks of each other so when they go the bull at 15 months old they are all cycling together. Hope that answered your question?
