Dairy farming New Zealand Milking 2400 cows in Canterbury

A nice and relaxed saturday morning at Singletree dairies in March 2024. Checking all the herds are happy and have plenty of grass plus giving a few cows a manicure.
Contents of this Video:
00:00-Welcome to our large scale dairy farm NZ
01:40-Introducing Danvie
02:38-Explaining our five milking herds totaling 2400 cows
03:39-Introducing Maddie
04:26-Introducing Jonah
04:47-Showing our farm office
05:51-Milking cows
07:15-Trimming cows hoofs
13:05-Purpose of our farm videos

[@FamilyFarmingandFun]

Awesome setup. Great to see another Nz dairy farming channel on KZbin. 2500 cows seems like so many, when I only milk 206😂. Great video

[@johnberry1107]

Yeah!! Recovering dairy-farmer here. 305 acres over half trees and side hills. poor grazing and plenty of need for winter feed doing cows in northern Pennsylvania USA. Great content. Thank you. Cows are getting top care. I like to eat cheap. Water water everywhere. The milk schedule is new to me. 2X, 3X but never every other. Nice. Cross breeds are my favorite on temperament alone.

[@billcowart589]

Just found your channel and subscribed. Very nice setup you have. Your ladies look very content. Thanks for sharing your videos with us. Watching from Georgia in the USA.

[@gerryoconnor8751]

Just subscribed to your channel. Great to hear your comments about your staff. I admire a man who praises his best asset. Cows are looking awesome 👌. From the east of Ireland 🇮🇪.

[@fisherh9111]

Looks like a beautiful farm! Lovely cows too.

[@peasant5612]

Wow , thats a big farm and herd. Thanks for sharing, im up in Northland, this will give me a different perspective to dairy farming in other parts of nz. Incredible how different it is

[@SingleTreeDairiesNZ]

Thanks for subscribing to our farm channel! Lots more videos to come. It's amazing how different our New Zealand farming systems can be at opposite ends of the country hey.

[@NZFarmboy80]

I'm in Northland as well, I farmed in Canterbury for 6 seasons, I miss it, would definitely recommend doing a few seasons down there if you can

[@tonymckeage1028]

Great Video, New Sub here, and an ex canterbury farmer, almost 30 years ago! a little bit of feedback your talking to camera is excellent, try and slow the turning as with a wide angle lens it can feel like the viewer is getting a dose of motion sickness! thanks for sharing

[@SingleTreeDairiesNZ]

Thanks for subscribing Tony and appreciate your advice. This making you tube videos thing is certainly a big learning curve😅

[@plzdont6110]

that's a lot different compared to me😁i'm solo just calve down 180 cows in waikato nice video

[@SingleTreeDairiesNZ]

Thanks very much 🙏 Hope things are going well up in the Waikato 😎

[@joanne26]

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[@lisaward1395]

Notice you are running a mix of Friesian & jersey cows

[@SingleTreeDairiesNZ]

Yes that's right we have quite the mix at Single Tree but predominantly a kiwi cross herd aiming to achieve better productivity, fertility and longevity🐄

[@dixiewishbone5582]

Just found your interesting dairy channel and am a new sub. Am wondering if the dark cows are Jersey cross or of the Australian Illawarra breed? Back in the day in your land herds were sometimes milked with a mobile unit that was taken to the pasture, are such dairies still in existence? Thanks for the interesting video! S. Carolina USA

[@SingleTreeDairiesNZ]

Hey there, Welcome to the channel and thanks for subscribing! The cows at Single Tree dairies are the typical New Zealand kiwi cross. Jersey / Holstein Friesian cross. Launched in 2005 by Livestock improvement corporation and today the most popular breed of dairy cow in NZ.

[@SingleTreeDairiesNZ]

Also most dairy farms in NZ are now equipped with the latest developing technology. But I'm sure there are still some old style mobile milking parlours in operation somewhere in NZ. It would certainly difficult to milk 2500 cows this way😅