Thank you for taking this on the journey and this is the first time I ever seen you do repairs of your fence and posts. I really enjoy watching this.
@willyfindlay43984 ай бұрын
Hope your new crossing works well for you and helps the efficiency of the farm.😊
@chuckhenry54874 ай бұрын
Seeing you working on the ramp reminded me when we finally put in a concrete loading ramp ,should have done it earlier. I think we used it 3 times, before we bough a 5th wheel trailer.never used the ramp after that😊 thanks for your videos.nice to see dad still going strong,total Ironman.
@user-vv4cs2vq6t4 ай бұрын
Love your videos and I am now dairy farming at 12 yrs old
@cdemo11864 ай бұрын
Alright Andrew. You can see the whole ramp move as the truck backs into it,might be why the back post on that side is damaged too. Tasty job tidying it up,I think adding the extra fill is the right idea.You could run a board maybe a 2 or 3 inch thick piece down the opposite side so when the trucks reverse in they touch both sides.
@peasant56124 ай бұрын
Cows look like they're milking well for this time of year
@pixie7064 ай бұрын
Have you considered changing the dry cow product or maybe treating cows before using dry cow.
@ianhaggart14384 ай бұрын
Nice work on the vid.. your getting a dab hand at one hand working and talking to yourself 😂😊.. nice work again .. stay safe 🏴
@peasant56124 ай бұрын
😂
@dermotward65404 ай бұрын
Nice video Andrew. Are the black cows also pure Jersey ?
@caveweta4 ай бұрын
22mm Thursday, expecting more rain tomorrow in ngahinapouri
@brodiereid40424 ай бұрын
From october last year till 3 days ago in south canterbury we had 14mm .. we got 33mm on thursday/friday and still eaining
@ronaldlucas53604 ай бұрын
Looking good 👍
@KiwiJim134 ай бұрын
👀🙄🐾👍Great video Andy are you getting the rain
@lukehillier22624 ай бұрын
Yes
@user-pr8ib1sh8v4 ай бұрын
What price do you get for a cull cow and where does it end up?
@reganwilling20104 ай бұрын
In your Big Mac
@peasant56124 ай бұрын
@@reganwilling2010😋😋
@peasant56124 ай бұрын
I sent 15 cows 3 weeks ago. I average $3.72 per kg. The range was $3.40 up to $3.80 Average carcass weight was 202.2kg Freisians. My heaviest 3 were 262kg, 254kg and 247kg.
@user-pr8ib1sh8v4 ай бұрын
@@peasant5612 Thanks so much for replying. I tend to just homekill and distribute to family. I might send a few in next time. Not a dairy herd.
@peasant56124 ай бұрын
@@user-pr8ib1sh8v The price is generally at lowest this time of year, autumn. Can get over $4 in the spring through to Christmas generally. And depending on the grading
@rorykelly77624 ай бұрын
Do you only milk Once a day I thought I heard you say that in a earlier video
@peasant56124 ай бұрын
Yes that's correct
@patdoyle67164 ай бұрын
Andrew where are you in New Zealand ….❤
@TheOnceADayFarmer4 ай бұрын
Waikato 👍
@helentaylor48004 ай бұрын
Are the cows in calf that your slaughter?
@trevorstewart84 ай бұрын
No as that would be a waste of a calf.
@helentaylor48004 ай бұрын
@@trevorstewart8 I was born and brought up on a farm with Jersey cows, but we never sent cows to slaughter whilst milking. I would imagine that most of the cows would've been A I 'd by now.
@peasant56124 ай бұрын
It's likely that a couple of those high somatic cows would have been incalf. Particularly the ones constantly high that he showed on the graph. So he's culling empties and high chronic high SCC cows whether empty or incalf. That's the advantage of low empty rates, it allows the farmer to capitalise by culling the poor cows and improving the overall herd in different metrics
@patreynolds17814 ай бұрын
the cows probably knew what was going to happens to them. I could never be a farmer.