I'm Trying Something NEW On My Dairy Farm!!

[@JayBobYT]

I’m a little late but I just want to let you know how much I like your farming style, so different from the states, it’s really cool to see different dairying styles around the world. Stay safe and farm on!

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Thanks man!

[@samanthairvin9990]

We love your videos, my daughter Alia (7yrs) and son Kadyn (2yrs) sit for ages and watch your videos. We have seen most of them over and over again. We would love to see more videos of your calves as we are first time calve rearers. You asked how long did we like the length of your videos, we thought 15-20mins is a good length. 👍

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

That’s so cool and awesome to hear! There will be a vid out next week of the calves 👍 Tell them I say hi 🤙

[@woldswayfarmer3752]

Great video. Jerseys are looking really well.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Thanks!

[@hamidahlouch7727]

The cows look they are Very well taken care of . Best regards from Morocco

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Thanks They certainly are.

[@Miltbat828]

Tried it 4 years ago and ended up doing it it again, the cows held on through the dry spell mine was a just a bit greener before they ate it. Great to see someone else giving it a go though, I was a bit of a laughing stock at discussion group during the process haha but oh well ended up doing better production than them anyway lol.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

It definitely works for the less intensive farmers out there and can be quite a good tool, sounds like your ending up working really well! 👌

[@bjornlindstrom778]

I renovated an old sod like that last summer, left it from mid april until August then grazed in small padocs and moved twice a day. It worked great.

[@randolphbutler1832]

Nice looking stock. Good luck with the rotation. Thank you for sharing. 🐂🐂😷👍

[@dm55]

Your cattle are so cooperative. They're functional pets.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Haha pretty much!

[@neff6477]

Colin Armor does this religiously throughout his farms man. Plenty of info out there for it. Not so much for the self seeding, but for summer feed as no summer crops or silage made. Quite gutted I’m all caught up on your videos and look forward to more 👌🏼

[@BillsCountryChannel]

Works a treat we have done it before as long as grass has flowered get best result !

[@solarpoweredfarm8813]

10:00 lol that made me laugh lol. I used to work for my old man for years so I can relate lol

[@elijohnson6761]

Ur videos make me miss home 😭 from the Waikato currently living in Sydney

[@PVAglue-fi4kc]

You'll be the "every second day farmer" if you make them eat that. Looks to be a lot of dead grass in it. The cows will eat the green bits then wait at the gate for you to let back to the leafy grass.

[@solarpoweredfarm8813]

Love it. Deffered grazing has been one of the best tools on this farm. Those paddocks will be way better next year once the fungal/bacterial relationship evens out. (Less weeds).

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Hopefully 🤞

[@nacho11090]

Hi , it will work ,I made accidentally last summer and the results was a great new paddock in autumn...cheers from chile

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

👍

[@aidenbettridge4878]

Would like to see an update on how your cows going after they grazed those paddocks! Currently managing in Canterbury and lucky for us we have water so doesn’t get that dry!

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Yep there will be an update soon. Awesome, where abouts in Canterbury are you? yeah would be nice having irrigation right about now!

[@aidenbettridge4878]

@@TheOnceADayFarmer just in north Canterbury 10min from oxford

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Nice spot 👍

[@user-wv4xc1us6u]

The jerseys are looking in great condition as is the farm. I grew up on a dairy farm in the 70’s 120 cows/ 10 aside shed I enjoy the vids 👍🏽

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Thanks! That’s cool 👍 you don’t find many farms that size now

[@truckerman-01]

Good on you keep up the good work

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Thanks!

[@warriorsfan1602]

Good vid mate. I follow the American rancher vlogger Greg Judy who does that 120 day rest rotation with his South Poll herd. They are some goodlooking cattle too. Hey bud I'm new to your channel and am interested to know what your vlogging setup is and what editing suite you use. Im fascinated on how you vloggers get your content out to us viewers. It's amazing how some of the part timers are putting out top material. If you have already done a vlog on your gear then sweetas....cheers Bud

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

I’ll check him out. I just use a GoPro 7 and looking into getting a Mac for the editing

[@andrewroberts553]

Good luck your a braver man than me, I cut for hay doubled rake to get seed drop,and after the hays bale and off a light Harrow slug bait it watch off Corby grub later but that just me ,with your proposition I would have concern with the mount of dry matter that will go mouldy in the new grass and the risk of micro toxic ☠️..........enjoy the vids and admire your honestly

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Was wondering about the slugs. Yeah I’m a little sceptical about the dry stuff left behind, but I’m going to lave it and see what happens I think

[@jameslyon995]

This seed is not going to germinate until we get rain allowing six weak after that to first grazing that could be into April any rubbish will have broken down by then and you will be extending round by then anyway.

[@andrewroberts553]

@@jameslyon995 I had a very bad experience with micro toxins after topping rough grass, kill some cows and some have never really recovered ,I used allatox in the Bail ever since ,helps with silage moulds too but it the first thing the feed salesman like to take out ,to many grain look cheaper!

[@dodge7679]

Land looks so much like Ireland, love your hedges

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Just with out the stone walls

[@thedarklordsauronhimself4850]

do you feed chicory? best thing by far i'm on once a day and cows get chicory in morning straight from shed leave them a few hours and move to day paddock that way you don't need to feed out until afternoon/night paddock great for milk and keeping feed longer and best bit is that after the chicory's done after 3 plus grazings give a light spray of roundup and undersow or broadcast grass seed and next year you'll have nice young grass and a good third or more of last years chicory

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Yep one herd gets it in the afternoon. They started the 4 rotation on it a couple of days ago, but yeah we love it. Sounds like a good setup you’ve got there!

[@mohammedaminulislam5999]

Good job thankyou 😍🇳🇿

[@stephennewman4693]

Another fine summer's day. Been bloody hot here in New Plymouth

[@reubentaylor96]

What did the milk do when the cows were on this up or down 👍

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Hard to tell, they dropped but they were going to anyway so 🤷

[@wesleyhastings3961]

Hi there enjoy your video's would be better to bale it as the milk yeild off that won't be great , have you heard of zeolite products and there benefits of NZ origen, from Ireland

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Maybe, I can always bale it later on if I choose. I haven’t heard of zeolite before, I’ll have a look at it.

[@123321wertyu]

Nice hedges

[@dodge7679]

I maybe would probably of bailed it but can't wait to see the result one way or the other

[@Bbbb12-j8o]

Interesting never head of self seeding but if it works it would be so much cheaper. Thanks for the video

[@BC-vg3zf]

Do you sow any clovers in your pasture? I see the ryegrass and chicory 🤠

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Yes a white and a red clover goes in the mix.

[@JayBobYT]

We have a lot of old roosters on our farm too that can’t crow haha

[@johngraham8893]

Nice fleshy condition the cows are in.I hate seeing boney cattle.You have the cow vs feed ratio right. This is coming from a Southlander raised on a sheep and beef farm.I drive a milk tanker now so I see a wide spectrum of farm types.Most are on the good side fortunately

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Thanks, I think there in ideal condition at the moment. Thats cool! Thanks for watching, there was another tanker driver from up these ways that also watches too

[@phtpl8nz673]

Nice interesting to see how it goes, do you put zinc in with the maize as well as drench or full dose with the drench?

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Just with the drench.

[@ag8556]

How many kg milk solids do your cows avg

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Average around the 300kgms/cow but hopefully this year it’ll be a bit higher

[@MarkDonnelly-j9v]

Hi I like your video

[@jameslyon995]

Have you worked out the actual cost of this exersize by that I mean the cost of energy that was grown over the the period that was not turned into product at X amount per Kilo could be an expensive exersize

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Good question James, but no I haven’t worked out the cost. I’m hoping that doing this it allows me to use my big bales for the other herd so I can keep all my empty’s around for a few more months instead of off loading them now. production should overtake last years in about a week to 10 days so I’m going to take the hit now hopefully the rest of the season I’ll be ahead. Hope that makes sense. It could definitely be expensive if it doesn’t work tho!

[@patrickchapman9753]

Love the channel bro, why do you top it and don’t just leave the cows to eat through it themselves?

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

I’m going that way now, but was just thinking it would kill all the weeds and leave the paddock cleaner

[@cdemo1186]

How did it work for ya Fella?

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Yeah pretty good I reckon, I did a video on the results a bit later on. Be interesting to see how persistent the grass is tho

[@davidgoodman4546]

So how did the experiment go?

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Really Good, I'll be touching on it, on next Fridays video I think

[@hindrickstrampel9433]

Are you not afraid that the cows are going down in milk production? I think that they need better gras to produce milk than the overgrown gras that they get now.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Yep I am a bit, but they’re going to drop anyway as there’s not much grass around.

[@edcasey3850]

I don't know about ye but in Ireland if we let the cows into grass like that you'd be at risk of them getting red-water disease from tick infections, unless you let a donkey run with the cows to lower the tick concentration (donkeys are resistant to the disease and highly attractive to ticks). be interesting to see if any of them get it, maybe it wont happen where your farming, climate is very different clearly.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

That’s really interesting! We get ticks very rarely but we did get a cow a couple of years ago that got theileria.

[@karlmorgan3678]

That's some mean ass pasture, you may not want to look at the milk docket for 3 or 4 days 😉 The cows may take some time getting used to that tussock

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Haha yep pretty much!

[@bobmorse3513]

What's the largest jersey herd in New Zealand here in USA it's 10000 jerseys in Idaho

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

That’s massive! I’m not to sure, but at a pure guess I would say 1500

[@bobmorse3513]

I have another question do you repair your own milking equipment or have a dealer I use a dealer here in CT

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

We try to if we can otherwise get someone in to do it

[@kl1958]

I notice that some of your Jerseys are almost a black they are so dark brown. Are they pure Jerseys or are they a crossbred?

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

They are pure jersey, there was a bull a while back that threw really dark progeny. I think it was only used for 1 season. There is a few that have a little bit of Ayrshire in them

[@balakrishnangovindasamy3473]

Never cut it before grazing , let the cows graze and then you can cut the remaining to ground. Recommend you to check Greg Judy Regenerative rancher Videos.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Cheers I’ll have a look into it thanks

[@jameslyon995]

Greg Judy is a novice at rotational grazing .Look at the work that has come out of Ruakura Reasurch here in NZ over the last 60 plus years.

[@milkybardairies1825]

Hi we farming 20min from you good luck 👍

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Awesome! Thanks for watching

[@iitry5482]

Mint as bro

[@dm55]

What was the number of cows? I lost count .

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Haha there’s 174 in that herd

[@JayBobYT]

Is that a Honda dirt bike your riding?

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Yep just.a 125, Honda made them for the farm, it needs upgrading

[@scottmurdoch3008]

I like the idea. How come you pre mowed in front of the cows? My thinking was if they were left to it and trampled some of the grass over the seeds, the seeds would get better germination? More seed to soil contact, shaded from sun will help to keep moisture in? Just my thoughts, loving the videos so far.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Thanks! Yep that sounds pretty spot on, My thinking was that I would clean up the thistles but I’m going to stop that now and see what happens by just letting them eat it

[@scottmurdoch3008]

@@TheOnceADayFarmer ah yeah, makes sense. Looking forward to the progress. Keep up the good work 👍

[@glenkoopman7347]

Your old man said he done it 30 years ago why did he stop?

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

I’ll ask him and get back to ya 👍

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

He said it was too much work

[@ibrahimambotjening8458]

Mantaps

[@zahraseeff9897]

How many cow 🇸🇦🇸🇦

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

311 cows

[@philipcarr92]

I'd invest in a helmet & body armour before using that mower! Don't you get health & safety inspector's trying to get that machine condemned?

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

I’d love a new mower! but I’ll just have to make do for now. There’s no stones in the paddocks so it’s not too bad

[@Smellyhippo]

Hey mate do you wrecken you could do a tour of dads farm