I Need To Off Load Cows Fast!! Picking Cull cows From The Herd

[@mountainmama7155]

I'm from the USA. We bought 2 Jersey cows for our small family acreage at the local cow sale. 1 has only 2 teats that function and 1 has 4 that work just fine. Here, dairy farmers often cull because of age. 6-7 years old and they're sold off. We are very pleased to have beautiful fresh milk for our family. One of our girls just calved and 1 will this summer. The milk here is not very great from the stores,imo. But neither is alot of the food. I'm working on growing most of my vegetables and fruits on our place.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

That's awesome, Longevity is trait I place a lot of importance for my herd. I have a couple that have only 2 but they still milk really well, It certainly doesn't mean your milk yield is halved! You cant beat home grown produce, I would like to do more of our own too

[@mountainmama7155]

@@TheOnceADayFarmer I will say, I am impressed with your care of your cows. Sadly most large dairy operations here are not great. I just like to treat our animals as well as possible, as I can tell that you do too.

[@randybutler4772]

Very impressive. Good with pain control. Yes polling is best form dehorning. Thank you for sharing.🐂

[@peteacher52]

When one's livelihood is at stake, one cannot allow emotion to cloud choice of culls. 😊 In time past, many a child's calf club pet was kept beyond acceptable production because of being a quiet old boveril! I was waiting for a habitual booter-off-of-cups to go on the list, but you obviously culled them early in the piece. The older style clusters didn't turn off when floored, causing a domino effect along with the danger of them sucking up shit and earning a nice pink card from "The Man". 🤔

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

haha yes, I probably have a few that are just passengers, but I like them

[@roseknott9568]

Great videos - I don’t always comment or like as we watch you on the tv - do no keypad Love watching you running the farm & learn loads 👍

[@roseknott9568]

I assume that was yours & dads heard this morning you went through at milking for culls ?

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Thanks 🙏

[@eunicestone838]

The cows are beautiful. Especially the eyelashes.

[@cathywagler2111]

Hey Darrel from Ont. Canada here. I enjoy your videos as I milk 40 of a coloured breed myself .Brown Swiss. And feed bull calves up 2000 lb. steers. Do a little pasturing from May til Oct. then inside to freestalls for winter.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Hey Darrel that’s cool awesome, brown Swiss look really nice, there’s not too many here in NZ tho

[@gerryoconnor8751]

Ah Andrew it's tough to have to sell cows that you could have milked on for another month or so. All because of drought 😪. I really hope that you get lots of rain soon. You do very good honest videos Andrew.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Yeah it’s a massive shame, but can’t do much about the weather…it’s got to rain at some point 🤞

[@purplerunner1715]

Always sad to see farmers having issues with bad weather no matter where in the world it is. But glad that both your dad and yourself are taking the steps needed to work with what your are offered by nature.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Can’t do much about the weather unfortunately but we can have levers in place to try and mitigate against it 👍

[@davescouten7813]

Hey Andrew as i sit here and watch your video it’s raining again here in Eastern Ontario🇨🇦 farmers are fed up with all the rain

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Send some down this way ASAP😅

[@cleasberg3461]

the best farming video in long time be farmer my hole life start milking cows but never now you can milking only one time a day now days they want milking 3 times a day??? love your farm life keep up your work and videos thanks

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Yep all depends on how much you feed them I guess 😅

[@bradstar4077]

Things must be different in Zealand. If I'm right some of those cows your selling are in calf .Here in Western Australia we can't send in calf cows to the abattoirs we get a big fine. $$$.

[@brianjonker510]

This is a lie.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Really?? That’d be hard if we couldn’t do that

[@bradstar4077]

@@TheOnceADayFarmer It all depends on how heavy in calf they are .The abattoirs will except cows a couple months in calf. And you will a warning before they fine you .These rules are made by the AG Department.

[@alastairduncan1944]

There has been some ripper sun sets like that sun rise lately, love autumn for that

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

👌👍

[@Highlights11571]

I'm aspiring dairy farmer from Philippines.. soon i will study in NTA NEW ZEALAND

[@anthonycarter2688]

That is a very interesting vid all a big balancing act.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Yep sure is glad you found it interesting 👍

[@ozlakota1]

gladly share some rain we just little too much east coast NSW

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Would be awesome if you could 😅

[@ruralgeek-nz]

We dried some off end Jan.! Then got flooded in February, and again no rain until end of April... We dried off a whole month early

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Yep been a real hard summer, hopefully this one’s not going to be a repeat! 😅

[@brianjonker510]

Im a lot lenient about udders on cows. I just never keep any calves from them.

[@lukehillier2262]

I have missing your videos

[@annechapman7594]

Do u have ur favourite jerseys milkers. 0lys. If they have heifers calves would they be ur favourite as well. From Anne Chapman in Scotland xxx

[@gearoidkelly533]

Awful isn't it. Ur a good farmer

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Thanks 🙏

[@jesseramer9785]

Hey it's tough, but it is herd improvement, would be interesting to see how much you actually lose in the vat giving it a couple days, sure hope you get your rain soon, enjoyed the video.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Not too much 😳👍

[@nathancook7108]

Hi im not a fan of once a day milks or jerseys but i really like your video. I dont cull 3 titter they milk very well

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Thanks 🙏 yep there’s nothing wrong with them really 👍

[@brycekirby1567]

Very informative

[@koryleague8833]

Very interesting and informative. Do you dry all your cows up at once?

[@OOpSjm]

There are previous videos where he describes their system.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Yep all the cows in a herd will be dried off at the same time, all though the herds may get dried off at separate times 👍

[@jamesanderson5635]

Hi Andrew, Its very interesting watching you dairy. Out of interest what cow management system are you uisng. We milk 300 cows but are still fully manual on our records but looking to cross over to a basic computer and RFID tag system that doesnt cost and arm and a leg!

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

I use MINDA it’s a LIC product for recording 👍

[@jamesanderson5635]

@@TheOnceADayFarmer Ok thanks alot!

[@cdemo1186]

Always enjoy your videos Andrew, I like how you work it all out which ones stay and which go. 👌🏼 Shame you have to let them go so early as a result of the weather. Hope the rain arrives soon. 🤞🏼

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Yep it’s pretty unfortunate but have to pull that lever 😩

[@john0032]

I see you wear the green overalls like I do but your Dad has the blue like my Dad , what's with these old boys love the blue ones

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Haha yeah he’s keen on the blue ones! I’m not sure if 360 make blue ones, I’m sure they must do 🤷

[@glenkoopman7347]

Interesting your culling is influenced so much by bw and pw I would of thought herd test results scc and actual production would be better.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Yeah I base that the results from the herd test make up most of the PW so kind of base it off that. I was just keen to have a clean out of bad udders but I’d usually cull on high SCC repeat offenders as well ( might cull a couple of them yet )

[@dagodairy8049]

Here in Indonesia, we have had more rain in April (towards the end of the rainy season) than ever.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

😳😅

[@DFallFarming]

Hi Andrew, I was wondering how big is the difference between the low and high producing herds on average throughout the season? great video again, keep them coming.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Great question and I don’t know, next year I’m going tot separate them and actually see at the herd test what it is 👍 Thanks appreciate it

[@martglass9503]

Slow milkers are a disaster and culling is the only option. If you get them in last and then they can move to the front with the next lot, but it rarely happens and you lose patience. I don't like culling in calf cows though.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Yep 100% agree, unless they’re a really really good cow 👍

[@percykingston2240]

cows here in ireland have been making big money for the last 18 months or so , the top end dairy stock from milk recorded herds doing 550 kgs of milk solids and upwards ,are making 2500/3500 euros a head. what are good cows making out in new zealand ,

[@ivormcc1]

Take it from an Irish Dairy farmer, no one made that money. Don't confuse output with profit. The cow costs €1500 to €2000 at least to keep. I don't know where you got your figures from but they are wrong.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

I have no idea what they would be making per head, there’s a lot of different systems here and varying weather so it changes a bit 👍

[@percykingston2240]

​@@ivormcc1 you should get out a little top dairy stock are making it go have a look at the sale that was held i waterford at the end of march a herd with a protein average of 3.90 plus , his bulling heifers went at a rough average of 1700 bought 2 cows as i could not afford any more at 3200 i bought 3 more in ross mart at a dispersal sale in march 2700 /2900 so please dont be lying on a public forum , who is confusing output with profit , its a different system out their but if we sold 25 cows fro the parlour we could afford to buy back 5 cows.

[@percykingston2240]

@@ivormcc1 i dont know where you are farming or what type of stock you are looking at i have purchase dockets to prove my point. output with profit dont know where you are trying to go there,i said nothing about either . i cant argue about your costing for keeping a cow as i never talked about it so rant over

[@middlekingdomfarmrebeccapa5035]

Are these cows going to slaughter? I noticed you said that you were not culling the open ones.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Yes they are, not yet but will be soon

[@middlekingdomfarmrebeccapa5035]

@@TheOnceADayFarmer the reason I asked was because here sending pregnant animals to slaughter is frowned on. I understand why you need to cull and I hope you get rain soon..

[@paulfinnan1984]

Well andrew? When your culling like that do u go back thru your herd testing results ???

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Sort of, I tend to think that all the herd testing results go into the PW so kind of base it on that 👍🤷

[@andrewwightman7218]

How about using the money from your full cows to buy a few good cows?

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

That’s what I was thinking too 👍

[@rigger314]

I see your cows running at different times, I was told by a dairy farmer in Gympie that you should never run dairy cows. He milked Fresians.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

It’s pretty hard to stop them but i get what you mean 👍

[@carlwereld5131]

What will happen with the cull cows are they go to be butchered or buy other farmers them especially the young ones

[@HIMHRTAGRAMANGEL]

Good question . I was wondering the same thing.

[@erwinlageschaar5550]

Hamburger meat

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

The cull cows will go to the works and get made in to hamburger Pattie’s and I’m going to try and sell the younger empty ones. No one will want to buy those ones with the bad udders and low figures

[@carlwereld5131]

@@erwinlageschaar5550 are you dutch

[@carlwereld5131]

who gives a thumb up are you also dutch

[@FamilyFarmingandFun]

Are you happy with the condition of your cows to milk to the end of may?

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Not going to now, run out of feed. Condition wise they’re probably a little lower than I would’ve liked but still not to bad all things considered 👍

[@patrickcunningham3131]

Hi Andrew how much do you get for a Cull Jersey Cow?

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

All depends on the grade and weight but the last ones average $600

[@engineerpuneetarora2089]

Hi how many cows you got in total? I am looking to enter into dairy farming currently living in blenheim thxss

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Try and milk around 320 at peak. It’s a great industry 👍

[@eunicestone838]

Help im 64 and I have a bad udder. Lol

[@Highlights11571]

Hi sir what kind of breed that?

[@trevorstewart8]

They are Jersey cows

[@kevinsheehan4565]

Jersey great for milk solids ( fat and protein ) not so good for beef .I would have cow milking 550kg of solid but weighing 480 500 kg

[@dohnjulian]

What’s your per cow production like being once a day?

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Last year 316 and this year it’ll probably be just over 300

[@andrewheasley6304]

Is there a market for selling your cull cows for small acreage owners looking for a house cow?

[@trevorstewart8]

I wouldn't think so. The NZ consumer has very good access to store bought certified milk.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Yeah not really, not many people have house cows and there’s so many cull cows around. If they had good udders and were young enough then I could sell them to another farmer it’s just that no one would want to buy these 👍

[@bwogodonald9266]

Good job brother....which app do you use to manage them Cows?

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Cheers mate, I use MINDA 👍

[@bwogodonald9266]

@@TheOnceADayFarmer Thanks 👍

[@yvonneward]

Wow tough decisions Andrew was 262 in calf? X

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Yep she’s in calf 👍

[@yvonneward]

@@TheOnceADayFarmer is she going too do you get a better price for them if they are in calf , I don’t want to know how much that’s not my business but just wondered and when you say cull do you mean rip or just taking them away from your farm to sell or whatever ?

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

No I’m keeping 262 for another year now. No difference price wise if they’re in calf or not, I think 🤔 They’re not worth a lot as they don’t weigh much being smaller cows but these ones will go to the works, if they had good udders I could try and sell them to another farmer 👍

[@yvonneward]

@@TheOnceADayFarmer thank you for your reply I look forward to next video and hoping you’ve had some good rain🙏🙏 take care keep safe hello to the famalam and your dad xx

[@louiserenton9380]

Andrew what prices are you looking at for a good cow?

[@chrisreed5428]

I'm maybe 3hours from Andrew and a sale ofr a herd went to last week average per cow $2600 top cow made over $5000 to give some Idea

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

There was a really really good jersey cow that sold for $55,000 the other day at a clearing sale 😅 But yeah was thinking $2000-2500 👍

[@chrisreed5428]

A budget cow made 1700 thats what a non recorded heifer was making last season crazy if you ask me

[@philipoconnor2236]

@@TheOnceADayFarmer when you say "the works", thats the meat factory yeah? So are those culls making $2600 beef price?? I converted there to ~€1500!! That's phenomenal money for what we'd term "canners" here in Ireland.

[@KiwiJim13]

It's a shame you missed out on the rain don't you sell your incalf culls as budget cows?

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Nah I haven’t, wouldn’t think anyone would want them with bad udders like that 🤷

[@dereklitchfield7574]

Y do you drench the cows

[@trevorstewart8]

In case of endemic parasites and worms.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

For minerals, I need to do a video on it! 👍

[@bigears4014]

I'm glad I'm not a cow I'd be gone for sure , years ago

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

😂👍

[@reubentaylor96]

292nd 🤣🤣

[@sallyjones390]

501st lol 🔥

[@tomcogger5013]

Great video. I am just wondering how did you make out with the sexed semen and what kind of app do you use to keep track of your cows

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

I think it was about a 45% hold rate compared to 58% conventional so a wee way down, still going to use a bit next year but go about it a little bit differently which I’ll explain soon 👌