Odd Jobs On My New Zealand Dairy Farm

Painted the cull cows that are heading to the works next week. Shifting the heifers and doing a little bit of fencing
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Hey I’m Andrew The Once A Day Farmer, I farm alongside my father on my family dairy farm in New Zealand.
Our Dairy system is quite unique as we only milk our 320 jersey cows Once A Day (hence the name), and they stay outside on grass for 365 days of the year!!
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118 Bank Road
RD3 Ohaupo 3883
New Zealand

[@williamsonsfarm7413]

Good video. Nice to see how things are done in different parts of the world. Watching from Ireland 🇮🇪👍

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Awesome thanks man 👍

[@nuahtransit5858]

You are a real hero , providing healthy food for ppl . 👍

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

🙏

[@stevedarcy9542]

Awesome video as always my friend. Great to see you catching up on repairing or replacing fencing. You definitely got your cows well trained, waiting at the wire while you do some fencing, but patients pays when they get into the next paddock with all that fresh grass, all you can hear is chomp chomp the sound of happy cows. Thanks for sharing mate.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

I love the sound of cows eating 😂 👍

[@ethan_99705]

I'm from The waikato just started dairy farming this year good to see New Zealand farmers on KZbin

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Definitely not famous 😂! Hope it’s going good for you 🤙

[@globetrotter683]

You must be pretty happy with the look of those heifers coming through. Another good vid.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Yeah pretty happy 👌

[@jared693]

Love the farm beautiful rolling hill with character

[@ohdeere904]

I reckon a high percentage of your viewers are from Ireland 🇮🇪 based on what I see on the comments section 👍 excellent content on ur channel

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Yep there’s quite a few Irish, I think they make up about 15% of all subscribers

[@bruceandrew8829]

Another good one mate keep them coming. . 5000 here we come. Northern Ontario Canada 🇨🇦

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

👍🤞

[@user-wv4xc1us6u]

Once again a good video bro. The heifers look good and I’m sure they’ll make great replacements once they graduate to the main herd. Plenty of feed and your cows sure look the business bro. All the best for next season. JERSEYS all day 👍🏽🐂👍🏽🐂

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

🙏👍

[@weirdo-p8z]

Cheers Bro!

[@goldfire1676]

Great grass looking good video

[@MarkDonnelly-j9v]

Hi I like your video

[@cdemo1186]

I hope 194 isn't leaving yet. She makes an appearance in most of your video's 👍🏼🤣 I always enjoyed a bit of maintenance work when I worked on a dairy farm here in Ireland 🇮🇪

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Unfortunately yes she had to go 😔

[@cdemo1186]

@@TheOnceADayFarmer aah fella, you'll have a new lad to contend with now at the front of the herd at meal time. 🖒

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Yep someone will take her place 👍

[@coolkidsmells1108]

I love your vids i hope you get to 5k

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Thanks 🙏

[@philipoconnor2236]

Relatively new subscriber here 🇮🇪. Really enjoying the videos. Have you a favourite electric fence brand for reels, posts, insulators etc? Also do you loop the polywire around the hook to energise the reel? That's how l do it

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Most of the electric fencing gear down here is Gallagher, which are pretty good. Yep I hook it around the reel a couple of times 👍

[@mf3610]

In America we say “open” instead of “empty” took me a minute to realize what you meant but then it clicked!

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

😂👍

[@ronriehle1337]

Really like your videos. We graze 50-60 cows here is north central USA. In Wisconsin - Americas Dairyland !

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Thanks Ron! I never went to Wisconsin while I was over there but heard its beautiful 👍

[@patodonnell1614]

You should do a day in the life

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Yeah I should 👍 that’s a good idea

[@anythingfarming]

on the old farm i was on we would life the pigtail up and the cows would walk under the wire either side of you, we never had to much issues doing it that way but your cows would have to be use to it

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

That’d work to 👍

[@jamescarmody1710]

Great vid, I have a quick question how come u don’t milk cows all year round?

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

It suites us, less labour intensive and we get a break through winter for a bit 👍

[@markredmond987]

Did u get all that rain in nz. 16 inches I see on our news.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Not us, that was down in Canterbury, pretty devastated for them 👍

[@shane-kj9wn]

you have great grass on your farm. would you house your stock during the winter months?

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Thanks, no need to house them here an we don’t have the facilities to do it.

[@shane-kj9wn]

@@TheOnceADayFarmer cool. Do you calve down in the field then?

[@danstocks2906]

I reckon fencing is about as much fun as painting and moving ...

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

It’s pretty satisfying at the end tho 👍

[@leandalynch975]

enjoying , why once day? have you just come work with dad? are you sharemilking?

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Our summers are pretty dry, our sheds also to small to milk that many cows through it TAD. Came home 3 years ago, but no I’m not share milking I just work for him 👍

[@leandalynch975]

wheres your farm mate cambridge with views pokuru pironga etc and on peat?

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Out in Paterangi 👍

[@nagaraajan7311]

Iam 2 year sigapore 2 year in saudi arabia 8 year in kuwait Iam heavey driver truck driver Iam like in cow 🐄 Cow is my god sir

[@carlwereld5131]

when you send your cows to the meatwork. How do you now what price you get for a cow .How is buying and selling cows aranged in new zealand

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Buying and selling cows in NZ is mainly done through stock agents. same as sending them to the works, you still go through a stock agent. But the price you get all depends on the meat schedule, at the moment it is pretty low because everyone is off loading there empty and cull cows. But for me it was worth milking them longer and getting less for them if that makes sense 👍

[@a.anbarasu6038]

Sir I am indian any jop telling me I am coming please I love new Zealand ❤️

[@shreekrishnabhandari8375]

Can you sponsor visa for me i want to work on farm, i have good experience in working at a Farm , im from Nepal 😊

[@inglis7086]

Do you also have a list of you high and low cow's - high producing and low producing as they all eat the same amount - you are really want heifers from you highs, good at OMAD, low cell count, no mastitis in the family history. good feet - have you thought about weeding them out and doing AI with them with female sperm only

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

I really only want to take heifer calves from cows calving in the 1st 3 weeks, ideally it would be nice to only take heifers from the good cows but we have struggled to get a 25% replacement rate over the last couple of years so I’ll take any over that time. I am trying sexed semen this year to see how it goes, it’s only 30 straws tho