There's Monster Koi Carp Swimming Around My Flooded Paddocks!!

[@drdulas5055]

I have never heard of the thing you're giving the shots for. Thank you very much for the arial videos and when you do that so much more comes into perspective after knowing where you are now. Sounds like you have the same problem with the government with the water level control that lots of times hurt the farmer then helps. So appreciate your upbeat attitude when the water has caused so much problem for you. I see to many poor me but what can a person do. It is life and Mother Nature. Thanks Andrew.

[@jamesmorrison1884]

Hello good video looks like the carp are out there spawning. That's alot water looks like a river. Have a great day.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

They probably were 😅

[@kevinsheehan4565]

How many ha are under water .I would cry if my farm looked like that but I farm 100m up off the valley floor .we'll say nothing about the rugby last Saturday night just thanks for having us on tour and pary I can go on the tour next time. We have book 1/4 final tickets for the rugby world Cup 🇮🇪

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Geez that was one hell of a good Irish team!! Deserved champions!! The ABs are lucky they didn’t loose 3 nil 😅 That’s awesome! Will be some good games

[@MMartinG1989]

Meanwhile in Europe we're having one of the largest droughts for several years, but well, dairy farming is not easy (maybe fish farming is ;-) ) Best wishes, keep working!!

[@GG-ch1hm]

Who’d of thought we’d have no rain in the summer

[@MMartinG1989]

@@GG-ch1hm there's a slight difference between summer and drought

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

I know how you feel 😩

[@ianhaggart1438]

Looks like your getting our Scottish weather 😬 it's OK we are ready to send back yours 🤣 flippin hot here 38° OK that's hot for us 😉. Better get that rods out and catch a few fish when you can 👍. Stay safe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Phew 38s fair honking for Scotland 😂

[@ericandrews8169]

Love the video send us some of that rain we’re burning up like blazes in record temps here in ni

[@richardwilliams1334]

Good day mate. Every time your paddocks flood like that the lowest part of your paddocks should be blocked to stop them fish returning home. Had you been my nabour I'd have asked already to do just that. Here in NZ, they are pest to our wild things in our rivers as you must already know.

[@smalloscar1]

Good morning Andrew 👍

[@noahsizemore1275]

Looks like you are running a fish farm. That's pretty cool.

[@vanessabarry618]

Great video mate , would b great if we could have a look at compost barn. That you mention in the last video before you start calving and get super busy. Most of us pasture based dairy farm systems are at times dealing with wet and prolonged rain events. A barn could not only help the cattle but the environment as well 🏕 do your best keep it real well done 👍

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

I’m hoping to go and see one probably later in the year now calving started 😅

[@ryantodd6821]

Awesome video man.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Cheer mate 👌

[@craigwyber274]

hey im farming on the other side of the lake. you blame the wear but thats a meter under water the hold up is somewhere drown stream like past sing road. if there is water above the wear then thats not the hold up. if you want to come look at any time please come over. im happy to show you

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Really that sucks then! Needs to be cleaned out. Was speaking to my cousin who used to farm here and he said that part of the problems that the water can’t get into the lake fast enough either, they used to clean the drains on the way in which made it better but now you need a resource consent for it apparently 🤷

[@jlf5072]

When the water finally drained away were you left with any stranded koi carp in the paddock ... or did they escape down the drains?

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

I haven’t looked yet but there could be some stranded out there, it happens quite a lot 👍

[@middlekingdomfarmrebeccapa5035]

What a change from your hot dry summer! Are those fish released and invasive? Leptospirosis can be nasty and can affect many species. It can be picked up from wildlife peeing in wetlands. I recently lost a young puppy to it.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Yep would’ve been released at some point a long time ago

[@smalloscar1]

Good morning Andrew

[@smalloscar1]

Btw when i read the title of the video I thought it was all about koi carp , good click bait 🤷‍♂️

[@warriorsfan1602]

Awww look at all the pretty goldfish 😆 mate you need let loose Ollie Craig or Kerry Flowers the spear fishos on those carp lol

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

😂

[@johanmeischke9189]

Your farm has to be in the Waikato. I grew up in Hamilton and would know that landscape anytime

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Sure is, just out side of aye Awamutu 👍

[@zararichards1197]

Wow Kia kaha for all drowned farmers out there…. Been pretty lucky with wet paddocks and no flooding but must be frustrating for all that are flooded 😣😔

[@keithengland9068]

I haven't checked prices for years, but in the UK each one of those Koi were worth as much as each cow you have.

[@johanmeischke9189]

Yes well theyre an unmitigated environmental disaster in NZ so come on over and help yourself . There's an estimated 70 million tons of them in the Waikato river alone

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Jeez is that what they reckon 70 million tonnes 🤯 that’s crazy!!! What do they sell them for in the UK? For pets or eating ??

[@johanmeischke9189]

@@TheOnceADayFarmer God knows and that estimate was 10 yrs ago

[@keithengland9068]

@@TheOnceADayFarmer Pets

[@SerEnmei]

You don't want to eat the Carp from NZ, they taste like dirt.

[@owenhinrich2135]

You can send some of that rain to the uk it is so dry here

[@brianjonker510]

Is that common in NZ to pay the vets to do the vaccines.

[@trevorstewart8]

Some animal health treatments are mandated for vets especially when human health is at risk.

[@tonyjones7285]

For treatments and vaccines no. usually for the ones which cause the animal a large amount of pain and a sedative is required as farmers aren’t licensed to have the drugs

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

I’m pretty sure I asked my vet a couple years ago if I could do the lepto myself and there was something about it being easier for them to do it, or maybe some vaccines needed to be administered by someone registered

[@Jerseyhunger]

Hi you are a Fish Farmer now?! Its scarry.so crazy.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Looks that way 😂

[@shaneowens4998]

We have had 3 floods this year in Qld Australia. We have had 1800 mill for the year

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Geez that’s a bit what’s your average rainfall ??

[@shaneowens4998]

Around 1800 mil so we are already there. Since I sent that we have another 140 mil

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Geez you guys are copping it big time! Now you’ve got your average it’ll probably stop raining for the rest of the year 😅

[@markanderson5795]

Your father is right ,re the slips ,we had the same problem,vets don’t agree but the proof is there

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Glad someone agrees with him 👌they usually think he’s nuts 😅

[@johnjordan4647]

Hey Andrew do you and your Dad get vaccinated against Leptospirosis. It is a problem in North Queensland with banana hummers ( pickers) Apparently rats are responsible for it on banana farms. Also how long have carp been in NZ. Cannot remember any been in Northland when growing up in the sixties

[@trevorstewart8]

I bet they were in the garden ponds though. Irresponsible townies have been releasing the poor we fishes into roadside drains, not realising how huge they will grow.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

No we didn’t get done. Ooo I was reading a old article in a book about the area I live in and they were talking about carp back in the 30s so been around a while, a lot longer than I was thinking 😳

[@nickdavis3177]

Hi how did those fish get there and are they a pest thank u

[@trevorstewart8]

Yes they are a pest. Koi carp were originally garden goldfish that were "liberated" when they got too big for their home pond. Townies just flush them into the roadside farm drains which overflow during winter flooding as you can see.

[@cdemo1186]

I'm afraid councils are pretty much the same everywhere Andrew,well they are over here anyway. If brains were dynamite they wouldn't have enough to blow their noses. 🙈

[@usere65]

😂🤙🏻

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Haha that’s gold 😂

[@JohnDoe-gq8tt]

Those koi are worth a lot of money Of coarse they are good for fertilizer

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Yeah there’s an outfit in north Waikato turning them into fertilizer 👌

[@JohnDoe-gq8tt]

@@TheOnceADayFarmer there's one thing about farming you're never alone they may not be the same problems but you can be sure that farmers all over are facing problems we all deal with them the best we can that's one thing about sharing your experiences on KZbin we get to share with the farmers all over the world perhaps it's a type of camaraderie

[@garymadden2656]

👌

[@gerryoconnor8751]

If I were you I would be protesting to the council about the lake Andrew. It's not fair to be flooding farmers land like that. Good luck with everything you do Andrew.

[@trevorstewart8]

There are sometimes bylaws that designate certain farmland areas as flood reservoirs.

[@keithwheeler8875]

Blymy do you know how much people pay for Koi Carp in the UK

[@keithwheeler8875]

@@some-random-bloke alive

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Wouldn’t have a clue 🤷 what do they buy them for ??

[@keithwheeler8875]

@@TheOnceADayFarmer their fish ponds In their gardens

[@paulholmes7444]

Should have given the cows the selenium, B12 at the same time

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Yeah good idea, will do next year 👌

[@johanmeischke9189]

Typical council your lake is now probably more eutrophic than ever a good friend of mine did his master's on one of the lakes in your area

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Apparently this lakes shot, gonna take like 40 years to try and get it living again 🤷

[@johanmeischke9189]

@@TheOnceADayFarmer thought so

[@robcaseltine2484]

Did you know people pay big money for those type of fish here in the USA. They don't eat them their more of a decoration in smaller fish ponds.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

That’s crazy 😅😂

[@DebiSunset]

That was breeding behavior

[@alanb9337]

The late J. Stewart 'Sho+gvn' Smith probably bears some responsibility for the presence of those Koi Carp in Waikato waterways. After migrating to NZ at age 15 in the late 1920s from the UK, he began a career of illegal fish releases in the early 1960s, until aged over 90 he was caught again by authorities in the process of instigating yet another exotic fish pest species release into NZ freshwater lakes and river areas.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

That’s interesting all though pretty annoying too!!

[@benturner4966]

Those are massive I have never seen them that big. it would be awesome shooting them with my bow I have killed close to 200 of them with my bow.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

That’s awesome good stuff 👏

[@OOpSjm]

Just doesn't make sense to flood out the farmers. No one's called them up and asked questions?

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

It does if they want the land for cheap 👍

[@seanmoynihan7471]

Your not going to go hungry fish and chips

[@nyotauhura7412]

oof sorry about the koi, they're an invasive species in most places.

[@seanmoynihan7471]

Your not going to go hungry fish and chips

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

😂