Such a neat video. I absolutely love getting tours of peoples properties, hearing about the history of the place, and how they use it. Thanks for sharing!
Nice video mate. Came here on the back of a Tom Pemberton Farm comment and here to stay. Keep up the amazing job. It blows my mind to see in New Zealand you milk outdoors.
Incredible views. Interesting tour. Thank you for sharing. Very nice looking stock. I visited NZ once and throughly enjoyed the visit and friendly people. 🐂🐂😷👍
Hi, Just sitting here in N.Ireland with my sister Genny who lived in New Zealand for a few years. She was wondering what part you live in. Cheers. Great videos and fantastic cattle. Love the Jersey. Cattle that is.
your videos are great, thank you. amazing how many differences there are between NZ and Scotland. also, all of your cows are Jersey?Some of them look like they have some Guernsey in them, with the white patches. I spent a lot of time in the island of Jersey as a child, and they are one of my favorite cattle.
Amaizing vídeo! Cheers from Uruguay! I was in new Zealand un 2012 & 2013 fairy farming. Wathing this video make me rememeber those incredible years and amaizing expirience I had in nz.
What a lovely place!! I have been dreaming of sleeping overnight in a wooden shed in a farm like this! With food and plenty of black coffee and sleeping on hay all wrapped up in warm blankets!!
Been going through all your videos and New Zealand definitely has a far different farming style then here in the states. Also your farm is beautiful and I’m jealous of that milking parlor with a view!
Thanks! we have a really mild climate compared to you over there. We don’t get any snow, tornados or cyclones. So the need for infrastructure is a bit less
@@TheOnceADayFarmer that’s awesome! Makes me super jealous because here in Washington we get freezing temperatures and like 4 feet of rain every year lol
Hi Mate, I have a massive 7 ha block in Pirongia, All the gear with no idea type, if you ever need some free weekend labour i am always keen so i can learn more about stock as i have 10 of my own which has been a step learning curve for a guy new to rural life
I've just started work on a dairy here in AU, we milk about 400 cows twice daily on a 20 per side. I must say your vat room and store room is very well kept, mine is covered in dust and cobwebs and insects.
@@TheOnceADayFarmer 3 hours all up once everything is hosed down. Thats with two blokes milking and just me on the hosedown. Normally one of us goes and does odd jobs that need doing while milking and that can result in a little longer milking or sometimes we can run half an hour quicker if the cows are in good spirits and move around easily.
I found this channel from a Tom Pemberton Farm video comment too. I'm looking forward to seeing more of how farms run in NZ. Viewer from California, USA.
Ok I'm from Michigan in USA. You're talking about drenching your cattle. What does that mean? Here to get drenched means to get soaked with water. Like getting caught in the rain
Brother farmer. Forgot your name. Bro. Hearing the history, of your family farm & cowshed & how you introduce your pop ( grandfather, got to have a grandmother to.) Alsum. Will subscribe your channel.
Still dairying like the seventies , not that there is anything wrong with that , just labour intensive, my dads friend farmed the same but when they dried the cows up , they worked on clearing and fencing . Lovely spot by the looks of it , I'm in tassie
Hey thanks for watching! yeah I realise some of our practices are pretty old school but it works for us, I would like to update a few things in the future, to save a bit of time here and there.
Awesome video mate, no frills just the way it is. Beautiful herd and block of land. I'm heading to Ashburton next week. Leaving Auckland and going back to milking cows after 40yrs. Happy with my decision. Make some more vids man. Thanks
Great looking farm..I grew up on a 250 head Jersey dairy.. we had 186 on line ..did our own A.I Our milk barn was a 12 stall flat ( oh my back 🤦😂) Do you measure the butter fat content? We sold direct to a creamery so the better the butterfat the more $
That’s awesome 👍 sounds painful milking that way tho 😩 Our fat percentage at the moment is about 5.9%, we get paid in milk solids here so about 10 litres is a MS give or take
Not to sure, it’s had more rain this year tho. Our neighbour has done a trial so be interesting to see what he finds when it comes off. No I always keep the population the same, it’s on the low side but that’s what I want
@@TheOnceADayFarmer Nice, respect man. You must have really efficient pasture management and good forage yield since you are able to feed there more than 300 cows.
Beautiful farm !!! How much are your cows producing oad in the season ? I'm dairy farmer in south chile So enjoy your videos ..... Please keep coming . Cheers
@@TheOnceADayFarmerHello from Ireland been on OAD for 5 years. what is the variation between the high production group and low. Do you know what your hiefers are doing? I find its nearly third lacation before i am happy with thier level of production?
@@michaelfitzgerald1259 Hey! Thats a good question and to be honest i'm not to sure what the difference is, but I will be herd testing soon so i'll try and work it out. The production from the individual heifers ranges quite a bit but I reckon through the peak they might average about 0.9 - 1 I find in their 2nd lactation they do pretty well but yeah they pump in the 4th. OAD in ireland would be quite rare?
Yeah would be easier probably but I like drenching as I know all the cows are getting the same amount. If we built a new shed one day I’d definitely look at getting a dosatron tho!
Suits our system and lifestyle. We have a small cow shed and milking takes a while which isn’t to bad if your only milking once a day. Also easier on the cows. Plus we can get really dry in the summer so a lot of people go OAD at some point, we just don it from the start 👍
I am highly interested to do job in newzeeland dairy farms but l can't manage job offer from newzeeland dairy farm employers. Anyone guide me how to apply for get job offer from newzeeland employers?
@@TheOnceADayFarmer yeah ACR's are the go, I wouldn't be able to go back now. The different milking times between cows are seen easily and very surprising.
@@TheOnceADayFarmer yeah I do 300 friesen cow in a 28 a side with the acr's and inline shed feed in 2.5 hrs in spring and now with 260 in 1.45hrs twice a day on my own . But with a 16 aside the wouldn't make to much difference and once a day make it easy. Keep up the good work
At 0:24, what is that triangular thing floating in the sky in the background? Is that a drone or a kite or? Also, at 2:01, is that Kapiti Island in the background? I grew up in Paraparaumu but live in Europe now, as far as i know from family back home all the back farms that we used have have behind the house are all developed now. Here in Poland I've got 9 Dexters for meat and one Jersey for milk - I only milk her once a day too, all the neighbors laughed at me and thought I was crazy and that OAD milking was impossible. But I proved them wrong.
Hi there, there's a wire going from the tractor shed to water tank that carries power to the farm fences and that triangle thing is just a visual aid so truck drivers can see it. No not kapiti Island, i'm up in the waikato. Thanks for watching
Hey are you that guy on Instagram coshquin farm? Also seems kind of bizarre to me that you milk in the 16 a sidr even though you have a larger although older shed which is right next to the feedpad and closer to your house
Yep that’s my Insta page. Yeah I know what you mean, but that older shed is really run down and would cost a heap to get back up running, where the smaller shed is well set up with Effluent storage etc and it’s right next to the calf shed. A new 30ashb shed would be nice one day.
@@TheOnceADayFarmer My mistake. Of course it was the North. A large agricultural area. Spent my 27 birthday in Aukland. That was 38 years ago. Seems like yesterday.
Nice setups. really cost effective. But as european i dont quite understand how you time the Calving season. Here in northern Germany farmers just AI all year basically. How does it work out with the heifers then? When do they get set of milk and when do they get the first calve?
Hey man, good question. All the replacement heifers are born within 5 weeks of each other so when they go the bull at 15 months old they are all cycling together. Hope that answered your question?
@@TheOnceADayFarmer oh your accent seems pretty like the city of sails # Auckland thnks for replay Nz is my dream country where r u actually from I. Mean which city
Such a neat video. I absolutely love getting tours of peoples properties, hearing about the history of the place, and how they use it.
Thanks for sharing!
Nice video mate. Came here on the back of a Tom Pemberton Farm comment and here to stay. Keep up the amazing job. It blows my mind to see in New Zealand you milk outdoors.
Thanks and welcome!!
Great video, good insight to how you run the farm with a bit of history as well!
Cheers Lang
As a Kiwi expat living in Texas..I so loved this video..Thank you..!
So glad you enjoyed it 👌👍
Incredible views. Interesting tour. Thank you for sharing. Very nice looking stock. I visited NZ once and throughly enjoyed the visit and friendly people.
🐂🐂😷👍
Thanks and I’m glad you had a good trip over here 👍
very good video ,great to see another style of farming ...thank you for sharing
Thanks 🙏 👍
Looking back at this video man you've come a long way 🙌 keep up the mahi man, hopefully get a bigger shed sometime 😅
New Zealand is so beautiful. I hope your cows produce good milk and your maze produces a good yeld. Would very much like to more of your videos!😁
Thanks 👍
India
@@TheOnceADayFarmeryour contact number please
Hi,
Just sitting here in N.Ireland with my sister Genny who lived in New Zealand for a few years. She was wondering what part you live in. Cheers. Great videos and fantastic cattle. Love the Jersey. Cattle that is.
I live just out of Te Awamutu, about 30 minutes south of Hamilton.
Thanks for watching! Much appreciated 👍
your videos are great, thank you. amazing how many differences there are between NZ and Scotland. also, all of your cows are Jersey?Some of them look like they have some Guernsey in them, with the white patches. I spent a lot of time in the island of Jersey as a child, and they are one of my favorite cattle.
👍 nice
I’m milking 550 through a 40 rotary in Canterbury
Always good to have a look around different farms
Keep it up, I’ve subscribed
That sounds like a mint setup, and thanks 👍
Amaizing vídeo! Cheers from Uruguay! I was in new Zealand un 2012 & 2013 fairy farming. Wathing this video make me rememeber those incredible years and amaizing expirience I had in nz.
Awesome thanks for watching, whee abouts did you work?
I'm watching from South Africa... I'm Bangladeshi... It’s very beautiful farm.
That’s awesome and thanks for watching!
Hello from Germany!
Thanks for your Video!its a wonderful area there!
Thankyou!
Yea not many walkthroughs left. We’re down on the coast and run about 70 cows, the shed takes 14 at a time.
Really that’s pretty interesting! That’s quite a big shed too I think. Where abouts are you?
Beautiful farm and beautiful cows.
Thanks!
your cows are a credit to you, so healthy and alert and happy
Thanks!
Very interesting. I’m a new sub looking forward to more videos.
Awesome, thank you!
What a lovely place!! I have been dreaming of sleeping overnight in a wooden shed in a farm like this! With food and plenty of black coffee and sleeping on hay all wrapped up in warm blankets!!
Been going through all your videos and New Zealand definitely has a far different farming style then here in the states. Also your farm is beautiful and I’m jealous of that milking parlor with a view!
Thanks! we have a really mild climate compared to you over there. We don’t get any snow, tornados or cyclones. So the need for infrastructure is a bit less
@@TheOnceADayFarmer that’s awesome! Makes me super jealous because here in Washington we get freezing temperatures and like 4 feet of rain every year lol
Sir you need sume helpar reqerment
How can apply to phillipine s to new Zealand cow farming
Hi Mate, I have a massive 7 ha block in Pirongia, All the gear with no idea type, if you ever need some free weekend labour i am always keen so i can learn more about stock as i have 10 of my own which has been a step learning curve for a guy new to rural life
That’s cool! Yep I’ll keep it in mind thanks 👍
I've just started work on a dairy here in AU, we milk about 400 cows twice daily on a 20 per side. I must say your vat room and store room is very well kept, mine is covered in dust and cobwebs and insects.
How long does that take you to milk?
It has to be otherwise we will fail our audit which is done annually
@@TheOnceADayFarmer 3 hours all up once everything is hosed down. Thats with two blokes milking and just me on the hosedown. Normally one of us goes and does odd jobs that need doing while milking and that can result in a little longer milking or sometimes we can run half an hour quicker if the cows are in good spirits and move around easily.
3 hours isn’t too bad aye, sounds like a pretty good setup
Sir you wont sume worker so plz tell me v have expirince thankyu
Sir you wont sume helper so plz tell me thankyu
Very good video, we subscribed and will be watching your busy days.
Thanks Doug 👍
I found this channel from a Tom Pemberton Farm video comment too. I'm looking forward to seeing more of how farms run in NZ. Viewer from California, USA.
Hi there and welcome 👍
What video of Tom’s was the comment on?? Your the 3rd person to say that!
@@TheOnceADayFarmer the Bale Off Challenge video he just posted. ua-cam.com/video/glcuMGhaxVY/v-deo.html. @
Scott Bradley gave you a shout out!
Ahh thanks!
Thanks for this video great place and great farm!
👍
Nice video, mate! You have talent to make these videos. Congratulations!
Thanks 🙏
Ok I'm from Michigan in USA. You're talking about drenching your cattle. What does that mean? Here to get drenched means to get soaked with water. Like getting caught in the rain
Brother farmer. Forgot your name. Bro. Hearing the history, of your family farm & cowshed & how you introduce your pop ( grandfather, got to have a grandmother to.) Alsum. Will subscribe your channel.
Still dairying like the seventies , not that there is anything wrong with that , just labour intensive, my dads friend farmed the same but when they dried the cows up , they worked on clearing and fencing . Lovely spot by the looks of it , I'm in tassie
Hey thanks for watching! yeah I realise some of our practices are pretty old school but it works for us, I would like to update a few things in the future, to save a bit of time here and there.
Awesome video, nice looking farm. It’s good to see another Nz dairy farmer on UA-cam. We are also OAD all season
Thanks man, yep I thought I’d give it a crack. Are you loving the OAD lifestyle?
@@TheOnceADayFarmer yeah it’s great we have been OAD for 8 years now. It’s good for the cows and good for us
Yep I totally agree!
Nice sharing enjoyed this video
Minecrafter belike: WOAH THE RENDER DISTANCE ITS JUST AMAZING
Love the walk through, my dad still milks the house cow in one
How cool!
Wonderful land...reminds me so much of my Birth County of Devon in England...
That’s cool!
Wanna say hi from Thailand. nice to see your farm on youtube.
Hey thanks 👍
Chicory isn’t grown in Ireland so I’m curious as to what the benefits are in feeding it
It hangs on better in the droughts, Less labour intensive than feeding silage and can feed it from November- April. Hope that answers it👍
hello sir,
your farm is absolutely beautiful, if you have any vacancy i would like to work in your farm.
Great vid man! Deciding if I want to go back to dairy farming, this is definitely helping!
Thanks man!
You want sume helper sir
How many pay for every hours daily from work
DUDE I'd be doing "PASTURE ANGELS" in that chichory if I was you!!!! Looks awesome ...
😂 thanks! Maybe I will this summer 👌
Cool to find a local farm on hear I work for a contract Milker in pirongia
Ahh not to far away then!
Nice Video, Congratulations!!! Direct from brazillian agronomist!
Thanks heaps!
I love your blog mate
I work as assistant herd maneger in New Zealand South Island . I mis it
Thanks man! Where abouts in the south?
Invercargill
Awesome video mate, no frills just the way it is. Beautiful herd and block of land. I'm heading to Ashburton next week. Leaving Auckland and going back to milking cows after 40yrs. Happy with my decision. Make some more vids man. Thanks
Good stuff Paul nice to hear, hope it goes well for you down there 🤙
Awesome farm mate. Do you do blockcalving Instead of over here in the uk. Calving all year round
Yep they all calve from July 20th to around late September.
Great looking farm..I grew up on a 250 head Jersey dairy.. we had 186 on line ..did our own A.I
Our milk barn was a 12 stall flat ( oh my back 🤦😂)
Do you measure the butter fat content?
We sold direct to a creamery so the better the butterfat the more $
That’s awesome 👍 sounds painful milking that way tho 😩
Our fat percentage at the moment is about 5.9%, we get paid in milk solids here so about 10 litres is a MS give or take
great history ask your dad did he know gilbert lynch over railway line main t a rd side sort opposite lake , where 12 acre sections are now
Yep will do 👍
Do you think the maize is growing better due to the new drill? Was there a change in population also?
Not to sure, it’s had more rain this year tho. Our neighbour has done a trial so be interesting to see what he finds when it comes off.
No I always keep the population the same, it’s on the low side but that’s what I want
Hi sir you make a good video and you are a good farmer do you know about India
Great information, much different than dairy farming in United States
Thanks!
Amazing 👌👌👌
Hi i like your video
I like this video very nice🙏
Good
Can I ask how many hectares do you farm? Just found the channel, great videos! Greetings from Slovakia.
Wow Slovakia that’s awesome 👏
We farm about 100ha 👍
@@TheOnceADayFarmer Nice, respect man. You must have really efficient pasture management and good forage yield since you are able to feed there more than 300 cows.
Hi mate, can i ask if your employer still need a offshore worker?
Don’t employ sorry
Can my husband apply there? From philippines
Good farming
Nice video,from Brazil
Thanks 👍
How manny hectares do you have for the 312 cows and how much supplement feed do you buy for them
We farm about 100ha and only supplement is PKe (90t)
Beautiful farm !!! How much are your cows producing oad in the season ? I'm dairy farmer in south chile So enjoy your videos ..... Please keep coming . Cheers
Thanks !! Our cows usually average around the 300kgMS , hope that answers your question
@@TheOnceADayFarmerHello from Ireland been on OAD for 5 years. what is the variation between the high production group and low. Do you know what your hiefers are doing? I find its nearly third lacation before i am happy with thier level of production?
@@michaelfitzgerald1259 Hey! Thats a good question and to be honest i'm not to sure what the difference is, but I will be herd testing soon so i'll try and work it out.
The production from the individual heifers ranges quite a bit but I reckon through the peak they might average about 0.9 - 1
I find in their 2nd lactation they do pretty well but yeah they pump in the 4th.
OAD in ireland would be quite rare?
Thanks for the video! Do you have to scrape or wash the feed pad out?
Yes I scrape it with the bucket every couple of weeks, they only spend maybe 1/2 hour - hour on it so it doesn’t get to dirty
@@TheOnceADayFarmer Thanks, looks like a good setup!
Hi farm tour I want to join you on your farm I worked on farm for many years I know milking
Very good with sheed and maizsilage !
Why do you drench minerals every day? Would it be easier to mix them with the maize in the Keenan or dust on paddocks?
Yeah would be easier probably but I like drenching as I know all the cows are getting the same amount. If we built a new shed one day I’d definitely look at getting a dosatron tho!
We need to stand up to the government
love your vids. ?????. why do you milk once a day?.
Suits our system and lifestyle. We have a small cow shed and milking takes a while which isn’t to bad if your only milking once a day.
Also easier on the cows.
Plus we can get really dry in the summer so a lot of people go OAD at some point, we just don it from the start 👍
thanks for the reply. does it affect production. what is OAD. is it out and disappear.
I am highly interested to do job in newzeeland dairy farms but l can't manage job offer from newzeeland dairy farm employers. Anyone guide me how to apply for get job offer from newzeeland employers?
Dairying in Milton in South Otago, did you start off milking once a day and will you ever consider changing?
Awesome! Went OAD probably 6 years ago, I would consider maybe if our farm got bigger and had more options but at the moment it works for us 🤙
your hands looks so clean
I wear gloves 👍
I like to work there....but how can i apply to work there....
Wait, isn’t lake Taupo the biggest lake in the mighty Waikato?
That is true, I meant biggest peat lake 👍
Masha Allah
How's it bruss, would you ever consider expanding your row to 20 or 25..?🤔
Yeah definitely! Would love expand to a 24 with ACR’s one day, but it might be cheaper to build new and in a more central location. Ideally a 30AS.
@@TheOnceADayFarmer yeah ACR's are the go, I wouldn't be able to go back now. The different milking times between cows are seen easily and very surprising.
I’m pretty keen on them, so hopefully in the future I might be able to upgrade 🤞
@@TheOnceADayFarmer yeah I do 300 friesen cow in a 28 a side with the acr's and inline shed feed in 2.5 hrs in spring and now with 260 in 1.45hrs twice a day on my own . But with a 16 aside the wouldn't make to much difference and once a day make it easy. Keep up the good work
That sounds like the dream set up! Thanks 👍
At 0:24, what is that triangular thing floating in the sky in the background? Is that a drone or a kite or? Also, at 2:01, is that Kapiti Island in the background? I grew up in Paraparaumu but live in Europe now, as far as i know from family back home all the back farms that we used have have behind the house are all developed now. Here in Poland I've got 9 Dexters for meat and one Jersey for milk - I only milk her once a day too, all the neighbors laughed at me and thought I was crazy and that OAD milking was impossible. But I proved them wrong.
Hi there, there's a wire going from the tractor shed to water tank that carries power to the farm fences and that triangle thing is just a visual aid so truck drivers can see it.
No not kapiti Island, i'm up in the waikato.
Thanks for watching
@@TheOnceADayFarmer Cheers!
Sir i wont this work v have alsow 4cow plz you recumended this job
What channel do you guys use on a CB hand Radio please just wondering
We don’t use CB’s or radios as we don’t really need them 👍
Nice jersey calves what bulls do you use I assume you use lic genetics
Thanks, yeah probably 65% LIC, 30% CRV and 5% offshore genetics
Hi Is it possible to visit your farm? I am from NZ
Hey are you that guy on Instagram coshquin farm? Also seems kind of bizarre to me that you milk in the 16 a sidr even though you have a larger although older shed which is right next to the feedpad and closer to your house
Yep that’s my Insta page. Yeah I know what you mean, but that older shed is really run down and would cost a heap to get back up running, where the smaller shed is well set up with Effluent storage etc and it’s right next to the calf shed. A new 30ashb shed would be nice one day.
Good Farm tour is next video Hindi Language Farm inquiry please
I'll look into it
Beautiful country. Travelled the north a South Island for about 6 weeks 35 years ago. Are you on the south?
Awesome! It’s really nice down south. No, I’m in the north island, about 2 hours south of Auckland
@@TheOnceADayFarmer My mistake. Of course it was the North. A large agricultural area. Spent my 27 birthday in Aukland. That was 38 years ago. Seems like yesterday.
He said where he was several times
nice video, do you mind if i use your video for teaching my kindy about farm ? thanks
Nah go for it that’s really awesome! Where about’s do you live?
Dear, I am a veterinarian from pakistan working as a veterinary officer in the livestock department.
How can I get this job in newzelanad?
Regards
How to apply this kind of farm work??
When they first calve is it still only once a day? And how is your incidence of milk fever at calving?
Yep still OAD. We get bugger all milk fever, last calving I can only remember 1 older cow going down with it.
Hi there, what farm do you suggest to work like i have heard people saying its easier in smaller farm less then larger farm. Is it really.
Depends they both have their pros and cons
I want to visit the farm how can i
Peternakan besar gitu gak pake karyawan bang?
Hello from an Irish farm...Please hire me 😂looks amazing!
Hey! Haha thanks
Great video.
Thanks!
interesting from uk how many litres would you sell in an average year
Hi John, last season we produced 850,000 but that was in a really bad drought. Aiming for 950,000 - 1 mil this season.
Thanks for watching!
I'm looking for this kind of job. Good Job Sir
Thanks and welcome
Nice setups. really cost effective.
But as european i dont quite understand how you time the Calving season. Here in northern Germany farmers just AI all year basically.
How does it work out with the heifers then? When do they get set of milk and when do they get the first calve?
Hey man, good question. All the replacement heifers are born within 5 weeks of each other so when they go the bull at 15 months old they are all cycling together.
Hope that answered your question?
Mean bro day in the life next mate?
Yep it’s definitely on the cards
You find drenching better than using a dosatron?
Or is it the alternative?
Never had a dosatron so I don’t know, but it seems to work for us. Would be way easier putting it through the water tho
It’s definitely easier, but your way is guaranteed 👌🏼
How many pay for every hours
Hi
I am FromBangladesh
Gd video man
Hy lad r u from Auckland
No 😂
@@TheOnceADayFarmer oh your accent seems pretty like the city of sails # Auckland thnks for replay
Nz is my dream country where r u actually from I. Mean which city
Very good!!!