Hi Shane, The information you just shared is gold ❤. I am also a communal farmer. Another challenge we battle with is controlling a type of breed. As there are no controlled grazing areas for ones cattle. Also, to select the breeding season. Since everyone's bulls, cows calves graze in a shared area. Cattle only graze during day light, they are taken to kraal due to stock theft. These are challenge that we communal farmers need to find ways of overcoming. You just demonstrated or proved everything you've been saying about the Nguni's all along. Thanks Shane
Hi Thokozani, The only way it will work is if EVERYBODY works together. Unfortunately that is where the greatest challenge lies. Getting into a breeding season won't be such an issue - provided everyone works together, castrates ALL the bull calves and graze their animals in one big herd. It's a huge challenge - but possible!
We farm with Nguni and Boran crosses on communal land, they are doing pretty well. The problem with some farmers in communal lands they wanna bring full grown European breeds which were farm in commercial farms with lot of grazing and supplements to communal land with limited grazing. Improving carcass weight is a goal for every farmer, the best way(my opinion) is to introduce exotic bull to our indigenous cows then cross back your Appendix C or F3 heifers with Nguni bull to maintain hardiness in your herd. You can manage to supplement one bull unlike having the herd of exotic breed with deteriorating health in communal land. Remember in cattle farming time is money, if cows are in bad condition as show in this video they might take to full years to drop a calf meaming you lost a year of production which talk to your income/cashflow.
Hi Karabo, I see that you perfectly understand the situation. Unfortunately the exotic breeds aren't able to deliver the same on the limited forage amd tough conditions - so they fall out! Your plan of crossing is a good one and probably the best of both worlds! Good luck with your herd!
I just wanted to take a moment to express my heartfelt gratitude for the incredible work you’re doing in livestock education. Your passion and dedication shine through in every video, and it’s clear that you genuinely care about sharing your knowledge with others. Thank you so much for the shoutout! It means the world to me and serves as a reminder of the positive impact you’re making in this community. Your insights and expertise are invaluable, and I’m constantly inspired by your commitment to educating and empowering others in this field. Seeing and wanting to help an old gogo got me tiery a bit😅 May you be blessed abundantly in your craft. Keep up the amazing work-you’re making a huge difference!
Glad i found your channel yesterday. Been watching a lot of your videos. Watched a lot of educational farming channels here on UA-cam since covid but unfortunately most of them are based in the UK and US (and always selling something). So the breeds they work with wont necessarily work in our country. Thought our country didn't have any reliable YT channels to learn from. Another thing i noticed while watching your videos, is how inclusive you are to all communities. Appreciate it man, I'm learning something here. Hopefully the pennies I'm saving will help me one day to get started. It's all about patience but in the meantime I'll continue learning from you
Wish you could be able to reach to all communial farmers. Showing them its good to keep indigenous breeds pays in the long term. Some communial farmers loose a lot during drougth periods like we going through now.
Hi Elson, I hope that guys like yourself will spread the word. You have access to youtube and can look up all the farmers sharing valuable knowledge on this platform. Become the source of information that the elders so desperately need.
The Nguni is in good condition... Im Zimbabwean, i remember my grandma only kept the Nguni & mashona breeds, they were in superb condition all the time.
A new video - Yessssssssss Thanks for the hard work. From Namibia. We have some great ngunis in the north of Namibia and i am looking at starting with a small herd at my dads communal area.
I always enjoy watching your videos , but lately I glad to just see that you have made a a video. I live in America, more specifically Texas and have met several Afrikaaners who have moved here and they are good salt of the earth people. But with all the trouble you have been having lately , I reflected back on some of the the conversations I had with them. In particular they said they believed South Africa was going down the path toward Rhodesia. Being an American I had no idea what Rhodesia even was was until I recently searched it up. It looks like there was concerted effort to hide what happened there in America. I can only hope and pray for you and your family, your cattle can be replaced but loved ones cannot, I know it’s easy to say across the globe when you haven’t put in the time and work on the herd, but please be safe
Hi John, Thanks for the kind comments and good wishes! Yes, we do have our challenges but we walk by faith and not fear. Should the wheels come off we'll do what we must to survive and keep our families safe. At the moment things look to be fairly stable. Fortunately our conditions are a little different to Zimbabwe and hopefully we don't go down tge same path! Stay safe and thanks again!
Hi Shane, Fantastic video once again and very insightful. As communal farmers we ought to understand the importance of record keeping and establishing health program! The video somewhat talks to me directly and my community!
You conveyed strong message and there's no better way of addressing communal farming challenges than you did in 10 minutes. Changes in these regards are not complicated and implementing them would lead to positive outlook outlook. I firmly believe communal farming can be sustainable, profitable and make sense financially!
Thanks! The aim was to highlight the single individual thst stood out above the rest. Having said that, I believe that communal farmers can improve their overall animal value by making a few small changes. Of course the owners are difficult and obstinate! 🤣🤣🤣 But if one takes the time to REALLY think it through, you would see that my advice actually makes sense! Even if the marketable value doesn't increase by much (ngunis are discriminated against) - having MORE calves to sell would already make a big difference!
Great heartfelt teaching from you sir. May God bless you for taking up this call to an economic revolution for us Africans. I am making plans to get back to indigenous breeds as was farmed by our forefathers here in Botswana in the 60s. My eyes are mainly on Tuli and Nguni cattle, these are breeds from our original Tswana breed.
Hi Basimane, Thanks for the comment! I hope your plans work out! The Tuli and Nguni are two BRILLIANT breeds in my humble opinion. Keep the comments coming!
If that's not a sign saying pick the right animal for your environment then I don't know what is. This is a perfect example of why it's a good idea to research the type of cattle that will fit your environment. It's kind of like throwing a great white in fresh water it won't work but if you take a bull shark throw it in fresh water it'll survive because it's built for those conditions.
Hello everyone, just out of curious, what is the target market for these "nguni" native cattle? Ive heard that they aren't preferred by the market as much and that they dont do" well" in feedlots. Regards
What valuable information. Might take years to convince some of our fathers. My name is Rena, I’m 29 years old and you’ve been so informative. Your channel is of great value. Keep up the good unseen work. I’m definitely looking to learn more about these Ngunis 🙏🏽
I love the Ngunis. Somehow we do not have these cows in Nyanga, Zimbabwe. We have got Mashonas, Borans and Tulis, but these cows are magnificent in many ways.
@@kennethball2796Guide me here. All along I thought the Nguni and/or Nkone are a same breed of cattle. My understanding was that the Zim type was mainly introduced by the Matabele and were basically from the same Nguni bloodline which Mzilikazi did not hand over to Shaka after a cattle raid😂
what's your opinion on the brahman. because they are medium to large frame animals and they seem to be able to do well just of grazing and the occasional feed
I think brahman is a very good breed. Most that I have seen are large framed and heavy boned. Good heat resistance and do well if there is sufficient grazing.
If I could like this video a hundred times, I would! Thank you for "phrasing it carefully" 😂 The Nguni really stands out in this herd. Are these herds typical kraaled at night together? Or do the individual owners fetch them daily?
That's true. But, what does it help selling an inferior calf from these "other" breeds for R3000? Then I would rather get R5000 for my nguni AND the cow calves every year.
What did the nguni cow do last year? Maybe she produced nothing and hence she is fat. What did the other cows produce last year? Maybe they raised calves and hence are thin now. I don't know but what I do know is that breeding females tend to alternate when in communal conditions. It's also not correct to compare large frame red cattle with small frame nguni. Breed is one thing frame size is another.
I appreciate the time you taking to assist this farmers in anyway you can. Hope they see value in your time. God bless you.
Thank you! I'm always happy to help!
Hi Shane,
The information you just shared is gold ❤. I am also a communal farmer. Another challenge we battle with is controlling a type of breed. As there are no controlled grazing areas for ones cattle. Also, to select the breeding season. Since everyone's bulls, cows calves graze in a shared area. Cattle only graze during day light, they are taken to kraal due to stock theft. These are challenge that we communal farmers need to find ways of overcoming.
You just demonstrated or proved everything you've been saying about the Nguni's all along. Thanks Shane
Hi Thokozani,
The only way it will work is if EVERYBODY works together. Unfortunately that is where the greatest challenge lies. Getting into a breeding season won't be such an issue - provided everyone works together, castrates ALL the bull calves and graze their animals in one big herd.
It's a huge challenge - but possible!
We farm with Nguni and Boran crosses on communal land, they are doing pretty well. The problem with some farmers in communal lands they wanna bring full grown European breeds which were farm in commercial farms with lot of grazing and supplements to communal land with limited grazing. Improving carcass weight is a goal for every farmer, the best way(my opinion) is to introduce exotic bull to our indigenous cows then cross back your Appendix C or F3 heifers with Nguni bull to maintain hardiness in your herd. You can manage to supplement one bull unlike having the herd of exotic breed with deteriorating health in communal land. Remember in cattle farming time is money, if cows are in bad condition as show in this video they might take to full years to drop a calf meaming you lost a year of production which talk to your income/cashflow.
Hi Karabo,
I see that you perfectly understand the situation. Unfortunately the exotic breeds aren't able to deliver the same on the limited forage amd tough conditions - so they fall out! Your plan of crossing is a good one and probably the best of both worlds! Good luck with your herd!
I just wanted to take a moment to express my heartfelt gratitude for the incredible work you’re doing in livestock education. Your passion and dedication shine through in every video, and it’s clear that you genuinely care about sharing your knowledge with others.
Thank you so much for the shoutout! It means the world to me and serves as a reminder of the positive impact you’re making in this community. Your insights and expertise are invaluable, and I’m constantly inspired by your commitment to educating and empowering others in this field. Seeing and wanting to help an old gogo got me tiery a bit😅
May you be blessed abundantly in your craft. Keep up the amazing work-you’re making a huge difference!
Wow Tebogo! Thanks! I don't even know how to respond to your incredibly kind words!
Thankyou!
Thanks for sharing. It feels like reading " Man, cattle and veld" by Johann Zietsman
A VERY good book and someone I follow and respect!
I definitely agree with you, and if this doesn't show the worth of the Ngunis over there you're either blind or in the wrong business. HaHa.
And yet many would still look for a reason to argue - even though the evidence is there!
Excellent example! What a difference a breed can make. That’s why farmers are starting to crossbreed their European cattle with Ngunis or Mashonas 👍
Hi Chino,
Yes, it was quite interesting to see the difference. I think the breed is underrated!
Yeah correct, thanks for all the great info and advice!
Glad i found your channel yesterday. Been watching a lot of your videos. Watched a lot of educational farming channels here on UA-cam since covid but unfortunately most of them are based in the UK and US (and always selling something). So the breeds they work with wont necessarily work in our country. Thought our country didn't have any reliable YT channels to learn from.
Another thing i noticed while watching your videos, is how inclusive you are to all communities. Appreciate it man, I'm learning something here. Hopefully the pennies I'm saving will help me one day to get started. It's all about patience but in the meantime I'll continue learning from you
Thanks, I'm glad you're enjoying the content!
Mmmmmmm i now started to love this breed
Wish you could be able to reach to all communial farmers. Showing them its good to keep indigenous breeds pays in the long term. Some communial farmers loose a lot during drougth periods like we going through now.
Hi Elson,
I hope that guys like yourself will spread the word. You have access to youtube and can look up all the farmers sharing valuable knowledge on this platform. Become the source of information that the elders so desperately need.
The Nguni is in good condition...
Im Zimbabwean, i remember my grandma only kept the Nguni & mashona breeds, they were in superb condition all the time.
That's exactly what I'm seeing here. Animals doing well under difficult conditions.
A new video - Yessssssssss Thanks for the hard work. From Namibia. We have some great ngunis in the north of Namibia and i am looking at starting with a small herd at my dads communal area.
Thanks Norbert! Good luck with your plans - I hope they work out!
Norbert Is it Ngunis have or the Northern sanga type
Oom baie danki vir die videos sal oom asb n vid maak oor hoe om te begin boer met beeste heel in detail asb oom
Naand Henri,
Ek kan so maak. Gee my bietjie agtergrond. Het jy weiding? Het jy grond?
Jis baie dankie oom my plan is om oor te gaan vir 3 tot 5 jaar en te begin met 40 koeie en ekt n ander oom wat my sal help met grond huur
Great and informative video. I’m happy I bumped into your channel that talks to my direct situation…❤❤❤
Thanks, glad you found my channel!
you the blessing from God very informative, thank you for the knowledge we getting from you
Thanks for watching and I hope you find the information useful!
I always enjoy watching your videos , but lately I glad to just see that you have made a a video. I live in America, more specifically Texas and have met several Afrikaaners who have moved here and they are good salt of the earth people. But with all the trouble you have been having lately , I reflected back on some of the the conversations I had with them. In particular they said they believed South Africa was going down the path toward Rhodesia. Being an American I had no idea what Rhodesia even was was until I recently searched it up. It looks like there was concerted effort to hide what happened there in America. I can only hope and pray for you and your family, your cattle can be replaced but loved ones cannot, I know it’s easy to say across the globe when you haven’t put in the time and work on the herd, but please be safe
Hi John,
Thanks for the kind comments and good wishes!
Yes, we do have our challenges but we walk by faith and not fear. Should the wheels come off we'll do what we must to survive and keep our families safe. At the moment things look to be fairly stable. Fortunately our conditions are a little different to Zimbabwe and hopefully we don't go down tge same path!
Stay safe and thanks again!
Hi Shane, Fantastic video once again and very insightful.
As communal farmers we ought to understand the importance of record keeping and establishing health program!
The video somewhat talks to me directly and my community!
You conveyed strong message and there's no better way of addressing communal farming challenges than you did in 10 minutes.
Changes in these regards are not complicated and implementing them would lead to positive outlook outlook. I firmly believe communal farming can be sustainable, profitable and make sense financially!
Thanks! The aim was to highlight the single individual thst stood out above the rest. Having said that, I believe that communal farmers can improve their overall animal value by making a few small changes. Of course the owners are difficult and obstinate! 🤣🤣🤣
But if one takes the time to REALLY think it through, you would see that my advice actually makes sense!
Even if the marketable value doesn't increase by much (ngunis are discriminated against) - having MORE calves to sell would already make a big difference!
Great heartfelt teaching from you sir. May God bless you for taking up this call to an economic revolution for us Africans. I am making plans to get back to indigenous breeds as was farmed by our forefathers here in Botswana in the 60s. My eyes are mainly on Tuli and Nguni cattle, these are breeds from our original Tswana breed.
Hi Basimane,
Thanks for the comment! I hope your plans work out! The Tuli and Nguni are two BRILLIANT breeds in my humble opinion.
Keep the comments coming!
Thats a beautiful Calf
Thanks!
Seems like Nguni are very suitable for your area and should be for your area
Hi John, I think they are suitable for many areas! The mashona is doing very well in the states.
But they most certainly do well here.
Your videos are very educational please keep them coming. Stay blessed.
Thanks! Appreciate that!
You really really make a very important point all the time I watch your videos. You really keep it a thousand
Thanks! I just call it as I see it. Nothing else.
Great and very informative video Shane as always
This is one of the important reasons why I'm obsessed with pure Ngunis
Thanks Mandla.I love them too! But I guess that is obvious!
If that's not a sign saying pick the right animal for your environment then I don't know what is. This is a perfect example of why it's a good idea to research the type of cattle that will fit your environment. It's kind of like throwing a great white in fresh water it won't work but if you take a bull shark throw it in fresh water it'll survive because it's built for those conditions.
Exactly! You get it! Many don't and it costs them more than it should!
Hello everyone, just out of curious, what is the target market for these "nguni" native cattle? Ive heard that they aren't preferred by the market as much and that they dont do" well" in feedlots.
Regards
Hi Tshepang,
You are correct - most feedlots don't want them. I plan to finish on grass and then sell directly to the abbattoir.
@@shanecotty3275 I appreciate the response, dankie. Very educational content all together, you are appreciated.
@@tshepangmosiaquantumnsoul5025 Thanks man! I really appreciate the positivity!
Thank you Shane. Important content and challenges that need to be addressed. Keep the passion and good work up.
Thanks, appreciate that!
Nice sharing 😊
Thank you! Cheers!
@shanecotty3275 you welcome🎉
Please talk about goats and sheep aswell.please……..
Hi Ayanda,
I must be honest - I don't know much about goats and sheep - but I'll see what I can do 👍
@ thank you so much,i just shared your videos with my friends wow we are all happy now.thank you
What valuable information. Might take years to convince some of our fathers.
My name is Rena, I’m 29 years old and you’ve been so informative. Your channel is of great value. Keep up the good unseen work.
I’m definitely looking to learn more about these Ngunis 🙏🏽
Thanks Rena!
Yes, the fathers can be stubborn and challenging! But rome wasn't built in a day! Thanks for the comment and good luck!
It is easy to see why the Nguni type cow caught your attention.
She is in great condition and still feeding her calf very well
I love the Ngunis. Somehow we do not have these cows in Nyanga, Zimbabwe. We have got Mashonas, Borans and Tulis, but these cows are magnificent in many ways.
Zimbabwe has the Nkone which is an outstanding indigenous breed much like what we recognize in SA as the Nguni.
@@kennethball2796Guide me here. All along I thought the Nguni and/or Nkone are a same breed of cattle. My understanding was that the Zim type was mainly introduced by the Matabele and were basically from the same Nguni bloodline which Mzilikazi did not hand over to Shaka after a cattle raid😂
@@Nyautaregoatery The nguni breed is all over Zim, in Matebeleland we have it..the nkone and nguni are the same breed, as far as i know
My apologies, seems some of my replies went missing..... However I see your question has been answered 👍
On our indigenous breeds are easy to tolerant and adapt the areas or hashing conditions 😊
Absolutely - they are great survivors!
what's your opinion on the brahman. because they are medium to large frame animals and they seem to be able to do well just of grazing and the occasional feed
I think brahman is a very good breed. Most that I have seen are large framed and heavy boned. Good heat resistance and do well if there is sufficient grazing.
Thanks a lot 🎉for shout out 🐄
Thanks for the support! 🍻
@@shanecotty3275 you are teaching us more
@@shanecotty3275 you are teaching us more
If I could like this video a hundred times, I would!
Thank you for "phrasing it carefully" 😂
The Nguni really stands out in this herd. Are these herds typical kraaled at night together? Or do the individual owners fetch them daily?
It seems my reply dissappeared....
Due to stock theft the animals get kraaled at night.
I pray most of my cousins follow your UA-cam channel and learn a thing or two....
That nguni is looking great
3:30....caught my attention
Keep pushing Man.
Thanks!
In south Africa is not easy to get market for nguni...
That's true. But, what does it help selling an inferior calf from these "other" breeds for R3000? Then I would rather get R5000 for my nguni AND the cow calves every year.
Is this the same communal herd you futured in a recent segment you did about coumunal farming??
Hi Brendan,
No, this is a different herd. I pass many when I'm travelling for work and this happened to be one of them.
What did the nguni cow do last year?
Maybe she produced nothing and hence she is fat. What did the other cows produce last year? Maybe they raised calves and hence are thin now. I don't know but what I do know is that breeding females tend to alternate when in communal conditions. It's also not correct to compare large frame red cattle with small frame nguni. Breed is one thing frame size is another.
Hi Mark,
It's always possible that she skipped a year - but so did most of the other animals if one takes the
1st to comment
🤣🤣🤣 Thanks!
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Markus
Hi Markus
nul agt 3 ses 33 dubbel een 09
@@shanecotty3275 goed ek sal jou môre kontak dankie 👍
Im insipred...from Swaziland
Thanks!