Stuck Truck, Selling Cows and pulling the rams in.
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- Опубліковано 6 чер 2022
- Sending the Cull cows off to Anzco foods, and pulling the rams from 2 mobs of ewes.
My Name is Alistair Bird and My wife Genna and I farm on 'The Grange" near Oxford, North Canterbury, in the South Island of New Zealand.
Join me as I document our daily life bringing you the highs and lows on a New Zealand Sheep and Beef farm.
Thanks so much for watching.
Facebook: / thegrangenzbirds
Our on-farm accommodation is listed on Air BnB www.airbnb.co.nz/rooms/20445220
Email: ak.gkbird@xtra.co.nz
Mail: 211 Ashley Gorge Road, Oxford, New Zealand. 7495
Everyone needs a Georgia....😊
Mine is a bit older than yours....she’s working in London on the Mission Impossible Films (7&8)
Thanks for the vid....busy busy. Hope the cows sold well.
I agree, Hope your daughter is doing well. They sold ok, update in the next vid.
Pleased you got a lot of support for the last video showed a few of my mates in town they said why would u bother.as I said it a great life farming keep it up .if nz didn't have the Farmers this country wouldn't exist.looks a bit wet up your way🐑🐑
Yea its quite we up here in the hills. Quite a bit dryer towards the coast. Thanks for sharing the video around.
@@kiwifarmernz that's ok more people need to see how hard governments are making it to farm in this country
Hi I like your video
Nice pack of dogs, well trained too.
Thanks
This week we have eaten corned silver side oh lovely especially potatoes and cabbage then sandwiches, and a mutton roast with potatoes and Kumra and cabbage, tonight just finished a beef mince chilli, all with Kiwi butter and couplands bread all grown up in New Zealand, 🐄🐑🍞.
Sounds pretty good.
Great video Alastair 👌
Seconds on the video on training the dogs and amazing to see the tags being scanned. Thanks for all the work putting up the video, you get a lot done in a day!!!
Thanks Grant. Noted
Good you've got all the NAIT tags on video, amazing the number of times they get "lost" between farm and works.
Yea we have been not to bad so far.
Nice
Hey mate awesome work with the channel, just throwing it out there would be great to see a video just on your dogs? Love seeing them work 👍🏻
Cheers
Sam AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺
Thanks Mate, yep its on the list of Videos to make.
I'm a big fan
Mate, let us know when put a 'go get me a beer from the fridge' command on Alfie lol
That's a great idea.
Bro we always love your videos
Thanks Mate.
Again cash flow for my brither
Love the videos. Do you reckon you could film more of the moving stock as that’s very good to watch
Will be some more dog action in the next video.
@@kiwifarmernz I’m back up to date on videos now and did notice lots more footage of dogs working👍Love the videos. Great to see how u farm over where u are compared to the uk. Keep it up.👍
Good helper
Hey Alistair what’s with the Kiwi farmer caps 🧢. Hey what do you do with grazed out fodder beet paddocks. Thanks for the video
The paddock ex beet will go in to oats and Italian as a catch crop in the spring. We will have some hats for sale, just getting some ducks in a row.
are you happy with the wool sheep still? With the very very low wool prices and the cost to get the wool off their backs are you looking at crossing your ewes with a Kartartin or Dorper or a Kartartin x Dorper - Dorper is called the "Angus" of the sheep world as the lambs are little but grow fast so around 36 kgs at 3-4 months and the Kartartin are more parasite resistant - this cross the ewes are fertile for 12 months of the year so you can choose your lambing season - keep the daughters (they will have wool) and put them to another Kartartin x Dorper ram and you get a F1B so hair sheep from their lambs - 19 Dorper breeders in the South Island
Interesting comment. At the moment we are not ready to give up on wool, I still have hope it will come back with the trend to a more natural way of living with less synthetics.
@@kiwifarmernz China and America have to play nice for that to come back unless New Zealand farmers and the NZ Wool Board or Wool NZ start to do something more proactive with the wool - maybe we need to restart the manufacturing side of the wool industry again in NZ and sell it to the world ourselves not rely on China to make the products - or look at India, Vietnam etc - maybe the world has allowed China to manufacture to much and manufacturing needs to be spread it out some more internationally - we put all our eggs in one basket with China and it has come back to bit us
@@inglis7086 agreed, It needs to come from central government as well. Kind of like a EV rebate but for wool and natural fibers for clothing, carpets and Insulation.
@@kiwifarmernz I think we as New Zealander need to come up with some idea''s the EV rebate only worked because they had a product to use - the Govt is not innovative - Do an international competition of some description to get ideas together to go forward - the other international wool producers will be watching they have the same problem but no innovation coming forward from them either and low/medium grade wool rots in paddocks around the world as it is not worth freighting to the Wood Boards - uncleaned raw wool only has a 2 year life and the wool starts to go off I believe - use vlogers like Sandy Brock - she makes products with her own wool and sells it on her website or Cami from the Sheep Game - sheep farmer and shearer
Do you know yet how much the carbon tax is going to cost you? asking for a friend. Get ready for some cold weather by the look of it.
At the cost of 11 cents per kg of Methane it will cost us $2945. that is not including the cost of CO2 or Nitrous oxide. That is also not including any sequestration that we can achieve. Still a lot to be figured out. Yep its gona get cold, hopefully no snow for us tho.
Hi I like your video