A Day In The Life Of A New Zealand Dairy Farmer - Winter
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- Опубліковано 10 лип 2021
- Follow me on a beautiful winters day down in New Zealand as I feed all my 320 Jersey dairy cows which are outside on grass. Electric fencing, moving cows and more
Thanks For Watching!!!
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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) only in the morning, and they stay outside on grass for 365 days of the year!!
Email Enquiries to:
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macknit@gmail.com
If you want to send me something my address is:
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Bank Road
RD3 Ohaupo 3883
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Great job sharing, you did great capturing what its like dairy farming in new zealand.
The lawns come up nice around the house. The kids will love you for that in the years to come.
Yeah I’ll show it a bit more in a video, looking really good now 👍
You might need to explain how great it is in the Waikato compared to how cold it is in the South Island, it's a different world down in South land.
Yeah true! I will say something next time 👍
indaahnya ❤❤
came across your post by accident, but, found it very interesting, it's obviously a lot of hard work being a farmer ( which i now appreciate ) it's guys like you that are the backbone of our beautiful country, good luck with the fools running the country at the moment ( hopefully not for long )
That awesome and really cool to hear thanks 🙏
Hi Andrew, great to watch this as a farmer from Ireland! 🇮🇪 God bless, Gareth.
Thanks for watching Gareth 👍
You know your in good country when you can dig the post hole with a shovel. We dug out our single foot of topsoil and dug a couple more feet then just got the tractor to knock the posts in. I'm glad you have the strip fencing down at almost every post I have to stop and untangle the wire from the reel. Thanks for the video Andrew wish you a good calving Ben for Aus
Cheers Ben!
I wish I had a post rammer, would make it way easier 😂
It s very interesting to look your videos.
always love watching ur vids
Cheers mate 👌👍
Nice to see, how looking a Farmer's day on the other side of the globe :) Greetings from Poland ;)
Hey that’s cool 👍
Great video pal! Looking forward to calving starting!
Cheers mate 👍
All the best for calving season brotha 👌
Thanks mate 👍
@@TheOnceADayFarmer all the best
It’s the calm before the storm 👍
Definitely!
Hey man, love your vids, been learning heaps, is there a chance you could follow up on this series when it comes around to it, spring, summer and autumn, I'm pretty new to the farm life and keen to learn, cheers mate
Your winter is like an irish summer
Am looking forward to calving, really enjoying your channel.
Thanks 👍
Well done Andrew
God I miss NZ... only found the channel.. what part are u in... I work in the waikato for 7 years for a contractor best time of my life.. love the videos.
I’m in the Waikato, just out of Te Awamutu.
Thanks mate 👍
@@TheOnceADayFarmer I was in tokoroa worked for ireland contracting
Nice, yep I know of them, they’re pretty big and got some nice gear! 👍
new sub. here love your vid man
Never a bad vid!!
Cheers mate 👍
Good looking Jerseys
Thanks 👍
Doing a good job of showing you don’t have to spend a heap of money on new machinery to make a living if you are prepared to work ie set a post the old fashion way.The only livestock we can keep outside where I live (Devon UK)like you do are sheep .Great videos
I wish I had a post driver, it would make life a bit easier 😂
Thanks 👍
Great explanation of what you get up to Andrew and the drone shots showed off the different breaks really well.I think you said in an older video you don’t use a plate meter ,how do you decide how much to allocate on a daily basis Thanks
Nah I don’t, I usually go by my eye. You can tell if there getting enough or not and adjust it pretty easily.
Good luck with the calving this season.
Cheers mate 👍
Beautiful Milking cow and Your working i,AM in Uruguay Country
Thanks mate 👍
Looking forward to seeing the calving videos Andrew. Things are going to get busy for you. 😉👍
Yeah it’s not to far away now! 😂
Im happy to see this video...coz i so much love of farming..
Nice
Awesome video as always my friend. Have you any idea how many miles you walk doing paddock breaks,I’d say a few miles a week. Are you looking forward to calving, you seem pretty laid back it seems to me to be a very stressful time, am I right or not. You made short work of digging that post hole out, cracking job by the way. Thanks for sharing mate.
Good question! But no I have no idea, wouldn’t be to bad, some of the bigger sheep and beef farms that I worked on, we did electric fences that were 1.2km long and that was 3 wire for sheep 😩 definitely don’t miss that 😂
I am and I’m not, it’s nice to have a bit of down time at the moment but I love seeing the next generation of calves coming through and what this years heifers milk like, it’s a pretty interesting time of the year
That’s a nice cow, one of my favourites…… I bet you say that to all the girls.
😂
love this video, i’m going to become a dairy farmer one day!
Good stuff it’s a great industry 👌👍
@@TheOnceADayFarmer i got a trial coming up at a family members farm soon, can’t wait!
Good stuff 👌
Nice bro
I would be keen to see 130, mother and daughter comparison after they calve. Maybe some other ones.
Yep I’ll do a comparison 👍
Saya mengira negara ini jarang ada peternakan berbagai binatang, ternyata tidak..
Cheers Bro
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Sir plz recumend this job and work i like this video very nice v have 4 cow and vafflow
Before i go to Saudi Arabia for work,new Zealand is my designation for work.but i'm go to the other country.
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I put the causmag in the troughs 👌
That’s a good idea!
I love this chenal sir amezing i wont this work you recumended work plz sir🙏
Another great video. Still finding your videos. What do you do for milk? Do you do anything to your milk or use it as is?
We buy it most of the time, I go through stages of drinking it out of the vat tho 👍
All our milk go’s to the factory to be turned into either butter, cream or milk powder mainly
Love your channel. In your bio you don't say which island you are on!!
Sorry I live in the north island 👍
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We start calving on Saturday
Hope everything goes well for you 🤞👍
@@TheOnceADayFarmer yes we are calving 500 frizins in the Waikato
How much milk do you have to have in tank before pickup?what do you do with surplus?
About 500 litres which can be over two days. The surplus gets stored as calf milk
new subscriber sir
Thanks and welcome
@@TheOnceADayFarmer nice one idol always watch your video
Hey Andrew when you fence off breaks in a paddock how do you get on for water in each break
Sometimes they go with out, I wouldn’t go longer than 2 days with out water though, other wise I use portable troughs.
@@TheOnceADayFarmer Hey. I'm a Dairy Farmer in Taranaki, wouldn't have my cows without water for more than 12 hrs.
Each to there own I guess 👍
they can do without it for 2 days
Hi, have you considered switching to split calving or autumn calving due to your summer droughts?
Not really, we don’t really have the infrastructure for winter milking and we don’t really want to milk through the winter 🥶
@@TheOnceADayFarmer Ok thx. I can see your point there😂. Is there generally speaking (in NZ and especially on the North Island) a trend towards split or autumn calving due to the summer droughts (which will probably become more challenging in the future, I guess🤷🏻♂️?
Alot of fencing alright. had do 4 mobs this morning
I got 4 now to 😂
What is the demand for Bangladeshi workers in the dairy sector and agricultural sector in New Zealand and how much are they paid?
Do you guys feed hay or do you just give bigger areas per cow
Nah don’t feed any hay, although I do have some in the shed, so I might start feeding it to the calved mov maybe 🤷
Hi
lol and all the rest , lucky you dont have move cows of with wet , did you cull slip cows or are you milking them?
Nah I’m going to have to cull them, I would’ve milked them but they didn’t really bag up
*I wanna work in a farm in New Zealand. How to obtain a job offer in New Zealand from overseas , I feel so difficult*
I can apply for farm job in Pakistan...?
How do you manage not to run out of grass? Are you allowed to spread fertiliser all year round? Here in Ireland we are restricted to just over six months of the year for fertiliser.
I should do a video on it to explain better, but basically the cows go on a really long round. There are restrictions around how much and when you can apply fertiliser.
I want to work this farm
sir I can apply for farm from bangladesh
What Is the white powder?
Magnesium oxide, cows need it other wise they can get milk fever
We need to stand up to the government
How many day rotation are you on in the winter?
About 80-90 how about you?
@@TheOnceADayFarmer around a 100
That’s probably what I should be on 😂
@@TheOnceADayFarmer on our last farm through the winter we did a 120 day rotation but we were a lot high and colder. I think 80-90 is fine, you have plenty of maize to fill the gaps
Yep true 😂👍
Kia ora Sir, I'm May Ann a graduate of Animal Science from Philippines I really wanted to be a Dairy Farmer in New Zealand. I have relevant experience Sir, I hope you will consider me to be part of your growing Farm. Thank you so much.
Where abouts are you what area?
Te Awamutu in the Waikato
Hello I'm Paritosh Debnath from Bangladesh. I have been working as a Veterinary field assistant equivalent Veterinary nurse in a government veterinary hospital. I'm very interested to join as a farm worker in Newzealand. Have any opportunity to get farm worker job from outside Newzealand?
can i buy cows
I like your videos but that music is bad, whats your average daily temperature in winter
Average would be around the 10-11 degrees Celsius 👍
The Once A Day Farmer i thought it must of been warmer , your grass comes back super quick
It has been pretty warm so probably averaged higher than that and the ground temp is still pretty warm which helps 👍
Did you mention a goat Andrew? Would like to see he or she🐐😃
😂 yeah there is one called diesel next door
@@TheOnceADayFarmer oh right. I thought it must have been yours🙂 Hope all is going well for you. Have a good calving!
Hi
I want in farm work with you
Hi am Samuel I want to join you on your farm give me a job
Why you like jersey cows why not HF ?
Everyone’s different but we like them, they’re smaller easier to handle, suit OAD and we just like them 👍
@@TheOnceADayFarmer what do you mean by OAD
Once a day milking 👍
Always hate last week or 2 as you have got used to a normal life..
Helo i am from pakistan .i need a dairy work visa plzzzzz
Hi bro looking for job here,am from Africa, your response will be highly appreciated
It s very interesting to look your videos.
Thanks 👍
Nice