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nice 1 brother. amazing

Id send her straight to the meat works rather than deal with all that extra chore time.

We have our 1st 2 cows calved today

Hey Andrew, I really appreciate how much time you put into your videos and I really love them. They are helpful because when I’m older I want to be a diary farmer just like you and watching your videos are inspiring me to follow my dreams. Thanks have a good day❤

Hey Andrew. There is a company in Cambridge I used to work for that might still supply sawdust to farmers. Cameron Transport Ltd 👍🏻

Hey Andrew have you tried taking the milk tube off at the dropper instead of the cluster it can be easier and less chance of breaking the bowl

Was that a Crawford finger snap!!

When do you start spreading some magnesium oxide on the wet grass prior to calving, especially for the older cows?

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I am from Ireland but work outside in eastern europe, do you get grass growth all year round in NZ

Hi Andrew i am from nepal (A nepali cow farmer ) We have 30 Holstein and Jessy cow .. And I just want to thank u for what you have done it's inspired and driven me to start my own farming in my country.

I am so impressed the way u do and teach us how to do properly

Sir halo iam also know all kind of Animals breeds am doctor and sergon

Hey mate when are U going to get some Texas longhorns? 😂

seems to me that the dairy breeds bulls are well known to snap without warning. All breeds surely can but the dairy herds seem to have it happen more. Ive had a limousine go bananas and nearly kill my dad. But if you are going to hear a story of a pen worker killed in an auction yard by a bull. its going to be a dairy breed Last two Ive heard in my area have been Holsteins. Dad raised registered brown Swiss when he started and hated brown Swiss bulls.

Hey Andrew, if you're going to rubber mat I'd highly reccomend doing the bale area also. We had two identical 44ashb on the farm we managed last, owner bought the neighbors place which didnt have it but our original shed did. Our original shed was rubber mat the entire yard and bale area and the shed was so much nicer to milk in, quieter, cows flowed way faster in and out, heifers were way easier to train in the rubber mat shed and cows were generally more content, if we had a down cow they always got up good as gold with no sliding round and risking damage like on concrete. The only issue we had with it was during spring with large herds the cows would lay down on it during milking, keeping herd sizes to under 1hr each on the yard it was good as gold though.

We put it up the pit and the exit, game changing best thing we ever did in our shed keeps it quiet and we used that brand too love the stuff

If you stand on concrete all the time or even work on it kills your legs and feet

$36,000 will buy alot of supplementary feed, grass seed, batt latches and labor plus putting the manure where it's needed! Some management tips: setup a paddock with supplementary feed then let the cows walk to the back of the paddock to the last break. Set up the next breaks so you are ready to move them at any time depending on the weather. The grass has so much water in it so they don't need a water trough. Use batt latches if you feel they need a move during the night. The goal is to keep the stress level low on the cows! Graze on, Alan in Madison, Wisconsin. Years ago I sharemilked 3 yrs. at Te Poi in eastern Waikato.

Did you price easifix. I did my collecting yard 75ft x 16ft 7.5k euro

Can't see the benefit only the company doing it get 20000 dollars

Greatcto see you and your Dad working together and you have your own ways of doing temporary electric fences.😊

You really are becoming quite the Ecologist now. Well done and hope the rain eases up for your cows.😊

Plantings are great…. But how do you clean the drains out. We are seeing a lot of issues because of it. With the water eventually rising because it gets full it will get above the level of your drain tiles and stop that water getting away. Not saying plantings are not good just a few things to think about.

How silly would it be to put woodchip in the yard between seasons? Clean it out before milking

35 k would be better spent on the cowshed. Rubber mats get filthy underneath

I think it would affect ur cell count

Hi Andrew, they are a very good mat, I installed them in 130 stables at Lindsay Park Racing the first ten years ago.

We put rubber matting in our tie stall barn 25 years ago and it helped with foot problems BUT our cell counts increased a lot. When we quit milking we sold the mats and it was really nasty under them. I would look into some type of an epoxy coating and see what is available. It would not be as thick but it would be sealed.

Just check into other farmers with the mats

The mats will up your bacterial count

nice 1 brother

West Aussie here, can’t say not do it at all. We’ve had ours going on nearly ten years and yes you get some build up underneath but the relief you see in your cows as the step on it. They will place sore feet to the matting and look relaxed

Don't do it. Waste of money hard to clean

Great environmental protection

I would personally extend your shed b4 forking that kind of money

👀🙄🐾👍Any takers with the trap?

Only thing about rubber mats is they get really hot in summer

Will that rubber matting be easy to hose down without getting poop stuck between the knobbly bits? That trap is awesome. Does it reset itself or do you have the check them each morning and reset them if it has clocked a rat or something?

Deffinetly worth putting mats in the pit boss man done our shed and I reckon it was worth it

Nice wood .

Do the pit it makes a huge difference on ya back and feet

So why don’t you just them off on the feed pad instead

Personally I would extend the parlour first, I think it's more necessary. What about using a sacrifice paddock for the wet nights?

putting rubber in the pit will mean lip on the concrete for the pit will be at same height as rubber then cows will fall in more often

It would be money spent that does not have a payback.

Find a mat maker to sponsor then do it.

I would be doing your feed pad not the cowshed.

Mate had matting on whole yard was not a fan the smell of trapped dung under mats in summer was pretty full on made for more flys. Also look into the rules around rain water discharge from yard not in use due to matting as in you have to collect all water regardless

Check how theyre gonna wrap the rubber round the steel posts. It holds the shit in at the base of the posts and rusts them off quick as. Don Chapman is used a heat shrink tube over the bottom of any posts that weren't in a nib.