ON THE TRUCK | Selling Sheep & Cattle before winter.

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Жыл бұрын

Selling lots of cattle and cull ewes before winter starts to bite.
#sale #cashflow #winter
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.
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@briananderson5634 Жыл бұрын

I never cease to be amazed at the range of skills that you need just to operate your farm! Awesome!

@kiwifarmernz Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much. That is what I'm trying to get out to school kids, that farming is not just shifting animals.

@user-jr3it2ys9b 4 ай бұрын

Hi I like your video

@happy-go-luckymammy Жыл бұрын

great video love animals ❤👍

@azamyahmad Жыл бұрын

Bonjour Monsieur .. welcome back Sir .. loved watching your video channel documentary lifestyle countryside content and as always beautiful sharing and you doing an excellent great job, respect your hard work, keep it up Sir .. take care and stay safe .. Merci beaucoup Monsieur ..

@SamoanFarmer Жыл бұрын

Glad I came across your channel mate.

@kiwifarmernz Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching..

@tonymckeage1028 11 ай бұрын

Great Video, I really enjoy the practical day to day stuff, that shows the modern challenges of farming, thanks for sharing

@kiwifarmernz 11 ай бұрын

Our pleasure!

@markmeredith5521 Жыл бұрын

Sorry about the empty heifers. Did you pin down a reason..Bull maybe. Ewes look really well, did the fly strike calm down,just about to shear over here(flies are about!)

@kiwifarmernz Жыл бұрын

Thanks. Haven't sorted a reason. Bvd came back negative. Fly has calmed down which is great.

@karenr67 Жыл бұрын

This is the first of your videos I've watched. Did subscribe.

@kiwifarmernz Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much

@garymadden2656 Жыл бұрын

Great video Alastair as always 👌

@kiwifarmernz Жыл бұрын

Thanks Mate.

@EastmanGav Жыл бұрын

Running in gumboots, great training for the next Godzone

@kiwifarmernz Жыл бұрын

It's good resistance training

@user-mi7ui8sw1g Жыл бұрын

Yeah you can also send your sheep to the Alliance they can handle mutton too. Buy yourself shares with the Alliance more stock you supply them more shares they give you. With having flat land as well sheep will get used to you when you are feeding out and shifting brakes every 2nd day. It is good to have cattle to when you have done the sheep side of things over the spring/ summer with selling the lambs and hoggots.

@ronaldlucas5360 Жыл бұрын

Nice video and enjoyed

@rodmackinnon8497 Жыл бұрын

Sure have a lot of stock . . . your fall weather looks a lot better than our spring. Cheers.

@kiwifarmernz Жыл бұрын

Our Autumn is generally better than our springs here.

@barbaraharpur360 Жыл бұрын

Weird question but what happens to their cute suits when they go to the meat works? Do they get biffed or sold to leather workers? Do you profit from them if they are sold?

@kiwifarmernz Жыл бұрын

Everything gets used and its all built into the price we receive.

@johnjordan4647 Жыл бұрын

Nice video Alistair. Shame you couldn’t afford to keep the dry heifers but hey as you said “That’s Farming”. You seemed to be a bit flat mate so maybe a jog over a few hills or a spin on the mountain bike to get the energy levels up and the brain in the right space, Mate. Just keep on keeping on 👍

@kiwifarmernz Жыл бұрын

Thanks John. It's been a tough/busy couple of weeks. Definitely need to get into the hills.

@thenewaquarist6318 Жыл бұрын

Missing your videos these days brother as I was and still i am stuck with hectic work.

@kiwifarmernz Жыл бұрын

Thats no good Ram, hope you are well tho.

@thenewaquarist6318 Жыл бұрын

@@kiwifarmernz will surely spend time for my brother n his lovely videos

@user-tf7ju8ix3j Жыл бұрын

Do you take the cows down to the lease block and clean up after ewes??

@kiwifarmernz Жыл бұрын

We have done in the past but we don't have cattle yards down there which is a pain.

@j.r8213 Жыл бұрын

Great vid Alistair you guy's have it easy here in Ireland cattle are registered national database when registered we get a blue passport back (about a week) with name and address of owner, tag number, herd number, dam tag number on it the passport/card it will also have it's records of tb tests on it 12 month annual tb test can't be sold out of test the card goes with a animal when sold, if that heifer missing a tag was mine I couldn't sell her until i ordered and received a new tag with her number and retagged and now cattle have to have a eid tag too. Ah man yeahs don't know how easy yeah's have it.

@kiwifarmernz Жыл бұрын

Wow that's intense. Hope that doesn't come here.

@KiwiJim13 Жыл бұрын

👀🙄🐾👍It Looks like you have been getting the rain how do you find the Canam quad?

@kiwifarmernz Жыл бұрын

Sure have. I love the outlander it's a great bike.

@KiwiJim13 Жыл бұрын

@@kiwifarmernz Ok any issues?

@kiwifarmernz Жыл бұрын

@@KiwiJim13 not really. Just usual r and m

@KiwiJim13 Жыл бұрын

@@kiwifarmernz Ok thank you Alistair

@patrickaherne3598 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, you can't afford to keep feeding those heifers over the winter if they're not in calf.

@kennethfromnewzealand8782 11 ай бұрын

Your confidence, hard work and abilities with a lovely family are admired. NZ not the country I once knew and loved. The socialists and greens in their madness and stupidity taxing and legislating NZ farmers off the land! This is very sad.

@kiwifarmernz 11 ай бұрын

Thanks mate. It is a challenge.