Getting Down and Dirty on the dairy farm with

Emma & Jet

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Emma and Jet

• My name is Emma I am 16. As part of my HSC I am doing a dairy traineeship at Clover Hill Dairies.

• My name is Jet. I am also doing a dairy traineeship with Alan and Leesa Swan at Hillview Dairy.

Hi I’m

Emma

Hi I’m Jet

What are Jet and Emma going to teach us today

Today we are going to learn about what happens at milking

time

Firstly we are going to tell you about our farm

Do you think everyone knows we

get milked three times daily ???????

Yes that makes us different from most

other farms in Australia.

I wont forget to talk about that !!!!!!!

Our farm is located at Jamberoo in NSW.

It is on the north east face of Saddleback Mt.

Saddleback Mt was once a volcano and the soil is very rich basalt.

Its very steep Can you see my friends??

50% of the farm is rainforest

The farm is very beautiful and we want to make sure it looks like this for my grand

calves

We are part of the

“Cleaner Greener Dairying

Sustainable Farming” Network

and the Small Farms Network

http://www.smallfarms.net.au/Projects%20&%20Grants.html#CWG

You can read a Clover Hill Dairies sustainable farming

case online

To protect the rainforest and waterways our cows travel backwards and forwards from the dairy on laneways we have built just for them.

Our cows are Holsteins – also known as Friesians

Holsteins are black and white cows that produce lots of milk

When they first came to Australia people called them Magpie cows

http://nutrition.natfoods.com.au/st_cowfacts.html

Illawarra Cattle

• Before we changed to Holstein cattle in the late 1990’s our farm had a long tradition of breeding Illawarra Cattle

www.slideshare.net/LandLearnNSW/from-small-beginings-a-history-of-dairying-in-the-illawarra

Hi . My name is Doris. I won the All Australian Aged Cow

competition in 1989

Learn all about the history of the Illawarra Breed of Dairy

Cowat this link

www.slideshare.net/LandLearnNSW/from-small-beginings-a-history-of-dairying-in-the-illawarra

Adapted from “How Now Aussie Cow” –Dairy Australia

Our cows are very big and we have sourced our cow bloodlines (genes) from North

America

FYI Holstein, refers to animals traced from North American bloodlines, while Friesian refers to indigenous European black and white cattle

Okay. If I am a Holstein and Holsteins are black

and white and we only have Holsteins on our farm.

What breed of cow is my best friend ??????

Can Holsteins be red and

white ??????

Now you have all the background stuff I think I can hear

Nick coming on the bike now !!!!!!!Its time to get

milked

Nick’s the boss –he is the farm

manager

Okay girls its time to get

milked

So what's the first thing that happens ????

All the girls head to the water trough

Nick always makes sure we have plenty of

time to have a big drink of water

Did you know cows drink over 100 litres

of water a day –that’s a bathtub full

And there is always someone who decides at

the last minute to go back for seconds !!!!!

Before we go out onto the road Jet puts out the “Cows Ahead”

sign. This lets all the people using the road know they have to slow down because we have right of

way on our farm Cows are Cool – Don’t you

agree????

And we’re off !!!Today

its just a short trip to the dairy. Sometimes cows

have to walk 2km to the

dairy and back.

And this is where we are going to get milked

Can you see all the silos and the hay shed ??

Can you spot the tractor ???

Come on my little friend. If you are telling this

story you better catch up.

Whoops! More action less talk.

Back on track!!!!!!You will notice my friends

and me prefer to walk on the grass on the side of the road.Why do you think that is ???

Cows like to walk slowly in a long line .

Often the same cow leads the herd home each day.

She is pretty clever as she is first in the dairy and first back in the paddock and gets all the best grass.

We have a 270 degree view of the

ocean whilst we wait to get milked.

The holding yard is shaded by 200 year old Morton Bay figs

We have planted over 500 native grasses and shrubs around our dairy

to reduce the amount of Carbon Dioxide (green house gas) that can

escape into the atmosphere

http://www.olliesworld.com/planet/aus/info/info/air09.htm

We have a new

herringbone dairy which is 14 aside.This means we can milk 28 cows at a

time

Putting a mat on the floor helps stop the farmers

getting sore feet.Can you read the word on

the floor mat???Hint: its part of our stud

logo.

We get milked three times daily and lots of

people come to watch

You too can see the cows milked at Clover Hill Dairies

• Click on the picture

Its all a matter of timing

• We start at 4am in the morning milk again at 12pm and again at 8pm at night.

• It is very important that cows spend most of the day on the pasture and not standing on concrete.

• To do this on our farm we complete each milking in 2 hrs.

• One person gets the cows in and the other person starts milking. This means the first 28 cows to the dairy go straight in and get milked and then straight back to the paddock.

Our cows produce a lot of milk and hold Australian records for milk production.

This is Dimples.

She holds the record for the highest amount of fat and protein produced in 305 days.

http://www.princeton.edu/~pccm/outreach/scsp/mixturesandsolutions/milk/index.html

The cows go into a different paddock after each milking. We pick the paddocks which have the best balance of feed components (energy, protein, fibre, and minerals) for the

cows and we strip graze them. Strip grazing is a grazing management system that involves giving the livestock a fresh allocation of pasture each day. It

is usually organised within a paddock grazing system and the animals are controlled by the use of an electric fence.

Can you see the strips -we are going in this

paddock tonite

Now here’s lots of delicious sweet grass.

I am going to take some ice-cream to the dairy and ask Nick if we can be in this

paddock tomorrow.

That’s a good idea. Nick loves ice-cream. He is

always sneaking one of Emma’s from the freezer.

Lots more info from Jet and Emma

on the milking process at Clover Hill Dairies can be found

here

www.slideshare.net/LandLearnNSW/dairy-farming-with-jet-and-emma-cups-on-cups-off

Visit our new Website

www.dairyyouthaustralia.com.au

Jet and Emma Farm Management Education Series K to 12

Links Milk It www.slideshare.net/LandLearnNSW/dairy-farming-with-jet-and-emma-milk-itFarm to Factory formerly loaded as Cups On Cups Offwww.slideshare.net/LandLearnNSW/dairy-farming-with-jet-and-emma-cups-on-cups-offGrow Grass Growwww.slideshare.net/LandLearnNSW/dairy-farming-with-jet-and-emmaSeeding Timewww.slideshare.net/LandLearnNSW/dairy-farming-with-jet-and-emma-seeding-time-1236604How it all began – a Taste for Dairy www.slideshare.net/LandLearnNSW/jet-and-emma-a-taste-for-dairySustainable Dairying www.slideshare.net/LandLearnNSW/dairy-farming-with-jet-and-emma-healthy-landscape-1641792Circle of Life – Calf to Cow www.slideshare.net/LandLearnNSW/circle-of-life-calf-to-cowVetting Around Australia – by Guest presenter Jacinta Kelly www.slideshare.net/LandLearnNSW/vetting-around-australia-by-jacinta-kelly

Acknowledgements

Farm yard animal graphics have been created for the “Jet and Emma Get Down and Dirty on the Farm” series by students from Mt Terry Public School

Cream of the Cropsee the 2009

Cream of the Crop finalists at

www.slideshare.net/LandLearnNSW/presentations.

The Jet and Emma Series is a Dairy Youth Australia inc initiative assisted by Kiama

Municipal Council through its Sustainable Living Grants Program.

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