00:00People are coming to the farm who had no idea about farming, they would be aghast.
00:11We've asked this question and asked that question, why are the newborn dairy calves not with our mothers?
00:22So in a normal system, calves are taken off mum at anything within two hours.
00:27They have a whole social structure and hierarchy that develops and evolves over time.
00:34And we're breaking that all the time, we're breaking that.
00:38What if we give the cows and calves a better life?
00:42Leave the calves with their mothers for several months and see what happens, and it was as busy as that.
00:48It came from both of us, but it certainly came from David. He wanted it to work.
00:57It was probably as bleak a time as I can remember in farming.
01:12A lot of people were praying that it would fail.
01:15It's such an unusual sight, isn't it? I still can't quite get my head around it.
01:18Cows and calves.
01:19Well, these sort of cows and calves.
01:20Dairy cows and calves.
01:21Most farmers still think we're mad.
01:24But if people are thinking of doing cow and calf, they come to us and say, how are you doing?
01:31Dairy cows and calf.
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