Farmer Max Houghton says, “We have owned other tail trimmers that were difficult to use and required a lot of energy to operate.
“I contacted Dave from Handypiece and asked if there was a chance we could borrow a demonstrator to try on our heifers.
“The result was black and white. The Handypiece was very easy to operate, quiet, quick and it didn’t matter if the tails are a matted, dirty mess.
“We did all of our heifers, about 150, and the battery was still going strong.
“Dave said he has had farmers get 300 cows trimmed on one battery charge.
“The other nice thing is that because the Handypiece uses standard sheep combs we could sharpen the blades on an old shearing grinder which is just down the road. We also have a couple of sheep running around the house so I can also keep them cleaned up.”
The overwhelming success at the recent Mystery Creek Fieldays was proof that cow farmers are serious about animal health, David Short of Handypiece Holdings says.
“Customer sales at past Fieldays usually consisted of 80% sales to sheep farmers and 20% to dairy farmers. This year 60% of sales went to dairy farmers.
For more information visit www.handypiece.co.nz then click on the cow trimming video.
