Renae Flett - Agri Photographer

Renae Flett - Agri Photographer freelance agricultural photographer and full time dairy farmer based in south otago/NZ
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Calving 2026 what a whirlwind few weeksThink we are roughly just over 70% calved 3.5 weeks in 🤍This calving has definite...
24/08/2026

Calving 2026 what a whirlwind few weeks
Think we are roughly just over 70% calved 3.5 weeks in 🤍
This calving has definitely had its up and downs, sadly we lost one of our old show cows a couple of days after calving she just sat down and didnt wake up 😔

Soooo many sets of twins we didnt no about😵‍💫

Also so many exciting heifers in the shed 🥰🐄

Some wild weather has made it fun 🥴 hopefully getting some fert on tomorrow to get some grass growing 🤞🏻

Farming during calving = Early mornings and late nights…. Wouldn’t have it any other way 🐄🤍
14/08/2026

Farming during calving = Early mornings and late nights…. Wouldn’t have it any other way 🐄🤍

1st week of calving involved…- over 30% of the cows calved 🥴- -5 frosts,snow and lots of rain causing nightmares 🫣- load...
11/08/2026

1st week of calving involved…
- over 30% of the cows calved 🥴
- -5 frosts,snow and lots of rain causing nightmares 🫣
- loads of cute baby moos 🤍🐄

Hopefully more photos once the weather calms

I need a nap 😅

Calving has started abit rough for us this year hense the lack of photos 🥴Started with snow and lots of rain and 3 sets ...
02/08/2026

Calving has started abit rough for us this year hense the lack of photos 🥴
Started with snow and lots of rain and 3 sets of twins in 1 day (we didnt get any scanned at the two lots of scanning we did) and the rain, strong winds and cold continued 😵‍💫🥶❄️
Hopefully the weather improves soon so i can get more calf photos 🥰
Thankfully no down cows and we are doing multiple pick ups a day of calves atm so cows are able to get on to eating as much as they want and calves are in sheds with warm coats and milk.

What saves me every year is
- nutritech springer mix with live yeast
- calcium transition bolous from semex and the YMCP bolous from World wide sires (we use the wws ones for any cow thats had a rough calving)
- thermoo calf covers
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Least my little helper is stoked this a.i beef calf has arrived 33days early 😵‍💫🍼🫣
22/07/2026

Least my little helper is stoked this a.i beef calf has arrived 33days early 😵‍💫🍼🫣

Well winter has been rather quiet round here, ive been trying to have some much needed down time although the projects h...
17/07/2026

Well winter has been rather quiet round here, ive been trying to have some much needed down time although the projects haven’t stopped and i still dont feel like im on top of my winter jobs 😅

June was probably the kindest month for us out of may and july where we grew a little bit of grass then july hi in t and soil temp crashed and we grew like 1kg/dm/day 🤦🏼‍♀️ sooo we aren’t looking super flash grass wise coming in to spring. May we also grew next to nothing grass wise so that didnt start us off well.

Lucky we have lots of supplement on hand that will get us through till it warms back up and grass grows again 🌱☀️

Cow have wintered well, we have weighed the two mobs at home when we rotavacc’d them, average weight came in at 600kg. 🐄

The new in-shed feed system is in thanks to Hecton from invergargill 🌽🍴

Main race to the cowshed has been fixed so 🤞🏻 that helps lower the lame cow issue this season.

We have had some rather good frosts this winter that take till lunch time to leave 🥶❄️

Heifers have been tagged with their big kid numbers, we have chosen to double tag them this year to help with being able to read numbers come herd testing time.

Calf pens have the 1st layer of woodchip in just waiting for the wood shavings to arrive then the calf pens are ready to go 👌🏻🤍

Its soooo nice to have the cows now either on the ad-lib silage, hay and kale crop or away at winter grazing🐄🌱 and the w...
06/06/2026

Its soooo nice to have the cows now either on the ad-lib silage, hay and kale crop or away at winter grazing🐄🌱 and the weather has been kind 🤍 i love seeing happy well fed cows!

25/26 season all done ☑️ New farm record achieved 🙌🏻🎉 Season total: 112,400ms (system 2/3 with cows wintered off no insh...
31/05/2026

25/26 season all done ☑️
New farm record achieved 🙌🏻🎉
Season total: 112,400ms (system 2/3 with cows wintered off no inshed just pasture based system)
450ms/cow
1146ms/ha
Scc plagued the end of the season again sitting at 180 odd + but the avg for the season was 104. Some older high scc cows are off this year so hopefully next year we will see an improvement 🤞🏻
We were also sitting 92% excellence for the season but again with the high scc at the end it dragged it down quickly to 84% excellence.
Grade free 🎉🥛🐄

Cows are now dried off, marked into winter mobs ready to head to crop or away grazing thurs/fri, winter drench done and its time for me to have a breather i hope for a week or two till rotavac needs to be done heifer tagging and drenching and sort calf pens etc etc etc 😅🫣

Heifers are home and definitely enjoying the grass and dry weather but like Canterbury we are desperate for some rain 🥴 ending may on 23mls for the month 🤦🏼‍♀️

To all those moving farms i hope the move and new farm goes well and all the best to everyone for the up coming 26/27 season 🐄🥛

Miss Rosy just towering over her herd mates 🫣😅 Another super cold frosty start so was a late start here felt like -2, fr...
19/05/2026

Miss Rosy just towering over her herd mates 🫣😅
Another super cold frosty start so was a late start here felt like -2, frost only just starting to lift thankfully no fog this morning so was a pretty start to the day 🥶❄️

Well life on the farm has been pretty un eventful lately… Winters kicked in quick and harsh 🥴 basically causing all the ...
13/05/2026

Well life on the farm has been pretty un eventful lately…
Winters kicked in quick and harsh 🥴 basically causing all the grass to stop growing 🤦🏼‍♀️❄️🥶 which is not fun when your trying to get through till the end of may for dry off 😅

🐄 Cows have already hit last years production so we will have a nice new farm record this year, sadly it wont be as much of a record as we hoped the lovely cold snaps have hit at all the wrong times causing production drops but thats farming and ill still be happy with what we do. Cows are now happily on once a day milking🥛

Winter kale crops have been weighed (19t and a 15t crop), 3 of the new grass paddocks are up and growing well and we are holding hope the last paddock kicks in soon and grows if the weather starts being kind 🤞🏻☘️🌱

We have a couple of new red girls joining the herd this weekend and two of our girls move on up north to good friends of ours where they will join our good cow azzy, our system here doesn’t suit their type so im excited to see what they can do on a feed system more suited to their type and we are super excited to be welcoming 1 of our big red cow rosys et sisters to the herd 🧡

Right now the main focus on the farm is to “get through” , cows to slow down production, cows to just get fat and setting up for the extremely fast approaching new season also should catch up on the never ending paperwork and plan a small family break away for winter 🤞🏻💻📚

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