$300K? I almost fell out of my chair! That is an incredible bargain! Here that barn would have cost $800K easily. Amazing and the workmanship by the Amish was first class.
As a fellow dairyman with over 40 years of handling milking cows and heifers those heifers are usually like toddlers if they can figure out how to take something apart they will. 10;years ago we could not figure out how 2 pens of heifers kept getting mixed together. Finally set up a trail cam to find out that one heifer had figured out how to open the gate latch .
That’s the nature of a Holstein, they have to smell, lick everything. If it rattles, moves it has to be checked out. I raise a couple Holstein steers every year for beef and they could tear up a anvil, also have a couple angus heifers and they show no interest in things unless it eatable. When we had a diary and I was younger I could sit and watch the shenanigans the Holsteins did all day. Was better entertainment than any tv show.
Wood is awesome material if you take care of it. We have a over 900 year old wooden church here in Norway :) Think the oldest wood they found in that contruction is carbon dated to about year 750. So thats over 1200 year old wood still standing :D
As a Norwegian American I dream of visiting my families homeland...there is a stave church there still in use and it blows my mind. Hegge is the town I think
You did a fantastic job of giving a tour of the new barn. I think it was pretty nice of you to share the cost of the building also. It was pretty apparent that you are proud of the new project and you should be. You have a beautiful farm.Thanks so much for a great video.
Your family, your business, and your TH-cam channel are growing. Life is all about work and family. God is blessing you with the drive to make all these wonderful things happen. It's a joy to see God working through people.
Thanks for the tour. For the Head lock pipes. I would Drill a 1/4 hole just below the top plate through the pipe and pine. Then you can install a 1/4" d- keeper pin to lock them in a way the heifers' can not lift the top pine. Should be easy and cheep. May God Bless you and your Family on the farm.
Give feedback to the company that made the headlocks - tell them how the herd's getting the pins out. They can manufacture the pins to be screws or another method of keeping them in
With the cost of materials today I was estimating over $500k easily for the new barn. Nice to see good fortune happen to good people. Hope it continues!
Hey Eric, I'm in dairy country in Wisconsin. All the dairies here are old school, only one has invested like you. Y'all have the nicest looking and operating dairy I've seen. Its awesome to see the care and attention you give your stock. God Bless.
The heifers probably stay up late at night deciding on ways to mess with you. Drill one hole in each post/pin and a cotter pin would ruin their fun. Great videos.
This just of the things I love about Y'ALL's farm , you go the extra mile to keep the LADY'S Healthy an Happy so they are able to produce for you !!! And it look like it it is easier on Y'ALL also an uses less energy !!! The Farm an Parlor is BEAUTIFUL and I'm sure your ALL very proud of it , I would be !!! Makes all the hard work well worth it !!! Thank you for the video's an GOD BLESS Y'ALL !!!
Cow are just like giant dogs. They are curious by nature (I have not seen people giving enough credit)and I know some of my cows have learnt to open gates, locks and walk out.
Wait a minute warren! 70 years old is not old!:) I'm 70 and just started my fourth bare frame rebuild. 1964 Ford F100 I hauled home on two trailers. Your mom is ONLY 70!:) Just giving you some shit. I enjoy your sharing your life with your followers. Makes everything more real. Thanks!:)
Pretty short list of would haves! We have old oak posts on the farm that laugh at you when you try to get nails into them. Most of the wood and tin from the buildings that have been taken down over the years were reused.
I’ve watched other dairy farmers in particular build new barns without the slotted floors and man it’s a mess. This barn by far is one of the better and more practical I’ve seen well done
They lick things because they can, exploring with the tongue is one of their senses. Thats what they use to sort their food on pasture. Maybe the addition of a lick block will deter them from the pins until you have the pasture ready to go. Having their food ready to eat and easy to hoover up leaves a lot of play and exploring time
Hi Eric, were does one start? The thought an planning that you put into this barn is incredible. It shows your long term intentions of success. The thought, care and simplicity implemented is so advanced. I would have loved to work in a heifer barn like this. They hadn't invented the skid steer yet. So cleaning them was a pitch fork and a wheel barrow if you were lucky. It is so good to watch you grow. God Bless you and your family, mom and dad. Mike from TX.
Thank you for your honesty on how much the barn cost. I am always interested in that kind of thing but no one wants to share. Your cows and Jan's seem to be some of the happiest and most well taken care of on TH-cam. Thanks for the video.
That was a really well informed video on that very nicely thought out heifer barn !! Very well done ! Whenever you show videos of y’all working an cleaning pens out there I always enjoy watching the animals enjoying that brand new barn !! An you guys enjoying it as well 👍😁💯
Payback...immediate...in time, ease,convenience, health, stress... priceless You can always pour an additional apron where the skid loader turns. Put hardener and fiber in the mix instead of or as well as rebar. Cost immaterial for long term use. Winter mud is the pits
Nice barn. I’d pour a new 12-12’ slab where u turn skid loader around. Drill and tie it to existing slab. Then maybe drill hole in pin holders in headgates and pin, then add cotter key to hold pin in
Eric on those pins that they keep pulling out of the head gates take a small drill bit and drill it through it and put a washer on it and then put the pin through the hole and then they can't pull it back out of the gate until you remove the pin yourself too that was interesting how you guys planned out the new barn too now have a good day
300k for that barn seems like a smart and fair investment. you did the right thing and giving the heifers better living conditions. moneys money and investing back into your business is the smartest option always
Hey Eric, a lot of information to consider when making a decision on costs and returns. Those young heifers look really good, looks like the newer barn has an immediate impact on them. Awesome video, thanks for sharing and have a great Sunday as well as a great week ahead!
Great walk-through been watching the whole construction build. Being a residential contractor myself excellent job great for cows and heifers.They May not show it but they love you for The better conditions and healthier.
Was a great video. Cost affects us all. Thank you for sharing. Nice watching these farm videos and letting the population know how much effort farmers put into the comfort and safety of your livestock. God bless you and your family 👪
What the shed does is actually saves you time as their there on the farm not at the other farm so if you have look after one you can with ease and safety, watching you deal with the old shed took ages for you to do something. And yes they stay clean and stay healthier means better and happier calves/cows. Plus more time for you to do something else.
Good work Eric its great to see such a keen, energetic young farmer. The Ag industry need more people like you. Your Parents must be extremely proud of you and your sisters for the work you all put in.
Great building and tour 👍 As for keeping the bars in place, I would try drilling a hole though the bar and pin, and use a PTO retaining pin, the type where a spring loops 180 degree around and back onto the pin. Or a bolt with a locking nut if that doesn't work.
Eric, you are a awesome young man. Your video was wonderful. Great job young man and thank you. Hope your wife and son and daughter are doing great also
Thank you for sharing costs, it helps other dairy farmers who are thinking about building get an idea of what is what. Also thanks for telling us the brand of head locks, I had asked that in one of your early heifer barn videos.
Wow, that was less than my estimate for the cost of the cow barn. Yes, it’s expensive but you got a good deal for all the work that had to be done to make it happen.
Move the bottom of the headlocks back into the barn side with a different kind of bracket. Makes it harder to stand on the concrete wall. It also tilts the headlock which so cows can get reach further onto the feeding alley.
Eric, Thanks for the tour, I found it great. You did a good job explaining the whole design and the finances at the end. Having done return-on-investment estimates in industry, the payback period really depends on what is considered and the values placed on those factors. The old heifer barn needed repair or remodeling, so that amount of money was going to be expended either way. The thought you and dad put into the design results in labor time savings, which is a hard dollar savings. The healthier cows, as you explained, is hard to quantify at this time, your experience and judgement was a good guide. Also, the pasturing option for good weather will also add to the livestock health. This is a good time to make this investment while both you and your father are working. After he retires your labor costs will increase. Keep up the good work and thanks for the videos. Good luck and God speed.
Could you grind or cut off the top of the pin so it is flush with the washer then just keep a screwdriver or thin prybar around to remove the pin? That might make it harder for them to get a hold of the top of the pin. Also you could add on a larger diameter washer so it is wider than the slats in the floor so they won't fall in but will catch in the slat and can be put back in the hole if they do figure out how to get them out.
For our heifers licking the pins out, we put 2x4s about 4-6 inches above the headlocks so they can't get at them as good. I wish we would have built our heifer barn on slats.
dont forget if it also makes your job easier it frees up more of your time for other things like field work ect. so any improvement the frees up time is well spent investment as well as improving the calves comfort
Hi Eric from upstate NY! Thanks for sharing what it’s like to work on a dairy farm! Amazing to watch! One question my wife and I have is with so much to do, who assigns chores, who is the overall manager at this point? Incredible amount of planning and organizing must happen.
I keep thinking I'd like to build a heifer barn with a pit under the feed ally. I'm very curious when you haul the manure out if it will be liquid enough. I'll keep watching!! Once again very nice barn!!
Congrats on the new building again, if it helps you work more efficiently then it saves time, which has value unto itself. As far as the bars I'm sure you could drill them and use a square wire lock pin.
It’s one of those things that won’t make you money as such but will make life far easier for you and let you spend more productive time with the cows rather than scraping them out every other day and that were your going to see the difference It’s a massive improvement on the old set up 👍
In our heifer barn here in central pa we let our curtains open pretty much all the time unless it’s gonna be windy with rain or snow. No problems with sick animals for us so far
To stop the heifers licking the pins out, I would drill holes in the top of the pole and through the pins they lick out, then fit in a split pin (or similar). I was guessing it was a LOT more expensive!
I think you need to put more curtains in. I know it faces south but we do occasionally get storms in from the south. And it would help to keep the bedding dry
Hi Eric, you guys have a beautiful farm there and the heifer barn came out great bud. Keep up the good work, I know that dairy farming is a tough business these days. I was born and raised on our family dairy (I was 5th generation) but sold out back in 1990 and honestly when dad decided after 50 years of doing it he had enough I had the opportunity to take it over but didn’t see much of a future for dairy farming. I now have a good size angus beef farm and all is going well! Like the videos bud! 👍🏻
Eric, Thanks for the overview on the new heifer barn...well done. I have followed the progress since I started watching the channel. The design is interesting but not like you would likely find in central NY. Most seem to have curtains on the sides but are not usually open to the snowy weather. You are just far enough south of us to be able to do it. Most I have been in have aisles with alley scrapers pushing the manure into a collection pit. If they have a digester it ends up there or in a lagoon if they don't. The ladies have to learn to pick up their feet. I also think wood is a good material as long as you use the right stuff. Most of the barns around here use wood also. You seem to have done a good job of controlling the cost. I did not do a calculation on the $/sq ft, but it sounded reasonable. Was the new well an unforeseen cost? Seems like they had to drill way deep to get you enough flow. Was it all in casing or did they go through rock. I think you said it had a flow of 60 or 65 GPM at +/- 600 ft. We get that much at 55'...how the geology differs from location to location. If they drill too deep here you get sulphur water...ugh. Keep up the good work. thanks
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$300K? I almost fell out of my chair! That is an incredible bargain! Here that barn would have cost $800K easily. Amazing and the workmanship by the Amish was first class.
Where the heck are you??
It’s a great day for a tour.
As a fellow dairyman with over 40 years of handling milking cows and heifers those heifers are usually like toddlers if they can figure out how to take something apart they will. 10;years ago we could not figure out how 2 pens of heifers kept getting mixed together. Finally set up a trail cam to find out that one heifer had figured out how to open the gate latch .
That’s the nature of a Holstein, they have to smell, lick everything. If it rattles, moves it has to be checked out. I raise a couple Holstein steers every year for beef and they could tear up a anvil, also have a couple angus heifers and they show no interest in things unless it eatable. When we had a diary and I was younger I could sit and watch the shenanigans the Holsteins did all day. Was better entertainment than any tv show.
Animals are smarter then what most ppl think
Wood is awesome material if you take care of it. We have a over 900 year old wooden church here in Norway :) Think the oldest wood they found in that contruction is carbon dated to about year 750.
So thats over 1200 year old wood still standing :D
As a Norwegian American I dream of visiting my families homeland...there is a stave church there still in use and it blows my mind. Hegge is the town I think
You did a fantastic job of giving a tour of the new barn. I think it was pretty nice of you to share the cost of the building also. It was pretty apparent that you are proud of the new project and you should be. You have a beautiful farm.Thanks so much for a great video.
Put the bars back in, drill a hole through the bar and through the pin then get yourself some clips to hold the pin and bar together. Great video!!
My thoughts exactly
I was thinking the same way.
I agree. Carter Pin time.
yup drill holes toss in cotter pins or hinge pins
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or a tack weld
Your family, your business, and your TH-cam channel are growing. Life is all about work and family. God is blessing you with the drive to make all these wonderful things happen. It's a joy to see God working through people.
$300k is phenomenal. I was thinking with that huge pit and all that concrete it was going to push 750. Excellent job.
@Mama C I know. Heck that concrete job in my area would have been 300k easy. He is a great young man.
I watched this whole process and it was awesome! Great job!
Yeah it was
Thanks for the tour. For the Head lock pipes. I would Drill a 1/4 hole just below the top plate through the pipe and pine. Then you can install a 1/4" d- keeper pin to lock them in a way the heifers' can not lift the top pine. Should be easy and cheep. May God Bless you and your Family on the farm.
Give feedback to the company that made the headlocks - tell them how the herd's getting the pins out. They can manufacture the pins to be screws or another method of keeping them in
With the cost of materials today I was estimating over $500k easily for the new barn. Nice to see good fortune happen to good people. Hope it continues!
Hey Eric, I'm in dairy country in Wisconsin. All the dairies here are old school, only one has invested like you. Y'all have the nicest looking and operating dairy I've seen. Its awesome to see the care and attention you give your stock. God Bless.
Thanks for the walkthrough! Greatly appreciate you taking the time to give us a tour...
The heifers probably stay up late at night deciding on ways to mess with you. Drill one hole in each post/pin and a cotter pin would ruin their fun. Great videos.
Thanks to you and your family for doing what you do. 👍👍
Thank a farmer today it’s hard work!
I think yall hit a home run with the new heifer barn Eric! Man that pit filled up quickly.
This just of the things I love about Y'ALL's farm , you go the extra mile to keep the LADY'S Healthy an Happy so they are able to produce for you !!! And it look like it it is easier on Y'ALL also an uses less energy !!! The Farm an Parlor is BEAUTIFUL and I'm sure your ALL very proud of it , I would be !!! Makes all the hard work well worth it !!! Thank you for the video's an
GOD BLESS Y'ALL !!!
Cow are just like giant dogs. They are curious by nature (I have not seen people giving enough credit)and I know some of my cows have learnt to open gates, locks and walk out.
Wait a minute warren! 70 years old is not old!:) I'm 70 and just started my fourth bare frame rebuild. 1964 Ford F100 I hauled home on two trailers. Your mom is ONLY 70!:) Just giving you some shit. I enjoy your sharing your life with your followers. Makes everything more real. Thanks!:)
Eric. Your farm is so much more neat and clean looking compared to when I first started watching your video a year or so ago. Great job.
Pretty short list of would haves!
We have old oak posts on the farm that laugh at you when you try to get nails into them. Most of the wood and tin from the buildings that have been taken down over the years were reused.
Thanks for the tour. I love watching the young cows that run and kick up when you come around!!!
I’ve watched other dairy farmers in particular build new barns without the slotted floors and man it’s a mess. This barn by far is one of the better and more practical I’ve seen well done
They lick things because they can, exploring with the tongue is one of their senses. Thats what they use to sort their food on pasture. Maybe the addition of a lick block will deter them from the pins until you have the pasture ready to go. Having their food ready to eat and easy to hoover up leaves a lot of play and exploring time
Hi Eric, were does one start? The thought an planning that you put into this barn is incredible. It shows your long term intentions of success. The thought, care and simplicity implemented is so advanced. I would have loved to work in a heifer barn like this. They hadn't invented the skid steer yet. So cleaning them was a pitch fork and a wheel barrow if you were lucky. It is so good to watch you grow. God Bless you and your family, mom and dad. Mike from TX.
Thank you for your honesty on how much the barn cost. I am always interested in that kind of thing but no one wants to share. Your cows and Jan's seem to be some of the happiest and most well taken care of on TH-cam. Thanks for the video.
I am so glad to hear that you will be sitting up pasture for the young stock!👌
Great tour Eric! Thanks for taking the time to do this.
Don't forget to realize your time & energy the new barn saves too!
Eric, thanks for the thoroughly presented information on the new heifer barn. It appears to be very well engineered and constructed. KUDOS
That was a really well informed video on that very nicely thought out heifer barn !! Very well done ! Whenever you show videos of y’all working an cleaning pens out there I always enjoy watching the animals enjoying that brand new barn !! An you guys enjoying it as well 👍😁💯
I’ve just spent the last four hours chasing up heifers to be checked for calves by the vet. Yours seem infinitely more well behaved Eric!
Payback...immediate...in time, ease,convenience, health, stress... priceless
You can always pour an additional apron where the skid loader turns. Put hardener and fiber in the mix instead of or as well as rebar. Cost immaterial for long term use. Winter mud is the pits
You could bag the dry manure in compostable paper bags with your 10th Gen logo on them and sell them to people for their flower beds and gardens.
Nice barn. I’d pour a new 12-12’ slab where u turn skid loader around. Drill and tie it to existing slab. Then maybe drill hole in pin holders in headgates and pin, then add cotter key to hold pin in
Eric on those pins that they keep pulling out of the head gates take a small drill bit and drill it through it and put a washer on it and then put the pin through the hole and then they can't pull it back out of the gate until you remove the pin yourself too that was interesting how you guys planned out the new barn too now have a good day
300k for that barn seems like a smart and fair investment. you did the right thing and giving the heifers better living conditions. moneys money and investing back into your business is the smartest option always
All improvements to the farm will help the 11th gen to keep it going for the family. Don’t second guess yourself you are doing an awesome job Eric 👍
You are a visionary. You plan your work and work your plan! Its coming together one step at a time and the layout is really nice. ❤
Hey Eric, a lot of information to consider when making a decision on costs and returns. Those young heifers look really good, looks like the newer barn has an immediate impact on them. Awesome video, thanks for sharing and have a great Sunday as well as a great week ahead!
You guys definitely deserve this barn congrats once again thanks for giving us a tour
I love seeing the heifers out of the all that muck and manure the other heifer barn kept them in - nice work! They look happy and clean.
Thank you for the heifer barn tour. You did a great job explaining everything. Yes heifers have to play with stuff. Lol
Thanks for all the insights you offer into your work. Really appreciate the thoughtfulness you show in the way you do things.
I’m so impressed with your attention to detail
Just love your channel
Great walk-through been watching the whole construction build. Being a residential contractor myself excellent job great for cows and heifers.They May not show it but they love you for The better conditions and healthier.
Was a great video. Cost affects us all. Thank you for sharing. Nice watching these farm videos and letting the population know how much effort farmers put into the comfort and safety of your livestock. God bless you and your family 👪
What the shed does is actually saves you time as their there on the farm not at the other farm so if you have look after one you can with ease and safety, watching you deal with the old shed took ages for you to do something. And yes they stay clean and stay healthier means better and happier calves/cows. Plus more time for you to do something else.
Great video...very interesting to see the evolution of the new heifer barn,,,,great job!
Good work Eric its great to see such a keen, energetic young farmer. The Ag industry need more people like you. Your Parents must be extremely proud of you and your sisters for the work you all put in.
Great building and tour 👍 As for keeping the bars in place, I would try drilling a hole though the bar and pin, and use a PTO retaining pin, the type where a spring loops 180 degree around and back onto the pin. Or a bolt with a locking nut if that doesn't work.
Eric, you are a awesome young man. Your video was wonderful. Great job young man and thank you. Hope your wife and son and daughter are doing great also
Thank you for sharing costs, it helps other dairy farmers who are thinking about building get an idea of what is what. Also thanks for telling us the brand of head locks, I had asked that in one of your early heifer barn videos.
Great video eric , thanks for being a farming family
Wow, that was less than my estimate for the cost of the cow barn. Yes, it’s expensive but you got a good deal for all the work that had to be done to make it happen.
Move the bottom of the headlocks back into the barn side with a different kind of bracket. Makes it harder to stand on the concrete wall. It also tilts the headlock which so cows can get reach further onto the feeding alley.
So happy to see your new barn being in use now . Thank u for sharing with us all . I bet it's pretty exciting for you and your dad .
Eric,
Thanks for the tour, I found it great.
You did a good job explaining the whole design and the finances at the end. Having done return-on-investment estimates in industry, the payback period really depends on what is considered and the values placed on those factors. The old heifer barn needed repair or remodeling, so that amount of money was going to be expended either way. The thought you and dad put into the design results in labor time savings, which is a hard dollar savings. The healthier cows, as you explained, is hard to quantify at this time, your experience and judgement was a good guide. Also, the pasturing option for good weather will also add to the livestock health.
This is a good time to make this investment while both you and your father are working. After he retires your labor costs will increase. Keep up the good work and thanks for the videos. Good luck and God speed.
Hey Eric from upstate new York ur a highly favored and blessed man and family the LORD is blessing your socks off 🙏🙏👍👍
Could you grind or cut off the top of the pin so it is flush with the washer then just keep a screwdriver or thin prybar around to remove the pin? That might make it harder for them to get a hold of the top of the pin. Also you could add on a larger diameter washer so it is wider than the slats in the floor so they won't fall in but will catch in the slat and can be put back in the hole if they do figure out how to get them out.
For our heifers licking the pins out, we put 2x4s about 4-6 inches above the headlocks so they can't get at them as good. I wish we would have built our heifer barn on slats.
Yes, you have made major improvements! The farm looks really nice, grass cut, weed control and dry drive areas!!! Great video!
dont forget if it also makes your job easier it frees up more of your time for other things like field work ect. so any improvement the frees up time is well spent investment as well as improving the calves comfort
Hi Eric from upstate NY! Thanks for sharing what it’s like to work on a dairy farm! Amazing to watch! One question my wife and I have is with so much to do, who assigns chores, who is the overall manager at this point? Incredible amount of planning and organizing must happen.
Thanks for sharing the numbers. You have opened up your work life to us and it's part of the big picture. Thanks for sharing.
I really enjoy watching your videos because of every thing you do is about taking good care of the cows! And you are good stewards of the land!
Thanks for the tour & narration enjoyed it very much !! It’s an awesome heifer barn. 🙋♀️😊
You can quite easily just add on to the existing apron and make it another 6 ft. Probably would be worth it !
I keep thinking I'd like to build a heifer barn with a pit under the feed ally. I'm very curious when you haul the manure out if it will be liquid enough. I'll keep watching!! Once again very nice barn!!
Great wrap up Eric. Have a great Thanksgiving!
Perhaps longer pins would keep them from pulling them out. Thanks for the tour.
Happy Cows produce more profit, and for what I see, your cows are living the GOOD LIFE.
I’m glad to see that this youtube thing is helping you guys make improvements on the farm 🤗
I’m glad you take such great care of your livestock
Congrats on the new building again, if it helps you work more efficiently then it saves time, which has value unto itself.
As far as the bars I'm sure you could drill them and use a square wire lock pin.
It’s one of those things that won’t make you money as such but will make life far easier for you and let you spend more productive time with the cows rather than scraping them out every other day and that were your going to see the difference It’s a massive improvement on the old set up 👍
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family Eric!! Thanks for providing America with Milk,cheese and milk products!! God 🙌
Yes,, Happy Thanksgiving to you,your wife and babies,,xxxx also your sis and parents..super family...
In our heifer barn here in central pa we let our curtains open pretty much all the time unless it’s gonna be windy with rain or snow. No problems with sick animals for us so far
I really love the barn and look forward to seeing the girls 🐄 going into a pasture ❤️
Nice barn and good explanation. Glad you got to fulfill your dream of improving the farm operation. Keep at it.
Great overview...very well done and the presentation was spot on. 🙏 thanks!
To stop the heifers licking the pins out, I would drill holes in the top of the pole and through the pins they lick out, then fit in a split pin (or similar). I was guessing it was a LOT more expensive!
I think you need to put more curtains in. I know it faces south but we do occasionally get storms in from the south. And it would help to keep the bedding dry
You keep a very nice & clean farm.
Excellent workmanship, it's only money.
Hi Eric, you guys have a beautiful farm there and the heifer barn came out great bud. Keep up the good work, I know that dairy farming is a tough business these days. I was born and raised on our family dairy (I was 5th generation) but sold out back in 1990 and honestly when dad decided after 50 years of doing it he had enough I had the opportunity to take it over but didn’t see much of a future for dairy farming. I now have a good size angus beef farm and all is going well! Like the videos bud! 👍🏻
$300 K seems like a good deal to me. The ease of operation, health of the animals has no price, but it is expensive. All the best! God Bless !
We should be thanking you and your family Eric !! I'm sure we all that watch your channel, wish you and family a happy Thanksgiving !!
Eric,
Thanks for the overview on the new heifer barn...well done. I have followed the progress since I started watching the channel. The design is interesting but not like you would likely find in central NY. Most seem to have curtains on the sides but are not usually open to the snowy weather. You are just far enough south of us to be able to do it. Most I have been in have aisles with alley scrapers pushing the manure into a collection pit. If they have a digester it ends up there or in a lagoon if they don't. The ladies have to learn to pick up their feet.
I also think wood is a good material as long as you use the right stuff. Most of the barns around here use wood also. You seem to have done a good job of controlling the cost. I did not do a calculation on the $/sq ft, but it sounded reasonable. Was the new well an unforeseen cost? Seems like they had to drill way deep to get you enough flow. Was it all in casing or did they go through rock. I think you said it had a flow of 60 or 65 GPM at +/- 600 ft. We get that much at 55'...how the geology differs from location to location. If they drill too deep here you get sulphur water...ugh.
Keep up the good work. thanks
Great tour - lots of planning by you & family putting this together.
A detent pin aka quick release pin might have enough bite to stop the heifers licking the pins out, might be worth looking into.
What an excellent improvement to your farm! 👍👍👍👍👍
Well done what a lovely SHEDcows and calves will be happy
Good to see a full tour! Awesome watching yous guys expanding your dairy farm.
I love that the cows mess with the pins, problem solving.😂
Congratulations Eric! The new barn looks great!
Another awesome video Eric. Thanks for sharing the process of this one from ground breaking to 1st heifer walking inside.
Suggestion, swap the heifers in pin 1 and 2. Head locks for smalls and better protection from weather.
Excellent tour and explanation Eric, many thanks for making this great video 👍🏻