It gives me a warm heart to watch you Adrian all you do I did and loved waking up every day but sadly all has changed in Cheshire with the milk bars and big parlour just not the same don't ever change mate you are brilliant and credit to farming.my brother died on 30th of December and laying to rest the 16th but you take my mind of this sad time ❤
Respect ever increasing for you Adrian. You are a mighty but of stuff. As a townie, I never knew you had to teach a calf to drink from a bucket. If you're lucky, every day a learning day! There is a lot going on . . .
I shared the part of this video with my wife (we're not farmers) where you taught a calf to drink from a bucket. She found it marvelously interesting! Then I checked out your online store and did not find any simple sweatshirts without a hoodie, else I would have bought one. Maybe some day.
Re cold air on chest area here's 2 tips from cycling world. These work. A cycling balaclava can be bought off Decathlon company. This comes over the neck area too. For chest place a newspaper inside your jumper or top. Cyclists have used the latter coming down mountains to prevent chest chills. They work to great effect.
I'm from Northern England and went to work in newzealand for two years through winter it got down to -12 or more, and you're right it's a different cold, nothing like the -5 of home .
Another 10/10 quality video as always Adrian ! We've had a week of minis tempatures in South West Scotland as yourself alot of extra work and all takes time. Glad to see calving going well you've some tremendous milk cows and great calves following through aswell . Take care
As someone who grew up on a farm in Wales and have lived most of my adult life in Japan, what you say about the cold being different is very, very true! My first winter here back in 1991, I felt it very warm and was even wearing a T-shirt at 9pm as I got in my car. At a ski resort with the temperatures down well below -10C. In summer, it is very, very humid here with temperatures well above 35C and I remember going home to visit family. It was about 22C which is 'hot' for Wales and I constantly felt cold and my mother found it incredulous that I wanted another blanket on the bed. Temperatures and how hot or cold it feels is very, very relative and the humidity in the air makes all the difference. I don't think I could endure a Welsh winter anymore.
You understand everything mechanical, I guess so natural having grown up on the farm. But it’s a specific kind of intelligence, I think a combination of information and instinct. Enjoying and respecting your animals also is fun to watch. Thank you.
I recall you are in Ireland? Not Northern Ireland? Not affected by the taxes now hitting UK farmers? Watching your videos makes my heart ache for the British Farmers who all stand to lose so much. I wish you a good year ahead.
Morning Adrian and Nicole Another entertaining and educational update The parlour volume wash seems to be the future, more effective than pressure washer in some circumstances That silage feeder is quicker than a bale spreader lol what's referred to as a magic touch I respect your perspective, bull or heifer doesn't matter so long as it's healthy We had 5-6 inches of snow last weekend followed by drop in temperature, so we are still covered They always said, if snow hangs around, it'll take snow to move it Installation of heat lamps, prevention is quicker than cure -7⁰ here yesterday in North Yorkshire Snow and frost creates so much more work and adds time to every task Take great care all Geoff
Brings back memories of a really cold winter working with horses, we ended up mucking out onto the yard just to keep straw on the concrete, and yes pitchfork into the troughs worked fine😁
Great video again, Adrian. When I worked on the dairy, we had water pipes, and we built a wooden box around them and filled it with expanding foam worked a treat. We used sawdust in the new calfe boxes and had no problems and clean. They went onto straw when In the big pens.
Sawdust not good for bedding calves Adrian a good vet in cavan once told me as the will nibble at it and eat it, Condolences on the loss of your Dad, Time brings changes, The modern concrete drinkers are supposed to be frost proof and some does put a piece off timber in them to keep from cracking, All the best in this busy time off year.
You can get infrareds with thermostats already on them . A hatchet is great at breaking the ice out of drinkers - chop around edges and lift out block .
Can't beat a bit of cold weather to get cows calving . For the heifiers in the parlour i fire in block of timber in with the meal so that she is kept busy trying to eat the meal single sucky buckets that hang on the outside with nipples facing in left there with a 1/2 litre of milk they tend to learn to drink themselves
20 years ago I built a barn/shed for five Gallaway cows and three Icelandic horses and for straw feed. A drinking cup with a float was installed. The supply line, a 40 mm plastic pipe, was dug 120 cm deep and came up through the floor in a 300 mm concrete pipe. The electrician suggested installing a 230 V heating cable on the drinking cup. A heating cable that starts to heat when the temperature drops below 0 ° C and gets warmer the colder it gets. I no longer live there, but the heating cable followed me and today it is rolled up in a spiral and is located under the chickens' drinking bucket. Such heating cables are probably also available from you. They would be a good way to protect the pump and pipes from ice.
Your weather always make me smile. We live way further south(think central France) but what a difference. You folks get a warm jet stream we get an arctic jet stream. Our first snow fall will usually be in Nov. and they can come as late as April. And, being on the coast, the weather changes every couple days from above freezing to far below. A heavy wet snow changing to rain then a freeze up with everything turning to ice. Two days later it seems like spring is is the air then the cycle starts anew. We definitely have a wet cold vs. a dry cold- the humidity makes all the difference. Kevin from nova scotia
Busy vid..sir.. lots going on and I must say the girls helping out must be a great help to you... can I suggest an InfraSun heater for your next upgrade in your heater department... and maby some deisel night heaters off if fleebay might help when required.. I run a couple and 8kw output from a portable unit is quite handy... stay safe 🏴
Adrian, your farm is well looked after. It's not a easy job doing this work in freezing weather. A pool noodle with a split down side would be a good alternative for insulation on that pipe. Take care and see you next vlog
A frost stat wired through the infra light , light will come on automaticially. The heater needs to be low to the ground, as heat rises. A trace heater on that water pipe would stop her from freezing
That is most definitely the way to go using wrapped heat trace on the water pipe linked to frost stat set at about +2.5 C. If there is a particular vulnerable point in the pipework, eg over a doorway, then put the wraps closer together otherwise elsewhere it looks like a well stretched spring!
If you stick some salt water in a bottle about half full an stick them in the tanks. Helps stop the freezing. An for insulation for the pipes if your having trouble finding something to fit. Sheep wool with tape/ split pipe to hold it on.
Hi Adrian, regarding insulation for the 42mm pipe could you use garden fleece as it comes in rolls and can be doubled up to give some protection? Also a wooden cover shaped to fit the pumps with a couple of breather holes? Keep up the good work, always a great start to my Sunday.
Hello , yea 10th generation does uses sawdust for bedding sometimes it’s dark or light . But you can mix it with straw. Wow , that really bites things freeze then it takes a little time to unthaw . That is when you need to have two people one to keep things unthawed and the other milking . That is how we been doing it less time get done quick .We also have three salamanders going full blast to keep things warm and keep one door opened and one crack to let fumes out . We have heat lamps on the water pump in winter time with a half box’s push up close to the pump with light inside. If that makes since may help you out. We always give our cow’s after having calf’s two or three buckets of warm water. Helps them after giving birth losing a lot of liquid and stress. Keep up with videos , I give you 💯percent on keep your parlor and calf parlor clean . The ice there is a liquid salt you could spray on floors to keep ice off. But hand spreading the salt probably the best way to do it.
Hi Adrian, when we had cows we always used sawdust. Great job. We used to dump it into slurry tank and spread it, no bother. That was with a splash plate though…... 🤔🤔
Extra large pool noodles will cover the pipes. Love your videos 😍 Your care and consideration for your animals is exemplary . Big love to you all from moist Wales 🏴 😂😘
They were a hardy few days for sure, the frost can be a cause of a bit of extra work, hope the calving is going well,Adrian im not sure if you know it or not but you can get those infra red heat lamps with a thermostat on them very handy in an attic to to keep pipes and water tanks from freezing ,keep up the great work👍
You can get a male female thermostat that plugs into the socket . Set the temp and plug your light into the thermostat. Trace heating cable would protect your motor , pump and pipe work . Needs to be on an RCD/RDBO
I have it on exposed sections of piping where it typically freezes (coming up out of the ground into the shed), low use drinkers, etc. It is clipped on outside of pipe with cable ties, then a good insulation on the outside, can be got pre-terminated with built in frost stat ready to plug in or in full coil where you/an electrician can terminate the end and add a frost stat, can be between 5 and 15 watts per meter to run depending on the cable type selected. Gets expensive if you need to do alot of it, I just targeted keeping water flowing to certain points, drinkers so on, I got caught out once with no water completely for a few days, thats why I have it 😃
SUGGESTION Oil filled radiators work well have timers and cost effective Also wondering if a steam cleaner would help heat up with milking shed equipment.
Why do you not put some form of heater in your parlour for the relatively small number of days that we experience minus temperatures that will cause all those issues ?
Tell viewers don’t put hot water on car windscreens etc just warm Ryobi do a 18 volt seed/ fertiliser/ salt spreader if you buy one it will never freeze again
Every farmer cares about their animals…….what a stupid comment, granted Adrian is very good with his stock but I’m sure he’d admit himself that’s not one of a kind sorta thing.
@@kalayne6713 every farmer i’ve ever met puts there heart and sole into what they do. We’re made to look bad by a media with an agenda. It’s very different in real life
What has been your experience in Australia? In Ireland, Adrian's way is the norm! Irish farmers are passionate about their animals and their way if life. Your comment is completely at odds with Irish farming husbandry.
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I presume this is a harrowing tale of viagra addiction.
It gives me a warm heart to watch you Adrian all you do I did and loved waking up every day but sadly all has changed in Cheshire with the milk bars and big parlour just not the same don't ever change mate you are brilliant and credit to farming.my brother died on 30th of December and laying to rest the 16th but you take my mind of this sad time ❤
Great to see the girls helping out
You farmers work so hard I salute you all
Respect ever increasing for you Adrian. You are a mighty but of stuff. As a townie, I never knew you had to teach a calf to drink from a bucket. If you're lucky, every day a learning day! There is a lot going on . . .
Adrian your a busy man. Your girls are wonderful. Hope the weather changes soon so you can get a break. 👍🏻🇨🇦☘️
Love the way you farm. Wish more farmers were as kind as you.
I shared the part of this video with my wife (we're not farmers) where you taught a calf to drink from a bucket. She found it marvelously interesting! Then I checked out your online store and did not find any simple sweatshirts without a hoodie, else I would have bought one. Maybe some day.
Re cold air on chest area here's 2 tips from cycling world. These work.
A cycling balaclava can be bought off Decathlon company. This comes over the neck area too. For chest place a newspaper inside your jumper or top. Cyclists have used the latter coming down mountains to prevent chest chills. They work to great effect.
Very enjoyable video as always. You are one of a kind Adrian
I'm from Northern England and went to work in newzealand for two years through winter it got down to -12 or more, and you're right it's a different cold, nothing like the -5 of home .
Best part to a Sunday morning!
Another 10/10 quality video as always Adrian ! We've had a week of minis tempatures in South West Scotland as yourself alot of extra work and all takes time. Glad to see calving going well you've some tremendous milk cows and great calves following through aswell . Take care
Never easy Adrian, girls are working hard for you now, great when new life starts fill the days again, good luck to you and all yours
What a Cracking video Adrian the young calf’s are looking great 👍👍👍👍
Fantastic video. Great to watch every Sunday after mass. 👍
As someone who grew up on a farm in Wales and have lived most of my adult life in Japan, what you say about the cold being different is very, very true! My first winter here back in 1991, I felt it very warm and was even wearing a T-shirt at 9pm as I got in my car. At a ski resort with the temperatures down well below -10C. In summer, it is very, very humid here with temperatures well above 35C and I remember going home to visit family. It was about 22C which is 'hot' for Wales and I constantly felt cold and my mother found it incredulous that I wanted another blanket on the bed. Temperatures and how hot or cold it feels is very, very relative and the humidity in the air makes all the difference. I don't think I could endure a Welsh winter anymore.
You understand everything mechanical, I guess so natural having grown up on the farm. But it’s a specific kind of intelligence, I think a combination of information and instinct. Enjoying and respecting
your animals also is fun to watch. Thank you.
Outside chores in temps lower than 20 degrees F equal double the time plus repairs no matter how much someone prepares. Calf crop is looking fine.
I recall you are in Ireland? Not Northern Ireland? Not affected by the taxes now hitting UK farmers? Watching your videos makes my heart ache for the British Farmers who all stand to lose so much. I wish you a good year ahead.
Morning Adrian and Nicole
Another entertaining and educational update
The parlour volume wash seems to be the future, more effective than pressure washer in some circumstances
That silage feeder is quicker than a bale spreader lol what's referred to as a magic touch
I respect your perspective, bull or heifer doesn't matter so long as it's healthy
We had 5-6 inches of snow last weekend followed by drop in temperature, so we are still covered
They always said, if snow hangs around, it'll take snow to move it
Installation of heat lamps, prevention is quicker than cure
-7⁰ here yesterday in North Yorkshire
Snow and frost creates so much more work and adds time to every task
Take great care all
Geoff
Great to see new life coming into the farms.another cracking video
Brings back memories of a really cold winter working with horses, we ended up mucking out onto the yard just to keep straw on the concrete, and yes pitchfork into the troughs worked fine😁
Great video again, Adrian. When I worked on the dairy, we had water pipes, and we built a wooden box around them and filled it with expanding foam worked a treat. We used sawdust in the new calfe boxes and had no problems and clean. They went onto straw when In the big pens.
Sawdust not good for bedding calves Adrian a good vet in cavan once told me as the will nibble at it and eat it, Condolences on the loss of your Dad, Time brings changes, The modern concrete drinkers are supposed to be frost proof and some does put a piece off timber in them to keep from cracking, All the best in this busy time off year.
Great video Adrian
Best of luck with everything ahead on the farm and good wishes to family 👍👍👍
The main message from this video is when building sheds or building insulation is key, pre insulated cladding is the way to go 👍
Good video, that cold snap makes a lot of extra work.
You can get infrareds with thermostats already on them . A hatchet is great at breaking the ice out of drinkers - chop around edges and lift out block .
Can't beat a bit of cold weather to get cows calving . For the heifiers in the parlour i fire in block of timber in with the meal so that she is kept busy trying to eat the meal single sucky buckets that hang on the outside with nipples facing in left there with a 1/2 litre of milk they tend to learn to drink themselves
20 years ago I built a barn/shed for five Gallaway cows and three Icelandic horses and for straw feed. A drinking cup with a float was installed. The supply line, a 40 mm plastic pipe, was dug 120 cm deep and came up through the floor in a 300 mm concrete pipe. The electrician suggested installing a 230 V heating cable on the drinking cup. A heating cable that starts to heat when the temperature drops below 0 ° C and gets warmer the colder it gets. I no longer live there, but the heating cable followed me and today it is rolled up in a spiral and is located under the chickens' drinking bucket. Such heating cables are probably also available from you. They would be a good way to protect the pump and pipes from ice.
Great work. Good luck with the other calvings.
Your weather always make me smile. We live way further south(think central France) but what a difference. You folks get a warm jet stream we get an arctic jet stream. Our first snow fall will usually be in Nov. and they can come as late as April. And, being on the coast, the weather changes every couple days from above freezing to far below. A heavy wet snow changing to rain then a freeze up with everything turning to ice. Two days later it seems like spring is is the air then the cycle starts anew. We definitely have a wet cold vs. a dry cold- the humidity makes all the difference. Kevin from nova scotia
Busy vid..sir.. lots going on and I must say the girls helping out must be a great help to you... can I suggest an InfraSun heater for your next upgrade in your heater department... and maby some deisel night heaters off if fleebay might help when required.. I run a couple and 8kw output from a portable unit is quite handy... stay safe 🏴
Beautiful little calf’s. It’s always a curse when the freeze happens. Good job everyone getting everything sorted.❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thank you Adrian, beautiful calf’s
Adrian, your farm is well looked after. It's not a easy job doing this work in freezing weather. A pool noodle with a split down side would be a good alternative for insulation on that pipe. Take care and see you next vlog
A wooden block of timber in the concrete trough prevents cracking, great watch again as usual.
It's always exciting to see new calves being born! They are all so cute!
A frost stat wired through the infra light , light will come on automaticially. The heater needs to be low to the ground, as heat rises. A trace heater on that water pipe would stop her from freezing
That is most definitely the way to go using wrapped heat trace on the water pipe linked to frost stat set at about +2.5 C. If there is a particular vulnerable point in the pipework, eg over a doorway, then put the wraps closer together otherwise elsewhere it looks like a well stretched spring!
Never have used sawdust but have used woodchip fire it great I used it in group pens great video
It's a nice fresh -25 here this morning in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Morning Adrian. We have been using wood mulch for years. About six to seven inches deep. Great sparing on straw. The water just soaks down through it.
If you stick some salt water in a bottle about half full an stick them in the tanks. Helps stop the freezing. An for insulation for the pipes if your having trouble finding something to fit. Sheep wool with tape/ split pipe to hold it on.
Hi Adrian, regarding insulation for the 42mm pipe could you use garden fleece as it comes in rolls and can be doubled up to give some protection? Also a wooden cover shaped to fit the pumps with a couple of breather holes? Keep up the good work, always a great start to my Sunday.
Great video as always Adrian. 👌🏻
Hello , yea 10th generation does uses sawdust for bedding sometimes it’s dark or light . But you can mix it with straw.
Wow , that really bites things freeze then it takes a little time to unthaw .
That is when you need to have two people one to keep things unthawed and the other milking . That is how we been doing it less time get done quick .We also have three salamanders going full blast to keep things warm and keep one door opened and one crack to let fumes out .
We have heat lamps on the water pump in winter time with a half box’s push up close to the pump with light inside. If that makes since may help you out.
We always give our cow’s after having calf’s two or three buckets of warm water. Helps them after giving birth losing a lot of liquid and stress.
Keep up with videos , I give you 💯percent on keep your parlor and calf parlor clean . The ice there is a liquid salt you could spray on floors to keep ice off. But hand spreading the salt probably the best way to do it.
Hi Adrian, can you give us all your thoughts on this bovaer stuff.
Keep up the good work!!!
Hi Adrian, when we had cows we always used sawdust. Great job. We used to dump it into slurry tank and spread it, no bother. That was with a splash plate though…... 🤔🤔
Extra large pool noodles will cover the pipes. Love your videos 😍 Your care and consideration for your animals is exemplary . Big love to you all from moist Wales 🏴 😂😘
They were a hardy few days for sure, the frost can be a cause of a bit of extra work, hope the calving is going well,Adrian im not sure if you know it or not but you can get those infra red heat lamps with a thermostat on them very handy in an attic to to keep pipes and water tanks from freezing ,keep up the great work👍
if you wire in a stc 1000 temperature controller for the heat lamps, you can set any temp you want.
Great video Adrian,what kind of basket you have for your four wheeler on the back rack and were you get one of those at,thanks have a blessed evening
What do you do with the old hay bedding? And i love ur videos.. Jasus you do a good job on ur own as well..
Best is land drainage pipe and fill with expanding foam where it goes in concrete try n cut so tube is in ground
You can get a male female thermostat that plugs into the socket . Set the temp and plug your light into the thermostat. Trace heating cable would protect your motor , pump and pipe work . Needs to be on an RCD/RDBO
Great video Adrian, put some heat trace with a stat on those cold water pipes, issue solved, keep up great work 👍
I was looking into those recently, do you have to add the trace to the entire length of each pipe or only segments?
I have it on exposed sections of piping where it typically freezes (coming up out of the ground into the shed), low use drinkers, etc. It is clipped on outside of pipe with cable ties, then a good insulation on the outside, can be got pre-terminated with built in frost stat ready to plug in or in full coil where you/an electrician can terminate the end and add a frost stat, can be between 5 and 15 watts per meter to run depending on the cable type selected. Gets expensive if you need to do alot of it, I just targeted keeping water flowing to certain points, drinkers so on, I got caught out once with no water completely for a few days, thats why I have it 😃
I used saw dust aswell straw chip it about 10 a bag what I do deep beds them i am used it last few years it easy clean out aswell
SUGGESTION Oil filled radiators work well have timers and cost effective Also wondering if a steam cleaner would help heat up with milking shed equipment.
Looking thought the coments every aspect of your operation is covered. Its a credit to you
Thanks
Sawdust is actually used to professionally clean real fur coats, it absorbs the oils and dust particles and leaves the hair like silk.
Set of spuds,laughed alot😂😂
Hi Adrian if you thought of your father this morning then he's still telling you to do it he's beside you more than he was able to before god bless
Hi adrian. Will the salt not damage your concrete. Father alway told me never to use it on the back yards
MORNING ADRIAN HOPE IT NOT SNOWING YET FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY SWEETIE 💕❤
Good upload ...how many milkings until milk can be sent to creamery ?
You should get something too push the silage in
We got up to a foot of snow here in north kerry, -3 @ times😶🌫️
The frosts a pain, do you find the salt does any damage to your concrete.
Farming =Exhaustion total respect for farmers.
Ade - any reason why the milk tank room door is so narrow?? or have you got bigger ?? :)
I was thinking you had a gas heater to warm the milk as well but sure the feed into it was probably frozen.
Morning 🌞
Why do you not put some form of heater in your parlour for the relatively small number of days that we experience minus temperatures that will cause all those issues ?
I seen a farmer putting mushroom compost under the straw
You can get hot water cylinder jackets for the pipes.
Put wood into drinker to stop frost.
What difference would wood do in d drinkers
Aidan, do you ever put salt on the calf to encourage the cow to lick …also gets the cow to drink water which stimulates the rumen..
Tell viewers don’t put hot water on car windscreens etc just warm
Ryobi do a 18 volt seed/ fertiliser/ salt spreader if you buy one it will never freeze again
That's a cracking looking heifer into calve, u never use a bucket with a teat to feed calves.
straws better for calf good for them they will eat a bit
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Breathing in cold air directly can damage your lungs.
Well I never! A farmer who cares about his animals. You are one of a kind. Thank you. From Australia, the great great great granddaughter of farmers.
Every farmer cares about their animals…….what a stupid comment, granted Adrian is very good with his stock but I’m sure he’d admit himself that’s not one of a kind sorta thing.
A very true video on the Irish farm. Stunning looking heifers. I lost my first 2 calves but going well now. Hopefully the all good from now on
@@matthewryan8169100% agree 👍
@@kalayne6713 every farmer i’ve ever met puts there heart and sole into what they do. We’re made to look bad by a media with an agenda. It’s very different in real life
What has been your experience in Australia? In Ireland, Adrian's way is the norm! Irish farmers are passionate about their animals and their way if life. Your comment is completely at odds with Irish farming husbandry.
I presume this is a harrowing tale of viagra addiction.
Nice one…
I definitely don’t envey you milking when it’s that cold🫣. We’ve been lucky, 1 real day of snow and the second day most of it had gone.
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