Morning brother I watch you all the time but have to comment on this one. I miss the daddy daughter dance I took my girls every year we’d get all dressed up and go to the local diner for dinner before the dance! They got so much attention at the diner cause we stuck out like a soar thumb.☺️ they felt like princesses. It was great man! Momma did their hair all up and some times they got their nails done. It was great man! Have fun!!!
How old were those heifers when they danced with me bull? You are right those are some big girls, but they all had great udders. Have you ever thought of installing those free stalls that are better for the animals? I don't know if they are made of plastic or rubber? It is so nice to watch you talk about the girls (human) you can see the pride in your eyes. Also when you talk about the other girls. It is so nice to just see the girls as you walk through the cow yard. I haven't seen the bull lately, and the other farm. It's time for us to check up on the heifers and dry cows.
Thanks for another great video. It was interesting and enjoyable. Maintenance is a always continuing job that is for sure. Can see where you have to redo the stalls every so often with the size of cows. Big animals are hard on things. Thanks for the way you look after your herd and the cows that are having baby’s. You are a good herdsman Kip. My compliments to you Kip. About it for now. Thanks for everything Kip. The Iowa Farm Boy.
Quite an operation you have set up! Business question for you: The Greg Judy channel (focused on feeding beef steers) talks a lot about short legged cattle having much lower input demands, which made me remember back to my folks milking "tall" Holsteins for their dairy operation (they moved to crops and hay when I was growing up, parlor dismantled, I only hand milked our Jersey -- then I escaped to school, an industrial career, and am now running a few antique tractors and hobby crops because once a farmer...). From a modern dairy business perspective, behind Holsteins, what breed would you choose and why? Are the dairies/supermarkets treating cream for butter/cheese as important where breed performance could start to matter or just secondary products?
Kip, those new cubicles look like it's giving cows too much room to turn left, right under them when getting up, with the potential of getting the odd one stuck- and those boards, not really brisket boards but yea, almost, I would not remove them- cows will crap on the end of the beds lying down and again will get too far forward when trying to get up- not many, but even 1 is too much when stuck and you're busy, ends up damaging themselves. Just a bit of advice from your ag bag mate, here in the UK, 35 yrs experience of all sorts cubicles, diff sized cows, yields, bedding! Which yea, sand rules!!!
That’s what we did bring in the 1st calf heifers in the parlor for about a week before they had their calf‘s works great that’s for sure! Enjoy watching your videos! Bringing back good memories!😊
It's also really good video.... Looks like your wood piles going down and I wanted to compliment you on how clean the walls look in the barns... You can really notice them in this video.....good job!!!!🤓 God bless 🙏🙏 ps... Take pictures of your dance with your daughters and share them of course!!!!! Ty
Hey Kip just subscribed from a friends reference. Nice farm and will catch up on your videos. Not far from you . Take care and be safe Looking forward to your content.
I saw a dairy farmer drinking milk on Tube from Canada. Never see dairy farmers promoting their own product. Why? Again, the Canadian dairy farmer's point was about dumping milk at the end of the month into the drain as mandated by his government. Eaglegards... .
Howdy Kip, I gotta say, I don't remember seeing heifers that big ever, seriously, those are some huge heifers !! If I was walking around your yard, I would of thought they were second, third time cows.. Wow, you raise some massive Holsteins !! Stay safe, and Farm on my Friend, Peace
We raise purebred Black Angus, average weight 1300/1400 pounds, bulls are obviously heavier, but definitely smaller than your Holsteins, just amazed at how big your heifers are..
🇫🇷 Hi kip have you already made a video summarising herd performance if not confidential ? Indication Average Volume per cow ? Best ones etc your channel is great god bless
Those are some big heifers. I'm concerned that the cows could crawl into the loops of your new stall loops. The bottom part of the loop is flush with the sand instead of being elevated, like the old ones. I hope they don't cause problems.
Well it first has to go a processing plant and most likely get turned into cheese or something else, very little gets left as fluid milk for the stores. (Maybe 2%)
I haul the milk from kips farm... I go to Kroger dairy in Livonia michigan... most of the milk there is for drinking... they do make alot of cottage cheese there.
@colorado1088 it's for weight... I gross about 151,000.... trailer hold just shy of 12,000 gallons... 103,000 pounds of milk... I would guess there are 400 to 500 of these in the state... some hold 13 thousand gallon... mine is pretty legal at 151,000
Morning brother I watch you all the time but have to comment on this one. I miss the daddy daughter dance I took my girls every year we’d get all dressed up and go to the local diner for dinner before the dance! They got so much attention at the diner cause we stuck out like a soar thumb.☺️ they felt like princesses. It was great man! Momma did their hair all up and some times they got their nails done. It was great man! Have fun!!!
10th Generation Dairyman good video's to watch
Farming Fixing & Fabricating another video i watch
Lennie's a pretty good cameraman. 😁 Nice to see mom thanking you for moving her calf.
How old were those heifers when they danced with me bull? You are right those are some big girls, but they all had great udders. Have you ever thought of installing those free stalls that are better for the animals? I don't know if they are made of plastic or rubber?
It is so nice to watch you talk about the girls (human) you can see the pride in your eyes. Also when you talk about the other girls. It is so nice to just see the girls as you walk through the cow yard.
I haven't seen the bull lately, and the other farm. It's time for us to check up on the heifers and dry cows.
Another good one!
20 plus tires on a milk truck, that floored me.
Very good video
Thanks for the visit
Nice healthy herd kip. Well run 🚜.
Wow..... look at that tanker!
Heifers....instead of hobbles...always buried my head in their flank to stop some of the kicking. 🙂
Thanks for another great video.
It was interesting and enjoyable.
Maintenance is a always continuing job that is for sure. Can see where you have to redo the stalls every so often with the size of cows. Big animals are hard on things.
Thanks for the way you look after your herd and the cows that are having baby’s. You are a good herdsman Kip. My compliments to you Kip.
About it for now. Thanks for everything Kip.
The Iowa Farm Boy.
Nice bunch heifers all cows looking good
Another very interesting video
Sounds like great memories will be
happening Friday. Enjoy your day !
Great video , well explained , stay safe ! Always working hard !
Here come the calves. Springing season is here!!
Quite an operation you have set up! Business question for you: The Greg Judy channel (focused on feeding beef steers) talks a lot about short legged cattle having much lower input demands, which made me remember back to my folks milking "tall" Holsteins for their dairy operation (they moved to crops and hay when I was growing up, parlor dismantled, I only hand milked our Jersey -- then I escaped to school, an industrial career, and am now running a few antique tractors and hobby crops because once a farmer...). From a modern dairy business perspective, behind Holsteins, what breed would you choose and why? Are the dairies/supermarkets treating cream for butter/cheese as important where breed performance could start to matter or just secondary products?
Thanks for your great video Kip.
Kip, those new cubicles look like it's giving cows too much room to turn left, right under them when getting up, with the potential of getting the odd one stuck- and those boards, not really brisket boards but yea, almost, I would not remove them- cows will crap on the end of the beds lying down and again will get too far forward when trying to get up- not many, but even 1 is too much when stuck and you're busy, ends up damaging themselves. Just a bit of advice from your ag bag mate, here in the UK, 35 yrs experience of all sorts cubicles, diff sized cows, yields, bedding! Which yea, sand rules!!!
Thank you for the video
Famous last words That’s not going anywhere lol
That baleage is the way to make hay
Awesome video
That’s what we did bring in the 1st calf heifers in the parlor for about a week before they had their calf‘s works great that’s for sure! Enjoy watching your videos! Bringing back good memories!😊
Never did much parlor milking, always stations/ tie stalls.
Big ole bags!
It's also really good video.... Looks like your wood piles going down and I wanted to compliment you on how clean the walls look in the barns... You can really notice them in this video.....good job!!!!🤓
God bless 🙏🙏 ps... Take pictures of your dance with your daughters and share them of course!!!!! Ty
Good video. Always wonder if you have any plans to update your parlor. Cows have to be bigger then when your old parlor was designed
Another good video Kip. Nice to see the calving going well.
Hey Kip just subscribed from a friends reference. Nice farm and will catch up on your videos. Not far from you . Take care and be safe Looking forward to your content.
Those are beautiful heifers , what age do you calve them at ? We calve at 2 , love your videos , greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪
I saw a dairy farmer drinking milk on Tube from Canada. Never see dairy farmers promoting their own product. Why? Again, the Canadian dairy farmer's point was about dumping milk at the end of the month into the drain as mandated by his government. Eaglegards... .
Howdy Kip,
I gotta say, I don't remember seeing heifers that big ever, seriously, those are some huge heifers !! If I was walking around your yard, I would of thought they were second, third time cows.. Wow, you raise some massive Holsteins !!
Stay safe, and Farm on my Friend, Peace
We raise purebred Black Angus, average weight 1300/1400 pounds, bulls are obviously heavier, but definitely smaller than your Holsteins, just amazed at how big your heifers are..
@@arthurok327 What frame size are your cattle?
🇫🇷 Hi kip have you already made a video summarising herd performance if not confidential ? Indication Average Volume per cow ? Best ones etc your channel is great god bless
Those are some big heifers. I'm concerned that the cows could crawl into the loops of your new stall loops. The bottom part of the loop is flush with the sand instead of being elevated, like the old ones. I hope they don't cause problems.
nice milk tank how long is that tanker? nice heifers
51 feet
Was wondering how you guys cleaned out the holding pen that the cows go in while waiting to get milked
Yea so was I? Kip what do say say plz?
Hey Kip! Do cows sleep at night? And How often do you check on the mama and babies in the pen?
What do you guys do with the bull calves?
At that point of pregnancy... Hobbles is point on... or hobbilisous... Lmfao... Love all cows but reds are my favorite...
When you were sick did they call it Long Covid?
Kipp how many hay rings do you have for the cows sir ? Beautiful Girls there sir. Appreciate your efforts sir!!
Are the frost laws on yet in Michigan?
Quick question. When the milk leaves your farm, where does it go? At the grocery store what brand of milk would have milk from your farm in it? Thanks
Well it first has to go a processing plant and most likely get turned into cheese or something else, very little gets left as fluid milk for the stores. (Maybe 2%)
Very good. Thanks for the break down. Have a great day.
I haul the milk from kips farm... I go to Kroger dairy in Livonia michigan... most of the milk there is for drinking... they do make alot of cottage cheese there.
@@countryguy72065 Lots of wheels on your truck. Do you need that many wheels for road weight regulations or just for traction on slippery roads?
@colorado1088 it's for weight... I gross about 151,000.... trailer hold just shy of 12,000 gallons... 103,000 pounds of milk... I would guess there are 400 to 500 of these in the state... some hold 13 thousand gallon... mine is pretty legal at 151,000
that first one, she is calving within 6 hours
Do you use Register bulls
Might check the heifer stalls, my experience has been that they learn to lay backwards if the stalls are too big for them
Why don't you AI?
I've never seen a herd with so many backward lying cows. Could they be training each other by not correcting them?
It may be because the stall dimension are getting a bit small. But I think the farmer may know the real reasons
The top rails look very low to me, compared to mine and how they're set up in my country.
I know this is not important, but since day 1, I found myself wanting you to say "Udder" and not "Bag" just me being me. Sorry.
THEN ITS GONNA SNOW A LOT