Evening Miss Charlotte Bless ya 🙏 Gutted for you, but mistakes happen, especially when over busy, distracted and sleep deprived Take care all Back UK Farmer's 🇬🇧 Geoff
So sorry for the loss. I'm glad you were able to catch the milk before it was too late. It goes to show real life farming it is not all smile and dancing. I am glad that they are farmers like you. Farmers who care.
Great video. Shit happens, you're not the first and you won't be the last who's had to pull the plug on the bulk milk tank. Best been safe than sorry, it's great that you're willing to show what you had to do and explain what and why. 👍👍
There’s a good few MPs who should be made to watch your videos so they can see the day to day and nights of life as a dairy farmer, while they are tucked up in bed . Thank you to all farmers for providing our food .x
If only people would recognise what trauma and hardship it takes to produce real wholesome and proper human food, they may care more about the hard working and dedicated people that produce it every day! Well done Charlotte, and your family!
I love how you show the down side to farming as well, it's hard work and things do go wrong, thank you keep doing what your doing because tomorrow is a new day.
Excellent video Charlotte - you always show it how it is! You and Roy have achieved so much over the last year! Sh1t happens unfortunately! Keep smiling!
Charlotte it's a valuable lesson and you'll never do it again, happened my poor father(rip) a few times over his life time milking....a great video and are never boring
Roy makes me smile; part officer, part Sgt Major and part schoolboy playing with phone and hilariously dad with snowballs. All parts the family will remember in years to come so keep at it all of you!
Thanks for a great honest video of the reality of farm life. Don't be to hard on yourself otherwise something else will happen. Just keep trying to smile and soldier on.
I’ve forgotten to turn the bulk tank on after we’ve cleaned it. It has to stay off for a few cows so the milk doesn’t freeze right away. Any way didn’t discover it until the following milking 😫🤦♂️
i once did a full milking without putting the bung in the milk tank, (I was only the farm worker), despite the boss saying it was ok i didnt charge for a couple of days work
Morning Charlett, rough week. Noticed iodine on tail heads of heifers, shouldn’t have assist so many calvings . If calves are struggling in first minutes of birth or cattle not progressing with final calving could be low iodine, I would and do as a rule when calving here offer free access iodised salt in a trough and also mag flakes free access plus 80grams/head in water trough in calving pens and milkers. Low iodine can cause unthrify calves and slow progress with calving. Mag flakes will help prevent milk fevers, but don’t over do mag in water as you can make it too saline for them to drink. Calves in pens look excellent, best wishes. Start calving here end of the month so busy preparing all equipment and calf yards 👍. We always fed iodised salt as we used to out winter all dry cows on fodder beet, it being a brassica it’s low in iodine, don’t feed beet any longer but still offer it as a precaution. I see you feed beet to milkers, not sure if you do to heifers?
Hey kid! ( I can say this cause I’m really old) I wasn’t going to mention this because it is probably not p.c. But when you are exhausted and things ain’t going right, use the bloody jack and don’t be worried about it, quite frankly we rarely ever use it but at 2 am and she just isn’t getting down to it we jack. I wasn’t going to comment because I don’t think you have the time to read any anyway but I decided as I was having a bit of an after lunch snooze ( was up half the night calving heifers) that I was going to just say don’t be hard on yourself you and that Roy lad( who occasionally appears in your videos) are doing a great job! We all have dead ones that is just par for the course! By the by it wasn’t until I saw you at lama that I realised that you are tiny. Regards from Ireland
Hi Charlotte I remember you saying your beef cows having an issue with iodine I'm sure this will also affect your dairy cows aswell. On the last farm I worked on the cows suffered from low magnesium on grass or silage it seems to be locked up in the soil so we feed a supplement year round.
Mistakes happen and you learn from them! Hot chocolate - have you tried a velvetiser one? Got one for christmas and they're the best! Bet they'd be amazing with that Jersey milk rather than the semi-skimmed we have.
That was an amazing video wow Charlotte how do you do it you really are amazing you girl make the great in Britain so entertaining and sad too that calf to see you doing CPR really working at speed unfortunately not everyone you can save but fantastic job trying proud to be a subscriber on your channel you and Roy are definitely the best of British 👏👏👏👏👍💗
I know it's frustrating about losing that calf but you can't be with then 24 7 unfortunately over the years we all make judgement calls and don't always get it right but put it out of your head and keep going same with the mistake with the antibiotics anyone that never makes a mistake never made anything
This happened at a dairy in Italy once, they lost thousands of litres of milk, then there was an earthquake in the hottest month of the year and cheese and yogurt were invented, so,, swings and roundabouts.👍
Charlotte look on the bright side at least not every farmer say they give there cows a bottle of plonk when they are good or does Roy do it behind your back ha ha ha ha ha 😊
well done on another great video. its not all sunshine and unicorns, its 'oh fk' moments and if only moments. Carry on doing your thing and showing farming life as it can and often really is. You do have a herd of drama queens it has to be said lol, and im still not sold on the whole robot milking, i am old school 2x a day milking in a parlour. at least i get some sleep lol. love you all and love your work.🥰
Hey Hun, Bit of a shit vlog day. This must have been a hard video to edit and post but this is real life on a farm. But luckily it does not happen to often. I would like to see an MP do what you do on a daily basis. You work 18 plus hours a day in freezing conditions. You and all the other farmers keeping the country running are the heroes of the UK and without you all this country would not last more than a few days. Keep up the GREAT WORK XXX
This is what i love about the likes of yourself,Oli,tom pem,Joe Seals and other farming youtubers. Unlike other channels that make you think life is perfect and nothing happens. You all show that good and bad things that happen. I thought that was a bottle of wine you was giving the cow 😂😂
Yes Roy rang Joe. If you need any help and advice with concerns with cows bags being quiet hard upon birth. Have a chat with Adrian over at I Farm We Farm. He'd talk to you. He's a great guy 😊
@BRxRanger our tankers in New Zealand have there own tests at every pick up but by time tests done there's already a 1000lts on board. It will never get in to another farms vat thou as tankers have 1 way valves on
@MagnumCamNZ yeah in the UK, atleast for our it may get split to fill bigger barrels for transport, could end up topping off 3 different barrels and the farmer who had the antibiotics pays for all 87000 liters. I don't know how ppl make money, or just live in fear at all times. One farm had let a member of staff go and they milked the antibiotics on purpose as revenge.
Hi Charlotte. There’s a lot to be said for the conventional milking parlour. You seem to be busier than I am milking eighty cows twice a day. You are a great woman. 🎉
A similar incident happened to me last November. Three thousand litres down the drain. Very upsetting but it could have been worse if I had let into the coop.
We have an antibiotic tester and would recommend that you get one because if it tests weak you could milk into it until it dilutes , dilution is the solution 🤣😂
I thought robots were supposed to be easier giving a farmer more time to do other jobs. As you found in your beef heard Iodine is very key in new calf mortality and cows cleansing by the way.
Does every farm in Britain have an old Lister elevator standing in a corner of the farm yard? Marbury Home Farm has, Crimwell Pool has, Bridge Farm did, Well Farm did and Charlotte Ashley Farm has! Love you long time x
I put a cow from the pre calver group with the blister out into the calving pen and gave her a few minutes to settle while I was looking through the rest of the group.I came back five minutes later to a dead calf still in the sheath.My opinion doesn't really matter but I can't find fault in your handling of any situation you are faced with.Movie stars say never work with animals.Best of luck,five dollars.
Hey misses, we've all done that, think she's calving, be ok for 20/30/40 mins and you go back out and the calfs still born/drowned, in the sac still. You can't be there 24/7 all the time, these things happen occasionally. Don't beat your self up, where as antis in the tank is a big mistake- happens all the time though, even in manual parlours with milkers making a mistake.
Sorry to see you had to dump milk,the worst feeling.....at certain times of year you just exist for work sleep and minding animals no time for anything else. Theres always a payback for overdoing it.hope you have help for lambing time..
we have all done it, we are lucky enough to be able to take a sample up to the buyer for testing, but you are continuous milking, so not practical. But a hard lesson to learn.
Simon you want to take a good look at yourself, Charlotte and Roy are not farming to entertain you it’s a way of earring a living. I did not see any of your qualifications accompanying your comment to justify your right to criticise. Perhaps you should find an alternative channel more suited to your high opinion of yourself. Kindest Regards DRW🤔🏴
😮 Just a little stunned to be honest🤷♂️ Truth matters right? Robots and computers don’t replace common sense,isolating drug/colostrum/etc and milking separate was done for a good reason.Watching that I just don’t understand,seems four steps forward 20 backwards 🤷♂️ I couldn’t believe you were saying you were going inside while a cow was calving.Why not just extract the calf in 15 mins and never take the chance,ever! With the milk dumped and calves dying,why are you there??? I’m not the type to say dear dear,never mind and I’m trying to be honest and fair🤷♂️ Two things? Why do you bother with the paddock lice? Why do you use a glass bottle to drench? Would you like to see mid 1970s New Zealand’s first female to win the unofficial Best cow in the country photo? I reckon you will struggle to figure out the breed,I can’t say anything else as it would be a clue. My mother was a dairy farmer during the day when not sleeping,a nurse at night at local hospital.She was frequently found wearing a long flowing dress,flower in hair and a joint in hand. My mother was pioneering woman dairy farming in a hot frying pan of male dominant era,and quietly smashing them backwards her way.
No they don’t replace common sense hence why I had to dump the milk am I the first to make that mistake NO will I be the last NO, am I asking for your sympathy NO, WHY AM I THERE??? To scrape the cows to sawdust the beds to chip the beet change the footbaths dry the cows off feed the calves fill the Keenan pump the slurry wash the rooms… shall I go on?!! I was less then ten mins for a quick shower I had felt the calf and all was presented correctly and loads of room there shouldn’t have been an issue at all. ONLY TWO THINGS?? We use a glass bottle to drench as per the vets instructions and forgive me for listening to them over a stranger on the internet - the sheep clean up the fields as the cows aren’t grazing them simple answer. I never ever ever mention being a woman in farming I am just a person learning how to do it and documenting the process, as for how I dress I’m not into dresses or joints that’s just not my vibe
@ by the way,the Dress and joint was about my mother,nothing to do with you. I didn’t realise you are learning as you put it,so the attention turns to your husband doesn’t it! He knows that,hence the lack of words. If you’re truly learning never walk away from a calving and get the plastic tube.
@@mungogerryjnrBit of a harsh comment to say the least Stephen, I've looked after animals for more than 50 years and wouldn't say that I wouldn't loose any, what about you?
@ right ok🤷♂️This is somewhat caught me off guard,I have never seen your page before that spilled milk post. Forgive me,all these followers and robots,shedding etc. Are you saying both of you have under a years experience milking cows?
I’ve forgotten to turn the bulk tank on after we’ve cleaned it. It has to stay off for a few cows so the milk doesn’t freeze right away. Any way didn’t discover it until the following milking 😫🤦♂️
Evening Miss Charlotte
Bless ya 🙏
Gutted for you, but mistakes happen, especially when over busy, distracted and sleep deprived
Take care all
Back UK Farmer's 🇬🇧
Geoff
So sorry for the loss. I'm glad you were able to catch the milk before it was too late. It goes to show real life farming it is not all smile and dancing. I am glad that they are farmers like you. Farmers who care.
Great video.
Shit happens, you're not the first and you won't be the last who's had to pull the plug on the bulk milk tank. Best been safe than sorry, it's great that you're willing to show what you had to do and explain what and why. 👍👍
There’s a good few MPs who should be made to watch your videos so they can see the day to day and nights of life as a dairy farmer, while they are tucked up in bed . Thank you to all farmers for providing our food .x
100%. Uk politicians need to be more aware and show more respect to farmers.
Cut the b.s
Big respect to you guys
I bet Olly was tucked up asleep whilst you were making your video today! You put the PRO in professional TH-cam farming. 👍🏽🥇🎖️
Absolutely I bet he was 😂😂😂😂
@ That had better be Jersey 🇯🇪 cream in your hot chocolate? That’s the only way I’d be up at that time 😂😂
You put the PRO in professional TH-cam farming. CERTIFIED !!!
great video misses dont beat yourself up mistakes are there to be made its part of learnig you still my no 1 you tuber
If only people would recognise what trauma and hardship it takes to produce real wholesome and proper human food, they may care more about the hard working and dedicated people that produce it every day! Well done Charlotte, and your family!
I love how you show the down side to farming as well, it's hard work and things do go wrong, thank you keep doing what your doing because tomorrow is a new day.
Excellent video Charlotte - you always show it how it is! You and Roy have achieved so much over the last year! Sh1t happens unfortunately! Keep smiling!
Don't loose heart - we've all had days like that. Excellent video.
Thanks 👍
Really felt for you there.❤
Another cracking video Charlotte
Another great video Charlotte. That feed belt is a this of beauty
Charlotte it's a valuable lesson and you'll never do it again, happened my poor father(rip) a few times over his life time milking....a great video and are never boring
Roy makes me smile; part officer, part Sgt Major and part schoolboy playing with phone and hilariously dad with snowballs. All parts the family will remember in years to come so keep at it all of you!
Thanks for a great honest video of the reality of farm life. Don't be to hard on yourself otherwise something else will happen. Just keep trying to smile and soldier on.
Charlotte go with your mother instincts. You are awesome so sorry the calf didn't make it. You're a champion who cares for your animals!
Saw you on the sheep game video 👋 ❤
Chin up your doing a top job🤗 just an off day 👍🏻
Morning CaR and family from down under.
I’ve forgotten to turn the bulk tank on after we’ve cleaned it. It has to stay off for a few cows so the milk doesn’t freeze right away. Any way didn’t discover it until the following milking 😫🤦♂️
Is that an old Lister elevator by the gate when you moved the sheep. Perfect little project for your Roy i think 😊
i am 100% certain you are not the first to make that mistake . it's just a relief that the milk didn't end up in the artic tank. take care
Looks a while since that old bale helevator has been used (hell being the place they should all be consigned)
i once did a full milking without putting the bung in the milk tank, (I was only the farm worker),
despite the boss saying it was ok i didnt charge for a couple of days work
When Roy does as much as your with the cow's he'll forget things too!
Morning Charlett, rough week.
Noticed iodine on tail heads of heifers, shouldn’t have assist so many calvings . If calves are struggling in first minutes of birth or cattle not progressing with final calving could be low iodine, I would and do as a rule when calving here offer free access iodised salt in a trough and also mag flakes free access plus 80grams/head in water trough in calving pens and milkers.
Low iodine can cause unthrify calves and slow progress with calving. Mag flakes will help prevent milk fevers, but don’t over do mag in water as you can make it too saline for them to drink.
Calves in pens look excellent, best wishes.
Start calving here end of the month so busy preparing all equipment and calf yards 👍.
We always fed iodised salt as we used to out winter all dry cows on fodder beet, it being a brassica it’s low in iodine, don’t feed beet any longer but still offer it as a precaution.
I see you feed beet to milkers, not sure if you do to heifers?
rubbish
@ enlighten me if you’re so concerned citizen.
Don't beat yourself up ,you can't be everywhere at once, you look knackered, you have to look after yourself or you will burn yourself out ❤
You can't save them all Charlotte, and you can't hang around forever "just in case". Don't beat yourself up over it.
Don't be too hard on yourself, you can't be in the calving shed every minute. Look after yourself too
Howdy Charlotte. Another day of challenges back at hhe farm!
Hello, oh shit, but I know the thing about throwing away the milk, it's happened to others too😅😅😅
Hey kid! ( I can say this cause I’m really old) I wasn’t going to mention this because it is probably not p.c. But when you are exhausted and things ain’t going right, use the bloody jack and don’t be worried about it, quite frankly we rarely ever use it but at 2 am and she just isn’t getting down to it we jack. I wasn’t going to comment because I don’t think you have the time to read any anyway but I decided as I was having a bit of an after lunch snooze ( was up half the night calving heifers) that I was going to just say don’t be hard on yourself you and that Roy lad( who occasionally appears in your videos) are doing a great job! We all have dead ones that is just par for the course! By the by it wasn’t until I saw you at lama that I realised that you are tiny. Regards from Ireland
I always have time to read 😍😍😍😍 I took your advice today and didn’t just pull myself what the point other than sore fingers
Hi Charlotte I remember you saying your beef cows having an issue with iodine I'm sure this will also affect your dairy cows aswell. On the last farm I worked on the cows suffered from low magnesium on grass or silage it seems to be locked up in the soil so we feed a supplement year round.
Mistakes happen and you learn from them! Hot chocolate - have you tried a velvetiser one? Got one for christmas and they're the best! Bet they'd be amazing with that Jersey milk rather than the semi-skimmed we have.
That was an amazing video wow Charlotte how do you do it you really are amazing you girl make the great in Britain so entertaining and sad too that calf to see you doing CPR really working at speed unfortunately not everyone you can save but fantastic job trying proud to be a subscriber on your channel you and Roy are definitely the best of British 👏👏👏👏👍💗
Don’t be too hard on yourself Charlotte. Maybe the calf was already. I’ve been there.
Good way to get iodine into a cows system is to teat spray pre calvers teats prior too calving once a day.
Looks like you have had a bad run of luck lately, it just happens to everyone, Ur not the first Charlotte & you definitely won't be the last xx
I know it's frustrating about losing that calf but you can't be with then 24 7 unfortunately over the years we all make judgement calls and don't always get it right but put it out of your head and keep going same with the mistake with the antibiotics anyone that never makes a mistake never made anything
This happened at a dairy in Italy once, they lost thousands of litres of milk, then there was an earthquake in the hottest month of the year and cheese and yogurt were invented, so,, swings and roundabouts.👍
Do you get much waist with the silo.
I can remember the odd occasion in the past nipping down to the dairy, leaving an IOU note and taking a pint of milk with the dairymans blessing.
When milk quotas came farmers dumped milk in March as the year ran to 1st April and they took money off for over quota if country was well over
Charlotte look on the bright side at least not every farmer say they give there cows a bottle of plonk when they are good or does Roy do it behind your back ha ha ha ha ha 😊
well done on another great video. its not all sunshine and unicorns, its 'oh fk' moments and if only moments. Carry on doing your thing and showing farming life as it can and often really is. You do have a herd of drama queens it has to be said lol, and im still not sold on the whole robot milking, i am old school 2x a day milking in a parlour. at least i get some sleep lol.
love you all and love your work.🥰
Hey Hun, Bit of a shit vlog day. This must have been a hard video to edit and post but this is real life on a farm. But luckily it does not happen to often.
I would like to see an MP do what you do on a daily basis. You work 18 plus hours a day in freezing conditions.
You and all the other farmers keeping the country running are the heroes of the UK and without you all this country would not last more than a few days.
Keep up the GREAT WORK XXX
It’s not good loosing the calf but you can’t be there all the time Charlotte. Thanks for another great video showing the ups and downs of farming.
This is what i love about the likes of yourself,Oli,tom pem,Joe Seals and other farming youtubers. Unlike other channels that make you think life is perfect and nothing happens. You all show that good and bad things that happen. I thought that was a bottle of wine you was giving the cow 😂😂
I know the feeling, Charlotte. I’ve done it myself manual milk.
At least you found it before the truck came and you had to pay for yours and all the neighboring farms milks due to contamination.
Yes Roy rang Joe. If you need any help and advice with concerns with cows bags being quiet hard upon birth. Have a chat with Adrian over at I Farm We Farm. He'd talk to you. He's a great guy 😊
You should have appropriate farm insurance to cover anti biotics in the bulk tank.
I didn’t know it covered our little one just the big tanker that picks it up we are with NFU I’ll have to ask
Better that than it being collected then failing a delvo at the dairy, I guess
We've all had to dump a vat at least once in dairy career. If tanker had picked it up it's the whole tanker down drain so don't knock yaself to hard
Yep plus, all the other barrels it might get split into on the way to being tested at the dairy. It can get really expensive real quick.
@BRxRanger our tankers in New Zealand have there own tests at every pick up but by time tests done there's already a 1000lts on board. It will never get in to another farms vat thou as tankers have 1 way valves on
@MagnumCamNZ yeah in the UK, atleast for our it may get split to fill bigger barrels for transport, could end up topping off 3 different barrels and the farmer who had the antibiotics pays for all 87000 liters. I don't know how ppl make money, or just live in fear at all times. One farm had let a member of staff go and they milked the antibiotics on purpose as revenge.
Hi Charlotte. There’s a lot to be said for the conventional milking parlour. You seem to be busier than I am milking eighty cows twice a day. You are a great woman. 🎉
A similar incident happened to me last November. Three thousand litres down the drain. Very upsetting but it could have been worse if I had let into the coop.
It's losing,loose is something that doesn't fit properly.
We have an antibiotic tester and would recommend that you get one because if it tests weak you could milk into it until it dilutes , dilution is the solution 🤣😂
I do have one 😂 it wasn’t worth even warming it up I knew
Dang if you do and dang if you don't
❤❤love you too❤❤ I was having a hot chocolate as i was watching lol. Sorry about the milk and the calf 😢.
The sheep look alright. There's no laim uns anyroad.
I thought robots were supposed to be easier giving a farmer more time to do other jobs. As you found in your beef heard Iodine is very key in new calf mortality and cows cleansing by the way.
Don't beat yourself up Charlotte, we have all been there, shit happens. You both do a sterling job.
I was up at 3.30 this morning..... but only to take No1 Daughter to the airport as she's off to a wedding in Lyon for a few days
Does every farm in Britain have an old Lister elevator standing in a corner of the farm yard?
Marbury Home Farm has, Crimwell Pool has, Bridge Farm did, Well Farm did and Charlotte Ashley Farm has!
Love you long time x
Rotten day. 😮💨 Hope tomorrow is better.
Oh dear me, somebody is working to have a dock in their wages 😅
I put a cow from the pre calver group with the blister out into the calving pen and gave her a few minutes to settle while I was looking through the rest of the group.I came back five minutes later to a dead calf still in the sheath.My opinion doesn't really matter but I can't find fault in your handling of any situation you are faced with.Movie stars say never work with animals.Best of luck,five dollars.
Hey misses, we've all done that, think she's calving, be ok for 20/30/40 mins and you go back out and the calfs still born/drowned, in the sac still. You can't be there 24/7 all the time, these things happen occasionally. Don't beat your self up, where as antis in the tank is a big mistake- happens all the time though, even in manual parlours with milkers making a mistake.
Sorry to see you had to dump milk,the worst feeling.....at certain times of year you just exist for work sleep and minding animals no time for anything else. Theres always a payback for overdoing it.hope you have help for lambing time..
You won't be first person to have done that .at least you did forget to put the bung in the tank has my dad did a couple of times lol.
its a farm where there life there is death and charlotte your not a robot chin up girl xx
You need calving pens like l farm We farm has the thing for cattle farmers
Someone who hasn’t done it hasn’t done much if any milking is there not insurance with your buyer for one case in six months
Can you do a clog milking your sheep
We have all made that mistake 13:16
Don't beat yourself up. We've all done it. I need to know why you gave a cow a bottle of wine😂 how many jersey calves do you have now?
TWO 😂😂😂 Abi jones and Abi clones
Remember to get some sleep at some point.😊
If you had stayed wouldnt have been ok its just murphys law
Char, you can't be up 24 hours a day. ❤ 😊
😭😭😭
we have all done it, we are lucky enough to be able to take a sample up to the buyer for testing, but you are continuous milking, so not practical. But a hard lesson to learn.
please may i have your owd hay conveyor charlotte ... around 14-50 minutes in vid
Do you and your husband do alternate nights on cattle and sheep caring?
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OHHHHHH BOYS YESSSSSSS A NEW CONTENDER FOR THE FIRSTS
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WOHOOOOOO YEA INDEED
Hahaha. You are soaking wet cos you are wearing Joe Seels merchandise! It's not that good is it?
Bahahahha no 😂😂😂
You shouldn’t be allowed to look after cattle with your lack of knowledge it is cruelty
Simon you want to take a good look at yourself, Charlotte and Roy are not farming to entertain you it’s a way of earring a living. I did not see any of your qualifications accompanying your comment to justify your right to criticise.
Perhaps you should find an alternative channel more suited to your high opinion of yourself.
Kindest Regards DRW🤔🏴
Ha ha thanks for your valuable input Simon 😂😂😂😂
@@DRW58❤❤
😮
Just a little stunned to be honest🤷♂️
Truth matters right?
Robots and computers don’t replace common sense,isolating drug/colostrum/etc and milking separate was done for a good reason.Watching that I just don’t understand,seems four steps forward 20 backwards 🤷♂️
I couldn’t believe you were saying you were going inside while a cow was calving.Why not just extract the calf in 15 mins and never take the chance,ever!
With the milk dumped and calves dying,why are you there???
I’m not the type to say dear dear,never mind and I’m trying to be honest and fair🤷♂️
Two things?
Why do you bother with the paddock lice?
Why do you use a glass bottle to drench?
Would you like to see mid 1970s New Zealand’s first female to win the unofficial Best cow in the country photo?
I reckon you will struggle to figure out the breed,I can’t say anything else as it would be a clue.
My mother was a dairy farmer during the day when not sleeping,a nurse at night at local hospital.She was frequently found wearing a long flowing dress,flower in hair and a joint in hand.
My mother was pioneering woman dairy farming in a hot frying pan of male dominant era,and quietly smashing them backwards her way.
No they don’t replace common sense hence why I had to dump the milk am I the first to make that mistake NO will I be the last NO, am I asking for your sympathy NO, WHY AM I THERE??? To scrape the cows to sawdust the beds to chip the beet change the footbaths dry the cows off feed the calves fill the Keenan pump the slurry wash the rooms… shall I go on?!! I was less then ten mins for a quick shower I had felt the calf and all was presented correctly and loads of room there shouldn’t have been an issue at all. ONLY TWO THINGS?? We use a glass bottle to drench as per the vets instructions and forgive me for listening to them over a stranger on the internet - the sheep clean up the fields as the cows aren’t grazing them simple answer. I never ever ever mention being a woman in farming I am just a person learning how to do it and documenting the process, as for how I dress I’m not into dresses or joints that’s just not my vibe
@ by the way,the Dress and joint was about my mother,nothing to do with you.
I didn’t realise you are learning as you put it,so the attention turns to your husband doesn’t it!
He knows that,hence the lack of words.
If you’re truly learning never walk away from a calving and get the plastic tube.
@@mungogerryjnrBit of a harsh comment to say the least Stephen, I've looked after animals for more than 50 years and wouldn't say that I wouldn't loose any, what about you?
@@mungogerryjnrwhat plastic tube???? Attention doesn’t turn to anyone we are both learning the cows arrived on the 2nd of May!!!!!!
@ right ok🤷♂️This is somewhat caught me off guard,I have never seen your page before that spilled milk post.
Forgive me,all these followers and robots,shedding etc.
Are you saying both of you have under a years experience milking cows?
Sounds like you had a bad day at the office. That's farming for ya.
I’ve forgotten to turn the bulk tank on after we’ve cleaned it. It has to stay off for a few cows so the milk doesn’t freeze right away. Any way didn’t discover it until the following milking 😫🤦♂️