Dairy Farm: Cleaning the Bedded Pack in our Heifer Barn, Part 1 (25)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 มี.ค. 2022
- In todays video we are cleaning out the bedded pack area in our heifer barn where our 3 to 8 month old heifers are housed. We are using our 942 Fendt and Degelman manure spreader along with our 914M Cat payloader and 770T Bobcat skid steer.
If you have any questions that coincide with this week's video, leave them in the comments, and I will post a Q&A video on Sunday. Thanks for watching!
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Man that sucks Technologies a bummer you get back at her good video can't wait to see more stay safe stay warm God bless
Top video Piet! Thanks for that, greetings from Belgium
Hi I'm Robert a former dairyman stockman From Scotland uk, I've just came across your video's, which are fantastic,,can I ask how many cow's are you currently milking, your farm is a credit to yourself and staff, I'm 63 year's old, I would have loved the opportunity to work on a unit like yours, I've subscribed now and will watch daily,stay well and stay safe 🏴🏴👌
We are currently milking around 1600 cows. Thank you for the comment!
Oh that DEF is a pain in the butt!! Sure would nice if no Diesel engine needed it anymore!! Great video Piet!
Most awaited video for the week, here we role.. Good one Piet & look forward to see the balance on next video
One question; wasn't that the pen floor Concrete i/o Clay? Is is because of moisture absorbance ?
I guess that Concrete comes ease in cleaning.
Underneath the straw bedding is a clay floor. The main reasons the floor is clay are the cost of concrete and that a clay floor is not as hard and gives better traction to the cows/ heifers when there isn't much bedding in there yet. A concrete floor would make it easier to clean out.
engines with the DEF , we found you can not let them idol at a low rpm we have to either idol the trucks up to 800 to 1000 rpm's to keep it from getting a lot of soot build up or just shut engine off. and make sure the def does not freeze
We keep all of our equipment inside a heated shop, but I've often wondered if the quality of the Def drops from being frozen during transport or being inside a cold warehouse somewhere. It's been mainly faulty sensors for us. We used to have a tractor with an early Def system that would build up with crystallized Def even though it rarely idled for long periods.
I hate def. Guess that's why the used market without def is so expensive. Thanks for sharing
Everytime we have a Def issue I wonder if we wouldn't be better off with older equipment without Def!
Sorry your bedding replacement hit a snag today.
I have a question regarding the straw pack area. You mentioned that you had to be careful when scraping not to dig into the clay under the straw. I was surprised that there is clay under the straw and not concrete. Other that the cost factor is there an advantage to using clay rather than concrete under the bedding area?
The cost factor is part of it. The other reasons are that clay is not as hard as concrete and gives the cows/ heifers a little more traction in the first few weeks after its been cleaned out and before the pack starts to build up again.
Piet, it would be interesting if you would share with us what was the sensor that was the problem!
We always left some manure in the beds for warmth during the winter. I am guessing that with all your cows enough heat is produced!
Thank you for sharing!
It ended up being an exhaust temp sensor. Def needs to burn at a certain temp, with that faulty sensor the tractor didn't know if the exhaust temp was right.
In the winter time we try to clean these pens when we get a little break from the cold weather!
Hey there Piet, I hope you're all well and good!
I know that lots of dairies do the bedding in their pins similar to yours, and just keep adding bedding until it gets quite deep.
With not changing it but every 2 months, as in your case, how does that not become a ripe breeding ground for all types of bacteria, disease, and parasites, and with those heifers standing and laying in that every day for 2 months, how does that not have a detrimental effect on their health?
I hope y'all have a good one!
Your tractor is the wrong shade of green.
"Nothing Runs Like A Deere" 🦌👍🇺🇸
With these bedded pack pens it's important to keep them dry. We do this by adding bedding frequently. If we let these pens get too wet that will increase the chance of the heifers picking up bacteria or disease from the bedded pack. If we keep these pens dry we don't typically have any issues.
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I understand, it's just hard for me to imagine it being dry down in the pack, because when it gets wet, you cover it up, I'm sure it work's, or you wouldn't be doing it. Thanks for your time! 👍
@@RealJohnWayne the majority of the pack will be wet, it's the top we're trying to keep dry. It does take a lot of bedding. Freestalls are easier to keep dry and clean, but we feel these younger heifers will do better in bedded pack pens.
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I've even heard of farmers taking a Roto Tiller and mixing the pack, which I totally don't understand, mixing your fresh bedding with dirty bedding makes no sense to me.
Thanks for your time Piet. 👍
Do you guys ever put any lime down in those beds?
No, we don't.
We have companies that will delete DEF in any tractor in Germany, I guess there would be simular companies in the US
They are here as well, but doing that will cancel the warranty and the dealer won't work on anything engine related on the tractor.
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Hey Piet ! Greetings from the Netherlands. I wanted to share a joke with from Netherlands with you. :))
De juffrouw op de lagere school zegt: "Ik ga een dier omschrijven, en dan moeten jullie raden wat ik bedoel." Ze begint: 'Het loopt op de boerderij en het geeft melk.' Jantje zegt: "Een koe."
Dat is goed, zegt de juffrouw, "maar ik bedoelde een geit."
Dan zegt ze: Het loopt op de boerderij, het heeft veren en legt eieren. Jantje zegt: "Een kip."
Dat is goed, zegt de juffrouw, maar ik bedoelde een eend.
Jantje krijgt de pest in en zegt tegen de juffrouw: "Nou geef ik u een raadsel: Je stopt 't hard in je mond, en het komt er zacht en vochtig weer uit." De juffrouw krijgt een knalrood hoofd. "Dat is goed," zegt Jantje, "maar ik bedoelde kauwgom!"
Hahaha
Buy a old fendt 900 no def no problems
There aren't many around!
Piet,
Hate to hear your DEF issues, unfortunately there are few good options. You are already taking the main precautions of parking in a heated shop and operating tractors that are under warranty. Some folks will mention an emissions delete, which is an option once warranty ends but not exactly a legal procedure.
The DEF is used for Selective Catalytic Reduction to convert nitrous oxides to nitrogen. It’s possible to do this with other sources of ammonia, such as anhydrous. Vehicles are not set up for this so anhydrous ammonia is not really an option for you.
The roots of this problem are: 1. Government emissions regulations require each manufacturer to test and certify each model of engine they sell. Once certified, that’s the only version that is legal. Equipment manufactures only give access to the vehicle’s computer to the dealer, so the owner is “locked out” of making any modifications.
2. Controlling these emission systems requires a complex electrical scheme run by computer. More parts, more things to fail. Worse is the hot exhaust environment is hard on sensors and other components.
3. The modern political class is in the habit of requiring ever stricter emissions by edict, wether the technology is reliable or not. The whole burden of living with restrictions is placed on the manufacturer and operator. Talk to any trucker owner-operator. I’m afraid this situation is only getting worse as the current political climate is trying to eliminate fossil fuels all together.
Regulations should not be imposed until the technology is reliable, practical, available, and affordable. No more regulations unless the congress does what it takes to make it workable.
Your last paragraph is on the money! Manufacturers were forced to meet emission standards without the proper time needed to make reliable systems.
@@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047 exactly. The US EPA hammered diesel emissions for the past two decades. They pretty much forced exhaust gas recirculation on engine manufactures. When this was implemented, class 8 truck fuel mileage fell from 6.5-7 mpg down to 6.0 mpg. It seemed ironic that we were controlling emissions by burning more fuel. It was such a mess keeping this and the diesel particulate filters running Caterpillar exited the on road truck market !
European regulators took a bit more of a holistic approach, since fuel economy is a bigger deal there. They added CO2 to their emissions regulations to force fuel economy. Most European diesel engines run leaner fuel to air mixtures, which requires more DEF usage, but they avoid creating soot in the engine exhaust and the problems that causes. As a result, American diesel engines were uncompetitive for about a decade in both reliability and fuel usage.
So you guys spreading manure is not really science based I guess - you spread it not depending on when the crops need the manure nor
based on what soil need the manure the most - it`s basically only a matter of getting rid of the manure.
Surprising since the rest of your operation seem extremely organized and streamlined around a clean healthy environment for both people and livestock.
All and all a great setup you guys have !!
Wouldn`t you get way more out of spreading when the crops need it to grow to it`s full potential and spreading it on the soil that need the manure input.
Maybe you could touch on that whole issue of collecting manure and spreading it when the crops need it the most to maximize yields.....
I will answer your questions in more detail on Sundays video. It's typically not possible for us to spread all of our bed pack manure in the spring after the ground dries out enough for the tractor and manure spreader to travel over the fields without causing compaction. Some years we may only have a few days or no days to spread solid manure on our fields after the fields aren't frozen anymore and before the crops are planted. We soil sample our fields annually and sample our manure to apply nutrients accordingly. This bed pack manure is mainly organic matter, its good for soil health but has limited nutrients compared to our liquid manure. We'll typically spread this bed pack manure fairly thin to try and get some on all of our acres going to corn. Our nutrients for the next crop will mainly come from our liquid manure which we inject with a drag hose system in the fall and in the spring if conditions allow.