This is quite interesting. Back in the 70s when I worked on a dairy farm we didn't do anything as complicated as this. We fed haylage with clover, chopped corn silage, and field corn all from harvestore silos. That was about it. I don't recall adding any other nutrients. The cows also grazed in a pasture all day.
@Layne Meek Do they ever get to go outside? Get some sunshine. Eat fresh grass? Do they get to stay with their babies? Imagine that stress of having the baby ripped from you. Yes, animals have emotions too. I’ve seen new momma’s who have lost their calves mourn for days. Oh, yes. Healthier. Maybe. But I doubt it. I think this young man is doing a good job. I think his generation might bring back compassion to a stark environment. I know it’s about survival. But, at what cost is it, to humans and to the animals? Imho
Cool operation you guys have there. Heard from your channel through a shout out. Nice to see a similar farm from across the pond. And I'm number 400! 😉
Questions,,.. 1. What is triticale ? 2. Is there a possibility to source for non GMO Soybean byproducts ? 3. What state is your farm located ? Thanks for the through videos. Your are providing us more insight on what we consume than you may realize. Loving your no nonsense videos. No Reality Show drama, just no frills on your daily work life.
Thanks. Yeah we like the bunks. They take a decent amount of work and we occasionally deal with some mold we gotta pick off, but for the most part they're nice. I'm hoping to do a video on milking and maybe a little tour of the main barn sometime soon.
Been expanding my knowledge into dairy operations more lately. Awesome videos! Cool to see how you guys do things. I'm located in a rural area but very little dairy operations my me. Grain and a couple beef farms. And one bison/beef :)
You do very nice work! 6th gen farmer here as well, so not nearly long as yours! Other than that Keep it going long as you can & Very nice job on the Video editing skills. Greetings from Michigan.
yeah i saw it couple weeks ago at my friends place up here in alberta they milk 300 cows. they got it mounted on the bucket works like a charm. was first the way you have it but he said they got sick of that switching back and forth pretty quick. works great. An idea for a rainy day ;)
That silage cutter is made by a young dairy farmer in olay PA. His name is Eric also. Eric Hoover I believe. He builds them in the farm shop. If is a viable solution he would probably design one.
Thx for your video, awesome farming, but can u tell me about the fedding rational ingredients percentage, like silege, rofuage or hay, soyameal, corn,vitamins, medicine, protin suppliment etc
Would it be better to have a trough with a high back to it so the feed stays were the cows are feeding from it? The high back would stop the feed being pushed away as the cows feed but your mixer wagon still could deposit the feed mix over the back! Also shame you can't have a big silo feed auto mixing station which can auto weight the amounts of feed and mix it so you just drive up with a small trailer that can drop the mixed feed out to the feeding troughs? Also I see more auto set farming robots are starting to be used on more farms to clean up cow waste and wash the floor etc. Anything that saves your time and keeps working when you do something else is well good idea!
The problem with high back troughs is we clean out excess feed every day with the skid loader. We also do a lot of cow management stuff when we have them in the headlocks. The cows would still throw a feed over top of them anyway and we would have to clean it up. All of those automated things would be handy but extremely expensive. We would have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to make that all happen. And then I would just be a computer guy not a farmer which would be no fun. I think our feed mixing is pretty labor efficient anyway, it would take robots many many years to pay themselves off, and maybe never even would.
lol most farmers in my country only give cows hay,grass silage,corn silage and barley.they probably do stuff like this guy on large farms but never heard about giving cows soybeans
What guides you to decide on how to mix the feeds for different categories of dairy cattle and what are the measurements when mixing feeds that would help to boost the cows milk production?
Eric you put tow different grass and corn silage and crushed corn and toasted soybeans in the mix that a rich ration do give them pepcid oh I would bet the bacteria would help with acid and have you all considered robot milkers. Chocolate milk good you listen your dad and a very nice video.
It is a rich ration but we make sure we don't push them to hard. Cow health is very important to us. We would have to most likely build a new barn if we wanted robots and that not happening any time soon. Plus I like milking and would rather work with people than computers!
@@10thgenerationdairyman61 I feel you do like the contact with your cows and people and that's nice yeah cows like the contact also it seems to me for it reminds them of their calf thanks for your reply.
How long does it take you to make do a load in the mixer wagon. We are from New Zealand and have a 20 cubic metre strutmann 2401 and we put in the ryegrass straw, palm kernel, grass silage, minerals and supplements
I noticed your supplements are out in the open don’t mice get in the mixes ? Really liked watching you mix the food and watch the conveyor working. Pretty awesome
Thanks for posting! I have two questions for you: 1) How many cows do you milk? 2) I have a part time job mixing feed. Whenever I start feeding a group I have trouble getting the feed to flow out of the mixer evenly. Do you have any suggestions on how to deal with this?
Hey I have 3 Black Angus heifers and one of the heifers is not growing well or getting any bigger what would you recommend to get it fatter and bigger also the other two are about the same size but need to get a little bit fatter but the little one needs to get a lot bigger and taller what would you recommend
Hi. I am going to open a farm soon in Myanmar ( Burma ) if you can please please provide me the ratio you are using in the feed and the names of the supplements. That will be so much helpful and I will be grateful. Thanks
Good to know. My cousin married a dairy farmer in the PNW. I’ve helped him him on it before, moving irrigation pipes, tried inseminating. Hard but humbling lifestyle. I appreciate the knowledge you share and the hard work you put in to feeding America.
Hi love video a lot of work going in to dairy cowsbut I have to ask what cows is yield ing ie butter fat milk protein I know different markets. every where just curious
The silage was packed really well. Whoever did that done a nice job.
Farming Sim 19 lied to me! So much more that goes into it than just silage, straw and hay! Love it!
Yeah
Pyro's Lounge depends on the diet, each farm is different
Pyro's Lounge facts
C@SP3R most dearies in Australia just do corn silage and hay
Ye a lot more
Being a dairy farm is a whole lot of work. Thank you for your hard work, I love my milk.
No wonder your cows are so happy. They eat better than me. Great job😊
This is quite interesting. Back in the 70s when I worked on a dairy farm we didn't do anything as complicated as this. We fed haylage with clover, chopped corn silage, and field corn all from harvestore silos. That was about it. I don't recall adding any other nutrients. The cows also grazed in a pasture all day.
That’s how feeding should be. It’s more complicated unnecessarily now and more costly.
They should graze naturally on pasture
@@fezabaydur2821 yes and milk should cost 20 $/gallon... would you buy it?
@Layne Meek
Do they ever get to go outside? Get some sunshine. Eat fresh grass? Do they get to stay with their babies? Imagine that stress of having the baby ripped from you. Yes, animals have emotions too. I’ve seen new momma’s who have lost their calves mourn for days. Oh, yes. Healthier. Maybe. But I doubt it.
I think this young man is doing a good job. I think his generation might bring back compassion to a stark environment. I know it’s about survival. But, at what cost is it, to humans and to the animals? Imho
The scale is larger today and labour
I had no idea that many ingredients went into feeding the cows. Very interesting. Thanks! =)
Another great video. That's some good looking corn silage and an excellently maintained bunk face. Good work
Cool operation you guys have there. Heard from your channel through a shout out. Nice to see a similar farm from across the pond. And I'm number 400! 😉
good job! I was a dairyman in China and I fully respect what you have done!
Thank you! It would be interesting to see how you do it over there
Beautiful , pristine ,dairy farm ! Now all you need is a decent price for the product you produce. Keep making the videos,we'll keep watching !
Thank you. I agree, a decent price would be really helpful. I'll try to keep em coming!
Questions,,..
1. What is triticale ?
2. Is there a possibility to source for non GMO Soybean byproducts ?
3. What state is your farm located ?
Thanks for the through videos. Your are providing us more insight on what we consume than you may realize.
Loving your no nonsense videos. No Reality Show drama, just no frills on your daily work life.
im really happy we do beef cows after seeing this. I thought unwrapping some bales ever other day was annoying. Fun video to watch for sure
Just now getting to watch this video, I have not seen them all, some I have repeated, all great...easy to watch.
Great video man, those are some well fed cows thanks to you. Greetings from Victoria BC!
Wow alot of work for one feed. We out in normally 20 grabs of silage,minerals and vitamins sometimes we put straw in and maize
Awesome setup you’ve got there. I love your commodity shed and would trade my bags for your bunker in a heartbeat... I’d love to see your parlor
Thanks. Yeah we like the bunks. They take a decent amount of work and we occasionally deal with some mold we gotta pick off, but for the most part they're nice. I'm hoping to do a video on milking and maybe a little tour of the main barn sometime soon.
Good work, Very interesting and different from what I did 65 and 70 years ago. Grandpa
Thanks! I bet it's a lot different
Been expanding my knowledge into dairy operations more lately. Awesome videos! Cool to see how you guys do things. I'm located in a rural area but very little dairy operations my me. Grain and a couple beef farms. And one bison/beef :)
Cool, thanks for watching!
This is Nice to see how you are all douing feeding the cows in Amerika gr from Holland
Sweet operation I have a small channel with a steer and I make my own hay I'll be watching from now on because your farm is set up
I love this old John Deere you have, gotta love those front doors! Also, the whole feeding process looks fun to me. :P
Great video anyways!
great vid!! i love the work with the feeds and silage. Ur cows will be healthy
Really your all videos are to motivates us ...Thank u for making the useful channel..Thank u so much...I m from India....🙏⚘
I like the probiotic supplement something I’ve never thought about doing something I should do after sick animals have antibiotics
Awesome camera angles everywhere.
Awesome video. Going on 13 years tmr feeder at the farm where I work.
Instead of using molasses might want to try some Mt. Dew for the ladies!
That's pretty nice! I also play Farming Simulator 19, and I have a cow farm on one of my worlds! :)
Couldn't help but notice the dust and no respiratory protection. Careful you don't get hypersensitivity pneumonitis.
Happy cows 😊👍
you got yourself a new sub, this channel deserves more subs! Greetings from the Netherlands :)
Thank you!
5 star cattle farm 👍🏻
Wow! I’m not a farmer, but that looks technical, your more like a dietitian 👊. Great vid though
Great job young man...
Hey can you show you feeding sheat again someday?
love your vids. In my country there are only small farmers with 6 to 50.
You do very nice work! 6th gen farmer here as well, so not nearly long as yours! Other than that Keep it going long as you can & Very nice job on the Video editing skills. Greetings from Michigan.
You ever play music for the cows? I heard somewhere that it helps them relax and produce more.
Вот как надо правильно кормить скот! Конечно, и молоко будет и все! Молодцы, ответственно к работе относятся!
И премиксов кучу накидали.
hey mate ive just started watching your vlog this weekend from Australia and I got 2 say you run a tight ship your self dad and hired help good job
Thanks!
that skid loader with the scraper tool is bad-ass and would be great for a zombie apocalypse 4:02
I help papa an daddy feed our dairy cows we milk like 200 an I get to drive the skid steer an IAM only 12
Nice!
Be thankful for this. I grew up on a dairy farm and don't live one day without appreciating how it changed my life. I am 51 years old now.
How long does the feed mixer run once you've added the silage?
Good job
should find a way to mount that silage cutter right on the bucket, save ya some time hooking and unhooking. great vid keep it up the great work
Interesting idea
yeah i saw it couple weeks ago at my friends place up here in alberta they milk 300 cows. they got it mounted on the bucket works like a charm. was first the way you have it but he said they got sick of that switching back and forth pretty quick. works great. An idea for a rainy day ;)
That silage cutter is made by a young dairy farmer in olay PA. His name is Eric also. Eric Hoover I believe. He builds them in the farm shop. If is a viable solution he would probably design one.
Them cows get fed better than I do
Thx for your video, awesome farming, but can u tell me about the fedding rational ingredients percentage, like silege, rofuage or hay, soyameal, corn,vitamins, medicine, protin suppliment etc
Man that looks like a mean breakfast.
Nice video😉
Good job my friend
I LIVE IN THE CITY AND I LIKE THIS? better then asmr
Good job . Greetings from Poland :)
Thank you!
Nice
Can you tell us in a video about the history of your dairy farm ? You are definitely blessed !!
I should some time. Yes I am, thanks for the suggestion!
Great video thanks for sharing
Thanks!
of course i was thinking about all the mice living in all that feed and going thru the mixer inadvertently :-O
Would it be better to have a trough with a high back to it so the feed stays were the cows are feeding from it? The high back would stop the feed being pushed away as the cows feed but your mixer wagon still could deposit the feed mix over the back! Also shame you can't have a big silo feed auto mixing station which can auto weight the amounts of feed and mix it so you just drive up with a small trailer that can drop the mixed feed out to the feeding troughs? Also I see more auto set farming robots are starting to be used on more farms to clean up cow waste and wash the floor etc. Anything that saves your time and keeps working when you do something else is well good idea!
The problem with high back troughs is we clean out excess feed every day with the skid loader. We also do a lot of cow management stuff when we have them in the headlocks. The cows would still throw a feed over top of them anyway and we would have to clean it up. All of those automated things would be handy but extremely expensive. We would have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to make that all happen. And then I would just be a computer guy not a farmer which would be no fun. I think our feed mixing is pretty labor efficient anyway, it would take robots many many years to pay themselves off, and maybe never even would.
I do like the floor cleaning robots though, maybe we could get them someday!
Most interesting
lol most farmers in my country only give cows hay,grass silage,corn silage and barley.they probably do stuff like this guy on large farms but never heard about giving cows soybeans
Greetings from Austria
What guides you to decide on how to mix the feeds for different categories of dairy cattle and what are the measurements when mixing feeds that would help to boost the cows milk production?
What's the average daily feed intake per lactating cow?
I work like that for a few years with a clipboard now I use a medium size loader and a big mixer everything runs now by computer
Nice job Friend
Eric you put tow different grass and corn silage and crushed corn and toasted soybeans in the mix that a rich ration do give them pepcid oh I would bet the bacteria would help with acid and have you all considered robot milkers. Chocolate milk good you listen your dad and a very nice video.
It is a rich ration but we make sure we don't push them to hard. Cow health is very important to us. We would have to most likely build a new barn if we wanted robots and that not happening any time soon. Plus I like milking and would rather work with people than computers!
@@10thgenerationdairyman61 I feel you do like the contact with your cows and people and that's nice yeah cows like the contact also it seems to me for it reminds them of their calf thanks for your reply.
How long does it take you to make do a load in the mixer wagon. We are from New Zealand and have a 20 cubic metre strutmann 2401 and we put in the ryegrass straw, palm kernel, grass silage, minerals and supplements
nice video broski
I noticed your supplements are out in the open don’t mice get in the mixes ? Really liked watching you mix the food and watch the conveyor working. Pretty awesome
We don't have much issues with mice thankfully
wow makin me hungry
Lol... me too
What is the name of the milk you sell? Was that chocolate milk from your farm ?
I love your channel 💪🏼😎 very cool stuff!! I think I want to sell all my race cares and buy a farm
Nice.
Badhiya badhiya
Count me in,,,,, Very Nice operation ,,, I will subscribe
That os an awesome operation, wish I had one like that. I'm definetely gonna subscribe.
Great video and interesting to see.
I want all those good feeds for my girls
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How long is this whole process?
Thanks for posting! I have two questions for you: 1) How many cows do you milk? 2) I have a part time job mixing feed. Whenever I start feeding a group I have trouble getting the feed to flow out of the mixer evenly. Do you have any suggestions on how to deal with this?
Try not opening the door as much. That should regulate your feed flowage and make it more uniform.
That was for Tom Campbell. You got good even feed at the bunk😎
Hard work
Nice! Love the chocolate milk shot! Lol. So I’m not nor have I ever been a farmer of any kind so do these cows get feed round the clock or ? Thanks
We mix twice a day. Try to keep feed in front of them at all times. Thanks
man your feed program is extra, i know this is a late comment but aprox how much per cow per day are you milking of this?
90+ lbs
Hey Can you share the TMR Formula and daily diet for Wet and Dry cows with percentage ratios
So to get chocolate milk do you push on black dot of holstein cows when milking them
Очень интересно, спасибо
Nice you have a great farm i like your john deere on the Triolet😉😉where you are in Canada?
Thanks! No, USA state of Pennsylvania
Hey I have 3 Black Angus heifers and one of the heifers is not growing well or getting any bigger what would you recommend to get it fatter and bigger also the other two are about the same size but need to get a little bit fatter but the little one needs to get a lot bigger and taller what would you recommend
why your cows dont graze like in field like in Ireland or UK? thanks.
awesome stuff .... can i send my in-laws there for din-din ?
Thanx for the video , could you please give me the component ratios of the mixture feed?? Thanx
i have a question.how do you give water to your lovely cow
I want to visit your dairy farm.
Молодец успехов в работе
Nice job >> could you please write down the composition of the TMR and the kind of hay you add is it alfalfa or what>>>>>>> thank you
Do these cows ever get to go outside?
Looks like a nice mix. How many cows are you milking?
175
What number is that John Deere tractor that your using on the mixer?
Never seen one of them silage cutters. Pretty neat. Where ate ya from?
Yeah it works good. We are in southern Pennsylvania
@@10thgenerationdairyman61 oh ok. I'm north east Ohio
Hi.
I am going to open a farm soon in Myanmar ( Burma ) if you can please please provide me the ratio you are using in the feed and the names of the supplements. That will be so much helpful and I will be grateful.
Thanks
When you say “dry cows”, is that the female cows that don’t have milk anymore, or bulls? Or do you raise beef cattle as well?
Each cow gets a two month break about once a year before she had her calf. We don't milk her during that time. It is called the dry period
Good to know. My cousin married a dairy farmer in the PNW. I’ve helped him him on it before, moving irrigation pipes, tried inseminating. Hard but humbling lifestyle. I appreciate the knowledge you share and the hard work you put in to feeding America.
Hi love video a lot of work going in to dairy cowsbut I have to ask what cows is yield ing ie butter fat milk protein I know different markets. every where just curious