One of the other youtube dairy farms seemed to have some sort of cow locating thing i thought, which apparently made it easier to find cows in their large barn. Couldn't have been GPS, being indoors, so i don't know how it worked. Maybe i was just imagining it.
@@madhungarian3024 I'm not sure. Our cows are connected by wifi to the computer which monitors their activity, rumination, feeding time and heat activity. It doesn't tell us where they are but if they went out of range we would be alerted because of lost connection.
I’ve always heard to keep the barn as close to 5 degrees as you can soon as it gets colder the curtains would automatically go up. It could be -15 outside and the curtains could be down a foot. And fans used to have them turn on around the 12 degree mark inside. Cows perform the best at less then 10 degrees. Heat stress starts at 20
@@joshwhelpley3979 Thank you very much for the info! I will screen shot your comment and keep it for reference. I am interested to see what the Ventway curtain guys say when they come to set up the system to work automatically.
@@HollcanaFarmwe don't have experience with coverall style buildings, but I always find cold air is much better air quality than warm. So in the winter months we keep the temperature as cold as possible without anything freezing up. If I tried to keep it at 5° it would be far too humid in the barn. I used to run the curtains manually in our old barn and that was the approach I took. Now we have a new barn and I'm not sure what the setting is, but the colder the better for the cows, as long as things aren't freezing up. Good luck!
Don't close the curtains all the way to the top leave a one to two inch gape. I seen a lot of steam that needs to get out of the barn, if you close sides all the way it will freeze on the tarp and becomes a rain shower. I milked 20 years in a coverall barn it's an learning curve.
@@Kornelis-wc2xb Thank you very much! It's nice to hear from someone who does it themselves! We get told a lot of stuff and it's hard to know what to listen to🤔
I am curios what the the celcount in the milk is doing since you start robotmilking in combination whit the bedpack anyways thanks for the video and have a good day greetings from a Dutch dairyfarmer
@@aldonboon1728 We loved the freedom for the cows to stretch out and that most of the time they are on a nice cushy surface. Also manure storage is taken care of with a roof. 2 for 1. Might be more. I will think about it and talk to the guys
@Joe-ge3rf it's a special composting pack that is carefully cultivated twice a day and spread with fine sawdust every 3-5 days. It heats up and composts breaking down and creating a very comfortable and healthy bed for the cows.
It is 2°C today and in the old barn we tried to keep the barn at 10°C. I think we can run the new barn colder but of course we want the equipment to run properly. The robot can run as low as -5°C before the heater needs to come on. It's going to be tricky
@@br45627 Yes, like I said in the description, the ventilation is not all set up at that point so it was too warm and we needed to add sawdust that day. They cleaned right up after. This is real life on a start up.
@@bodiehot Thank you. I hope so. It would be really nice now that we have the curtains and fans hooked up to get them automated. Hard to know how to set them for overnight.
I wish I was closer cause I would love to see the operation. Good luck from Ohio.
Thanks for filming. Greetings Belgium
@@boertjejanvh3696 Your Welcome! Greetings from Canada!
One of the other youtube dairy farms seemed to have some sort of cow locating thing i thought, which apparently made it easier to find cows in their large barn. Couldn't have been GPS, being indoors, so i don't know how it worked. Maybe i was just imagining it.
@@madhungarian3024 I'm not sure. Our cows are connected by wifi to the computer which monitors their activity, rumination, feeding time and heat activity. It doesn't tell us where they are but if they went out of range we would be alerted because of lost connection.
I’ve always heard to keep the barn as close to 5 degrees as you can soon as it gets colder the curtains would automatically go up. It could be -15 outside and the curtains could be down a foot. And fans used to have them turn on around the 12 degree mark inside. Cows perform the best at less then 10 degrees. Heat stress starts at 20
@@joshwhelpley3979 Thank you very much for the info! I will screen shot your comment and keep it for reference. I am interested to see what the Ventway curtain guys say when they come to set up the system to work automatically.
@@HollcanaFarmwe don't have experience with coverall style buildings, but I always find cold air is much better air quality than warm. So in the winter months we keep the temperature as cold as possible without anything freezing up. If I tried to keep it at 5° it would be far too humid in the barn. I used to run the curtains manually in our old barn and that was the approach I took. Now we have a new barn and I'm not sure what the setting is, but the colder the better for the cows, as long as things aren't freezing up. Good luck!
Don't close the curtains all the way to the top leave a one to two inch gape.
I seen a lot of steam that needs to get out of the barn, if you close sides all the way it will freeze on the tarp and becomes a rain shower.
I milked 20 years in a coverall barn it's an learning curve.
@@Kornelis-wc2xb Thank you very much! It's nice to hear from someone who does it themselves! We get told a lot of stuff and it's hard to know what to listen to🤔
love compost bed pack concept.....i am curious to see how it will work out in the extreme cold.
@@harveypenner2386 me too! I think it will be easier then when it is warm. Not sure
@@HollcanaFarm wishing you all the best!!
@harveypenner2386 Thank you very much!
I am curios what the the celcount in the milk is doing since you start robotmilking in combination whit the bedpack anyways thanks for the video and have a good day greetings from a Dutch dairyfarmer
@@mennoreuten1563 It stays right around 100. We had one go over 200 (yellow) in October and one test 227 in November. We are happy with that so far.😊
@@HollcanaFarm thanks for the reply, and its going oké now , its always the stress in combination whit the whole new situation
Can the machine detect if a cow has mastitis in one quarter ?
@@randybennett5417 yes it can
One thing I’m curious about. Why did you decide to go pen pack vs free stall. ?
@@aldonboon1728 We loved the freedom for the cows to stretch out and that most of the time they are on a nice cushy surface. Also manure storage is taken care of with a roof. 2 for 1. Might be more. I will think about it and talk to the guys
Don't know if I would want cows laying in your manure storage 🤔
@Joe-ge3rf it's a special composting pack that is carefully cultivated twice a day and spread with fine sawdust every 3-5 days. It heats up and composts breaking down and creating a very comfortable and healthy bed for the cows.
Quelle température voulez-vous avoir dans la grange? Quelle température avez-vous à l'extérieur actuellement. Bonne journée
It is 2°C today and in the old barn we tried to keep the barn at 10°C. I think we can run the new barn colder but of course we want the equipment to run properly. The robot can run as low as -5°C before the heater needs to come on. It's going to be tricky
It must have started again because it didn’t get that back quarter it missed
@@jeffyurek4342 I went back and watched again and I think you are right 👍
Need to do some cleaning very dirty 😢
@@br45627 Yes, at this point we already have but at that point we were still in start up mode and struggling with so much!
Cows are very dirty 😢
@@br45627 Yes, like I said in the description, the ventilation is not all set up at that point so it was too warm and we needed to add sawdust that day. They cleaned right up after. This is real life on a start up.
you will get all the problems out.
@@bodiehot Thank you. I hope so. It would be really nice now that we have the curtains and fans hooked up to get them automated. Hard to know how to set them for overnight.