Mixing Feed and Milking Cows on Our Small Family Dairy Farm
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ส.ค. 2024
- We're mixing some feed for our Dairy Cows today. Alan shows how he turned a cut-off Badger Chopper Box into a poor man's TMR mixer. Alan uses a small bedding chopper to chop up some hay, and that gets mixed with the corn silage that we made last Fall. Alan's chopper box has been outfitted to run off an electric motor instead of the PTO. Alan starts putting the feed out and before you know it, it's time to start milking. The Dairy Cows come in, and Jennifer gets the pipeline and milkers ready to go. Jen shares how we milk the cows and how the milkers work. The kids are active on the farm too, and Jordan introduces his bull calf with a very unique name. After we're done milking cows, it's time to wash up all of the equipment before we're done for the night.
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Alan Klejeski
PO Box 153
Sturgeon Lake, MN 55783
Trinity Dairy was established in 2006, in Minnesota. Alan and Jennifer farm with their 5 children; Jessica, Justin, Jordan, Joshua, and Jason. We milk a mix of 33 Jersey, Holstein, Brown Swiss, Guernsey, and Ayrshire cattle. We also enjoy sharing our family's love of Draft Horses and using them for logging and other farm work. Dairy Farming in Minnesota can be challenging, but it's a lifestyle we really enjoy. Subscribe today to watch our small family dairy farm and family grow while continuing to thank our Lord for the blessings we've been given.
I am so glad you showed the filter. I hope people see this and realize Us Milkers take pride in how clean the filter is at the end of a milking. Most all of us dairy farmers really care about the quality of the milk our cows produce. It a Pride thing you know.
For sure
@@trinitydairy we drink milk straight out the tank often. We figure if we would drink it why would we ship it.
We feel the same way.
Allan,I was forwarded to Trinity channel by Jim and it’s great farm channel. I’ve spent 48 yrs operating a dairy and find your video’s true and to the picture. These little hobby farms out east just aren’t the real picture when it comes to farming! You and Jim do what it takes to operate whereas a hobby farm raises chickens or ducks and puts Mr Green Jeans into action. Keep up the good work
Thanks for checking us out!
the poor man's tmr mixer gave me idea for my spare parts I bought an older bearcat grinder mixer with forage knives in it paid 175 for it still grinds feed and i add some second cut squares to the mix
Man you guys got more snow than us...been a decent January here
love the music during milking. brings back milking memories. so nice to see a video from small farms not those mega
farms
We're glad to hear you enjoyed it!
That's right Allen, not every cow is the same so they don't need to be fed the same!!
My dad and his family worked as tenants on a dairy farm in the forties and he said it was hard work that he wouldn't want to do it again
He is gone now but watching you reminded me of him. I admire farmers and their hard work
Anybody that has been around dairy cows can see how well cared for your girls are. They are well mannered and tame because of the great care they get. Great video for teaching folks about farms that have never done it.
I’m from Jim and I enjoy your channel! My favorite was the kids at the fair with their 4h Projects, keep up the good work, God Bless!
You and your family are so nice. I have always preferred cows to people myself
When I was your boys age back in the 1950s, my uncle down the road filled his silos with corn silage every year. One of my greatest joys was going to my uncles place to smell the sweet smell of the fermented corn silage. My dad never used corn for silage. We just ground the cobs up. To this day, I still love the smell of fermented corn silage.
It's too bad we don't have smellovision!
@@trinitydairy Yes. Smellovision would be great. The other highlight of that, was the birds who got into the corn silage. Watching "drunk" birds after eating the fermented corn silage was always a good laugh. Same as watching birds after eating wind-fall apples which had fermented on the ground. Drunk birds are always entertaining. (I am almost 70 and I really miss farming. Your children have no idea how lucky they are to be raised on a farm)
I like watching your videos because it reminds me of what I was growing up and the small day for my work done I'm Eric for Michigan just wanted to tell you thank you for teaching what a reminder like what my dad was on his dairy farm when my dad was growing up thank you again bye
I watch Jim's videos! And I like when your Dad has his horses out!
Cows are very clear compared to some TH-cam videos I watch.
Nice to see the personal touch that you have with them.
Thankyou for sharing this. I bet your tired after the day is done of chores. I love how you take good care of your cows. Blessings to you an your family
I love watching yalls videos
Great video Alan and your wife and kids
Speaking as a small dairy farmer in North Devon England. U have got some well looked after very clean smart cows. A credit to your family.
Thank you!
Looks like very nice hay; my horses would like it and they are pretty fastidious!
Always amazes me to see small dairy farms that know every cow by name and the particulars about that animal !!!
Our daughter is a walking encyclopedia of info on our herd. She can tell you a cow's 3rd cousin once removed on her mother's side, lol!
Outstanding video as always my dad and i enjoyed it!!
Nice looking corn silage Alan
Thanks, it turned out real nice.
Excellent video - I enjoyed learning about the feed mix proportions and also how the milking equipment works - I understand the machinery part so it was interesting to learn something new. It also shows there is always lot of hard work by all on your dairy. Thanks for the peak behind the curtain as it keeps things real. Keep up the good work!
The milking videos never get old. You do a nice job editing them.
Greetings from the Netherlands. Trinity dairy and Working horses with Jim are my favorite relax moments for years, before I fall asleep. Very interesting as I love animals and especially horses, as well as tractors. Keep up the work and stay healthy. Adriaan de Kam
Agreed
❤- Video. From Wisconsin Dairyland 🧀🥛
Hmm, thinking maybe I should invest in a hay chopper. Jim has a great channel too. There are so many good channels I can't keep up with them all. When I finally (??) retire I believe I won't feel so out of place.
Used to be a dairyman now I run beef what most people don't realize is that in a Northern climate we end up with more Cal Care in the winter even though we don't belt we spend almost as much time in the barn in the winter time with our beef cattle as we did with our dairy herd
I love your milking machines
Awesome job Allen keep small farm's going and your kid's are so lucky to have that life style and they will have a great week experience 👍🙏
your children are so fortunate to live this.. it is unheard of.. I'm a old farm boy, I cant believe how fortunate those kids are to have this.. God bless..
Never stop ur way of dairyfarm. Its so amazing to see someone still do it the old good way! And u guys got so amazing fine looking cows and animals❤️ to be a cow on your farm i think must be on of the best places🤩❤️
Watching You'all milk, reminds Me when We milked about 60 years ago. I still can see the cows in the barn, and remember some of their names.We sold the cows about the mid 60s. We still farmed, had beef and sheep. I still farm today but just grain and a few beef.
Hi hope you and your family are doing good I like the hat and Shirt the shirt is really heavy made also the 1066 used one for twenty years
A very informative video. It great to see your kids involved with the operation!!
I was raised on a dairy farm using buckets to milk and were really excited to get a stepsaver. Love how you guys explain things so thorough.
Nice tidy farm! We milked 29 in a tie stall until December 2020, when we switched to a bedded pack barn with a Lely A5. It’s in the winter I miss milking in the tie stall. Nothing quite like cozying up between two warm cows and waiting for the milker, telling them your problems and getting an understanding big brown eye in return.
Flat barn is very hard y'all keep up the good work I love your videos
Great job on producing high quality milk the filter shot says it all. Your cattle are is such good shape. Loves seeing the kids doing there chores too.
If i remember kirsh foundry out of beaver dam Wisconsin made drinking cups for cows too.
A great video. I was about the age of your lads away back in the 1940's and 50's I didn't have anything to do with the cows.
I worked summer time the couple months school holidays in the haying time and grain as well as filling silos with chopped corn.
You have some beautiful cow's
Thank you
Love watching make a living in a challenging economy. You ALL are great. Love you bunches. God bless.
❤exactly job of explaining everything! Thanks
Great video
What a grand family operation. Best part - everyone appears to be happy and willing; a super good way to start your children out in life. Thanks for all the insights. Keep well. God bless you all.
👀🙄🐾👍 Great video A&J very interesting your girls look good
Thanks for a great video! I live in rural northern Indiana around many dairy farms but never knew much about caring for the cows and the milking process until watching this video (and your other videos). Found your channel from Jim at Working Horses with Jim. God Bless.
Thanks for checking us out!
Yours is a great family and understand hard work. The cows are well cared for as well as your machinery. Blessings.
Love this one ! Great job ya'll! 🥰🐂🐄
Now there's a trip down memory lane as a born & bred cow-cockys daughter, the middle one of 6 siblings, from the Catlins, & Town Supply outside of DUNEDIN, Sth Is., New Zealand also Had I Had I, West Coast NZ, and a big transition to Town Supply Malanda , Nth, Queensland Australia. The colder months in Dunedin we fed Grains while they milked. This was the leftovers from the Brewery distillery. You backed under the hopper and it filled your truck whatever tonnage you could haul. Ours was a huge tipperback truck but it didn't tip so the wet, warm grains were shoveled in through a hole in the shed wall and stored in a concrete partially enclosed bay and barrowed to the feeding bins at the head of each milking stall. You're right about the cleaners of of milking; cleanliness is next to godliness in the dairy !!!! Always loved the unusual smell of the boiling water mixed with the cleansing product for the entire washing of all equipment after every milking, morning and night. All 7 of us kids took turns in helping Dad or mum& dad with the milking. We milked 60 cows twice a day in an 8 stall dairy. THANKYOU for sharing your personal journey in this incredibly demanding dairy industry!!!!!!
As kids we all took turns moaning about having to take turns milking either before or after school but it wasn't til I was well into my late 30s that I really appreciated the extremely demanding work my Dad put in to be a successful Dairy Farmer. He started out on meager finances with a herd of cows who supplied cream to the local butter factory. As the milk was separated on antiquated machinery back in early 50s, there was the whey left over; this meant pigs were also a top priority and we collected the whey from other farmers also.
He also ran a large flock of sheep over the hills. I never thought of that man as a businessman and when we went to High School in the big city , (we all biked to school in Dunedin, 5miles each way every day, all weather) I was always just the farmers daughter , always thought we were the bottom of the barrel. Everyone was amazed when we sold up and moved to Australia to dairy farm there,. Safly mother couldn't cope with the heat and they sold up after 5yrs and bought another dairy farm on Sth Midlands West Coast. A very very demanding job requiring business skills and physical & mental health at the optimum.
So now in my old age, I know what it entails to be a successful Dairy Farmer, the sacrifices and demanding hard work, the planning of feed, pastures, calving, etc etc it is such a demanding job that starts at 5am and ends well after dark 7 or 8pm. I send much Love and prayers of support to you all and can assure you if you always obey God and His Bible teachings by serving Him thru His Son Jesus and the Holy Spirit your live will be eternally blessed and your journey here on earth will be one of courage, strength, comfort and peace. It took me a long time to find Jesus and receive Him as saviour and Lord but once I did my life is transformed and I'm never going back to live in sin!!!! Be blessed my fellow dairy farmers , Onwards and Upwards for the kingdom of GOD. From Ipswich Queensland AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺🤗💞🙏✌👍👏🇺🇸
Alan and Jen, Another great video! If only your cattle had a chance to give you a comment it would be to thank God you were put on this earth with this loving family. TMR mixer shows concern! And what do you do with all your baler twine's? Someone in your family is going to find that question? Skip, Western PA
We either throw the twins away or burn them.
I love your choring videos. Those boys sure are good workers💪
They take such pride in being able to milk a few cows now.
Great video Alan and Jen
You take good care of your animals it's good to see
Takes me back to my old milking days almost 50 years ago!! Love the stanchion milking method! The cows become social and relaxed!
Thanks for the video!!! God bless! 🙂
Awesome video! We really enjoy what you share with us. I'm a dairyman's daughter, so it brings back memories. Thanks again.
Almost identical to my uncles setup. Years ago I spent time milking cows there. Cows are long gone and the barn is gone. Farm no longer in the family. I loved that place, treasured times, I hope there’s cows and a station barn in heaven.
We had the same system for milking, pipe line to bulk tank, surge vacuum pump. When I was a kid, carried milk from surge buckets to strainer on cans. Then upgraded to bulk tank, but still had to carry milk only strainer was on bulk tank. Upgraded again a mobile pipeline, was a plastic hose which you pushed down the alley where you were milking and dumped the milk directly into the portable strainer with the surge buckets. After that we upgraded to pipe line with DeLavel milkers.
That sounds like a step saver system
Your channel brings back memories of working on Dairy Farms during my High School and College days...
Another nice video. Have a blessed day.
Coming from working horses with Jim. Great video.
I love that wagon
Another great video Alan. Good to see the kids helping . I think Leonard picked the right time to fully retire. Bet you’re gonna have a hard time keeping them off the tractors come spring.
Oh, yes. The boys are practically ready to throw me in the nursing home now so they can take over lol!
i dont know what to say i really enjoy your channel but it makes me sad i cant do it anymore i started shipping cans and had to go bulk i milked with surge units and i had a dumping cart we ended with a tank and pipe line really like your kids .
Great video , thanks for explaining your work load for the cows ! Well done , stay safe ! Glad to see the boys helping you , proud of them !
Beautiful video. Really enjoyed seeing how much you care for your cows. I thought it was funny about the ornery cow giving you a bull calf.HAHAHAHAHAHA. Thank you for what you do.
Your boys remind me of my sister and I helping mom and dad do chores in the ‘70s. Such fond memories.
Excellent video
I really enjoyed this even if it's a review. Well done! I like your idea with the silage wagon, using what you have. I've chopped small squares with a hammer mill with a big screen, works good too.
Cleanest filter I've ever seen. 60 years of dairying,,if seen a few.
I think this is one of your best put-together videos the other ones are good too but I think this is your best explain things very well
Thank you!
@@trinitydairy have a question he wagons that you have the red ones were you could just tripped back open what is the name of those trying to find don't know what
Ya got a good partner in that lady, and a great bunch of youngins comin right along to help. Hope you have a great new year and really enjoying your videos!
Yes I follow Jim and yes he mentioned your chanel
Another excellent video again always enjoy watching your family all get involved in the videos thanks for sharing them with us
It's incredible that farms are still utilizing horses on farms...can't wait to watch
AWESOME video! We have the same milker hangers as you.
Remember working for a dairy place installing milking equipment both parlor and tie stall setups good memories
Nice video enjoyed it 👍
i did that with a kasten chopper box. dry hay corn silage and haylage it worked good. i got to sit at a meeting once with dairy inspectors the head ones from wisconsin it was talking about keeping barns and cattle clean and quality of milk and cleanliness of the barn and and milk house THEN i got a chance to talk. i went up and SHOWED them PROOF of 5 times i was shut down because of cob webs or dirt on milk house floor or some thing. i handed them the reports of shut down THEN they went into a BIG speech of see this is how its important to keep clean? THEN i produced my somatic cell slips ON THE DATES i was shut down. EVERY time i was shut down my somatic was below 40,000 THEN they would NOT talk to me again. then MORE farmers talked about somatic below 100,000 or 80,000 one farmer had slips of being shut down 3 times and he had reward plaques from the creamery of below 20,000 somatic for consistant 6 months! the 3 shut downs he had he showed them all three times his somatic was below 10,000 even we couldnt believe it and he told the head guys ALLLLLL this tells me is your inspectors do NOT know quality of milk they are just writing people up for what you trained them to do from a book. that was the greatest meeting i have ever been to. the head honchos from wisconsin dairy inspectors did NOT want to talk to us any more. and the farm groups that were there representing the farmers would NOT back us up they remained silent which made a lot of farmers mad.
It really does. If I had the money, a TMR mixer would be great, but I can't justify the cost of one now.
Clean cows from people who take great pride in their cattle. Keep the videos coming!
Said it before and will say it again You awesome people are legends! You are a joy to watch and listen to. Farmers around the world are getting beaten over the head because they're destroying the environment or abusing their animals. Apart from a few bad eggs that need to find something else to do with their lives Farmers love their stock and look after the environment. She's a very long day if you don't. All the best 🇺🇲🇳🇿
At 11:12 that brought back memories from when I worked on a farm in 1967. Same stanchions and water . I manually threw down silage from the silo every night. Hard work.
Cleanest milk sock I've ever seen!! I've seen a bunch.
nice to see a video that shows how farmers care for and care about there livestock . there is just something about being in a barn with a pipe line at milking time
I like your mixer wagon idea. Watching you chop the hay made me think. If you chopped the hay onto a old box type hay elevator, you would have no mess to deal with, and no need to load the chopped hay with the skid steer.
That is some great feed
Thanks so much for letting us come along!!!
great video on how the whole thing is done! love to see small farms doing there thing each one has their own way of operating all seem to work just fine kudos to you guys also love this style of barn next to modern, cant stand them
Very nice operation clean and neat nice to have all family involved
thank you
Great video as always
Nice seeing small dairy farms. Where I live in Nova Scotia. Ita mostly just big factory farms where the cows never see the light of day, and are ankle deep in shit 24/7. Can tell your cows are treated very good.
Thank you for sharing this video with us 😊
Another great video good to see small farms still going strong
Nice bright clean barn and beautiful cows, good video.
Thanks for sharing Trinity Dairy.. its nice to see the extra effort you put in to the quality and Healthcare of your cows and how the whole family takes part of every day chores. Your cows shows the care you put into them.
One of your best ever video God Bless
Thank you very much!
We had the same milking units when I was a kid