If that outside corner is the low spot why don’t you poke a hole through that corner to drain that area until you can come up with a more permanent solution?
Good Morning, Not trying to be critical about the way you loaded the wagon. Just a little suggestion. I noted that your were loading to the front of wagon, I would suggest you load to the back so you don't over stress the hydraulic cylinder and body frame, noted the front twist when you lifted it up. I do love your videos, they do bring back memories from family farm over in Ky., which was just about 40 mi. south of Evansville & Henderson in union county. KEEP VIDEOS COMING!!!
I believe you did the best thing. I am so sorry l will continue to pray that you find a replacement soon . I know you both loved her ,and had plans for her. I pray the Lord to bless you and give you peace. You have many who love you and want the best for you and the farm. God bless and take care. ❤
You can use agricultural lime for the wet area in the barn. It is animal friendly so it won’t hurt them. It also absorbs the smell. Sorry to hear about Lucy you did the right thing.
Do a Cajun Country Living concrete dry pour. I was wondering why you moved your manure pile twice. If you had the wagon up there earlier you could take each scoop from the barn and put it in the wagon. Careful piling dirt for your ramp up against the low side of the building. You may be making a dam.
The technical term for what you have in the barge is soupy poopie. I'm glad the barge didn't have a skid pulling the hill. 🤣 But seriously, once you get it piled up (mix in some of your compost too to inoculate the ancient biomass) it will start to dry out and then it will compost fast. Just keep turning it once a week.
Good luck in finding another young cow for Maya’s needed companionship. You obviously did all you could do for Lucy. Sorry. You did learn valuable knowledge that hopefully will never be needed again. Bless you for the way you care for all your animals there on the homestead. 👍💕🙏💕👍
Trust me Evan....you're "just gettin' used to it..." You're in the "pay dirt" there! Wonderful stuff, handled properly. It should heat up with some water and agitation. I'd probably do it right where it is now, and scoop it up for next year's garden. I'm envious... Always enjoy your an' Rebecca's videos!
Just a thought Evan. Maybe instead of a drain that would be a constant maintenance issue pour concrete in that corner so it slopes to the opening and out.
Evan, a suggestion - why dont you put 2 or 3 coats of spar varnish or polyurethane or the deck or your dump trailer? It would serve 2 purposes. One, the cover would be much slicker than the pouros wood and two, it would greatly extend the life of the deck. Of course if it has a lot of rot you should replace the deck with a type of wood that is durable yet affordable like red oak and then coat it. Good luck! The videos are very well created and interesting.
All your watchers greve with you for your loss .You definitely did your best. Looks to me the simplest way to solve your cleanout/water problem would be to remove the end wall completely and replace it with a sliding door.The wall does not appear to be load bearing wall.
Need a mini-excavator, large gravel, and drain tile - and you could easily put a drain along the inside of the one end - running under the wall and out (underground) as far as you needed. Best solution to getting rid of that water situation once and for all.
Evan maybe you can drill a hole in the block wall and put a pvc pipe in there to drain that corner. A gate where you loaded the wagon would be really helpful getting on and out of the barnyard. That will make some real good fertilizer for the hay fields.
I have a boarder who hasn’t cleaned 3 of my stalls she used over the winter months. They have about 18 to 24” of horse manure in them and it’s moldy and stinks. I have been asking her to clean them for months now. Looks like I may have to send her packing. Some people shouldn’t have animals if they don’t have the time to care for them properly.
The rainwater is a very good answer to toxins ad it has already been cleaned through evaporation. Just make sure the tanks are clean and don't alow it to stagnate. Sorry about your heffer . Maybe consider a hybrid instead of a pure jersey. They are less susceptible to problems. Good luck . Love the content
Whenever you have animals things like this happen. You did you absolute best for Lucy. You will miss her, but she will never be forgotten. Your animals are well loved. You have always shown the “true” life of homesteading which isn’t always pleasant. That’s the reason I love this channel. Good folks always trying to the best they can and ALWAYS doing it ethically. Thank you for sharing. I sure you are able to find a replacement heifer soon. Take care and God Bless!
Hind sight and all. . . probably would have been a good idea to clean that out and sterilize before letting any live stock in it. Hope none of the other animals get sick. Prayers for you all. You work hard ,may God bless you.
I am sorry that you had to put down your heifer, it is hard but you don't want the animal to suffer. On your drainage situation, could you chisel out one of the lower concrete blocks in that corner to allow the water and waste liquid to drain out into the barnyard?
Do not know if anyone has said this . I am saying now while on my mind but i think your Farm would be a perfect farm to replicate on Farming Simulator 22 or 23 when it comes out ...I know you have busy life but something to think about would be very cool to see ... Must add i think you have the best You Tube farming show out there ...No phony stuff feels real to me and when you goof up you are not afraid to admit it and learn from it... Half my life i lived on a farm and your video feel like i have gone home ..Keep up the excellent job... Thank You
Farm life can be extremely tough at times but the good days outweigh the bad most always. Unfortunately this won’t be the last loss and each time comes with its own issues. Knowing you did everything humanly possible has to help soften the loss. You certainly have a real compassion for all your animals so I know you went over and beyond what was needed, a visit to the farm should have been your vets first priority…ask Dr Pol, yes that Dr Pol and my husbands vet cousin would NEVER have given advice without the visit. Just boggles the mind! Anyway…all that said, you will eventually find another jersey to grace your pasture with a far better outcome. Thanks for sharing your down days as well as your up days on the homestead because that is real life on a homestead!!!:):):)
Evan, you’re one of the hardest working, and the most innovative guys I’ve ever seen on TH-cam. Why don’t you just put in a French drain on the downslope side of the bank barn so it feeds a collector drainpipe down the slope. That would eliminate 95% of the problem with the water collection. I would think the hardest part of that job would be poking some holes in that concrete wall but you could rent a piece of equipment to do that for you and make a back breaking job a lot easier.
Sulfur content in the well water around here is the reason I use rainwater to water my livestock. I have gutters and water storage at my main barn, goat barn, and coop. I still need to install one at my buck barn and new coop.
Sorry for the loss of Lucy, but you did everything you could to save her and it was time to save her from any more pain and put her down. The barn area looks a lot better now.
Hi Evan. This is the first time I'm watching your video. Im very interested in becoming a farmer. Im from Brazil, but I'm living in canada 🇨🇦 for the past 30 years. I'm being think about going back to start doing what you doing right now. Hope will happen soon. Gid bless you and your family. All the best. Ill continue to watching your videos. Take care.
Good to see you back. I'm so sorry about your rough patch. Your big red tractor sure is a capable machine. You've got the ideal set up now - big red and little red. A capable machine for every job. If I was in your shoes I'd go for the quick, low cost and easy solution; at the lowest point of the floor - break out 1/2 of a concrete block. If it is gravel (bring your back hoe in and scratch at it) you'll know right quick.. If it is gravel go down one block and knockout a hole in that course. Either way it is going to drain. You can build a catch basin outside and pipe the discharge downhill so you don't have a muddy mess. Use a 6" diameter pipe in our catch basin so it doesn't plug up. You should be able to bust this job out in one weekend with your backhoe. But the first thing is get in there with your backhoe where you think it's gravel and scratch around. See what you find.😊
Great job what you need to do is get a skid steer with a bucket with tracks. It's tight in there and make it easier to clean. But I love what you doing on the Farm.
Sorry for your loss of Lucy; you did all you could and probably much more than most others would - commendable effort, and you made the right decision.
Keep up. You did great. You care a lot for your animals. I did some research in the feed you are giving. Maybe you should check out the alfalfa plant. This is a high sulfer plant. Wue in the netherlands never give this to our cows. Only grass and some cake. Also we dont feed extra when they are on grass.
Two things to consider , One would be fine some sheet steel or aluminum to line the bed of your dump trailer to make it slick enough for everything just slide out , The other one would be to rent a 4 inch Core bit and then Bore a hole in the corner where all the water drains too,so all of the water in the barn will drain of the barn shed
@@gitatit4046 Sledge hammer comes to mind! ⚒🤔 How about renting a electric jack hammer? He goes to all these elaborate measures to do thing on the farm but can 't knock a hole in the wall???? Just saying! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ LLAP 🖖
The goats also get "polio " .they have usually had a digestive upset of some sort. They resolved well to injections of thiamine and getting back into a normal diet . I don't know dosage for cows, it's by weight for the goats. I enjoy your videos. All have been great! Thanks! .
Wondering if maybe sulfur toxicity wouldn't be as much of a problem if you caught some rainwater off the barn for your live stock. So sorry this happened. Glad you had the guts to make the hard decision and lessen her suffering.
Wouldn't be surprised if rain contains high Sulphur. Maybe putting a filter on the well water. One the other hand, it may affect one in an entire herd. Nature happens.
Well that might work, but that doesn'help when you go 3 weeks with zero rain Also regardless of what people may think rain water is not really all that clean, lots of toxic crap floating around in the atmosphere
Enjoying your videos. You may want to pressure wash the inside of the barn since the previous owner may have had sick or diseased animals in there. Once pressure washed spray with a diluted bleach solution. That should kill most everything that would be of concern. My wife and I had similar experience with a barn. Sweet lime or agricultural powered lime is good to sprinkle on the wet areas to kill the odor and will speed up the break down of solids to soil. It is a must on your compost pile. Love what y’all are doing. Keep up the good work! Blessings
To get rid of sulfur water you need to aerate the well. I have drilled a small hole at the top of my pressure line from the pump to the well head fitting that sprays a bit of water at the top of the casing. It mists to the bottom capturing oxygen on its way down. The oxygen rich water kills the bacteria that causes the sulfur smell. Might work for you. Research well aeration to get rid of sulfur.
Sorry to hear about Lucy, that's a tough decision to make but the right one. That sure was a lot of manure back there and the back hoe definitely helped quite a bit, nice video!
I am very sorry for your loss, and I know your frustrations with getting good care for your animals. I live in Indiana east central area, an vets will not treat chickens, only two within 75 miles. And one is an exotic bird Vet, and very expensive because of there expertise. Hoping you will find a good replacement, and the knowledge you both have gained, as painful as it is will help you in your future indevorse. Much love an prayers from Greenfield Indiana.
I am sorry you had to put Lucy down, but I know you did the very best for her. I hope you will be able to find another Jersey for your farm. Now as far as the cleanout goes....that put a whole new meaning to "muck out the barn". That job really has to separate the men from the boys. 🤑🤑🤑 Thanks for sharing and y'all have a Blessed day.
So sorry about Lucy. 😢 I know you did all you could for her. I was wondering when you were going to have more tee shirts in your merchandise shop. Would love to order a couple. Thanks. Have a great day.
I'm sorry for your loss. Being a farmer, things like that will happen. Just shows your level of commitment to your animals by caring and trying as hard as you did. Such fantastic stewards of your land.
We understand your pain about Lucy. That was expected sad news. The concrete: years of urine standing in that corner will have eaten through the concrete making it look like just compacted gravel. You'll have to either drill some drainage hole through the brickwork or take out a brick or two, to allow the liquid to drain away sufficiently to stop it puddling.
Sorry about your loss. Living on a farm my dad would always say, something new is being born, while something else’s life is ending. Blessings on you guys, and look forward in seeing another jersey soon. Your barn is something that is always going to be a problem, because it is on a slope. Blessings🙂
Go rent a hole coring drill and dig down a bit on the outside corner and core a few drain holes through the wall, down low, to let the water out. It will give you time to figure out a more permanent solution to your problem. Save the cores and simply cement them back in if you need to.
I’m so sorry about Lucy. I’m watching a lot of channels with animals, and it breaks my heart when anyone loses a farm animal. It’s part of life and farming/ homesteading,but I know it’s not easy. I enjoy your videos a lot. Everything you do on your farm to make it better, I learn something new.
If you can afford it or whenever you can. I would go to home depot Lowe's and maybe buy a role of vally or Some kind of cheap light weight, metal and put on the sides and bottom of the trailer. And it will help dump easier, are we do the trailer input? Maybe a metal floor in it.
So sorry Lucy didn’t make it but I hope, as you want, you manage to get a companion for Miah. The clean up was definitely yucky but it looks like you have some amazing compost in your future. Miah is, surprisingly, pretty chill around the tractor.
majority. It be feasible to dig down in the corner gravel a then bore a hole through the outside wall to allow the majority of the water to drain onto the farm yard. Might help to aid build up of water. Just a thought. Be safe. Till next time.
You may want to consider a manure spreader.
Try spreading lime which will help with the odor plus help with bacteria
We all know you did what you could for Lucy, its a bad loss but you did what you could.
If that outside corner is the low spot why don’t you poke a hole through that corner to drain that area until you can come up with a more permanent solution?
Sorry to hear about Lucy.............. you guys truly care about all your animals so we know you did all you could. Look forward to meeting Lucy II.
So sorry for your loss.
Good Morning, Not trying to be critical about the way you loaded the wagon. Just a little suggestion. I noted that your were loading to the front of wagon, I would suggest you load to the back so you don't over stress the hydraulic cylinder and body frame, noted the front twist when you lifted it up. I do love your videos, they do bring back memories from family farm over in Ky., which was just about 40 mi. south of Evansville & Henderson in union county. KEEP VIDEOS COMING!!!
All your stuff looks brand new. Y'all must have won the lottery.
Hi.... Evan and Rebecca thanks you for showing your video homestead bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋👍👍👍
spreading some lime on the ground will really help to eliminate the smell
Evan & Rebecca, knowing how much you care for your animals, you made the right decision for Lucy.
I believe you did the best thing. I am so sorry l will continue to pray that you find a replacement soon . I know you both loved her ,and had plans for her. I pray the Lord to bless you and give you peace. You have many who love you and want the best for you and the farm. God bless and take care. ❤
Prayers for you both and Lucy. ❤🙏
Sorry to hear about lucy
I watch all your shows
Best TH-cam channel
You guy's really work good together ❤
You can use agricultural lime for the wet area in the barn. It is animal friendly so it won’t hurt them. It also absorbs the smell. Sorry to hear about Lucy you did the right thing.
Look at all that beautiful black gold!
Do a Cajun Country Living concrete dry pour. I was wondering why you moved your manure pile twice. If you had the wagon up there earlier you could take each scoop from the barn and put it in the wagon. Careful piling dirt for your ramp up against the low side of the building. You may be making a dam.
Sorry to hear about Lucy. Great work in the barn. Great video thanks for sharing
you need a manure spreader to put it on your hay free fertilizer also punch a hole in the low spot in the blocks to drain out the water
He has one. th-cam.com/video/vJeVPWloZGE/w-d-xo.html
Sorry for your loss on Lucy
I so much Enjoy watching your Videos..
Can't wait till your next one...😊
The technical term for what you have in the barge is soupy poopie. I'm glad the barge didn't have a skid pulling the hill. 🤣 But seriously, once you get it piled up (mix in some of your compost too to inoculate the ancient biomass) it will start to dry out and then it will compost fast. Just keep turning it once a week.
Need manure spreader then just spread on hayfields
You guys did the right thing for Lucy it sucks for sure. You are good people.
Sorry for your loss. Jim80
Good luck in finding another young cow for Maya’s needed companionship.
You obviously did all you could do for Lucy. Sorry. You did learn valuable knowledge that hopefully will never be needed again.
Bless you for the way you care for all your animals there on the homestead.
👍💕🙏💕👍
So sorry for the loss of sweet Lucy....y'all tried so hard to save here from such an ugly debilitating illness. God bless you and Rebekah ...
So sorry you had to put her down but it is for the best
Trust me Evan....you're "just gettin' used to it..." You're in the "pay dirt" there! Wonderful stuff, handled properly. It should heat up with some water and agitation. I'd probably do it right where it is now, and scoop it up for next year's garden. I'm envious... Always enjoy your an' Rebecca's videos!
The pigs want to play in that compost. Funny critters.
We love our pigs as well.
You guys need a skidsteer!
Would make cleaning that so much easier!
He couldve done it easy with that tractor but he went at it all wrong which made the job take longer
The 🐖 pigs are like. Hey what ya got there ...can we get at it 😋 😅😂
Just a thought Evan. Maybe instead of a drain that would be a constant maintenance issue pour concrete in that corner so it slopes to the opening and out.
Evan, a suggestion - why dont you put 2 or 3 coats of spar varnish or polyurethane or the deck or your dump trailer? It would serve 2 purposes. One, the cover would be much slicker than the pouros wood and two, it would greatly extend the life of the deck. Of course if it has a lot of rot you should replace the deck with a type of wood that is durable yet affordable like red oak and then coat it. Good luck! The videos are very well created and interesting.
All your watchers greve with you for your loss .You definitely did your best. Looks to me the simplest way to solve your cleanout/water problem would be to remove the end wall completely and replace it with a sliding door.The wall does not appear to be load bearing wall.
Need a mini-excavator, large gravel, and drain tile - and you could easily put a drain along the inside of the one end - running under the wall and out (underground) as far as you needed. Best solution to getting rid of that water situation once and for all.
So sorry about Lucy. Thank you for sharing!
Evan maybe you can drill a hole in the block wall and put a pvc pipe in there to drain that corner.
A gate where you loaded the wagon would be really helpful getting on and out of the barnyard.
That will make some real good fertilizer for the hay fields.
I have a boarder who hasn’t cleaned 3 of my stalls she used over the winter months. They have about 18 to 24” of horse manure in them and it’s moldy and stinks. I have been asking her to clean them for months now. Looks like I may have to send her packing. Some people shouldn’t have animals if they don’t have the time to care for them properly.
The rainwater is a very good answer to toxins ad it has already been cleaned through evaporation. Just make sure the tanks are clean and don't alow it to stagnate. Sorry about your heffer . Maybe consider a hybrid instead of a pure jersey. They are less susceptible to problems. Good luck . Love the content
Whenever you have animals things like this happen. You did you absolute best for Lucy. You will miss her, but she will never be forgotten. Your animals are well loved. You have always shown the “true” life of homesteading which isn’t always pleasant. That’s the reason I love this channel. Good folks always trying to the best they can and ALWAYS doing it ethically. Thank you for sharing. I sure you are able to find a replacement heifer soon. Take care and God Bless!
AMEN!
Just woke up. Drinking coffee. Then this. 🤢. Lol. I could even smell it.
A skid steer Evan, you need a skid steer on the farm. It's smaller size would be ideal for this job and many others.
Don't think you would regret it.
If you test your animal drinking water for sulfur and if it is above 600 mg/L you should treat with 35% Peroxide .
So sorry about Lucy. Enjoyed the video😊😊😊😊
Hind sight and all. . . probably would have been a good idea to clean that out and sterilize before letting any live stock in it. Hope none of the other animals get sick. Prayers for you all. You work hard ,may God bless you.
I am sorry that you had to put down your heifer, it is hard but you don't want the animal to suffer. On your drainage situation, could you chisel out one of the lower concrete blocks in that corner to allow the water and waste liquid to drain out into the barnyard?
Hello Evan & Rebecca, thanks for another great video!
Do not know if anyone has said this . I am saying now while on my mind but i think your Farm would be a perfect farm to replicate on Farming Simulator 22 or 23 when it comes out ...I know you have busy life but something to think about would be very cool to see ... Must add i think you have the best You Tube farming show out there ...No phony stuff feels real to me and when you goof up you are not afraid to admit it and learn from it... Half my life i lived on a farm and your video feel like i have gone home ..Keep up the excellent job... Thank You
Really impressed with the trailer. Dumping pretty slick..
Farm life can be extremely tough at times but the good days outweigh the bad most always. Unfortunately this won’t be the last loss and each time comes with its own issues. Knowing you did everything humanly possible has to help soften the loss. You certainly have a real compassion for all your animals so I know you went over and beyond what was needed, a visit to the farm should have been your vets first priority…ask Dr Pol, yes that Dr Pol and my husbands vet cousin would NEVER have given advice without the visit. Just boggles the mind! Anyway…all that said, you will eventually find another jersey to grace your pasture with a far better outcome. Thanks for sharing your down days as well as your up days on the homestead because that is real life on a homestead!!!:):):)
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If there's not a drain there, you could drill a hole through the wall and make a drain.
Chip a hole right through the wall in the corner; that's what we do to drain sunken living rooms during construction.
Just to inform you when you use your dump wagon make sure your front axle is square with a trailer or you could flip it over.
The wheels of the trailer turn like those on a car. Not like a Radio Flyer wagon.
Evan, you’re one of the hardest working, and the most innovative guys I’ve ever seen on TH-cam. Why don’t you just put in a French drain on the downslope side of the bank barn so it feeds a collector drainpipe down the slope. That would eliminate 95% of the problem with the water collection. I would think the hardest part of that job would be poking some holes in that concrete wall but you could rent a piece of equipment to do that for you and make a back breaking job a lot easier.
Sulfur content in the well water around here is the reason I use rainwater to water my livestock. I have gutters and water storage at my main barn, goat barn, and coop. I still need to install one at my buck barn and new coop.
I'd pick up a 4" concrete core bit, and try to get it as close as you can to pad level, drilling from the outside.
Really impressed with the little tractor.
Sorry for the loss of Lucy, but you did everything you could to save her and it was time to save her from any more pain and put her down. The barn area looks a lot better now.
Thanks for sharing with us.
Hi Evan. This is the first time I'm watching your video. Im very interested in becoming a farmer. Im from Brazil, but I'm living in canada 🇨🇦 for the past 30 years. I'm being think about going back to start doing what you doing right now. Hope will happen soon. Gid bless you and your family. All the best. Ill continue to watching your videos. Take care.
i will be SO GLAD when you finally fix that part...
Sorry to hear of your loss of Lucy. You made a difficult decision that was the correct one. God bless you guys.
Good to see you back. I'm so sorry about your rough patch. Your big red tractor sure is a capable machine. You've got the ideal set up now - big red and little red. A capable machine for every job. If I was in your shoes I'd go for the quick, low cost and easy solution; at the lowest point of the floor - break out 1/2 of a concrete block. If it is gravel (bring your back hoe in and scratch at it) you'll know right quick.. If it is gravel go down one block and knockout a hole in that course. Either way it is going to drain. You can build a catch basin outside and pipe the discharge downhill so you don't have a muddy mess. Use a 6" diameter pipe in our catch basin so it doesn't plug up. You should be able to bust this job out in one weekend with your backhoe. But the first thing is get in there with your backhoe where you think it's gravel and scratch around. See what you find.😊
Little tym and big tym gettin the job done!
Great job what you need to do is get a skid steer with a bucket with tracks. It's tight in there and make it easier to clean. But I love what you doing on the Farm.
Sorry for your loss of Lucy; you did all you could and probably much more than most others would - commendable effort, and you made the right decision.
Keep up. You did great. You care a lot for your animals.
I did some research in the feed you are giving. Maybe you should check out the alfalfa plant. This is a high sulfer plant. Wue in the netherlands never give this to our cows. Only grass and some cake. Also we dont feed extra when they are on grass.
Two things to consider , One would be fine some sheet steel or aluminum to line the bed of your dump trailer to make it slick enough for everything just slide out , The other one would be to rent a 4 inch Core bit and then Bore a hole in the corner where all the water drains too,so all of the water in the barn will drain of the barn shed
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They definitely need a long-term solution to drain that shed. Besides a science project it's also a fly breeding area.
@@gitatit4046 Sledge hammer comes to mind! ⚒🤔
How about renting a electric jack hammer?
He goes to all these elaborate measures to do thing on the farm but can 't knock a hole in the wall???? Just saying! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
LLAP 🖖
The goats also get "polio " .they have usually had a digestive upset of some sort. They resolved well to injections of thiamine and getting back into a normal diet .
I don't know dosage for cows, it's by weight for the goats.
I enjoy your videos. All have been great!
Thanks!
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That stench would probably "GAG A MAGGOT"! Sorry to hear of your loss of Lucy!
Wondering if maybe sulfur toxicity wouldn't be as much of a problem if you caught some rainwater off the barn for your live stock. So sorry this happened. Glad you had the guts to make the hard decision and lessen her suffering.
Wouldn't be surprised if rain contains high Sulphur. Maybe putting a filter on the well water. One the other hand, it may affect one in an entire herd. Nature happens.
Well that might work, but that doesn'help when you go 3 weeks with zero rain Also regardless of what people may think rain water is not really all that clean, lots of toxic crap floating around in the atmosphere
That’s to bad about Lucy, stinky work today for you today but you got er done.
Enjoying your videos. You may want to pressure wash the inside of the barn since the previous owner may have had sick or diseased animals in there. Once pressure washed spray with a diluted bleach solution. That should kill most everything that would be of concern. My wife and I had similar experience with a barn. Sweet lime or agricultural powered lime is good to sprinkle on the wet areas to kill the odor and will speed up the break down of solids to soil. It is a must on your compost pile. Love what y’all are doing. Keep up the good work! Blessings
yup....spraying the cement floors is a must for wet manure areas. Dairy farmers I know keep their barns squeaky clean.
So sorry about Lucy💗
To get rid of sulfur water you need to aerate the well. I have drilled a small hole at the top of my pressure line from the pump to the well head fitting that sprays a bit of water at the top of the casing. It mists to the bottom capturing oxygen on its way down. The oxygen rich water kills the bacteria that causes the sulfur smell. Might work for you. Research well aeration to get rid of sulfur.
thx for sharing, greetings from Belgium
Sorry for your lost Evan and Rebecca ., Evan drill a hole in the corner to see if the water goes out .outside
Sorry to hear about Lucy, that's a tough decision to make but the right one. That sure was a lot of manure back there and the back hoe definitely helped quite a bit, nice video!
I am very sorry for your loss, and I know your frustrations with getting good care for your animals. I live in Indiana east central area, an vets will not treat chickens, only two within 75 miles. And one is an exotic bird Vet, and very expensive because of there expertise. Hoping you will find a good replacement, and the knowledge you both have gained, as painful as it is will help you in your future indevorse. Much love an prayers from Greenfield Indiana.
I am sorry you had to put Lucy down, but I know you did the very best for her. I hope you will be able to find another Jersey for your farm. Now as far as the cleanout goes....that put a whole new meaning to "muck out the barn". That job really has to separate the men from the boys. 🤑🤑🤑 Thanks for sharing and y'all have a Blessed day.
You make a great team!
Sorry you lost Lucy! You tried. Hope you find a new one soon. 😊
Thank you for your TLC and care. All your animals are better for your efforts and attitude. Onward.
So sorry about Lucy. 😢 I know you did all you could for her.
I was wondering when you were going to have more tee shirts in your merchandise shop. Would love to order a couple. Thanks. Have a great day.
I'm sorry for your loss. Being a farmer, things like that will happen. Just shows your level of commitment to your animals by caring and trying as hard as you did. Such fantastic stewards of your land.
We understand your pain about Lucy. That was expected sad news.
The concrete: years of urine standing in that corner will have eaten through the concrete making it look like just compacted gravel. You'll have to either drill some drainage hole through the brickwork or take out a brick or two, to allow the liquid to drain away sufficiently to stop it puddling.
Sorry about your loss. Living on a farm my dad would always say, something new is being born, while something else’s life is ending. Blessings on you guys, and look forward in seeing another jersey soon. Your barn is something that is always going to be a problem, because it is on a slope. Blessings🙂
Go rent a hole coring drill and dig down a bit on the outside corner and core a few drain holes through the wall, down low, to let the water out. It will give you time to figure out a more permanent solution to your problem. Save the cores and simply cement them back in if you need to.
Drill a hole in the outside wall
I’m so sorry about Lucy. I’m watching a lot of channels with animals, and it breaks my heart when anyone loses a farm animal. It’s part of life and farming/ homesteading,but I know it’s not easy. I enjoy your videos a lot. Everything you do on your farm to make it better, I learn something new.
Sorry for the loss of Lucy. Tough decisions out on the farm. That did look like a nasty smell but you knocked out a big ole job! Well done.
i love the country smell too !
If you can afford it or whenever you can. I would go to home depot Lowe's and maybe buy a role of vally or Some kind of cheap light weight, metal and put on the sides and bottom of the trailer. And it will help dump easier, are we do the trailer input? Maybe a metal floor in it.
You might try loading only the back half to 2/3 of that dump trailer. Should make it much easier to lift.
So sorry Lucy didn’t make it but I hope, as you want, you manage to get a companion for Miah.
The clean up was definitely yucky but it looks like you have some amazing compost in your future.
Miah is, surprisingly, pretty chill around the tractor.
majority. It be feasible to dig down in the corner gravel a then bore a hole through the outside wall to allow the majority of the water to drain onto the farm yard. Might help to aid build up of water. Just a thought. Be safe. Till next time.
Evan try going to the lower corner and making a hole on the back side so the water can drain out.
Evan, you could try putting down barn lime. I use that to help with the smell for the livestock
Congrats Guy's, on getting the Barn for ur animal's cleaned-up. how about drilling a med size hole for the water to drain..?
Sorry for your loss of the cow
thx again
Great work guys. Hope you can find out where the water is coming from.❤
Sorry for the loss!!! Time to move on and clean things up!!!!!