The Future Of Our Farm!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ม.ค. 2024
- Today we are going to give you a closer look at the future of our farm. Talk about the genetics we have mixed in with our Holsteins over the years and the changes we are seeing. Also we go over some of our techniques along with how we have prevented bad situations. Thank you all for watching! Feel free to leave your comments down below!
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"You dont feel the work, you feel the success", well said
I’m going to use that quote. Well said.
Your Dad is such a wise man. So appreciate his skills, work ethic, and perspective
It was nice to see an old Surge pale milker don't see them much anymore
Another great video, thanks. This one reminded me of some of the simple pleasures of farming, the sound of cattle eating. Dad brought it to my attention one year early in my career on the farm. We had just released a group of heifers onto a lush spring pasture. He said "I always love the sound they make when they first get on pasture". As they were walking slowly away from us, they were happily grazing away. I'll never forget the sound of the grass breaking away as they pulled it in with their tongues, all 20 animals at once. We just stood there and listened for awhile. One of my favorite memories.
Beautiful memory! 😊
Growing up on a dairy farm in Michigan, I remember on cold winter evenings it would be snowing and blowing outside, and before I left the barn I would shut off all the lights and just stand there in the warm barn listening to all the contented eating and drinking.
Happy cows don't moo, they munch, and it was a very comforting sound to hear!
Now I listen for the same sounds when Thanksgiving Dinner is being eaten!!😜
Take Care!
Hi Aaron i have been watching your channel for the past three years. I have been in dairy farming my hole life. I have to say that your farm and your animal barns are just amazing. They are set up to have the same aged animals in each pen. When you can have barns like you have that can be cleaned easy. animal health is alot better to manage. The thing is as your dad and your self know that animals for some reason have one foot in deaths door all the time its just a fact. But when you can manage the way you guys do some of that factor goes away. Its just amazing to watch your channel and everthing that goes on on your farm. It doesn't matter if its hauling manure to field work to your younger brother buildind a duck house. ITS JUST ALL VERY GOOD CONTENT. I dont live to far from you. I live about 20min south of Blackriver falls. Keep up the great videos. Tell your dad i said hey! P.S Dairy farming is not easy but your family makes it look that way.
Love seeing those Shorthorn genetics! My granddad & I milked a couple of Jerseys before I went to school each day & their calves were always from our Shorthorn bull. Amazing beef! But not only beef, but pork... I was showing hogs in 1968 as a 4-Her, too, not just Shorthorn cross steers. Once my granddad didn't think the Duroc barrows weren't gonna make the weight, so he started mixing their feed with that rich Jersey milk. When we got done, Professor E.R. Lidvall from the University of Tennessee was slapping my pig and making him the grand champion hog in the whole state at TN at the Ellington Agricultural Center in Nashville! It was my granddad's victory as much as anybody's... So thankful for what I learned from him that so many people today regard as some big NEW thing!
I fatten out a group of feeder pigs every year on the excess milk from my family cow. Darn good pork!
Good looking calves
My most satisfying/relaxing time on the farm; after chores, turn the lights off, listen to the cows chomping on hay and the rattle of stall chains - and the wind blowing snow outside.
I could watch your cows all day. But then I grew up with dairy cows and took naps with them when I was little. Thanks.
Of all of your videos, my favorites are the ones with your Dad talking about cow histories and genetics.
I love listening to my livestock munching hay at night when all is quiet!
It does my heart good to see Real farms like yours caring for the animals and the land the way your family is.
I second that. Your love of your farm is plain to see.
Doesn’t matter what your business is if you take care of stuff it will always last longer . You guys do a great job of it . Great video ,what a view .
It's nice to have a diverse heard. Congratulations
I love those brown Swiss but I’ve always had a soft spot for jerseys lol. Thank you for all you and your family do.
Good evening
I enjoy the channel and pray for the success of your family and farm.
Great video and great quote “you don’t feel the work you feel the success”. Love the video content. keep them coming.
Dairying is so Labor intensive .... you're lucky to have multiple hands ....that changes everything 🚜
Your dad is such a good man. Good steward of those animals and the land. Wondering if you guys have ag program "interns" out that way? You couldn't write it all down, but having some ag students just learning from what he knows would be worth gold for anyone coming up in agriculture. Your dad has a really strong work ethic, everything from the machines, the land and the animals.
Sorry mate I’m sure you know this but gee wiz your dad does a good job of explaining how & why…no doubt that’s why he is such a big part of this channel
Keep the variety up plz 👌
Read about uncle Bob in the dairy star the other day! Maybe some day you could give us a tour of his barn. Very uncommon these days to see a new tiestall barn
I learned something! I didn't know about the black-near-the-hooves tidbit. Thanks!
Great looking calves. Thanks for sharing, and all the explanations, I real feel the love your dad has for the cattles and calves.
Nice calves,
Different genetics are a good thing. Keeping the animals dry when it’s cold is a huge thing. I worked for a farm that would dry his cows up at 40-50 days instead of the normal 60 days. Very rarely did he have a problem with milk fever in older cows. Not saying it’s the way to do it. But it worked for him. Great video. Gif bless
Nice farm I only have 2 cows more pets.was suppose to be beef but we are getting soft in our old age 😅we have said it is nice and a good feeling to just listen to cows munch
Any cow that is at your farm has it made well taken care of love your family and farm
Not a farmer but grew up on a 60 head dairy farm in the 1950s and 60s. The calves were always in the barn until yearling heifer age. Those animals were in a box stall but were let out into an area under the barn cleaner shed and access to a small yard. Two box stalls for the smaller calves. Sometimes a new mom and her calf were in the smaller of the two for a short time before we began milking the mother.
i know my grandpa started out with Milking Shorthorn until he switched over to Holstien, which my uncle continued..and like you my uncle raised alot of his own calves for his milking herd
Thanks for the education.
Love all the different genetics. We do the same thing. I especially like our Ayrshire/Shorthorn crosses. We save the horns on some of those calves. They are so classic with the tip flairs as they get more mature. We have a 90' section of the barn we can convert to calf housing if we have to or it could be for milk cows if we need it. The key is what Pa said, planning ahead for what you need. We haven't had a need for jackets but when we ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO we would make "jackets" out of burlap sacks.
Nice video. I enjoy interacting with the cattle.
All of your dads concerns and thought are the same thing we as horse farmers deal with too. Baby sitters...great video!
Awesome video, thanks for sharing ur cattle genetics
There is something very therapeutic about feeding the cows. My Dad when he went out to feed the cows he would tell my Mom he was going out to see the girls.
Never heard of calf jackets . Neat thing to have the way it looks. We use had 3 calves pens right in the barn two each back in the day mosty Holsteins but one time we had a red calf which was neat seeing .
Your concern for all the animals in the herd is nice to see and makes for a better farm.
You guys have some beautiful calf’s and cows always watch your videos and rewatch them, glad you’d are still going with diary good to see keep up the good work can’t wait for more videos from yous . Good bless your family
Thanks for sharing the video. I enjoy watching them and I enjoyed listening to your Dad and explaining some of the genetics and about the calf jackets. Y'all do a great job with your cattle and it shows.
OMG IM IN love with the cows. They are so beautiful 🥰🥰🥰🥰Aaron you made my night with this video.
Another great video and i always learn something new every time. You have an awesome cattle operation and can’t wait to see the calves when they grow
You have a beautiful herd. Thank you for sharing the info. on them.
Our operation is similar to yours . We have used a variety of calf jackets- from Woolovers to the washable ones.The last ones I got from Leedstone . I like those pretty well. Easy to wash and put on . We are doing some crossbreeding as well Thanks for the video - you do a nice job!
Absolutely loved seeing your herd and learning about them. Your dad also had a great idea. I would love to just have video of the cattle eating and munching away. The sound, to me, is very satisfying and comforting in a way. Thanks for the video.
I remember in the 1960's my Dad bought alot of calfs 3 - 4 days old for 30-35 dollars from dairy farmers he would sometimes buy some some not so good ones a little sickly maybe with scours for 5 or 10 dollars and try to nurse back healthy sometimes you could sometimes you couldn't bought alot of milk replacer in those days
Great video like seeing your cattle and what you will have coming into the Dairy Barn in the future.
Okay here’s an idea the sweatshirts and 12 oz coffee mugs (that’s me hoping) the Gierok logo with pics of some of the cows 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
love the cow videos
I ENJOYED WATCHING THE VIDEO AARON 😊
Hi guys I agree with dad gierok trouble seemed go like 3 year cycles on our farm. We had a 7 stall calf condo, always used nylon coats, calves got electrolytes at I week and always had tdn mini rockets on hand. The little ones are most important.
My dad and I milk 50 cows in west central Wisconsin and we have our calves in individual pens in a shed with some weaned heifers. We're also fortunate to have an amish close to us that makes calf blankets
We must be neighbors! I help out my stepdad on his small dairy. Love the cows so much
Damn! 15 seconds in, a Surge milker like I used on our Jersey in my youth. Yes, just one cow, well we did have two, a Guernsey for a while. Oregon state, filbert orchard and a 10 acre field to raise the hay. Never had store bought milk until Dad sold the farm and moved to town.
It was nice to see the array of breed varieties you have on your farm.
Thank you sharing and caring. We always fed milk to the calfs. Dad was not a fan of milk replacer. You do have some fine looking calfs to. You pointed out white hoof black hoof. But doesn't the short horn have that pink pointed ear? Kinda like a pig ear? With lower placement on the head? Heard cow check was something we did always. Dairy cows or feeders was to make sure they was chewing there cud. I better end this comment here. Before I go all night with it.. sorry
Nice looking calves
Milk fever is from too high of potassium feed, in the last few months of pregnancy a more mature grass hay seems to be best for us
As a kid, I always saw it as work, but as an adult, I never consider it to be work raising animals. So, in that respect, I completely understand how your dad feels about raising cattle.
Great Video! Lots of hybrid vigour ...!! Thats a good thing!!!
thank you
Id love to hear about nutrition
I would love to find some different breeds for the kids for there 4-h dairy feeder steer projects, all Holstein in are area
Very interesting. Now, do ya ever think about building a say, 16 to 24 cow milking parlor ? What are the boys thinking about doing with the farm in the long term ?
How cute
Livestock farming on a smaller scale is in jeopardy there isn't enough left over after expenses to do improvements on machinery or new genetics without getting big just exactly what the government wants to put small farms out
Registered Dairy cattle used to be the benchmark of success. Having a Registered herd on DHIA test was a way to add profit through either hiefer sales or having a cow on a locator list to sell sons of, and later ET's from. Not so anymore, unless you have the $ to play in the Pedigree game. Ever hear of 7H401 Mars? Small herd product. Before ET and TPI lists.
i had pretty much all swiss and i bred swiss to swiss and every so often not real often i would get 1 born with a white spot on the head or leg. 1 time i had a swiss born with a big white spot on her hip
Pops is pretty chatty today
Back when we had cattle we had one blood line that threw twins quite frequently and still pushing 600-700 at 5 months when we shipped but that was also Hereford Angus cross cows
First I’ve heard of calcium deficiency in cows. Love more information
I like giving all cows second calf or older an oral calcium tube at calving. Like the different cross calves you have.Have a calf motel like yours, mine has doors on the upper front for bad weather.
We have all swiss and I'd say 2-4% end up with white on them somewhere. Not uncommon, definitely goes way back. Cool to see diversity. Who are the swiss sired by?
We get our calf jackets from genex and there on a nipple feeder till 2 weeks then on automatic feeding
Great looking genetics 👍
Udder tech jackets. I get extra small since we have jerseys.
Thanks for sharing 😊
Beautiful calves, you and your dad do a great job with them. I sure like them Swiss twins. We had a bunch of different breeds on our farm to. I was crossing short horn with red Herford and Black Angus. I wish i had some pictures the 3 way cross's were cool looking.
The white on the Brown Swiss is still a pedigree animal its considered an OCS or Off colored Swiss. Ive seen it in a purebred pedigree Swiss farm.
We raise our calves in individual hutches but we start them in a pen in tie stall barn till they're mobile and come to the bottle on its own then move them outside to the hutches and in the cold use uddertech jackets on them which are washed between each calf and we store them after washing in a storage tote to keep out mouse damage but we leave jackets on till weaning usually if it stays cold enough we've got probably 20 of them we dont keep anything around thats cross bred just use jersey and angus on our holsteins for hard breeders or cows i dont want daughters out of then just send them to stockyard
I really enjoyed this video. It was very interesting to learn the differences in your herd. Loved to see the calves. How do you get the genic crosses in your herd. Do you have different bulls of each type of cow you want? It would be interesting to have a video on the breading of your cows and what characteristics you look for in the new calf.
We always found no draughts but plenty of air kept them healthy. Like the indepth talks. Great video. All the best 🇬🇧.
With all the new calves and heifers you have for your herd, do you have a max age for your milking stock?
Great video
so true what you say , draft free is so important , if its really cold i use a pig lamp for the calves in a sort of a creep , works really well , Milk fever is a funny thing and it seems to depend of the season you had , good thing its easy to treat and if its bad you put the calcium in the vein and there back to normal with in minuets
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Do you all ever use milk replacer, we always fed milk replacer?
What size is the metal pails that you feed milk into the calves?
I noticed the full pails of milk, too. Seemed like an awful lot of milk for 1 feeding @ twice a day.
Hello and thankyou for sharing.
Why do you use old Serge milker versas newer systems.
Were do you sell your milk?
Why are the partitions where the cattle stick their heads through set at an angle? I see that with every cattle video I see.
It keeps them from dragging all the feed, especially hay, out of the manger and wasting it by stepping all over it. Doesn't stop it but it makes it less convenient for them to pull their heads in and out, back and forth.
My neighbor is selling holstein angus cross calves for $700
Wow, $400 for a week old calf, that's incredible.
george
A most excellent video, gentlemen! Many may wonder at the Northman's winter strategies, and this was an exellent discussion! However, we caught Pa in a lie: "You don't feel the work, you just feel the success of it." The first part is false, the second part very true.
an' I was jus' about to SAY: "Pa's gettin' pretty "fancy" with his designer-jackets. I believe the "norm" is as Anthony (below) said: "Burlap Sacks..." when NECESSARY....
Wondering if you use XZelit for milk fever prevention?
I have great luck using Bovikalc
takes a long time to build a herd
Call junkyards for parts
About shorthorns? Are they an old heard? And do you have AI or Bull to breed Theese heffer? And so stupid i am i love The Brown swiss heffers! Interesting to follow Theese to! An a interesting cow ho can Milk much and if she not do that you can breed her like a beefcow instead!
And what Nice and quiet calf you have , Who get real Milk,and thats gonna be Nice and healthy animals.
I'm sick of seeing our farms going away and turned into a subdivision. I love rural areas.
Don't know how you guy can stand there and talk without scratching heads ...lol
Remove that ear band 🤬🤬🤬😡😡 from cows
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