2 times for the dairy cows. Once early in the morning around 5:30 then another mix for the late morning. We make the mix for the early morning that afternoon after the 2nd fed mix
I thought I was the only one always fixing skid steer tires. It really is amazing how cattle can eat the plant material we cannot and convert it into dairy and meat. Mud is something we rarely find here, except in a former swamp. Who would have thought a farmer would use a farm jack to lift a skid steer. I have had that stupid handle fly off and go through a window.
Well I see you guys have the standard dairy deal. “Where the concrete ends the mud begins “. It does make some sense not to store manure on one level, you have to deal with the storage problem with the associated risks. My question is two parts, 1 since you spread daily, in the wetter parts of the year how much compaction damage is done by rutting the fields up? 2 here in our area NC the manure out put is regulated on how much you can place on an acre. Do you evenly distribute the manure all across the entire farm, despite the distance of the fields? That would be the storage advantage is hauling to distant parts of the farmed land
Yeah most definitely! It is what it is tho we get it done still with all that mud! But yeah it’s nice at time and sometimes wish we had some storage. I’d say it isn’t to bad we aren’t going to go into the field if we’d make super deep ruts. We will usually haul on our gravel road spreading into the fields from that to not make ruts. Yes sometimes we have ruts but we try to chisel plow them if we do. We really should come through with a deep ripper to get that hard pan though. And we usually can get it distributed across our farm pretty well. All of our fields at the home farm are easy to get to with our tractor. We don’t take any manure to our rented fields because that would take to long with our old equipment.
Love the videos keep it up!
Thank you very much! Northern Illinois? Same here! Where you from?
@@leuenbergerdairy6038 ogle county area
@@farminginnorthernillinois very nice! We are Stephenson!
Gotta love the ole widow maker jacks. Handy as hell and as dangerous as a dad on prom night
Definitely agree!
About time for a cab kit in the old girl
Definitely agree! And some new stickers!
I love it! When you said Red Johnny he stopped chewing and was all annoyed looking. Red Johnny rules
Yeah he knows what’s up tho!
Always a challenge using one of those jacks to pick up a skid steer. Fun times in the mud 👍
Sure is! Love farming in the mud!
Do you feed once a day or 2 X's?
2 times for the dairy cows. Once early in the morning around 5:30 then another mix for the late morning. We make the mix for the early morning that afternoon after the 2nd fed mix
snow or mud whats your pleasure
I’m going to have to go with some mud over snow!
I thought I was the only one always fixing skid steer tires. It really is amazing how cattle can eat the plant material we cannot and convert it into dairy and meat. Mud is something we rarely find here, except in a former swamp. Who would have thought a farmer would use a farm jack to lift a skid steer. I have had that stupid handle fly off and go through a window.
It’s definitely very fascinating how cattle work! But we get a lot of mud here in the spring! Oh gosh glad that didn’t happen to us “yet”
Well I see you guys have the standard dairy deal. “Where the concrete ends the mud begins “. It does make some sense not to store manure on one level, you have to deal with the storage problem with the associated risks. My question is two parts, 1 since you spread daily, in the wetter parts of the year how much compaction damage is done by rutting the fields up? 2 here in our area NC the manure out put is regulated on how much you can place on an acre. Do you evenly distribute the manure all across the entire farm, despite the distance of the fields? That would be the storage advantage is hauling to distant parts of the farmed land
Yeah most definitely! It is what it is tho we get it done still with all that mud! But yeah it’s nice at time and sometimes wish we had some storage. I’d say it isn’t to bad we aren’t going to go into the field if we’d make super deep ruts. We will usually haul on our gravel road spreading into the fields from that to not make ruts. Yes sometimes we have ruts but we try to chisel plow them if we do. We really should come through with a deep ripper to get that hard pan though. And we usually can get it distributed across our farm pretty well. All of our fields at the home farm are easy to get to with our tractor. We don’t take any manure to our rented fields because that would take to long with our old equipment.
Do you AI or just the bull?
We just use a bull. Have 3 up with our dairy cows and one down with our heifers!