Typical Winter Chores on a Small Dairy Farm!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ต.ค. 2024
- Today my father cleans up our youngstock barn and prepares it for the rest of the week. He gives us his ideas of an ideal bedding back, and helpful building ideas for any cattle operation. You'll also get a mini Calf Barn Tour and a list of pros and cons when it comes to this building. We hope you enjoy the video. Leave your comments down below. We'd be happy to read them. Also if you haven’t already make sure to like and subscribe!
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Allways fun bed down the animals. New bedding they like run around snort and kick up there heels. Have a great day.
That is fun to see.
Seems like there is always something to do on a livestock farm.Thanks😊.
I think it is neat how simple but effective your ideas are.
Fun to watch how they dance in the fresh bedding. Happy cattle make for beautiful herds.
Most animals attitudes reflect the people that are raising them, just like parents.
The dad is a old fashion hard worker 👍💯
Love how you take the time to point out the little details and things you've come up with over the years. It's really cool to think how someday your grandkids or maybe even great grandkids will have these moments of you sharing the history of even the small stuff and how you came up with some solution. Love your videos and how down to earth you are when sharing. Thank you!
Young stock look great, definitely well mannered.
Well cared for cattle
Always enjoy your wonderful real life cow care videos. Try to watch as much as I have time. John T.
It always amazed me how the manure would buildup on the back legs like a rock especially when it was way to cold to let them out at all!
"There are two kinds of gates. Ones on the hinges and ones that are completely broken off"
No in between huh? I had a chuckle at the nonchalant way you said that.
Nice video working with the cows making bedding for them.
Thanks for going into the details. Bring back so many memories from the 60' thru 80's when my family farmed in Central Indiana
Another excellent video of farm work.
I REALLY enjoyed this one. So peaceful and love the cows of all sizes. Thanks for explaining the way you do things. It is interesting to hear how and why people do things differently.The two Holstein/Jersey mix calves were very sweet, but my favorite was the one in the young cow area that looked like a Jersey (I think), the one with the light brown face and deer type eyes. (It is probably something else). For some reason I have always had difficulty with which was a Jersey or Guernsey. Thanks again and know you help people like me who are not into TV to have something to see. Take Care.
i so agree spending time with the young cattle is so important , and they get use to you as well , that pays off when you have to handle them too , i spend a lot of time with ours , stroking them so i brush them in spring to get the winter coat off , and it pays dividends when they are out side as they will come to you and you can check them over everyday so very important
You guys are good stock men.
We fed straw to our dairy cows and heifers in 1964 in Northeast Iowa. Only really dry year we had on our farm in over 70 years.
Very nice George explains himself well.
That shed is very well thought out!!
Good video nice caves
We give 2 large round bales of straw to every pen in the Sow barns, but before they get the new bales we first clean out the chewed up pieces from last weeks bales, that is reused and given to the wiener pigs for their bedding, after 1 week with them their isn't much more than dust left which we rake up are reuse that again for the farrowing pens. 2 bales per every 250 sow pens. we just cut off the twines and leave the whole round bale for the sows to dismantle, each sow will take a mouth full and go make a nest for themselfs.8 hours later bales all spread out and mamma pigs are as happy as pigs in Straw. Pigs are clean
animals and will never poop where they sleep.
What a great video. I absolutely love to see you working with the cattle and how calm they are around you. Well done! God bless.
Thank you for your video as I enjoy what ever you want to show us and explain what you are doing. Love how the animals interact with you.
So nice to see how you treat them and look after them. THANKS. Ps I grew up on a farm about 70 years ago LOL.
I totally follow the time you spend with your cattle is such a good thing. And it's great to see too. Is the little red calf a heifer?
I was just going to say nice planning and then you said "didn't plan it just worked out that way". 🙂
You guys are very good farmers.
Thank you for sharing your day on the farm. It is something I really miss. Stay safe and God bless.
Great video those cows got it made a relaxing video all the best Cheers
Good evening, Gierok's.
think dad likes making videos❤❤❤
Nice isn't it and he does them well too. Well, actually they all seem to do them well.
You are a natural with the videos. Enjoy the content.
Another enjoyable video, thanks 😊
Great video guys. A day in the life. Awesome.
Good video! My brother and I would "stand guard" when we were youngsters when our dad pulled the old manure spreader in and out of the cattle yard. I don't know what we would have done if they wanted to take off! I don't remember any of them getting out. Dad pitched all the manure with a fork. He had about 20 or so beef cattle for freezer meat for friends, neighbors, relatives. The rest to the local livestock auction. Keep em' coming. God Bless
That little cross calve is cute. How long do you let the cows be with them?
Enjoyed this very much. You have some unique ideas for common problems.
I will never forget the drought of ‘88. The driest summer since the ‘30s in Wisconsin.
Never minded shaking out straw makes good bedding also used corn cobs for bedding steers loved to come charging in kicking up and almost playing in it. Cattle love to push around on a fence or gate.
Love your attention to detail. Thank you for showing the latches. Looks animal safe to me. When we had alot of sows, we used a deep bedding pack in the winter as well. Keep them much warmer in the sub zero weather. Looks like it works well with dairy/cows as well. Be well.
I absolutely adore these videos with your animals, please give us more? Will you keep the two calves that were born?
What is the craziest thing you have ever seen a cow do that you never thought you would?
Good video, thanks for sharing! That brings back allot of memories. Back in the day we would try to pop the bale so the strings would break, probably why my back aches today. Also in a our cattle shed we used to put the bales in the manure spreader, take strings off and use the spreader to spread the straw. Take care and God Bless
Hey guys. I was curious if you strictly use haylage for bedding, or have you used straw? Have you considered using sawdust for bedding? Do you sell cows for meat at all? I've been following the channel for the last several months, but can't remember if you've ever had videos covering these topics. Thanks for all your hard work.
Great video. Ever consider making small squares of corn stalks? I use them, very handy in between big rounds touching up beading or in small buildings. I try to mow them a couple days before raking and baling, the drier the better.
I did the same thing. Great, convenient bedding.
Excellent video. Thanks for sharing
Love your videos from northwest wi
Congratulations Chris, you sure deserve it. You work your ars off. I hope everything works out and you make with your new adventure.
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Sorry wrong reply, I must have been half asleep
I follow several dairy farms and was wondering why the boards are slanted where the cows stick there head thru to eat? I know there's a purpose for it because each farm has them that way. Great vidoes and content. Keep them coming.
The reason for slanted boards or bars on feeders is so cattle have to turn their head to back out of the feeder, and that way they don't pull as much hay out of the feeder and step on it and cause uneeded waste.
we had an old Papec silage chopper to chop bedding!
I'd love to have that set up you should build plans to sell for your building set up well thought out. it's always a plus hand raising every cow in your herd there calm most times and easy to manage and handle but every once and while u get the crazy one that you help put in the freezer
Great heifers barn
I think many may not understand that the manure has heat. That is why it is left in the pen and with fresh straw on top. It is dry but transmit heat to the animals.
Love this video!!! My cows always loved oat straw (much more than barley straw). They would eat most of it. We even made some oat hay a few years. They really loved that but it was hard to get it cured for baling. I'm w/ you on pitchforks for spreading straw, most have the prongs too close.
Love your videos, they remind me of the chores I used to do on the farm. Do you still have the blue roan cow and has she calved yet? I remember seeing her with the dry cows last summer. What is she bred to?
Great video!!!
thank you
We had the same drought in Kentucky in 1988…..I think we bailed rose bushes with brome grass
Nice video guys and you guys could get bedding chopper like trinity dairy has?
Your hinges are like cement, thats that cracked and that that is not~
Pozdrowienia dla Gospodarzy😉
What is the herd average age. How long do you keep a cow after production starts to slow down?
Old time Swiss farmers used to build their dwellings above the cattle stalls. Cozy in the winter. Is it still done that way in Europe?
no .........seen them built side by side .........where u went out of the kitchen into the utility room and then straight into the feeding passage of the cattle shed .....
Now what does your bull calves sale for up there I know ours average anywhere from $175 and up In Indiana
Yeah, WOW $1 straw Bale. $5-$9.(Naaman)Indiana
This may be a stupid question but do you ever have to hose the cattle down or knock the lumps off to kinda help clean them up a bit 🤷🏻♂️
they will clean up in spring when the warm weather arrives and they lose the winter coat ...........they are not bad by any means .............seen a lot worse than that with cattle in slatted sheds ......
I love cows. They r smart. Good job
Thank you.
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Wish I had a $1 for every straw bale I shook out for bedding with a pitchfork as a kid.
Let's bid it. I'll take .85 cents. Anyone else.
$0.50 a bale would make me happy
I would be a millionaire.
Always wanted to ask, how do you keep chickens near your calves? Everyone I know keeps chickens away from the calves due to the possibility of coccidiosis.
where are the chickens?
@@The543ferris you can hear them inthe background .....!
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Yup my cows are the same way works better to lead them than push them
The dirtier the days clothes the better the video.
Do the cows ever eat the straw bedding?
I should have watched before I asked, you answered my question. Thanks
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I am a wise old cattleman friend tell me one time, dairy or beef if you're going to have them you're going to learn to live with them or you're not doing it right
If ya want chop bales, why not go buy a cheap wood chipper after all its only straw and hay....
hard work