I am always amazed at how you take such great care of your herds and also are so considerate of your neighbors in trying to control the dust. Dutchess sure seems tov not have any fear of the anmals or machinery. Tough little farm dog she is. Great video, thanks.
I love how wonderfully you take care of your cows. They are so clean and well taken care of. BTY Duchess is fearless. You and your dad make an excellent team.
I've always been amazed with how clean your cows are. I grew up working on a 500 milk cow dairy and they were never as clean as your cattle are. The care you provide to your cattle is very impressive. Thank you!
I appreciate your continuing caring for cows comfort and health. It helps prove to other dairyman that you can make a profit (hopefully) and take care of your animals the right way at the same time. Have a great day.
From a past dairy farmer, we always mixed in lime in bedding and also sodium phosphate it seemed to help with coccidiosis whenever we'd get a couple . It happened mostly on winter when they bedded down more in the barn
lol, 0:22 and 9:30 , I'm guessing a significant part of your day is telling Dutchess what not to do. Great action shot of you and your dad chasing those last two out to pasture, great vid all around!
Looking good on the farm improvements, from the barn to the fields, to the cattle, all real nice improvements. Always great to see the aerial shots, love them. Great video, I hope everyone stays safe and has an outstanding week.
For the calves, just keep them constantly bedded and dry. Remember, each new layer of bedding is free from disease till they crap on it. There's always corid as well. Maybe give them a hit of baytril before you move them to flush any other non parasitic disease out
Adding onto the barn means more cows. More cows means more bedding required. Time to add onto the sawdust/bedding building so you can buy ahead and have a reserve cushion. If the supplier can not keep you stocked up, maybe dual source your supply if possible. Keep up the good work! JIM 🤩
WhooHooo! Manure spreading season! The heifer barn looks like its working out pretty well. Hilarious that one heifer didn't want to go outside.... there could be scary things out there! Chopping back the vegetation around that field looks like fairly rough job. Maybe rent a boom style flail mower for one of the JDs? Or a flail mower on the front of the Kubota? Looking forward to planting!
Hi Eric. We usually feed calf meal containing a coccidiostat. But you can also drench calves with Catolyst coccidiocide at 6-8 weeks of age. That eliminates any issue in our system in NZ. All the best, keep up the great work and great vid's. Really enjoy watching how things are done different in other parts of the world. Cheers
Good, fertile ground usually comes with limestone . At least in Pennsylvania anyway. One of the trade offs you have to deal with.Good video as usual. Thanks for making them.
I'm not a farmer but with all the dairies my company works with, we tell them to switch up where you keep your calves to reduce disease load in any one particular spot. Most of them move calves from a calf barn to their own individual outdoor hutches (or bigger hutches with smaller calf groups) to stay for a while before they get bigger and move into a heifer barn. The hutches make it easy to pick them up, wash them out, and put down on a dry spot on the other side of the farm. Basically an extension of your calf barn and keeps diseases down. Great video by the way
With the calves here in the UK we can get a special mineral lick block to help prevent it. Not sure if you can get them in the US. We just put one in the shed with them most of the time. Hope this is of use to you and thanks for the great content.
Great video appreciate the share. As for the calf issue it could be a few things. The biggest ones being; the buildup of manure due to the pens staying dry with the fans and not stripping and disinfecting between groups. Drying out and sunlight help the die off of oocysts but that since it’s a mixed barn that alone won’t be enough. Since they’re on the end of the barn I’d suggest going back to keeping their pen clean(er) or see about getting a coccidiostat to add to their feed or salt block. There’s water additive options but that would be impractical for your setup.
Eric love your videos and the drone footage is amazing and very clear. We had a guy that would pickup are waste oil and he would go down the road in front of the acreage in the spring and fall to control the dust and any other spots we had. I love how you take pride in your operation and everything is nice and neat and you watch out for your neighbors like if some manure falls off the spreader you are out picking it up off the road.
When our calves are 2 weeks old we give them an oral drench it really does help. We had it last year for the first time ever and a few of our animals had it very bad but the oral drench sorted them out. It might be no harm to shake a little bit of hydrated lime on the bed aswell or use the spray you used on the free stalls
The best prevention for coccidiosis that I found in our young dairy calves is to have a calf starter with Rumensin in it. I been told that calves can get coccidiosis from bird poop, don't know if that's true or not. Corid always been our best treatment. Keep up the good work, from a neighbouring dairy farmer in Berks county.
I'm not a dairy/cow farmer, but I have raised chickens for a long time and Cocci/coccidiosis affects both species almost the same. Some years the chicks get it more than others. When the year is more wet, I noticed it shows up more. One thing to think of..........when baby chicks are raised by a mother hen, the chicks almost never get cocci. But when chicks are hatched/raised inside by us in a very clean environment, coccidiosis always shows up the minute they start to be exposed to dirt at an older age. The key is to have them exposed to cocci immediately after hatch a little bit every day so they build up an immunity, which the mother hen does from day 1. I have also given chicks probiotics (sauerkraut, as I make it myself). You could give the calves some of your fermented feed, as it should be loaded with lactobacillus bacteria. (another reason raw uncleaned tripe is the best food for your dog, but that is for another discussion). Get the calves exposed to dirt immediately after birth and feed some probiotics to build up that immunity. If all else fails, there is Corid
I tell you, when I got onto RUclips this morning and saw all the news I made a total beeline for your manure spreading video. At least this is honest to God manure and hard work. Quite a tonic for my soul.
Those big AGCO (Massey, Challenger, Fendt) tractors must be a really popular choice for that type of work since both your manure spreading and harvesting crews use them. There's a custom harvesting and spreading company here in Virginia where I live that also uses them.
We used to have a lot of trouble with coccidosis when we moved younger heifers to our heifer farm. The stress of moving and being mixed into a new group would cause an outbreak. We started treating with Corrid before we moved them and then putting out Rumensin blocks at the heifer farm got us back on track.
A few times a year, I will use a hand sprayer to cover any exposed wood and concrete with a copper sulfate foot bath mix. I have less coccidiosis and ringworm problems now.
From my experience. The crew cleaning the pits in my area are the hardest working guys . The hours they work is amazing. I've known to just try to catch short naps in their tractors and run 48 hrs straight going from farm to farm.
Cows are looking good. Building addition made a big difference. Can't believe they do not want to go in the pasture. Waiting at barn for you to finish. That's funny. When will you replant cover crop? Thanks for the aerial views.
It’s really something that you can clear rocks every year and till and grow crops over and over and still, after years you still have to worry about rocks in your fields
Check out the brush master company for a low flow brush cutter for the skid steer. They work really well for cutting back over growth and can even knock out some of the larger stuff. Also check out a product called wetter water for helping with the dust. Keep up the good work and thank for showing all of the functions of your dairy farm.
Teck trol , is that the name ?? Clean that pen , lime it . Prob just had one issue with but if don’t clean that pen every calf you bring over is gonna get . And also maybe week before winging calf put crumbles in there grain bucket , per medicate
I’ve been a dairy farmer for my hole life and we keep our cattle out in rye grass but the only advice I have for you is keep your bedding as clean as possible and change it every 3 day depending on how meany cattle are in there but obviously money contribute to that as well
You should ask around at next machinery show to try and get free multi day demo of forestry head for you Kubota and take on the tree line. Let them know would give them couple video exposure. Fecon makes a forestry level one which does take decent hyraulic levels and potential forestry door protector. I do believe you would enjoy grinding down the brush. You might find those rocks though.
Fence in a goat herd in the tree line/underbrush area, let them clean up what they can. When they are done, it will give you an idea of what's left to clean up. You can get the goats trucked in by companies providing this as a service, transport, fencing and goat herd management all in one.
It must be difficult to do farm work when it is so dark out. Increases risk of injury. Farming is a difficult, dangerous job. Three members of a local farm family recently died in a silo accident. I am glad to see you are so careful to ventilate the silo before you go in to do work. Your videos are very informative as well as entertaining. Thanks for all the time and effort you put in to making them.
Eric and his dad are incredibly safe around the farm. More so then they probably need to be. Minus the freak accident I wouldn't worry to much about them.
They really were rocks, proper rocks. In NZ we drench every 6-8weeks with a drench that also contains a coccilant. Package meals usually have it added. Maybe with more light and warmth,birds it has accelerated the growth of these organisms. Your vet should be able to source an oral drench that will fix the problem until the get old enough to become immune.
When ever I see the liquid manure spreader I think of the farmer over in Europe whose townhall messed with him so he went thru the middle of town with it.....was not a pretty sight
Eric, have you ever done a side by side comparison of yield on manure vs. no manure? I just wondered how much of a difference the manure makes. Also, clean out the water bowl - sometimes they pass it to each other. Thank you for the video!
Any chance you would share how much the farm spends on custom work every year? Definitely easier then keeping up with equipment and a full time employee
Another great video Eric. Longtime subscriber but don’t often comment. I know how busy you are. I do have an unusual question though. Just to see if I’m imagining things lol. Have you been working out?? Seems like you’re buffing up a little. I could be wrong but I usually notice small details most don’t. Anyway thanks for the content and being a great ambassador for agriculture and the dairying industry.
Keep an eye on DM intakes with those transition calves. Assuming the feed has a coccidiostat in it often times there intakes drop and therefore they aren't getting an adequate amount of the coccidiostat. So either adding extra percentage of coccidiostat to that or possibly the cocci is secondary to another problem that is effecting dm intakes.
***So a couple of questions: 1. Was there a measurable financial incentive difference for the fields you injected the manure on? 2. What difference in yield do you think using maunure makes vs not using it? Thanks
Jan’s done with his manure wagon. Just because it’s across 3000+ miles and the Canadian border. Shoot,can you imagine taking one of those thru customs ? You, Jan and Cole should get together in the off season sometime. That would be a fun RUclips. As well as Millennial Farmer guy. His name escapes me at the moment. 😂
I am always amazed at how you take such great care of your herds and also are so considerate of your neighbors in trying to control the dust. Dutchess sure seems tov not have any fear of the anmals or machinery. Tough little farm dog she is. Great video, thanks.
I love how wonderfully you take care of your cows. They are so clean and well taken care of. BTY Duchess is fearless. You and your dad make an excellent team.
I've always been amazed with how clean your cows are. I grew up working on a 500 milk cow dairy and they were never as clean as your cattle are. The care you provide to your cattle is very impressive. Thank you!
I appreciate your continuing caring for cows comfort and health. It helps prove to other dairyman that you can make a profit (hopefully) and take care of your animals the right way at the same time. Have a great day.
He is an animal lover, the way he takes care of the dairy cows moved me.
From a past dairy farmer, we always mixed in lime in bedding and also sodium phosphate it seemed to help with coccidiosis whenever we'd get a couple . It happened mostly on winter when they bedded down more in the barn
lol, 0:22 and 9:30 , I'm guessing a significant part of your day is telling Dutchess what not to do. Great action shot of you and your dad chasing those last two out to pasture, great vid all around!
It really is cool to see how things come full circle around your farm great job and keep up the great work!
I love the way he takes care of the dairy cows
I like that you get them out! Even the stubrin ones! Lol
Looking good on the farm improvements, from the barn to the fields, to the cattle, all real nice improvements. Always great to see the aerial shots, love them. Great video, I hope everyone stays safe and has an outstanding week.
I would take his life in a second! He works hard and loves it
My brother and I often watch your cows. We are truly touched by the way you take care of them.
Another great vid! Manure hauling and spraying must leave a temporary, pleasant odor in the air!!
For the calves, just keep them constantly bedded and dry. Remember, each new layer of bedding is free from disease till they crap on it. There's always corid as well. Maybe give them a hit of baytril before you move them to flush any other non parasitic disease out
Another day another great video! So many new upgrades to the farm this year! Great stuff
I wish I could wake up at this ranch every morning, I love his cows.
There's rocks in the "quarry" farm, who knew?
Thanks for keeping America running & Thanks for taking the time to show us what your job is all about!
Adding onto the barn means more cows. More cows means more bedding required. Time to add onto the sawdust/bedding building so you can buy ahead and have a reserve cushion.
If the supplier can not keep you stocked up, maybe dual source your supply if possible.
Keep up the good work!
JIM 🤩
Hi Eric and dad beautiful video and awesome drone thanks and as always you and your dad and families be safe 🇺🇸🇺🇸
Eric, you are an awesome young man. Great work with the drone and making your videos so enjoyable to watch. Thank you so much
Manure Cam. Live reporting from above the scene.
Thank you and your dad for all yall hard work
Great video. Not a farmer but the guys from Soone farms use a product called Optimizer calf gel. They have said it works.
Amazing they afraid to go outside. Lol. Beautiful addition to the farm.
WhooHooo! Manure spreading season! The heifer barn looks like its working out pretty well. Hilarious that one heifer didn't want to go outside.... there could be scary things out there! Chopping back the vegetation around that field looks like fairly rough job. Maybe rent a boom style flail mower for one of the JDs? Or a flail mower on the front of the Kubota? Looking forward to planting!
It's so cool have something as small as adding a couple of things to your barn be so game changing to your dairy farm!
Hi Eric. We usually feed calf meal containing a coccidiostat. But you can also drench calves with Catolyst coccidiocide at 6-8 weeks of age. That eliminates any issue in our system in NZ. All the best, keep up the great work and great vid's. Really enjoy watching how things are done different in other parts of the world. Cheers
Good, fertile ground usually comes with limestone . At least in Pennsylvania anyway. One of the trade offs you have to deal with.Good video as usual. Thanks for making them.
Its so beautifull watching all this organic matter going on the fields
I'm not a farmer but with all the dairies my company works with, we tell them to switch up where you keep your calves to reduce disease load in any one particular spot. Most of them move calves from a calf barn to their own individual outdoor hutches (or bigger hutches with smaller calf groups) to stay for a while before they get bigger and move into a heifer barn. The hutches make it easy to pick them up, wash them out, and put down on a dry spot on the other side of the farm. Basically an extension of your calf barn and keeps diseases down. Great video by the way
Yea so much appreciated on what you do for all of us great job on the drone like the music
With the calves here in the UK we can get a special mineral lick block to help prevent it. Not sure if you can get them in the US. We just put one in the shed with them most of the time. Hope this is of use to you and thanks for the great content.
Great video appreciate the share. As for the calf issue it could be a few things. The biggest ones being; the buildup of manure due to the pens staying dry with the fans and not stripping and disinfecting between groups. Drying out and sunlight help the die off of oocysts but that since it’s a mixed barn that alone won’t be enough. Since they’re on the end of the barn I’d suggest going back to keeping their pen clean(er) or see about getting a coccidiostat to add to their feed or salt block. There’s water additive options but that would be impractical for your setup.
I love the music overlay with the drone.
My favorite dairy farm channel !!
I enjoyed the cow wresting. Dad showed some good moves.
Eric love your videos and the drone footage is amazing and very clear. We had a guy that would pickup are waste oil and he would go down the road in front of the acreage in the spring and fall to control the dust and any other spots we had. I love how you take pride in your operation and everything is nice and neat and you watch out for your neighbors like if some manure falls off the spreader you are out picking it up off the road.
When our calves are 2 weeks old we give them an oral drench it really does help. We had it last year for the first time ever and a few of our animals had it very bad but the oral drench sorted them out. It might be no harm to shake a little bit of hydrated lime on the bed aswell or use the spray you used on the free stalls
I could watch the day to day operations of your farm all day. It's all very interesting to me. Stay safe.
Looking really good for cow space! Looks like cleaning is a whole much easier .
I'm sure getting the drone footage takes more effort, but I really enjoy them! Thank you!(Robin)
The best prevention for coccidiosis that I found in our young dairy calves is to have a calf starter with Rumensin in it. I been told that calves can get coccidiosis from bird poop, don't know if that's true or not. Corid always been our best treatment. Keep up the good work, from a neighbouring dairy farmer in Berks county.
I'm not a dairy/cow farmer, but I have raised chickens for a long time and Cocci/coccidiosis affects both species almost the same. Some years the chicks get it more than others. When the year is more wet, I noticed it shows up more. One thing to think of..........when baby chicks are raised by a mother hen, the chicks almost never get cocci. But when chicks are hatched/raised inside by us in a very clean environment, coccidiosis always shows up the minute they start to be exposed to dirt at an older age. The key is to have them exposed to cocci immediately after hatch a little bit every day so they build up an immunity, which the mother hen does from day 1. I have also given chicks probiotics (sauerkraut, as I make it myself). You could give the calves some of your fermented feed, as it should be loaded with lactobacillus bacteria. (another reason raw uncleaned tripe is the best food for your dog, but that is for another discussion). Get the calves exposed to dirt immediately after birth and feed some probiotics to build up that immunity. If all else fails, there is Corid
I tell you, when I got onto RUclips this morning and saw all the news I made a total beeline for your manure spreading video. At least this is honest to God manure and hard work. Quite a tonic for my soul.
Same thing here. I am on a lunch break at school and I am watching Eric and his dad.
Drone shots! Very nice.
Those big AGCO (Massey, Challenger, Fendt) tractors must be a really popular choice for that type of work since both your manure spreading and harvesting crews use them. There's a custom harvesting and spreading company here in Virginia where I live that also uses them.
We used to have a lot of trouble with coccidosis when we moved younger heifers to our heifer farm. The stress of moving and being mixed into a new group would cause an outbreak. We started treating with Corrid before we moved them and then putting out Rumensin blocks at the heifer farm got us back on track.
Wow, that liquid manure spread in that field has to smell real good for miles. Hate to be down wind. Great video again Eric. Thanks for all you do.
A few times a year, I will use a hand sprayer to cover any exposed wood and concrete with a copper sulfate foot bath mix. I have less coccidiosis and ringworm problems now.
Excellent job on your videos. Thank you for sharing your daily life.
We give our 3 months old heifers calf started and chopped corn and hay after they are off milk and moved into the heifer barn
I've been here since you had 45k subs ish, I honestly love your vids, keep it up.
From my experience. The crew cleaning the pits in my area are the hardest working guys . The hours they work is amazing. I've known to just try to catch short naps in their tractors and run 48 hrs straight going from farm to farm.
The Smells in those fields must be . . .Amazing . . . to everyone within two miles . . .
That was two stubborn heifers
Thanks for another great video
Cows are looking good. Building addition made a big difference. Can't believe they do not want to go in the pasture. Waiting at barn for you to finish. That's funny. When will you replant cover crop? Thanks for the aerial views.
You could try something like a Hardee side cutter for the field edge cleanup. Lots of farms down here use those in NC.
It’s really something that you can clear rocks every year and till and grow crops over and over and still, after years you still have to worry about rocks in your fields
Check out the brush master company for a low flow brush cutter for the skid steer. They work really well for cutting back over growth and can even knock out some of the larger stuff. Also check out a product called wetter water for helping with the dust. Keep up the good work and thank for showing all of the functions of your dairy farm.
Great awesome video Eric and Dennis , get a mulching head for the kubota, Ryan from how farms work has one for the brush
Whoa, Eric! You were really dosidoing on that Kubota. Love watching you doing your farm life.
Teck trol , is that the name ?? Clean that pen , lime it . Prob just had one issue with but if don’t clean that pen every calf you bring over is gonna get . And also maybe week before winging calf put crumbles in there grain bucket , per medicate
A+ I enjoy to crop harvest, manure spreading, packing silage
I’ve been a dairy farmer for my hole life and we keep our cattle out in rye grass but the only advice I have for you is keep your bedding as clean as possible and change it every 3 day depending on how meany cattle are in there but obviously money contribute to that as well
You should ask around at next machinery show to try and get free multi day demo of forestry head for you Kubota and take on the tree line. Let them know would give them couple video exposure. Fecon makes a forestry level one which does take decent hyraulic levels and potential forestry door protector. I do believe you would enjoy grinding down the brush. You might find those rocks though.
Fence in a goat herd in the tree line/underbrush area, let them clean up what they can. When they are done, it will give you an idea of what's left to clean up. You can get the goats trucked in by companies providing this as a service, transport, fencing and goat herd management all in one.
Looks like the pup is getting used to farm life.
Good stuff Eric that manure will work good on crops we used to do the same.
beautiful drone shots!
It must be difficult to do farm work when it is so dark out. Increases risk of injury. Farming is a difficult, dangerous job. Three members of a local farm family recently died in a silo accident. I am glad to see you are so careful to ventilate the silo before you go in to do work. Your videos are very informative as well as entertaining. Thanks for all the time and effort you put in to making them.
Eric and his dad are incredibly safe around the farm. More so then they probably need to be. Minus the freak accident I wouldn't worry to much about them.
They really were rocks, proper rocks.
In NZ we drench every 6-8weeks with a drench that also contains a coccilant. Package meals usually have it added. Maybe with more light and warmth,birds it has accelerated the growth of these organisms.
Your vet should be able to source an oral drench that will fix the problem until the get old enough to become immune.
I imagine cattle love a clean bedding (better than old dry poop ...)
Holy cow! You and your dad got some great defensive moves! Should be playing with the sixers!! Hahaha. Great video even if you just haul pooh!
Let's gooo. Came to leave my like and comment real quick before class. Gonna be a good day. Now I've got something to watch at lunch 💪🏼
Good show Eric. Smart move with the extra cement. Wouldn't hurt to mix some of your own & extend it a bit more.
When ever I see the liquid manure spreader I think of the farmer over in Europe whose townhall messed with him so he went thru the middle of town with it.....was not a pretty sight
So glad it's not smell o vision. Ha ha
Another big job done
Eric, have you ever done a side by side comparison of yield on manure vs. no manure? I just wondered how much of a difference the manure makes.
Also, clean out the water bowl - sometimes they pass it to each other. Thank you for the video!
Love these manure hauling videos re using the manure for bedding definitely helps I'm sure but I'm not sure if you have to worry about infection
Thanks for sharing your vids with us!
Awesome Video and Much Love as Always 🐄 Man!!!
Any chance you would share how much the farm spends on custom work every year? Definitely easier then keeping up with equipment and a full time employee
Try using milk replacer with Bovatec included. It has worked well for us.
Poor heifer just doesn't understand the joy of being out on grass.
keep it up man
Another great video Eric. Longtime subscriber but don’t often comment. I know how busy you are. I do have an unusual question though. Just to see if I’m imagining things lol. Have you been working out?? Seems like you’re buffing up a little. I could be wrong but I usually notice small details most don’t. Anyway thanks for the content and being a great ambassador for agriculture and the dairying industry.
Keep an eye on DM intakes with those transition calves. Assuming the feed has a coccidiostat in it often times there intakes drop and therefore they aren't getting an adequate amount of the coccidiostat. So either adding extra percentage of coccidiostat to that or possibly the cocci is secondary to another problem that is effecting dm intakes.
Our weaned calves Had some problems with diarhea lately. Turned out the silage was not as good as we thought it was.
***So a couple of questions:
1. Was there a measurable financial incentive difference for the fields you injected the manure on?
2. What difference in yield do you think using maunure makes vs not using it?
Thanks
Good work
1:19😂😂😂😂🐄
Sorry but I was lol 😂when your cow refused to go out. As always you two, great video.
Cheers to you. ..
hi,same trouble here in Vermont,on all area farms i have worked on threw the years,have removed rocks form medows everywhere.
Yes to drone music 🎶 👌
Great video Eric!
Smells like money 💰
Jan’s done with his manure wagon. Just because it’s across 3000+ miles and the Canadian border. Shoot,can you imagine taking one of those thru customs ?
You, Jan and Cole should get together in the off season sometime. That would be a fun RUclips. As well as Millennial Farmer guy. His name escapes me at the moment. 😂
Love Duchess
adding bovatec to heifer mineral seem to help here which is fed to heifers up to 6 months