I quit milking in 2017 for a whole bunch of reasons. I think I slept for a month straight to recover. When things are going good we all say the same thing, I want more cows,more cows, more cows. However, on bad days I concluded that, even 1 cow is too many! 😂 I'm from S. Eastern WI. My favorite days were when the milk man gets stuck in the snow and it's too cold for the tractors to start. Or when water lines freeze and bust. And we ALL know that cows wait 9 months to have their calves on the coldest day of the year! The good times were endless 😂. Oh, by the way, you have an awesome setup there,👍
Yup, more cows more milk. No, that drives the price down. You're not the only one thinking that, not even on your road. Dairy is I believe, the biggest culprits of shooting themselves in the foot when it comes to price. Low price; more. High price; more. NO. The line between price and supply has to be very narrow to have good prices. I blame college. Those kids are being taught where everything is the latest and greatest and $ isn't an object. Basically, not real world . I'm probably wrong, sure I am. But I've made it 30 yrs since taking over when Dad died. I was 24. Knew the hows and whens but not the whys. Been struggling some lately but I lost too many cows in the last 5 years. Seems I was doing wrong w dry cow feed, maybe. Anyway, milking 25 currently, so to be low 30s. Barn holds 35. Now if I could only quit losing ground. Landlords sell, I can't afford. New owner puts in solar or rents to big guys that pay whatever they have to to get the acres to meet CAFO requirements
I love seeing milking videos after all you are dairy farmers -thank you -- it is almost like some with dairy channels are ashamed of milking and won't show it -I was born and raised on a dairy farm but we only milked 20 and by hand so not much fun hahaha
Great video, thanks for the work! I grew up on a beef cattle (cow/calf) and horses (hunter/jumper) farm in VA in the 60s and 70s. My best friend's Dad managed a large dairy farm just down the dirt road, 102 stanchion (old style) milking barn. It's a tough life of pure dedication and love of the industry, for sure. Best milk ever for your cheerios or raisin bran came straight out of the tank! Those were the days!
congratulations for your activity ! we see only the milking operation but there's an impressive job behind to take care of 200 or 400 cattles in good health to be be milked on rotation all year long , the care of the feed , the sanity of the mammarian , the growing of the young cattles for replacement ....
I for one do enjoy milking videos. Thank you for sharing yours. It's just I miss my 4AM milkings. Those days are long behind me be still a wonderful time of my life.
Just found your channel and I find it very interesting. I worked at the largest manufacturer of Mozzarella cheese in the world for nearly 40 years processing milk into the mozzarella cheese but it never occurred to me to think about the process of getting the milk from the dairy cows to the plant I worked at. We processed 3 million pounds of milk daily and the company had 7 other plants throughout the United States and Ireland. Great video looks like a lot of hard work. Have a great day.
Thank you for a great video. Nice parlour. I wonder if I'm the only one to see the hard working spider in the foreground spinning the web? I'm late finding this video but I'll look for others from you. Take care, jack
One thing that amazes me at dairy operations is the amount of water and water pressure that is available, must be just one more added expense in the depths of the wells and the pump itself.
🇨🇦 great start to your video lol thankfully we don’t need to get up early anymore to milk but I feel for you 😕 my husband still gets up early to feed the heifers because our electricity is cheaper before 7am
@joeymitchell5467 we train them. some heifers walk in with the cows and learn really quickly, and others are stubborn, and we have to take the time to train them.
THANK YOU PRECIOUS LADY FOR YOUR POWERFUL CREATING AND MAGICAL PERFECTION...... I MILKED TWO JERSEYS BY HAND, GROWING UP ON THE FARM.... VOLLMANS DAIRY IS THE CLOSEST TO FARM FRESH REAL MILK....THAT ONE CAN PURCHASE AT THE GROCERY STORE....
@@mrsmilkman09 really looking forward to this new job, been wanting to do for awhile now, plus hauling cattle, there are people that don't like to pay as much
Only thing wrong with dairying. It is 365 days a year twice a day! Handmilking up to 10 a day before and after school was enough for me. An Aussie Qld.
A bit different to what I was used to 30 years ago. 5 cows each side, milking around 80 - 90 at peak. On my own and so bored at times. Loved working with cattle though. It was the monotony of the pulsators going. It was fun when you heard a lady start to cough. It was a case of look out where is it going to land. So, on that note, does the parlour have splash panels to stop muck and urine going into the pit, it looked as though this was the case? How long does it take to milk when running at full capacity/ lactation?
not all cows teats are equal in size/length so when one teat is much smaller than the others, the weight of the hose pulls the milker off the other teats so we use the wire to take pressure off the milkers so it will stay up on the teats.
Hi second time watching your videos i milked around 20 years my wife was raised on dairy farm we started at 2 am nice set up i noticed you didnt strip your cows to check for mastittis not a good speller lol like your video we miss titbut were we are in Limestone Tn milk just got so cheap you couldnt make ends meet then tobacco got took away theres a few trying to still hang on and milk in our county very few going to keep watching your videos hope you all have safe and good year
Take me back to the day when I was a kid we lived on a dairy farm down here in Lawrenceville Georgia Jim Duncan Farm they made milk for Atlanta dairies my job was to wash down the deck of cow poop
Do u milk 2 or 3 times away. We had 50 cows for a while. We milked 3 times aday. Started out in traditional milk cans until mandatory to switch to bulk tank.
Here in Maryland we milk 800 to 900 and getting bigger and we milk 3 times and a tank load of milk goes out everyday love my job been working for the same family for over 25 years
@tymaze2539 where I was explaining how we switch our lines from the milk tank to the wash cycle is the same spot the milk truck hooks up but yes, I can try and get a better view/explanation of it. maybe catch our driver when he picks up our milk if he's OK with me filiming.
I used to milk in a 2500 head dairy 24 hearing bone milking system , auto collect won't let me spell ( heiring ) bone right unless I do it this way.. anyhoo , started at 6pm and ended at 6am. so 4 am would be easy for me. did that for 10 yrs.
Thank you for explaining this. I've been to many dairies and feed yards delivering commodities and always wanted to learn the dairy trade. Please listen to Lisa Moo Moo Marie. Take care. 🤗
Im hoping to be taking over a 2717 acre dariy farm we ll be starting out milking 350 cows in gea 28 rotateing parlour 80 dry cows and then all young stock as we will be rasieing our steers to market wheight and we also be taking care of our beef cows and also sheep and goats and horses and free range pigs and of course our laying hens but we will have our family and some of our good friends helping out ao shouldnt be to bad
It's just amazing how early you have to get up to check on the cows and get them set up for milking Justin mays and you're wonderful wonderful woman you can really do the job amazing to me I'm retarded but I couldn't get up at 4 o'clock in the morning that's really something to see for you women really put the work forward towards getting all done and get it prepared for the tanker truck to come amazing to me, Mike,
milking in a rapid exit parallel, it's not set up for treat feeders, but we feed them a TMR so they get there treat when they get back to the freestall barn.
Back then too small a farm to keep going government buy out back in 1985 did milking for 14y . First 3 cows and did it by hand didn't like that at all painful forearms long time. Cleaning the barn was me and a wheelbarrow regular Argentina single wheel one up a 20 foot 2x6 ramp top was 12feet of the ground I dumped it in the spreader.
I quit milking in 2017 for a whole bunch of reasons. I think I slept for a month straight to recover. When things are going good we all say the same thing, I want more cows,more cows, more cows. However, on bad days I concluded that, even 1 cow is too many! 😂 I'm from S. Eastern WI. My favorite days were when the milk man gets stuck in the snow and it's too cold for the tractors to start. Or when water lines freeze and bust. And we ALL know that cows wait 9 months to have their calves on the coldest day of the year! The good times were endless 😂. Oh, by the way, you have an awesome setup there,👍
Yup, more cows more milk. No, that drives the price down. You're not the only one thinking that, not even on your road. Dairy is I believe, the biggest culprits of shooting themselves in the foot when it comes to price. Low price; more. High price; more. NO. The line between price and supply has to be very narrow to have good prices.
I blame college. Those kids are being taught where everything is the latest and greatest and $ isn't an object. Basically, not real world . I'm probably wrong, sure I am. But I've made it 30 yrs since taking over when Dad died. I was 24. Knew the hows and whens but not the whys. Been struggling some lately but I lost too many cows in the last 5 years. Seems I was doing wrong w dry cow feed, maybe.
Anyway, milking 25 currently, so to be low 30s. Barn holds 35.
Now if I could only quit losing ground. Landlords sell, I can't afford. New owner puts in solar or rents to big guys that pay whatever they have to to get the acres to meet CAFO requirements
I stopped milking cows twenty years ago and I still wake up at 4.15 am every day. Our parlour was a 20/20 with 180 cows in the UK.
Dairy farming isn't a business or a job,,,,, it's a lifestyle. God bless you for your efforts.
Beautiful and hard work,take care of yourself and your family and especially the Heifers
Thank you for your hard work, loved your smiles at the end
I appreciate you and your husband having such dedication…….God bless you all.
Thank you for sharing your experiences and your hard work 👍❤️
At 11:48, the way you explain livestock housing hygiene made me realize it’s a vital factor that shouldn’t be overlooked.
I admire your dedication and commitment to hard work. Your husband is a very lucky man. God bless✝️
I think you did a good job on showing what your morning milking is like. I enjoyed it.
I love seeing milking videos after all you are dairy farmers -thank you -- it is almost like some with dairy channels are ashamed of milking and won't show it -I was born and raised on a dairy farm but we only milked 20 and by hand so not much fun hahaha
Great video, thanks for the work! I grew up on a beef cattle (cow/calf) and horses (hunter/jumper) farm in VA in the 60s and 70s. My best friend's Dad managed a large dairy farm just down the dirt road, 102 stanchion (old style) milking barn. It's a tough life of pure dedication and love of the industry, for sure. Best milk ever for your cheerios or raisin bran came straight out of the tank! Those were the days!
congratulations for your activity ! we see only the milking operation but there's an impressive job behind to take care of 200 or 400 cattles in good health to be be milked on rotation all year long , the care of the feed , the sanity of the mammarian , the growing of the young cattles for replacement ....
I for one do enjoy milking videos. Thank you for sharing yours. It's just I miss my 4AM milkings. Those days are long behind me be still a wonderful time of my life.
Bless you for farming our country needs good farmers ❤❤
Just found your channel and I find it very interesting. I worked at the largest manufacturer of Mozzarella cheese in the world for nearly 40 years processing milk into the mozzarella cheese but it never occurred to me to think about the process of getting the milk from the dairy cows to the plant I worked at. We processed 3 million pounds of milk daily and the company had 7 other plants throughout the United States and Ireland. Great video looks like a lot of hard work. Have a great day.
@hombredeacero3131 wow, thats pretty cool! thank you for your hard work as well!
Was your plant in New Mexico
great video - keep it up. I grew up with a small dairy on a large grass seed farm in Oregon.
LOVE YOUR VIDEOS AND THE PHOTOS ARE GREAT. GREAT MUSIC KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK 😊
thank you so much!
I enjoyed the video and the sunrise.
Thank you for a great video. Nice parlour. I wonder if I'm the only one to see the hard working spider in the foreground spinning the web?
I'm late finding this video but I'll look for others from you.
Take care,
jack
Bless you for what you do. Dairy people are extraordinary
I did enjoy the video! And since this is the first time I’ve ever seen you,it should be all uphill from here!
Blessings to you take care of yourself. It's a tough schedule to maintain. I helped milk only 75. And that took a couple hours.
One thing that amazes me at dairy operations is the amount of water and water pressure that is available, must be just one more added expense in the depths of the wells and the pump itself.
Thanks for your service for us.
Great video. Lots of work.
Nice looking milking parlour Mrs Milkman
🇨🇦 great start to your video lol thankfully we don’t need to get up early anymore to milk but I feel for you 😕 my husband still gets up early to feed the heifers because our electricity is cheaper before 7am
I was a kid when the double herringbone parlors were the new thing. Double 5 was common. Then one neighbor put in a double 8 with auto take offs!!!! 😂
Milked for the last time in 1990. Appreciate those still at it. I like ice cream!
Thank you it’s alot of hard work that you all do.
Excellent video. Thank you for sharing. Cheers.
Your set up is nice.
Great video, and I think you would be surprised how many people like the milking videos. Do you do DHIA milk testing?
no, we don't.
how do you get the cows to go into each stall i dont understand
@joeymitchell5467 we train them. some heifers walk in with the cows and learn really quickly, and others are stubborn, and we have to take the time to train them.
@@mrsmilkman09 omg thank you
❤❤❤Respect for the farmers around the whole world. Greetings Dirk Belgium
these cows all look like they got purpose🐮🐮🐮😁
THANK YOU PRECIOUS LADY FOR YOUR POWERFUL CREATING AND MAGICAL PERFECTION......
I MILKED TWO JERSEYS BY HAND, GROWING UP ON THE FARM.... VOLLMANS DAIRY IS THE CLOSEST TO FARM FRESH REAL MILK....THAT ONE CAN PURCHASE AT THE GROCERY STORE....
Great video Mrs Milkman
When does the milk tanker truck comes ?
Soon to be a driver for Long Star Milk, use to be a cattle hauler
we are on every other day pick up. he gets here around 7:30am.
@@mrsmilkman09 really looking forward to this new job, been wanting to do for awhile now, plus hauling cattle, there are people that don't like to pay as much
I WORKED FOR A DAIRY FAMER LONG AGO, MUCH RESPECT TO ALL YOU GUYS THATS TWICE A DAY 365 A YEAR ! ✊🇺🇸🎉
Great video good to see y'all
Great video
first time viewed from durham uk
I always play Indian classical raga, Holsteins love Indian music.
Only thing wrong with dairying. It is 365 days a year twice a day! Handmilking up to 10 a day before and after school was enough for me. An Aussie Qld.
My husband grandmother milked cows for years. Then she got sick was in hospital and her husband sold it all she was so upset with him !
😧 oh no!
Thanks for what you do.
The little one was probably dreaming of having to do morning milking 👍🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
A bit different to what I was used to 30 years ago. 5 cows each side, milking around 80 - 90 at peak. On my own and so bored at times. Loved working with cattle though. It was the monotony of the pulsators going. It was fun when you heard a lady start to cough. It was a case of look out where is it going to land. So, on that note, does the parlour have splash panels to stop muck and urine going into the pit, it looked as though this was the case? How long does it take to milk when running at full capacity/ lactation?
@robhardingham6770 Yes, we have splash guards, we call them "butt plates" to catch manure and urine. We can turn a bunch (15 cows) every 15 minutes.
@@mrsmilkman09 Thank you. looks good
I stumbled across you rchannel and hope to see more of it. I miss milking.
This was very interesting, why the wire wrapped around the hose on some of the milkers?
Les From Eastern Oregon.
not all cows teats are equal in size/length so when one teat is much smaller than the others, the weight of the hose pulls the milker off the other teats so we use the wire to take pressure off the milkers so it will stay up on the teats.
At the speed your milking how do you know when a cow has mastitis?
@jimcox6687 I'm stripping her teats as I'm whiping her down.
Hi second time watching your videos i milked around 20 years my wife was raised on dairy farm we started at 2 am nice set up i noticed you didnt strip your cows to check for mastittis not a good speller lol like your video we miss titbut were we are in Limestone Tn milk just got so cheap you couldnt make ends meet then tobacco got took away theres a few trying to still hang on and milk in our county very few going to keep watching your videos hope you all have safe and good year
How much money do you get in your country for one liter milk ?
Take me back to the day when I was a kid we lived on a dairy farm down here in Lawrenceville Georgia Jim Duncan Farm they made milk for Atlanta dairies my job was to wash down the deck of cow poop
Do u milk 2 or 3 times away. We had 50 cows for a while. We milked 3 times aday. Started out in traditional milk cans until mandatory to switch to bulk tank.
2 times a day. 4a & 4p.
i know what you mean i use to get up at 4 am myself back in the day, but we didnt milk lines just cans and we had to milk each cow by hand
very interesting, great video skills.
How many cows do you milk?
@@mdsloads 230
Great video thanks for share
Wow that’s a fast milking. Where’s the coffee
Here in Maryland we milk 800 to 900 and getting bigger and we milk 3 times and a tank load of milk goes out everyday love my job been working for the same family for over 25 years
Also can you show the tank area where the truck come for milk
@tymaze2539 where I was explaining how we switch our lines from the milk tank to the wash cycle is the same spot the milk truck hooks up but yes, I can try and get a better view/explanation of it. maybe catch our driver when he picks up our milk if he's OK with me filiming.
@@mrsmilkman09
That would be great
Down here we always had to run our cows up to go into a shower before we send them through the milker
Thank you!!
Your shirt should not say coffee on it it should be all about dairy products LOL
Great video.
What am I doing……I’m watching ur video
Bonjour Madame !combien de vaches à la traite ?belle vidéo
Bonjour! Merci! nous traitons 230 vaches.
I wake up at 3:00am to get to the dairy at 4:00am to work!
😯oh wow!
We had a neighbor who always said a man should not have more cows than his wife is willing to milk
😂
the question is, can ai repeat the better or not logic for hardworkers
Where you located?
Which state?
@@mostafadawood5370 Oklahoma
magic cow surmises
You look good for 4am . One way to make a very poor vidio is to play it on fast forward 😊
I used to milk in a 2500 head dairy 24 hearing bone milking system , auto collect won't let me spell ( heiring ) bone right unless I do it this way.. anyhoo , started at 6pm and ended at 6am. so 4 am would be easy for me. did that for 10 yrs.
good job
400 cows holy chit how many times a day do you milk
our parlors max capacity is 400 we're only milking 230 right now. 2 times a day, 4a & 4p.
I see you have BouMatic units, I had a 40 (I know small, right) cow tie stall barn and BouMatic was my milkers, LOVED THEM.
we have westfalia surge.
Where are you located?
central Oklahoma
@mrsmilkman09 thank you
@@mrsmilkman09 почему не одеваете спецодежду ?
I choose not to. I do wear bibs in the winter if it gets below 20°@@надиване-у5л
Great job milking
Thank you for explaining this. I've been to many dairies and feed yards delivering commodities and always wanted to learn the dairy trade.
Please listen to Lisa Moo Moo Marie. Take care. 🤗
Does you rback ever bother you milking in a parlor? I did it in a stanchion barn.
It does at times but it would for sure in a stanchion.
So cute
Im hoping to be taking over a 2717 acre dariy farm we ll be starting out milking 350 cows in gea 28 rotateing parlour 80 dry cows and then all young stock as we will be rasieing our steers to market wheight and we also be taking care of our beef cows and also sheep and goats and horses and free range pigs and of course our laying hens but we will have our family and some of our good friends helping out ao shouldnt be to bad
@zeeksgrow9431 Wow, that's amazing! We wish you all the best!
Gritty lady 👍
Yikes, your video makes me carsick!!
It's just amazing how early you have to get up to check on the cows and get them set up for milking Justin mays and you're wonderful wonderful woman you can really do the job amazing to me I'm retarded but I couldn't get up at 4 o'clock in the morning that's really something to see for you women really put the work forward towards getting all done and get it prepared for the tanker truck to come amazing to me, Mike,
hi i will coming in your country your farm & work your farm
Why do you not give the ladies a treat while milking?
milking in a rapid exit parallel, it's not set up for treat feeders, but we feed them a TMR so they get there treat when they get back to the freestall barn.
Your brother is not punky Brewster. Your brother is Sam the sham
love the video. when do you sleep? your husband has got a jewell for a wife
GOT MILK
Back then too small a farm to keep going government buy out back in 1985 did milking for 14y . First 3 cows and did it by hand didn't like that at all painful forearms long time. Cleaning the barn was me and a wheelbarrow regular
Argentina single wheel one up a 20 foot 2x6 ramp top was 12feet of the ground I dumped it in the spreader.
i used to milk cows when i was 17.
I milk at 8am and 730pm lazy farmer
👍👌❤🇨🇦
Just why can’t cows be barn broken…..like dogs can be housebroken
400 max because of where you sell ?????
no, 400 is just the max they chose when building the barn.
I was milking cows before you were born but not that many more like 15 to 20
We should also work for the endless life