I love seeing small family run farms still doing great in this mega farm industry. Small farms around me are disapearing fast, worked with a guy that milked 70 cows tie stall and he had to sell out when they made him dump milk in 2020 and still have to pay the truck company for sending a driver out to tell him that. I will support any small local dairy farm that i can. We NEED THEM, we dont need the mega dairy farms.
When I was a kid my grand uncle had a tie up Byre, which here in Ireland was one row of cows , but otherwise very similar to your set up, in about 1973 he put in a milking parlour, but just before he did he had to go into hospital for a few days and I was left to milk for him I was 8 , I milked the 40 odd cows twice a day for about a week in the twenty stall byre, it was summer time so we were only giving them a bit of cake at milking time, most of the time my granaunt helped me but a couple of times I did it all on my own, I still remember being so proud of myself and grown up, when my grand uncle came home I helped him out for a few more days till he was better and when it was time to go home he gave me a brand new 10 pound note, a weeks wages for a man at the time! Many years later my grand uncle died and his son sold the farm, I couldn’t buy it at the time but a few years later the new owners decided to sell it on and I bought it, that’s 35 years ago now and we are currently milking 150 cows in the same yard and about to convert the tie up byre into an apartment for one of my lads to live in, the point being that you never know what is going to happen but if you love doing something you never do a days work and if you get an opportunity jump at it .
This takes me back to my childhood into my teenage years. Grew up on a small 63 cow dairy. I used to milk that same way you are with a pipe line system. Thanks for posting that video brought back a lot of great memories with my dad and uncle and grandfather on the farm. Sad to say that Dad kicked me off the farm and told me to make a better life for me…. When it is in your blood I still miss it to this day! Thanks again!!
When I was in high school I worked on a farm and milked 44 cows. What amazed me most was when the cows came in to get milked they all went to the same stall every time. They are smarter then people think. Great video. 👍
From what my ancestors told me red Holstein is the original Holstein. But your cow looks like a shorthorn browswiss cross maybe red Holstein Brownsville or red Holstein shorthorn cross lol hard to tell unless you were the one who bred the cow that gave birth to her !
There is an old saying, If you love your work, you never work a day in your life. I found that to be absolutely true! Looks like you believe in that old saying as well....
When I was the farm, our cows did have their own stalls. They would go right into them every time. And yes I got splattered a few times. We had one cow that was so ticklish that hardly no one could milk. I was fortunate in that I could milk her with no problem. There were 8 of us on the farm so we could miling sdone pretty quickly. My uncle had 6 machines to milk with. every thing was manual, we had to pour the milk from the machines into the large milk cans and then put them in a cooler overnight and then in the AM take that milk and load it on to the back of the truck to take it down to the creamery where they weighed it and checked butterfat content. Fun times. Good luck and God bless.
I remember them days but we had a milk truck come and picked up the cans so that had to be back in the fifties and sixties and maybe the early early 70s
Hi Taylor This may sound a little strange, but all my life whenever I went past a farm I would stop and take in the scenery and any activity going on at the farm, wether it be manure spreading or cutting and baking of hay I love the aroma of the manure and fresh cut hay it made me wish I was born and raised on a farm You are so lucky to be able to be doing what you do best and always seem to have a positive upbeat personality that is why one reason I enjoy watching your videos so much😊
You explained your many chores very well, Tay. Takes me back to my teen years. I really did want to farm. The farm wasn’t large enough for my parents and 6 other children, so I was “encouraged” to work off the home farm. Ended up being a good move
From WI: yes there is a red holstein. They (were/are) quite rare here possibly due to production bias (the reds initially had some Ayrshire and/or Shorthorn influence in their past). The red gene is recessive in cattle but color genetics is not simple - meaning, I never saw a red and white calf born from black Holstein parents. Thanks for the time to produce videos. Having done the work you do, I can only imagine what adding video recording does to your day! ❤ Peace.
Hi! That’s great information thank you! It certainly can add a lot of extra effort but I really enjoy making these videos for y’all. Thanks so much for watching and commenting!
Great video Taylor thanks for sharing we have the same problem as you at the minute frost ,snow everything is froze just have to allow more time but keep farming nothing beats it stay safe 👍
I noticed your Garelick Farms milk crate on your milk cart. I used to work for them back in 86 to 04 delivery to grocery stores. I grew up on family Dairy farm. My brother still the farm. We milk with a parlor and freestyle barn. Mendon Massachusetts then he moved farm to Warren Massachusetts
Well you wear at the same crap that we got last night and late afternoon we got about four and a half inches here in Iowa but it must have rained quite a bit before that that snow came down
Taylor! What an awesome video today! Your personality shown through in this video more than any other, and your wonderful sense of humor. I loved the many different angles you chose for the chores you performed. You are getting better with each video and your hard work is appreciated by many. I couldn’t resist laughing at the cow that stole some hay from you, while you carried it alongside the stall. Stay safe and warm, Taylor. 🐄 ❤
When I was 12... we had a black jersey heifer bred her to a red and white holstein bull... she was all black. She had a bull calf that was all red with a black patch on his forehead...
Great video Taylor you have a brilliant system of working and you make it look so easy and simple 👍. You really know your stuff as a diary person. 😀 well done 👏 and the girls are very lucky to have you looking after them. Love your videos and tutorials and please keep them coming. Regards and best wishes Patrick Brazil.
Enjoy your videos, you seem very happy in what you do from milking the girls to feeding them. Keep up the great work and what you do for the agriculture world. Nice smile 😃
A great job of working and filming at the same time !!! I don't know how you do it !! Thank you for sharing your journey !!! As I said before " find a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life " !! I am glad you have found it !!! Mine was 43 years !!! God bless you and your family !!!!! Eddy
I live in Southern Ireland and your setup looks very labourer intensive compared you how we do it , we have free stalls with alley scrapers which scrape out onto a slatted floor which the cows also stand on to eat , and our milking parlour is a 14 aside herringbone
Another great video Taylor. Very informative on how much work it takes to be a small farmer these days. You and Brent have a very good system on getting your work done. One question , where does all that manure from your barn go?
Good morning tay thank you for the great video showing us whats going for chores it totally makes me want to go back milking cows keep up the great work and taking care of the girls so well 👍👍😊😊
years ago I worked for a dairy equipment.company used to work on quite a few surge.units.the ones we sold were Westphalia.probably don't miss that job getting called out on an emergency Call at 2 in themorning when I was on call and working up to 14 hours
I have always heard with Holsteins if there is any dark color from the hoof to around the knee they are a cross with something. I think you're probably right, maybe a short horn cross.
Tks for taking us along on ur morning rounds!! That's a lot of work!! Question...U made a comment about the snow on the sawdust piles causing mastitis.....I curious as to why....keep in mind I've never farmed or had any experience w/ cattle....Tks!
Thanks for watching! That’s a great question! Any kind of moisture that carries bacteria can cause an infection or swelling in their udder. Thanks for commenting hope you have a great day!!
NEW SUBSCRIBER. Tremendous video with a hard working and smart woman. Impressive. I'm near 80 and started milking in 1950 near Corunna, Michigan. Cows, silos, and barns are always remembered. Got out of milking in the 60s. My father's aunt milked cows until she was in her 70s. Godspeed. Eaglegards...
Love your videos,it reminds me of when I was a kid and we would go on the farm down the road,the hay the silage, the manure all of it brings fond memories.thank you so very much and god bless you
What do you suppose Brent was thinking as he was plowing with the Kubota, I'll bet it at least crossed his mind how lucky he was to have someone in taking care of the cows as competent as you Taylor!!!
It is so neat that you love your job, it is very evident. You are eager, you take great pride in what you do. Fun to watch you have fun doing what many would see as a drudge. I also received enjoyment from farm labor jobs my whole working career.
Auburn looks like a Durham cross with holstein. Use to have about 40 on my folks farm and they looked just like her. Durham have smaller hoofs and legs but a slightly smaller body then a pure holstein. Produce good milk production and quiet a bit of cream.
Really nice video, and felt like being shown how to be a "fill in" milker! Lol But it was well down and appreciate all the extra efforts to film it. Thank-you for sharing!
Trying to see if that's a Patz barn cleaner! There is Red Holstine! I never heard of a Lineback until last year! Holstine, jersey, cross make good cows! We milked 120 head in a 90 head barn, had to switch out cows- 1080 gallon tank, wash by hand! we did it the old fashion way!
Great question, we’ll ya never know exactly unless you milk them into our measurements milker( which we do on occasion) but you have herd averages and you get so use to each and every cow you get pretty good at estimating. Thanks for commenting!
I milked around 80cows no Scotland originally neck tied, our pulsators had double outlet milking 2 quainters alternately yours seems to pulse all 4 at the same time, is this this normal for maine? Love your small scale perspective in the big is better world love your vids, Kenny Shaw and
Great video there Taylor I love the cows I get my organic milk from a local farmer around here unpasteurized A2A2 milk and that sure is nice milk it is a lot of butter that beads up on the top of my coffee when i use it for creamer ,manure smell of milk cows is what remind s me of a farm .. it's great to have a job you love to go to and work at !! thanks for the videos god bless!!
We breed are black and white Holstein cows with a Red and white Holstein bull and we have a heifer that looks similar to your cow. Milking with a pipeline must be nice we still using the old Delaval floor buckets
Most definitely Red and White Holsteins, it’s a recessive gene. You can have a black and white cow, and as long as she carries that gene (Red Carrier (RC)), if you breed her to another RC sire, I think it’s a 50% chance the offspring will be Red, and if you bred her to a red sire it’s a 75% chance if I remember correctly. Now, if you had a red cow and a black and white sire, the offspring would be black and white, but carry the red recessive genes. Red cow, red sire, 100% red offspring. Looks like your girl might be a red and white cross, possibly jersey (or shorthorn), but her dam was definitely R&W Hope this helps!
So how many cows do you guys milk we were small dairy in Southern Ohio for many years we gave it up in 2009 and switch to Beef Cattle little bit easier and now we also have sheep
Great question! Yes it runs into a pit by being pumped through a pipe under ground. If you don’t run water with it sometimes the sawdust plugs it up. We figured that out the hard way😂 thanks so much for watching and commenting!
I wouldn't be surprised if that was just a red Holstein, I've had 2 over the years that were a solid dark red like that. They sure look like a cross though
Good question! There are several ways-very little milk pulsing throw the line, no milk coming down the sides of the bowl on the machine(they are clear so you can easily see inside). You can also tell by the look at feel of their udder. It was very hard for me to tell at first and I worried about it constantly!😂 but practice makes it come naturally after awhile. Thanks for commenting!
@@tayfarms i dont know how much info you can find in english on it but the history of it is that came out of cross breeding 4 now extinct danish cattle breeds in the 1840's it was the most common breed in Denmark into the 1960s where holstien over took it. It ran into some issues with inbreeding and got crossed with some canadian brown cattle. Today it only 10% of the dairycattle in Denmark there are RDM. The breed might have find its way to the us with some danish sedlers ther was alot of danish seddlers there took up farming in minnesota dakotas and montana and some in canada. The holstein is breed from crossing what we call old jysk with some dutsh cattle
You guys feed with a willbarrow inside of your barn? Like trinity dairy and gierok farms do if I ever have a chance to start my own small beef herd that's how I'm gonna do it make a barn to hold atleast 40 to 80 head and raise beef cattle I met a few dx dairy farmers who have done that with they're old dairy barns sold they're milking equipment and started raising beef cattle in the stalls where they used to milk they're cows and use a wheel barrow to feed silage and use an old badger chopper box cut down to use as a poor man's tmr mixer
I love seeing small family run farms still doing great in this mega farm industry. Small farms around me are disapearing fast, worked with a guy that milked 70 cows tie stall and he had to sell out when they made him dump milk in 2020 and still have to pay the truck company for sending a driver out to tell him that. I will support any small local dairy farm that i can. We NEED THEM, we dont need the mega dairy farms.
When I was a kid my grand uncle had a tie up Byre, which here in Ireland was one row of cows , but otherwise very similar to your set up, in about 1973 he put in a milking parlour, but just before he did he had to go into hospital for a few days and I was left to milk for him I was 8 , I milked the 40 odd cows twice a day for about a week in the twenty stall byre, it was summer time so we were only giving them a bit of cake at milking time, most of the time my granaunt helped me but a couple of times I did it all on my own, I still remember being so proud of myself and grown up, when my grand uncle came home I helped him out for a few more days till he was better and when it was time to go home he gave me a brand new 10 pound note, a weeks wages for a man at the time! Many years later my grand uncle died and his son sold the farm, I couldn’t buy it at the time but a few years later the new owners decided to sell it on and I bought it, that’s 35 years ago now and we are currently milking 150 cows in the same yard and about to convert the tie up byre into an apartment for one of my lads to live in, the point being that you never know what is going to happen but if you love doing something you never do a days work and if you get an opportunity jump at it .
That’s an amazing story, so glad you were able to continue on your family’s farm!
Walter from Tanzania part of east Africa,am very much impressed with what you are doing.
This takes me back to my childhood into my teenage years. Grew up on a small 63 cow dairy. I used to milk that same way you are with a pipe line system. Thanks for posting that video brought back a lot of great memories with my dad and uncle and grandfather on the farm. Sad to say that Dad kicked me off the farm and told me to make a better life for me…. When it is in your blood I still miss it to this day! Thanks again!!
When I was in high school I worked on a farm and milked 44 cows. What amazed me most was when the cows came in to get milked they all went to the same stall every time. They are smarter then people think. Great video. 👍
They are pretty smart, thanks for commenting!
wonderful to see a farm functioning. thanks !
From what my ancestors told me red Holstein is the original Holstein. But your cow looks like a shorthorn browswiss cross maybe red Holstein Brownsville or red Holstein shorthorn cross lol hard to tell unless you were the one who bred the cow that gave birth to her !
Interesting, thanks! Yup that’s the only way you’d truly know!😂
There is an old saying, If you love your work, you never work a day in your life. I found that to be absolutely true! Looks like you believe in that old saying as well....
Such a great saying! Thanks for commenting 😃
When I was the farm, our cows did have their own stalls. They would go right into them every time. And yes I got splattered a few times. We had one cow that was so ticklish that hardly no one could milk. I was fortunate in that I could milk her with no problem. There were 8 of us on the farm so we could miling sdone pretty quickly. My uncle had 6 machines to milk with. every thing was manual, we had to pour the milk from the machines into the large milk cans and then put them in a cooler overnight and then in the AM take that milk and load it on to the back of the truck to take it down to the creamery where they weighed it and checked butterfat content. Fun times. Good luck and God bless.
I remember them days but we had a milk truck come and picked up the cans so that had to be back in the fifties and sixties and maybe the early early 70s
That’s a lot of hard work, but it sounds like a great set up! Thanks for commenting have a wonderful day!
Mrs Tyler you have a nice cow's good job your doss has nice cows 🐄 and calefs and bulls and have fun
This was cool to watch! thanks for sharing! You take great care of those animals.
I’m glad you liked it, thank you for watching!
Hi Taylor
This may sound a little strange, but all my life whenever I went past a farm I would stop and take in the scenery and any activity going on at the farm, wether it be manure spreading or cutting and baking of hay
I love the aroma of the manure and fresh cut hay it made me wish I was born and raised on a farm
You are so lucky to be able to be doing what you do best and always seem to have a positive upbeat personality that is why one reason I enjoy watching your videos so much😊
Not strange at all! There’s something special about farming, very hard to describe. It just kinda gets in your heart. Thanks for commenting!
Thanks for posting the video! I really enjoyed it.
Thank you for watching and m glad you liked it!!
Love your videos good job covering your daily activities 👏
we need the small farms to stay around. GREAT WORK
They are beautiful cows♥️ they are well taking care of for sure. Thank you and Brent for the education of a small dairy farm ♥️😊
Thank you! It is our pleasure to do these videos, just glad people enjoy them. Thanks again!!
Enjoy your channel. Just subscribed. Retired dairy farmer from Wisconsin.
Welcome!! Thanks for commenting!
You explained your many chores very well, Tay. Takes me back to my teen years. I really did want to farm. The farm wasn’t large enough for my parents and 6 other children, so I was “encouraged” to work off the home farm. Ended up being a good move
Thanks, farming is a hard living. It’s great that you grew up on a farm! Thank you for commenting
Love this style. So better for the cows.
I do too! Thanks for commenting
From WI: yes there is a red holstein. They (were/are) quite rare here possibly due to production bias (the reds initially had some Ayrshire and/or Shorthorn influence in their past). The red gene is recessive in cattle but color genetics is not simple - meaning, I never saw a red and white calf born from black Holstein parents. Thanks for the time to produce videos. Having done the work you do, I can only imagine what adding video recording does to your day! ❤ Peace.
Hi! That’s great information thank you! It certainly can add a lot of extra effort but I really enjoy making these videos for y’all. Thanks so much for watching and commenting!
It's nice when you enjoy what you do It makes it all worthwhile
Enjoy your videos young lady thank you for taking the time to make them!
Thank you, I’m glad you like them!
@@tayfarms اذا احببتني يوما ساحبك قرون، ذا كان حبك ضجه فحبي سكون، اذا كان حبك عداله فحبي هو قانون، اذا كان قلبك قاضي فقلبي هو المسجون.❤⚘✍Love Ramiz
What lucky girls. Since you love your work it's the best for all. Thanks for sharing Taylor. Best wishes, Deb
Thanks so much!
Brent struck gold with you as an employee.
Great video Taylor thanks for sharing we have the same problem as you at the minute frost ,snow everything is froze just have to allow more time but keep farming nothing beats it stay safe 👍
Thank you, I can’t wait for spring time already! Farming is the best!! Have a safe and wonderful day!
I noticed your Garelick Farms milk crate on your milk cart. I used to work for them back in 86 to 04 delivery to grocery stores. I grew up on family Dairy farm. My brother still the farm. We milk with a parlor and freestyle barn. Mendon Massachusetts then he moved farm to Warren Massachusetts
That’s cool! Also great that your family is still farming, have a great weekend!
Great video Tay! Your enjoyment in your work shows in your attitude. Always enjoy following you around the barn!
I appreciate that!
Great video Taylor
Love this channel and her! Great work ethic and personality. The world needs more Taylors.
Well you wear at the same crap that we got last night and late afternoon we got about four and a half inches here in Iowa but it must have rained quite a bit before that that snow came down
Love your kindness!
Taylor! What an awesome video today! Your personality shown through in this video more than any other, and your wonderful sense of humor. I loved the many different angles you chose for the chores you performed. You are getting better with each video and your hard work is appreciated by many. I couldn’t resist laughing at the cow that stole some hay from you, while you carried it alongside the stall. Stay safe and warm, Taylor. 🐄 ❤
Thank you I really appreciate that! 😂 I didn’t even notice the hay thief. Hope you have a fantastic weekend
I can see your love for your job. We milked 32 cows with. Surge bucket milkers. I always love the winter. The bran feeling so cosy
We used to have a surge bucket milker, heavy sun of a gun when it was full of milk!😅 thanks for watching!
When I was 12... we had a black jersey heifer bred her to a red and white holstein bull... she was all black. She had a bull calf that was all red with a black patch on his forehead...
Isn’t it strange how things like that happen!
Great video Taylor you have a brilliant system of working and you make it look so easy and simple 👍. You really know your stuff as a diary person. 😀 well done 👏 and the girls are very lucky to have you looking after them. Love your videos and tutorials and please keep them coming. Regards and best wishes Patrick Brazil.
Thank you, stay well!!
I always enjoyed the morning and evening chores and feeding too..
The best!
@@tayfarms sure is..
Used to have my own dairy Operation on Wisconsin. Love it. Took it over when my dad past away.
Enjoy your videos, you seem very happy in what you do from milking the girls to feeding them. Keep up the great work and what you do for the agriculture world. Nice smile 😃
I’m glad you like them, thank you!
Great video , girl ,,, keep up the good work ,,,U give people hope ,,,love u kiddo
A great job of working and filming at the same time !!! I don't know how you do it !! Thank you for sharing your journey !!! As I said before " find a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life " !! I am glad you have found it !!! Mine was 43 years !!! God bless you and your family !!!!! Eddy
Thank you, I love making them for y’all!
I live in Southern Ireland and your setup looks very labourer intensive compared you how we do it , we have free stalls with alley scrapers which scrape out onto a slatted floor which the cows also stand on to eat , and our milking parlour is a 14 aside herringbone
Good job tag ❤
Another great video Taylor. Very informative on how much work it takes to be a small farmer these days. You and Brent have a very good system on getting your work done. One question , where does all that manure from your barn go?
Thank you! The manure gets pumped underground and up into a manure pit. Thanks for commenting!
Good morning tay thank you for the great video showing us whats going for chores it totally makes me want to go back milking cows keep up the great work and taking care of the girls so well 👍👍😊😊
Good morning! Farming is the best! Thank you, hope you have a wonderful day!
years ago I worked for a dairy equipment.company used to work on quite a few surge.units.the ones we sold were Westphalia.probably don't miss that job getting called out on an emergency Call at 2 in themorning when I was on call and working up to 14 hours
Sounds like some long days! Thanks for commenting
I have always heard with Holsteins if there is any dark color from the hoof to around the knee they are a cross with something. I think you're probably right, maybe a short horn cross.
I’ve heard the same thing!
Love your videos keep them coming YOUR a hard working smart youn lady KEEP it up
Thank you! Will do!
Tks for taking us along on ur morning rounds!! That's a lot of work!! Question...U made a comment about the snow on the sawdust piles causing mastitis.....I curious as to why....keep in mind I've never farmed or had any experience w/ cattle....Tks!
Thanks for watching! That’s a great question! Any kind of moisture that carries bacteria can cause an infection or swelling in their udder. Thanks for commenting hope you have a great day!!
@@tayfarms Tk u for ur reply!! Have a great day!
Really enjoyed the longer video! Thanks for going the extra mile (literally 😁).
Glad you enjoyed it!
NEW SUBSCRIBER. Tremendous video with a hard working and smart woman. Impressive.
I'm near 80 and started milking in 1950 near Corunna, Michigan. Cows, silos, and barns are always remembered. Got out of milking in the 60s. My father's aunt milked cows until she was in her 70s. Godspeed. Eaglegards...
Hi! Thank you so much! Your father’s aunt must have really loved farming. Thanks for watching I hope you have a wonderful day!
G0D BLESS YOU TAYLOR ALWAYS
Nothing like having fun hahahaha awesome
Enjoyed your time with us today
Thanks for watching!
Thanks for being there - looking forward to your videos
Thanks for coming!
Love your videos,it reminds me of when I was a kid and we would go on the farm down the road,the hay the silage, the manure all of it brings fond memories.thank you so very much and god bless you
Great job milking Taylor
Yes Taylor a job on the farm is better than any other one.
What do you suppose Brent was thinking as he was plowing with the Kubota, I'll bet it at least crossed his mind how lucky he was to have someone in taking care of the cows as competent as you Taylor!!!
😄 thank you!
as my grandfather would use too say, its your calling
Absolutely!
It is so neat that you love your job, it is very evident. You are eager, you take great pride in what you do. Fun to watch you have fun doing what many would see as a drudge. I also received enjoyment from farm labor jobs my whole working career.
Thank you so much!
Good morning Taylor love your videos 🔥💯😍😍💯😍💯💯😍💯💯💯💯😍💯💯😍😍💯😍💯😍💯💯💯😍💯💯💯💯
Auburn looks like a Durham cross with holstein. Use to have about 40 on my folks farm and they looked just like her. Durham have smaller hoofs and legs but a slightly smaller body then a pure holstein. Produce good milk production and quiet a bit of cream.
That’s a cross I never considered! We had several Durham Jerseys and they were great miller’s and like u said very creamy milk. Thanks for commenting!
I always like your videos. You are living my dream. Keep up the good work, and thanks for sharing it with us
I’m glad you like them,Thank you!
Really nice video, and felt like being shown how to be a "fill in" milker! Lol But it was well down and appreciate all the extra efforts to film it. Thank-you for sharing!
Another interesting video especially for people like me me who doesn't know much about farming but I'm learning with your videos
Thank you, I’m glad to hear it!
Great job thanks for sharing 👍
Rather get splattered its just grass and water touching me. 😆😆
Than most people
Well done. 👍 Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
makes ya wonder what it was like before skid steers they seem to be most important machine on any farm, is 70 the most you can have in that barn?
Yes skid steers are so essential!! The barn will tie up 72 . Thanks for watching!
Your such a hard working girle KEEP up the good work Love your videos keep them coming YOUR
Beautiful!
You should look into a quieter motor for that cart.
Trying to see if that's a Patz barn cleaner! There is Red Holstine! I never heard of a Lineback until last year! Holstine, jersey, cross make good cows! We milked 120 head in a 90 head barn, had to switch out cows- 1080 gallon tank, wash by hand! we did it the old fashion way!
It most certainly is a Patz! Sounds like some hard work y’all did! Thanks for commenting
You crack me up
With so many cows, how do you actually monitor how much milk each cow gives?
Great question, we’ll ya never know exactly unless you milk them into our measurements milker( which we do on occasion) but you have herd averages and you get so use to each and every cow you get pretty good at estimating. Thanks for commenting!
Enjoying the videos Taylor 🙋♂️🐈🐈
I milked around 80cows no Scotland originally neck tied, our pulsators had double outlet milking 2 quainters alternately yours seems to pulse all 4 at the same time, is this this normal for maine? Love your small scale perspective in the big is better world love your vids, Kenny Shaw and
Great video there Taylor I love the cows I get my organic milk from a local farmer around here unpasteurized A2A2 milk and that sure is nice milk it is a lot of butter that beads up on the top of my coffee when i use it for creamer ,manure smell of milk cows is what remind s me of a farm .. it's great to have a job you love to go to and work at !! thanks for the videos god bless!!
That is awesome that you buy locally! I’m so glad you enjoy watching, have a great weekend!!
Great video
I hope you can have your own dairy farm some day
awesome
Thank you
... if I were a cow ide be running for a stall on Ms Taylor's side .... and EAT all my minerals too ...!!
I would definitely say she is shorthorn cross
Do you keep feed upstairs in the barn or is it empty?
Their are a few round bales up there, one year we had 180 up there!
We breed are black and white Holstein cows with a Red and white Holstein bull and we have a heifer that looks similar to your cow. Milking with a pipeline must be nice we still using the old Delaval floor buckets
Have yu guys tried using high octane gas for the bale unroll machine
Good morning kitten 🐱 are we good
Most definitely Red and White Holsteins, it’s a recessive gene. You can have a black and white cow, and as long as she carries that gene (Red Carrier (RC)), if you breed her to another RC sire, I think it’s a 50% chance the offspring will be Red, and if you bred her to a red sire it’s a 75% chance if I remember correctly.
Now, if you had a red cow and a black and white sire, the offspring would be black and white, but carry the red recessive genes.
Red cow, red sire, 100% red offspring.
Looks like your girl might be a red and white cross, possibly jersey (or shorthorn), but her dam was definitely R&W
Hope this helps!
Very helpful, thanks!
If your not fixing fences gates machinery cropping and looking after animals plus all the little things associated with a farm , your sleeping 😄.
Yup, that perfectly sums up farm life 😅
So how many cows do you guys milk we were small dairy in Southern Ohio for many years we gave it up in 2009 and switch to Beef Cattle little bit easier and now we also have sheep
The barn ties 72 milkers, how many did y’all milk? I’ve always been interested in sheep! Thank you!
Why do you add water to the barn cleaner? Does the maure go to a pit? Beautiful farm. Nice job!
Great question! Yes it runs into a pit by being pumped through a pipe under ground. If you don’t run water with it sometimes the sawdust plugs it up. We figured that out the hard way😂 thanks so much for watching and commenting!
What is the manufacturer of the machine unrolling round bales inside barn. Could really use one. Thx
Hi! It is an old Rissler. Great machine, thanks so much for watching!
I wouldn't be surprised if that was just a red Holstein, I've had 2 over the years that were a solid dark red like that. They sure look like a cross though
I didn’t know that could happen, you’re right they certainly do look crossbred. Thanks for commenting!
How do you know when the cow has finished milking?
Keep up the good work!
Good question! There are several ways-very little milk pulsing throw the line, no milk coming down the sides of the bowl on the machine(they are clear so you can easily see inside). You can also tell by the look at feel of their udder. It was very hard for me to tell at first and I worried about it constantly!😂 but practice makes it come naturally after awhile. Thanks for commenting!
How old is Brent.... could you see your self take over one day...
Auburn looks like a jersey shorthorn cross?
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Hi Im From Denmark she look like a RDM (Red Danish Milk Race)
Hi!! Never heard of that. I’ll have to look into it. Thanks!
@@tayfarms i dont know how much info you can find in english on it but the history of it is that came out of cross breeding 4 now extinct danish cattle breeds in the 1840's it was the most common breed in Denmark into the 1960s where holstien over took it. It ran into some issues with inbreeding and got crossed with some canadian brown cattle. Today it only 10% of the dairycattle in Denmark there are RDM. The breed might have find its way to the us with some danish sedlers ther was alot of danish seddlers there took up farming in minnesota dakotas and montana and some in canada. The holstein is breed from crossing what we call old jysk with some dutsh cattle
You seem too minimise risk, from kicking when attaching cups.
You guys feed with a willbarrow inside of your barn? Like trinity dairy and gierok farms do if I ever have a chance to start my own small beef herd that's how I'm gonna do it make a barn to hold atleast 40 to 80 head and raise beef cattle I met a few dx dairy farmers who have done that with they're old dairy barns sold they're milking equipment and started raising beef cattle in the stalls where they used to milk they're cows and use a wheel barrow to feed silage and use an old badger chopper box cut down to use as a poor man's tmr mixer
How much milk does a cow give
what size zero bulk tank ? need lots of maintenance ? mine was never ending.
13,000 lbs-other than the problems with the rheostat that runs the dc motors for the paddles, it’s been fantastic.