This has to be the best video and explaining of how you work in the barn with animals and what is involved of feeding, milking, sanitation etc. You people sure work hard at what you do. Thanks for taking the time to show people that have not seen this part of the farm in action.
This is bringing back a whole lot of memories of my relatives' dairy farm. As a child I loved learning how things worked, and their equipment was no exception. Thank you for showing how your operations were set up.
I realize I'm over a year behind with this video but I've just recently started watching you. I am really enjoying this. I was raised on a farm in Florida in the 70's. My dad worked there for 14 years and I started working around there at about 8 years old doing a little bit of everything. Our barn milked 104 cows at a time with 52 cows per side with opposing stanchions and the feed alley ran down the middle of the barn between them. We ran Surge pulsating machines and it was a flat barn. We were the 3rd largest dairy farm in the state of Florida. That was some of the best years of my life. You mentioned drinking milk, the average person will never experience the wonderful full flavor of ice cold milk right from tank or from the cow and refrigerated cold, cold! The difference from fresh whole milk to store bought milk is like the difference between store bought whole and 1% milk. I miss real milk! Lol Thank you for your videos.
would it be worth renting that to someone that wants to dairy? Pretty good setup for someone to start building equity in cows till they could find a farm to buy.
+Frank M I suprised as well, being that Bou-matic's headquarters used to be ther.. I grew up in MN, and we had a variety to choose from, Bou-matic, DeLaval, Surge, and Uneversal, Conde, and NuPulse . In my opinion, Bou-Matic had the coolest washing system with the Cyclone 600 air injector and the sphere like glass 25 and 50 liter glass receiver. depending on the set up, the receiver would shack with the incoming rushing water. I would have no problem watching a Bou-Matic pipeline system wash, it was kind of cool to see. Scott
Most of the farmers that i used to work for didnt had stantions for the cows;they had a long pipe in front of the cows with hooks welded on the pipe;the cows had chains around their necks and the chains would retain the cows against the pipe while they were milked or kept inside in the winter;there was always a bar welded at the end of the pipe and the farmer would turn the bar around to free the cows!
A Thesis paper that a Grad Student leaves at the College of Agriculture concerning the PLOP that a stanchion barn and dairy cow produces even on the field if let out, is far superior to the stench and the loose POOP that comes from a Dairy cow in a Free Stall with Milking Parlor. Less Mastitis and diarrhea from a stanchion set up and the stench is far better if none at all.
Patz Barn cleaner.. not too many down South.. Did install a few... More Silo unloaders and chain feeders..... Been to Pound Wisc. and Great Lakes dragyay....
+Jamie Procarione lol how cool! You and Ryan should come to the Kenosha County Dairy Breakfast this year in June. It's at the Crane farm like 20 minuets west on hwy 50. If you and Ryan ever come to kenosha soon i should hire him to take my senior picture too lol
The ceiling looks very low ! Perhaps that's because you covered over the beams. Humidity must be intense.....lot's of rust on metal fixtures ! I thought you stopped milk herd operation and were concentrating on beef cattle.
+Keith Jeasser my family has a dairy operation in Pennsylvania and have a tie stall barn, they have one of the best cell counts in the state, even if they dont have a free stall
+Aaron Brandt my family farm has bedded with sand for as long as I can remember and other farms in the area that still use tie stalls and straw or sawdust have scc's almost double ours and we have some of the lowest scc's in our area of northeast ohio
Ryan I can’t believe you guys milked 60 or 70 cows with only 4 units , it suck you guys didn’t wanna do it anymore , not many wanna do it anymore I got dairy cows aswell just being around the animals , I’m 16 and have my own little herd of 12 in a 50 cow dairy But there’s no money in it to stay afloat anymore . Idk but every cool video
This has to be the best video and explaining of how you work in the barn with animals and what is involved of feeding, milking, sanitation etc.
You people sure work hard at what you do. Thanks for taking the time to show people that have not seen this part of the farm in action.
my grandpa had a stanchion barn also, we had to carry manure out in wheel barrows daily. he had 25 cows, 80 acres 2 tractors to do all the work
This is bringing back a whole lot of memories of my relatives' dairy farm. As a child I loved learning how things worked, and their equipment was no exception. Thank you for showing how your operations were set up.
I realize I'm over a year behind with this video but I've just recently started watching you. I am really enjoying this. I was raised on a farm in Florida in the 70's. My dad worked there for 14 years and I started working around there at about 8 years old doing a little bit of everything. Our barn milked 104 cows at a time with 52 cows per side with opposing stanchions and the feed alley ran down the middle of the barn between them. We ran Surge pulsating machines and it was a flat barn. We were the 3rd largest dairy farm in the state of Florida.
That was some of the best years of my life.
You mentioned drinking milk, the average person will never experience the wonderful full flavor of ice cold milk right from tank or from the cow and refrigerated cold, cold! The difference from fresh whole milk to store bought milk is like the difference between store bought whole and 1% milk. I miss real milk! Lol
Thank you for your videos.
would it be worth renting that to someone that wants to dairy? Pretty good setup for someone to start building equity in cows till they could find a farm to buy.
Whats the brown stuff in the watering bowl??
Thanks for the info Ryan
Do you guys do the hoof trimming? Or you hire someone to do it?
Im surprised you guys don't have any BouMatic equipment, everyone here in Northeast Wisconsin has them
Bomatic are cheap ass ...Dairymaster is where it's at
+Frank M I suprised as well, being that Bou-matic's headquarters used to be ther.. I grew up in MN, and we had a variety to choose from, Bou-matic, DeLaval, Surge, and Uneversal, Conde, and NuPulse . In my opinion, Bou-Matic had the coolest washing system with the Cyclone 600 air injector and the sphere like glass 25 and 50 liter glass receiver. depending on the set up, the receiver would shack with the incoming rushing water. I would have no problem watching a Bou-Matic pipeline system wash, it was kind of cool to see. Scott
Most of the farmers that i used to work for didnt had stantions for the cows;they had a long pipe in front of the cows with hooks welded on the pipe;the cows had chains around their necks and the chains would retain the cows against the pipe while they were milked or kept inside in the winter;there was always a bar welded at the end of the pipe and the farmer would turn the bar around to free the cows!
What will happen to the dairy barn now, and why did you feed square bales and silage?
A Thesis paper that a Grad Student leaves at the College of Agriculture concerning the PLOP that a stanchion barn and dairy cow produces even on the field if let out, is far superior to the stench and the loose POOP that comes from a Dairy cow in a Free Stall with Milking Parlor. Less Mastitis and diarrhea from a stanchion set up and the stench is far better if none at all.
Patz Barn cleaner.. not too many down South.. Did install a few... More Silo unloaders and chain feeders..... Been to Pound Wisc. and Great Lakes dragyay....
+David Goethe great lakes dragway in kenosha?
+Jamie Procarione lol how cool! You and Ryan should come to the Kenosha County Dairy Breakfast this year in June. It's at the Crane farm like 20 minuets west on hwy 50. If you and Ryan ever come to kenosha soon i should hire him to take my senior picture too lol
What type of 4 wheels do you have?
How many cows could the barn milk and why wasn't the barn full?
The ceiling looks very low ! Perhaps that's because you covered over the beams.
Humidity must be intense.....lot's of rust on metal fixtures ! I thought you stopped
milk herd operation and were concentrating on beef cattle.
Jim Listerman this is an old video
Are you guys getting rid of any stanchions for parts? I believe we have the same type of stanchion as you.
Probably all available now they quit milking
Catching up
do u ever get lost in your dairy barn?
ever consider putting in a free stall barn and parlor. alot less work and cows bedded on sand have a much lower sematic cell count
That is just not true... It has nothing to do with the cell count
+Aaron Brandt it is in fact true ...why do you think it isn't? Please explain
+Keith Jeasser my family has a dairy operation in Pennsylvania and have a tie stall barn, they have one of the best cell counts in the state, even if they dont have a free stall
+Aaron Brandt my family farm has bedded with sand for as long as I can remember and other farms in the area that still use tie stalls and straw or sawdust have scc's almost double ours and we have some of the lowest scc's in our area of northeast ohio
+DeereFarmer09 to have the lowest cell count it takes hard work, not sand
My family milked for a long long time my dad and uncle had 32 for quite awhile plus a long time ago my family hand milked 12 to 14
Where's the bag balm?
If your vacuum an milk likes can handle it add two more milkers u would be surprised how two more would help!!
Ryan I can’t believe you guys milked 60 or 70 cows with only 4 units , it suck you guys didn’t wanna do it anymore , not many wanna do it anymore I got dairy cows aswell just being around the animals , I’m 16 and have my own little herd of 12 in a 50 cow dairy But there’s no money in it to stay afloat anymore . Idk but every cool video
Yep, already getting out old dairy footage, you'll be back milking soon haha
You should put cows back in the barn!! I got the same bedding chopper an she runs on elect. to!
I wish i had trainers but in Finland use of trainers is forbitten.
first to watch the video 😋😱😃😄❄❄❄❄❄⛄⛄⛄⛄ yay
They are called LOUVERS
Do you miss the fresh raw cows milk which is better for u than the stuff out of the store
Why do you talk with ban Australian accent rising your last words?
are those your cows or your parents
+John Haas I know not what I asked
This video must of been pretty close to the time you quit milking
really we us iadian
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A bovine is the only animal that eats,sleeps, and craps in the same place a pig will do is business in a separate place if it has one....