And this is why farmers have to keep and eye in cows, keep them safe from harm and to keep them healthy, farms are not cruel places and cows need farmers
yep i agree with that and i do not understand why Jan should have to explain why the farm separates the calves in every video that he does it he must get alot of negative comments
I love the way you take care of your calf and what is good for them. I grew up on a farm in Canada my dad had a few dairy cattle and treated them how you do. You maybe be young but you know a lit and I think that's because of your dad like mine. Keep up the great job
If Jan won't mention it, his older sister Neline has started her own RUclips Channel called A Dairy on the Prairie. Please take the time to check out her work and give her a boost by subscribing to her channel also. She's only got a hand full of videos up so far, but there content is great. Besides milking, Neline also scraps the alleys and fluffs up the sand bedding just like Jan does. She works with the calves, feeding, bedding and vaccinating them. She's got a whole different perspective of their dairy from the female side of working the farm. I'm encouraging you to visit her channel so that she might gain enough followers to become "monetized!"
Hey !! let's look at it from a DUTCH PRACTICAL point... when Jan started it sure looked like a WASTE of good working time.. and Jan sure never expected 143K of viewers (MONEY) Now Dad can sure warm up to a money making project .. you notice Dad (and Mom) never put a stop to it.. just gave it a good SCOWL ... but hey Jan has proved it is no waste of time
Not at all ! I like the way it smells and I’m a city boy, the only time I’ve ever set foot on a farm was to pumpkin pick, but I wish I was raised on a farm
Here with us, Simmental or yellow cattle are mostly kept because they are better mothers. Instead, the Holsteiners have more milk. The other two cattle breeds are more likely to be two useful cattle, meat and milk. Although the yellow cattle are not kept that often here either. We're not quite as big farmers as you are.
I just got back from a motorcycle ride through NJ and MD and went past several dairy farms. As I went by I thought about your videos and liked knowing that I have some idea of what goes on in there. Love the country smell. Thanks for your videos. I had no idea before.
Even human moms can go a little nuts after giving birth. I'm glad you rescued the calf before she hurt it. I guess calving is an ongoing thing at your farm. Nice that your done poo patrol for awhile. Good video. Peace.
we have 3 shifts in our sow farrowing rooms, rarely are we called [me and twin brother] but a few weeks ago at 4am my phone rings from the farrowing barn room 14 we rushed there to find 1 sow who had been giving birth to 12 piglets now eating them, chewing on one and only 6 left, the rest gone.removed the rest of her piglets and moved her to another area. we shipped her later that week. so just like a cow not liking her calf pigs can be the same but in our case more deadly
Jan, I've never seen a harder worker than you! I've never really seen how a dairy farm worked until I ran across SaskDutchKid on RUclips, and didn't realize how much work it was. Kudos to you and your family! One question though, why is that 1 skid steer always so filthy? You keep all your machinery so clean, but that skid steer you used in this vlog is always caked with muck!?!
Great video as always, you do good work. Easy to tell that you enjoy what you do, impressed with your knowledge and skill level, especially for how young you are. Wish we had one of those skid steers growing up on our dairy, all those jobs you do with that thing we did by hand. Not fun, lol!
Looks like you need a sand shooter for the freestall barn. Once you use one you'll never be back to doing it with a bucket. Saves so much time and tires on the skid loader
don't listen to some of those people on taking the calves away from the cow. people like to voice their opinion to much. i love watching you do your chores.
Great video Jan! Good to see / hear your Dad and his helpful reply to "Where is the Bobcat?" LOL You are doing a nice job of editing, also! Looks like professional work! Milk cows need much different handling than just fattening up for slaughter animals. Milk cows, especially up "north" don't have as much room to roam around a pasture and figure out how to be 'good mothers'. Take care and may you not have to pull the manure wagon for many months!! 🤧
@@maryschillinger2909 i didn’t know. I once asked but never got answered when they emigrated. By the accent of mom and dad i can hear that they are born in the Netherlands
Wow I didn’t know that!! It just deepened what breed of animal or a cow! That something. I never knew that! You learn something new every day!! The are beautiful girls you have!! Sounds like they need attention and love happiness! Keep up the good work!! Are they easy to tame
I just discovered your sister's wonderful RUclips channel "The Dairy on the Prarie". She is very talented and enjoyable to watch and explains very clearly what is involved in her chores at the dairy farm. I highly recommend it and wonder why you don't mention it on your channel. I don't miss any of your or your sister's videos. Great work both of you.
I like your videos but Holstein cows are great mothers we use them for nurse cows and put two or three calves at a time on them. the milk is the main reason but to say a cow cant mother a calf hard to go with you on that. I will agree some are bad mothers we sent them to town but we are running a 99 percent calving rate with two nurse cows for twins or bottle calves that nobody wants and we have zero issues. I did not know you pasteurize the milk before giving it to the calf but your operation your choice great job on your video that's a nice barn system.
That was very good evidence that Holsteins aren't very good mama cows. Ramming the new born head into the steel piping. Dang, what was she thinking? Also, nice job in the beginning asking ur dad: Where's the Bobcat? Down here in the 48 we'd probably tell dad go back and get it, being you forgot to bring it. Not you, you just went and got it, very nicely done. Working with family goes a lot easier when you handle it that way.
Extremely domesticated animals often get their natural wires crossed... cows headbutting calves is kind of a normal thing but this cow has no frame of reference so it comes out in odd/bad ways.
== QUESTION -- Why are you not "Side" discharging the sand bedding using something like the machine that does the feeding. Isn't there some trailer type thing that can spray bedding out the side as you drive down the lane? It would be such a quicker way to do it.
She was bred for extreme milk production, not mothering ability. A lack of interest may have become a genetic imprint, in which case, she will not grieve for her calf. I know, having reared various breeds of dairy calves, the Holsteins don’t show much intelligence, the Jerseys on the other hand show intelligence and can sometimes outwit the humans.
I hope you watch The show made about Percy Schmeiser from Sask., as the trailer for the movie is on you tube today. It seems there is always lots of manure to move after winter. Keeping it clean driving the honey wagon over the fields. At least the snow is gone....
What about having a ramp so you can use the skid steer to put the manure in the spreader. It seems it would go faster and save on gas in the wheel loader.
Should've washed down the tractor even tho its still gonna get dirty i always rinse down my tractor just before I leave to the field gives me more visibility
Great content as usual, Thank you Jan, just curious, how many acres are you guys working with,and what do u do with it, corn, hay , etc? Stay safe and have a good day
I dont really agree wuth everything you was saying in this video but thats what makes the world go around you all like and think your ways of doing things are the best and thats fine everyone has different ways of doings you would think you would tell people your sister is getting a channel going and its awesome by the way its good to see how the rest of the farm is running to afraid that her channel will be better than yours even if she is the better milker lol just kidding you both are awesome at what you do hope yoyr sister channel takes off and does good hope yours keeps growing also watching your alls videos brings back memoriers we milked for years
She was not raised by her mom so she has no idea that is her baby cow and she has to take care of it. Every calf is in danger on your farm because you remove the babies from the cows.
I'm wondering y that big articulater Ford isn't in any of the videos seems like that would be a good alternative to the mx285 obviously it is wider but for tilling and the liquid shit tank
The worst cow we ever had was literaly killing her breed. When litle calf were finally out she was taking the calf in her mouth and throwing them onto the wall till they were definetly dead... She have killed 2 of her calfs the third was bearly rescued he was lucky someone was around when he was born...
The nose is smelling way too much today, they are spreading the manure thick and heavy so I may not have to fertilize my flowers 💐 because it seeps from the air into the ground and clothes on the line and all soft furniture in the house. But hey! It’s spring!!!
1. Make sure each gets enough feed (not all going to the pudshy ones). 2. Safety - so they don't step on each other when sleeping. 3. Isolation to prevent diseases from spreading -- young calves are very much at risk.
@@timothymbonham4453 Yep, it’s the same as saying “Why do twin new borns have their own bassinet/crib?” Mostly for their own safety and well being. They can still see each other and communicate though! :)
That mama cow looks up at you like: Oh, where did you come from? Nothing to see here.
I'm always impressed by how clean & well planned your farm is. 👍
I really like to see your family members. You have a great family. This explains your great character.
And this is why farmers have to keep and eye in cows, keep them safe from harm and to keep them healthy, farms are not cruel places and cows need farmers
Agreed
Just like cows need farmers we the people need farmers and ranchers.
Amen 🐄🐄👍🏻
yep i agree with that and i do not understand why Jan should have to explain why the farm separates the calves in every video that he does it he must get alot of negative comments
Agreeded we have breed them into a state where they need us and it's our responsibility to protect them
I love the way you take care of your calf and what is good for them. I grew up on a farm in Canada my dad had a few dairy cattle and treated them how you do. You maybe be young but you know a lit and I think that's because of your dad like mine. Keep up the great job
If Jan won't mention it, his older sister Neline has started her own RUclips Channel called A Dairy on the Prairie. Please take the time to check out her work and give her a boost by subscribing to her channel also. She's only got a hand full of videos up so far, but there content is great. Besides milking, Neline also scraps the alleys and fluffs up the sand bedding just like Jan does. She works with the calves, feeding, bedding and vaccinating them. She's got a whole different perspective of their dairy from the female side of working the farm. I'm encouraging you to visit her channel so that she might gain enough followers to become "monetized!"
The drone footage of your farm was really great to see. Quite an impressive operation. Always enjoy your videos , Jan. Thanks.
Its nice to see dad being more and more sociable on these videos all the time
yeah ! It was that glare back when asked about the skoot by Jan ... Dutch sociable for sure - my dad was the same response sort :)
Hey !! let's look at it from a DUTCH PRACTICAL point... when Jan started it sure looked like a WASTE of good working time.. and Jan sure never expected 143K of viewers (MONEY) Now Dad can sure warm up to a money making project .. you notice Dad (and Mom) never put a stop to it.. just gave it a good SCOWL ... but hey Jan has proved it is no waste of time
Every farmer I follow are young and it takes the parents time to warm up 😊
@@danemyrtle2194 it ain't that .. it is all a WASTE of working time (UNTIL it ain't and pays it's way)
Liquid manure is a bit strong smelling but I've always liked the smell of manure out in the field! I guess I'm weird! 😂 Great Video!!
Not at all ! I like the way it smells and I’m a city boy, the only time I’ve ever set foot on a farm was to pumpkin pick, but I wish I was raised on a farm
You're not weird! I like it too
I'VE CLEANED OUT BEEF AND PIG SHEADS, COW MANURE ANY TIME!!!
You’re a good guy Jan and a very hard worker. I’m sure your Dad is proud.
I went to visit a small dairy in upstate New York last week. I loved every minute of it. Even the smell did not bother me too much.
Here with us, Simmental or yellow cattle are mostly kept because they are better mothers. Instead, the Holsteiners have more milk. The other two cattle breeds are more likely to be two useful cattle, meat and milk. Although the yellow cattle are not kept that often here either. We're not quite as big farmers as you are.
Hello from Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada. Great show’s thanks for sharing with us.
Please keep them coming you make us Canadians proud
Thanks for all you do to bring dairy to us all.
We have Pork flavored fresh country air around town here today.. Soon it will be fresh cut hay!!
I just got back from a motorcycle ride through NJ and MD and went past several dairy farms. As I went by I thought about your videos and liked knowing that I have some idea of what goes on in there. Love the country smell. Thanks for your videos. I had no idea before.
Even human moms can go a little nuts after giving birth. I'm glad you rescued the calf before she hurt it. I guess calving is an ongoing thing at your farm. Nice that your done poo patrol for awhile. Good video. Peace.
Jan your dad makes me laugh every time I see him on your videos especially when he’s giving you crap for something he just cracks me up
Busy life out on the prairies, thanks again for sharing! Great video! 🇨🇦
we have 3 shifts in our sow farrowing rooms, rarely are we called [me and twin brother] but a few weeks ago at 4am my phone rings from the farrowing barn room 14 we rushed there to find 1 sow who had been giving birth to 12 piglets now eating them, chewing on one and only 6 left, the rest gone.removed the rest of her piglets and moved her to another area. we shipped her later that week. so just like a cow not liking her calf pigs can be the same but in our case more deadly
Love all the drone footage!🤗
Jan, I've never seen a harder worker than you! I've never really seen how a dairy farm worked until I ran across SaskDutchKid on RUclips, and didn't realize how much work it was. Kudos to you and your family! One question though, why is that 1 skid steer always so filthy? You keep all your machinery so clean, but that skid steer you used in this vlog is always caked with muck!?!
Great video as always, you do good work. Easy to tell that you enjoy what you do, impressed with your knowledge and skill level, especially for how young you are.
Wish we had one of those skid steers growing up on our dairy, all those jobs you do with that thing we did by hand. Not fun, lol!
Wow you get that barn really clean! Nice drone shots with tunes!
Happy Koningsdag to you and your family Jan!, keep the fantastic videos coming! 👍🏻
Looks like you need a sand shooter for the freestall barn. Once you use one you'll never be back to doing it with a bucket. Saves so much time and tires on the skid loader
That mama cow 🐄 was looking so guilty when you walked in on her pushing her baby, so glad you do separate them, 😊👍💕💕💕
hey Jan,great drone work,i love to see it.thanks.
Another great video, JAN !!! Greetings from Australia
don't listen to some of those people on taking the calves away from the cow. people like to voice their opinion to much. i love watching you do your chores.
Always love your vids! Thank you!
The smell of manure is a smell of spring. We need those yucky smells to make the flowers to smell sweeter. 🙊🐄🐄🌾🌾🌞☔️⛈💐🌷🌸🌼🌻🌺
lol - and on a more pragmatic note the manure from the herd is used to grow the feed for the herd. Circle of life and all that.
Great video Jan! Good to see / hear your Dad and his helpful reply to "Where is the Bobcat?" LOL You are doing a nice job of editing, also! Looks like professional work! Milk cows need much different handling than just fattening up for slaughter animals. Milk cows, especially up "north" don't have as much room to roam around a pasture and figure out how to be 'good mothers'. Take care and may you not have to pull the manure wagon for many months!! 🤧
LOL at the air freshener hanging in the Versatile cab while Jan hauled manure out to the fields.
Would be great to hear you speak dutch to your dad and sisters
I wonder if the kids do speak Dutch?
They do speak Dutch
@@maryschillinger2909 i didn’t know. I once asked but never got answered when they emigrated.
By the accent of mom and dad i can hear that they are born in the Netherlands
According to Google they bought the farm in 1996 and started with 45 milk cows.
@@manonvanleijen4605 - dad was born in CA (if I remember the Q&A correctly). I have noted Jan’s grandmother in the Netherlands posting occasionally.
Thanks Jan, as usual, always find your videos informational and entertaining. Keep up the great work, Cheers
Great video again Jan. Keep it up and maybe now is a good time to start talking about the Fendt.
You and Neline on the same day!? Heck yes!
? Neline?
Question can u not get something to spread the sand similar to what the 10th generation farmer uses to spread sawdust?
Wow I didn’t know that!! It just deepened what breed of animal or a cow! That something. I never knew that! You learn something new every day!! The are beautiful girls you have!! Sounds like they need attention and love happiness! Keep up the good work!! Are they easy to tame
I just discovered your sister's wonderful RUclips channel "The Dairy on the Prarie". She is very talented and enjoyable to watch and explains very clearly what is involved in her chores at the dairy farm. I highly recommend it and wonder why you don't mention it on your channel. I don't miss any of your or your sister's videos. Great work both of you.
Definitely agree
No shit! I would be happy too. Great job done.
I like your videos but Holstein cows are great mothers we use them for nurse cows and put two or three calves at a time on them. the milk is the main reason but to say a cow cant mother a calf hard to go with you on that. I will agree some are bad mothers we sent them to town but we are running a 99 percent calving rate with two nurse cows for twins or bottle calves that nobody wants and we have zero issues. I did not know you pasteurize the milk before giving it to the calf but your operation your choice great job on your video that's a nice barn system.
I want to see that one cow chase after your help again.
Another interesting video. Thank you!
Dairy farmer with an air freshener in the tractor cab??? 😂😂😂
Truth I love the smell of solid manure,but that liquid stuff makes me dry heave,lol🤣🤮
mine is the gas type....lol
Great music and excellent drone footage on this video! Good job!
That was very good evidence that Holsteins aren't very good mama cows. Ramming the new born head into the steel piping. Dang, what was she thinking? Also, nice job in the beginning asking ur dad: Where's the Bobcat? Down here in the 48 we'd probably tell dad go back and get it, being you forgot to bring it. Not you, you just went and got it, very nicely done. Working with family goes a lot easier when you handle it that way.
Extremely domesticated animals often get their natural wires crossed... cows headbutting calves is kind of a normal thing but this cow has no frame of reference so it comes out in odd/bad ways.
5:14 Somebody's gotta say it.... These camera angles are the sh!t. Love it.
Angus are the same way too.
== QUESTION -- Why are you not "Side" discharging the sand bedding using something like the machine that does the feeding. Isn't there some trailer type thing that can spray bedding out the side as you drive down the lane? It would be such a quicker way to do it.
That makes me sad that a mamma cow would treat her new born calf that way! 😔
She was bred for extreme milk production, not mothering ability. A lack of interest may have become a genetic imprint, in which case, she will not grieve for her calf. I know, having reared various breeds of dairy calves, the Holsteins don’t show much intelligence, the Jerseys on the other hand show intelligence and can sometimes outwit the humans.
@@wendyrowland7787 thank you I appreciate you explaining.
I hope you watch The show made about Percy Schmeiser from Sask., as the trailer for the movie is on you tube today.
It seems there is always lots of manure to move after winter. Keeping it clean driving the honey wagon over the fields. At least the snow is gone....
I want to hear your dad speak Dutch :)
Haha ja ben ook wel benieuwd
Da maakt 3 van ons
Yes
mischien is die het al verleerd
I allways enjoy your vedeos tankyou for sharing
No lazybones in you guys ,,thanks for videos
Awe man, I wanted to see that little Magnum pull the beast of a thing.
Great awesome video Jan . Lots of things to do
Hey Jan, another great video! I think you may need a little vacation; you are looking tired. Take care, buddy. Keep the videos coming.
What about having a ramp so you can use the skid steer to put the manure in the spreader. It seems it would go faster and save on gas in the wheel loader.
Your cattle have nice clean flanks which looks great but your bobcats flanks need some serious work lol.
that funny that you had comments about the smell when we started spreading manure the smell made me happy that it is filed work time
The mother Holstein was demonstrating to her large newborn calf how it felt delivering it.
If that's the case then that calf got off lucky!
I love kitty cats and I just saw one in this video! 😂
This appears to be a cat instead of a dog farm. We know who the real bosses are.
I saw the sasdutchgal's video last night. How come you never mentioned that she has her own channel?
@J Hemphill
Yes, and it's called: A Dairy on the Prairie.
Should've washed down the tractor even tho its still gonna get dirty i always rinse down my tractor just before I leave to the field gives me more visibility
Hi From Boston Ma.
Hey Jan just wondering why the roof trusses are mainly timber and not steel. Is it a cost thing or expansion thing. Cheers from Australia 😊
great video Jan
Haha I wish I could have that spreader we got small box spreader
Suggest adding a plate to the other tractor so each can have a plate. GPS swap should be much quicker/easier.
Great content as usual, Thank you Jan, just curious, how many acres are you guys working with,and what do u do with it, corn, hay , etc? Stay safe and have a good day
I dont really agree wuth everything you was saying in this video but thats what makes the world go around you all like and think your ways of doing things are the best and thats fine everyone has different ways of doings you would think you would tell people your sister is getting a channel going and its awesome by the way its good to see how the rest of the farm is running to afraid that her channel will be better than yours even if she is the better milker lol just kidding you both are awesome at what you do hope yoyr sister channel takes off and does good hope yours keeps growing also watching your alls videos brings back memoriers we milked for years
U should try out a telehandler or teleaskid
I hope you did not run over the cat.
Our neighbours are hog farmers....so...yep, get the fragrance thing. 🇨🇦
that is so romantic !
a beautiful sunset while spreading manure !
Lol !
Thanks for a great video!!!!
Now I know about the calves are separated,,,wow we had no idea..
How big is the whole farm, and how many cows does it hold?
Cold air doesn’t come in, warm air goes out. 🥸
Eeny mini miny more...
I will take the dirty one
You call it a wagon some call it a manure spreader I call it a turd hearse
2 weeks of spring cleaning !!! Gad you work work Oh! and WORK. I am gllad for you that job is done Thanks I do Like your videos..granny90
She was not raised by her mom so she has no idea that is her baby cow and she has to take care of it. Every calf is in danger on your farm because you remove the babies from the cows.
I'm wondering y that big articulater Ford isn't in any of the videos seems like that would be a good alternative to the mx285 obviously it is wider but for tilling and the liquid shit tank
The worst cow we ever had was literaly killing her breed. When litle calf were finally out she was taking the calf in her mouth and throwing them onto the wall till they were definetly dead... She have killed 2 of her calfs the third was bearly rescued he was lucky someone was around when he was born...
The nose is smelling way too much today, they are spreading the manure thick and heavy so I may not have to fertilize my flowers 💐 because it seeps from the air into the ground and clothes on the line and all soft furniture in the house. But hey! It’s spring!!!
P.s. are you going to get a chance to get down to see Eric this year..? 2021
Why did you choose to scrape te barn yourself wirh the bobcat? I see a lot of farms in the netherlands with automatic scrapers.
Saskatchewan, with nearly 6 months of winter down to -40º temps, ice buildup on automated scrapers makes them unreliable.
@@timothymbonham4453 but they keep the barn above freezing tempearture right?
Jan, how long does it take for each group to milk? You may have already answered this in a previous video.
Great video Jan !
When do you plan on repairs to the tractor with the bad transmission? Thanks
Why don't you have a handheld power broom?
So I have one question. The moms are not the best, but why have a separating wall between the small calves? Why can’t they have each other’s company?
I’ll cover it in the future
1. Make sure each gets enough feed (not all going to the pudshy ones).
2. Safety - so they don't step on each other when sleeping.
3. Isolation to prevent diseases from spreading -- young calves are very much at risk.
@@timothymbonham4453 Yep, it’s the same as saying “Why do twin new borns have their own bassinet/crib?”
Mostly for their own safety and well being. They can still see each other and communicate though! :)
I'm no farmer but so interesting
You should check out the JCB Teleskid skid steer. It has a telescopic boom, give you the hight you need to load the spreader..
Where do you get your DDG from? Unity?
How long does it take for them shavings to break down in the field?