Between Eric and you this lockdown is not to bad, I love you Jan and Eric from 10thgenerationdairy. Thank you for helping us through these tough times, God bless us all!
Just wanted to say I'm an old Farm Boy and you really take me back many years is it best time of my life. Love your natural photographs really beautiful pictures.
Hey. Always good image quality. wow it's still very humid at home. We are running out of water for grass and crops. Thanks for sharing. Greetings from Switzerland. François
As my mom would have said, good old prairie gumbo!! She was born and raised near Edmonton on a farm. We moved out west a few years ago and spent 7 years between the Kindersley area and Medicine Hat. Your videos make me miss it!!
I cannot start my day without a SaskDutchKid video and a The Hoof GP video while I drink my coffee. The work ethic you guys have inspires me for the day!
Hi from the uk thanks for another great video with us on lockdown so not much happening so binged watched your videos that is for being so informative and entertaining 😊
Another excellent video! Thank you for the time and effort you put into sharing your operation. Great content as always! God bless the farmers, every day!
Jan you're one amazing young man! Thank you for the entertainment and showing us how you do things there. I know recording and editing take a lot of work and I appreciate all you do for us. Your videos are the best!! I pray you and your family stay safe and healthy!!!
I love how bright and clean and we'll laid out your operation is, being fairly new im sure helps in keeping everything so nice but it's just so foreign in comparison to the 3 dairy operations I've been around where everything is old and/or is retrofitted in the "do the best with what we have to work with" philosophy, lol
I had the same problem in my barn yard. I started with loads of coarse crushed rock, 1 and 1/2 inch washed. Then we put good gravel on that, and, topped it off with finer crushed rock. The rock allows the water to drain, and, if you can get limestone, it will really become hard over time. It cured my problem very well.
Jan for your yard issues. dont just spread gravel when you have just clay underneath. Even with 20" of gravel, your heavy equipment and the daily routes will massage it into the clay after a while. You have 2 possibilitys, soil stabilisation with qiucklime, but its a dusty and dirty job and hard on equipment sicne the lime burns into the paint. Or you level out the clay, compact it, and put an geogrid like www.tensarcorp.com/Systems-and-Products/Tensar-Triax-geogrid on, and when the Gravel.. 12-15" is a good start for your axle loads.. a Tractor or an Wheelloaders are just a moving seasaw riding on the Rear(tractor) or Front(Wheelloader) when carrying load. And tractors are worse because of the treads of the reartires that cut into the ground. in your conditions i would use a geogrid with an fiberfleece backup to prevent your clay from coming up, and the the finer parts of gravel from going down. Yes its more costs as pure gravel, but you will save a lot on gravel and maintanace in the future. + Your yard will look dutchstyle clean and awesome. Btw i noticed there is a lag of orange on your farm.. If you wanna safe some CAN$.. just do the main routes between the barns and the silagepits hopperbottoms where ever you go daily with the loaders and tractors with geogrid.
It was neat hearing the train horn in the background of the intro. The drone, which is always great, showed quite a bit of water in the field which will take some time to dry out. Now that the REAL farm hand got stuck, you will never let me help out around the farm.
Drone footage was spectacular. Loved the shots over the pond. Funny thing is that just when I was wondering when you were going to do drone footage, there it was.
Keep up the good work. It would be really interesting if you could interview your parents or any other extended family on their journey to become farmers in Canada. Thanks
Jan - Thanks for another great video. Clay can certainly be greasy when it gets really wet. Sand and/or rock will probably, as you indicated, be your best bet to fix that problem. Blessings to you, your family, and your crew from a retired Pastor in Davenport, Iowa.
It appears you have entered the month of Mud. Here in Kansas, the month of Mud is March. Hate it. I still remember when we didn’t change needles between every cow on beef cattle. I despise having to change needles when it is cold out and you can’t change needles with gloves on. I have stuck myself so many times
Thats why you use a shackle to choke the end of a strap and it won't get stuck. I like your channel just passing's info along. A Farmer who was also a Crane operator
Play in the mud again Dutch? Loved your drone work. And as always love seeing you'll working to keep those beautiful Lady's healthy. You and your family stay safe and healthy! Thank you for sharing :-)
We used to get that problem, alot of the heifers would lay half on the beds. The teets and legs would lay in the slurry. Was a job cleaning before the pre milk stripping
Spring never fun time of the year! My Dad would always get stuck I'd have to get him out! One time he got stuck so bad we had to put up a tripod! Thanks for sharing! Love your videos
Dank Jan! Wow, you had to pull quite hard there, the strap was well tested😉 Quite a weight though! Ok, understand this happens when there is too much of water and clay together. After redoing, next spring will be better. These wide application vaccines against mastitis pathogens in dairy cow, are there specific pathogens you try to target with this vaccin, or is it just to whole bunch? Also clear that taking hygienic measures are key to prevent from mastitis, think you are doing well on that while trying to keep your cow sheds dry and clean and prevent from the heat in summer👍
Don't you just love mud? It gets on everything and makes for a lot of work. When I got home from my shop, I was really glad to see that you had uploaded a video. And as usual I learned something about how you deal with the cows.n It was fun to watch Dr. Jan do his work. Thanks.
None of the cows seemed really upset about having their head locked and when you let them go a lot just kept standing there eating. That's super good so you can work on them without them struggling.
You are such a dependable hard worker. I love watching your videos and all the drone footage. Question: Don't the cows that are kept outside in the pens freeze?
Should have left the strap on the feed tractor your gonna need it till you get that water to drain🤔 Glad to see you change needles between cattle, well worth the small price for not spreading something down the line , that 18 gauge. X 3/4. Is perfect size same as we use and we get a pretty good price break by buying the aluminum hubs in bulk, thanks for the video!
Hola! En la zona de embarrado, donde hagáis más el trabajo en esa zona, te recomiendo que eches una capa de chinos, es barato y evitas tener problemas de embarramiento y el atasco maquinarias. Es un método barato y accesible al menos en España, que creo que vuestra zona no deberías tener problemas. Aqui a veces hasta es regalado ya que sobran.
Hit up your local paving contractor. They should have asphalt millings by the assload (metric or standard) and if you get a good base down they set up hard like asphalt after baking in the summer sun, but they don't cost near as much.
Does that vaccine cover all types of mastitis? Do you have any clean river run gravel that you can get 25-30mm chipped (triangle chip for best results) to put on those bad areas? Sand just turns slushy when there is water about. Scrape off the crap so you can reform and build up(camber). Crap usually breeds more crap when water is involved Green lime shaped and packed down and hardened is something else that can be used to form a really hard surface. I have talked about other methods in your previous video. There is a fiber matting that can be rolled out over dodgy surfaces and gravel etc laid on top (100mm) . It makes an amazingly hard stable surface and your top surface doesn't get pushed into the mire
Hey DK another busy day at the dairy how about putting down large gravel to get the tires something to grip on Jan---> singing here I come to save the day lol how a small cart that you can roll along to hold the vaccine and needles that you need and your ladies are the healthiest cows around once again you have the coolest footage with the drone and love the music so with that being said what's next for DK keep up the good work and see you in the next video 🤔🐄🍦🍨🍼😋
As always a good clean operation, very efficient and safe. Thank you for the video, I sure have learned a lot about dairy farming. Stay safe and healthy .. GOD bless.
always impressed with the design engineering u thought of wen ur new facilities were built, u have so much mud a monster truck would be nice perhaps ur pops would go fer that,lol
Hi can u do a video on your milk production, what do u get paid for form the milk company? We here in New Zealand get paid by the milk solid produced, so pay out is what we call it, average farm does 90000kg milk solids, 280 cows, remember all grass here with some grass silage and maize silage
@@saskdutchkid Soon?? you have been saying that for some time now. I'll believe it when I see it .........until then I won't be holding my breath one that one. LOL
Do you write down what cow gets the shot? Cause what happens when your 44 cows in and one gets off the bed and goes and goes and get her head locked up. How do you keep track of that?
