Congrats on the 50K Jan, you are really a talented vlogger, make your camera angles great and fun (cow's are So nosey lol! I had to laugh when those girls immediately saw that weird thing on the ground and directly came over and put their sandpaper tongues all over it hehe 😁 Keep on going and I absolutely think that you will get way more followers! (I hope at least a 0 extra after that 50!! ) Have a great weekend!
Love how the cows are so curious and know that's something new sitting over there - lets give it a taste! Slurpslurp mmmmm! Nice to see a daily perspective- lots of hard work, worthwhile job. Thanks for sharing your day!
That is an absolutely superb account of a day in the life of a dairy farmer. That must be an award winning set up you have there. I’m sure a large number of dairy farmers would be quite envious of such a well designed, well organised set up. Not envious however, of the cost of doing it. You’ve made a great investment and I’m sure it will pay off. It really is an exemplar, as are you young man. Keep up the great work.
Great Video!! I think it’s hilarious when the girls mess with the camera 😂. Most ppl wouldn’t know what to do if they had to start work at 4am. Your work ethic is awesome, you should be proud.
I sure think differently when I pour out my Canadian milk on my cereal after watching your farm videos. So appreciate the cream in my tea as well. Farmers feed cities just can't be said often enough!
Oh how I miss the cows. Loved milking, one at a time, with a Surge bucket hung on a strap over cow's back. My primary job was to teach the calves to drink from a pail. Took less time than either father or brother. Cows are my favorite animal. I will definitely keep watching and I always look forward to seeing a new one. Farming never gets old nor boring.
Congratulations on 51 + thousand subscribers. I can hardly wait for Saturday morning to come and with it another adventure on your Farm. I love it all. Thanks so much.
I love these videos - thank you so much for sharing your day with us. Our neighbors growing up had 500 holsteins and 6 daughters to help him. We had beef cattle. They were THE hardest working girls. So strong too. We would have hay bale throwing contests and they always won.
Great video. Always wondered what your schedule was. Have you thought doing a Q & A video. You ask subscribers to post questions on your Instagram page. You choose the ones you want to answer and answer them on your you tube channel. Just a suggestion. My question would be when did you decide to go into farming and why. Just read that the average age of farmers is 57, so your in the minority.
I work on a dairy farm in NB with a 32 stall deck rotary! Its interesting seeing the differences in everything done on the farm! Like mixing feed, feeding calves and just everyday routines!
The only problem with that superb shot of the top of the barn, and I apologise in advance for suggesting there’s a problem with it because it looked beautiful. But, some numpty might look at the moisture and think methane / CO2 global warming or some such other opportunistic b*****it.
Strange to hear a dairy farmer not using the two words dung and slurry - which are major components of the work day lol. In Scotland when we say spreading manure , we stress the first syllable , and we are referring to compound fertiliser - the kind that used to come in a plastic bag.
Two weekends off every month... that's pretty good. JUst kidding, as I am amazed at the among of work in your day that is done so energetically, with a positive attitude and a great smile. Great drone views at the end. 🐄 🐄 🐄 🐄 🐄
That is how we our feeding after feeding the first time then fill feed salvage up again for next round of feeding saves a lot of time. Congratulation on getting 50 k Jan that is pretty awesome maybe we could get it up more to help out.
Awesome footage of the farm the work is so awesome y’all do much appreciated for all videos and taking time out of your busy day man thanks also drone footage sweet
Same one that turned right into the special needs pen. Once you find and treat an issue with a cows foot, it doesn’t heal instantly. Rest assured that this young man has these issues in hand.
Great video, content and photography top notch, as usual. That's what I was doing until the early 90's, when my back got too bad & I had to stop farming. Take Care & keep up your fantabulous videos.
You are one hard working knowledgeable dude. You would be at the top of any list for preferred hired should you ever decide to try something else. Not that you would ever walk away from farming. Enjoy the videos.
Always enjoyable, keep up the good work. One of many tings I like more about the American dairy farmers is how clean they keep the farms. Better than my uk farms.
Awesome stuff yet again Jan!!!!!! "No rest or the wicked" as they say ….. well not as long as you are involved in the Dairy Industry anyways......busy schedule and still no footage or mention of calf rearing I see so taking it for granted your work alternates there too!! Congratulations as has been said already on the 50k subs!! Fantastic achievement and so well deserved!!!!!!!!!
Jan you are so very dedicated to your work, amazing work ethic! Every other weekend off, do you have a social life? Over 50000 subscribers, that’s great, obviously because you have the best farm related video
All the hard work you do is appreciated. You treat your cows well and take care of business keeping the farm running. Being a simple armchair farmer (I'm a city boy so I'm really not even that). Question for a future live video question and answer: wondering about manure management and if you had considered building the manure pit under the barn while you were building with slats that allow the poop and piss to drop down by its self as 10th generation's (another RU-vid channel) barn was setup. I'm guessing the money went elsewhere or your winters are too cold for such a design but during a recent live chat with them they explained by having the pit under the barn they didn't have as much rain water to deal with as an open pit would and it seemed like the floors were cleaner even before being scraped. Being cost prohibitive to add now that the barn is built, if you added another barn would you consider adding a manure pit under the building?
There are ball values out there that dont split when frozen. Just a thought of replacing any that split with one that doesn't split. The ones that have split will probably do it again as they are in a more vulnerable position ie close to outside wall and no continuous water flow. Wrapping the line may help also if long tongues can't get at it
That case ih tractor will keep blowing alternators unless you take off the bottom side panels the red ones right below the hood. We were going through alternators like crazy, especially in the summer, until we pulled them off.
Those Magnums have a cab power junction on the floor behind the fuse panel cover on the right side of the cab. There is also a common ground in there (if i remember right) and one on the fire wall behind the console. They are know to corrode and cause funky electrical problems like what your dash was doing which could also not energize the alternator and look like the alt has failed when it hasn't.. something to keep in mind if it happens again in the next while..
Cool. I always figured you dairy guys just cleaned off teats, then milk-squirted the resident cats in their faces. Looks like there is a bit more involved than I thunk 😬
What fun to watch your videos , entertaining that is. Maybe on a future video you can take a minute to explain who does your hoof trimming ? Thanks. 😀👍🏾🚜🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄
Great video thanks for all the. Work you do to get these videos online, do you have your own water wells for the dairy or are you buying water from somewhere?
You can make a kit to directly connect your feed wagon to your tractor. We were tired of messing with batteries so we went and did that. I can’t remember the price but it wasn’t any more than 20$
Sounds like you are baking high fibre cookies. It's a huge mixing bowl of ingredients adjusted for their needs. That's a smart caring farm you are running. Do you change the recipe when season's change?
You could be a professor at a farm college. You are very well versed in your explanations and interesting to watch. Drone footage and music were great.
Enjoyed your video you explain things well for the ones that don't know what going on. How many times a day do you milk just 2 ? I love that drone shot of the diary farm on a cold day, as it shows as if it is a big City factory with the hot air, or heat hitting the cold winter weather outside. When it warms up do you scrape the cement down along the bunkline so it isn't so hard on the cows feet. We always did that when we had cattle and always kept the cement clean on our sow yards because you never knew when you can do it again. How many groups do you milk 3, and how many are in a group. Our local diary milks 3x a day and runs it straight into the tankers outside. The cheese plant is like 5.5 miles from the diary and they have around 5000 to 5,500 that they milk 3x /day and they have another diary around 10 to 12 miles away. Does your mechanic keep batteries and alternators on hand for breakdowns. That water leak looked like a easy fix. I always had spare plastic parts around as I would buy 6 of everything. In my cases they only broke at night and on weekends lol !
Thanks for the video. I look forward to them when they come out. I thought it was so cool that they know where they are supposed to return to after milking. How much do your cows use the brush? I saw a couple using it in the video. Please do a video on your life outside of work if you don't mind. Thanks!
some time can you show us you back up power systems for the milk room and farm some one told me you cant stop milking so if the powers out what do you do thanks
Another more general question what happens if all of your family needs to be away from the farm for a few days, who takes care of the cows? Regular Hired hands or are there companies that provide the services of milking and feeding while your away (rent a crew)? If not I wonder is someone should think of starting such a service. Having watched a neighbor milk for a small farm while the farmer was on vacation I can see the cows might have a problem (scared) with strangers trying to milk them, so maybe the service of rental crews wouldn't work.
