F L Powell & Sons Farming Diary
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Calving 2024 Is Go!
In this video, we set up the calving shed, move the cows in from the field and keep an eye on them whilst they give birth.
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Chickens arrive at the farm!
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In this video we get a flock of ex-caged hens! These girls are now grazing our herbal ley pastures providing us with lovely free-range eggs!
Muck spreading the old fashioned way!
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In this video we couple up our old John Deere 1640 to our even older Howard Rotaspreader. Both are from a time gone by in farming, but still carry out an important job for us on the farm!
Our last calf for 2023!
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The birth of this bull calf marks the end of calving 2023 for us here at F L Powell & Sons. In this video I give a quick rundown of how we select the AI bulls for our cows and show you the calves we’ve had this year. We can now turn our focus to calving 2024!
Rowing up and baling silage!
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In this video we bring our suckler cows into the yard, have a look at our new to us tedder/rake combination and start baling the first of our herbal ley silage.
Silage making 2023 has started!
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In this video we kick of the first of our silage making for 2023! It’s always a good feeling to finally get the mower out and start to make some quality feed for the cows.
New feed for our Gloucester Cows!
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In this video we analyse the suckler cows diet under the recommendation of our vet. This is to work out if their is any deficiency in its make up. I think the cows are loving the new ingredient we’ve added and hopefully they’ll regain some of their condition before being put back in calf in a couple of months.
New Arrivals To The Farm
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In this video we set up a water trough in the cattle yard and get the livestock shed ready for the arrival of 30 Aberdeen Angus weaned calves!
Gloucester Cows Go Out!
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In this video we make a pen to allow some of our Gloucester cows to go outside. We scrape up using our Alpine tractor and split our cattle yard into two allowing our autumn calving cows some outside space and from what we can see, the ladies seem to like it!
Feeding our pedigree rare breed Gloucester Cows!
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Feeding our pedigree rare breed Gloucester Cows!

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @cathyhendry2882
    @cathyhendry2882 5 місяців тому

    Really interesting - thanks for sharing this!

  • @wildwoodlandcelebrations
    @wildwoodlandcelebrations 5 місяців тому

    Great, informative video Sam. Lovely to see the way your animals are obviously very well cared for and loved. ❤ keep up the amazing work xxx

  • @paulthompson8467
    @paulthompson8467 5 місяців тому

    Enjoyed your video nice to see you back 👍

  • @rob-oe4wr
    @rob-oe4wr 5 місяців тому

    Welcome back. Have missed your videos. You seem to be getting alot of heifer calves. Do you prefer heifer or bull calves. 🇬🇧

  • @badger1132
    @badger1132 7 місяців тому

    Liked, and subscribed. Hello from Wisconsin U.S.A Grew up on a dairy milking holsteins. What is the daily milk production on a gloucester? Thanks.

  • @paulthompson8467
    @paulthompson8467 7 місяців тому

    Very nice scene our cattle are still inside fields still too wet even the sheep are making a mess hope the rain stops soon

  • @rob-oe4wr
    @rob-oe4wr 7 місяців тому

    Definitely a sign of spring, when cattle start appearing in fields. Looking forward to the next youtube video.

  • @lanefraz3152
    @lanefraz3152 7 місяців тому

    I just love cows. Would love to work on a farm. ❤❤❤❤

  • @JonDingle
    @JonDingle 8 місяців тому

    I prefer side spreaders. Far cheaper to buy and maintain. Far better spread pattern and you can see much better how much is being applied. Far easier to maintain and work on (no walking floor or big push ram). Far better to transport down the road to fields. Provided they are not overloaded, the start spreading quickly enough.

  • @faithobrien911
    @faithobrien911 8 місяців тому

    We only grease our side discharge muck spreader once a year too!! 🤣🤣

  • @abduljabar2776
    @abduljabar2776 Рік тому

    Very good video, please keep uploading farming videos

  • @trevorcox3020
    @trevorcox3020 Рік тому

    Excellent...well done

  • @paulthompson8467
    @paulthompson8467 Рік тому

    Good video nice hen shed and very happy hens hope the new venture works well 👍

  • @Ian-ym1rn
    @Ian-ym1rn Рік тому

    DEERE O DEERE.

  • @MartinClayton-n1b
    @MartinClayton-n1b Рік тому

    Lovely tractor muck looks like last years and best shit spreader😂

  • @peterwalker6020
    @peterwalker6020 Рік тому

    Nice to see a proper tractor doing its job. Good video, I enjoyed it

  • @alanpayn8699
    @alanpayn8699 Рік тому

    Great vid but please please get a guard fitted to that shaft ! You only get one chance in life so get and do it !! Also not having a go but changing the draw bar on that 1640 with the engine running sooooo risky anything could happen ! Just think about safety buddy otherwise great vid 👍

  • @montrocon
    @montrocon Рік тому

    Very good video always liked a rotaspreader. But please put a guard on that PTO shaft.

    • @Grover91
      @Grover91 Рік тому

      My thoughts too. Yes it's only used once a year, but you only have an accident with a pto once.

  • @johnplatt8369
    @johnplatt8369 Рік тому

    Old school these are the best vidios to watch, I used to drive a B reg 2140 with Sg2 cab four wheel drive, cracking tractor and believe it or not the old girl is still running today with 12k hours on clock. John Deere the best in my eyes 👍👍👍👍

  • @snax31
    @snax31 Рік тому

    Good and interesting video, brings back great memories of being in early teens doing field work with this era of machinery. In those days my biggest priority was trying to get a radio and speakers put in the tractors somehow haha. I would be careful what you show in your videos though ie. where your cattle trailers, diesel tank etc are, there will always be someone watching looking for this kinda info??

    • @farmingwithdantheman
      @farmingwithdantheman Рік тому

      Yes agreed,I run a channel but don't show stuff like that and number plates of vechiles

  • @glynrogers1018
    @glynrogers1018 Рік тому

    Hi used a howard spreader on a m f 135 no fun on hills close 2 hurting myself when tractor took off many years ago

  • @roba4297
    @roba4297 Рік тому

    Muck spreading the old fashioned way was with a hand fork. PS our MF 35x used to pull a Howard rota spreader quite happily.

  • @Azzyos
    @Azzyos Рік тому

    I'm new to your channel you have cool kit

  • @andymercer8092
    @andymercer8092 Рік тому

    Great watch

  • @TheStevegrainger
    @TheStevegrainger Рік тому

    Really enjoyed the video. Nice to see the older machines still doing the job. But please get the P.T.O guard replaced 🚜🐄👍

  • @owenjones7449
    @owenjones7449 Рік тому

    good video hope health and safety not watching where was the pto guard

  • @michaeloconnor9809
    @michaeloconnor9809 Рік тому

    Well done with the putting something back line. The Law of Return is hardly ever mentioned nowadays and you won't do it with the contents of a bag. Amazing how there's always worms in fym and never in slurry.

  • @burffarms5957
    @burffarms5957 Рік тому

    My dad used to take me and my brother to Gloucester market when we were kids

  • @FlyingFergyMan
    @FlyingFergyMan Рік тому

    Great video really enjoyed watching that.

  • @chrisastley7923
    @chrisastley7923 Рік тому

    Where you keep the muck spreader we call the big green shed .Great video proper farming 👍

  • @banditbeggers533
    @banditbeggers533 Рік тому

    Just came across your channel mate great video and love the old girl.

  • @glennlingard7851
    @glennlingard7851 Рік тому

    Am old enough to remember when Howard was king especially these spreaders along with everything else they made, typically farmers who used these spreaders weren’t too good a maintenance so inevitably the chains stretched and mercilessly knocked them to destruction, however, coming from a ground driven apron spreader they were years ahead.

    • @flpowellsonsfarmingdiary
      @flpowellsonsfarmingdiary Рік тому

      Very true, I had to have this one re-lined as some chains hit the bottom of the floor out 👍

  • @stacyscholes6760
    @stacyscholes6760 Рік тому

    First time of watching u ,goes to show how long machinery will last 😂😂

  • @paulg9483
    @paulg9483 Рік тому

    Good to see some classic kit in use rather than all new high power show pieces.

  • @KlineDeere
    @KlineDeere Рік тому

    You cousins across the pond worry to much about your old kit here in the states we run full on businesses with things from the 70s just fine.

    • @ThingyGoos
      @ThingyGoos Рік тому

      To be fair though, your things from the 70s were built much heavier, and often have lived cleaner, easier lives if they have been doing arable for those 50 years

    • @glynluff2595
      @glynluff2595 Рік тому

      There is a further point which has been explained to U.K. dealers by reps from USA. The entire sales of all types of JD equipment in U.K. in any year is considerably less than sales in the smallest US state. In consequence there is no concession to any U.K. requirement. This translates to limited availability of spares of any specific type and every man being his own engineer, fabricator and machinist if he has those skills. There is little just in time ability and customs has to be paid on second hand imported parts. In such cases with limited availability of usable cash there is always a balance to be obtained on age, value repairs and downtime.

    • @KlineDeere
      @KlineDeere Рік тому

      @@glynluff2595 good point on availability of parts could this be why I have seen some really beaten David Browns (being that they were built on the island) and parts are more readily accessible vs a John Deere being looked after more closely seeing as they were imports from Germany or US?

    • @glynluff2595
      @glynluff2595 Рік тому

      @@KlineDeere quite probably plus of course there are enthusiasts for all makes. I think the David Browns had a good reputation for transmissions but no doubt some correspondents might dispute my memory upon that but the truth remains that old does have its difficulties here with a more limited market. Here also with stock farming the field sizes are much smaller and tractor sizes keep growing and electronics makes them less reparable to the small man plus much more attractive to thieves in whole or part.

    • @KlineDeere
      @KlineDeere Рік тому

      @@glynluff2595 incredible I remember a film IH released in the 70s that was called something like "your local tractor theif" at least in my area of Pennsylvania, we have very little if any thievery of equipment anymore if ever at all, we are in dairy country and my place is a 70 cow dairy farm on 63 acres we run two Massey 1135s which I am not a fan one a 74 one a 75, one Allis Chalmers 185 1970, and my personal crown jewel our IH 1066 1974. We are hoping to expand more into the IHs or early CaseIHs. This is why I live talking to people from Great Britain I've always had an affection for your country and its history I am of Scots Irish, welsh, german descent. The last person over to the isles was my grand father for the Normandy landings , if I wasn't afraid of flying I'd love to come see it for myself and compare how your small family dairies operate versus ours here. Another question I have if I'm not using up your time is that when I look at equipment online some times I look at the Ireland and UK machines, what's with the Irish kit being almost always beaten to death? Is it just a regional thing, see here in the states I've found that certain regions (ie the South, and some in the northeast/New England states) just persistently seem like the quality of their used kit is horrendous.

  • @paulthompson8467
    @paulthompson8467 Рік тому

    Nice to see you back good video very tidy tractors we used to have a muck spreader like that unfortunately it eventually rotted away we use a contractor now

  • @Robert_udrea2009
    @Robert_udrea2009 Рік тому

    Salut am o rugăminte la dumneavoastră puteți să setați să pot traduce și în română vă rog din suflet 😢?????????????

  • @chipthomas4169
    @chipthomas4169 Рік тому

    I certainly understand helping to preserve the Gloucester, but if you're outwintering have you considered the Welsh breeds, whether Blacks, Ancient Coloured, or White Park?

  • @Sean-fb7cy
    @Sean-fb7cy Рік тому

    Thank you for posting iv just watched my first video of yours very interesting well done regards from Sean in Ireland

  • @mnsormohmad8324
    @mnsormohmad8324 Рік тому

    Thank you for this valuable information

  • @wildwoodlandcelebrations
    @wildwoodlandcelebrations Рік тому

    So glad all went well. Roll on 2024.....I have my diary ready! 😂❤

  • @johnthompson982
    @johnthompson982 Рік тому

    That was a really interesting explanation of your breading system and update on your calves Enjoyed the video

  • @paulthompson8467
    @paulthompson8467 Рік тому

    Brilliant video thank for explaining your breeding through AI really fascinating would like to get s few cows again but would need to build a shed first do you AI the cows yourself or have you a technician comes and does it for you 👍

  • @StephenGennings-yr9yn
    @StephenGennings-yr9yn Рік тому

    Hi Sam great vlog great seeing your Gloucester cattle and the new Born heifer For info if you speak to secretary of Gcs she will be able to help you out with calving ease on some of the bulls . Nice to see you smiling 🙂

  • @paulthompson8467
    @paulthompson8467 Рік тому

    Good video you have great machinery what sort of bull will you use on the heifers

    • @flpowellsonsfarmingdiary
      @flpowellsonsfarmingdiary Рік тому

      Thank you! We use an easy calving Angus on all of our heifers, we find it works well for their first calf being a naturally smaller breed. The Angus calves also seem to have more vigor and are often up before the cow after calving. We use AI for all of our breeding.

    • @paulthompson8467
      @paulthompson8467 Рік тому

      @@flpowellsonsfarmingdiary thank you for the reply the Angus is a good choice they are very easily handled as they tend to be quiet and calmer than the continentals they're easy finished too

  • @Nialll87
    @Nialll87 Рік тому

    Hi there, we have a PZ mower at home which is the same design as your mower. For releasing the pin to put in the mower position, you do it from your cab. Let the mower dpwn on the lift to take off the pressure, pull the rope and then left the lift arms, the mower will rotate into position then

  • @desross2002
    @desross2002 Рік тому

    New subscriber from Québec, Canada, dairy farmer as well. Awesome video mate

  • @chriscookson5421
    @chriscookson5421 Рік тому

    Hi wat type of grass is that your cutting is it a rye grass ??

    • @flpowellsonsfarmingdiary
      @flpowellsonsfarmingdiary Рік тому

      It’s a Herbal ley, so it contains a few grass species along with Sainfoin, chicory, clover and Lucerne. The cows love it!

  • @mbb05jb
    @mbb05jb Рік тому

    great video, can't wait to see more

  • @PA-ek3ul
    @PA-ek3ul Рік тому

    Nice handy mower , apart from the transport pin 👍