Using pallets in calf housing the verdict!! -12 freezing
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- What a week, I guess you can really tell how behind you guys are on video and real time, so this was the big freeze followed by a few calvings where I left it real time as someone asked on the last video for this, not sure it will be to everyone’s taste I like more of a fast paced video but I suppose I’m not watching it. Don’t forget to go over to @WilsonandAshley the new podcast with a mobile studio 👌👌 picking the trailer up next week so that’s super exciting!!!! Mucking out the calf pens with pallets how easy is it? Ell let me show you!!
OMG. Keyboard warriors reporting your channel- WTF! They are just jealous of you and the hard work you and Roy do. Annoys me that one person can ruin it for you, and the rest of us who appreciate all you do!
Totally agree, if you don't like something don't watch it.
Can’t wait for the new podcasts. Looking forward to a laugh. Calving is real life but some people must think they just appear when you’re not looking. I can’t afford to lose you Charlotte I would miss your sense of humour along with learning about farming. That’s the first time I’ve seen Roy up to his elbows pulling a calf 😂😂
"Self-regulating heating cable" They work best if you install them inside the pipe, but they can also taped on the outer surface of waterpipe. Adding insulation around the pipes helps too, here in Finland we prefer using both in cold sheds.
In the early 90s, I had frost protection installed on a water pipe and a drink dispenser. It is a temperature-dependent heating cable that starts heating at temperatures below 0 degrees C. It is connected all year round and only uses electricity when the temperature is below zero and gets warmer the lower the temperature gets.
Wow ! That 2nd one was huge for a twin !
Your absolutely incredible Charlotte and Roy. You both do an amazing job. I love watching your videos xxx❤❤
Thank you so much!!
I don't get fools moaning, it's the most natural thing in the world!!
Just shows, it takes a woman's touch 😉 I just love your mischievous cows 😅
Great videos, yet again Charlotte!! 👍
I love the way you say “Hallooh!” to the newborns.
My neighbour did the pipe heating cables you mentioned like 10 years ago its was 15 grand back then. Definitely get a few quotes
Wow such a lot happening in this episode Charlotte, Roy can certainly make that skidsteer dance...👍👏❤
Glad you folks are gonna keep all the calves. Here in Canada day old 100 pound beef calves are selling for $12.20 a pound. That's over $1200. I'm still able to buy holstein and angus/ holstein for $450 to $600 from our usual supplier but he has raised his prices to others.
Charlotte didn't worry you will always look good to us
Keep going weather so makes farmers
What people don't see they think it comes easy
try working out in it all year round and still we have a smile and love what we do
Keep the video coming 🤠🤠
I would think that using the pallets is a good idea as it must keep the straw bedding drier and would be more comfortable for the calves animal comfort first fair play to ye 👍🏻🇮🇪☘️
Loved the video Charlotte, jeez that was a big calf no wonder it took some effort! Have you thought about boxing in the pipes on the roof with wool insulation for next winter? Timber is not too expensive and you will have your own wool to use, might have to treat it with rodent spray to keep the mice's and ratties out but as it's on the roof it could work.🤔.
Great video, calves looking great, wise not to power wash when really cold as could mess up calves with pneumonia, Roy is ace in the Bobcat ... Adrian from I farm We farm dismantles his pallets and rebuilds with smaller gaps. You could sell or giveaway your used pallets to somebody with a big solid fuel burner ...
Great video. 😊
In the US we have a product known as Heat Tape that is basically an extension cord that warms when plugged in. The work brilliantly and they are save and movable.
Mooi mooi mooi , beautiful ❤😊
Excellent video, Charlotte and Roy. It's lovely to see you both working together(i know he doesn't like being on film) that calf!! What a whopper!! Poor mum, i bet she's glad you were both there to help and have them out at last. Can i ask if you record who has twins? incase they have them again?. Non farmer question. I hope you didn't get any damage with the wind today? We had a few trees down and some lost their electricity. We were okay. We are off grid.
Thank you again for the video they really make my day!. Take care, and i hope tomorrow is a good one for you! 💜
Good evening Charlotte & Roy. Cracking video again. I worked on a dairy, and the farmer had his electrician fit the wires round the water pipes well itcwas more like a hot blanket that was rolled around them, and we never had a frozen pipe
Heat tape: easy to wrap around H2O pipes and just plug in. With your run of pipes, a narrow electrical blanket could be made and insulated with straw on top.
Hope you all ok after that storm, Eowyn ❤
Cracking guy's 👍🏻
Jeez them calves are big for twins 👍🏻☘️🇮🇪
Aren’t they just
Great video Charlotte!
Plastic pallets would be a nice upgrade, only problem is finding them somewhere nearby and at a reasonable price
That's one way to warm your hand-up a cow
It’s called trace heating cable it works best under insulation and connected to a thermostat we have it on all our event generator fuel lines to stop them freezing
I came over from Cammie’s channel.
great video big calfs them misses
Wow big twins for a jersey well done love the music whose it buy
Get some pipe insulation. It's Cheaper than electric.❤
We did have it it didn’t work 😬😬😬 and it was new
Could you lay a strip of roof insulation on top of those pipes as a temporary measure to stop them freezing??
Look up trace heating it is used in industry especially oil in cold climates!
Could you run the warm water pipe from the milk cooler to the water trough along side those frozen pipes to keep them from freezing up? If that makes sense.
Evening C and R and family
Evening lovely hope your well
Put a bit of barbed wire around the exposed water fittings.
Hi HUGE moo cow, Jebus that was a big un. Why not put a roll or 2 of insulation over those water pipes, maybe box them in. 😊 Or, and this may be crazy, I saw something on Amazon once that I considered for something else, it was by iHelios and was an infrared underfloor/ceiling heating film. Have a look, it may be stupid but i don't know what else to suggest. ❤
Great calving video. How do you keep track of the calves without tags in as soon as possible?
I’ve nearly lost a few honestly we need to shape up.
Thee system is called heat tracer cable run under pipe isolation. Installed by Electrion B Dave❤😊😂
First 🎉
Pallets ae basically home made slats.
I shall have to come have a look at my calf Charlotte.
It will definitely do well with a name like that . Probably get to fat .😂
Ha ha ha ha you will have to she’s a star and really naughty already
@charlotteashleyfarm just like me 😂
You can have trace heating to stop the pipes freezing, but you would need to do it yourselves as it would be expensive to pay a electrician, probably better to insulate vulnerable pipes.
Another Great video, Dont think im First on this video, UA-cam was playing up and I couldn't fine your video last night. Even going to your channel and looking for it I couldn't find it.
you seem to be having a few problems with calfs, is this the bull or the cows? do you need to change bull juice ;)
Oh no it’s the bull they lived with at the other spot. Ours will only start coming out in late feb
@@charlotteashleyfarm Ok thought it was getting close to the swap over, Hopefully it will be easier. x
You could use pig slats
Yes I agree there are some online
Amazon sales heating cords for pipes
Can I ask you the red and white twin calfs are they heifers or a bull and heifer they are fabulous hopefully you'll keep them if they are both heifers
I had to rewatch this video because I didn’t quite get what you meant by being reported for doseing a cow with a bottle? So myself and my son ( eldest) just watched it again over lunch and I think I was right UA-cam slapped you on the wrist for doseing a cow with a bottle, upshot is we have a stomach pump and we generally use a bottle for the the low volume stuff as it is easier on man and beast! Oh and I have to tell you that we have the heater wire wrapped around some of our more exposed pipes and it works great can’t remember where we got it but we have it years and as long as we remember to plug it in on cold nights we have no issues, it was not expensive but I can’t remember how much it was , probably should upgrade to one with a thermostat that switches it on automatically but haven’t gotten around to that yet ! If you think that the train journey was fun you should have been on the plane back to Dublin! Even the pilot joined in on the craic ! The rest of the passengers were basically gobsmacked with the messing and slagging one even asked me if lamma was something to do with sheep? I explained that it might do but you would have to sell a lot of lorry loads of sheep to buy anything that we saw at lamma even a €220 a head! Great show, met lots of people we knew from all over these islands and generally had a great time, spent a bloody fortune ( and that was just on food, drink and accommodation) but had a great time and did a couple of deals so a very successful trip all around. Regards from Ireland.
Interesting the You Tube scenario as years ago when working for commercial television at 9.30 am we were regularly transmitting birth of children in hospital so girls and boys knew where they came from and how they arrived. No ifs no buts as graphic as watching your own children arrive!
I know the world has gone mad hasn’t it
@ Totally. It is not the world I grew up in post war. Not all of that world was correct but we respected others and knew the value of the word NO! Now we have neither the right of reply nor the right to criticise publicly because a fair comment is no longer free speech nor are pictures of the natural order of life. If your telephone was taken from you under current law how many pictures or comments might be actionable? It is a moot point that most people in Britain would not comply with the law on at least one item on their telephone. I find that very sad and it is not the Law I initially was part of or the Country’s values I served to maintain abroad.
greetings to all
Finish the story of with Roy and the beef cows what do you reckon to camis is DIY
Did you survive the windstorm?
I have seen Sandi Brock on UA-cam out in Canada using heat cords to stop water pipes freezing and the only thing she had to thaw out was the valves on the trough
I know that Sandi Brock, aka sheepishly me, has some sort of electric cable on her water pipes, maybe worth asking her about them xoxo
Pallets are a disaster in my opinion. If you have access to wood mulch. There’s great soakage in it.
I reckon this episode should be compulsory viewing for anybody who gaily says that farmers have an easy life. Only warm thing in sight was the inside of a cow.
First
Rename that cow 'the TARDIS '
Cammy put a gruesome film in the comments so you could go find it if you wanted.
That’s an idea
Looking forward to you podcasts, good dog walking listen. Hopefully not all political rantings and you'll bring the darker sense of humour that youtube might not like.
Exactly that x x x
I am by no means a professional but all the calves I've saw come out of your jerseys seem big, especially for a jersey🤷♂️
Ok non farmer … why do you not give the jersey cows fresh milk?