Managing Cattle water in the cold/Moving pastured egg layers indoors & new calves on the farm.
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- Good morning western NY. Its a balmy 27 degrees outside this morning and your water lines are froze up. Thats what we encountered as Stacy and I went out to do morning farm chores. Looks like it's time to implement our procedures for winter weather farming. I talk a little bit about why we do what we do for water handling in the winter months on the farm. Then I dig out the water tank and transfer pump we use for winter water hauling to fill the different cattle stock tanks on the farm and get to work. We are done with pasturing our egg layer chickens for the season, so I take a few minutes and get the premier 1 electro-net fencing all picked up. I close out the video with a preview of the new life on the farm.
We are a small 40 acre direct-to-consumer livestock farm located in Western NY. We provide pasture raised beef, pork, chicken & eggs to our local community. We practice sustainable land practices that utilize natural methods to keep our soils/pastures healthy and our animals happy.
I am the 2nd generation to live on this piece of property after my parents purchased it in 1978. As a child we were not a working farm. But there were dairy farms surrounding us. So naturally I was hooked with farming since I saw my first tractor. As time went on, I worked for a couple of these farms and that only fueled my love of agriculture. In 2019 I was able to move back home as my parents were ready to downsize and I was ready to try my hand at farming. Stacy and logan share the same love of farming as I do. Stacy growing up on her family's dairy farm and logans exposure of farming/tractors at a very young age. Join us on this journey and see where the farm life takes us.
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Time to winterize. Good video Matt. And you do what works best for you and your operation. Dont worry about what other folks think about what you may be doin wrong or different. Take care👍
Thanks Kevin. I don't worry(or honestly care) what people think about how we run our farming operation. We do what makes us happy and makes us the most amount of money. I always will welcome constructive criticism (from people that have been there done that) but there are plenty of keyboard warriors out there with a one-track mind that think what they say matters. They are just noise makers, and I ignore them. I'm done with my rant on that subject. 😆 Thank you for always supporting our channel and your positive words all the time. Thankfully so far, our channel has been filled with a lot of people like yourself that enjoy and support what we do. Thats what keeps us going on this UA-cam journey.
Morning
I blow my lines out with the air compressor, I have an adapter for it
Great video Matt. It's cold down here in North Carolina. We had a little snow Monday night and it was 19 this morning when I left work. I'm with you when it comes to heights. I'm at my best when I have both feet on the ground. You Rhode Island Reds and those calves are beautiful. Y'all have a great night and stay warm.
Thanks. I've always said I would go to the moon if I could keep one foot on the ground. lol We try to treat our animals and keep them in the best possible condition we can. Sometimes that can be difficult, but we manage. Seems like you guys have been getting more and more snow the last few years. Am I correct on that?
@@Cobbhillfarms Not here in the Piedmont. Our last big snow was in 2018. We don't get near the snow we did when I was growing up. Winters now are on average warmer than they were back then. They do get plenty over in the mountains.
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Chicken greenhouse looks great. Noticable temp difference?
How to deal w freezing temps;
Pickaxes, digging bars, axes, propane torch, and 27 cans of starting fluid. Oh yeah, 5 extension cords too.
Guess I can't get ya to climb silo huh?😅😅
If you didn't pay going rate you got helluva deal for the calves
Ya it seems to be warmer in there when the sun is out. When it's not it's just wind proof is all. Thats something I have been curious to see. So I check multiple times a day to see what the temp feels like in there.
No chance in climbing the silo. Iv been 102 ft in the air straight up in a ladder truck basket one in my life. Thats good enough for me.
I know what you say about not liking to clean out your eaves. I got some 3/4 in schedule 80 pvc made it long enough to reach my gutters from the ground. I put a 180 degree bend on 1 end and a fitting and ball valve on the other with a air fitting for compressed air. So now I use compressed air to clean out my gutters just walking along the ground. Works great and no ladder climbing. Stay warm I can't believe you don't have any snow. My old hometown area in Erie PA got almost 4 feet. What part of NY do you live in? My wife's family lives near Binghamton. We live in central Florida and temp this morning was 31 cold for here. It's usually in the high 50s and 70s by the afternoon.
I do usually use my leaf blower when the leaves are dry so at least I don't have to do it by hand. I got to it just a little later than I normally like to. We are halfway between Rochester and Syracuse. About 1/2 hour from Lake Ontario. Thats cold for Florida's standards. I bet that was a shock to the system
why not lift it above the tank and use gravity to drain the barrel?
Takes to long. Tried it once. didn't exactly like having a full 55-gallon drum 5 ft in the air tipped out. Plus, the loader drifts out slowly and had to keep after it. That pump will empty the barrel in about 5 minutes.