Laid Back Sunday on the Farm
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- Опубліковано 14 тра 2024
- While everyone else is at church, Alan gets a few things done on the farm on a beautiful Sunday. Alan explains what we use when drying off a cow. Alan talks about some viewer comments in the last video. Feeds the cows some hay. We are also planning on selling the old Case Combine that you often see in the videos. Alan is also working on a more efficient sap cooker for our maple syrup. We are also on baby watch as we are awaiting a new calf. Alan gets started milking cows while Jen and the kids are at 4-H.
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Alan Klejeski
PO Box 153
Sturgeon Lake, MN 55783
Trinity Dairy was established in 2006, in Minnesota. Alan and Jennifer farm with their 5 children; Jessica, Justin, Jordan, Joshua, and Jason. We milk a mix of 33 Jersey, Holstein, Brown Swiss, Guernsey, and Ayrshire cattle. We also enjoy sharing our family's love of Draft Horses and using them for logging and other farm work. Dairy Farming in Minnesota can be challenging, but it's a lifestyle we really enjoy. Subscribe today to watch our small family dairy farm and family grow while continuing to thank our Lord for the blessings we've been given.
I really like watching your videos because you all are just normal people and you have a great family. I like that you farm with the older equipment
I enjoy the channel. Family values are hard to come by these days. I enjoyed growing up on the farm. Keep making the great videos. Thanks and God bless
Awesome, Right 🙏 "and on the 7th day LORD rested " Sabbath & make it Holy. Me,Sunday rested, Thank You. 👌 (Naaman, Ind)
Hey Allen,,,very nice to hear you give a shout out to Gierok Farms. They are also an outstanding farm family. George Gierok can give farming master classes, and Aaron is right on his heels.
Thank you for sharing your day on the farm. It brings back a lot of wonderful memories. Please stay safe, and God bless.
Love your videos God bless your family, from Lake City MN
Well Alan that was another great video and it’s always nice to see your day to day!! It’s always good to see how you do little shout outs to others and how you praise them. I watch all your videos when I can and it’s a true blessing to see you and family working the farm!!! God bless
Thanks as always I so enjoy your videos on the farm no matter what you post for us to see and listen to every one involved as well. Nice strong looking calve and wish is well for you.
Hi Alan, regarding the external sealer, well we use it on heifers as they are springing. We use a rotary parlour, spring calving herd and to help them and us when they calve we would train them using the parlour. We use the sealer at that time and have found a huge improvement. Less mastitis at calving so less antibiotics used.
Thanks for your video and best wishes keep on farming 🇮🇪
Good video. Very informative . My dad milked dairy cows as a kid and my aunt and uncle had a dairy farm in Colby, WI. We had a grain farm and fed out beef cattle and hogs. I have heard of "dry" cows and guessed what they were but didn't know the specifics until i watched your video . Alan explained it very well! God bless and I enjoy your channel along withe Gierok family channel as well.
Some good looking corn silage. Always good to see both the cow and calf standing up after a calving.
You can tell you have young children. Farm toys are consistently showing up in the background. I just noticed a toy tractor under the grain hopper at the beginning of this video. It’s great! They are also owners of the farm.
Another great video. Thank you for sharing, Alan.
Hope you find a buyer for the Case. Cows amaze me the way they can spot a camera. We watch a couple other dairy channels and their cows do the same thing.
Hello Alan,
The secret to keeping the leaves on baled hay is all based on timing and air moisture. Leaves always dry out first, then the stems. The reverse also happens, leaves pick up moisture first, then the stems. We NEVER bale during the heat of the day. We always let the hay get good and dry and wait until the sun is going down and the air is getting slightly damp. You will have about an hour of perfect hay making in the evening and about 1 hour the next morning right after the dew goes off. Another tip: If you are pressed by foul weather and are baling hay on the tough side, it makes a world of difference if you stack the bales on edge, rather than flat. This allows the moisture to escape naturally up ward, due to the "chimney effect". You'd be amazed how those tough bales will dry out and be leafy and green come winter. I learned these tips from a local hay buyer who baled 30,000 bales every summer and have used these methods for the last 50 years making hay for our herd and for sale for horses. One additional option: We were given an old Brady crimper, which really helps speed up the stems drying. We cut the first day and crimp the next morning when the dew is still on to save the leaves. Typically speeds up alfalfa drying by one day.
Thanks for not scrapping the old Case combine. Somebody will be pleased to find parts from it.
Watching your videos brings back fond memories of growing up on a NW Illinois dairy farm. Thanks for sharing
Another awesome video, thanks! We set our clocks ahead over the weekend, too, but I see you set yours all the way to May! Always ahead of the game, that's what makes your family so productive!
Now you know the secret, lol!!
Great looking corn silage! I can smell how good it smells all the way in South East wi
I really enjoy your videos as they provide an excellent story about life on a dairy. I also enjoy Gierok Farms videos. Being retired, I have time to enjoy several videos that cover how our food supply is produced. Other dairy channels I enjoy include: IFarm WeFarm (Ireland), 10th Generation Dairyman (Pennsylvania), Kip Siegler Farming (Michigan), and SaskDutch Kid (Canada). Take care and stay safe....
I hope you can find a home for that old combine there’s gotta be some one out there that could use it for parts. Definitely not worth the scrapping!! I take it you and your wife already know this trick but if you get your sap boiling to the point where it will burn. Toss a pinky nails worth of butter in there and it will stop it from over boiling. Big thing is keeping your heat controlled so you don’t BURN the sap!! Because if you do it will ruin whatever is in the pan. I think your on the right track with your stove but I can’t stress enough don’t let it over boil and burn!! Oh and one last thing the butter trick is only for emergencies or at least that’s what I’ve been taught and experienced.
Love your videos. I wish i could go back to that life 😊
"....and on the 7th day the Lord rested." So keep the Sabbath and make it Holy.
As I said on Gierok's Channel, it is awesome to see You Tubers supporting each other. I think it is especially helpful with the small family farm. We usually don't use anything for dry cow treatment. My Dad is really good at stripping the cows when he thinks there's a potential problem. We don't usually use anything. We will dip them with an iodine solution if the conditions are very muddy.
God didn't make Dairy cows that take Sundays off. Or any animals that don't need feeding every day. I'm lucky, I can do my job feeding and still get to Church on time, wasn't always able to when I was in the Dairy biz. But God Blessed farmers that love what we do.
@@MorganOtt-ne1qj exactly!! 💯
Your weather is way better than ours at the moment, we have had rain daily for the last few months and there is no way we could let cattle out even though we have plenty of grass. The alfalfa looks great, I bought some from Spain for a few years but the cost was prohibitive, wish we could grow it here. Regards from Ireland.
👍👌🇨🇦❤️, a day with Al, can't get better than that
Ok im going to allow you to start the tractor from the ground 😉👍
The cat coming down the ladder made me laugh. Let us know how Connie does this lactation. She is a fine looking cow.
Another very interesting video Thank you 😊😊😊
I enjoy your videos. You pointed out about hand cranking your B? Yes its safer to start sitting in the seat. We had a JD that had a fly wheel hand start. Didnt have electric start. Cant wait to see your new sap cooker in action. It looks awesome.
Looks like nice weather there nice to see kids helping out with farm chores that is very nice hay
make a box on to inside to grab to smoke in heat to keep the back pan from scorching too badly, lowering the fire outlet and a box on the back is a good idea I think maybe someone will have a great idea.
One thing about running a dairy, it’s a seven days a week job.
Good video, thanks for sharing.😊
That will work just fine
Bale at night with the dew
Nice hay
Very nice dairy barn
Had a close friend he started a 274 one day stand on the ground it run over broke a bunch of ribs brusied him up pretty good he was a lucky man god was with him that day for sure after that he always set in the seat to start one you just never know what could happen even if you do check and make sure its ut of gear its just a good thing to play it safe and climb on it and start farming is dangeoures no matter what your doing you haveto stay on your toes and pay attention but theres times we all are in a hurry just dont think things out sometimes hope you all have good year and safe year farming great videos
I started a 460 one time
It was in reverse thankfully. I was in front of the rear axle it took off and backed imto the bosses pickup.
Them boys are fine something to be proud of your doing great job raising them
Great job and God bless y'all
Love the girl checking out the camera and love the old b and I am sure their is someone that is interested in that old combine looks in good shape
When your kids get older and get into FFA the joke in are family is FFA STANDS FOR FATHER FARM ALONE. I just thought that was funny when you said you were on your own for milking.. Love watching your videos.
Cows look happy and healthy after a crazy winter! Another great video! Thanks for sharing. We had a case combine that went down years ago. Mechanic friend looked at it, when dad shut it down it stopped on top dead center. Put a pipe wrench on the crank have it a bump and fired back up. No coolant in the oil though. Have a blessed day sir!!
I'm guessing the hay was baled a little wet and he added some kind of preservative?That stove is looking nice👍,mabe you want to make a optional grate to cook something over it in summer like scalding chickens?🙂
Be very careful a dairy here had a man killed by a tractor
helo farm . great . good luck . I always dreamed of having a farm like yours.
Great stuff, Love it to the hilt, Many down to earth videos, Practical educative, Thanks a million
We use udder gold dry which is almost the same as your thexx. We used thexx in the past but cant get it consistently so use udder golddry. Used internal sealant in past but same problem as you. Seems to come out for up to 100 days in milk. We still do a blanket antibiotic. Just were not happy doing selective treatment. We are a family farm milkng 90 head.
Thanks for taking time to do videos. Enjoy them Ontario Canada
The smoke will find its way around your sap pan on the new stove. Looks like it will be a nice setup. ... That CASE combine brings back memories, my father brought a cabless version home from an auction in the late 70s with a stuck motor. He hooked up a socket and breaker bar to the crank shaft nut with a six or eight foot steel pipe on it and my younger brother and I hung on a railing and jumped on that pipe while ol' dad used a sledge on wood blocks fit into the cylinders. We got it freed up and he put the engine back together and he combined wheat. Modern combines are all covered up but that combine with so much of the mechanical operation exposed was largely responsible for my curiosity in machinery that lead to an engineering career. .. Hopefully someone can get good use of that combine, might only be an engine swap away (or a couple of kids on a long handled wrench) from harvesting with it; new homesteaders and younger farmers can pay cash, do or get repairs, and have a low cost harvester. It's pretty crazy to buy new paint and try to farm these days.
I love the little B. We had a little Case VAC that was pretty much the same size, and it never backed down from a chore. The B reminds me so much of that VAC.
Wow that was a nice variety of topics. I'm guessing your neighbor baled that alfalfa on the dew.
Great video
Great channel, very family oriented. Love your equipment. Thank u for you for sharing your life. Stay safe and Have a productive year, Hi from Vancouver Island, B.C, Canada. Where's everyone else from?
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Great video.
Curiosity videoed the cow LOL
thank you
We like baling alfalfa in the evening or morning with a dew on it to keep the leaves.
I like the videos
That one cat wants the entire barn to him/her self.
Use it all the time on the jersey herd we milk for, THEX is good stuff
Sometimes it would be nice to have smell-o-vision specially when you're around the hay and a silage
That hay smells amazing!
My dad only dry treated one that would of had an issue during the lactation or high cell count. tried to cull them out of the herd. last few years he dairy far.ed with mostly 2cnd and 3rd lactation cow we had very few issues. we used a post dip for all that was blue fro. a local ag supplier. we would pull back hard on protein and corn at 80 days before calf and would usually dry of at 60 days such as you. have your cows matched, to much of a will to milk on the breeding these days...
Not only the combine , you ought to think about getting rid of anything your not using.
Anything you have two of keep one and parts off the other one
It would make your farm look so much nicer and give you some extra money.
Take pride in what runs and junk the rest. TAKE CARE !!!
Now,,the 660 is an intriguing restoration.
Like your reverse hay and cat elevator
When I was a kid my dad would always skip a milking for a week or 2 on one's to dry off we never used antibiotics and it worked really well.
That is some great looking alfalfa hay!! We could neaver make hay like that on our dairy farm here in ohio!
Good job on the stove,the pans need the flame to lick the botton. the top of the pipe should be about even with the bottom of the pan. the sides are important if you boil outside. We are not proffesional but we boiled for decades. You are diong a great job with your family and your farm. We are from Massachusetts and enjoy your channel along with Geirok's ,The Veggie Boys, Just a few acres farm, Living Traditions, Simple Living Alaska, Working Horses with Jim, And more . God Bless!
A few videos back, George had a Trinity shirt on! And you can't make cheese if there's antibiotics in it! I never did crop work on Sunday, I just did the basics and tried to get to Church! When I start this old JD B, I always stand on the side! yes, I make sure it's out of gear, the brakes are set! And the old JD'S had the flywheel on the side! Acitone & transmission fluid, mix together ! I would drop that exhaust pipe down so it's just under the pan, that way you have heat right up against the pan, it will boil better! What I did was two barrels , and put a slanted baffle in at the end of the fire box, so the heat had to go up under the pan as it went to the exhaust! you want the heat under the pans!
Upon further reflection on the video maybe those cows are like Labs where they are always thinking about food, they see or smell something different about that plow in the field, inspect it ultimately by licking it, then decide its not edible. They walk away thinking "well, it was worth a shot"
I started my Kubota standing next to it yesterday. On mine it has a pin that locks the reverser in N that I set when I shut it down and I hang the key on that locking pin so I have to see its still locked when I grab the key. Just gotta do what works for you. That looks like my grandpas old hay. I can still remember how much dark green there was in with the brown and how it smelled so sweet! I remember sitting up in the hay mow and watching the dust I kicked up slowly drifting through that one big beam of light, hearing the young stock jerseys in those same turnbuckle lookin' head lock style stanchions you've got clinking around and the snort in the water as they exhale while pushing down on the paddle in the water cup. I really miss that. Thanks for sharing your Dairy with us.
I think it would be better to have not cut into the fire box and just made a square level area on top of the fire box out of steel. I think if the pans don't seal off the firebox properly the smoke will roll up the sides of the pan and get into the syrup and give it a strong smoky taste. I had that problem starting out years ago. The smoke will go out around the pans and the not just the chimney. If that makes any sense?
On a Sunday night after supper, you can watch wrestling on TV
Haven’t seen Jen in a while. Hope she’s doing okay.
Yeah she's doing good!
great video
another great video
Add some more smoke stack to it the longer stack will create more vacuum pulling the fire to the back of the arch.
Love your videos
I start them both ways. I usually shut them off in neutral. I had 1 mishap with a m farmall. Left it in reverse and started it standing beside it. It started right away and started backwards. I was able to jump on it before it hit anything. It was a lesson learned. I was pretty young at the time.
use of intra teat antibiotics for dry off period which is usally 6- 8 weeks is necessary to prevent intra udder mastitis # antibiotic is completely abosorbed in the blood circulation & metabolized in the liver & excreted through the urine # it does not remain in teat tissues after 2 or 3 weeks # ❤️ 🇵🇰
Blanket dry cow therapy is not necessary on every cow, especially cows with low scc. We've also had cows that still tested positive for it even after the withdrawal period had passed.
My B is so had to get on
So starting it on the ground to warm it up so it's ready to work
that set up looks great fire it up and see is the best thing to do but i think it should work good for you kick that blower on and ill bet ya get a real hot fire i have done the same thing as you starting things on the ground as im the only operater i dont worry about them being in gear but i see your point habits are hard to break but maybe its time to break some
Thank you for posting more videos. I really like watching your channel. So if I am correct, you run a John Deere, a Farmall B, 3 Case tractors, and 2 Internationals. Do I have it right? I know that this doesn't have anything to do with what you posted today.
Yeah, and my brothers farmall 560
try as i may could never start my fordson sitting on the seat
I was curious, what is in your grain ration that you give to the milking herd?
If i were you i would really move the pipe down below the pan the flame would be to hot that high up and burn to fast i would love to tell you how i made my maple cooker out of a fuel oil barrel but it would be really long page but if you would want to know let me know i actually made 2 of them 1 was a test one that lasted 4 years the other one as far as i know is still cooking
Are you going to refill the barn silo with corn silage, this year, or something else?
The plan is corn silage again this year.
May work better to move the stove pipe opening down lower!!!
May 11th! Got cows calving in the future?
I finally get the year right, and then I mess up the month.
What became of the eagle you rescued?
It didn't make it. It had lead poisoning.
Great video do you know any other family owned Dairy farms on video about your sise I like your size thankyou
Gierok farms, and Hartung dairy, are about the only ones I can think of.
Acres of clay is about 200 cows all family ran hard workers and do all there own maintenance another good channel
Tayfarms
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Do you ever pull start your tractors if need be
Yeah
More interested in the UNI. Where ya at with it?
Going to hang onto that for a while yet.
Can't lie,,once you have manure in yer blood, it doesn't leave. I miss it!!
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May 11 th !!! What ? Is this over a year old ?
Oh man! I can't believe I said May! Must be the warm temperatures making me think it's May instead of March!
Can you tell me what is in the grain ration that you give to the milking cows?
Roasted soybeans, liquid 40, soybean meal,white salt, soyhull pellets, rolled corn, hydro-lac pellets, and a protein pellet.
So, if you are giving them corn sileage, what is the reasoning for giving them rolled corn?
The silage doesn't have enough corn for what the cows need.
Thanks for letting me know. Forgive my ignorance, my family had grass fed beef cattle.I learn a lot from your channel.
You're rooster is very active, any chance he is named Foghorn??
Well, there's about 14 roosters on the farm, so no matter where you are someone's making noise.
The time change is very traumatic on them
@@robertgoth5570like they have a clock... 😂 My wife has one that crows all 🤬 night long. I'm thinking chicken soup... 😂
Or at least a tracheotomy
@@robertgoth5570 lol