Tom Pemberton, next time you and the family go to Disney World in Orlando Florida, call ahead and arrange for a tour of one of the local Dairies and Cattle Ranches. I know for a fact that Florida has some HUGE Dairies and Ranches and I know for a fact most of the Orange Waste Pulp and Rinds are processed as Cattle Feed. Cows seem to love it. They also use Grapefruit waste a bit, Lemon and Lime are the highest Citric Acid content with the lowest Sugar content so they never used a lot of Lemon or Lime but they did add it to the mix. You might want to talk to them about how to store Citrus based feed stock so it doesn't Mold, Mildew or grow Fungus. I'm pretty sure the Florida Cattlemen know how to do that.
@geneard639 From the dairies that i used to deliver orange waste to in California in the Central Valley they were mixing it in with the corn and oat silages and the rest of the commodities that they were feeding and they were feeding the citrus waste as fast as the End-Dumps and Walking-Floors would bring loads to them in a couple of days. There were a few dairies that had cement pits that you could back down into and unload the orange waste or peach and apricot waste into so that it wouldn't spread all over the place. So they pretty much fed it to all of the cows, heifers and bulls so it really never had the chance to get mold in it and the citrus was pretty wet but it wasn't as wet as the apricot and peach waste.
Hi Tom, great video again, When I worked on a dairy farm 30years ago, we tried citrus fruit waste, we had quite a few suffer from bloat, so be careful .
From a person who has always lived in the city, my thoughts on dairy farming was how hard is it to feed a cow and milk it ? I had NO IDEA how much science and forethought goes into getting enough yields to be profitable. You almost need a math degree to keep your sanity. This is so interesting to watch.
Try to find a feed ingredient merchant's website - they sell what goes into farm livestock feed. If it can be digested, it is or was available - price is everything. Some ingredients people will notice from cat and dog food. Feather meal Biscuit meal Prairie meal Citrus pulp Rape (Canola) expeller Sunflower expeller Olive pulp The list is endless. Compounders - the companies making feeds - use simple software to work out how to make a "perfect" diet for any animal at any stage of life BUT, they can only guess digestibility, and that can be a huge, huge problem. More expensive feeds will vary very little in what they use as ingredients, cheaper feeds are compounded/blended to a price and digestibility will vary hugely..................................... There is also the problem of taint, both in meat and milk. I have known people who can tell when milk has come from grazing or silage......
same actually goes for meat. how you treat the animal and what you feed it has a major impact on the flavour of the meat. that's why here when animals get transported to slaughter they don't get forced of the trucks but rather they just open the doors and then let them come in on their own terms when they are ready and then boom just dead before they even know what was gonna happen. you don't want the animal to be stressed when it dies because that to has a impact on the meat. stuff like bears are famous for tasting different depending on what they have ben eating. years with great berries seasons the bear meat tastes extra good because they consume more berries.
My nannas cow Dausy used to let herself into the orange orchard and once she’d finished raiding oranges off the tree would come to the back door still munching with juice down her chin. She loved them.
My middle year farm back in the mid 90’s we used to put brewers grains in a layer about two foot deep under the maize when we clamped it made it a bit harder for the pit man but every time we took maize out we took some brewers grains out for the mixer wagon
Especially at the other farm if your thinking about using different things have some bunker bays made that will hold say 30tonne to keep things easy and tidy
Great video Tom. Didn’t know that cows would even eat oranges😂 hope it gives you a good outcome. Love that you’re always willing to try new things for improvement. Have a great weekend Pemberton’s and crew!❤❤
Morning all at Pemberton HQ regards to the Ginger Warrior also was lovely to meet Hannah the other legend whilst she was passing through Aldi Fulwood she's got a mission too a calf to be named after my Granddaughter Ava-Grace if possible we will be down soon so she can feed the goats with Grandad 😅😅
Tom's cattle breed has a lower fluid production with a higher butter fat content for their home delivery market. Pure bred Holsteins can easily get much higher milk production over his breeds but he is targeting a very different market. Also they are still mainly grass feeding their cows. Most high production dairy operations are running different breed of milk cows and not using pasture grazing at all. Total TMR rations. When you have cows grazing your feed nutritional value is much more variable.
I love how you try new things .. i know it might mean added work but is there no kind of container or barrel you can unload the peal into to keep it going off as fast
We had a covered silage clamp, we placed hay bales over the entire clamp, then straw on top again later in the season. The hay, straw, and silage was all used at a very similar rate. Vermin do go into straw, but not hay so there were no rat holes in the sheet.
I was raised on a dairy farm and worked with beef cattle for 10 years after we sold out and I’ve never heard of feeding Cattle oranges. It’s an interesting concept, I hope you get good results. I used to hand feed our cows apples so I know they like some fruits.
I know someone who used to put citrus pulp over the whole of his grass silage clamp instead of clamp sheet and it made fantastic silage tom maybe a future idea for you mate.👍👍👍
Fascinating video Tom, in ag it is always difficult to distinguish which change of a multi-variable input is doing what, however you can definitely say there is no negative impact from the orange waste. Dad issues are always a problem in farming businesses. Keep going forward, your instintcts are almost always right Tom.
When I worked on livestock farm finish cattle some use to specifically fine out the whole oranges and you would see them rolling around in their mouths before anything else. Each to their own
I wonder if the pulp would still help if it was dry. Seems like it would last longer after running it through something like your slurry separator so you had good dry solid and could keep the liquids separate. It should be the liquids and sugars that will go bad and start to ferment for the most part.
Funny everything goes full circle. I remember back in the 70’s delivering straw with my dad to dairy farms. Back then they were all small bales and they stacked them on top of the silage clamps. Kept the bales dry and the silage compacted at the same time
Howdy from across the pond. Midwest United States pumpkin farmer here. I got food for thought. What if you supplemented some feed for the cows with pumpkins. You could get them for free after the holiday season but it could also grow them. I didn't know it until I looked it up just now but there's a lot of pumpkins grow in England and I'm sure it's quite easy with your high water table? My buddy's wife has two dairy cows I gave them a bunch of pumpkins. They could definitely tell a difference in the milk production but they don't do anything scientifically measuring or anything. I don't believe there's any scientific study on this but it's just my theory. They saw a higher production in milk because the cows like to eat the pumpkins. They're just so tasty. Even though a pumpkin is 90% water. My theory is the cows had a higher level of fluid intake by eating the pumpkins with the feed and still eating the feed. So produced higher milk levels. In the pastures that you're only grazing you could plant pumpkins among your other feed grasses. We grow about 8,000 pumpkin plants our neighbor grows 10,000 pumpkin plants. Our other neighbor who is worth more money than we can dream of and cattle farms a 1,000 acres for a retirement hobby. 🤯🤦 After the Halloween holiday he bring his cattle across the road to the pumpkin fields and those cattle eat those fields flat in no time. Remember think outside the box. At one time anyone with a great idea was called crazy. Happy farming!
Back in the day we got a load of burnt peanuts for a protein supplement, cows hated it 😝. Once we used some grape drink mix in place of molasses, made for some super purple feed but they didn't seem to mind that. Always good to try to use waste, and the cows always seemed to like something new to try as well.
Great video mate neighbour he feeds all his beef stock on waste food ie waste beetroot waste potato’s waste cabbage water melon onions all from the local factory’s he supplies the trailers they supply the goods
I ate well over 270 chocolate hundreds and thousands many times as a kid in The Netherlands, where it is called 'hagelslag'. It is a sandwich filler there. I am 60 now, so it didn't kill me.
In the winter bet the byproducts would last longer when tipped or if it would be possible to get smaller lorries with half the amount, but not sure how much that would affect price as delivery prices aren't cheap these days with the price of fuel
Problem is when buying in extra products to add to the ration transport is a major factor on the cost per kg. So a bulk tipped artic is the most economical per kg. Per kilo because Tom will be feeding say 1-2 kg per cow per day as an example then probably raise it a little as the cows get used to it.
You'll have to let us know if there is a change in taste of the milk and if the introduction of orange pulp charges the fat content, as its citrus might have an effect. You giving your dad the Tom death stare, brilliant. 👍
Mmorning Tom, I always look forward to your video's. I've noticed now on two of them that when loading the keenan quite a bit of it is pushed out over the side opposite the loader bucket. Couldn't you or keenan have a flap or thick rubber extension on that side to help the food stay inside during mixing. You know like the older flail muck spreaders had.?
Tom ., Bananas are not poisonous, Eating too many bananas can cause hyperkalemia, or excess potassium in the body, which can lead to serious health problems like heart issues. You would have to eat in excess of 400 per day to reach that level.
Tom have you ever considered putting up a small set of clamps just for where you dump product that goes into your feed instead of placing them in front of other silage clamps? It’s just a thought maybe something to consider if you’re going to keep adding more and more in
Great video I worked on a farm where we fed both wet and dry apple pulp from a local cider farm they went absolutely daft on it they used to nearly break the gate down to gey at it Another farm we had spuds, carrots and I think even parsnips possibly Worst thing I've ever been involved in feeding was strip grazing Kale before they came in for the winter cows got caked in mud and the Kale really tainted the milk
Haha! Reminds me of a time we made lots of grapefruit juice, and took the grapefruit halves out to the beef cows. They loved them, but it was a very windy day and grapefruit halves are pretty big and smooth and very tart. Poor cows struggled to chew them, just rolled them around in their mouths which made them salivate like crazy..... wind picked up the drool and it was flying everywhere, like cobwebs!!!!!
In North Devon there was a farmers co-operative , that milled livestock feed. Like most millers they used by products form food manufacturing. one of the by products was broken biscuits, however they were contaminated with bacteria, several diary cows died in the region. I googled but no info available.
Love the fact you are using waste food products, yrs ago when I worked on a dairy/beef farm we used brewers grain which is like your selco I would have thought but we clamped it and then sealed it with mashed potatoes and mashed carrots swedes and parsnips and used to feed it to them. There was other stuff used as well corn powder etc great way to feed and cheap too. Just getting a happy balance and being able to keep it fresh for them.
Been watching you for the past 5 years and this is my first comment! Love your videos keep it up. My thoughts recently have been that you’re obsessed with yield chasing, Feeding 2+kg in the wagon plus citrus,on top of what you’re giving them through the parlour! what are your feed rates looking like? Do you need to be buffer feeding all the time ? Would you be better keeping your highs in and actually pushing some grass into the lower yielders? Yes it’s nice to see a big milk ticket but sometimes you need to look at the justification of that 🤷♂️
Hello Geordie I think we might need a video replay here. "You know when you've been Tangoed". 🤣. Joe Seels used Trafford Gold in the mix for his beef stock, have you ever used it?
Hey Tom, if the cows do not eat the oranges, you can actually go spread that in your cornfield and it’ll actually help your soil once you turn it and let it decompose
always think on this Tom as regards to the orange pulp how would you like it on your plate as i was told many years ago when feeding cow cake in the old stone troughs how would you like your dinner in a wet trough same applies to the mouldy oranges
I use to feed oranges to my neighbour's cows, they were low lines completely black and smaller than the average cows here in Australia, they loved the oranges 🙂
So...how does the milk taste? and has the pulp increased the amount of vitamin C in the milk? I guess the one good thing that comes out of it is when the girls pass wind there's that sweet fruity aroma. great video Tom!
Love the videos tom and having watched from when just before the big shed great to see the growth. But I can't help feel moving the meal bin should be the next bit to make the clamps easier to load etc I know it's money and concrete just ask why really it's not gone.
Fed dried citrus pulp in cow diets but never fresh citrus , be interesting to see how the cows take to it and if it effects the rumen as well as the yield.
I’m sure they would love used Brewers mash as well. if you have a brewery around you they might be a cheap source of it and the Moo Cows might love it.
Seeing the bin still in front of the clamp and knowing maize is going in gives me anxiety. Will there be enough room to fully pack it. I reckon packing is even pore important as maize is more expensive crop. Any plans to create new clamps on side by slurry hold? That way you can store selco?, oranges or whatever feed you experiment with? Machinery stored next to midding
If you want push for milk yields bring your cows in, sure milk yields will soon rocket then, tried citrus pulp in the past had the same issues goes off lightening fast
I would think if you layered the food byproducts in while packing the silage it would ferment well and not spoil but hard to control the ration that way
We raised beef cattle. 1980&90 we feed used orange waste to our beef cattle. Picked up a 20ft trailer full every day...FREE!! Then they relized they could sell it for feed
@kathyallen3038 Yeah and then the greed came out. I've hauled raisins to the dairies too. And heads of purple cabbage and the peach and apricot waste out of the canaries to the dairies too. It's like the peach pits apricot and cherry pits they don't go to waste either. They are spread out and dried out and then they grind them up and they put the grindings into these pressed logs to burn in your fireplaces and woodstoves. So they're making money from them too.
@@lukestonehouse8163 when it's tested you find out what other things you need to add to make the optimal feed for the cows. Every harvest of grass contains different sugars, minerals etc so it's not the same mix every time
Know my dad said during the war they fed cows sugar beet tops and the milk became too sweet for his tea and coffee, so for the rest of his 82 years he drank black tea and coffee Orange is the new brown lol Be interesting to see how the milk is affected, good luck with the milk yield uplift With all that equipment, you'd could do with a machine shed and workshop lol
I have invested a lot of time in the Pemberton farm UA-cam channel over the last 4/5??? years. It has been every bit a joy and a privilege.
Please don’t stop the silage (grass cutting) videos! Bloody love them
I'm never bored from your videos Tom and I could listen to your dad all the time 😊
Tom Pemberton, next time you and the family go to Disney World in Orlando Florida, call ahead and arrange for a tour of one of the local Dairies and Cattle Ranches. I know for a fact that Florida has some HUGE Dairies and Ranches and I know for a fact most of the Orange Waste Pulp and Rinds are processed as Cattle Feed. Cows seem to love it. They also use Grapefruit waste a bit, Lemon and Lime are the highest Citric Acid content with the lowest Sugar content so they never used a lot of Lemon or Lime but they did add it to the mix. You might want to talk to them about how to store Citrus based feed stock so it doesn't Mold, Mildew or grow Fungus. I'm pretty sure the Florida Cattlemen know how to do that.
@geneard639 From the dairies that i used to deliver orange waste to in California in the Central Valley they were mixing it in with the corn and oat silages and the rest of the commodities that they were feeding and they were feeding the citrus waste as fast as the End-Dumps and Walking-Floors would bring loads to them in a couple of days. There were a few dairies that had cement pits that you could back down into and unload the orange waste or peach and apricot waste into so that it wouldn't spread all over the place. So they pretty much fed it to all of the cows, heifers and bulls so it really never had the chance to get mold in it and the citrus was pretty wet but it wasn't as wet as the apricot and peach waste.
Hell of a driver that’s my dad lol he’s an amazing driver can usually get his truck in most places people say u can’t lol
that was smoth backing up there, good driving!
The real question is: has he got his metal bar back? ;)
@@BauerHermann1811 he didn’t no lol
It used to be common to put Stock feed potatoes in when putting silage into a pit, and add layers of them as you roll the out, cattle loved it.
we mix in potatoes into our feed
No , tom , video's not to long , keep them coming !
Hi Tom, great video again, When I worked on a dairy farm 30years ago, we tried citrus fruit waste, we had quite a few suffer from bloat, so be careful .
From a person who has always lived in the city, my thoughts on dairy farming was how hard is it to feed a cow and milk it ? I had NO IDEA how much science and forethought goes into getting enough yields to be profitable. You almost need a math degree to keep your sanity. This is so interesting to watch.
Try to find a feed ingredient merchant's website - they sell what goes into farm livestock feed.
If it can be digested, it is or was available - price is everything. Some ingredients people will notice from cat and dog food.
Feather meal
Biscuit meal
Prairie meal
Citrus pulp
Rape (Canola) expeller
Sunflower expeller
Olive pulp
The list is endless.
Compounders - the companies making feeds - use simple software to work out how to make a "perfect" diet for any animal at any stage of life BUT, they can only guess digestibility, and that can be a huge, huge problem.
More expensive feeds will vary very little in what they use as ingredients, cheaper feeds are compounded/blended to a price and digestibility will vary hugely.....................................
There is also the problem of taint, both in meat and milk. I have known people who can tell when milk has come from grazing or silage......
This lad is the most clueless dairy farmer in the world, if it wasn’t for the money he gets from UA-cam he would have gone bankrupt years ago.
@@theoracle8560as if you knew what u was on about 😂😂😂😂
same actually goes for meat. how you treat the animal and what you feed it has a major impact on the flavour of the meat. that's why here when animals get transported to slaughter they don't get forced of the trucks but rather they just open the doors and then let them come in on their own terms when they are ready and then boom just dead before they even know what was gonna happen. you don't want the animal to be stressed when it dies because that to has a impact on the meat. stuff like bears are famous for tasting different depending on what they have ben eating. years with great berries seasons the bear meat tastes extra good because they consume more berries.
@@savagememes873 not being funny but you must have very good cattle if they just walk in on they’re own 😂😂😂😂😂
I never get bored of your videos chopping grass, mowing, tedding etc, IMHO makes great content
My nannas cow Dausy used to let herself into the orange orchard and once she’d finished raiding oranges off the tree would come to the back door still munching with juice down her chin. She loved them.
This is fascinating. Thanks for sharing. Hope you continue to increase your yields.
My middle year farm back in the mid 90’s we used to put brewers grains in a layer about two foot deep under the maize when we clamped it made it a bit harder for the pit man but every time we took maize out we took some brewers grains out for the mixer wagon
Especially at the other farm if your thinking about using different things have some bunker bays made that will hold say 30tonne to keep things easy and tidy
Great video Tom. Didn’t know that cows would even eat oranges😂 hope it gives you a good outcome. Love that you’re always willing to try new things for improvement. Have a great weekend Pemberton’s and crew!❤❤
Morning all at Pemberton HQ regards to the Ginger Warrior also was lovely to meet Hannah the other legend whilst she was passing through Aldi Fulwood she's got a mission too a calf to be named after my Granddaughter Ava-Grace if possible we will be down soon so she can feed the goats with Grandad 😅😅
My grandad used to get tubs of sweets from manufacturers and mix them in with the silage
It is very interesting to see how intensive your farm is. Here in the netherlands we milk 30/35 liters a cow with half of the work
Would you eat peel? I put candied peel (home made) in every fruit cake I bake.
I think its mostly a result of the cow size/breed he has... Lots of farms in the UK doing 30+ litres
Hi , give Tom some advise , i am sure he would listen , a trip to you farm would make good you tube viewing
IIRC they have relatively small cows, could be one reason?
Tom's cattle breed has a lower fluid production with a higher butter fat content for their home delivery market. Pure bred Holsteins can easily get much higher milk production over his breeds but he is targeting a very different market. Also they are still mainly grass feeding their cows.
Most high production dairy operations are running different breed of milk cows and not using pasture grazing at all. Total TMR rations. When you have cows grazing your feed nutritional value is much more variable.
Florida, USA. I can confirm that cows LOVE whole oranges. They will gobble them up all day long.
17:36 Have you considered adding a lip to the right side of that opening to stop product spilling over while loading?
I love how you try new things .. i know it might mean added work but is there no kind of container or barrel you can unload the peal into to keep it going off as fast
It's great energy for the cattle! Keep doing your thing from the States.
Definitely make sense to use by-products from food production. Hope it has the desired result with milk yield.
Citrus pulp and tomatoes are used a lot in Florida for beef stock. Big truckloads are dumped directly in the fields for the cattle.
It's a little wetter in Blackpool 😊
We had a covered silage clamp, we placed hay bales over the entire clamp, then straw on top again later in the season. The hay, straw, and silage was all used at a very similar rate. Vermin do go into straw, but not hay so there were no rat holes in the sheet.
Thanks for the video Tom
BeWell and StaySafe ✌️
I was raised on a dairy farm and worked with beef cattle for 10 years after we sold out and I’ve never heard of feeding Cattle oranges. It’s an interesting concept, I hope you get good results. I used to hand feed our cows apples so I know they like some fruits.
Midwest pumpkin farmer here. Cattle absolutely love pumpkins also
Love the longer videos
myself I love the longer videos Tom, keep'em comin! cheers!
Interesting results with adding oranges.
I for 1 like seeing the field's cut. 😊
Maybe to keep from getting bored, you do a before & after. 🤷♂️
I love to see you chopping grass. You must smell better after your days work with all those oranges 🍊
How does anyone get bored of chopping grass!!. A great video as always 👏
I know someone who used to put citrus pulp over the whole of his grass silage clamp instead of clamp sheet and it made fantastic silage tom maybe a future idea for you mate.👍👍👍
Fascinating video Tom, in ag it is always difficult to distinguish which change of a multi-variable input is doing what, however you can definitely say there is no negative impact from the orange waste. Dad issues are always a problem in farming businesses.
Keep going forward, your instintcts are almost always right Tom.
When I worked on livestock farm finish cattle some use to specifically fine out the whole oranges and you would see them rolling around in their mouths before anything else. Each to their own
Hi Tom are cows use to love oranges 🍊 full oranges there was some very funny sour faces but yes they do love them
Maybe try putting straw bale over the silage and pure ibc with molasses on top coos will love it
Good to see you yesterday Tom mate…..unreal farm shop!🤣😉
We used to get Citrus pulp as a pellet, was similar in feed value to Sugar beat .
Wow, another Gorst!
I wonder if the pulp would still help if it was dry. Seems like it would last longer after running it through something like your slurry separator so you had good dry solid and could keep the liquids separate. It should be the liquids and sugars that will go bad and start to ferment for the most part.
Bales on the cover is great we’ve been using bale for a few years now and it beats tyres by a long shot
Funny everything goes full circle. I remember back in the 70’s delivering straw with my dad to dairy farms. Back then they were all small bales and they stacked them on top of the silage clamps. Kept the bales dry and the silage compacted at the same time
Howdy from across the pond.
Midwest United States pumpkin farmer here. I got food for thought.
What if you supplemented some feed for the cows with pumpkins. You could get them for free after the holiday season but it could also grow them.
I didn't know it until I looked it up just now but there's a lot of pumpkins grow in England and I'm sure it's quite easy with your high water table?
My buddy's wife has two dairy cows I gave them a bunch of pumpkins. They could definitely tell a difference in the milk production but they don't do anything scientifically measuring or anything.
I don't believe there's any scientific study on this but it's just my theory.
They saw a higher production in milk because the cows like to eat the pumpkins. They're just so tasty. Even though a pumpkin is 90% water.
My theory is the cows had a higher level of fluid intake by eating the pumpkins with the feed and still eating the feed. So produced higher milk levels.
In the pastures that you're only grazing you could plant pumpkins among your other feed grasses. We grow about 8,000 pumpkin plants our neighbor grows 10,000 pumpkin plants. Our other neighbor who is worth more money than we can dream of and cattle farms a 1,000 acres for a retirement hobby. 🤯🤦 After the Halloween holiday he bring his cattle across the road to the pumpkin fields and those cattle eat those fields flat in no time.
Remember think outside the box. At one time anyone with a great idea was called crazy.
Happy farming!
Back in the day we got a load of burnt peanuts for a protein supplement, cows hated it 😝. Once we used some grape drink mix in place of molasses, made for some super purple feed but they didn't seem to mind that. Always good to try to use waste, and the cows always seemed to like something new to try as well.
When we did confined spaces training the use an example off an incident with farm workers in a slurry tank two died one was very lucky to survive
Great video mate neighbour he feeds all his beef stock on waste food ie waste beetroot waste potato’s waste cabbage water melon onions all from the local factory’s he supplies the trailers they supply the goods
cutting grass is part of ur working week we like to see it all
I ate well over 270 chocolate hundreds and thousands many times as a kid in The Netherlands, where it is called 'hagelslag'. It is a sandwich filler there. I am 60 now, so it didn't kill me.
In the winter bet the byproducts would last longer when tipped or if it would be possible to get smaller lorries with half the amount, but not sure how much that would affect price as delivery prices aren't cheap these days with the price of fuel
Problem is when buying in extra products to add to the ration transport is a major factor on the cost per kg. So a bulk tipped artic is the most economical per kg. Per kilo because Tom will be feeding say 1-2 kg per cow per day as an example then probably raise it a little as the cows get used to it.
The cows were eating their pudding before the main course - spoilt! It seems that oranges do go off quite quickly if the weather is hot.
Hi Tom big fan of your videos why don’t you try cabbage leaves of lettuce just a idea keep up the great work and the team
Great video Tom you have said a couple of times you need a shear grab for the other farm Joe Seels has got one for sale
You'll have to let us know if there is a change in taste of the milk and if the introduction of orange pulp charges the fat content, as its citrus might have an effect. You giving your dad the Tom death stare, brilliant. 👍
Another epic vlog Mr Pemberton. Loved the Joey ‘Friends’ quote 😂
Keep up the fantastic work ❤ @Tom Pemberton Farm Life always delivers 👍🏻
Good morning Toms farm!!!
I’m having breakfast enjoying your video!!!
Clamp does look compacted to a solid block. 😊
Very interesting. Have often smelled citrus around here. Northants/Leicester border.
I have a load of super single tyres. Lorry tyres you could have for your clamp. Bedfordshire based
we cut spme maize for a farmer and he used orange skin and the pith to cover his maize clamp and fed it as it mixed in,
WoW. Oranges. Never heard of that before. Music 👍👍👍💯💯💛
Mmorning Tom, I always look forward to your video's. I've noticed now on two of them that when loading the keenan quite a bit of it is pushed out over the side opposite the loader bucket. Couldn't you or keenan have a flap or thick rubber extension on that side to help the food stay inside during mixing. You know like the older flail muck spreaders had.?
Tom ., Bananas are not poisonous, Eating too many bananas can cause hyperkalemia, or excess potassium in the body, which can lead to serious health problems like heart issues. You would have to eat in excess of 400 per day to reach that level.
And when 6 is roughly 1.3kg your talking almost 90kg of banana a day 😆 🤣 😂
Oranges make a good fertiliser as well.
Orange julious woould be great for the milkshake machine. Orange you smart!
Hi Tom, I hope things work out with the new feed.
Tom have you ever considered putting up a small set of clamps just for where you dump product that goes into your feed instead of placing them in front of other silage clamps? It’s just a thought maybe something to consider if you’re going to keep adding more and more in
I think in the Netherlands it's pretty common to feed citrus pulp, brewers grains and chicory root a.o. Good that nothing goes to waste.
Great video
I worked on a farm where we fed both wet and dry apple pulp from a local cider farm they went absolutely daft on it they used to nearly break the gate down to gey at it
Another farm we had spuds, carrots and I think even parsnips possibly
Worst thing I've ever been involved in feeding was strip grazing Kale before they came in for the winter cows got caked in mud and the Kale really tainted the milk
Haha! Reminds me of a time we made lots of grapefruit juice, and took the grapefruit halves out to the beef cows. They loved them, but it was a very windy day and grapefruit halves are pretty big and smooth and very tart. Poor cows struggled to chew them, just rolled them around in their mouths which made them salivate like crazy..... wind picked up the drool and it was flying everywhere, like cobwebs!!!!!
In North Devon there was a farmers co-operative , that milled livestock feed. Like most millers they used by products form food manufacturing. one of the by products was broken biscuits, however they were contaminated with bacteria, several diary cows died in the region. I googled but no info available.
Love the fact you are using waste food products, yrs ago when I worked on a dairy/beef farm we used brewers grain which is like your selco I would have thought but we clamped it and then sealed it with mashed potatoes and mashed carrots swedes and parsnips and used to feed it to them. There was other stuff used as well corn powder etc great way to feed and cheap too. Just getting a happy balance and being able to keep it fresh for them.
Been watching you for the past 5 years and this is my first comment! Love your videos keep it up. My thoughts recently have been that you’re obsessed with yield chasing, Feeding 2+kg in the wagon plus citrus,on top of what you’re giving them through the parlour! what are your feed rates looking like? Do you need to be buffer feeding all the time ? Would you be better keeping your highs in and actually pushing some grass into the lower yielders? Yes it’s nice to see a big milk ticket but sometimes you need to look at the justification of that 🤷♂️
Hello Geordie I think we might need a video replay here. "You know when you've been Tangoed". 🤣. Joe Seels used Trafford Gold in the mix for his beef stock, have you ever used it?
Hey Tom, if the cows do not eat the oranges, you can actually go spread that in your cornfield and it’ll actually help your soil once you turn it and let it decompose
👀🙄🐾👍Its always a good to see Andrew citrus pulp is a good feed aslong as its mainly orange based p0
I love watching Silaging videos.
We have the citrus pulp on top of the maize it keeps the maize air tight and plastic on top of the citrus pulp so the pulp it self keeps good to
We used to have potatoes rejected from McDonalds for our beef cattle. Worked really well.
Great video Tom now you’re making orange flavoured milkshakes and you’re not feed waste food you’re feeding a byproduct 👍👍
Interesting to watch thanks Tom ❤❤❤
I've heard of oranges being put into or on the pit as the silage is out in, I think it keeps better then.
always think on this Tom as regards to the orange pulp how would you like it on your plate
as i was told many years ago when feeding cow cake in the old stone troughs how would you like your dinner in a wet trough
same applies to the mouldy oranges
thats alot of vitamin c
I use to feed oranges to my neighbour's cows, they were low lines completely black and smaller than the average cows here in Australia, they loved the oranges 🙂
Cows also do well on Carrots, potatoes, sweets (not all at once mind🤣). Great video as always Tom. 👍 👏
So...how does the milk taste? and has the pulp increased the amount of vitamin C in the milk? I guess the one good thing that comes out of it is when the girls pass wind there's that sweet fruity aroma. great video Tom!
Love the videos tom and having watched from when just before the big shed great to see the growth. But I can't help feel moving the meal bin should be the next bit to make the clamps easier to load etc I know it's money and concrete just ask why really it's not gone.
Fed dried citrus pulp in cow diets but never fresh citrus , be interesting to see how the cows take to it and if it effects the rumen as well as the yield.
I’m sure they would love used Brewers mash as well. if you have a brewery around you they might be a cheap source of it and the Moo Cows might love it.
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Glad to see milk production is up. They took to the orange pulp like it was candy.
Seeing the bin still in front of the clamp and knowing maize is going in gives me anxiety. Will there be enough room to fully pack it. I reckon packing is even pore important as maize is more expensive crop.
Any plans to create new clamps on side by slurry hold? That way you can store selco?, oranges or whatever feed you experiment with?
Machinery stored next to midding
would love to see a grass chopping video again!!
If you want push for milk yields bring your cows in, sure milk yields will soon rocket then, tried citrus pulp in the past had the same issues goes off lightening fast
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Great video Tom
TheHoof GP sent me! Loved what I've seen so far!!
I would think if you layered the food byproducts in while packing the silage it would ferment well and not spoil but hard to control the ration that way
Here in United States in California there's some dairies that feed oranges and the leftover waste from making orange juice.
We raised beef cattle. 1980&90 we feed used orange waste to our beef cattle. Picked up a 20ft trailer full every day...FREE!! Then they relized they could sell it for feed
We r in Florida
@kathyallen3038 Yeah and then the greed came out. I've hauled raisins to the dairies too. And heads of purple cabbage and the peach and apricot waste out of the canaries to the dairies too. It's like the peach pits apricot and cherry pits they don't go to waste either. They are spread out and dried out and then they grind them up and they put the grindings into these pressed logs to burn in your fireplaces and woodstoves. So they're making money from them too.
What's the point in testing your grass? Would you ever stop feeding the cows the grass you have??
@@lukestonehouse8163 when it's tested you find out what other things you need to add to make the optimal feed for the cows. Every harvest of grass contains different sugars, minerals etc so it's not the same mix every time
Know my dad said during the war they fed cows sugar beet tops and the milk became too sweet for his tea and coffee, so for the rest of his 82 years he drank black tea and coffee
Orange is the new brown lol
Be interesting to see how the milk is affected, good luck with the milk yield uplift
With all that equipment, you'd could do with a machine shed and workshop lol
Did the (artic-lorry) driver come back to fetch his locking pin?
Might be cheaper for him to buy a new one unless he passses by regularly.