Keeping The Farm Going In The Cold
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- Опубліковано 14 тра 2024
- Winter has decided to finally show up in Minnesota, so it's up to us to keep the animals comfortable in the frigid temps outside. The cows stay in the barn, keeping it a toasty 40 degrees. Alan and Jessica feed the cows hay, then venture outside to check on the cattle that are housed outside. Water tanks are filled and kept open with a propane heater.
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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.
Nothing better then walking into a dairy barn in winter I miss the smell nobody realizes the extra work it takes in bad weather I miss the good times and the bad you have a wonderful family stay healthy
Thank you so much for being a dairy farm family. We will always be indebted to you and if the activist win I hope I’m not around to see it! 👍👏🐄
Most people don't realize that cattle, especially the breeds originated out of more northern and mountainous parts of Europe, like it cool.
If you could have low humidity and around 60° F they would be pretty darn comfy.
That is some gorgeous looking hay.
The way you keep your cattle is fine, those cattle get to eat pasture when its available and are kept out of the wind and rain/snow, they are not mistreated and because you don't have 10,000 head, you actually know the personality and name the cattle, if that isn't humane then there is no humane animal husbandry.
Always enjoy seeing the videos with the cows. Loved watching your sweet daughter helping dad out. Take care!
Congratulations to Jessica for working
Great video Allen. You and your family always take well care of your animals and we'll never make activists happy no matter what we do. The best thing to do is keep us supplied with milk and I'll do my share by eating beef while drinking milk. Be safe and God bless
❤ KEEP THROWING WOOD IN THE BOILER AND KEEP DOING WHAT YOU DO 😊😊😊 !!!!
Yeah winter finally got to northern Pa also.
No matter what you do, you'll always have haters. Keep on being you.
Really enjoy your videos
One of the best channels on the tube
Those Holstein/Angus crosses do well. Those chore gloves are the same type we always used. Good until they wet. Enjoy your videos.
I was thinking that hay is really green. I bet they do like it. Your cows look happy and that’s what counts.
Tks your time for making videos buddy .
Your cows look content. They look good shape. Great looking small square alpha bales. You teaching your daughter to be a good worker. 👍🇨🇦
That is exactly how it is on the farm, work always, no matter the weather, 24/7, all the different things you need to do. God Bless you all.❤
Congratulations to Jessica for helping with the farm work.👍
Our vet always said (when we had our cows) that the girls are prone to pick up bacteria in the field. They just like other animals, horses and dogs etc love their job and are most secure in doing their job and being in their safe spots. Love your beautiful farm and you have a beautiful family. God bless you all in 2024!
We are in Iowa (oldest son lives here) and it snowed this morning and is so windy and cold. It’s far from feeling like spring! Loved the video and seeing the kids at there school, work and saying goodbye.
Wow looks like you've made the barn look better than I remember from 1st time I watched you all.
I always like a nice tie stall barn. You manage your cows really good so that makes a big difference. Also by having grates over the gutter really helps cow maneuver better.
Keep up the good work ! And stay warm!
Thanks for all your videos and may God bless you and your family always in Jesus name Amen 🙏
This weather must make you appreciate the manure pit.
Absolutely!!! Last winter and this winter have certainly reassured me it was worth all the work to fix the manure line.
More of a challenge to keep up with livestock chores in cold weather, but looks like you've got things under control. Extreme cold is part of your Minnesota winter season. We get our share of cold weather in Ohio, but not to your extent!!!
You made an excellent point about the anti-animal ag extremists! They wouldn't be happy if you built a bovine mansion. They seek to destroy ALL dairy, beef, pork, and poultry production. Great video, and you have a great assistant in the barn with you! 👍Jen!
👍👌❤️🇨🇦, -52C here the last entire week🥶
HI
People forget that more water may be needed in the winter. This would be because of the fact that they are eating drier feed such as hay, silage and dry grain. They also need it to burn these fuels to produce more energy/heat in the cold winter conditions.
Hope this makes sense.
Greg B.
First time subscriber and really enjoyed your video. Thank you for taking the time to do this
Thank you!
Cold mornings like we had the last few days makes me glad I am a retired dairy farmer. Dealt with the cold for over 40 winters in Wisconsin.
Keep up the good work and I agree with the stall barns are nice for your cows when it’s so cold outside.
thank god for dairys
Your 🐄 cows look well kept to me. I think they are very happy 😊.
👀🙄🐾👍Great video A&J Jessica a good worker
Put a piece of plywood that covers 3/4 of your outside water trough on cold days helps.Ratchet strap to hold it in place. Little colder up here in Canada 🇨🇦-40
"The barn is alive from within," my old farmer neighbor used to say. 90 days and winter should be mostly over, at least it will be a short one. Keep warm!
Love the tie-stall dairy with the pasture especially for spring through fall. 😊❤
Love your video
Terrific video and Terrific looking beef cattle. Stay warm !
It's a very good day when it's cold and the pipes don't break
Shoot Alan, Jessica is almost as tall as you are.
Tks for sharing like always. Activists always seems to think they know best. But most of then have never been out of there living room. I will say your heart look happy a healthy. What ever your doing? Keep doing it. I just never payed to much attention to Activists anyway. Tks for your hard work each day.
I haven't eaten meat in a while and my main concern would be removing the profit from food and making sure everyone can eat before I worry about what's on the plate. That said - most of the battery farming is encouraged by big corps who can monopolize and set prices by exploiting farmers and livestock as much as possible. So they are somewhat related.
We have children working night shifts cleaning packing plants, kids going to bed hungry, people without heat in winter. They should be worrying about that instead
Allen you want good taste beef 🥩 give them turnips and grain 6 wk before kill your beef . Probably be the best taste beef 🥩 in your life . We been doing it for yrs here in the 709 . 😊
Great video like the way you and the family take care of the farm, especially now it's winter
Great video Allen it bare ground here January 17 , 1” white gold turn over to a big rain 🌧 here . 😊 iiiii iiiii feed my moose herd this morning with cattle corn 🌽 and over size cabbage 🥬 for them . 😊
Very nice
I thought that right away. that some nice hay!! Also i run the same pumps and take that check valve out right away,
Too old now but man I enjoyed working on the farm. I just started to work for neighbours as we never had a farm, when haying season came I was really in demand at 14yrs old! Worked every summer till I was 16.
Lots of videos on UA-cam about big farmers but I like the family farm better.
Another great video. Enjoyed the walk-through and seeing the cows. They look amazing and definitely enjoying their time in the barn. ☺ The beef cows in MT are jealous.
Don’t miss being out in all that cold at all. Beautiful hay and the cows should produce well on it. Good video.
Hang in there, Brother.
Thanks for taking me along while doing your chores have good week.
I think you and your family do a great job with your farm
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and insights with us. God Bless
We milked cows here on our farm for 80yrs. We are now in beef and care for our beef cows almost like we did our dairy. I've also sold seed corn for 30 plus years there's nothing more satisfying to me the walking into a barn of fine-looking good cows like yours in a nice clean environment it's like coming home you do a nice job you keep a good Barn and a fine-looking herd. People don't realize how much work it takes to keep a barn in a set of cows looking that good we did just what you're doing and I know how much work it is.
Your cow's are looking good and content that's some great looking hay I bet your butterfat go's up feeding it Keep up the good work don't let the windbag naysayer's bother you
Jessica reminds me of my big sister. My sister did everything on the farm. To be honest, I got a little angry when sissy city folks on a farm video here on YT were all shocked to see a girl working on a farm, like it was something new. Women, girls have always worked as hard as men on the farm. This is not a new thing.
We have had 6 nights of -40; not fun. Today it is finally above -30. Supposed to get warmer: You sound like you have it under control, good job: You show what a lot of people don’t know or realize what farming is about
That hay is hot I've been on a dairy all my life moved to portales New Mexico from California just so my dad could buy a dairy
Thanks for the tour and everything you do. Dealing with the cold here too but that is part of it.
Winter finally showed up ...im cold 🥶 🐂🐃🐄
Excellent video. God bless you all ❤. Stay warm and safe.
Great video your cows look very clean being in barn all day. Yes it does suck taking care of livestock in cold weather
Barn looks great. Hay looks tasty.
we are freezing at 4 degrees, yuns are REALLY cold
Stay safe and warm.❤❤❤❤
The best beef I've ever eaten is guernsey beef. Always keep 1 in beef rotation for ourselves!
That's good to hear!
Great Video and it was great seeing how you take care of the cows. Stay warm and God Bless
@@tracychambers1986 Why are you watching this channel when I would imagine you must have other, more productive things you could do. I am not putting you down, but to be spreading your anger on someone you do not know, nor understand is not good for you or anyone else and because you are not there standing face to face with another human being, you believe you can be angry at them and tell them off. That is so sad. Live good.
They are happy and well cared for cows. good job
It's that cold where I am, too. We got 22 inches of snow in four days on top of it. Stay warm. God bless.
Wow, that hay is so green. I remember my grandpas hay always had a real sweet fresh smell to it, I think because it was small squares put up in the barn dry. Round bales that sit out in the rain never had it. Your girls all look great, I would think housing problems might show up real quick in milk production, component levels, and possibly somatic cell count. On the chicken farm for the hatchery, fertility rate was our early indicator of any trouble that needed to be investigated and sorted out.
It's colder here in Iowa Cedar Rapids it was -21 Sunday morning
The weather sure is different this year
So be safe
Yes, a lot of States are actually colder and more snow-covered than Minnesota right now! Stay safe!
Very good job and God bless y'all
Very nice video
Cows 5500 BTUs heaters... x however many cows
Great content as always
Congratulations on the 30K mark with Subscribers. Stay warm my freinds
Take Well Care animals Cow's milk Chocolate (Town😙) Me @ Dad, Years ago cows 32) Thank you all. 👌N.Graber
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Hey Allen awesome video I’m only 36 of age but. But when I worked on my neighbors farm which was about a quarter mile down the road I always let the cow out every day while we cleaned bed and gave them there manger swiping and gave then there silage and grain on top always worked out great and gave them exercise every day even if it was only half hour. But I love watching your videos every day you put them out
Hiya Alan and family from NE rural Ohio. I like the safety percussion you take, when throwing the bales. "Down below".... like welders saying "eyeballs", some people just take it for granted. So many things to think about, one those bales sure can hurt someone.
Dairy farming is a dying business.
Awesome video as always
I know how water for animals goes! I just built an insulated tank for a steer I'm feeding out separately. It was -17 the other night and it stayed open!
I water mine with potable water that is heated by heat transfer from my outdoor wood boiler. Set to trickle feed into a cut off IBC tote. Never have it freeze up. No electricity to worry about shorting out and shocking cattle. This is my 15th winter watering this way
burrr...is right. I'm speaking in New Jersey today. It was 35 degs yesterday when I got in. 28deg this morning and 33 at the moment. My brother is stuck in Shreveport, LA today, lost like his route back to Ohio is going to be sketchy. Stay warm guys!
super cold weather is tuff to keep water open for cattle.
Not sure how to create a UA-cam account but keep going you guys love your content here in southern ohio can’t milk anymore and still can no pickup left
As far as I can see your cows look very healthy and if they were unhappy, it would be very apparent, I believe. I will continue using dairy products and eating meat. You know, sometimes I think the activists have no real knowledge of the world and what it is like for people who work like you do. So keep up the good work and ignore the haters, because haters are going to hate, no matter what the subject.
Awesome video!👍🐮
Great video Allen. I'm so happy to see family farms that are doing well. There are no daires left here in NW Oklahoma so sad about that.
So sad
I used to milk the cows in the old barn too, but went to the bank and build build a freestal, and since we do it together me and my wife i can tell you that we dont miss the labour in the barn and we doubled our herd but what i do miss is that the cows are not getting so old anymore, our average is 6years and 5months today, so everything has his pro and cons, but one thing is the most important do what you like, thanks and greetings from a Dutch dairyfarmer
Why do you think the cows dont get as old these days?
In our case its the care you dont give them when they get older because there is simply no time for and they have to produce every Day, the bank wont wait but we are doing now procross breeding whit fleckvieh which is a much stronger cow, so thats the way to go to breed a stronger cow
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Awesome video as always, I know this is a little early but groundhog day isn't far off also known as Candlemas:
two old says we still use here at home
Is at Candlemas the hayloft still half full your going to be ok
At Candlemas winter is only half over!
very fine tuned operation stay in there GOD bless would like to see the silo unloader working some time cows that stay out in cold weather takes a lot to maintain weight
what no one bedroom apartments for your cows looks like you do a great job from what i see
Very cold here 😊😊😊😊
monday night in sioux falls sd 12 below wind cvhill of 32 below
Always remember the Ronald Reagan’s warning: if someone approaches you and say’s “I’m from the government and I’m here to help you, RUN !
Great video. Yes there are a lot of so called experts to tell people how this or that should be done. What works for you doesn’t work for the next person. Do what works the best for your operation. Your cattle are happy healthy and content that’s all that matters. Believe it or not but cattle like warm water better than cold water a veterinarian told me that. God bless
I know one of your neighbors that houses his cows outside year round. He brings them in to milk them then they go back outside. He said if you keep them dry no different than a free stall barn. That would be Mr pasek
Yep, he's done that for quite a few years now.
This is in western Alberta, anada
Good video, I have to agree with you re cattle housing or even out wintering, no system is perfect as you say but I think cattle are happy if they have a dry ly and a full belly . Are you expanding? You seem to have a good few heifers coming along.
Our plan was to expand, but now our creamery has put on a quota, so we probably won't expand much.
@@trinitydairy that’s unfortunate after going to the expense of bringing on the extra heifers.
Stay warm and tell the activists to go to a 🔥 place
Do a great job keep up good work. Screw peta
With all those hiefers are you going to put up a shed in the future for switch cows for you can milk a few more? Stay safe in the cold.Having fun here in Nebraska with the cold and keeping all the cow waters going here.
We were planning on growing the heard, but our creamery put a quota on, so we are pretty much at our quota, with the barn full. We will probably be selling down, our heard numbers.
How do you heat detect cows in the barn (when they are locked in stanchions)…Do you synch them? Steers look good!
Yes we synch a lot of them.