The graph info on the cows is amazing with the robotics ! If you were closer we would do the drive but a bit far from Niagara this time of year for this old x farmer.
@@dougwatterson2155 Yes, we are super excited about that!! I wish you could come too. It is a long drive for sure. Maybe if we have another open house in the spring🤞
I can't smash the "like" button enough times to do justice to this video! Brilliant and thorough review of the entire system and facilities. I am curious about the condensation inside the cow building and how you are managing that? I was curious if the fans are reversible so that the warm air in the top of the barn could be circulated back down without creating too much of a draft. Might need VFD's to regulate speed om the ones used for that purpose. Certainly wouldn't need them all. Great job! Thank you for sharing all the details!
@@melvinstein7739 Thank you very much!! The fans are not reversible but they do pull from the ceiling already. We didn't think of pulling the warm air down in the winter months. We are still waiting for the guys to come and set up the whole weather station, probes, fans and curtains so they work together. Maybe they will suggest fans in winter too. Not sure. So far we lower the curtains when it starts to drip. It is difficult because it is not automated so we are not always in the barn when it needs to be changed. In the old barn I called my husband "The window, door, fan man." He was always on top of the air in the barn. I didn't get it in the old barn and I am struggling in the new one too🥴
Really enjoying the new barn journey, very good barn tour. Can you please introduce yourself and tell us your brief story now and then, do you AI the cows? Cheers 🇦🇺
@@beancountlynda I have 4 children. My oldest works full time on the farm and his wife helps too. My youngest son has a full time job off the farm but helps out on weekends, some weeknights and helps extra at harvest time. Both my daughter's are nurses. One is married and the other one is living at home and has been a tremendous help cooking meals throughout the whole startup. My husband and I work full time on the farm but don't do as much as when we were younger. Ron's cousin helps with the calves and making meals. We have one person, not family, working but she dates my youngest son, so practically family.😊 We had more employees before the new barn.
@@jeffkizer6666 Yes, we have had 6 or 7 new babies in the new barn. They have their calf in the close up pen, we put a gate in the pen so the cow can see her calf but the calf can't suck on her. We use her colostrum to feed the calf with a bottle. The cow goes from the close up pen through gates over the walkway to the fetch pen. She gets milked by robot, milk goes to M4USE buckets and then the cow gets routed to seperation pen where we can then send her across the walkway back to the close up pen. We do that for a few days and then send the calf to the calf hutches and the cow joins the milking herd. Works pretty good! Should be on a video in the future🤞
@@turklayher4794 the robot takes a sample of milk at the start of each time the cow is milked. That is how mastitis, bloody or watery milk shows up. It then can also give a Scc reading from that. Every milking and every individual teat is tested. If the milk is bad it automatically gets diverted from the milk tank.
A great little tour of the barn. Thanks!
@@kurt4917 Your welcome!!
WOW! Great in informational video. I was surprised the info you get to follow the health of each cow. That's great. Thanks
@@mikeklehr7105 I'm glad you liked it! Thanks for watching!
Very interesting!! Thanks for sharing!!
@@harveypenner2386 Your welcome! Thanks for watching!
The graph info on the cows is amazing with the robotics ! If you were closer we would do the drive but a bit far from Niagara this time of year for this old x farmer.
@@dougwatterson2155 Yes, we are super excited about that!! I wish you could come too. It is a long drive for sure. Maybe if we have another open house in the spring🤞
Nice video... I enjoyed
How has your milk production been doing?
I really like yhe brightness and clean look your facility creates
I can't smash the "like" button enough times to do justice to this video! Brilliant and thorough review of the entire system and facilities. I am curious about the condensation inside the cow building and how you are managing that? I was curious if the fans are reversible so that the warm air in the top of the barn could be circulated back down without creating too much of a draft. Might need VFD's to regulate speed om the ones used for that purpose. Certainly wouldn't need them all. Great job! Thank you for sharing all the details!
@@melvinstein7739 Thank you very much!! The fans are not reversible but they do pull from the ceiling already. We didn't think of pulling the warm air down in the winter months. We are still waiting for the guys to come and set up the whole weather station, probes, fans and curtains so they work together. Maybe they will suggest fans in winter too. Not sure. So far we lower the curtains when it starts to drip. It is difficult because it is not automated so we are not always in the barn when it needs to be changed. In the old barn I called my husband "The window, door, fan man." He was always on top of the air in the barn. I didn't get it in the old barn and I am struggling in the new one too🥴
Really enjoying the new barn journey, very good barn tour. Can you please introduce yourself and tell us your brief story now and then, do you AI the cows? Cheers 🇦🇺
@@RichardNettleton Thank you! Yes, my son and I both can AI the cows and we do use a bull sometimes.
Thank you for the great tour. I have enjoyed watching your videos. Does all your family work on the farm? Do you have employees who are not family?
@@beancountlynda I have 4 children. My oldest works full time on the farm and his wife helps too. My youngest son has a full time job off the farm but helps out on weekends, some weeknights and helps extra at harvest time. Both my daughter's are nurses. One is married and the other one is living at home and has been a tremendous help cooking meals throughout the whole startup. My husband and I work full time on the farm but don't do as much as when we were younger. Ron's cousin helps with the calves and making meals. We have one person, not family, working but she dates my youngest son, so practically family.😊 We had more employees before the new barn.
Have you had any babies in the new barn ? And how do you Handel that chore??
@@jeffkizer6666 Yes, we have had 6 or 7 new babies in the new barn. They have their calf in the close up pen, we put a gate in the pen so the cow can see her calf but the calf can't suck on her. We use her colostrum to feed the calf with a bottle. The cow goes from the close up pen through gates over the walkway to the fetch pen. She gets milked by robot, milk goes to M4USE buckets and then the cow gets routed to seperation pen where we can then send her across the walkway back to the close up pen. We do that for a few days and then send the calf to the calf hutches and the cow joins the milking herd. Works pretty good! Should be on a video in the future🤞
Was a bathroom in the barn ever considered?
great video
How are the cows coming to get miles.
how do you turn the bedding when using robots as there will be always cows loafing?
Put a roof over the hole with an opening on one side.
Do the cows get rewarded with grain while being milked ?
What’s the tall tank in the milk house for?
I wouldn't worry about the hole, it's all fenced.
Grandkids, new calves.
@@RichardNettletoncats
So how do you check for mastitis?
@@turklayher4794 the robot takes a sample of milk at the start of each time the cow is milked. That is how mastitis, bloody or watery milk shows up. It then can also give a Scc reading from that. Every milking and every individual teat is tested. If the milk is bad it automatically gets diverted from the milk tank.