I tell all the UA-cam farmers this I cannot give you enough thanks for what you do Farmers are the heart and soul of country. You will forever have my support and respect.
At the farm I work at we drench the cows with the glycol and water mixed with dry alfalfa meal for ketosis and for milk fever cows we drench them with calcium or niacin
I like your new compost bins. Big enough to hold all the winter muck. Great to get some rain. We need some down here in North Canterbury New Zealand too. Your vlogs are always a great watch, thank you!👍
You all do a really nice job caring for you cattle. We had issues with rain in September and October here near the Ozarks. A large amount of rain came over a two day period that caused a lot of wash, about 15 1/2" during a 48 hour period, Nov. 4th and 5th. That was a near disaster for all the roads and fields, gravel and debris washed in our fields. Oh well, we just have to make the best of a bad situation, like you all are doing! Thanks for sharing, I hope you get some moisture that will help, have a good night!
Some might see the drenching treatment as cruel but you are taking care of these animals the best you can. Yea they are not pets but they are your livelihood and you have a huge investment in them. Hats off to y’all taking proper care of your animals! God bless our farmers!!!
So we farm in Colorado, where the bird flu was horrible. I would keep a close eye on your herd because those signs started off when we had the bird flu. My prayers go out to you that you guys don’t get it. Love your content
We just had three or four days of steady light rain and it was nice to see all of the moisture go into the soil to help things over the winter. Seems it went down there for you. Great video, thanks.
@@RiDankulous It will help since they’ve been so dry. Plus with them still being warmer, there will be additional plant establishment and growth to increase yield next spring. 👍
We drench them with linseeds that were soaking over night in hot water in a (2-5kg linseed in a bucket). Next day drench it with Calcium, a buffer and yeast product. We use 30-40 Liters in an old calf feeder to drench them with a dirt water pump. Safes a bunch of them.
We have good luck with a product called Revive here in Canada on cows that are off feed, sick, surgery etc etc etc. it comes as a bolus or powder for tmr inclusion. Probiotic. Helps with restoring rumen bugs and appetite. I’d look for it. Also a Neo formula for calves we mix with their milk.
Largest Holstein that I ever sold weighed 2195 pounds. She always had to be in the back stall of the herringbone parlor, and we just left the back gate open because she didn't fit. Never was a problem standing there. Great video, and the mild ketosis is a curious thing.🤔
Hi Eric. From here in England would love to see a short clip/video of the market where you take your cows. We love your videos and jealous of your weather
May you succeed in your endeavors. Hobby farming with an off farm job removes some risk allowing me a hobby that I wish for in my cubicle. I hope you prosper and live the dream I strive for. Only 37 more years until retirement.
Glad to see the Kubota skid steer still running good. I know farming fixing and fabrication channels have had a lot of problems with their Kubota skid steers.
There you go Eric. The herd health part of this video was fascinating to me. Folks need to know it’s more to it than feeding, milking and shoveling that liquid money the cows leave on the floor.
Hopefully you will take us to the sale barn and see a few of your calves sell. The farmers around here go to catch up with other farmers and the sale barn always has the best cheeseburgers 😊
Ive seen good success with adding about 3/4 a pound of alfalfa meal to the 5 gallons of water and electrolytes. Rumination response on smaxtec is usually very noticeable.
I don’t know why, but I love the idea of cover crops, and winter crops. I’m not a farmer or anything it just seems like a great idea. It’s nice to hear about what happens to keep the cows healthy when they have signs of issues. Also hearing about reasons cows get sold off. I saw that Jan of Sask Dutch kid channel says he’s cool with putting the extra manure in a pile and he says “it’s not going anywhere“. I’m not sure if he’s storing it just because they covered all their fields or another reason though. They got snow up there but they handle it like champs, of course. They did spread their liquid manure and emptying the lagoon completely, which is a major task completed
Hey Eric I love watching your videos very informative. I live in central Illinois and we have quite a few ethanol plants around here. Have you ever thought about feeding DDG’s or wet cake? Just a thought. Thanks
Hey Eric. Thanks for yet another interesting vid. @10thgenerationdairyman61 i had a thought whilst watching your skid steer 'bucket' yardscrape. you have scraper made tractor tyre carcass. why not get cpl sidewall from other large tyres and bolt them like "wings" to the bucket edges? Objective is scrape really close to obsructions without smashing or harsh collision, tet strong and flexible. a bit of thought and a few bolts, and the 'wings' can fold or hinge out of the way whilst permanently attached. fold down for scraping. fold away bucket work.
Wondering if you have sweeper attachment for skid steer to keep feeder paths clean of dirt rocks and snow, could even put deicer spreader on skid steer do whole job in one go. Good luck 👍
Internal bleeding maybe a little tear in the uterus can drop temperature. Hunched over, lack of appetite is also a sign that all is not well in the gut/breeding department
Do you give your animals magnets to avoid hardware? We give all our heifers magnets at their first breeding but those “ I’m not sure what’s wrong with this one” we give a second magnet.
Do the boluses give anything more than temp and rumination that would help with the diagnosis of disease? Are there any updated models of the boluses that do offer more info or software updates that can be downloaded to you current model? Possibly a new model that can placed and the old model disabled?
With the ammonium sulfate do you have to lime with manure being applied? I love sulfate but it sucks the life out of my soil. It will drop my PH by 1.5points or more every year. Lime isn’t cheap anymore like it used to be.
We like to use it because it helps keep our pH down. I don't know if it's the limestone soil or the quarry nearby but we actually deal with ph being too high more than low.
I always give you guys a heart❤ thumbs up, however…. I see you take excellent care of your animals, but those poor bastards don’t know what’s coming to them…. Eventually, McDonald’s and filet mignon.😢 I’m not an activist or anything, I like steak
I tell all the UA-cam farmers this I cannot give you enough thanks for what you do Farmers are the heart and soul of country. You will forever have my support and respect.
Bob and Bill😃
At the farm I work at we drench the cows with the glycol and water mixed with dry alfalfa meal for ketosis and for milk fever cows we drench them with calcium or niacin
I like your new compost bins. Big enough to hold all the winter muck.
Great to get some rain. We need some down here in North Canterbury New Zealand too.
Your vlogs are always a great watch, thank you!👍
Get a brush for the Bobcat! Help keep the tracks clear in winter.
Things seem to be moving along nicely, Erik. Not having to mix and put out feed must be quite a time saver for you and Dad. Cheers 🇨🇦
You all do a really nice job caring for you cattle. We had issues with rain in September and October here near the Ozarks. A large amount of rain came over a two day period that caused a lot of wash, about 15 1/2" during a 48 hour period, Nov. 4th and 5th. That was a near disaster for all the roads and fields, gravel and debris washed in our fields. Oh well, we just have to make the best of a bad situation, like you all are doing! Thanks for sharing, I hope you get some moisture that will help, have a good night!
In the last video the overhead door lift chain breaking might be due to weight springs need adjusting. You're a hard working, smart young man 😎
Some might see the drenching treatment as cruel but you are taking care of these animals the best you can. Yea they are not pets but they are your livelihood and you have a huge investment in them. Hats off to y’all taking proper care of your animals! God bless our farmers!!!
So we farm in Colorado, where the bird flu was horrible. I would keep a close eye on your herd because those signs started off when we had the bird flu. My prayers go out to you that you guys don’t get it. Love your content
I hope you and your family have a wonderful and restful Thanksgiving holiday.
Really good video. Thanks for sharing. Enjoyed the ride.
We just had three or four days of steady light rain and it was nice to see all of the moisture go into the soil to help things over the winter. Seems it went down there for you. Great video, thanks.
I wonder how much impact that has on the cover crops yield.
@@RiDankulous It will help since they’ve been so dry. Plus with them still being warmer, there will be additional plant establishment and growth to increase yield next spring. 👍
Eric I really enjoy all your videos. Thank you so much for all the time you put into them.
Wishing you all a happy and prosperous Thanksgiving from Oklahoma.
Those skidsteers seem to be one of the unsung heroes of the whole operation! Very good real video.
Glad to see yall got some moisture!
We drench them with linseeds that were soaking over night in hot water in a (2-5kg linseed in a bucket). Next day drench it with Calcium, a buffer and yeast product. We use 30-40 Liters in an old calf feeder to drench them with a dirt water pump. Safes a bunch of them.
We have good luck with a product called Revive here in Canada on cows that are off feed, sick, surgery etc etc etc. it comes as a bolus or powder for tmr inclusion. Probiotic. Helps with restoring rumen bugs and appetite. I’d look for it. Also a Neo formula for calves we mix with their milk.
Largest Holstein that I ever sold weighed 2195 pounds. She always had to be in the back stall of the herringbone parlor, and we just left the back gate open because she didn't fit. Never was a problem standing there. Great video, and the mild ketosis is a curious thing.🤔
To cows ketos, add your silage feed mix propylen,vitamins and sele n more. That helps.
Hi Eric. From here in England would love to see a short clip/video of the market where you take your cows. We love your videos and jealous of your weather
May you succeed in your endeavors. Hobby farming with an off farm job removes some risk allowing me a hobby that I wish for in my cubicle. I hope you prosper and live the dream I strive for. Only 37 more years until retirement.
Glad to see the Kubota skid steer still running good. I know farming fixing and fabrication channels have had a lot of problems with their Kubota skid steers.
We need to name the robots. They are now your new elite employees so they deserve a name
One should be R2 and the other D2.
@@1ponsford😂
Yes. Robi and Mobi- how's that for starters ?
Thing1 and Thing2. 👍
Or let's not anthropomorphize inanimate objects. I'm sure the software has an ID for them. That's what I would use.
Or Gort and Marvin.
you do a better job than most in explaining the whats and whys, really enjoy your channel.
There you go Eric. The herd health part of this video was fascinating to me. Folks need to know it’s more to it than feeding, milking and shoveling that liquid money the cows leave on the floor.
Eric, you’re an excellent doctor. Could be a DVM. But you do the job of a vet.
THANKYOU for another GREAT video, Eric.
You are a Legend!
Blessings from Australia....❤
Hopefully you will take us to the sale barn and see a few of your calves sell. The farmers around here go to catch up with other farmers and the sale barn always has the best cheeseburgers 😊
Always enjoy seeing your videos much love and respect thanks for sharing ❤❤❤
Ive seen good success with adding about 3/4 a pound of alfalfa meal to the 5 gallons of water and electrolytes. Rumination response on smaxtec is usually very noticeable.
5:20 She looks like she's not feeling well! Wow, poor girl.
She is doing a lot better since this video thankfully
I don’t know why, but I love the idea of cover crops, and winter crops. I’m not a farmer or anything it just seems like a great idea.
It’s nice to hear about what happens to keep the cows healthy when they have signs of issues. Also hearing about reasons cows get sold off.
I saw that Jan of Sask Dutch kid channel says he’s cool with putting the extra manure in a pile and he says “it’s not going anywhere“.
I’m not sure if he’s storing it just because they covered all their fields or another reason though. They got snow up there but they handle it like champs, of course.
They did spread their liquid manure and emptying the lagoon completely, which is a major task completed
HI from Indiana
Hey Eric I love watching your videos very informative. I live in central Illinois and we have quite a few ethanol plants around here. Have you ever thought about feeding DDG’s or wet cake? Just a thought. Thanks
Awesome video. Thank you and have a great Thanksgiving
Hi from Denmark! 🇩🇰
that girl is a massive mama jama its sad to see her go but what a beautiful cow
Happy Thanksgiving 🦃 Eric to you and tour Dad snd families! Thanks for all the cool videos!
Eric, you requested topics to cover, when you’re working with the cows I’d like you to tell us the breeding of that cow.Cheers 🇦🇺
Great video brother from the imperial county ca 🚜🚜🇺🇲🇺🇲
Happy thanksgiving from Raleigh, NC!!
Robot’s names: R2D2 and C-3PO!
Hey Eric. Thanks for yet another interesting vid. @10thgenerationdairyman61 i had a thought whilst watching your skid steer 'bucket' yardscrape. you have scraper made tractor tyre carcass. why not get cpl sidewall from other large tyres and bolt them like "wings" to the bucket edges? Objective is scrape really close to obsructions without smashing or harsh collision, tet strong and flexible. a bit of thought and a few bolts, and the 'wings' can fold or hinge out of the way whilst permanently attached. fold down for scraping. fold away bucket work.
They used to have that but changed it.
@@shermdog6969 the tractor carcass or the flappy wing thing?
Good morning Thanks for the video Eric Happy Thanksgiving your family?
excellent video!
Thanks 😊
Have you thought of maybe getting a brush attachment for a skid steer to clean the routes for the feeders this winter.
Great video from union county nc 🇺🇸
Excellent video
We had a 1st lactation cow like that. She made it over 800 dim and 80,000. Our record cow was 1200 dim
Wow
Wondering if you have sweeper attachment for skid steer to keep feeder paths clean of dirt rocks and snow, could even put deicer spreader on skid steer do whole job in one go. Good luck 👍
A video idea would be timelapse’s with a camera mounted on different parts of the Lely feeding robots showing a full cycle of feeding.
I thought long and hard and came up with the perfect names for the robot feeders. Eric and Eric's dad😅
The s-word! Huh. Where I am in upstate NY, still haven't got any. It's predicted for Thanksgiving tho. Of course.
Looking good Eric, hope you get some rain.
You know i watch several different farmers on UA-cam but yours is the only one I always wait for anxiously
Haha
Have you watched "How farms work" from WI, or "Cole the Cornstar" from IA ?
All good!
I think you also have pressure wash once in while
Have you tried a selenium mineral block to help with your ketosis problems?
Internal bleeding maybe a little tear in the uterus can drop temperature. Hunched over, lack of appetite is also a sign that all is not well in the gut/breeding department
Do you give your animals magnets to avoid hardware? We give all our heifers magnets at their first breeding but those “ I’m not sure what’s wrong with this one” we give a second magnet.
How are the solar panels working on the barn?
That’s a serious drench system 5 gallons a dose 🍻
I stay in ketosis all the time but that's pretty interesting how a herbivore gets there. That can't be good.
Snow is on its way. ❤❤❤❤
Good information very interesting.
Reassure (sp) in the dry cow diet
Do the boluses give anything more than temp and rumination that would help with the diagnosis of disease? Are there any updated models of the boluses that do offer more info or software updates that can be downloaded to you current model? Possibly a new model that can placed and the old model disabled?
What is next? An automatic alley scraper?
Check ketones with small blood sample
❤❤VIDEO ❤❤ another great episode ❤❤
Awesome video Eric 🚜🚜🚜
Ok, I'll throw the first couple names out there for the robots....
R2D2 and CP30 I know, I know...
But it's the best i could come up with....
I am curious how you tell if you've gone down the esophagus or the trachea with the drench pump, or aspirin dispenser?
Do you have to cover the robots when it rains to keep moisture out of the feed?
Eric, why not separate the sick ones from the other vows. Hope your whole family a Happy Thanksgiving Day .
Good video! Do you use the boluses for heat detection or are all cows put on a sync program?
We use a sinc program but catch some repeat breeds on the boluses
6:30. Kinda late !!! Robots are letting you sleep in !!! Lol
These poor cows never get to be with their babies. How sad!
In humans, propylene glycol is used to clear your bowels before colonoscopies
Now that you have a mostly working robotic scraper system and a robotic feed system. What is next on the automation agenda?
Thanks for another video. Do you think the bird problem might have something to do with the sick cows. Happy Thanksgiving!
When the owners away, the robots will play!!! I just made that up
Definition of a Farmer: A Mechanic with a serious gardening hobby.
i love watching your videos while playing FS25 good stuff
Are you feeding rumensin or reassure to your Dry cows or pre fresh?
Yes we are
When you guys take your cows away you take them to butcher or do you just sell them to other Farmers just curious about that?
With the ammonium sulfate do you have to lime with manure being applied? I love sulfate but it sucks the life out of my soil. It will drop my PH by 1.5points or more every year. Lime isn’t cheap anymore like it used to be.
We like to use it because it helps keep our pH down. I don't know if it's the limestone soil or the quarry nearby but we actually deal with ph being too high more than low.
@ PA soil is kinda sandy isn’t it? I bought some equipment west of Reading PA and there soil was sandy.
Interesting. How much AMS do you typically apply to get a pH drop of 1.5? We can never drop that much with of 8+ pH.
Ketosis is my goal, but I can see where you don't want your dairy cows burning protein.
I've seen cows get hardware or a twisted stomach and act ketotic.
What do you do with a cow that has died?
Trying to lock up cows alone is a struggle few understand
Why didn’t you give that cow any banamine?
I love milk!
Wot temp is ur bolus giving for a low
Love your robot feeders that’s pretty cool. They run 24 hours a day?
Yes they do
That giant cow!,,,
When are you going to show how the robot scrapers are doing
Robots need googly eyes!
Actually tho
Mail him some.
I always give you guys a heart❤ thumbs up, however…. I see you take excellent care of your animals, but those poor bastards don’t know what’s coming to them…. Eventually, McDonald’s and filet mignon.😢 I’m not an activist or anything, I like steak
im glad noone invented smellavision