Milking Our Jersey Cow! How Does It All Work?
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- Today we are showing you our milking setup. How we use it, how it works and an in depth look at each component.
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What’s the pulsator you got?
I have had 1-2 milk cows for years and have picked up quite a few tips from more experienced milkers over time and through trail and error. When you are getting lots of raw milk and selling it, it is nice to keep it fresh as long as possible. 3 things I have done:
1. Cool jars of milk in the freezer for one hour first, then move to fridge (the faster it is cooled the better)
2. Use standard canning lids and rings (they will partially seal as it cools and that will keep it fresher)
3. DON'T use the cream separating idea from your friend. I did that a couple years ago and the freshness of my milk (and cream) really suffered. Especially if you are adding milk to it over more than one milking session.
I have noticed the milk stays fresher much longer if I leave the cream on in the half gallon jars until I am ready to use the skimmed milk. As soon as the cream is removed, the milk sours faster. Nothing wrong with sour raw milk of course, but I love fresh sweet milk the most.
One more tip, use a sharpie to mark your date + AM/PM on the side of the jar. Washes right off. Love your channel, God bless.
Kevin,
Raise the Quail in a Coop with an Outdoor Area covered with Aviary Netting and Corrugated Aluminum or Plastic partially for rain. That's what I do.
This took me back 65+ years when just after the morning milking we strained the milk thru cheesecloth and poured a pitcher full and sat down to breakfast. That fresh warm milk was so good ! We really enjoyed the videos you folks share with us. God has truly blessed you all !
We did that too!
I love how safe, clean, and humane your practices are. Your homestead brings happiness to my heart!
You need to get a cork to put in the vacuum line if you are going to leave it out . One day you will get a spider or mud dobber in it and you will have a lot of work to fix it. I have been there and done that.
Yea, I was thinking that there needed to be some kind of cover over the end of it, too.
Would a little ramp at the end of the milking platform with antiskid applied help Hope get off easier? Sort of like a handicap ramp.
Hope appears to be such a kind, gentle, patient cow. She is a blessing as she is teaching you the ways of being a dairyman. God sent.
You guys are living the life that i wish i was...
So true Leslie! It's a little like we are living their life just a little because they are so generous with their time to share it with us!
I was taught that whenever washing up containers that had dairy products in them you rinsed first with cold water,. Hot water does something that sets up the milk and makes it harder to clean. A quick rinse with cold before dropping everything in the hot soapy water might make your clean up a lot easier. Hope this is helpful.
I never tire watching the ducks run to their food
I hand milk, but may have to get a milker one day. Love your set up! We put our milk (quarts) in the freezer for an hour for a quick chill down. The only faster chill is setting them down into ice water. Our milk stays fresh for a long time before it goes to natural yogurt and then clabber (cheese and whey).
Build a lg wire aviary pen, then they can fly around. Have shelter and perches.
You guys are so gifted in that you are very good teachers.
Hope is looking much better. She seems so sweet. Looks like she loves her new family.
Have a friend raising their in an Avery outside. Big round chicken coop with small houses...and has a teein middle. Really cool looking
I love your milk cow! I didn't have a cow when we had our farm years ago. I see what our family was missing by not having one! We sold our farm years ago. Even tho' I won't be getting a milk cow at my age, I found this extremely interesting! You both are very good teachers and 'Stewarts'' to your animals! I always enjoy your channel no matter what the content is.
Thank you for taking the time to show us.
There is just something about those ducks running around the homestead. It puts me in the best mood.
My dad raised quail and pheasant in our backyard in town in a cage. Loved waking up with their voices!
A cork attached to your suction hose would keep bugs, dust, mud dobbers,etc. from getting in the end after milking. Love your channel!! Can’t wait for the quail video!! I have quail also
Great video. I learned how to milk with that particular style of milking bucket at my Uncle's farm as a child. As you said, the buckets were held by a strap over the back of the cow and we moved them from cow to cow. we could get usually 3 cows in each bucket before we had to dump it. We milked jerseys and a couple of Guernsey cows. Uncle had 50 cows so we started early in the morning like 4:30 or 5 o'clock to milk each day. After about 5 years uncle change to the automated system where all of the suction cups were mounted to a free flow system that took the milk directly to the tank. Trucks came to pick it up each day. We still had 2 cows that had to be milked by hand as the machine milkers put too much pressure on the teats. Have a great day and God-bless.
*_such a cute family and farm!!!!_* 🚜🐓🌾
I wish I have a farm someday
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Thanks for the lesson on the milking equipment, now I feel better able to assess what I am seeing with the cow. She is cute and so gentle and patient.
Gr8 info as usual guys. I think a ramp leading into the milking stall would help,only a couple feet long would do,it would help Hope reversing out and keep her calm and content,she's a nice cow,I think you got a long term keeper there. Baz
Thank you very much for the info on your milking system. My husband and I have talked about getting a milker for awhile now since our old hands are getting stiff..lol We hated to invest on something we weren't familiar with. We were happy to see some fall weather this morning too. West Tn. has been brutally HOT.
Kevin we have our quails in our rabbit colony and they get alone with each other very well. Try putting a couple quails in with your rabbits in the rabbit tractor they can feed off grass too.
FYI. You can use a sharpie maker to write on the jar and it will wash off with a scrubby 😀
Awesome ! Good source to make extra money in the homestead.
I wished so much there were someone near me that I could buy milk from. But I'm excited for you! 👍😀
In any home i have had I have an attic fan. In my race horse barns I have had fans up in rafters to keep air flowing through the rafters. You can either take them outside surrounded by bushes & protection or you can put a fan in the cooler end of the barn down low with an open screened end at the top of the hot end of the barn.
Thanks for the details. Just a suggestion, the line you leave in the stall area may get spiders, etc. in it so you might want to cover it with a cloth and rubber band, and to keep from having to hold the milk lines while milking you could hang a long bungee cord and S hooks to hang the line on.
Each time I watch you milking the cow it causes flashback to when I was a teenager and milking cows on the farm. Funny story. One cow we milked would sidestep while putting the strap over her back and then lean on you pinning you to the side stantion and she would not let go. She was never mean but had this little trick to catch you when you forgot and got inside with her as we did with all the other cows. We never had a beautiful milkmaid either. Thank you for the memories.
Very informative per usual. What great teachers you both are, and engaging. I didn't wake up today to learn about milking machines but thats perfectly fine. I enjoy learning and so I am always excited to see what you have in store for each new video. Thank you both very much again for sharing your knowledge!
Hope looks amazing, she is really flourishing on your farm. We are not missing the 90 degree weather either. I also lived in Arizona and laugh that I grumble over 90 degree weather but it is definitely different with that humidity isn’t it? I hope you have a blessed rest of the day.
It's a nice set up you have for milking. I hope you make a video of any changes you make to your milking procedure as the weather changes, ie, stormy, freezing conditions.
Good morning. I can't believe how big the turkeys are getting! I love watching the ducks run to get to the feed. Lol. As always, another very informative video. Have a great weekend. God bless.
Thanks for this video! I just got a surge bucket and I'm going to refurbish it myself. All my reading was leading me to believe that I needed smaller shells than the ones that came with my bucket. I see you have the C style shells, too, so mine should work for my Jersey.
i love the sound of the pigs eating their breakfast :0) and the ducks know how to make an entrance!
Outstanding! Very educational. I like how Baby brother slipped in that this is more 'sanitary' then 'milking by hand', lol! No fuss, no bother! And I like that you showed us that no "I'm actually more comfortable with the cow now and Yes I can milk by hand!" No fuss, no bother! You very PROFESSIONALLY (and adult worthy) addressed all that. You guys BE BLESSED! Looking forward to the next video...
Love watching the animals eat
Hope seems to struggle backing out would a ramp not be better for her :)
You are doing a wonderful job! I'm loving this new adventure. I've never been around a milking cow, so to see how this whole adventure plays out is super interesting to me. The pigs are looking very edible, LOL! Good thing you have a tractor to move that new trough feeder when needed. Keep teaching us such interesting things. I love following all of your mini-adventures. You've accomplished a lot this summer!!
Love & Light from Minnesota, where it's been raining and in the 40's while you were sweating bullets.
Im farming India
That’s a great feeder . An you guys do a great job with all of your animals and their care .
Very interesting, I was wondering about that particular milker since I have never seen one exactly like that. She is such a sweet cow ❤️, someone really cared for her deeply before she got to you. And I am sure you are going to continue to spoil her rotten.
Thanks for sharing your homestead with us,
Jimmy
Glad to see your new pig feeder!
Y'all look really happy about the cooler weather! At last!!!
Have a great and beautiful weekend...
Fall in the Ozarks ! ! Thanks for detailed walk-thru of the workings of your milking system. And tho it is off subject, the way your channel home page is designed, with ''Featured Channels'' on right margin is so helpful to me - my 3 favorite channels are at the top of your ''featured'' list .... so once l click onto LTH, can easily click onto my other guys.
My grandparents and my uncle (who lived just down the road) both had Surge milkers that they used in their barns. I remember well hearing the pulsating vacuum pumps going, and then carrying the heavy buckets of milk to the "milk house" where the milk was strained into big cans for rural pickup. Ah, the memories!! Thanks for sharing with us all that you do. I admire your courage to break away from the rat race and how you are managing to make it "out there on your own."
Learning a lot from your videos. Thank you and God Bless.
Morning is my favorite time of day. I love to watch when you guys let the animals out to start their day as well as yours. I don’t live your lifestyle except small vegetable garden but I just enjoy all you do and show us.
Greetings from Ottawa, Canada.... where we have just a few weeks left of autumn and then we'll be freezing our butts 'til next March I love this video! Very informative and I am in total agreement with you two, milking with a milker is by far the most sanitary way and also the best for the cow's health. You're doing awesome! Love your UA-cam channel.
What an awesome channel, what an awesome family!!
As I sit here watching you do your morning chores, feeding the chickens, etc..I was wondering...I see you let them out of their house, but how do manage to bet them in. I hope this isn’t s silly question, but I’ve really been curious. Whatever you do, it’s amazing. As I love to watch your morning chores. My best viewing as I have my morning coffee. Thanks for been there and God Bless ❤️🙏🏻❤️
Back in the 60s we milked with a system where the lid fit on one of those tall old fashioned milk cans. If I think there was an inline filter so when the can was full the lid was put on and taken to the milk house and put in a cooler that had ice cold water. My mother had an aluminum can with handle that held around a gallon and she would skim cream off the tops of the cans before it got sold to use for butter etc. I still have that can.
I hate to see the end of the garden season, but so happy the hot weather is gone in Central Illinois.
Good day and blessings.
you need a shorter platform to strain your milk, less lifting and easy on the back
I love Hope, she’s such a good girl, I think Kevin should make a ramp up to the milking station after seeing her backing off the stand. I never want her to get hurt or take a tumble. I also love watching you releasing the ducks, they are so comical to me. Heck I love everything about your farm and life. Thanks for sharing!
Very educational with the milker. ♥️watching the pigs try and reach so Kevin can pet them🐷. All looks like things are rolling right along on the homestead.🦃🐥🐰🐮
Love what you do🤗. Hope looks very sweet. She has Trained you guys very well. LOL🐂 she is a Happy cow. GOD BLESS YOUR FAMILY. 🦃
You're so good to your viewers!! Thanks for another great detailed video! Love from Minnesota
That was so interesting to watch & see how much cleaner / hygienic using the machine is.
I have a question about Hopes belly- what is the long vein / knot that runs all the way to her udder please, she is looking so healthy & well.
What an amazing , well trained cow & Sarah you are so confident now with her, I have a suggestion though Kevin - why not hang a long hook from the rail down to above milking floor to hold the tubes that Sarah has to hold on to ??? would that work ???. Cheers Denise - Australia
Very interesting video. Even though I'm not a farmer, I enjoy your videos and always learn something new. God Bless!
Thank you so much for the tutorial on the frozen tomatoes and using ths CucinaPro for making tomato sauce. I bought a CucinaPro this summer and OMG, thick, beautiful sauce. I know that what you teach is directed to other homesteaders but there is a lot that non-homesteaders can learn from you. You are so fun to follow
I always learn so much from you! Hope is a nice cow and a great addition to your homestead 😊💕
i LOVE seeing your ducks leave the barn.
I'm so glad to hear you are looking for alternatives for the quail! I have always felt bad that they never get to be outside. In my head I knew that farmers worked very hard with a lot left to chance-environment, weather, choices made, and of course luck. But seeing the care you take for your animals, to be organic, the seeds you buy etc really brings it home. And when I think of the large scale farms that are organic etc, the knowledge passes from my head to my heart. I am so lucky to have grocery stores that offer organic alternatives and a wide variety of choices. And that represents A LOT of hard work and heart. Thanks you guys!
Great job. If my kids were little I would want a cow, but I would have to have some land to put her on. Boy what I could do with a cow. I love butter, cheese, yogurt, and milk. Have a Wonderful & Blessed Day!
Kevin/Sara-What if you installed a stiff wire around the 2 x 4 railing above your head, you could just loop the tubing over the wire?????
I did not know there are 3 different sizes of jersey cows. Depending on how much milk you want to milk per day.
There is a good video showing the 3 sizes & how they hand milk their cow. It is a video 2/3/2018 & by homestead. Titled "milking a mini jersey/the perfect family cow"
For them it was less work so they no longer milk goats as they like the cows milk for them. They also would get a calf (from the cow) & sell it & get $2,000./$3000???? for income.
Hope this info helps someone????
This was so interesting, Thankyou for showing us all.
This brought back an old memory from my youth, dad had to milk a cow at another barn so he hooked a vacuum hose to the truck to run the milker
you have some beautiful roosters and every time you let the ducks out I laugh at them running and flying in the yard on the way to the feed.
I shared it on my Facebook everybody help this channel grow share it God bless you and your family
Thanks for quail update. In S. Ms it's also been incredibly hot & outrageous humidity this year, I located my Quail hutches under a Huge fig tree outside our kitchen/diner rm window. We love hearing the Birds, particularly the Roos in morning.
Doubt we'll ever milk cows for house, but enjoying seeing you'll experience this.
Thanks for sharing.
You guys are great with the detailed explanations you do. Y’all are the best channel I have found for details. So informative.
Great video, ty for sharing with us.
Very informative thanks!! Your system runs so smoothly and easily
I have just fallen in love w/ Hope. She is a blessed soul....so cooperative! The pigs are pretty funny, and so willing to do their job by eating. The turkeys are great, as they come out single file. You have such a happy farm....A REAL OLD McDONALD’S FARM! Sooooo glad it has cooled down for the animals...Nd you guys, too. Great Homestead! Bless you guys.
Im learning a lot from yall im hoping to be moving out of cali and to Arkansas next year and start a home stead there I'm learning a lot thank you for all of your videos
Jacob - you will LOVE it here. We moved from SD County to Rogers into a rural neighborhood, where people know each other and help out when needed. PLUS plenty of rain & 4 distinct seasons. lf you've seen Sarah & Kevin's video on why they chose MO, they spoke of how friendly people are in the Ozarks - indeed!
@@sissydewoody8717 yes I must confess we were thinking of going to Missouri but I have a lot of family in Arkansas land is cheap and ect currently I'm a night worker and just sit and listen to first responders running around I have 3 kids and want to get out of this area before they treat their teen years like I did (drugs drinking parties ect) and ya I want a small town where I can rely on my neighborhood for help instead of wandering whos going to try and rob me on somes way that's really no way too live
@@jacobcrab593 l'm in my 80s and all my children were raised in SoCA and for a time did as you did. But ttLORD, all are past that. 2 are living here in AR, 2 still in CA, but they each have 2 acres in MO to lure them out here [Mom's always have their ways ;) ] Hope you'll find just the right spot for your family. My great-grandaughter is in Pea Ridge school and we like what we see. [so far]
@@sissydewoody8717 we are in the central valley and are just tired to trying to live I own my own house and 4 cars one of which is a classic and none of it brings us any joy anymore we are just tired of trying to get by our kids are growing up way to fast and I feel like I'm missing everything important working 6 days a week and such but having to in order to pay all the bills as their mom is a stay at home momma im missing out on a lot of memories with them that I can never get back I want to be there when they wake up and go to bed and all the time between my heart breaks EVERYDAY knowing that my oldest daughter who is 2 will be put to bed by her mom and not both of us all of these reasons are why we really want to leave this life style I work long hrs lose out on time with my kids only to give my money away and at the end of the day have nothing really my kids never go without anything but time with me and to my way of thinking that's more valuable than anything from a store
Jacob, maybe have mom work just a year or two in order to expedite the exit? I’m on 2/3’s acre just outside of LA County in Chino. I’m blessed to have the best of both worlds. And retirement in site. If I was willing to leave my family, I could retire now. But, in the meantime my suburban homestead is pretty awesome.
one of your best . Both of you are some of the natural teachers I have come across. I really enjoy you guys.
Thank you! I learn so much from y'all!
Thank you both so very much for taking the time to go over the fine details of each process that you teach. I always feel more confident that I will actually be able to do these kinds of things myself after Ive watched your videos! 🌼😊🌼
Looks like your pigs are coming along very nicely. We used to soak all of their grain in water and let it ferment a little bit they seem to get a lot more out of it that way. That's a vacuum gauge not a pressure gauge just thought I'd point that out
Thank You all the informations about milking system.
You have an excellent set up for milking the cow. Very interesting and informative. Thank you for sharing.
Very cool, I loved watching this. Makes me appreciate cows and farmers. I’ve seen a big production dairy before, but this was cool. Thank you for sharing. Give Hope some “good girl “ pats from me.
Thank you for milking tutorial! It was very interesting. Wish I lived close by as I would be one of your steady milk customers. I especially loved how you are very careful about each step of your process. tfs
Would love to see you do a video on your animal husbandry. Looks like all of your animals are well cared for and you always show your appreciation for what they provide. People just don't get how important God's creatures are to our world! And sadly, many are not not well cared for and even abused. Good job!!
The animals, birds and you all look hale and hearty. I am so glad you all are getting some cool weather. Our weather service keeps telling us we are going to get cooler in the next few days but they have been saying that for about 3 weeks. THEY LIED! HaH. I must admit the sunshine is beautiful but we need rain too.
God bless love the videos have a wonderful weekend love the feeding time
well l just really LOVE to watch all you bring to us and and so enjoy all your video's so very very much, thanks so much keep up the great work !!!
Thank you for all the updates, showing us how the animals are doing and teaching us about the solar powered milking machine. You both seemed a bit more relaxed today with the cooler temps. Have a wonderful day!
Kevin.. for the Quail.. could you not make them MINI Quail runs ... similar to the Rabbit tractors...But insulated for Winter and Hot Summers
I’ve always dreamed of living on a farm. So I’ll just live vicariously with y’all. I know I couldn’t own one. Mainly financially and those snakes’!! I admire y’all. Thank you for sharing your lives🥰❤️😃
OMG, I love your huge Tom Turkey - he is so proud! Amazing production on her milk! You have everything down pat and safe and clean on your milking! Great job!
I like this system a lot better than hand milking because, like you said, it is a closed system and very clean. And also, the cow can’t kick it over and spill the milk.
OMG!!! i love your hair like that!!!!!
Awesome! Cement trough!
You guys, I love going with you to feed and let the animals out in the morning. 👍
The Milker is smart! Solar panels! Good idea! 🌵🌵🌵
Hi! Just found your channel. I was raised on a farm in So IL. I now live in Evansville Indiana.
I really like that cow!