HOW do we manage our CALVES? | IS this the quickest way to FEED cows?

HOW do we manage our CALVES? | IS this the quickest way to FEED cows? | Milk Kart UPGRADE!

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7 ай бұрын

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@tonymckeage1028 2 ай бұрын

Great Video, theres nothing like a good vice (bench mounted) to deal with rusted joints also soaking then in oil and and or penetrant, thanks for sharing

@unaoconnor3628 7 ай бұрын

Best and most informative ag channel. Maith an fear 💪

@trevormccullough312 7 ай бұрын

Brilliant video Andrew, being from a mechanical background technology has its pit falls. Work in maintenance in the Ulster Hospital. I see all sides.

@mrhorsepower150 7 ай бұрын

U should invest in a calving gate.Not cheap but great job

@mikeysky8917 7 ай бұрын

Excellent video. I got fed up carrying milk and I just went and purchased an auto calf feeder this year. Just top it up with powder and monitor the calves on the phone. Easy 👍

@FarmTheoryNI 7 ай бұрын

Happy with it? Even in a new calf house I think I would pipe milk to the calves and batch feed them over automatic feeder. Not sure.

@mikeysky8917 7 ай бұрын

@@FarmTheoryNI Very happy. My shed is terrible and I really need a new calf shed like the one in the Grasstec video last week. Only issue I have is some calves refuse to suck from the teat of the feeder so they have to stay and be fed manually. I think this is to do with the teats I use when as babies, are different to the machine teat so I need to use the same teats so no difference which I will be doing this week. A part from that, it’s a life changer.

@oxcliffehill 7 ай бұрын

Great video. We got rid of our starlings by keeping a few cockerals about the yard. It works. The starlings think there a bird of prey and wont come near.

@pak6103 7 ай бұрын

Buy a fuel transfer pump for around 100 euro and use it on the cart, no lifting buckets, you can have a flowmeter on the nozzle.

@FarmTheoryNI 7 ай бұрын

I actually have one here, that is a very good idea!

@philipoconnell9324 7 ай бұрын

A fuel transfer pump is not a good idea. It can crush the fats in whole milk and cause calf scour. Better getting a proper milk pump and meter( rotech..).

@padraigking5185 7 ай бұрын

Good stuff

@theoracle8560 7 ай бұрын

He gets a new milk cart, first thing he does with it is drill a big hole in it, what a genius idea 😂😂😂

@slickymick 7 ай бұрын

Well said and a man of his means you'd thing he'd have one🤑 You'd thing a large hole old tank for cleaning my be first option 🤔

@FarmTheoryNI 7 ай бұрын

It had other design issues, it was a bad design from the start.

@theoracle8560 7 ай бұрын

Oh I know, it turned out well in the end. Do you ever feed powdered milk replacer to calves??@@FarmTheoryNI

@dekdek551 7 ай бұрын

Loved it, I would not have been able to film myself getting thre brush out of the tap as my language 🤬🤬🤬 would have been extra ripe 😉😂😂😂.

@johnmccarroll4845 2 ай бұрын

Thought if you wired the cow shed it would be perfect

@pjdee5879 7 ай бұрын

A good workbench vice could make your plumbing a bit less painful. A flow meter and a length of hose might cut out the buckets,

@kenricgonyaw5782 7 ай бұрын

not to seem like a smart a-- ,could you just adjust the flow of milk into the bucket by opening the value less.,halfway or three quarters.

@FarmTheoryNI 7 ай бұрын

thats what I now do, your seen my first attempts!

@garymadden2656 7 ай бұрын

👌

@garethbryson 7 ай бұрын

Unfortunately as of this year starlings were removed from the general shooting licence here in Northern Ireland meaning that the dam things are now protected.

@markcorr6704 7 ай бұрын

I just cant understand that. I call them rats of the sky

@terrymcgale4360 7 ай бұрын

I can help with the starlings

@bobokeeffe4036 7 ай бұрын

Do all your calves drink milk as opposed to suck on feeders? What's your thoughts on teat vs drinking? Calves look great!

@FarmTheoryNI 7 ай бұрын

All on milk. Never used teats so cant compare!

@RB-sl4jm 7 ай бұрын

Great video, how come you don’t use PLCs for your control and monitoring systems?

@FarmTheoryNI 7 ай бұрын

To expensive and too restrictive to what I want to do. Building the entire system provides great flexibility.

@finbarreburn5112 7 ай бұрын

A man of your technical ability is lost / wasted farming, #delegate 👍

@FarmTheoryNI 7 ай бұрын

I have a big staff bill. 😅 It's a balance because I actually do really enjoy farming.

@tommcdermott3885 7 ай бұрын

You should gap sheet the roof in your calf you will surprised how the airflow improves I was in a similar situation you feel the air moving and when you get to end of march and April the rising hot air can get away 11:25 11:25

@FarmTheoryNI 7 ай бұрын

Good idea! Only issue is the tin doesn't last any length of time before it rusts.

@cecilbates5423 7 ай бұрын

Do you mind me asking, what are the disco lights for in the calf house?

@mikeysky8917 7 ай бұрын

He said in the video that they scared the birds away but only lasted a week till they came back.

@FarmTheoryNI 7 ай бұрын

Birds! It worked so well then they slowly came back, might buy more disco lights.

@calvinelliott1314 7 ай бұрын

I thought your idea of auto empty drinkers was unnecessary until I was watching this video all finished up back in bed and remember the cows had dunged in one of there drinkers and i forgot to empty it.... I got one of them milk carts from fane valley and the more expensive one was because it had the mixer in it for powder milk I don’t think it’s anything to do with the tap I could be wrong though

@FarmTheoryNI 7 ай бұрын

Drinkers have been a very useful project so far. I am struggling to adjust sensitivity but getting there! One drained this morning at 7am, not sure why, cows weren't drinking from it but the drinker looked clean.