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

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FarmTheory

FarmTheory

7 ай бұрын

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@tonymckeage1028
@tonymckeage1028 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
@unaoconnor3628 7 ай бұрын
Best and most informative ag channel. Maith an fear 💪
@trevormccullough312
@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
@mrhorsepower150 7 ай бұрын
U should invest in a calving gate.Not cheap but great job
@oxcliffehill
@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.
@mikeysky8917
@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
@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
@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.
@padraigking5185
@padraigking5185 7 ай бұрын
Good stuff
@pak6103
@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
@FarmTheoryNI 7 ай бұрын
I actually have one here, that is a very good idea!
@philipoconnell9324
@philipoconnell9324 6 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..).
@dekdek551
@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
@johnmccarroll4845 Ай бұрын
Thought if you wired the cow shed it would be perfect
@theoracle8560
@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
@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
@FarmTheoryNI 7 ай бұрын
It had other design issues, it was a bad design from the start.
@theoracle8560
@theoracle8560 6 ай бұрын
Oh I know, it turned out well in the end. Do you ever feed powdered milk replacer to calves??@@FarmTheoryNI
@pjdee5879
@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
@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
@FarmTheoryNI 7 ай бұрын
thats what I now do, your seen my first attempts!
@terrymcgale4360
@terrymcgale4360 7 ай бұрын
I can help with the starlings
@garymadden2656
@garymadden2656 7 ай бұрын
👌
@RB-sl4jm
@RB-sl4jm 6 ай бұрын
Great video, how come you don’t use PLCs for your control and monitoring systems?
@FarmTheoryNI
@FarmTheoryNI 6 ай бұрын
To expensive and too restrictive to what I want to do. Building the entire system provides great flexibility.
@bobokeeffe4036
@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
@FarmTheoryNI 7 ай бұрын
All on milk. Never used teats so cant compare!
@garethbryson
@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
@markcorr6704 7 ай бұрын
I just cant understand that. I call them rats of the sky
@finbarreburn5112
@finbarreburn5112 6 ай бұрын
A man of your technical ability is lost / wasted farming, #delegate 👍
@FarmTheoryNI
@FarmTheoryNI 6 ай бұрын
I have a big staff bill. 😅 It's a balance because I actually do really enjoy farming.
@tommcdermott3885
@tommcdermott3885 6 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
@FarmTheoryNI 6 ай бұрын
Good idea! Only issue is the tin doesn't last any length of time before it rusts.
@calvinelliott1314
@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
@FarmTheoryNI 6 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.
@cecilbates5423
@cecilbates5423 7 ай бұрын
Do you mind me asking, what are the disco lights for in the calf house?
@mikeysky8917
@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
@FarmTheoryNI 7 ай бұрын
Birds! It worked so well then they slowly came back, might buy more disco lights.
@JohnGrahambeehive
@JohnGrahambeehive 6 ай бұрын
Where do you get an accurate flow meter?
@FarmTheoryNI
@FarmTheoryNI 6 ай бұрын
eBay, the cheap ones from china are accurate enough for this job.
@richardwalsh1838
@richardwalsh1838 7 ай бұрын
Use a vice to clamp your work.
@FarmTheoryNI
@FarmTheoryNI 7 ай бұрын
I expected it to be much easier!
@stephenmccolgan2447
@stephenmccolgan2447 7 ай бұрын
Where did u get the kart I need one
@FarmTheoryNI
@FarmTheoryNI 6 ай бұрын
Industrial water systems or something. Give them a Google
@__tom__8193
@__tom__8193 7 ай бұрын
Put some guinea fowl in the calf house, the starlings will feck off with themselves
@bekabeka71
@bekabeka71 7 ай бұрын
Could you do more tractor riding videos? Like tearing up soil, top speed etc? 💪🏼🚜
@FarmTheoryNI
@FarmTheoryNI 7 ай бұрын
The entire spring and summer will be tractors!
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