Milking Parlor and Dairy Barn Tour

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5 жыл бұрын

This video is a complete tour of our dairy barn that was built in 2004. We have a swing 14 milking parlor with a 150 stall free stall barn. We have a couple more cows than stalls in each pen and a special needs pen that holds 15 cows. That puts our max milking capacity right around 175 head.

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@darrickmartin300 5 жыл бұрын

Hey man, I spent my High School years milking in this parlor. Milking wasn't exactly my cup of tea, but you guys were always great to work for, flexible, and kind. Cool to see the barn again and see what things are the same and what has changed. Thanks for the tour, and Merry Christmas!

@10thgenerationdairyman61 5 жыл бұрын

Hey yeah I remember you milking for us. Glad you liked working here even though it wasn't your cup of tea. Glad you enjoyed the tour!

@stuartluig2911 5 жыл бұрын

I keep seeing people comment on videos of people that they have worked for. It's cool to see how small of a world it is.

@game5plays 5 жыл бұрын

@@stuartluig2911 so true

@PeterHughes 4 жыл бұрын

I've been really lucky in that I've worked for great farmers in my time. Something tells me, I could easily work for these lads too.

@marcclement7396 4 жыл бұрын

Binge watching these. I worked on a dairy farm for a year in New Hampsire in my 20's. Loved it and hated it at the same time. Looking back I really loved it. All alone at midnight, in freezing weather surrounded by 200 cows. What a feeling!

@lynardok6654 4 жыл бұрын

Love the 'drink breaks'! Nice barn & set up. Makes for happy cows 🐄 Thanks for sharing

@iainwalker8701 3 жыл бұрын

Been watching this channel for ages and never noticed the narrow people slots in the pens to save climbing over fences or opening gates. Thanks

@cowboyupnow63 4 жыл бұрын

You guys have a better set up for the milking parlor and milk room then what I had to use back in 1978-1981 as a teenager, dam I just shared my age..

@ildairyfarmer2436 5 жыл бұрын

You’re cows don’t have to spend very much time in the holding pen with that setup. Looks like a great setup, thanks for the tour

@milkman81 5 жыл бұрын

Hey bud, relax. It’s all “kinda nice”, love your videos! As a city kid I’d love to go back to my roots and do what you do. Working for yourself is a beautiful thing! 👊🏼

@ayybreh6657 4 жыл бұрын

Love the videos. Keep up the great work!!

@georgegoertzen4723 3 жыл бұрын

And that buck's meat provided a lot of nutrition for your family. Cool to have. Treasure and honour it.

@GaryWrightUtah 3 жыл бұрын

Nothing stops for Christmas around a dairy barn. Keep up the good work. God bless.

@rogerwilson9361 5 жыл бұрын

Eric, I am sorry to hear about your papaw he must have meant a lot to you it showed and you have a nice operation do love how your drinks appear out of thin air and you and your family have a very Merry Christmas.

@rogerwilson9361 5 жыл бұрын

Wow Eric you are fast I posted 15 mins and you replied in 15 mins that was fast reply.

@FarmallFanatic 5 жыл бұрын

Efficient setup, thanks for the tour!

@joelee662 4 жыл бұрын

Eric that was a nice tour of the equipment in the Barn thank you for doing that I got a good look of your equipment clean place 👍🇺🇸

@ayybreh6657 4 жыл бұрын

Your videos are awesome and very relaxing to watch! Love what your family does

@chriscrosby8012 5 жыл бұрын

I think your barn is beautiful!! Thanks for the tour

@andrebatista301 2 жыл бұрын

I milked in a station barn 64cows and had to change cows a few times and it was time consuming nothing like a parlour and really enjoy your videos keep up the great work

@rontronnesjr 4 жыл бұрын

LMAO - Something in your shoe. Thought your dad suggested more cans of milk lol. Thanks for sharing!

@bombardier3qtrlbpsi 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tour! Nice operation you have there

@DroDaFisherman 4 жыл бұрын

smooth on pulling out the moment dew brotha!! you deserve a sponsor for that one!

@sgonzalez24 5 жыл бұрын

That's a very nice set up! I've always dreamt of having a dairy farm that size! Keep the videos coming!

@magpie5710 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tour, love the story. Most of all Merry Christmas to you and yours.

@dylanpetrino9644 4 жыл бұрын

your an inspiration and i wish you the best. thank you for what you do.

@ob2522 5 жыл бұрын

Just found your channel, loving it. Refreshing to see such genuine content. Make sure you're backing up that computer regularly, especially with important herd data on it, and preferably not just to an external drive (although that's better than nothing), as those die regularly.

@matthewjohnson3910 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing and merry Christmas

@BobSmith-ox5zd 5 жыл бұрын

Love your set-up You folks are top managers. a comment you mentioned about hard water on your farm and it s hard to keep your parlor as clean. we had the same problem same herd size. We installed a commercial sized water softner ,it not only kept the parlor cleaner, but bumped production up 5-6 lbs without any other changes. if we forgot the salt production went down

@10thgenerationdairyman61 5 жыл бұрын

Never heard of giving softened water to cows. 5-6 lb jump we be great! I'll have to research that a little, thanks

@kellyrobinson3136 4 жыл бұрын

@@10thgenerationdairyman61 Yes, I'm glad @bobSMITH mentioned the water softening system. I live at an old dairy farm that closed a few years ago and the water supply is from 2 wells. The water is harder then hell. It stains and stinks , I know I wouldn't drink it. The softening system helps A LOT. Imagine being a cow that sleeps on water beds, climate controlled housing, fed the best food around the clock, cleaned up after, living the easy happy life, then ... Given hard stinky icky water to drink when your so thirsty. What a downer, right? So, yeah take a look into that idea. I know it seems easy for others who don't write the checks for your upgrades to say 'try this', but Bob's obviously tried it and I can see where it makes sense. "Quality makes for quantity ". P.S. Both you guys are smart dairymen .... You look at the options w/ open minds and share experiences w/ others. That's teamwork, and now days dairy farmers need to work as a team. May you and your families have a Very Merry Christmas and A Wonderful Productive New Year.

@Wainfleetkx450f 5 жыл бұрын

Love swing parlours.. the best in my opinion 👌🏻

@charliehopcraft5542 4 жыл бұрын

I always thought the milk tank was just the front bit. It's huuuuuge! U guys produce so much milk

@tinafitzwater972 5 жыл бұрын

We just started watching your youtube and love it..

@rensharp2938 4 жыл бұрын

you're the best farmer on you tube keep up the good fids👍👍

@genedameier8746 4 жыл бұрын

Sharpie 22, He's the best Dairy Farmer. Check out "How Farms Work" "Cole the Cornstar" they are just 2 of the many good channels to watch farmers do what they do to feed us.

@illynkimura1015 5 жыл бұрын

your company is beautiful its so blue...... thank you.....

@stevesoutdoorworld4340 5 жыл бұрын

Great operation love it.Keep up the hard work.

@annaberntsson6933 4 жыл бұрын

Enjoying the vids. 👍 keep up the awsome work 💪🥳

@garysisk3431 4 жыл бұрын

I really enjoy your videos, and also enjoy the nice clean barn. Its a tough business, not sure how you guys make it. One would think with the World population expanding that farming/ranching/milking would be a better business for making a good living. Keep on keeping on

@colemaliszewski6986 5 жыл бұрын

I love these videos man! Keep it up.

@Volcker1929 5 жыл бұрын

Very interesting! Water beds and robots in a dairy farm, who would have thought?

@dboutdoors06 5 жыл бұрын

Nice tour, thanks.

@garypeake3395 5 жыл бұрын

Great video s Eric keep up good work

@doublebulb3886 5 жыл бұрын

Cool tour, thanks!

@kristandeleon2392 4 жыл бұрын

Wow super clean farm.

@alesh2275 5 жыл бұрын

I’ve only just noticed that those were soft drink product placements :)

@TheGhostOfLuciasClay 5 жыл бұрын

Nice set up. Just found your channel and been checking a few videos and am enjoying them. A little friendly advice watch what you show with the cows and who you hire. There are people who don't like the dairy industry and will use footage of videos and twist them around for their own agenda. Even though that barn is designed for cow comfort they still believe it's wrong to use them for food production. There is a video on KZfaq that was posted in 2015 and uses footage from 2010 of bad things. The guy filming was from one of these groups and goaded the guy into doing the bad deeds then say it's the norm of the industry. Extremist will do extreme things. Over all good job.

@10thgenerationdairyman61 5 жыл бұрын

Good to know. Thanks for the advice!

@stuartluig2911 5 жыл бұрын

I hate those people, the funny thing about all of them is they are all liberals probably.

@mikekahl5609 5 жыл бұрын

PA farms sent me here. I farm across the river in York Co.and haul Lancaster milk to the dairy.

@bobaganooshy 5 жыл бұрын

Nice setup

@michael7423 4 жыл бұрын

LOL I hope Pepsi / Mountain Dew sponsors you

@WestPaPyro 5 жыл бұрын

I subbed from Pa Farms. Got to support the Pa channels

@chrispietersen804 2 жыл бұрын

I always wonder where people keep their speeding fines, but outside behind the Atlantic box is definitely a first for me! :) Hahahaha

@matthewrenshaw 4 жыл бұрын

5:45 yknow, your commentary is so dry, but in a likeable way, that it makes this that much better :)

@joelee662 4 жыл бұрын

Come on Eric did you really find the mountain Dew and your shoe LOL 😅 sometimes I think its so funny 👍

@mccormickcx901 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tour! I enjoy looking at your farm every time I deliver corn and beans to WTG.

@10thgenerationdairyman61 5 жыл бұрын

Nice, yeah a lot of guys haul grain into there. Glad you liked the tour

@AlextheDutchDairyfarmer 5 жыл бұрын

500 subs! Man! You are on fire!

@10thgenerationdairyman61 5 жыл бұрын

I know! I wasn't expecting this

@AlextheDutchDairyfarmer 5 жыл бұрын

Well, you had a few shout outs, including PA farms, that's how I found you and you have a pretty modern setup compared to other dairyfarm channels in the USA, which aren't that interesting to me as a european dairyfarmer. You'll fly straight by my channel and hit a 1000 before you know it 👍

@rawfarms2790 5 жыл бұрын

Just found you channel. Nice video. 🖒

@joemeehan5185 5 жыл бұрын

What's up wil?

@rawfarms2790 5 жыл бұрын

@@joemeehan5185 not much waiting on the storm and cold wind

@game5plays 5 жыл бұрын

Nice farm. A true blue farm

@BillAndersonNS 4 жыл бұрын

Questions: 1. Do you play music for your cows? I read years ago that cows produced better if they could listen to classical music. 2. Do you have one of those rotary brush cow scratchers? They look like car wash brushes but are used so cows can scratch themselves. A farm here in Nova Scotia has electric ones that get triggered when the cows lean against them. Apparently cows love them They say that money can't buy you happiness. But it CAN buy you cows and that's almost the same thing. :) PS: Nice channel. Bumped into it today so of course I am binge watching starting with episode 1.

@BruceInFlorida 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the TOUR and Merry Christmas to you and your family also. I have wondered about the storage and cooling and other backroom equipment right along. Do you have a special spiquot in the cooling tank FOR CHOCOLATE MILK ?? God Bless Eric and best wishes for 2019 Bruce in Florida

@antonyfarming 5 жыл бұрын

PA Farms sent me fantastic video and will go back through your videos i'am from Cornwall England cheers Antony 😀

@cowboyupnow63 4 жыл бұрын

Happy cows make lots of milk

@kylebuehlman4207 4 жыл бұрын

I think cows are the coolest looking animal and there funny to watch cuz of there reactions lol

@ReviewLife380 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome

@tbnrpigs1pigs288 4 жыл бұрын

That Mountain Dew and milk thing gets me to laugh every time I have no idea why

@ThiagoSilva-ld6ie 5 жыл бұрын

Muito bom saludos do brasil

@briantierney7255 4 жыл бұрын

All this mountain dew u drink in ur videos has me wanting some

@murt150 5 жыл бұрын

Don't mind if I Dew, nice PUN LOL

@haggardfarms9577 5 жыл бұрын

I just find your channel I like what I have saw we used to be a dairy but know we are a cowcalf and feedlot operation

@10thgenerationdairyman61 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@iceecass7288 5 жыл бұрын

New subscriber here.

@dehavenfamilyfarm 5 жыл бұрын

PA farms sent me over. I live up in the northeast corner of PA. New sub from me!

@billquantrill4960 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, me too. Sweet milk barn!

@makingithappen9722 5 жыл бұрын

You have an orderly barn and milk room. All honor to you.

@ajanta730 3 жыл бұрын

Nice

@DebdeK 4 жыл бұрын

not a dairyman so the water bed got my interest does heated water circulate thru them or just cushion? sounds interesting thanks

@christopherbaird4952 5 жыл бұрын

That's a schnazzy setup. Part of me says it's a shame that 175 cows is a small farm, on the other hand it is smaller than a lot of farms. I milk about 55 Jerseys, right at the edge of what one guy can handle with a good setup and no hired labor. Any more and I might start having trouble keeping track of all their names, too. Keep up the good work!

@10thgenerationdairyman61 5 жыл бұрын

When we built the barn they went a little bigger because it is a 2 family farm. It is sad that we are considered small. I can still recognize most of the cow's faces by their second lactation so we still know our cows. Thanks!

@christopherbaird4952 5 жыл бұрын

10th Generation Dairyman it’s nice you can know your cows. I guess you’re not TOO big then😀. I can usually keep track of bottle calves, but once they’re weaned I lose track of most of them until they calve in.

@JohnnyBarger-sb3yh 4 жыл бұрын

This was way before your day but do you have any ideas about old farm signs. I’m looking for Carnation Genetics, or any that have to do with Genetics. Back in my youth I learned how to A. I. Cattle.

@kirtanyasadahari13 4 жыл бұрын

Super

@robertwatkins8220 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Nice barn but wow, i bet the price is more than most could justify!

@10thgenerationdairyman61 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks! It is designed to pay for itself

@mem3656 4 жыл бұрын

thats some rock in your shoe. lol. curious though, how often do the cows go to pasture ? seems like they are in the barns alot.

@syedrizwanbukhari498 5 жыл бұрын

And how to install the milking parlor

@BoydGilbreath 4 жыл бұрын

Water beds for cows. They deserve every break they can get. Being on your farm is good for cows and apparently for people, too.

@andrewgraham5151 4 жыл бұрын

Just curious . Do you have a way to clean solids out from the pit ? We end up bucketing ours 2 times a year after we pump all the liquid. Ours is an open pit.

@lidsman2221 5 жыл бұрын

I have never seen that waterbed thing before. That is awesome! I also like that you have a place for the special needs cows. Do you ever have a cow that is really affectionate or seems more like a pet? Do any of these cows go for slaughter at the end of their life as a milk cow?

@10thgenerationdairyman61 5 жыл бұрын

We do have a few friendlier cows. Yes we sell our cows for beef

@bigeleonard 4 жыл бұрын

how many cows are you milking?I enjoy your videos.

@maniacaloffroad5338 5 жыл бұрын

I milked in the same parlor. It looks identical.

@martindiesel8162 4 жыл бұрын

How old are you. I watch you all the time. I have a small farm but not like yours.

@ollie4dad 5 жыл бұрын

Cleetus McFarland would be pleased, brother. 5:53

@nenemmatteussi3892 4 жыл бұрын

From Brasil

@myrontaylor4250 5 жыл бұрын

How do you clean your milking parlor. Nice clean setup

@10thgenerationdairyman61 5 жыл бұрын

Use a high pressure washer and hand brush some parts. It's not as clean as I'd like it to be. We have hard water here so the walls are stained. Thanks

@farmertyler8087 5 жыл бұрын

Finishes amazing story about the buck on the wall And this is just a closet in

@10thgenerationdairyman61 5 жыл бұрын

Haha

@shopshop-lx9hj 4 жыл бұрын

Do your cows ever spend any time out in pasture?

@estebanembroglio6371 5 жыл бұрын

idk how old you are bro but the way you work, i was disappointed that beverage you pulled out of your shoe wasnt a bit more stiff

@averyhopkins1829 5 жыл бұрын

Can u do a video while milking to see how its done

@donnabrunner3125 9 ай бұрын

❤❤❤

@kellyrobinson3136 4 жыл бұрын

"Oh, hold up", the man says. 😂🤣😂🤣 Dude, what size shoe do you wear? Cuz if your shoes produce Mt. Dew ... I'm coming to raid your closet. Rofl 😂🤣😂🤣

@joshuastewart532 4 жыл бұрын

Do you feed them while milking? 🐄🐂🐂

@andrewsarles3520 5 жыл бұрын

I miss milking in a stanchion barn?? My knees do not!

@christopherfitch7705 4 жыл бұрын

How many years is the service life of a milk cow at your farm?

@jaydenweitekamp1327 4 жыл бұрын

Voice is a little shaky is it because your tired or is it something else just would like to know

@Mid-Michigan-Outdoors 5 жыл бұрын

Why do I feel like he has a Mountain Dew sponsorship

@curtweatherbee2523 5 жыл бұрын

👍🏻🌞

@TheRealJesseStoltzfus 4 жыл бұрын

So, you can milk on the one side, and prep the other side while the other side milks?

@10thgenerationdairyman61 4 жыл бұрын

Yes

@rickverhoef4688 5 жыл бұрын

We got a double 10 parallel gea pilor. Love it. Never milked in a swing but, it’s defiantly something I would like to try out. How long does it take to milk?

@10thgenerationdairyman61 5 жыл бұрын

3hrs

@rylenc103 4 жыл бұрын

Milking is easy its so fun I've milk before but my family closed down are diary farm cuz there is no,money in milking in my part of mn so,I'm just a beef farmer