I like how you set it up so that she can still see her calf while you're milking her. Less stress for both mamma and baby. 👍🐄

Awesome video, I luv intelligence combined with common sense. My Mom was born on a cattle n chicken farm, in Crawford county Ohio. 1925.

I just barely found your channel but I find myself smiling the entire way through each of your videos. Thank you for sharing and spreading that joy.

Cows are cool! 🐮 Clever way when the cow poops into the green bucket 💩, is how she is saying "I don't wanna be milked right now!" 🥛

Aint nothin better than a Jersey for milk and cream! Remember as a kid milkin ours and makin butter with the old fashioned churn! Man were those good times!

I really enjoyed this video. I felt like I was right there and learned a lot. Love your channel. Hugs❤️

LOVE seeing your routine! Kendra looks so happy :) We are so looking forward to getting our own mini milking jersey sometime early next year. Thanks for the update and inspiration!

Being a hand milker myself, I really appreciate your set up and demeanor. Milking is so much more pleasant if the cow is happy. Additionally if you develop a nice relationship with your cow, it is more satisfying for both parties. Do you sing when you aren't videoing?

I grew up milking my jersey cow in the morning with my dad . Had to look this up to show my city raised girlfriend how I lived 😅

Reminded me of my grandma's jersey and her calves throughout my childhood. She used to milk them herself too. Miss my aita

Thats was a vey nice video. I love to see families go back to the basics.

Beautiful job!

This is a great video. Informative. And beautiful to watch

Another amazing vid!!

Well done !

Great job I feel like my cow is the greatest asset on my farm you can do so much with the milk

becoming one with the ole' girl is most important. loving your cow

beautiful.we use to skim the cream off the top of grandpa's milk can's before the milk hauler picked up the milk to go to the creamery.

I just found your channel and I love it already! We are homesteaders as well, bloggers and just starting a KZfaq channel! We are finally starting to seriously consider a family cow and your videos have been so helpful, now I’m going to go watch more! Great content!

Thank you for sharing

Wow I really enjoyed your video. My jersey is about to calve any day now and its 20 degrees here on average! Hope I'm as successful as you guys. She's my first cow!

Awesome Video- TYFS!!!

Both momma and baby are so cute

Thank you for your decision to continue to video your homesteady.

You are very smart milker

What a nice moment for milking

Hey ya guys!!! I just found your channel and loving it!! You were actually recommended from someone at Jack Spirko's TSP Fall Workshop last week. They said we needed to check you out! Thanks for the great stuff and keep it up!! Also-- super dig your podcast! You produce some great stuff! Super artful!!

Looks like a keeper with that Jersey. Great bag and teat conformation, and ease of extraction. Remember doing cousin's cows when young, and it was "a handful" and total fingers, grabbing, squeezing, pulling. This is just like pumping a gas bulb on a boat engine.

thank you for giving a good video on milking and the amount of time/what you do after you get milk, its really helpful. I'll be getting two Holstein heifers for my homestead when i move to Alaska in the summer

Nice she can see her calf.

Awesome video! I love it! Your wife needs to be in more videos!!

good job you ar doing

in case you don't know, you can pour the cream of the top, when you dip your cup in you aare mixing the cream back in, it is faster to just pour the cream off once it sets. simple an fast, been doing it that way for years, I have a very old hand crank separator but I find it to much clean up, you can turn the dial to take as much cream out as you want right to skim, its been years since I used it

Thanks for sharing,, Is there any other process you go thru before consuming your raw milk...

What a great video! Can't wait to see more!

Hi! We are just a few days behind y'all in our milking journey :) We, too, have a mini jersey cow and I am loving the experience and challenge of milking! Could I ask you where you got the halter for your little calf? I seem to only find nylon and yours looks leather? Thank you!

Off subject but where did you get you Muscovy ducks? I have been looking for this breed with little luck. Love your videos.

good job

Lookin good 👍

I loved your video! Very cool! Can you share some of the things you like to do with the milk besides cream, butter and yogurt?

I’m sure it says it somewhere in there, but where did you get your milking equipment. We just got a Jersey. She won’t calve until July, but I’m trying to get all my supplies together so I won’t be behind the 8 ball.

Delicious fresh squeezed cream!

Loving your channel. About 4 months ago we bought 2 dexter girls. 1 was pregnant. She had her calf a month ago and I'm trying to milk her. If I want to milk mornings should I pen the calf up overnight? Thank you for any information you can give me. I was told she had been milked before but I don't think so. Merry Christmas and happy new year.

That's my exact method of separating the cream!

Hi! You are amazing! Can you share the recipe for that buttercreme that you make by your self? I use olive oil to make milking easier but after milking I have pain on my fingers. Every cow have different udders small big. I milk every day a different cow and the udders are sometimes very hard. I would to try this buttercreme to see if it works to reduce the pain a little bit.

Oh she's gorgeous

Замечательное видео!!

who's music are you putting on this vid [I like the whistiling parts]

Do you make you own butter? That was always mine and my brothers job as kids, until we where old enough do start milking. Mother would sit us in the floor and we would roll a jar back and forth to each other to churn it.

I had a thought 😊 Separate the calf at night, then you milk the front quarters for yourself and the calf will get the harder to milk back quarters? The nice small, tidy teats are less likely to have problems and will last longer. We bought a Jersey from a commercial dairy who had only been machine milked. The first week was a nightmare. We share with the calf now, the cow is happier and she produces near 5 gallons a day. The calf runs with her in pasture during the day, then we stall them at night in loose housing. The calf gets a box stall. I milk in the morning then let the calf strip the cow so in one milking I get 2 plus gallons. We don’t milk at night. I am monitoring the cows production and so far after 6 weeks the amount of milk has not dropped. The cow is in good condition and the calf [a steer] is doing awesome. I really like your down to earth style. God Bless your homestead

I milk my cow once a day and leave the calf in with her the rest of the time. They get separated at night. Once a day is so great and a time saver. Twice a day is really hard to maintain, especially when you have a family. Just wanted to say what I do in case it would help you find the best schedule. I have 5 kids and definitely wouldn’t be able to do twice a day for long. Loved this video and your cow seems so sweet!!!

Do you do that everyday? 3/4 of a gallon seems a lot (in terms of consumption). Do you sell some? Or preserve it?

4:09 looks like absolute homestead bliss.

Do you have to milk the cow every day? What happens if you miss some days, or only need milk once a month?

Beautiful family! I have a 2, 4 and 8 yr old. I wonder what do you do with the littles while you milk if Daddy isn't home to watch them?

What did she use to filter the milk into the jar?

Could you share the dimensions and plans of this milking shed? Thank you

A turkey baster works good for taking off cream.

And all is good.

We had goats and just sold them in August due to tiny orrifices and teats on one and a bad attitude in the other. I remember the pain of those first weeks! It took me 45 minutes to milk out a cup to a quart of milk in those days. I got faster and a quart took about 15 minutes. Your cow stands much better than my goats ever did, and I fully support what you said about spending more for a trained cow (or goat) especially as a beginner. Training them while also learning yourself is HARD! My question is, if you're already milking twice a day, and getting almost 2 gallons, what will you do with all the milk once the calf is off? I know you can do a lot more with cow milk than goat, but my fridge was always full of milk. I needed a second fridge just for milk and eggs!

Hi, so I am currently looking into buying a little bottle calf but I can't seem to find a halter to use when it is young.what type of halter dose luna have on? and if you remember where did you get it? thanks! also if anyone elts knows I would love some suggestions.

I like very so moch this is my life is beatifull congratulations

Yes it's good not to have poop mashing up against your head in the morning.. 😂

Wait woah!! What kind of spiral/spring fencing was that after she put the calf in the barn? I've never seen that before.

WOW!!! You have very talented hands! I'll bet they are good at lots of things!

It is a bit easyer with a small Jersey calf just to pull like that. With the big simmental calf I cannot do so quickly though...:-)

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nice farm have a spring fence

#askhomesteady where did y’all get your cow in Virginia? Also having a hard time finding any jerseys here in south Alabama.

Lovely video. Great to see it working out :) How old is the calf and the cow?

great life

Hi, when your cow is dry how you get milk for your family? you have goats or buy milk in a store?

Where are you from?

Persistence pays off.

Your calf is sooo cute!!! What is her name?

Whats the difference between a heritage jersey, a mini jersey, and a regular jersey?

A single cow milking machine is well worth the $100ish investment. Maybe not for 1 cow if you have time to milk. For 2 or more it's well worth it though. It'll drain 2 gallons in 10 minutes + 10 mins cleanup. We pay $10 per gallon for fresh milk here even though non-pasteurized milk is illegal in Georgia.It's sold as animal feed to not get arrested.

Do you guys pasteurize your milk and should it be pasteurized ?

Do you use the milk raw or boil it first?

Did you just put the mike after you stranded the mike into the jar? Or did you boil it first?

super cistar

How many acres should you to have a small cow or two

What breed of cow us she? Such a beautifull cow

I wonder if a calf has ever been fed the cream!

Great job, I learn so much from you guys every time I watch a video. I am city boy never seen a cow actually milked before.

What do you call a cow with 3 legs ?? Lean beef

You could name the Calf - 'JerseyBean or just Beanie' maybe ? - because the people that are native to and live on the actual island of Jersey ( which is off the French coast but forms part of UK ) are actually nicknamed and refer to themselves as 'JerseyBeans'. Just a thought haha !! Great vid - I learnt some new facts with it thanks!

Good jop

So is Lady bug a mini Jersey?

what is the name of this girl ?

Great video like always! I've got a couple of questions. (I'll go back and watch all of your cow vids this evening so I'll probably find all the answers on my own.) We have a miniature horse, chickens, and ducks. In the spring we're adding 2 pigs and possibly a Nigerian goat or a pygmy goat. As far as cattle, I'm leaning towards getting a mini Dexter. 1st question: Do I need a companion cow? 2nd question: Where did you get your stainless steel bucket? Happy Homesteading! Scarlett

You should name the calf Duchess

Where are your goats?

U drink her mother milk n whose milk does calf drink

Now that you have all that milk, here's a tutorial on how to make your own cheese: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eaeBpaty36u8Y58.html

Some cows kicked while milking, so be careful

to be honest... it was kinda funny when that poop came out like a waterfall XD

Why don’t you use a meat baster to remove the cream from the milk, it would make it a bit easier and get more of the cream removed…

Where you live?

I wanna milk cows by myself and my mom is vegan and keeps telling me "we can't afford all those torture devices" And she won't understand that its just a bucket and a barn