I had a heifer give 27.47 kgs of milk this morning and I was really chuffed ( she has been giving about 43 kgs a day for a few weeks) because she will probably do over 45 today and a heifer giving 10 gallons of milk a day is a big deal for us! THEN I see your little jersey cow is giving over 35 kgs after all the upheaval in her life and she weighs maybe 400 kgs and my heifer weighs at least 650 and you never even batted an eyelid! You bought very good cows . Regards from Ireland.

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

Ha ha I wouldn’t know if it was good that’s the point 😂😂😂 I’m learning Andyyyyyyy 😂😂 they are beauties aren’t they bless them they were up to above where they were production wise the day after they arrived it shocked us all I really expected them to take a real setback x x

Could watch your videos all day ' especially with your gorgeous new cows. Can we have the 2nd half please ASAP

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

Sorry yes I will put it in tonight 😀🤣

I did my pre University year on a farm in Warwickshire which had 1100 acres on six sites. One farm was 137 acres of heavy clay. Some 45 acres of Winter wheat failed it was my job to prepare the land Spring barley. After breaking the crust with discs on the advice of an older member of the team the tilth was made by towing a Bomford turbotiller behind a 8ft Cambridge roll. A bit steady with a 60hp tractor but it worked. Drilled with a IH cultivator drill.

Hello Charlotte and Roy, the cow's are looking awesome they look so happy, that's a good sign happy cow's mean lots of milk, flipping love you and Roy keep them coming you make an Old man very happy.💪👍

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

Thanks so much Michael honestly I’m so pleased you get happiness from them x x x x x

I'd watch you all day kiddo you're a frigging star!!

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

Thanks Vernon your always so kind x x

Keeps me smiling could watch your stories all day it wonderful to see the jersey and the journey you are now on, nothing pretentious just honesty keep it up. I'm no expert but I may have seen TP getting colostrum out of the freezing, would that be an option?

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

That's the plan! I just need to set the pasteuriser up x

You need to larn-oop on calves and freezing colostrum. "milk milk-cow" is about 20% of the business. They're used to having brushes in the ways.

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

It is indeed :)

Great to see you in Blackpool 👍🌾

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

You too from afar :)

Brilliant,beautiful cows,but I never realised how massive their eyes are lol

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

They are huge, they flutter the lashes!x

Hi Charlotte, i hope you aren't too stressed out. The cows look great. Enjoying your updates . Rita xx 🇮🇪 p.s. I'd watch you for an hour, better than Emerdale😂

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

Ha ha I’ll tell you what I’ll make an hour one and come over for a brew to watch it I would love a trip to the green island x

If the far side is getting slippy by scraping in- simply don't! A bit of muck build up gives cows more grip than a slippery scraped passage.

Congratulations on your new adventure, don't change your way of sharing your life. This is real, interesting, informative, good and bad. Much better than half the stuff produced for tv. Good luck to you both and your fellow farmers, hard life little reward ❤

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

Thank you! Will do! That’s very kind x

Excellent Charlotte! Great to see that the cows have settled in - got to be the cleanest cow shed in Cumbria!

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

It’s a fight to keep it clean!x

The longer the better, my goodness those cows are sssooooooooooo lovely

Be very careful with tools around jerseys… they will pick them out of your pockets, grab the cords, tip buckets, taste everything. And power tools… given the chance they will take them and attempt building rollercoasters and things. And I should warn you now to be careful with the bobcat. Jerseys love heavy equipment… and will attempt to drive given ANY chance.

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA I don’t doubt that honestly they are hilarious like a pack of naughty children chasing you around the place

Awesome 👍🏻

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

With the bolts on the troff you could do with some riv nuts putting in so the bolt bolts to them

I wouldn’t put sand down, it will get far more slippery when they go out to spring grass. Just be calm and patient and they’ll be fine. If you give a cow time to adjust when she stands up, moves of the stalls 🤞 all will be well. Milk down the slats should be fine.

Another good video Charlotte, looks like they have settled well.I got a message saying telegram you, knew it was a hoax. Keep up the good work .

Great video again ye will get well good at the dairy farming the cows are excellent and seem well settled 👍🏻🇮🇪☘️

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

Thank you, positive words mean so much to all of us here at this moment x

Well done Charlotte and Roy👍All the best for the future with your new start into Dairy farming 🐄🐄🐄

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

Thanks dermot :)

Brilliant video your cows have settled in well keep videos coming

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

Thanks, will do!

Great to see you and the nosey cows. Love the Milk Jug. Think you are on a steep learning curve. Good luck.😊

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

Thank you! 😊 and yes I totally am

Ill never turn down a long video, loving the cows

Hello . Only just started watching your channel. Very good 👍🏾. You could feed the unwanted milk to the pet lambs??. Love your cows ❤

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

Thank you for your comments! Going to speak to our vets x

4:20 best Inky moment so far, No Duff 😉🤣

Great video as always Charlotte

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

Mwahh 😂x

Nice to see the lovable Jerseys there used to be a milk herd at calthwaite.... when passing was nice to see no idea if there any more Jersey milking herds locally...🤔 atb folks👍

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

There is another close to us at abbot lodge

Love the new cows , you could always feed and odd bits of milk to your pigs they love milk and fatten on it

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

I don’t know if your allowed to but I’ll have a look x x

For the trough covers you could use Rivnuts, these give you a locked in captive so you have no need to access the nut in future. Maybe the electricians or fitters who are visiting you may have a Rivnut kit with the installing tool, and could fit them for you. P.

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

Yes I’ll ask a few people have mentioned it x x

There’s only 1 Charlotte Ashley😂😂, thank god for that, I don’t think the planet could cope with 2 of you 😜😂😂💛👍🏼

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

That’s been said before 🙈😂xx

Charlotte, depending on the thickness of the metal using Rivet nuts under those plates on the trough might help. But it's just a guess.

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

Yes I’ll have a word with my dad a few folk have suggested that x x

UK's no 1 dairy farmer 😊😊, fair play to you 😊😊

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

Please!! Thank you x

Those Jerseys are so nosy 😂. You’re going to have so much fun with them 😂😂. Charlotte an hour long video would be great though once you start making them that long we will be expecting them all to be long 😂😂

Hey Charlotte, ain't milking cows so much fun!! FYI put your salt blocks in a plastic drum or before long it will eat the surface of your concrete. Congratulations on getting to this point and welcome to the Graham's family dairy group!

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

Thanks for the tip! I’ll do that x x

Happy Cows 🐮… Cows drinking water is Too Funny.

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

Oh when they throw their tongues about it’s brilliant

You can tell you are really enjoying the jerseys being there they are beaut 👍

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

Yes we are they are so fun x

@mickkynman5906

Ай бұрын

@@charlotteashleyfarm I had one of those messages you talked about today very weird 😐

I first wonder why you didn't choose to have twin filters. So you wash the robots twice a day? Recommendations here are three times a day. Then we can have a wash at night without having to think about changing the filter 😊

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

No the wash is set to three times a day Roy said we are changing them after every wash the first day someone told me twice but I was mistaken

j could stand you all day and roy great video

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

Thanks mark x

We used to have 3 robots and it’s a lot off work especially to begin with when you have to train them all to go in, then you have to go and find the ones that haven’t been in so you can push them in. We used to feed the milk that was in those buckets to the calf’s because we had plenty off calves other than that unfortunately you’ll have to pour it down the drain.

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

I know it seems such a waste x x

@jonstephens682

Ай бұрын

@@charlotteashleyfarm it does yes, you’ll just have to rear more calves Charlotte 😂😂

You’re not taking the cows for a walk down the lane every day are you? Lol. Great vid.

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

No I just felt the need to stick that in 😂😂

Hi Charlotte. You can turn the vacuum up a little for the cow that keeps slipping the liners. It may help. Then keep reduce the vacuum down a little each week keep an eye on here test ends to make sure she is ok. You are on rubber liners that’s good too.

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

Apparently the smaller holes would have to be the red ones. I’ll have a look tomorrow thank you x x x x x

@yorkshirefarming

Ай бұрын

We found that the red silicone liners even the smaller diameter holes were a problem for us with heifers with small teats. The silicone is a harder. I could not see the cow on the video. Are her teats wide apart? If so you can try milking her more often. It may just need patience until her under softens. Richard

Yep i seen that talk to me telagraf thing the bastards lol great vid lass love the moos ok be safe

Hi Charlotte If you have colostrem Freeze it for Use in case you need it for Calves coming

ohhhhhhhhhhh am i on top😂❤

Your cows remind me of big Labradors.

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

That’s what they are acting like

Such friendly cows Charlotte . How many are milking now?.

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

116 x x

Hi Charlotte, if you don't need to keep the milk don't put it in the M4USE buckets, send it straight to drain/dump then it will mix with the washings in your channels under the robots after the cow has been milked and won't smell.

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

I have done now I’ve had chance to play around with them a bit x

Honestly they are the best cows ever

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

We are adoring them x

@patrickosullivan4021

Ай бұрын

@@charlotteashleyfarm sure if course ye are, isn't it everything ye worked twords, delighted for ye

the one with small teats will soften (probably a fresh calver?) if you bear with her she will suddenly connect without assistance and she will melt back into the herd.

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

Yes she is bless her x

New to the videos so you’ve probably covered this but do the robots work on a grazing platform or not really?

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

Yes we have a grazeway going in but just not rushing that part going to get used to managing them in close proximity yet :)

If you have a colostrum tester, test the milk for the best colostrum and freeze it as you never know when you might need it when calving

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

I have a pasteuriser, can’t wait to show you all x x

You can cancel that alarm to not call you or don't reset the buckets, empty the pails but don't push empty all. If you have the red pail that's good then the milk will automatically go down the drain. Then you won't get a call. You can pick and choose what alarms that you want to call you, we deleted the m4use one and a bunch more.

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

I have set them all to go down the drain for now it was a novelty for a day 😂😂😂

Hello can you tell me what kind of ancestry this is? Is the father Canadian, USA or Danish? 35 liters is a lot and especially when changing over. Craziness! I hope you continue to have so much milk and healthy animals! greetings

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

Oh yes let me look for you x

@Jerseyhunger

Ай бұрын

​@@charlotteashleyfarmyes please 🙏

I’m happily watching video and the end has come to soon😢. Thank you for the edit in half because I still be watching.

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

Ha ha ha sorry it was so so so long

quick question will the cows stay in the shed all ways or will they go out to the fields

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

The grazeway is waiting to be installed but the girls need to settle in to Cumbria first x

First❤

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

Mark is the winner I had my first taste of milk out of an Austin powers cup

@Mark_Something-Ermm-Yeah

Ай бұрын

@@charlotteashleyfarm lol, love it. ❤️

Those Telegram channels pretend to be you, then try and scam people for money usually. I try and report them as soon as I see them.

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

Yes I’ve reported it now and blocked them from commenting x

To fix the issue with your nuts you cant get at put some rivet nuts into the trough so you can just run the bolts straight into them 👍 Congrats on the cows, theyre so beautiful!! 😍

You've milking and dry cows. Do you have young stock coming along too? Ie under two years, first time heifers in calf?

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

We’ve got some pre ordered from a farm in Scotland x

Don't they make clotted cream from colostrum or you can freeze it for when you want it

Im jealous.... you have 149 noses to boop the floof :--)

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

Ha ha they boop your back when you turn round

35kgs off of a jersey isn't too shabby at all

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

Is that good she’s a sweet little thing x

All day every day 😅

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

Routine x

Rivnuts will solve your drinker bolt access problem.

Can you not freeze the colostrum?

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

I will be doing yes x

The waste milk can get fed to The pigs!! Or else tip down to be spread on the fields with the slurry

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

Yes I do wonder if your allowedx x

@TheFarmerTheCheesemaker

Ай бұрын

@@charlotteashleyfarm ah right…in the states we feed milk with light mastitis or the extra colostrum milk to the pigs. We don’t feed anything with heavy antibiotics. Not because there’s rules, but because we don’t think it’s a good idea. We do feed our calves mother’s milk not replacer. So before weaning the pigs only get whey from the cheese, no surplus milk.

Fit Rivnuts which are a captive fixing

FIRST

Would the lambs like the excess milk?

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

Going to consult our vets

U need a few BRUSHES in ur barn!

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

We have brushes they are on recall the replacements were meant to be here at the end of last month

Sorry 8 weeks off it is all under healing

were you in YFC when you were younger charlotte. Fresh calved Heifers usualy have smaller teats aswell so they might give you a few problems oh and you will have to train them to go in the robots.........the fun will start then charlotte. when are you letting the cows out to grass ......grass is at its best now

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

It might be but we will be keeping them in for a while to get used to them

Can you not freeze it in case it’s needed later

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

I have a video about that :) we can’t no BUT when a cow calves I will be pasteurising her own colostrum if it tests good quality

@susanhawkins3045

Ай бұрын

@@charlotteashleyfarm thank you for replying I know your busy but appreciate it. Love your videos keep up the good work. Love them cows and sheep your family’s not bad either lol

Smash the like button

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

SMASHHHH ITTTTTTTT

First

Give the milk to your pigs

@HootMaRoot

Ай бұрын

Forgot about the pigs that's another good idea for it

will the cowss go out to grass

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

They will eventually yes :) just need to settle them in and finish the building work

I also had the telegram message.

@gilliantovey1014

Ай бұрын

I did too. I’ve seem similar on Facebook so I knew it wasn’t worth bothering with

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

lol I honestly still have. I idea what it is

Give milk to pet lambs

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

That’s a thought

@davidgoss4234

Ай бұрын

@@charlotteashleyfarm we did when we milked all waste milk fed calves lambs and cats Cheaper than power lol

I have blocked that person/robot

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

Me too hopefully they can’t comment now

@WendyGerrard

Ай бұрын

@@charlotteashleyfarm glad you are on it

Sand will build up in your slurry channels just wet the floor

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

Your right Roy also said that

@jongmassey

Ай бұрын

Some of the cleanest cows I've ever seen were on sand beds but it's a right bastard all the way through your slurry system.

@winstonfoster6009

Ай бұрын

Be careful kneeling behind that cow with the short teats that's a very dangerous position cows can be frightened easily in new environment and lash out

Need to freeze that colostrum, sell it,Wright now ur flushing money down the drain! Ur new to dairy, Do some homework, there are other options also in the scientific community for colostrum also. So there is some avenues out there.

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

That colostrum is pasteurised and is feeding calves I absolutely will NOT be selling colostrum with traces of antibiotic tubes in it to the general public under any circumstances

not a good video

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

Ha ha ha ha I can’t imagine actually writing that on someone’s video 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I have a really good solution…….

Them ducks have more right to be on the land than what you have. You do talk rubbish.

@charlotteashleyfarm

Ай бұрын

Ha ha ha my pond 😂😂😂

@henrymichaelwilson8107

Ай бұрын

@@charlotteashleyfarm they don't know that. they don't say ho that's mine.

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