Oh, how wonderful. This reminds me of how, around 5 a.m., I went to the meadow with my grandparents to milk cows. My grandfather had a special trailer with equipment for milking cows. He made this equipment himself, so he could milk cows in the meadow. I helped (as much as I could 😋) to moving the cows from pasture to pasture. That was thirty-something years ago. Wonderful times. 💕💕💕

What a dream come true. Well done that was brilliant and delightful. Thank you. Great fun and so educational.

@the-english-couple

3 ай бұрын

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it! 💚💙💜

Thank you for filming this video. I found it absolutely fascinating. I already appreciated our farmers but this takes it to a new level of respect. We see milk on the shelves and take it for granted. If more people saw what goes into farming there would be much more respect for them.

So adorable you two beautiful couple 💞Julia Richard we were a dairy farmer I am very aware how hard work it was. How much work involves daily. We stop since cows deceased and doing diversity. Julia you are so admirable an so natural . Have a blessed day love & light ❤️‍🩹🥰☀️

Totally brilliant. Get all my milk from John, and so good to see the backroom process. Lots of hard work for sure.

Hi Richard and Julia. It was so lovely to meet you at Hope on Saturday and I hope you managed to get the car back safe and sound. Looking forward to our next meeting. With love Costas

@the-english-couple

2 ай бұрын

Hiya Costas, it was indeed lovely to meet you too. The car is running fine again, thankfully! 💚💙💜

Memories for me from 1973 having spent my pre college year on a 200 cow dairy farm in Cheshire with a 20/10 herringbone parlour and two of us milking!! Brilliant video in an abreast parlour

@the-english-couple

2 ай бұрын

That is awesome!

Wonderful experience 🥰lovely to watch

Thank you Richard and Julia! I think that if you'd start with two or three cows on your new farm, it'll be manageable for you both 🙂

you certainly picked the right farm so i could enjoy it. hardly ever see cows in the fields round my way and certainly been a few decades since i saw cows and calves together. calves are usually only found if you go looking hard as not many farmers want the public to see the calves crying in little boxes . and i know it's a lot of work but this is what it should be like in my mind. happy moms n kids give 'happy' milk and at some point also meat

Loved seeing the cows!😊 ❤ well done Richard and Julia 😊

Loved watching this, can't wait till you get your own setup going. 👍

Such a great video. Thank you. It reminds me of having lovely Hazelbrook farm ice cream in summer. Happy St. George's Day.

@the-english-couple

3 ай бұрын

Thank you! You too! 💚💙💜

Hi you lovely people just catching up on your videos xx

❤😊loved it ..thank you both 🙏🏻

You won't need all that equipement unless you want to sell milk every day. With 2 cows you can hand milk and there are glass churns with cluster so no need for pipes or the tank, you just carry the churn to your kitchen. i'll help you Julia 💜 Michelle the pet-sitter Milk-maid 💚 nomade

@JuliaHartley

3 ай бұрын

Purrfection personified! Thanks lovely 💚💙💜

Used to milk cows 😆 up at 3am then back again later in the day. Hard work but nothing like being on the land. Good luck with finding your new way of life🐄🥛💕

@JuliaHartley

3 ай бұрын

Like Jon, we'll only be milking once a day as we will be sharing with the calves they raise. Still a lot of work involved but my goodness are we ready for this nowl. Yes, yes we are soooo ready! Lol 💚💙💜

❤❤❤❤ wow thank you for another beautiful video..... imagine this as a life! I got to escape this system!!! Absolutely wonderful insight thank you

@the-english-couple

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it, thank you for watching! 💚💙💜

Very good ❤ it's worse getting up at 3 30.am getting the cows up from the fields.1 st Milk then again at dinner time, again at tee time.. I have a lot of Respect for the Farmers.. They need a break.. Very very tiring work.. Then there is all the crops to be sowed neaver ends ❤ nice 1 Richard and Julia for having a go.

@JuliaHartley

3 ай бұрын

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@foyerfelin

3 ай бұрын

That's why i'm the pet-sitter milk-maid nomade, everyone needs a break from routine now and then.

Thank you. Lovely to watch you both. Looks inspirational and I'm sure Richard could get the hang of milking.❤

Hello beautiful people and animals xx

What a lovely surprise to see you both at Dora's Dairy again! We so enjoyed being back there, albeit virtually. Can't wait to get some more of Jon's milk. Glad I got to The Great Resist yesterday too - couldn't stay and say hello as I had a long bike ride home (about 18 miles....).

@the-english-couple

3 ай бұрын

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Wishing you both all the best with your new life.

@JuliaHartley

3 ай бұрын

Thank you 💚💙💜

We used to milk them straight into a cup in the field when we wanted a drink as children!

Lovely 🐄🤍

Lovely and very well behaved cows, Julia is going to be natural, notice how that cow did as Julia said, but ignored Richard Ha Ha.

Hi guy’s, had to let you know why I was waving at you from our silver Nissan micra on Sunday, love what you guys do, we’ve got a 37yr old Hymer campervan we take over to goring gap, if you see us there come and say hi if you’re out again that way, we are ardent followers of Richard Vobes utube channel, especially in this crazy upside down world we live in, anyways take care, hope to see you about some time😊👍❤️🇬🇧 the Brindleys

@the-english-couple

2 ай бұрын

Ah it was lovely to see a car full of smiling faces! Thanks for making my day, and for watching both channels. We shall look out for you next time we find ourselves there 💚💙💜

Hope you are recovering after your awful experience with the bullies Julia. Hope we see you soon on the channel and for an update Richard said you would give. ❤

@the-english-couple

Ай бұрын

Hallo, thanks for you kind thoughts. Apologies for delay on update but it will happen soon, along with delay explanation I'm sure! 💚💙💜

Start small and consider milk goats rather than cows.... maybe? Love your videos Richard and Julia.... thank you!

@foyerfelin

3 ай бұрын

Goats are adorable friends, they like scrub-land as well as grass and give milk for years without having any new kids

Hi both, thanks for the really interesting video! Gosh that did look a lot of hard work but I could see it was rewarding too. Lovely to see the cows and the little calves bless them so cute. Looking forward to the next chapter in your lives. Hope it all works out for you!

💗Wow! Quite interesting, and how BIG the cows look! Thanks for squeegy-ing the floor, Julia, good job! Oh, and I could actually smell it ALL from here! And I'm in the US!🤣🤣🤣

@JuliaHartley

3 ай бұрын

Hahaha, yes the aroma is very distinct but oh my gosh is itt worth it! 💚💙💜

keep it up

You can still have the milking equipment for 2-3 cows.

Really moooooving !

@the-english-couple

3 ай бұрын

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Hi lovely Julia and Richard yes you have learnt a lot I used to help milk 20 cows by hand before my dad got the machines to milk them hard work but we did it twice a day as well as all the other job around the farm so zI wish you well 😅❤x

@JuliaHartley

3 ай бұрын

Thank you loveliest of lovelies! 💚💙💜

@757Hannah

3 ай бұрын

Does the machine truly not hurt them?😢

@JuliaHartley

3 ай бұрын

@@757Hannah no more than a breast pump can be uncomfortable

One cow, for milk.. and a baby for meat.. each season a new calf.. Most people only need one.. or two

Nah , its not for you Richard , stick to the pipe and slippers 😅😂😂

@JuliaHartley

3 ай бұрын

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That was brilliant I really enjoyed it, Id love to work on a farm

@atticuskilby515

3 ай бұрын

And I am sure that there are those who could use a hand, volunteer, learn.

@mousenation3867

3 ай бұрын

@@atticuskilby515 That’s a brilliant idea

Speaking of full udders Julia is looking quite shapely 👍🏻

Knitson Farm has a family tradition of naming all their Jersey calves with the same single following alphabet letter each year.👍

@JuliaHartley

3 ай бұрын

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Hi Richard and Julia, I just subscribed to your Chanel, how adorable you both are. I am from Richard's Chanel. I noticed you don't have a Community Tabl? Contact YT about that. Bless you both. Debra from Melbourne, Australia xxx

@the-english-couple

18 күн бұрын

Thank you for joining us, we shall look into the community tab.. It may be simply that we haven't posted anything there yet 💚💙💜

I enjoyed watching you both down at the farm. Julia appeared to be lactating on certain clips 😂 (trust me)

@JuliaHartley

3 ай бұрын

That was cow spit, I assure you there is no lactating on my part lol 😂😂😂💚💙💜

@lsbfilmproductions

3 ай бұрын

@@JuliaHartley ahahaha x

Twice a day, every day... for beautiful raw milk..delicious.. Well done guys

@JuliaHartley

3 ай бұрын

Once a day if like Jon (and future us) one shares the milk with the calves 💚💙💜

Its their feeding time, they know the way . Nice little cows jerseys and friesians j bekieve.

@JuliaHartley

3 ай бұрын

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"udders are full"

We used to hand milk a couple of Jersey cows on our 'Good Life' smallholding back in the 1970s and 1980s. The main requirements are a stool, a bucket, and some way of gently restraining the cow. A cow can give an awful lot of milk so the golden yellow cream was skimmed off to make butter or clotted cream and the skimmed milk either drunk or made into yoghurt or cheese. Surplus milk was fed to our pigs. Our Jerseys were artificially inseminated with either Aberdeen Angus or Welsh Black semen. The cross bred heifer calves went on to make excellent hardy milkers and the cross bred bull calves were much 'beefier' than pure Jerseys. As beginners, a few dairy goats may be a good option - cheaper to buy and feed than cows, but I always found cows much easier to milk than nanny goats. BTW, goat kids are incredibly cute but they are natural escape artists and acrobats, akin to trying to control a box a frogs, and they nibble at everything under the sun. Caveat - cows or goats create absolute havoc if they gain entrance to your vegetable garden.

@atticuskilby515

3 ай бұрын

I had a similar experience, although starting a bit earlier in the 60's, hand milking at the age of 6. We had a Jersey and a Guernsey. The butter was amazing and the extra went to two pigs. Mom made the best homemade ice cream. When the wild blackberries ripened in the summer she made blackberry ice cream, the best that I have found in all of my years and explorations.

Ask the farm what happens to the Bull calves

@JuliaHartley

3 ай бұрын

We did, thanks! 💚💙💜

@JuliaHartley

3 ай бұрын

(they are raised and have a lovely life with their family eating grass for about 30 months before they become beef)

😠 This is all well and good, but wouldn't it be far simpler to have the cattle milk themselves? ... KLAUS! KLAAAAUUUUS? 😂

Farming is earthy stuff. This felt like a baptism of fire for Richard and Julia - especially Richard. Was this an organic farm? The cows looked a bit mangy and unhealthy to me, but that could just be my unpractised eye. Will Richard and Julia stay the course . . . ?

@jartotable

3 ай бұрын

No they look healthy. Milk cows look different to meat cows that have been fattened up.

@JaniAnders-vx6wx

3 ай бұрын

Milk cows not usually fat.

@davidoswald9253

2 ай бұрын

Dairy cows are very different to beef animals. They produce milk whereas beef animals are all about conformation to produce great cuts of beef which is body shape etc.

Not sure I like the milk going through a filter full of chlorate.....

@Deryck-ol7to

3 ай бұрын

The milk filter is sterilised in hypochlorite an then rinsed in clean water before the start of milking.

@davidoswald9253

2 ай бұрын

If this milk is not used on the farm and is collected by a tanker and taken to a dairy to be pasteurised, the driver takes samples and the temperature of the milk before he takes it. The samples are obviously analysed before any treatment. Well that's what happened in the 70's and I don't suppose its changed much. Retired farmer btw!