it is an idea to place a rubber bumper against the wall where the feed mixer is located. Then the feed mixer can be positioned closer to the wall without damage, making it easier for the loader to load.

Interesting video. It will be better with comment when the loader was loading,😂

Awesome drone footage Piet

@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Great video Piet

A push out bucket would be nice for your CAT loader.

That was interesting Piet, thanks for sharing. Deb

Thank You for taking the time to share your thoughts to us all 😊

Feeding cows is grateful work!

A very happy looking and healthy herd. Good video. Thank you.

@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Hi Piet as always great content, enjoy all your videos.... keep em coming! Hand wave from NE rural Ohio, be safe and healthy everyone! God Bless

@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Very nice clean and health herd, good work!

@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Excellent video, feeding must be almost a full-time job by the time you've also moved feed from the bunks and opened bales. Your farm is a credit to you and your team.

@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Yes, feeding is a full day for 1 person.

Very interesting watching load ingredients. Notice they very precisely allow just the right amount of each ingredient to drop into the loader. Thanks for the great video. Appreciate you took the time and effort to show so much detail.

@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047

Жыл бұрын

It's important to be accurate with each ingredient, our guys do a good job putting the right amount of each feed into the mixer. Thanks for watching!

You should think about a push off bucket much more persistent and easier on the loader

nice video, like to see more

@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Leuke video Piet, blijven filmen. 👍

Thanks for the video. Do you have a backup TMR mixer wagon in case of emergency?

@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047

Жыл бұрын

Yes, we have a smaller Supreme 1200 mixer we can use in an emergency.

What happened to all the Beautiful White Snow. Great video

@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047

Жыл бұрын

It's still here it just shrunk a little with the warm weather we've had the last 2 weeks!

Congratulations Piet, nice video, good cows healthy and uniform. How many kgs dry matter your cows eating??

@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! The high production pens are eating 60 to 64lbs dry mater per day, 27 to 29kg per day.

Why don’t you do a prebatch with your commodities and premix? Great videos!

@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047

Жыл бұрын

I've thought about trying that, but we need the mix time to size the baleage. We could only premix 4 ingredients because the rest is wet feed, we might get a little more accurate but I don't think it would save us much time.

Have u ever tried loading your baleage and silage then load your commodities?

@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047

Жыл бұрын

No, we haven't tried that. We've always loaded baleage first, then commodities and silage last.

Do you ever add water to any rations, and do you ever feed unusual byproducts such as candy etc? I saw one dairy that was feeding skittles, I assume they were rejected

@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047

Жыл бұрын

We don't add water, we get moisture in the mix from the silage, baleage, wet distillers and beet pulp we feed. We don't feed anything too unusual.

how do you adjust the rations when there is to much left-over? Especially when its a rainy day, your corn and alfaalfa will be much wetter. If you change then procentially the dry products are changed to unnessecary.

@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047

Жыл бұрын

Each pen is adjusted individually if they have too much or not enough feed left over in the morning. If it rains, it's up to the feeder to over feed the silage to compensate for the added water.

Why is the ground corn not used in the Milking cows but in the Close Up and Fresh pens?

@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047

Жыл бұрын

In the high production pens we feed earlage instead of ground corn. Earlage is a little more economical for us. Ground corn is more consistent so we feed that to the close up and fresh pens to keep those rations very consistent.

interesting how all the cows are so quiet while they are eating. Just 1or 2 were mooing. I watch videos from other farms where they are always very noisy (maybe they are complaining because they don't like the food ...)

Nice video man how many cows you guys run total?

@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! We are milking around 1600 cows and have around 3000 total cows, heifers and calves on the farm.

@rebelgaming7718

Жыл бұрын

​@@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047 nice and why does half your video not have noise where your helper is loading the tmr mixer I can't here the loader or tractor running or the mixer running

Do you feed calcium binder for close up cows? Or is it DCAD diet?

@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047

Жыл бұрын

We are feeding a DCAD diet to our close up cows.

How many cows do you milk ? I know you mentioned it a few videos ago, but I forgot.

@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047

Жыл бұрын

We are milking around 1600 cows.

@joebishop7909

Жыл бұрын

@@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047 thanks

Why the aversion to feeding shelled corn to the high groups? Don't you need the energy? Have you ever thought of going to a self propelled TMR mixer? less travelling, more accurate measuring, less wasted feed, less overall time feeding???

@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047

Жыл бұрын

We feed earlage to our high production pens instead of dry corn. Earlage is more economical for us. I like the simplicity of a pull type mixer, very little that can break. A tractor can be changed out quickly if it has issues. I don't think there are any self-propelled mixers that are similar size to our mixer available yet.

Why don't you use concrete bunkers ?

@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047

4 ай бұрын

I prefer drive over piles for silage, I think we have less spoilage and can do a good job packing the entire pile. At some point, I'd like to have bunkers for our smaller earlage piles.

Need to add some Metallica, Tool, or Katy Perry with your drone footage 😂

@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047

Жыл бұрын

My plan was to have the natural noise from the equipment but we didn't get that figured out in time.

@timjorden8329

Жыл бұрын

@@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047 oh I see. I was just kidding it’s still interesting. I suppose to have the sound of the equipment you would need a separate microphone?

@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047

Жыл бұрын

@Tim jorden yes, essentially. I had recorded the sound with my phone.

@elisatood8514

Жыл бұрын

Hi

@elisatood8514

Жыл бұрын

How are you doing

How big is your rodent problem?...have you ever seen the videos of guys eliminating them with air rifles?

@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047

Жыл бұрын

We have bait stations for mice outside of all the buildings that are checked by a company once a month. We don't see mice by the buildings often, but it's impossible to keep them out of the straw bales.

Do you guys need any help

@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047

Жыл бұрын

Not at the moment.