Hoof Trimming & Filling Hay Box

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Merch:

Thank You!

[CMDSR]

I’m sure the ladies won’t mind the extra pampering with having their nails done more often.

[andrewbrown]

You should name the mixers. Dad and Eric so you can still say Dad/Eric is feeding.

[fgsalazar]

A time lapse from a robot-mounted camera would be really fun to watch. Love your content.

[salmonhunter]

I have said a dozen times you have the cleannes barn and cow ever. Well done

[dougdiplacido]

Love your ramp. You sure do have a knack for solving problems on the farm. Great video and thanks.

[justingourley]

Have you thought about having a falcon brought in. A place I worked at had a bad starling infestation, they hired a guy that had a small falcon. It took out two five gallon buckets of starlings in about an hour, and it took almost a year for more to show back up.

[rusrobins]

You could put a reinforced board across the box cart and block off the top auger and maybe even half the the next one two because its chopped dry hay it would not be heavy enough to stall or block the bottom drive chains. it wouldn't work for haylage or silage but dry chopped hay should be ok. As always never miss a video thanks for making my day once a week. God bless

[ljtlove]

About the feed spilling out of the hay box - I think that if you add a board at the bottom across the belt it would prevent the hay from all coming down and the belt would pull a smaller amount out at a time. Great video Eric, keep them coming!

[Taterdatott]

3:33 cow walked out like it needed a therapist

[jcurtis]

As always you have a well thought out storyline and it's cool to watch the business through your eyes.

At 6:40... Order a muffler when you make the first repair. It will brake again and just be an annoyance. And you'll have the muffler on hand. If you're going to be keeping the machine of course...

[leanj]

Hi eric, The hoof trimmer comes to us about every 6 weeks and picks up the lame cows, the cows just before dry-off and the cows that are 100 days into lactation at that time. Since we always grab a small group it is not so stressful for the whole herd and in my opinion the lame cows are handled well and the cows that are close to lameness are also detected well. Also because you do it twice in the lactation it goes faster for the cows that have no problems but only need maintenance because then less horn has grown back.

[MichaelHolloway]

I like the idea of hoof trimming home delivery. ;) They are so social - the stress would be much less i think.

[geraldarthurhall]

It is so satisfying to see a dirty machine get clean!

[jjarm]

Those are some seriously gorgeous silos in the background. I’ve never seen any so tall, awesome.

[jimbeck]

Always like seeing the robots in action!!

[adamrosenhamer]

Straight piped skiddy sounded pretty good 😂😂😂

[j.s.]

Another suggestion that worked for us is the local welding shop made a stainless steel liner we bolted inside the spout. Feed would build up on the spout to the door which made it not throw out very well. Ran stainless liner to end of spout and made a great improvement. Used little stainless bolts on edge so wouldn't effect the flow. Have in both are haylage silos.

[BLuigi]

I would try put a baffle in the hay wagon so it doesn’t slide down like that, I know it just happens at the start each time it gets reloaded, but that’s a lot of work cleaning up all the time, if it can be prevented. Nice work as always, Eric.

[birdfeeding]

Your trimmer seems to do very good work. I'm loving your robotic feeders.

[Dan-qyrg]

Sounds like there's some adjustments that will help you all for next year, when it comes to the rations. I think that's a normal thing, considering the changes with the silo and the auto feed being new. Good luck with all of it, you'll have it worked out soon. Have a good afternoon!