You're a good man Adrian. God bless you.

Love from Texas

You are very appreciated. Very clean farm

Very cool to see the new calf being born. It's not something I'm familiar with at all. There is so much to do all the time on the farm. Could you setup some sort of heat source closer to the milking parlor for if you need to heat a kettle of water? Maybe an old electric range or similar? Seems the cold really weather keeps you running!

Good stuff

I use oil seal remover tool for getting grease cartridge out of gun

Just noticed, the cable reel at your space heater, that would cause a fire if you didn't unreal it when you have power going through it.

it was as you say Fierce cold - i was haveing to defrost between the first 2 sides on the farm i was reliefing on - was awful

Tipping you 😂have family

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Can you not flush teh system with food safe anti freeze after you milk?

Afternoon Adrian. I'm in SE England and got a new Indoor/Outdoor thermometer. Also shows Humidity. Since November most days and nights Humidity has been +95% - very close to supersaturation.

Great video, Adrian. I really do not miss those bitterly cold days of fog and rock hard ground with frozen pipes. I remember trying to thaw out pipes with gas blow torches always being careful not to overdo the heat on one spot.

Why do u calve so early . Must be cpl months b4 the grass . I have noticed a lot of Irish herds calve from xmas onwards ?

I’ve cleaned piles of milking parlours now that they are being inspected, and yours is the cleanest I’ve ever seen 👍

A question from someone with Irish ancestry, from Cork and Kerry Why do Irish say, I’m after doing this, or I’m after doing this I think in NZ we would say I’m going to do such and such

‘A set of spuds’! 😂

That was such an excellent video. Thank you!

Thanks Adrian, i could watch tis for houres.....😂

Wow such a contrast to our weather in the tropical north of Australia, we are melting, not freezing! I know zero about farming but have a deep appreciation of the hard work it takes. So many different things to take care of. ❤

We all have to deal with the climate where we live. It's just part of dairy life. In eastern Ohio we experianced a little of all extremes. The first weekend we milked in our new parlor it was -12 farenheit or -23 celsius, but that was rare. I can't image a parlor without heat. We had natural gas in our area so that was relatively inexpensive heat and we kept it at 40F. We did use green sawdust to bed our calves, but they were tethered in stalls and only needed cleaning behind at feeding time. It all depends on your access and the cost of sawdust.

I put a wee fuel blow heater in the milking parlour

Great video Adrian as always nice calves too 👌

Use wood chip. Bigger than sawdust, moisture drains through it

You do so much work! And get up at 4am!! You need to know about so many systems on the farm as well as the land and the animals! It’s so much!

Thank you Adrian.

A plank of timber floating in the conc trough i heard before would stop it cracking

You need a dropped ceiling and a constant source of heat in your milking setup. Especially since this happens during calving season. You put in some long days with calving you can't be spending your time thawing things and praying they haven't burst from freezing. You are all about working smarter not harder. You have to have the ability to button things up when the freezing temps come. Good to see all those calves you are going to have lots to choose from to raise as replacements. Where will your extra heifer calves go? Do you have a sale barn to sell them at? I love to watch for your vlogs. You brighten my Sundays. I wish it would be more often but i totally get the amount of time in a day. You can fix nearly everything but I don't think you can add more hours into a day. Can you? Stay safe and warm, see you next Sunday.

I’ve found if your using hot water to thaw things rather than use a bucket to throw the water over things and most of the water misses the target, put the hot water in a stomach tube you can aim it exactly on target and you’ll thaw a lot more with a lot less water

I can remember my mum telling me how she would teach the calves to drink from a bucket. She was orphaned at the age of 3 and was sent to live in an orphanage near Glasgow. She had to go out to work when she was 14 and was sent to a farm near Ayr. Hard old life in those days

Do you have censortec colors Donagh be ur mans nane

Adrian, a workshop diesel heater on a timer plug works great in the parlour I find.

Yes a thermostat and heating needed for your parlour pipes ,a job im sure you could easily do ,and yes pool noodles would cover your pipes ,,who needs extra work on an already hard job

What a lot of extra work

Another great video Adrian, hats off to you for keeping us informed when the weather was that cold, grateful that you find time to edit the footage in the midst of your calving and day to day tasks. Thanks again and look forward to next Sunday .🇮🇲

I hope you get a red calf this years.

Night . Have a safe lovely week folks ,great helpers on farm.

Wow you work hard. Glad to see that all of you babies are doing well!

Adrian, have you thought about a pool noddle to insulate the pipes. Slice down length of noddle and place around pipe, just an idea. Cheers, Sue, Queensland, Australia 🇦🇺

On top of all the extra work due to cold and calving, you still took the time to film and edit it all for us. We surely appreciate it.

The new concrete drinkers are well designed to deal with frost. We’ve 2 plastic troughs left and they’ll be changed to concrete this year. The plastic ones always seem to get pushed off level and then leak causing a muddy hole around it. I’ve never emptied our concrete ones during hard frosty weather and none have cracked

Adrian you said that that's a heifers heifer I've heard old hands say a heifers heifer will fill the byre if it's true you'll not complain

Lovely to see the fresh calves

What's the story with your gas water heater I was thinking of buying one any up date on it

How many cows are you milking now

Get a thermostat linked up to some trace heating for 2 motors and pipes. Easy install. Would work a treat Adrian.

Can't beat the tap Adrian to get milk pump working. Hopefully the next frost won't be as severe.

When it comes to cattle a mixture of greed and bribery can work wonders.

Just a short comment to tell your mother I thought of her today. Something about the dark cold, freezing morning made me think about her sorrow. Thinking of her and wishing her comfort from Oklahoma, USA.

When your driving with tractor and tank turn becons on and the red leds on the back of the tank when you have the drone up