Cleaning up the Barns! Life on a Farm Day 3!

[@TimKrenz-j8t]

You guys WORK HARD ❤❤❤😊😊😊

[@elmerwilks7052]

You guys do a lot work. I noticed that you and your dad are in great shape. God bless you and your family.

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you God Bless!

[@ryanwaege7251]

Chicken playing chicken with the loader bucket 😁

[@GierokFarms]

LOL

[@tjaycossack6548]

BTW as oppossed to the "modern" dairy farms, I like the "old school" way...brings back memories. Glad to see you still hanging in there!

[@henrymichaelwilson8107]

It sounds like there's some birdie's in that Shippam with you.

[@scottlabant8406]

Again, enjoyed watching your videos. Takes me back to when I spent every summer on dairy farm. My anut and uncle used the belt hung surge milkers, dumped milk in bucket and carried to milk house. Hard work and dedication to have a dairy farm!

[@GierokFarms]

Very hard work!

[@bobrat]

Excellent video series 👏👏👏 I grew up next door to a hobby farm. It was what was left of the farmer's family farm. Farmer Ray and his wife Elsie had many chickens, 2 cows ,a hog and a couple of horses. The fields were plowed and harvested by horse power. Another farmer from up the road had a team of Percherons. Your family farm reminds me of the late 1950's. Thank you

[@JamesDedmon]

Awesome job, it’s amazing to see how you guys work in a colder climate

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you!

[@bhain40]

Man, I forgot how much work those cows are! 😂 Fun to see it again, glad it’s you and not me. But glad I have it in my background. You all rock! 🚜

[@GierokFarms]

Thanks Benjamin!

[@markcovault1413]

Like the videos. Bring back of memories. Of milking or Jersey cows

[@GierokFarms]

Thanks glad we could bring back memories for you!

[@Rollinghillsfarmsmn]

You guys do an amazing amount of work in a day. We’ve always had beef cattle and there are some intense periods but nothing like the sustained workload with dairy. Makes me appreciate a fresh glass of cold Wisconsin milk!

[@GierokFarms]

It can be a lot of work! Thank you!

[@jamesryan9206]

Thank you another great video.

[@GierokFarms]

Thanks again for watching!

[@Daveco82]

Born and raised in Chicago I find your videos fascinating! Love the content.

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you Dave we are glad you enjoy them!

[@georgeleray5657]

Nice job brings back memories of working in a tie stall barn in early 70ties before and after school great farm love your videos.

[@GierokFarms]

Thanks Glad we could bring back memories!

[@charlesjenkins8078]

Good job.It’s a lot of hard work. Thanks again

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you for watching!

[@kellyjean3175]

Loved hearing all those farm sounds! 😉 Awesome video. Thanks for sharing 👍🏻

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you!

[@jamesbreault5762]

Pretty darn interesting👍👍👍👍

[@loganhunter1735]

Awesome video!

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you!

[@pyroman6000]

Watching the first bit made me think of something. There's always a handful of THOSE cows... If there's a pile of crap within a mile, they'll find it- and lay down in it... And guess who got the fun job of curry combing it out of their fur? I loved barn cleaning week in the winter- because I got to spend all day driving around in the 2440- with a heated cab!!

[@jtoddjb]

enjoying the series very much. Nice work. We used to milk around 100 cows and out of that 100 we only had 2 Brown Swiss, but from those 2 and their daughters they were almost always the boss cows of the bunch. As I'm sure you guys know, having good boss cows makes moving cattle for things such as rotational grazing so much easier.

[@GierokFarms]

For sure, you have to figure out who the leaders are! Thanks for watching!

[@andersonsfarm4456]

nice looking first cut hay I'd like to set up barn cleaner like you have

[@GierokFarms]

Thanks!

[@deanschafer5919]

Another great video!

[@GierokFarms]

Thanks again Dean!

[@keithrobinson1331]

Nice keep things going while your dads away 👍👍👍🐄🇺🇸

[@GierokFarms]

I enjoy it!

[@pennyhaldeman5626]

Never would have considered manure removal being an interesting topic, but there you go making it one.

[@GierokFarms]

Thanks Penny!

[@cut4fun50]

Great video 👍 I was surprised to learn you are from independence wi, I'm from the Barron area. You have a really nice family operation not many of those folks left anymore. Great channel went back watched some of your other videos wonderful content. 👍😁

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you!

[@dennishuntley7688]

Nice clean up Good looking hay you were putting out. Happy Cows I bet.

[@GierokFarms]

Thanks Dennis!

[@b.ohlenschlager8985]

I love your way of farming! More Work than the industrial way of dairy farming, but in my Opinion the better way for the cows and the Product Milk.

[@josephscottlandis7084]

Nice looking hay

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you!

[@larrynicholsiii8562]

On our farm those blue pipeline brackets are used to mount just about everything

[@GierokFarms]

I can see how they would be really handy!

[@tpfromcentralpa1692]

You could keep those warm temps...............I much prefer it to be 20 all winter long vs going from 18 to 40 and back again. Interesting that you spread the straw in the stalls right off the bale, I would have guessed you would have had a little chopper from Wic, Patz or some of the others for the job. We got a Wic here we use all winter in our bank barn pens for beef cows, shread up mulch hay, straw, or paper. Would be lost without it.

[@GierokFarms]

Sounds nice for a bedding pack area!

[@colemaliszewski6986]

Pretty nice 7810. Awesome video! Keep up the good work man!

[@plumcreekfarms8138]

Looks like a 7510.

[@GierokFarms]

@@plumcreekfarms8138 We do have a 7810 but didn't use it in that video!

[@plumcreekfarms8138]

Yes,you guys have a super nice line of tractors. Looks to me that they are very well taken care of.

[@walto6179]

Just stumbled across your channel - brings back a lot of memories, thank you.

[@GierokFarms]

Welcome to the channel glad you found it and glad we could bring back good memories!

[@FreeloaderFarms]

Great video, I just subscribed and I like to see there are still small farms, my great grandpa used to milk 25 jersey cows here in Wisconsin but they've been gone for awhile, now it's just a few beef cows. Nice farm!

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you and Welcome to the channel! Glad we could bring back memories!

[@benburns5995]

Glad you showed the Conveyor in the floor of the Dairy Barn. That makes a lot less handling of the messy straw. Always amazes me how curious cows are, as that one had to come up and push and smell the Pitchfork. Do you ever have problems with the Barn Cats trying to kill the Free range chickens? They probably get used to them around but that would be tempting for a cat. Looking forward to the next video in the series.

[@GierokFarms]

Nope never have that problem with the cats! Thanks for watching the video!

[@rickdewitt600]

I appreciate it. Interesting. Lots to do. Thanks.

[@GierokFarms]

Thanks

[@stanhensley3082]

Long day.Nice that when it's warm everything starts and runs. I know you don't hear that cow bell like we do but it sure 😏 can make alot of noise. Great to hear 👂. I imagine that cowbell helps find the cows if they get out in the corn field at night? Yes,we had beef cows and well stuff happens. Thanks 😊 .

[@GierokFarms]

Cows getting out is the worst!

[@bobkeck7083]

How meny cows are you runing?

[@GierokFarms]

Milking 45!

[@keithraisor4030]

Good video how many are you milking now do have to leave out that many cows. You barn look like it hold 50 cows. Stay warm

[@GierokFarms]

Hold 40 milking 45! Keith!

[@bobangmereier4311]

Would like to hear from your Dad how things were done prior to mechanization.

[@jamesacuff5176]

I live on a beef cattle operation and when we use to feed square bales (40 a day) we always cut the strings at the knot and gather them up at the knot end and save them for other uses. Sometimes we would take them to the local feed mill when we would get feed ground and give them to the mill so they could make strings to tie the feed sacks. They could get about three sets of strings out of a bundle. Of course you could always use them to tie up gates and such too. Was wondering why you all don’t do this?

[@GierokFarms]

We reuse the sting for a lot of things! Like ting up gates!

[@stevedibiase728]

Good for tying staked tomatoes tall flowers the like we used to have town folks and homeowners with small amount land come out to our farm to get twine to use for themselves...twine like duct tape have to have some around lol.

[@mikekuhn6216]

I remember watching my dad "clean up" after milking; plenty of shoveling the manure scoop by hand and loading it into the spreader. Can you imagine how much longer it would take without your skid loader? All those chopped cornstalks makes good bedding in the calf barn. Do you ever use it for bedding it the dairy barn for the cows? Just curious. Thanks again for the interesting footage. Be safe and stay warm up there.

[@bunnylover6481]

Amazing amount of work you did. Impressive and interesting.

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you!

[@rebelgaming7718]

Nice looking machines and hay man

[@GierokFarms]

Thanks

[@rebelgaming7718]

your welcome I always wanted to start a dairy farm but to get all the equipment and all that isn't cheap

[@larrystockwell8994]

Good video, thanks. Its enough just to do the work without adding the video work. I was looking at your spreader with the side discharge. I didn’t notice any apron under it and was wondering how it moves he load and how it unloads. We had a New Idea beater type but we had a drive through barn so the tractor and spreader were inside all winter. Before that style barn it was always important to make sure every cross bar on the apron was loose in the winter. Things have certainly changed since the 1960’s. Keep up the good work and videos.

[@GierokFarms]

It has augers in the center that bring it to the front! Thanks again for watching and commenting Larry!

[@johnthompson4162]

Why do you use straw in the dairy barn? I was told it was slippery for the cows. This to me was your finest video ever. My mother had 4 of 7 brothers milking cows. Thats how my parents met. My Dad used to test cows for DHIA. Your video is much appreciated as your milk. John T.

[@GierokFarms]

We don't think it's slippery! thank you John!

[@johnthompson4162]

@@GierokFarms I think you are very right!!! That's what my uncles thought. John T.

[@dobberaaron6658]

Doing a great job I love to watch all your guys's content God bless

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you for watching! God Bless

[@williamwimer2074]

Nice video...farming is hard work..and dairy farming can be harder. I loved it though...working on my aunt and uncle's dairy in summer..even though we had beef cattle farms and in HS I worked at big dairy up the road from us. All gone now...

[@GierokFarms]

Thanks, I'm glad we could bring back memories for you!

[@williamwimer2074]

@@GierokFarms your welcome..the big dairy milked 120 cows all time. At 60 plus years of age the milk plant went out of business and he borrowed a million dollars and put in his own processing and bottling facility. Sold milk 1/2 gal glass jugs...and ice cream and few things..his milk paid for it. My aunt and uncle did 30 cows by bucket milkers and 5 by hand from which my aunt sold milk ,butter ,eggs and cottage cheese in summer. People came to house and my uncle delivered in town every Saturday...just the two of them.

[@dustinhuser2064]

I wish you could still get those one touch milkers. I’d switch in a instant.

[@keithschuebel650]

Nice work it would be interesting to hear some history on your farm when it was first settled how old is that awesome barn and when did you stop using the silo etc. great job!

[@GierokFarms]

Thanks Keith! We still use the Silo but just feed out of it in the summer!

[@patricklipsius8380]

Why don't you use the skid steer for bedding up the tie stal ? Or buy a bagger wheel barrow 😅

[@GierokFarms]

Skid steer would add more time then you think and barely fits!

[@joecosgrove9116]

DO YOU USE YOUR COW TRAINERS I KNOW THEY WORKED VERY WELL FOR ME THEY KEPT MY COWS VERY CLEAN GOD BLESS TAKE CARE

[@GierokFarms]

YES

[@GierokFarms]

GODBLESS

[@gilessmith3064]

Love your farm

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you!

[@plumcreekfarms8138]

Yes,very beautiful place.

[@anthonyhengst2908]

Finished milking too, now it's my turn to clean barns too. It's warmer here too so it's also time to go up into the silo and change the door and try to scrape down some walls. We don't have an auger for manure I've seen a few other farmers that use them. .... Do you have any trouble with that freezing up in the winter?

[@GierokFarms]

If we don't clean it out with straw!

[@hardyedwards5405]

Very interesting video. How long did it take to clean up, put hay out and re-bed the milking barn.

[@GierokFarms]

A little over an hour!

[@billcreed6882]

Don't the cows ever step in the gutter & on to the chain causing possible damage or injury?

[@GierokFarms]

No they learn how to set over it!

[@billcreed6882]

@@GierokFarms Thank you

[@reubentaylor3323]

Loving the vids 👍

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you!

[@thomaswoodhall4525]

Do you bale your own wheat straw?

[@wilscooley3083]

At least your Dad can watch the videos to make sure you guys are doing a good job while he’s away😊

[@GierokFarms]

Ya no kidding! LOL

[@janandeniseolson7214]

I just found your channel. It is amazing. I enjoy it.

[@GierokFarms]

@@janandeniseolson7214 Welcome to the Channel! I'm Glad you like it! Thanks for watching!

[@drdulas5055]

Are there pads under your cows? Has the stubborn calf continue to drink? Thanks for the video/

[@GierokFarms]

Yes! Have to watch the rest of the series to find out! Thanks for watching!

[@drdulas5055]

@@GierokFarms I never miss your videos.

[@joeskretkowicz3218]

oh my god everytime i see gutter chain gives me nitemares from youth of freeze ups

[@josephscottlandis7084]

Do you have mattresses in your cow stalls

[@GierokFarms]

Rubber Mats!

[@bryanG4020]

How's that new barn cleaner chain doing!?

[@GierokFarms]

Great!

[@bryanG4020]

@@GierokFarms good deal! That's something you don't wanna have to fight in the winter!

[@glenschumannGlensWorkshop]

Thanks.

[@tjaycossack6548]

whats with those veinna sausage bales?!

[@r.scotthill3082]

How much time is spent each day feeding, cleaning, and bedding the stall barn?

[@GierokFarms]

2 hours

[@walmartemployee3678]

Where do you farm in Wisconsin

[@davegenske8973]

How long does it take to milk using your 6 units

[@calebthacker2162]

How many pounds a day do you figure a cow that’s being milked needs of hay

[@tederdmann2993]

Late milking times? It was already daylight in the morning. Lol

[@GierokFarms]

7 and 7

[@tederdmann2993]

@@GierokFarms wow you get to sleep in. Lol we always started by 5 am and pm.

[@GierokFarms]

@@tederdmann2993 Also get to stay up late LoL

[@CarnivoreCurin]

When we were kids, we were told it was a privilege to throw down hay. At some point we caught on... what a line of @#%$& but we fell for it.

[@AndrewsFarmVideos]

where u located in Wisconsin

[@GierokFarms]

West

[@AndrewsFarmVideos]

@@GierokFarms Cool Southwest Here.

[@GierokFarms]

@@AndrewsFarmVideos nice

[@GierokFarms]

@@AndrewsFarmVideos You have a cool channel and farm!

[@AndrewsFarmVideos]

@@GierokFarms thank you. You as well.

[@gregjohnston9287]

What happe Ned to your hand?

[@tweek857]

Man know what you mean it was 8 degrees in ohio then jumped up to 30 felt way too warm. Ha

[@GierokFarms]

Exactly, wish it was more consistent!

[@joeskretkowicz3218]

whe n 100 cows inside harder to keep paddles clean

[@stevedibiase728]

Days work just the pre milking setup. milking then cleanup after endless cycle.. I guess reason only one dairy farm left in our whole county now the old dairy farmers got too old or passed on , many of the kids wanted nothing to do with the dairy farm either sold-out or abandoned the farm let it grow up and rot away sad but true.

[@terjeskovdahl7014]

👍

[@drknockers5716]

Let's go Brandon!!!!###

[@ArmpitStudios]

Ever knock down the ladder up to the hay mow when throwing down bales? 🙂

[@GierokFarms]

It its tied to the wall with a chain!

[@ArmpitStudios]

@@GierokFarms I had a feeling that would be the case around your place. So much ingenuity.