Feeding Cows! Life on a Farm Day 7!

[@r.f.richardsonjr5691]

I think this series of videos helps give people, who've never worked/lived, on a farm a great understanding just how much work is involved in running a farm. There is always work to be done on a farm and many times it's a thankless job.

[@chwilliams5]

Grew up working on the neighbors dairy farm in Maryland and it looks and operates so much like yours sometimes it's like I am watching myself 45 years ago. I sure miss farming. Sure glad I can live vicariously through your videos. God Bless

[@GierokFarms]

Glad we could bring back memories for you! God Bless!

[@kevinschroeder3889]

I think that you brothers working well together reflects on how you were raised. So I guess hats off to your mom and dad. Great to see family working together.

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you Kevin!

[@jerryb19531953]

I'm 69, watching this video reminds me of the kind of place our Country was back in the 50,s. These videos are great and hope you make more of them. I liked the one your father did on outside wood burning boilers. I was looking for a indoor wood fireplace but now I'm thinking an outdoor one would be more beneficial. Great video guys.

[@lorenplock8244]

Thank U For sharing your day farming life with us. I enjoy 😊 watching you’re video over the large dairy farm. God bless you and your family

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you for watching!

[@anthonyhengst2908]

Those heifers can get a little frolicking when they get a taste of freedom. Funny that when we feed silage we have a silo away from the barn we unload on a hay wagon out of the silo then pull it around to the barn and fork it into wheel barrows. A clean barn is easier to keep clean I think it's all in the mindset. Big shout out to the brothers. I know how much the teamwork means. That's probably why my parents had 2 more kids when I was 15. Second generation as the neighbors would say.

[@GierokFarms]

Lol it was a good time! Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@stanhensley3082]

Great to see all you brothers working together. My brother did NOT like farm work.Things went better if he did not help. Not a bad brother just did not like farm work.Not every farm kid has to be crazy about farming. Thanks for taking time out of a very busy week to do your videos. And to your parents, I would say you have some fine young men there. Thanks 😊.

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you Stan!

[@jamesbrown8718]

I have enjoyed this weeks series of chores on the farm and what all goes into your life in a dairy farm. Your brother really are hard workers, and do a great job helping you on the farm. Your younger brother did a great job with feeding the calf and telling the story about how it wasn’t eating good and then started eating, and explaining the lines on the bottle what they are there for was great information for people that might not know what they are. Great week looking forward to seeing what you have planned for us next. Love this channel allot more than others I have watched in the past.

[@GierokFarms]

We are glad you enjoy the channel! Thank you James!

[@obiwanrazzy]

Great work guys. It's awesome that you all were able to do this so your mom and dad could get a vacation in.

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you!

[@travisvolf1804]

i love seeing what the smaller dairy's operations are... family farms are great!!

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you!

[@bluepower_4life703]

Loving the nice cleanliness of the farm. Farm I grew up on I made sure on my extra time to keep it tidy. Take pride in a nice clean farm.The wheel fences are awesome. Only find one issue with the farm....no fords😂

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you! Never been around ford tractor but they seem cool!

[@bluepower_4life703]

@@GierokFarms that's pretty much the only tractor I've drove for the most part. Always willing to drive anything though lol

[@colemaliszewski6986]

I'm like how the family chips in when you need help. That's awesome! Great video like always!

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you Cole!

[@fastsetinthewest]

Interesting video. I liked the article I found on the Internet about your operation by looking at the sign inside the barn, 2019 dairy breakfast and to the sign on the barn. Fascinating family and Bells. I've traveled through Wisconsin stopping at different farms buying cheese. NEW SUBSCRIBER. Also, looked at your 250 acre plus farm via satellite on fast people search. Godspeed from a drafted, disabled, sprayed, and betrayed Republic of South Vietnam combat veteran '68. I milked cows on our 1400 acre farm before being drafted at age 19. We had a 1950 front drive assist Oliver with a Detroit Diesel. I live near Fort Worth, Texas.

[@GierokFarms]

Welcome to the channel glad you like it! Thank you for watching!

[@ravenfeather7087]

Nice shot of the cow with the frosted whiskers! And the footage of the Brown Swiss calf was excellent as well. Beautiful animals. It's nice to see that even though you guys do this every day you still see the beauty that surrounds you.

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you!

[@walto6179]

You have a great family. Your dad did a great job of teaching you all, he is pretty amazing! Thank you for sharing your life.

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you Walt!

[@jerrybowe5917]

Great job boys way to work together things seem to go better if everyone pitches in and gets along even if things don’t go as planned

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you Jerry!

[@Ticky66MN]

So good to see the family working well together. Congratulations on a great week. Thank you for sharing.

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you for watching!

[@billcarlson4098]

Nice job boys! One of my favorite Ag channels.

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you!

[@crslyrn]

Thanks for sharing an idea of how your dairy operation works. Always good to see family working together. Take care.

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you for watching we greatly appreciate it!

[@gloriajones231]

Great week !! Great videos love watching brothers working together

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you!

[@sparhawkable]

Great work and patience with that calf!

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you!

[@jameseidahl367]

Great Job and great series! I always enjoy your farm and videos! Kudos to your brothers for stepping up and helping and getting along well!

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you James

[@bapasrcadventures3619]

So great that your brothers helped so much. I enjoy your videos so much! You all work so hard everyday to ensure we have food to eat. I am thankful to God for all our farmers. Can’t wait for the next video!! God bless you and your family and stay safe what ever you are doing.

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you!

[@sawdustandsweat1750]

Love your videos. I'm a small dairy i Pennslvania. Would love seeing more milking videos

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you! Good to know!

[@deanschafer5919]

Great video series u guys! I was looking forward to it every night. Good job on that brown Swiss calf. She’ll b a good one for the herd in the future. I hope u keep making them.

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you Dean!

[@spalthammer1842]

It was great to see what's going on in your farm in 1 week. Thanks for this insight for me on another continent. Greetings from beautiful Switzerland

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you!

[@keithrobinson1331]

Good week your dad will be proud darn whether people can’t forecast anything 🤣🤣🇺🇸

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you!

[@Tom-np3en]

Thanks for your enlightening of how hard you blokes work. Give yourself a Pat on the back

[@maireadkane5689]

Loved the whole week of videos, great work being done, watching from Ireland 🇮🇪 Looking forward to the next video 👍👍

[@GierokFarms]

Welcome to the channel! Thank you for watching!

[@michaelreinholt3606]

Great videos enjoy your dairy farm operation and the way you all work together to get things done cause its alot of work grew up on a dairy farm myself

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you!

[@michaelbailey1578]

Excellent farmers and such fine people. Thanks you guys.

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you Michael!

[@glenschumannGlensWorkshop]

Thanks. Saw those bags of lime and remembered ours came from Mayville Lime in Mayville, WI. That was always a big heavy load on the pickup when we hauled it home. Good to see brothers working well together. I was an only son, and my sister did not do much farm work.

[@carlrapp5013]

Brings back fond memories of doing chores as well as doing the milking before we went to the new free barn and milking parlor quite a change in management as well thanks for taking your time bringing back the memories carl

[@bobrat]

Excellent Series, you and your brothers work like a well oiled machine. Very systematic , it's a lot of work being a dairy farmer. Thanks again.

[@LarryLarsen-p6t]

Great to see a family make a farm work out.

[@robdavis331]

I'd say you guys had a pretty good week. Another Great job of Teamwork!!

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you Rob!

[@benwalter4148]

You guys are Wisconsin’s finest! Makes me proud to be from Wisconsin. Keep up the good work!

[@chucksinger1916]

There’s nothing like a family that can work together and get along Thanks for helping fellas! I lived by a dairy farm and at least 3 of the kids worked it with the parents Wonderful

[@8tomtoms8]

Loved this week long video series!! Your little brother is really good w/ the cows and calves too. He would do well filming if he has interest in it. Your mom and dad have raised three fine young men!

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you Tom!

[@derekrisser2219]

Great series! Nice to see you and your brothers working together, they really did a great job! Your parents will be proud! I really enjoyed this, maybe you could do another one in the future around summer time? I'm looking forward to spring and summer videos from you, it will be great seeing field work again, I'm sure your itching to get in them as I am. Take care and God bless guys!

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you Derek!

[@tweek857]

The whole silage and snow ordeal is about like hay and rain huh ? Haha I just purchased three Holstein heifers! Well see where these three take me! Love you videos and how your whole family is in on the action!!

[@GierokFarms]

Congratulations! Thank you we are glad you like the videos!

[@farmshoffman8475]

Great awesome video. Special thanks to your brothers helping you out .

[@waynereed863]

Enjoyed the series and all the work that goes into making a family farm work. Good to see your brothers in the videos and the help that they gave you. I'm sure your father and mother are proud of you all knowing they can take a vacation and everything gets done. Keep up the videos they are very informative,

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you Wayne!

[@TheCoopdway]

A really nice series G Men, congratulations to your successful team. So many memories, some extra exercise with those two that forgot where the gate was SO familiar. Your folks are coming back to blessings.

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you!

[@timsticha650]

Thanks for sharing this. This takes me back to my experience growing up on a Dairy farm in Minnesota. Love all the videos. BTW, beautiful farm you all have.

[@patrickmurphy559]

Awesome series, I really enjoyed watching. Thank you!

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you Patrick!

[@charlesjenkins8078]

Really good week. Great video. Thanks for sharing!

[@GierokFarms]

Thanks for watching it!

[@jamesryan9206]

Thank you so much a lot of work but appreciated. I had 6 brothers to do all the daily choirs it goes quicker with many hands.

[@GierokFarms]

For sure, Thank you for watching!

[@pennyhaldeman5626]

What's a switch cow? So happy to see your younger brother doing a video with the calf, he's a natural and it was nice that he gave us an update.

[@GierokFarms]

Cows that don't have a stall full time just part of the day, because we have more cows then stalls in the barn! Otherwise they have a nice bedding back under the roof behind the barn! Thank you for watching!

[@timlewis5096]

As crazy as it sounds, I love the snow!!. I've only seen snow once and that was 50 years ago. I now live in Tasmania on the North West coast so little likely of snow as we are right on the coast. Was involved with a dairy farm during school holidays and loved it. Loved the series and I'm now binge watching your other videos. Keep up the work and stay healthy

[@GierokFarms]

Thankyou very much Tim! We are glad you found us and are enjoying the videos!

[@mitchellmagden8283]

You guys do amazing job I love how you take care of your animals when you take care of the animals they take care of you back you guys do such an amazing job keep the good work up and thank your brothers for helping you it's easier when you have more help

[@robertmarino2158]

Very good video , do enjoy , stay safe , everyone working hard !

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you!

[@jeffgrindle4311]

Awesome job

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you

[@stephenblackburn4131]

What a week.. really enjoy the videos. Also like to say the video that you did with your dad on chainsaw cutting was really good. Thank you and enjoy watching you all work as a family

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you Stephen! We are glad you enjoyed it!

[@RichardGill-pt8zk]

All around great family effort you guys all should be proud of yourself s y’all make a great family!

[@robertpayne2717]

50 years ago it was common in western Missouri dairy farmers sold or gave their bull calves away assap. So the mama's could rejoin the herd bull calves made for great 4H Projects for the local kids, they learned how to care and raise calves

[@georgeleray5657]

Excellent series great videos as always nice to see the family work together also I've never cought your frist name thanks George.

[@GierokFarms]

Thanks for watching George!

[@jamesbreault5762]

Was a great series really enjoyed the daily stuff

[@barrywhite8628]

Great series. Glad the week went well. It’s nice to see you and your brothers working together, but it’s also nice to see you guys having a little fun times along the way, too! Enjoying all your videos. Hope your parents enjoyed their time away. I know when I milked cows, it was nice to get away, but it was always nice to come back to the farm, too.

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you!

[@hardyedwards5405]

Great series. Looking forward to the day my 12 year old decides to step up and help a little more around here. Your brothers definitely come across as pretty good guys. I look forward to your videos now. They are interesting. Your little brother showed some courage taking control of the camera. Nice delivery too . . . no uhhs or umms. Highlight of our week was selling 23 registered pairs of Herefords. They went to Tuscaloosa, AL.

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you!

[@shamrock56gargan96]

Great video week

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you!

[@kevinbohn1047]

It’s great to see your family working together as a team!!!

[@kimcwhite6509]

I just found your channel! 👏 You have a beautiful farm. It looks bitterly cold there, probably because I'm in Northern California. High today 64, low of 39, and was 80 one day last week. We need rain badly though, maybe still a drought. I look forward to reviewing your older videos and new videos!💙

[@GierokFarms]

Welcome to the channel, we are glad you found it! Thank you!

[@stephenbutz2621]

Great camera action angles ofthe skid stear work !!❤

[@benburns5995]

Great to see your youngest brother feeding that Brown Swiss Calf and filming. It sure was eager and happy to down that milk bottle. Is that calf the same one that you filmed originally not wanting to eat? No worries about not filming in the evening, appreciate what you can do. Appreciate that all 3 of you worked well as a team and created a great 7 day series.

[@GierokFarms]

Yes its the same one, Than you Ben!

[@stevebrooking4506]

Great job team 👍 look after yourselves.

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you!

[@mikeburgan7675]

Thank you For sharing!

[@gregschlafer7557]

Good job boys!!!

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you Greg!

[@lt1nut]

I dare say that it seems like everyone grew in many ways over that week. Peace-of-mind is a great thing. All you guys should be proud, as should Mom because without her none of this would have happened. Tuesday is valentines day........ ;)

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you for the reminder!

[@lt1nut]

@@GierokFarms Your welcome, it was a notice on my computer's calendar.

[@stephenbutz2621]

Thank you for an interesting week of life on the farm !!!

[@jamesbreault5762]

Shout out to your brothers 👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you!

[@oleasheim]

Ur farm looks so good🤩 u guys are doing an amazing job! Keep on doing it🤩😍 we need all farmers🤩

[@clintonirwin6825]

I worked on a big farm here in Ireland for 19yrs

[@geraldfrench3287]

Enjoyed the series. Thanks.

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you!

[@trentonromig967]

Beautiful little calf

[@Zombie_King93]

What you should do is call this your "Day in the life of a Dairy Farmer ( Winter)" Then do one for Fall, Spring and Summer as well. That would be really cool to see

[@GierokFarms]

That's a great idea!

[@Zombie_King93]

@@GierokFarms Love the videos man, I'm active duty army and work on a Farm before i went into the service and my dream is to retire and have a small operation of my own one day

[@GierokFarms]

@@Zombie_King93 Thank you for your service! It's a great way to live your life, it's my long term goal as well!

[@chrisbutler1827]

Keeping it real

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you!

[@randymonninger9913]

Love video

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you

[@ivicavugrinovic1163]

it goes to you guys.

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you

[@ВадикКраснодар-и6л]

Great video as always ! Greetings from Russia )))

[@GierokFarms]

Welcome to the channel! Thank you for watching!

[@mikebrown1188]

How much spoilage do you get from your silage pile? Those Brown Swiss can be stubborn for sure. You have such a beautiful farm. Your channel is really taking off.

[@GierokFarms]

Not a lot depends on the year and the effectiveness of our silage additives.

[@andersonsfarm4456]

so that bunk has partial wall on one side with haylage on the bottom and corn silage on top

[@GierokFarms]

Yes it is layered!

[@andersonsfarm4456]

makes some good mixed feed right off the bat no mixer wagon or extra equipment and time. very well thought out

[@jamesbreault5762]

You can't fool mother nature😊😊😊

[@GierokFarms]

lol

[@devinruhl9706]

@Gierok farm that’s good that your younger siblings like to help you out when they can how many siblings do you have

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you

[@devinruhl9706]

@Gierok farms your welcome

[@hturbo1007]

I don't know if anyone ever asked you this question but, why do you use a dump wagon instead of a feeder wagon or a T.M.R.?.I know that they are expensive and have many moving parts, but they can save a lot of time.

[@GierokFarms]

The dump wagon works well for us!

[@abounadany2603]

Do you keep the chickens with the cows ? Do you have a separate coop for them? Do they lay eggs in a specific place or in different places in the barn?

[@GierokFarms]

No they have their own coop!

[@wilscooley3083]

No Keg parties this week with the parents away?

[@anthonyhengst2908]

Probably not enough time.... Still got to get up in the morning. 😂

[@GierokFarms]

Nope to much work to do!

[@trentonromig967]

How do you like your square bale feeder

[@joelink7665]

How many acres do you plant to provide the silage you use? And what is it, corn?

[@GierokFarms]

Corn and alfalfa!

[@rebelgaming7718]

Nice man how's the farming going up where your from

[@GierokFarms]

Good, thanks

[@rebelgaming7718]

@@GierokFarms no problem man name is Patrick by the way and hopefully one day I can start my own dairy farm mabey 25 Holstein cows even tho I hate Holsteins but they make great milking cows

[@kylefriday2048]

Do you have an off farm job, or do you work full time on the farm? Love the videos

[@GierokFarms]

I have a job off the farm.

[@Tom-np3en]

How quickly do you go through your jeans while kneeing hay?😊

[@johnallford7053]

I dairy farm in northern pa. You guys do way to much manual labor. They do make electric or gas powered silage carts😃. Keep up the good videos. Looks like your animals get really good care

[@GierokFarms]

Glad to hear form another dairyman! Lol, thanks for watching!

[@sparhawkable]

Who is the quilter in the family?

[@GierokFarms]

?

[@drknockers5716]

Lets go brandon

[@Ron-rs2zl]

My fresh cows get 1 milking and in the tank she goes.

[@GierokFarms]

A lot of people do that! We need the milk to feed calves anyways!

[@04jambo1956]

At what age do you separate the calf from the cow?

[@GierokFarms]

Within the first week.

[@johnhatt1219]

Why don’t you use the grapple bucket

[@joeskretkowicz3218]

do you have any attack roosters lol

[@GierokFarms]

Not with this batch of rooster they are pretty tame!

[@rebelgaming7718]

Easier to push that silage feed up to the cows you guys should possibly invest in a blade to push the feed closer to the cows just an idea