HELP! Trying to Figure It Out | Training our Family Milk Cow with This

[@MikeTheFitFarmer]

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[@batpherlangkharkrang7976]

Hi.... Mike Dickson and Lacey thanks you for showing your video homestead nice keep it up bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋👍👍👍

[@sweett6804]

Never seen a cow eat so fast there in the beginning, like "I gotta' wolf this down so I can get the heck outa' here!" with those big eyes of hers😂 You saw, overcame and conquered with ingenuity and patience! Great job!!

[@lisamaria5867]

Y’all’s team work and dedication is very inspiring ❤❤❤

[@JSGenesisDesigns]

2 is 1 and 1 is none. Couple more generators is what I get outta this. Great video. Y'all are awesome praise Yah

[@gardenlady1293]

Love the section where Lacie is walking the cow on her daily walk! So cute!

[@barbaradoye1989]

I watched the video and kept having to pause. When I went to comment it wouldn't let me! I guess you took it down at the same time!😂😀 It definitely made more sense the 2nd time around! I hope you gave Mike a well deserved off camera smack for that comment! Men!😂😀 Great video! I like how you kept it real. This is what farming is really like sometimes, especially when trying anything new! Take care, guys! Always a pleasure!😀

[@viniceduring1402]

Baby looks like his hair is redish. Im glad hes doing well.

[@susanturner9023]

This video made me tear up with joy! ✌🏻🙏🏼❤️🐄🐄

[@PatriciaGoodwin-p1o]

True servants of God are determined to overcome EVERY obstacle! Good job guys. Be blessed! Thank you for sharing your life with us.

[@evalinawarne1337]

Yes AMEN 🙏 ❤

[@jamesjessee4064]

Nice video 🙋‍♂️ 👍 ❤️

[@biddiemutter3481]

8:31 "not right now, mom! That camera is just so interesting "😊

[@DJCBECK1]

I would wait to put the pump machine on after she's in the milk station!

[@rhondaflanders4386]

OMG Lacey be careful 😮. I'm surprised Aunt May didn't go all Rodeo Bull on you that first time y'all tried it. Btw Mike I do believe not reading directions is a guy thing😆. Have a great day y'all!

[@desertrestnv]

How funny that the cow forgot the sound of that milking machine so quickly, you haven't had her that long. Is you and she become more comfortable with using the machine things will go smoother and smoother every day. Great video by the way!

[@kathleenconte3360]

Really thought that the cow had you all whipped. Everyone's asleep here at my house but when you brought out the lawnmower, I could not help but laugh out loud. Well I'm in the doghouse now for waking everyone here, but you finally had success. Congratulations. It would be better if you added a neck lock, just for your own safety.

[@1965gracebug]

🙌🏼praise Yah!! Love our milk cow and I so enjoy seeing you love your milk cow too! They are a wonderful part of family!!

[@andreabarber8106]

HalleluYAH! Milk, butter, cheese and ice cream!

[@victoriamoore9917]

Great job!! I'm glad you figured some things out :)

[@williamleopold507]

Congratulations ! Success with the milking machine .Fun watching the process .

[@NovaBill6264]

Awesome video God Bless you and your family Amen

[@nmdispatchlady]

Mike you might want to add a catch to the head gate on your milking stall. It keeps her from backing out and it is a real simple deal. Al at "Lumna Acres" has made a nice and easy one. Also if she doesn't stand they also make a deal called "cow can't kick" that seems to work very well. Been a long time since I milked but a stanchion with a catch is just about a necessity. Good luck.

[@bettykulinski9814]

Hunnys forgive me if I am over stepping, 🙏 but it would be in my mind an unforgivable thing to say nothing. You need to get that cord off your baby's neck, God bless you guys, you're beautiful parents. I don't ever want to wake up to you posting a video explaining that your baby climbed up onto something, lost his footing, and the cord got caught on something on the way down and hung him. And you found him too late. This sort of thing happens too often, even to beautiful families like yours. God bless and I love you guys dearly ❤️

[@noramax2925]

1 step ahead, 2 steps back!!! Yeah you got her to cooperate. Nice work Dickson’s🐄🥛

[@denisebrady6858]

Always warm some hot water & soak the end of the hoses before trying to fit them on that way when they cool they are nice & tight.

[@evalinawarne1337]

Thank you for sharing our FATHER. BLESSED MOTHERS DAY. LOVE YOUR OUTFIT. Great Sounds. Instructions Mike are like asking for directions when a man is lost. Back in the day. L.O.L. GLORY BE TO GOD HALLELUJAH 🙏 SE MICHIGAN 🙏 ✝️🙏🙏✝️🙏🙏💐💐💖✝️❤🎉 Thank you for correcting the sounds. GOD BLESS YOU FAMILY. ❤🎉

[@TheSanderbrinkFam]

Y’all are hilarious 😅

[@lindajoe9862]

You should make a headlock in milking station... easy to make and she'll stay in place guaranteed 💯

[@BroqueCowgirlHomestead]

One thing....please please please wear real shoes or boots when working with the cow. Ask me how I know.....Yeah....sandles....cow stepped on my foot, took toenails off. Could be much worse if it were on top of the foot to break bones.

[@MikeTheFitFarmer]

I usually do wear boots but for whatever reason that day I wore sandals.

[@birgitelisabeth9661]

If a cow steps on your foot only a steel toe could save your toes. Sorry this happened to you but if all you lost was your toenails you were actually lucky.

[@BroqueCowgirlHomestead]

@@birgitelisabeth9661 I was 4 years old at the time.

[@stephencameron1709]

Great problem solving! Positive reinforcement of the preferred food coupled with a sound she equates with her favorite treat. The head lock sounds like a good safety measure to put in place. ❤️🙏🏻Val C

[@minawhitford3135]

I was cheer You on and You all did it .!!!

[@OrganicMommaGA]

Congrats on the first time with the milk machine that worked! Prey animals of all sizes can be very skittish in new environments, so it's good that y'all didn't just try to force it on her. (That could have been disasterous!) I enjoy seeing y'all try this gentle approach that also helps you bond with your animals this way. The biggest plus to this isn't just that your animals are calmer and more likely to behave the way you want them to in these situations, but also your children see you modeling this behavior so they'll know the right way to do things when they run into a "roadblock" in their lives, too. Thank you for sharing!

[@Former_Trucker]

@The Fit Farmer. Maybe try just a simple noise block. 4x8 plywood with slit cut wide enough to lay the hose about half way down the plywood. Have machine on opposite side of your cow. Out of site out of mind and with noise on other side of the plywood it would be as loud or as easily known where it was coming from. Just a suggestion but in my mind it seems it would help

[@bluelilly22222]

😅😂👌👍❤you r genius 😅

[@lillianperry6451]

These things take time. You kept trying until she gave in. Good for you.

[@sprinklewithsoil]

Great video!! So happy to see your family stewarding your animals so well, that you know Aunt Mae’s personality and how to help comfort her! 👏👏👏

[@birgitelisabeth9661]

I loved watching your ideas develop as you were solving this cow milking with a machine challenge, lol. It reminds me of me on my little urban homestead, one idea leads to another and slowly but surely we arrive at where we want to be. Great job, great video!

[@TerrieAllred2023]

Y'all PLEASE put a head lock on her milking stand. That could be so dangerous!!

[@birgitelisabeth9661]

Some people just milk them tethered to a post. I wouldn't worry about it. I'm sure they know their cow.

[@forestgreen4493]

You guys are awesome.

[@annmatthews3579]

Your truly professional.First upload was fine only a few missing sound bits great channel beautiful family

[@MikeTheFitFarmer]

Thanks! It was frustrating that the audio was deleted from some of the clips. That hasn't happened in a long time.

[@MudfossilGaia]

I think you can liken the fresh grass clippings to humans and already shelled sunflower seeds. It's like you are giving her mouthfuls of goodness that takes her hours to chomp! That's awesome! ❤

[@marywaltz7871]

your milking stanchion needs head lock to keep her in place

[@kevinholbrook7174]

Is it possible for you and Lacy both do a video on where you got the cow from but do a more in depth investigation of how his machine hooked up from to point to point were the cow is hooked up. But, I was thinking about putting a sound proofing box around the machine just like putting one on an air compressor to decrease the noise.

[@maltipoosoffgrid6868]

Colloidal silver might be good to use in cleaning the milk machine. I use it in my nebulizer and have never had any mold or bacteria in the hoses

[@1965gracebug]

I use an EZ milker that I saw on Homesteaders of America and I like it a lot.

[@Jahson-x4k]

Just a heads up, if you put the iodine on after you’re done milking you won’t end up getting it in your milk but the tiits still needs to be cleaned before milking.

[@carmelleabron4058]

Can you put a box or something over the motor with enough ventilation that it will work, but not be as loud?

[@woodmanhugh]

Great video you guys. Be careful when you run a really long small gauge extension cord to a piece of equipment that has bigger motor than the extension cord is rated for. You can damage the equipment or possibly start a fire by overheating the extension cord. There might be something about that in the instructions . Blessing to you and your family.

[@MikeTheFitFarmer]

Thanks! We had a heavy duty cord for the machine and only used it that one time.

[@cole3495]

Great idea to run the mower, this video is awesome. I learn so many things from your videos.

[@njayakar]

Howdy Mike, I m from India, an Aggie and have been watching your channel for a long time. You should get a Gir cow. Cheers!

[@MikeTheFitFarmer]

Thanks so much for watching! I will have to look into a Gir cow. Thanks!

[@deborahplyler6528]

Nice video its cool you work it out so Aunt Mae wasn't scared and you could use the milking machine, it seems to be quick and easier, which is cool. take care.

[@Lady_of_Ishpeming]

Would it help to make an open wooden box with sound foam on the inside to cover the motor on the milk machine to drown the noise level? Sort of like a mini open garage.

[@debbiepaquin8842]

When i had goats, they were pygmy, they had never been milked and i had never hand milked until i tried on them. Well they had such small short nipples that it was a 2 finger job. I bought a portable milking machine and had to train them all to the stand and noisy milking machine. I put special feed, like an all stock something sweet and the head stock wouldn't work on some of mine because their horns were to big or wide or their heads. So i had collars on all and used a lead to tie them to the stand. If they kicked at me or the inflations, i gave them a shove on the hip or shoulder, don't know if that will work on a cow. If they gave me any trouble they didn't get a treat when they were cleaned up to leave. Soon they all wanted to come milk and didn't give me trouble. I also would leave the kids on them and let the baby does come when mom milked. Those girl's came to milking without any problems when they had their babies. I agree lock her head in. Also see if you can get a longer hose so you can get that noise maker as far away from her as possible. I had a long hose so i could set it back. Last i watched you were still handmilking with it running so she could get used to it.

[@adapoole4515]

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[@maryse8]

Hopefully, Aunt May will get used to the milk machine noise because there's no grass in the winter.

[@ohiosbestpeach770]

Perhaps that milk machine manufacturer could figure out how to dampen the sound that the machine is making. To me, it resembles the sound of a rattle snake pit. The pump that my farmer uses (and I use when I help her milk the cows) is smaller and it’s quiet.

[@truvision1958]

Why aren't you building the new yurt you bought?

[@andreacooley9428]

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[@marciastringer5774]

My husband says “ instructions are just another man’s options “. That why he doesn’t read them….and it doesn’t usually end well.😉

[@MikeTheFitFarmer]

😂

[@bobbiweaver7798]

Mike you are silly 🤣

[@ajnoneofyourbuisness5967]

@MikeDickson it looks like the cow needs hoof attention the claws are long and crossing over

[@terrieholloway9066]

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[@caribbeancharmgardening90]

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[@ruthmcbride1778]

Wow. That thing is noisy

[@goldensunkiss5099]

Im concerned about your cows health when they're so many flies swarming around her. It would be a good idea to purchase some fly spray or create your own salve that keeps the bugs off of May. Are yall still drinking goat milk too? What's the difference?

[@rebeccaplumlee9601]

Taste is very different, goat milk has less cream for 1

[@andreabarber8106]

It depends on the type of goat. A Nigerian dwarf has very creamy milk and tastes very much like cows milk. While lamacha has very thin skim milk type milk but they make a lot more milk.

[@someonesprincess3]

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[@TheNakidGardeners]

First*

[@ruthmcbride1778]

Why don’t you have hear head locked in the stanchion so she can’t back out?

[@beckyshell4649]

Who knew a lawnmower is needed to milk a cow.

[@andreabarber8106]

😂

[@bettyskaggs5503]

Cows are creatures of habit. If you will establish a routine and do it that way every time, milking will go more smoothly. Cows don't like full wavy clothing. I had a cow consider going after me when i had a skirt on. You need a head lock. Every failure is teaching your cow how to get the best of you.

[@tracyzabelle]

[@paulaarchuleta755]

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