HOW do we manage our CALVES? | IS this the quickest way to FEED cows? | Milk Kart UPGRADE!

[@unaoconnor3628]

Best and most informative ag channel. Maith an fear 💪

[@johnsweeney1712]

Great video. Keep up the good work.

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Thanks, will do!

[@tonymckeage1028]

Great Video, theres nothing like a good vice (bench mounted) to deal with rusted joints also soaking then in oil and and or penetrant, thanks for sharing

[@trevormccullough312]

Brilliant video Andrew, being from a mechanical background technology has its pit falls. Work in maintenance in the Ulster Hospital. I see all sides.

[@mrhorsepower150]

U should invest in a calving gate.Not cheap but great job

[@oxcliffehill]

Great video. We got rid of our starlings by keeping a few cockerals about the yard. It works. The starlings think there a bird of prey and wont come near.

[@mikeysky8917]

Excellent video. I got fed up carrying milk and I just went and purchased an auto calf feeder this year. Just top it up with powder and monitor the calves on the phone. Easy 👍

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Happy with it? Even in a new calf house I think I would pipe milk to the calves and batch feed them over automatic feeder. Not sure.

[@mikeysky8917]

@@FarmTheoryNI Very happy. My shed is terrible and I really need a new calf shed like the one in the Grasstec video last week. Only issue I have is some calves refuse to suck from the teat of the feeder so they have to stay and be fed manually. I think this is to do with the teats I use when as babies, are different to the machine teat so I need to use the same teats so no difference which I will be doing this week. A part from that, it’s a life changer.

[@pak6103]

Buy a fuel transfer pump for around 100 euro and use it on the cart, no lifting buckets, you can have a flowmeter on the nozzle.

[@FarmTheoryNI]

I actually have one here, that is a very good idea!

[@philipoconnell9324]

A fuel transfer pump is not a good idea. It can crush the fats in whole milk and cause calf scour. Better getting a proper milk pump and meter( rotech..).

[@pjdee5879]

A good workbench vice could make your plumbing a bit less painful. A flow meter and a length of hose might cut out the buckets,

[@kenricgonyaw5782]

not to seem like a smart a-- ,could you just adjust the flow of milk into the bucket by opening the value less.,halfway or three quarters.

[@FarmTheoryNI]

thats what I now do, your seen my first attempts!

[@tommcdermott3885]

You should gap sheet the roof in your calf you will surprised how the airflow improves I was in a similar situation you feel the air moving and when you get to end of march and April the rising hot air can get away 11:25 11:25

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Good idea! Only issue is the tin doesn't last any length of time before it rusts.

[@mclarenrob2]

how are you doing on the Johnes front?

[@bobokeeffe4036]

Do all your calves drink milk as opposed to suck on feeders? What's your thoughts on teat vs drinking? Calves look great!

[@FarmTheoryNI]

All on milk. Never used teats so cant compare!

[@garethbryson]

Unfortunately as of this year starlings were removed from the general shooting licence here in Northern Ireland meaning that the dam things are now protected.

[@markcorr6704]

I just cant understand that. I call them rats of the sky

[@johnmccarroll4845]

Thought if you wired the cow shed it would be perfect

[@RB-sl4jm]

Great video, how come you don’t use PLCs for your control and monitoring systems?

[@FarmTheoryNI]

To expensive and too restrictive to what I want to do. Building the entire system provides great flexibility.

[@padraigking5185]

Good stuff

[@theoracle8560]

He gets a new milk cart, first thing he does with it is drill a big hole in it, what a genius idea 😂😂😂

[@slickymick]

Well said and a man of his means you'd thing he'd have one🤑 You'd thing a large hole old tank for cleaning my be first option 🤔

[@FarmTheoryNI]

It had other design issues, it was a bad design from the start.

[@theoracle8560]

Oh I know, it turned out well in the end. Do you ever feed powdered milk replacer to calves??@@FarmTheoryNI

[@dekdek551]

Loved it, I would not have been able to film myself getting thre brush out of the tap as my language 🤬🤬🤬 would have been extra ripe 😉😂😂😂.

[@terrymcgale4360]

I can help with the starlings

[@calvinelliott1314]

I thought your idea of auto empty drinkers was unnecessary until I was watching this video all finished up back in bed and remember the cows had dunged in one of there drinkers and i forgot to empty it.... I got one of them milk carts from fane valley and the more expensive one was because it had the mixer in it for powder milk I don’t think it’s anything to do with the tap I could be wrong though

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Drinkers have been a very useful project so far. I am struggling to adjust sensitivity but getting there! One drained this morning at 7am, not sure why, cows weren't drinking from it but the drinker looked clean.

[@finbarreburn5112]

A man of your technical ability is lost / wasted farming, #delegate 👍

[@FarmTheoryNI]

I have a big staff bill. 😅 It's a balance because I actually do really enjoy farming.

[@JohnGrahambeehive]

Where do you get an accurate flow meter?

[@FarmTheoryNI]

eBay, the cheap ones from china are accurate enough for this job.

[@richardwalsh1838]

Use a vice to clamp your work.

[@FarmTheoryNI]

I expected it to be much easier!

[@cecilbates5423]

Do you mind me asking, what are the disco lights for in the calf house?

[@mikeysky8917]

He said in the video that they scared the birds away but only lasted a week till they came back.

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Birds! It worked so well then they slowly came back, might buy more disco lights.

[@garymadden2656]

👌

[@__tom__8193]

Put some guinea fowl in the calf house, the starlings will feck off with themselves

[@stephenmccolgan2447]

Where did u get the kart I need one

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Industrial water systems or something. Give them a Google

[@bekabeka71]

Could you do more tractor riding videos? Like tearing up soil, top speed etc? 💪🏼🚜

[@FarmTheoryNI]

The entire spring and summer will be tractors!