Milking the cows on Sunday afternoon

This video is one of many I have filmed showing life on our small family run dairy farm in Gloucestershire, England.
Visit my KZbin channel to see further videos of life on the farm through the year
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[@miss0soos]

Honestly so far you're the best one here in taking caring of these wonderful creatures. Giving them freedom with nature is an honourable thing, well done!

[@thefunkyfarmer]

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[@nizamsaja5787]

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[@reubentaylor4498]

Only watching this video now, it was brilliant! Well done!

[@abbadih6642]

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[@InYourEyes26]

It's nice to see big herd off cows grazing in pasture your cows are so calm and happy !! all good too you :)

[@19Dad84bod]

this is so cool.. I hope you do another video on this... a bit longer on the milking process so neat! keep up the great videos. . cheers from Canada

[@user-sq1ky1vn4c]

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[@mmp3pets]

I love how the cows keeping looking back as if to say "well are you coming too or not ". Your cows are so calm, the love between you and them clearly shows on video!!

[@user-gd8zp6mh6v]

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[@user-zs2rl1dh6h]

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[@alliechampagne1404]

Lovely herd of Holstein ladies! 🐄👍😊

[@user-xw5pq3zr7g]

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[@gtritchie5]

Enjoyed video a long muddy walk for the cows & yourself.

[@thefunkyfarmer]

Sierra W. They don't mind being milked, infact if you are late the will be waiting for you. They calves are taken from them at about 3 weeks old either to be raised or to be sold

[@sunboy7866]

thefunkyfarmer cows are seriously hung.

[@philliptaylor8581]

thefunkyfarmer your cows look pretty healthy and im from new zealand we have alot of cows here

[@choudharyawais3780]

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[@choudharyawais3780]

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[@choudharyawais3780]

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[@edisone1]

Your 'girls' look very pretty & clean, and none seemed the least bit afraid of you, nor your efforts to herd them. You obviously treat them well & let them have a decent life. I wish I could say that about most American dairy farmers, but I cannot. When I was a kid in the 1960s and 1970s, road trips included views of endless miles of beautiful cows grazing, playing, and just lounging in the fields. Most cows are now confined to 'factory' sheds & I rarely see even a tiny herd out in the open. So, I've stopped consuming milk products for the most part. If I had my own cow or knew one who was treated kindly, I'd go back to being a huge fan of dairy - but I'd have to make my own cheese !

[@thefunkyfarmer]

+Max Chester thats interesting Max. I guess farming is a lot different in America, especially the scale. A lot more herds are starting to be kept inside here as well now though. I made my own cheese once, didn't go well. Maybe i will try it again one day

[@lovereadingsnyc]

Hello Child of God! Amen & ALLELULIAH!

[@edwardochuka800]

haha I like the way you calling them

[@suchandradasi]

Your cows have nice teats and teat placement for hand milking

[@michealprendergast9121]

I think you could do with plate metre, roadways, paddocks. Nice land , nice relaxed cows.

[@suchandradasi]

WOW your cows are trained to step up on a platform for milking!

[@gtritchie5]

Hi as an ex Dairyman myself I can remember when I milked 61 cows in a 48 & a 13 single byres 1974 with 5 bucket machines, changed to 6 units AlfaLaval S System pipeline milking. Cubicle shed for 140 cows around 1982 but we still milked in the old byre with 6 units cows came into something like an abreast parlour to be milked.1984 moved into a new AlfaLaval 16x16 parlour. 1998 cows increased to 200 New 20x20 DeLaval Parlour. Thwaite Farm Ruthwell stopped milking on the 29th April 2013. I have seen so many changes working on this farm over my working life.

[@thefunkyfarmer]

wow that is a lot of change. round here everybody seems to be putting in robots

[@gtritchie5]

Hi I have filmed a few farms around here with Robots (Lely) &( DeLaval) all on KZbin gtritchie5

[@thefunkyfarmer]

thanks will take a look

[@gtritchie5]

I still go back to catch Moles @ Thwaite Farm Ruthwell:)

[@thefunkyfarmer]

always good to keep in contact

[@yahyad25]

Thanks for video. Thinking of getting into farming/ dairy, didn't really think of cows as being so responsive & obedient.

[@thefunkyfarmer]

yahyad25 yes they are quite good to deal with especially if you breed for good temperament like we do

[@thefunkyfarmer]

how do you get that? thats way over any buyer price

[@nasimm32haidari17]

I LOVE 💕 it when it pats the cow 🐄.

[@abbierobinson1770]

At least I know someone else is here in 2020

[@abduahmed4518]

This is very funny. Very obedient cattles lol.

[@whoknows7834]

Beautiful ladies!

[@Jamie-qh5hw]

It's like the middle of bloody winter!

[@kaylienee9276]

Cows actually like to be milked! Our ladies always wait at the gate and race each other it's so funny lol

[@marycombs9099]

We keep our cows in pasture to, very few small farmers like us left in the US . instead of chains around their back side we use a head catch system so you can lock all the cows in with a pull of a lever but you can lock them in single if you need to do vet work as well. I wish they would shut down factory farm it, hurts the little guys like us, but u don't know how it works in your country.

[@thefunkyfarmer]

+Mary Combs we don't really have factory farms here in the UK but we are heading this way. I fear small farms like ours will go the way they have in the US soon

[@lovereadingsnyc]

America is ASLEEP & ENGLAND TOO

[@MyFarmerguy]

well how did you buy that milking eqwitment i mean were from i need some more you see for my farm

[@terryjohns2456]

wonderful wonderful ! To see the British dairy farmers at work out in the fields producing fresh milk eggs butter and cheeses instead of sitting on their arses all day drinking a pint and eating crisps all day. And what fantastic weather for a change..

[@kamrannazir3918]

Ma sha Allah. Very beautiful cow. My favourite hobby

[@ronjab.6020]

haha how this calf looked shocked as you look in the box and you just say : hello. so funny and cute:D I love cows and I like the way you let them live ... I'm sorry I'm from Germany my English is not the best o.o but really good way!

[@thefunkyfarmer]

I think your English is very good. Better than my German

[@ronjab.6020]

thefunkyfarmer haha tank you :D but English is a prettier sprach than German

[@suchandradasi]

It rains a lot in Hawaii too...and we have rocks and mud..

[@ivandunn8051]

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[@randymaylowski2485]

that is a nice video of them cows, and your cows look nice :)

[@vipulkumar8136]

Which medicine are you use after milking

[@kamrannazir3918]

Love from Pakistan

[@dreday7222]

4/21/2021 6:47PM. PST. Still awesome

[@lovereadingsnyc]

What is the branding on them? A permanent paint?

[@moiwilliams170]

Conscious Love its freeze branding, they are branded with a very very cold iorn letters

[@sweatytomato6830]

I love cows so much I stopped eating cow meat

[@Ethan-ck6iz]

That means the cows were never born!

[@ivandunn8051]

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[@thefunkyfarmer]

they are all british friesian

[@martinoneill1644]

God, I remember this summer like it was yesterday, what a disaster.

[@user-ew2pg2nq7s]

I love the milk very much 🍶

[@fatjontasi2940]

2021 ALBANIA 🇪🇺

[@ahtshamali4175]

Beautiful 🐄🐄🥰

[@SubhiSHashwa]

Thank you for a very interesting video, what's that red thing you covered the udder with after milking? Is it iodine ?

[@thefunkyfarmer]

+Subhi S Hashwa yes iodine based teat dip

[@thefunkyfarmer]

couple of hours tops

[@malayroy5374]

how much give milk one cow daily

[@dashcamdude6690]

U canf beat a cup coffee with milk straight from the tank

[@logster04]

How long dose it take you milking

[@DaveMasters1121]

Udderly wonderful

[@DailyInsidePakistan1]

Vedio is good specially cow grazing green area . But Cow milking area is not properly neat & clean ....It needs improvment ....

[@malayroy5374]

very nice

[@NinjaDash360]

That's a lot of milk! How much do you think you have on average?

[@sonyajan3503]

I LOVE 💕 COWS 🐄 THEY ARE MY FAVOURITE ANIMAL,WHEN I GROW UP I WILL HAVE A PET COW 🐄 XD. 💕💕💕💕💕

[@rohitbhadane8625]

is the milk giving capacity fo big udder cows is more than small udder cow

[@thefunkyfarmer]

rohit bhadane yes it is

[@malayroy5374]

how much one cow

[@suchandradasi]

What are you going to do about this? will you have to buy feed? Your cows look well fed...

[@seanmckenna7271]

Great video who cuts your silage and maize or do you cut it yourself ?

[@thefunkyfarmer]

we get a local contractor to do it

[@rohitbhadane8625]

hi richard ur videos r great ,like ur cows how the way the r maintain so fit and fine . I hve question for u i have seen cows in ur like C 92 C 57 with big udder does that mean they r giving more milk than other cows with small udder .doing great job man well wishes to u.

[@thefunkyfarmer]

rohit bhadane thanks Rohit. The cows with the big udders are the older cows and yes they give more milk

[@rohitbhadane8625]

thanku richard

[@Rizkia2012]

successfull for you... indonesian farmer

[@redspud6017]

that's a pity, did you get many tonnes of silage that year? and did you get a second cut in?

[@thefunkyfarmer]

NOT TOO BAD. YES WE GOT A 2ND CUT

[@mr.master4762]

How much price of the cow

[@killiancarberry8787]

200 comment right here

[@raviranjan_bgs_vlogs6]

In which country this farm is situated

[@thefunkyfarmer]

england

[@maidkurumi4204]

Im glad to see that you put pride and love into these beautiful creatures the world would be a better place if there were more like you :( you do well better than those evil twats that abuse and hurt the cowa .:( keep up the good work :)

[@thefunkyfarmer]

Thank you Becky

[@DANFORTHPAPE1]

You talk about evil twits that hurt and abuse cows, but most diary farms in the UK and other north western EU countries are like this. Also, hurting and abusing cows results in poorer milk production, and farmers know this.

[@Autistic-Noice-Panda-2023]

@@DANFORTHPAPE1not true the uk is an animal loving country the uk would never abuse animals

[@DANFORTHPAPE1]

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[@Autistic-Noice-Panda-2023]

@@DANFORTHPAPE1 sorry

[@matthewgurin6235]

Are those holstien

[@COWBOYDECKY]

does it not take a long time milking in that set up, it would be handier in a heiringbone parlour. I think milking sixty through a 6 point parlour takes long that must take ages and you have lovely cows do they give much feet problems?

[@klajdiaxhami1029]

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[@suchandradasi]

Hahah Is that just one cow who is in heat? or a couple

[@thefunkyfarmer]

yes a herringbone would be better but we would need an increase in the milk price to pay for one of these. its not too slow though as it is a six point parlour

[@adilahmed8236]

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[@LKJZXCLee]

how much milk per cow a day?

[@thefunkyfarmer]

+LKJZXC1990 ali varies depending on time of year, how long ago they calved etc. Say about 7000 litres a year

[@masterlem4774]

do you sell and export to philippines

[@henryharrison-bradley7877]

Do you have freshens or hollstins

[@thefunkyfarmer]

Henry Harrison-Bradley they are all British Friesians

[@sonyajan3503]

It’s not good for cows 🐄 to be chained :( .

[@sierra6709]

I have a question. Do the cows like getting milked? Do they resist? Where are their children?

[@AngelinaAlexMusic]

+Sierra W. They take away the calves and they are raised for beef or slaughtered for veal.

[@bayleygenereux9549]

The cows do like being milked

[@AngelinaAlexMusic]

Bayley Genereux By their children.

[@sayuyuyuyu1502]

If you actually watched the video you'd say a calf chilling out with its mother inside a pen at 7:00.

[@moiwilliams170]

Sierra i was a dairy farmer for many years and i can tell you that the female calfs are either kept as replacement heffers or sold off to other farms to breed, but unfortunately the male calfs are sold off to a feed plot or a beef farm, or is kept and made bull beef or steers, and yes unfortunately its killed for beef but when its about 18 months old , but iff the calf is lucky it can be made a bull but its very unlikely

[@jamiejardine9127]

What time do you start milking?

[@thefunkyfarmer]

About 6

[@jamiemcgurl4002]

What time do you milk in the evening at and how long does it take you? I love your videos it’s very like ireland

[@downbytheharbour]

I don't want to ask this to an animal rights activist, most of them are american and only mention american standards and the worst standards at that. I'm curious and you seem to be honest with your viewers and so I was wondering if you could answer my questions? What happens to the calves? I mean, do they drink the mothers milk? How do cows produce milk all the time, surely they'd always have to be pregnant/newly mothered? Your cows are very beautiful. They're like big dogs (especially in the skipping video!)

[@thefunkyfarmer]

Hi. Some people do have some strong views about farming and i think its fair enough if someone wants to be Veggie or Vegan, unfortunately some of the facts about farming do seem to get skewed to fit their argument. To answer your question. We rear the female calves to go into the herd, the male calves we sell at 3 weeks old and they will go to a beef rearing unit.The cows do have to get pregnant to produce milk and so they have a calf about once a year. If you think about it this is no different than in the wild where a bull would serve a cow as soon as he could after she calved. The difference is that we wait at least 2 months after calving before trying to get them back in calf.

[@williambeattie8554]

+JJxooxxo93 Everything is born to die. That is a cold hard fact. Every omnivore, carnivore, herbivore dies, then in turn becomes food for something else.

[@bulbasaurpokemon3573]

Our physical body will most likely die but I am not sure about spiritual "body"/soul

[@lovereadingsnyc]

@@thefunkyfarmer 3 weeks is very cruel. The Most High have mercy on your soul in Yahushua's Almighty Name!

[@lovereadingsnyc]

And their udders seem very uncomfortable

[@bigmack5266]

Every time I see Holstein cows. It made me think of Chick Fil A

[@Scott_Raynor]

what happened to their children?

[@fraserblair9877]

Cow's don't have children!

[@Scott_Raynor]

@@fraserblair9877 ? Why do you think they produce milk then?

[@Rdrake1413]

How many cows are you milking? Looks like you have a good size herd.

[@thefunkyfarmer]

+Rdrake1413 about 70 at the moment

[@Rdrake1413]

I was guessing about 80 I wasn't too far off. I have cousins that are dairy farmers here in the states. A lot of hard work. One cousin no longer milks cows but he raises and sells replacement heifers. The other cousin has expanded his dairy and now has two farms. Enjoy your channel. Look forward to seeing more and catching up on the ones I have missed.

[@edisone1]

At least here in New York, factory "farmers" have driven family dairy farms into the dust - while a typical family farm might have 50-100 cows, these factory monopolists have 5000 to 6000. There is NO way to treat so many fellow creatures with any decency or respect, let alone having any appreciation of their well being. Sadly, Americans are fed garbage food at cheap prices, instead of high-quality food for what it costs.

[@thefunkyfarmer]

+Max Chester Thats a shame. Its difficult here for farms our size too, the way things are going with the milk price (down) small farms like ours will struggle to survive in the future

[@sonyajan3503]

I KNOW XD.

[@umar-kv2kf]

These are only female cow do you have male one too ?

[@hichamkomha8359]

Hello sir . Do you sell cows?

[@willowavenal2065]

Ok..

[@josefuentes510]

great job! love the holstein cows.

[@moiwilliams170]

jose fuentes those are british frecian cows not holstein

[@charlierowley6423]

im getting 41 p per liter

[@nathamonchaiwadee2890]

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[@jamiejardine9127]

Afternoon milking?

[@thefunkyfarmer]

Jamie Jardine 3PM

[@matthewbulic]

HOLY COW Who was the first to see a cow and think “I wonder what will happen if I squeeze these dangly things and drink whatever comes out”? 😏

[@mjona1754]

There is something really personal about milking in an abreast parlour, far more attention to detail required and be able to pick up anything wrong with the cows, nice to see the overhang on the step between stalls, much better to get your feet closer to the cow, saves your back a little too. Top vid!!!

[@thefunkyfarmer]

hi, thanks for your comments. your spot on about the abreast parlour. yes its old fashioned and slow but it really does let you get to know your cows

[@succulentfruiit4107]

Why do you milk them like that? Why can't you milk them the way we did before?

[@moiwilliams170]

Jade Is Unknown! what with hands 😂😂🤦‍♀️

[@COWBOYDECKY]

are yous not getting 30 p per liter were just getting 29 and a half and were with the highest payer .

[@123teasy]

we put wood chipping in the gateaways works a treat and keeps the cows feet ok

[@thefunkyfarmer]

Good idea

[@18madre80]

You sell their cows for slaughter?

[@m1l22]

18madre80 He’s a farmer not a rancher

[@wendycooper3458]

Dgn

[@harryblackwell7643]

by a quad bike will be easer ★

[@thefunkyfarmer]

+Harry Blackwell they are always getting stolen round here

[@corrina2123]

a couple of them pooped

[@bayleygenereux9549]

I think that is what most things do

[@mariceliamello6541]

Poi

[@sujathasujatha3178]

Very dirty earth roads .

[@muhammadputrasinambelah6155]

Hello

[@lovereadingsnyc]

Hi 😄 are you a clone- any chance?

[@oyanglauunghuo8298]

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[@palor847]

GUIuuuiiiiii

[@user-sb8lq3ks2g]

There is no harmony between you and the cows You cry out to them and the cows are in another world

[@thefunkyfarmer]

rubbish

[@lamterninourddine5945]

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[@MinerKitten]

Eww one was pooing! >.< disgusting!

[@MinerKitten]

+cattlewrangler IKR! I'm so proud!

[@humbertocardenas9580]

que falta de hijiene👎👎!!!