The Place To Be Is In The Milking Parlour!

[@USAReferee]

The SaskDutchKid Show, produced, directed and starring Jan Kielstra. Today's Special Guest Star, our favorite, Mirjam Kielstra, our future "Cheese Queen* and a host of Canadian Holsteins. Interesting video perspectives from the parlor. Well done.

[@theburnhams2925]

BRAVO!!!!! ENCORE!!!!!!!!!

[@earlyriser8998]

i think this is a well done review . two thumbs up for this video

[@calebmanuel17]

A pet cow named shilong 😅

[@billbrooke2776]

@@calebmanuel17 i believe its name is shiloh

[@svfproductions9520]

Note: @adairyontheprairies Name is the Married Name Mrs Neline Perez Official with their Marriage Certificate

[@mllee2008]

You're spoiling us with all these videos Jan! Thank you! Sending good wishes from Michigan. ♥️🇺🇲

[@joeandjudygreen5398]

Glad your herd is coming along with the vision you’re achieving. Love to see the calves doing so well. Use lots of milk products..cream, milk, butter, cheeses. Keep milking and we’ll keep enjoying your product. Thanks Mommas!

[@gmanowar1466]

Hi sir How are you I want tolk to you please 😢

[@brimac58]

Amazing how clean you keep everything! Love this channel!

[@alfredomarotta6604]

Thanks for the video Jan. Always appreciate them. Great job Mirjam, taking over for Neline. When you said " got to push the feed manually...." I thought you were going to get the shovel and a broom out😂👍🍻

[@caseywirtel561]

What a great video! Hi Mirjam! It still amazes me how much your family can accomplish in a day caring for so many animals!

[@karencary3312]

Love watching your videos. Never dull. ❤❤❤❤❤

[@PatriciaBeyer-p7h]

Hello. Keep warm and safe and dry.

[@gmanowar1466]

Hi sir How are you I want tolk to you please 😢

[@charlesarcher2107]

I agree with you that the milking parlor is the place to be on such a cold day! In New York State there were winter days when our parlor water lines would freeze up. You have much colder temperatures than NY. Thanks for another great video for us.

[@freddylove9914]

Good morning all stay warm!

[@jillhiles143]

Merry Christmas! I enjoy watching your videos as much as I enjoy watching Miriam's.

[@gmanowar1466]

Hi sir How are you I want tolk to you I hope you are a well Please 😢

[@PEG-s4n]

YOUR COWS ARE VERY SMART. THEY KNOW EXACTLY WHAT TO DO. TOTALLY AMAZING ! !

[@leaderence3290]

If the same things being done to animals to produce animal products were done to humans, they would be crimes of r ape, kidnapping, torture, neglect, and mass murder.

[@michaeletchepareborde4298]

Very nice dairy thanks very much for taking care of your cows I wouldn't like it there to cold we had a dairy it's a lot of work

[@PedroSantos-bw2sf]

Congratualions Lots work and effort family and employees made to growing size farm

[@jamesryan9206]

Thanks Jan always enjoy watching your milking videos. You keep Everything so clean i know it is a lot of work.

[@mikeklehr7105]

As a fellow dairyman I luv the look of your cows udders before milking. Your cows can definitely produce a lot of milk.

[@russellgilson4072]

Your housekeeping throughout your operation is impressive its apparent you've had good instruction along the way!

[@jamielenoir4618]

Hoping for better weather for y'all

[@steveneal2706]

amazing video. Thank you guys

[@gmanowar1466]

Hi sir How are you I want tolk to you 😢

[@johnnylindsey5808]

Good job guys

[@jorgeimer2919]

Hello Jan, your success with cow numbers and milk yield is impressive. It leeds to some question for me. I heard that the Canadian dairy farms have restrictions/contigents for production/delivery? How about selling bred heifers? What about breeding lower producing cows with beef bulls? Using sexed seemen with higher genetics? Thanks for some information!

[@robertd-dh8qm]

Love your videos bud keep them coming rob GB🇬🇧🚜👍

[@Xtremeraverbaby87]

Lovely to see thankyou for sharing x

[@gmanowar1466]

Hi How are you I want tolk to you ❤

[@harveypenner2386]

Thanks again...another good video!!

[@edmo43]

Thanks my friend for new video. Great job...👍🎄

[@gmanowar1466]

Hi sir

[@gmanowar1466]

How are you I want tolk to you please 😢

[@JamesWurz-y4u]

Try "Snirt Stopper" for bottom sealer on your overhead doors..

[@melissagreen1117]

❤

[@franciscosandiego3026]

Great video brother from the imperial county ca 🚜🚜🇺🇲🇺🇲

[@brocklangerud4682]

Hey jan, not sure if you know or not but there are products that you can put on your cement around the foot bath to stop it from eating through the concrete. We use it around our feeders in our hog barns. 5 year after doing it and the stuff still looks like new. Something to maybe look into anyway

[@brocklangerud4682]

Love the videos to man! me and my year old and 2 year old look forward to watching your videos everytime there is a new one!

[@brocklangerud4682]

5*

[@RobWCurrier]

a true family farm…thx, Rob

[@chrisgilbert2152]

love the care!!

[@peggyt1243]

6:30 PM in central Ontario and it is zero degredes celsius. Unfortunately we got 4 feet of snow last weekend and more today.

[@muhammadimran5795]

Hi, nice to see you and yours herds. Can you please share the protocols being opted for new born calf, please

[@MellowYe77ow]

His sister has a video on the topic: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j2jIcqqEZtWVaas

[@paul7796]

Great videos Jan! I wondered about seeing the milk actually leaving the farm, how, when, where it goes etc. Watching from near Kitchener, ON. Also, man its cold there!!😮

[@MellowYe77ow]

Milk is typically collected every other day on most dairies: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pqGonYhqhdt7nqc Their milk is sold to the Saputo Inc. plant in Saskatoon.

[@wild_insomnia]

Mirjam has the same adorable chuckle as Neline

[@cammyrubin2512]

I like Mirjam’s overalls, I don’t recognize the brand down here in Texas, but they look really comfy. If she’s using them, they must be tough/ good.

[@erwinlageschaar5550]

Looks like 4 D, the company is located in west Texas !

[@richardvernick4280]

Jon. Thank you for the video. The barn sure gets foggy when the barn doors are opened and closed. At a --33 degrees, how many minutes outside on bear skin before frost bit hits. Maybe 3 to 5 minutes or less ? Those blood vessels in your face have to pump blood fast. Outside of the barn, an Artic parkers would be a nice jack to have on, i would be willing to bet on.👍 Please take care, stay warm. Richard

[@timothymbonham4453]

Bear skin -- no problem, some like polar bears live in that all year. But bare human skin at that temp, 10-30 minutes. In calm conditions -- any wind will reduce that time quickly!

[@gmanowar1466]

Hi sir How are you I want tolk to you please 😢

[@billbrooke2776]

Fellow dairy farmer here in Wv, Usa it seems your operation has issues just as any other but when your calf barn is overflowing why not get rid of the bulls i know you raise them but the space for heifers is more important

[@leaderence3290]

The biggest issue is that you are doing things to animals that if you were to do to humans, they would be crimes of r ape, kidnapping, neglect, and murder.

[@agrartechnikbw9123]

A few days doubled up in the pen doesnt affect the heifers at any point..

[@ashernette1]

@@leaderence3290, what a stupid thing to say. Animals aren’t humans and Humans aren’t animals. Get a clue and get off the channel if you can’t appreciate a farmer doing his job.

[@agrartechnikbw9123]

​@@leaderence3290 look at jans videos and talk about "rape" again. The animals dont give a f.. who gets them pregnant, thats their most important need (reproduktion).You showed with this message that your only information source are some stupid city people that make money of telling people without any idea how others who life their whole life with animals should or shouldnt do things...

[@jay90374]

@@leaderence3290 Actually, the biggest issue is antihuman 🤡🤡 like you that are actively working to destroy civilization! 🤦😷😷😷

[@christinakahler-venter3013]

I am watching your videos to cool off, we are 39 degrees in Pretoria South Africa 🥵

[@Jakob_Hehe]

Hi Jan, I've been watching your videos for years at this point and I'm very much enjoying it. If I've understood you correctly, you could potentially have more cows in milk in summer than in the deepest winter. So, would it be an option for you to adapt your herd's calving pattern in a way so that you have a few extra calvings per year, but none or only a reduced number of calvings during winter, (maybe in Dec-Jan-Feb) That would obviously mean that you couldn't ai too many in spring time, but rather waiting with some of the ai up until summer. Anyways have a great day and keep up the great work. Bye 🇩🇪

[@frankrizzo3915]

Great Video!

[@johnmcclelland8984]

How is the commercial washer and dryer doing. Are they holding up longer than standard residential washer and dryer.

[@10lauset]

I maynot drink milk but I do eat yogurt, cheese AND ice cream. Cheers.

[@Navet63]

I've often wondered if you have a Farrier to trim the hooves of your cows. You have a beautiful operation there. Good job!

[@timothymbonham4453]

Yes, they have a farrier every 3 months or so to deal with hooves. Jan has shown that in some previous videos.

[@MellowYe77ow]

@@timothymbonham4453 *Every 6 months.

[@gmanowar1466]

Hi sir How are you I want tolk to you please 😢

[@edwardoberg6530]

I love your videos!! Have a question. Being you live in a heavy winter area I never here you mention or see them on the farm curious if you like to snowmobile or even have one. That to me would make the winter fun!! :) Look forward to every video you post. Thanks Ed from Michigan

[@garyemard8480]

You sure are a hard worker. So much to do on a farm.

[@leaderence3290]

How about instead of working hard abusing and exploiting animals, you work hard doing something respectable?

[@gurpreetcheema6505]

❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@priscillawatson7049]

amazing job....to think not so long ago all that used to be done manually...sitting on a stool and a bucket between the legs...multimillion machinery! support farmers! one question: why do you separate mothers and babies? how do they feed their babies lodging in different spaces? how do mothers still produce milk, been separated from their calf and not feeding them? thanks

[@gmanowar1466]

Hi Madam How are you I want tolk to you please 😢

[@MichaelHolloway]

It would siphon out! If that hose was installed in a 'U' configuration it wouldn't have siphoned. Neat! :)

[@leighpurdon9378]

Great video

[@jamesyachyshen7116]

Thanks for an excellent video once again thoroughly enjoy your entertainment. I just wonder when I was younger they often would talk about how dairy producers would play classical music in the barn to keep loud bangs from scaring the cows. Was that just an old wife’s tale or did it have some true practice ?

[@rothfarms]

What do you think about the handheld teat wash dip machine? 10 gen just had a video of his again 😊

[@sammandel714]

I have an antifreeze filled 3/4 pipe hydraulic , with electric heat tape inside , inside a 2 inch steel pipe , cemented in place where door comes down on , but anything above -30 it struggles as well

[@jimpolk]

Good to have a full house though isn't it? Some good looking calves.

[@PgP736]

❤ from Norway

[@billjoat]

I really like when I see you and Mirjam working together. Do you forsee a long future with the 2 of you always working on the farm together?

[@leaderence3290]

I really like it when dairy farmers go out of business.

[@lindapereboom]

​@@leaderence3290please take your negativity somewhere else.

[@jay90374]

Well they are building her a cheese factory and he's acting as the farm foreman and is the obvious successor!

[@elilegatt1181]

@@leaderence3290and I like when people like you just mind there own business and keep there freakin mouth shut!!

[@theburnhams2925]

All I (Florida man....) can say is that the people of Canada do not (could never....) appreciate "what it takes" to get milk to them! Loved the "En Parlour" "latte' " Can't get any fresher than that! I suspect the Cuban coffee you're (probably) chugging (in that weather....admit it...) could USE some "taming." Always enjoy your videos. Slog ON! Your world (and ours) depends on you! (collectively....not forgetting Ma, Pa, Sis and Bros. naturally) But what happens when the (liquid) fuels stop flowing into the operation?...or the power grid goes down? (for whatever reason...Wx plays a big role here) It would be a disaster to turn out all those beautiful, magnificant milk-making creatures into Sas 's "Winter Wasteland." Summertime? Different story. Plant edible/high-value nutritional crops for 'em and turn them loose. (Sorry about debt servicing at that point...) I understand that fencing large tracts would be a big issue, but if you staked a lead cow (or two...or...had good dogs, or riflemen...) the herd would probably coalesce and stay close. Production would take a "nose-dive" but if EVERYone's did, people would blink, sit up straight, and decide to pay what the products they're consuming are WORTH, civilization might some stumble-on.....

[@jogillett8518]

That's quite a ' Florida Man ' thought you have put down there. Stay awesome!!! 😎😅😂

[@Noorikon]

👍👌👏

[@boerstevenvdv]

Hi Jan, aren't you guys stuck with milkquoata? Or is it easy to expand in cows? Nice video's btw

[@MellowYe77ow]

He has said that milk is in high demand in their area right now.

[@wild_insomnia]

Jan is just unconscious in pumping up new videos every day

[@DavidMichira-DMN]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@karenwilliams8177]

👍

[@Kevin986_]

Thank you

[@55VickyV]

How is the cheese building coming along? 🇨🇦

[@michaeletchepareborde4298]

Nice foot bath

[@cindyg5221]

They still look so full after milking !!

[@wylde780]

it was +6C in Edmonton yesterday and today its -17c .. warmed up to -11c @ 1138am

[@saskdutchkid]

Crazy! Similar change here! 😧

[@anniernest5320]

Your sisters have theirs pet cows. You need to claim cow 25 to be your own. She is a sweetheart. Let her be there for 17 years 👍

[@hughmclellan3099]

If your looking for a good garage door bottom look for kevlar stripping

[@737JPG]

I remember that February, absolutely brutal.

[@danvanhefty4689]

with the cheese plant coming soon, was there any consideration to adding few other breed cows (Jerseys or Gurnseys) to increase cheese flavor content???

[@daveklein2826]

Why don't you wait until they have it up and running and they explain what they are doing

[@elilegatt1181]

@@daveklein2826how about you mind your own business!!

[@emilandersen1644]

Which bulls do you use for the cows ? Their conformation looks very good :)

[@MellowYe77ow]

They exclusively use WestGen bulls. Alcove Alligator, Fuel, Adorable, Randal, Dealmaker, Alongside, Ranger Red, Rubble, Ambrose & Lug Nut are some names that he has mentioned.

[@ellenl.5581]

When a cow's bag hangs down really low is it just because it is empty or is she getting old? Or something else?

[@agrartechnikbw9123]

Most of the time when they get old but hapoens not to all of them

[@jay90374]

Genetics mostly, same as in humans.🤣🤣

[@suekwisses3853]

Jon, did you find out when your new doors and panels will be in for the calf barn?

[@masmacedo]

SaskDutch, what kind of plate material do you use to separate the bays from calves?

[@MellowYe77ow]

They're PVC panels from VES-Artex.

[@madhungarian3024]

Heat tape? Must be the same sort of stuff we use on our astronomical telescopes & eyepieces to keep them from fogging up. We call our version of it, 'dew heater straps'. We run them off the same 12V battery packs that power our telescope electronics & tracking motors.

[@chrisragona3945]

Hey Jan what do you do when A cow doesn’t take the very last milking stall and block other cows to com in ? Does that happen often?

[@Blurryface1999]

Nice video! How long does it take you te milk those 380 cows? Or is that 380 cows inclusive the dry cows?

[@lesmewis5291]

How do you train the first milking for the heifers who have had their first calf?

[@timothymbonham4453]

Much of it is instinctual -- they follow the other cows in the herd into the milking parlor. And then the milking feels good, and it relieves the pressure of full udders (ask any nursing mother about that!). So it usually doesn't take much to train them.

[@dibell3662]

❤️🙏🏼☕️⛄️

[@anthonyklein1879]

That's amazing... So 383 is the total you have on the farm including what you have outside in the lots?? sorry I can't remember what they are called

[@timothymbonham4453]

No, that is the number actually being milked. Besides this, there are new calves in the calf barn, young heifers in corrals, steers being raised for beef in corrals, and pregnant, non-milking (dry) cows also in corrals. Total is probably around 700-800 cattle on the farm.

[@anthonyklein1879]

@timothymbonham4453 thank you .. that is amazing

[@thubardsask755]

How hard is it to get new heifers into a milking routine? Like going into the head stalls.

[@DickAnderson-k9y]

I was wondering the same thing. We always had heifers that would kick off the milkers or kick at you. We had kicker clamps that you could put on to help prevent getting kicked. I would be interested in seeing a first time heifer attempting to be milked 😊

[@dg-vg4cz]

you need a stand on bobcat to push up feed .

[@2fast65]

Look in to snirt stopper door seals Brian Brown and Millennial farmer are using them they are a Minnesota Co.

[@asquithmainlines699]

Our dollars value is so low right now about 71 US cents buying things made in the US is not that affordable any more. I have had my Ebay searches limited to Canada only for about two years now. Hopefully it bounces back some day.

[@ninjanana1272]

👍👍❤🐄

[@maryrussell7298]

Milk in the tank!,

[@somebeersomedude8795]

Has the integration to the western milk pool changed much for you?

[@gilb6982]

What ! No christmas song today !😪

[@coltsjason]

Looked like a few cows were limping

[@asquithmainlines699]

When you loose a tracking button is it just a matter of checking the app and walking over and picking it up? LOL or is it out in the lagoon by now. I am surprised you don’t get an alert from no movement.

[@bobmorsecellphone-uv5mv]

Jan how do you like your delaval parlor anybody by you milk jerseys I milk 400 jerseys in CT USA in a 50 stall delaval rotary parlor I really enjoy your videos

[@cindifischer6919]

Doesn't take long in a 50 stall DeLaval rotary to milk 400 jerseys. Depending on the speed, could have it done in an hour.

[@jasonreber4101]

can pre dip and prep?

[@craigflatley7370]

🇨🇦👍

[@shereemorgan1430]

Do you plan on having your own farm in the future!

[@TangoDelta8111]

Had to report that leader guy for hateful posts. Hope that helps Jan. Idiots walk among us😂

[@cindifischer6919]

So did I.

[@dennisbelles9236]

Just curious, and maybe you mentioned this before, but do you do your own good trimming on the farm or does a vet or someone else come do that for you?

[@dennisbelles9236]

That should be good, not good

[@MellowYe77ow]

They have a hoof trimmer come out every 6 months: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJe8oayKnNZ2ha8

[@PedroSantos-bw2sf]

What is your production in herd, and % fat?

[@Leefywood]

Interesting that when the cows come in to be milked they know to take the last open position.

[@pocketchange1951]

👍👌❤️🇨🇦

[@1944chevytruck]

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