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This man brought 2 calves to the hoof trimmer, he drove 1,5 hour to get here.
Eddie trimming the claws of the 2 calves.
Unloading cattle at the sales barn.
Watching Cara roping calves.
Cara roping a calf.
Wimke, Gea and Wapke waiting outside.
Dough of the pretzel being smelled.
Bringing our cows in so we can spray them for lice and flies and then branding our calves.
Milk bucket.
Bringing the dairy cows from the pasture to the barn for milking.
All 26 of our cows in the lane where we can split the cows and the calves.
All found in the land. Arrows, parts of military clothes, tools, bullets and ....
Fill the bucket with water.
One of the milking preparations putting a milk filter in the machine.
The dough for the pretzels had to be rolled out in snake like shapes by hand.
Bucket of water.
One of the milking preparations putting a milk filter in the machine.
This cow was crippling. It became clear that it had to do with an Infectious disease. The best cure for this is using medication directly on the hoof and covered with bandage.
Once the dough was rolled out we folded them in the ‘standard’ shape of a pretzel, again by hand.
Pushing the last of one group of our cows through the lane so my uncle can spray them.
The buckets and the milk powder.
Attach the milkhose to the filter.
Directly after milking the first milk is being fed to the calf. The milk has to be at body temperature.
Milk powder in the bucket.
Turn on the milking equipment.
He is now putting the hose through his nose down to his stomach
The dry ingredients being mixed together for banana bread.
He is blowing into the tube to get the lubricant to go through.
Get ready for the milking process.
Mixing the milk powder and hot water.
Putting the milkhose in the tank that way the milk flows into the tank.
For the banana bread, we measured out the butter and added in eggs directly to the dry ingredients.
Get some concentrate for the horses so they can eat during the milking process.
Making it the right temperature.
Making the floor wet makes it easier to keep the parlour clean while milking.
Mash up the soft bananas and then add that to the batter as well.
One of our cows walking through the lane getting sprayed.
Leading the horse to the milking parlour.
Calves waiting for milk.
Feeding cows pellets in the parlour, which gives us the possibility to feed every cow individually. Also the cows will go to the parlour faster because they enjoy eating them.
The batter is then well mixed and it is ready to be cooked.
Horse in the milking parlour.
Give the calves milk.
Clean the udder
Vaccinating the cow.
Before milking the horse I see if there's enough food for the horse.
Stacking the bales of hay.
Before the milk claw gets attached the first milk is manually removed in order to checks the cows health and ensure the milk quality.
After the banana bread is cooked in the oven at 350 degrees for 10 minutes we tested the bread with a toothpick to make sure it was done all the way through. The tooth pick came out clean so the bread was ready to be eaten!
Cleaning the weaning bucket.
The next step is to attach the milking claw in this picture I am putting vacuum on the claw.
Banding one of our December bull calves. When this process is complete the bull calf becomes a steer.
Cleaning the teats because we don't want to have mud or manure in the milk.
Attach the milking claw, now the milk gets flows trough the whole machine and the filter into the milk tank which I showed you earlier.
Vaccinating one of our calves.
The vet is pushing the pin down to where the break ends on both sides.
Putting a tag in the ear of one of our calves so we know who it belongs to.
Once the cow is done milking and is all healthy she is ready to go out of the parlour. But before that we put on some protective fluid on the udders.
The pin in the dogs leg.
All of our branding irons in the branding pot.
Grab the milkmachine.
Stitching the leg
My uncle branding one of our calves with a hot branding iron.
smoke coming from the branding iron.
We are seperating the calfs from the cows so that we can take them and brand them without the mother cows getting in the way.
The first part of my grandpa's brand being placed on the side of the calf.
We have now moved the calfs into what we call the tub. We will shut the gate behind them and then put them into the shoot where we will brand them.
The next step is to cube the bread. You must allow the bread to sit out long enough for it to dry out some prior to this step.
Someone then gets into the tub and pushes the clafs into the shoot where the calfs moeve up and are caught and branded.
Milking close up.
On the farm of family ‘de deelen’ they produce cheese. Their high quality cheeses are well known in our region and even exported abroad.
After milking I prepare the milk machine for the cleaning process.
The making of ‘riperkrite tsiis’, their specialty
Bring the milk to the room where it will be prepared to sell in the store's.
Before I can go in the room I need to cover my hair.
In the room we filter the milk.
Filtering the milk.
Filtering the milk.
Let the foal with his mother.
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