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Sheds for the calves.
Eddie with his classic gun collection.
An irrigation system used to grow alfalfa.
Watching Cara roping calves.
A day at the bison ranch and farm. The farm owned 40.000 acres of land.
A day shooting at the shooting ranch.
Gerko shooting a shotgun.
Group picture with the boys at Eddie’s home.
Milk bucket.
I am going to take you through the process of hoof trimming. Here you can see the empty hoof trimming stand.
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.
This is a cow in the trimming stand.
Bucket of water.
Tractor with rake, this rake puts the grass in a windrow as you will see in the next picture.
One of the milking preparations putting a milk filter in the machine.
After calving, we immediately give the first milk of the mother to the calf. The first milk is really important because it holds all the antibodies which will keep the calf healthy.
This is the machine that counts the litres of milk.
The buckets and the milk powder.
A close up of an old rake this type was called ‘sprintmaster’. It was a very popular type of rake before p.t.o driven rakes.
Milk powder in the bucket.
This is the machine that controls the vacuum.
After all the procedures the cow is ready to be trimmed. For the trimming we use an electrical trimmer which is much faster to use than a knife.
Mixing the milk powder and hot water.
The calf is being put in a pen where he has less change to become sick of other cows wich may infect the calf. The bull calfs are being sold and raised for the veal and meat. The female cows are raised so they can become dairy cows.
Making windrows.
Trimming in progress.
A nice boat which becomes handy in a wetland area.
Making it the right temperature.
Making the floor wet makes it easier to keep the parlour clean while milking.
This is where the cows are being fed concentrate during the milking process.
Calves waiting for milk.
Give the calves milk.
The loader wagon drives to the farm where the grass gets stored in a pit this is called ensilage. The tractor on top of it is packing the grass to get all air out of the pile.
This is the divice that collects the milk.
The packing is very important that’s why 2 machines are used to ensure feed quality. The yellow roller in front is used to spread the grass evenly on the pit.
They are pinning a break in the dogs leg with a pin.
Cleaning the weaning bucket.
The next step is to attach the milking claw in this picture I am putting vacuum on the claw.
Young stock on the dairy ‘de Boer’. They are located in the old barns behind the house. These barns are typical for the area, most of them are renovated and used for storage of equipment, fodder and young stock. They are to labour intensive and to small for dairy cows.
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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.
We are preparing to brand. We are getting the vacines ready for the calfs and warming up the branding iron.
They are putting a rubber band on banding tool. They will then use this tool to band the bull calfs.
Waiting for the moment when the horse gives no milk anymore.
Milking.
Milking.
Cows on the farm of family ‘de deelen’. A whole new barn was raised. You can see the new developments, like this feed pusher for example.
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