Last Silage of 2020!

well guys we were hoping to get finished with chopping yesterday um but we got 26 acres of fava beans on the ground here that still needs to be chopped up we cut them down with the swather i think two and a half days ago ish now and they these things just aren't drying out we want to dry them out in the field here just leave them on the ground until they get to about 68 moisture and that's probably when we'll start to take them um 65 is fine too but we tested them yesterday they were at about 74 so still just way too moist for it to ferment good in the silage pit it has to be at that right moisture content and these things just aren't drying down the stems they're pretty thick and they hold a ton of moisture also in the actual bean themselves there's a ton of moisture and it's just taking forever to dry out so we're keeping a really good eye on it checking it a couple times a day here and hopefully we can take these really soon here before we get too far into today's video uh austin the guy from full line egg that brought the fent out he filmed dropping the fentanyl from his end made a youtube video of it and um he's gonna start making videos so if you guys want to go check it out it's linked in the description down below [Music] i'm on my way out to that field right now in the chopper i'm just grabbing a moisture sample so i'm just gonna chop it up put it on the ground and then scoop some of it into this pail i got with me right here and then we're gonna take it back to the shop and take the moisture on it i'll show you guys how that works once we get back there so we're lined up to a swath gonna get the pto going here [Music] tractor's mad at me for something all right it's gonna rev up drive forward a bit and put some product through that should be good that's all we need we just need a little bit that we can grab on the ground there pizzo off so we got like half a bucket full in the shop now we got our pail of chopped fava beans and this is how we dry the stuff down and check out the moisture content this thing just slowly blows up really hot air and we put exactly 100 grams of that chopped fava beans in here and then we weigh it make sure it's 100 grams put it on here dry it down so it's 100 dried out and then whatever is left is your dry matter and then whatever you lost in weight is what the moisture content is going to be so if i scoop this thing full of 100 grams i put it on there and there's only 40 grams left after i dry it for an hour and a half that means my moisture content is 60 and dry matter content is 40. so that's how this works so i'm gonna turn the scale on here it's at zero grams there this thing is exactly 190 now i'll just scoop it full until it's at 290. so there we go exactly 290 which means there's 100 grams of the silage in here so i'm just going to set it on there it's going to dry it right out i'll come back here in an hour and a half to two hours and check that and see where it's at um fava beans take quite a bit longer than barley to dry completely down that's why it takes two hours and we'll see what the moisture content is we'll probably take it at 68 moisture so it's been two hours since i had this drying so i'm gonna weigh it now this thing's super hot so i gotta be quick here we go 221. so i just took that sample off dried one more point which means that this afternoon at three o'clock it was at 70 moisture i just went out there grabbed another sample started drying it again so hopefully it's around 68 and then we'll take it tomorrow morning at seven and then we'll be done with shopping for the year and i'm really excited for that it's about eight o'clock the next day now and um we're not chopping this morning hopefully this afternoon we can come out here and just finish these 26 acres um we really just want to be done this stuff but it just was taking forever to dry out but last night took another moisture sample and that one was still at 70 percent so hopefully this afternoon we can take it if it dries a bit this morning yet and last night there was some showers and thunder showers around you could definitely see lightning in the distance and we just got super lucky and didn't get any rain we don't need any more rain pretty much all the crops are pretty much getting full and any more rain is just going to make a mess in the corrals for us so it would have really messed up our plans here because then this stuff would be way too moist but we got really lucky last night worked out for us and um hopefully we can come out here this afternoon chop the stuff up since we're waiting till the afternoon to chop those fava beans uh we're gonna take some cows that are close to calving from the corrals and put them into the close-up area on that straw back in the barn there and i'm just waiting on my little sister to finish feeding calves here and then me and her are gonna go and do it [Music] [Music] so she just runs along with the milk taxi i made a pretty detailed video about feeding calves i think in january but this is just the milk taxi pasteurized milk goes in here from the milk milking parlor and it gets warmed up i believe what 40 degrees about 41.9 degrees is what it's at and then the calves get it we pasteurize the milk just in case any of the cows have any viruses or any diseases usually not but there are some like glucoses that we're trying to avoid the transmission between the cows to the calves just to try and get a healthier herd make sure these calves grow bigger and stronger and that's why we pasteurize the milk even the colostrum we take it from the cow pasteurize it and then we give it to the newborn cows [Music] [Music] so miriam she made all the gates ready we just want to have that door open there all the gates open and those gates are closed off so that the other close-up cows stay on the straw pack that way they're not going to run outside and not get mixed up with the new ones then we'll run them up into here and then one by one we'll put them through the chute give them some vaccines and stuff and then we'll put them back on this close-up pack with the rest of the ladies here so we'll bring cows from the corrals into the barn there once a week usually monday or tuesday they're three weeks away from calving and we try to keep on top of that we just took the one cow out there out of these two corrals eight and nine these are our dry cow corrals ladies that have already been milked once and they're pregnant again so we got the one out that we needed from there now we're just gonna walk through the heifer pen and look for any ladies that are banging up that way we know they're close to calving and then we'll bring them up in as well so you can see she's starting to back up a little bit she's still probably three four weeks off so we'll just leave her out here for another week they get the exact same ration as in the barn is out here so we got one cow and two heifers and that's all that we're bagging up and getting close we should have a whole bunch more coming later in the month of august i believe we're supposed to call out 30 cows this month so should be pretty busy in terms of cows calving she's just giving it two vaccines the one is jvac and that's for mystitis and then the other one is scourguard it's um if you read it right there it actually says coronavirus vaccine pretty interesting we also trim the backs the heifers just so that they can cool down a little bit more once they get into the barn it's not as important during the summertime but in the winter time this really makes a big difference when they have their winter coat on them and then they come into the nice warm bar and they're going to sweat like crazy if we don't and we'll also trim their tails down just take that long hair off it's pretty annoying in the parallel parlor just grab their tail like this um her actual tail like not hair is about here i can feel that so i'll grab back here and just start trimming the tail while holding the hair and then once you're done with that you just feel where your tail ends and then trim it off like that some people will say that they need that to um swat the flies away in the summertime and that is true so outside in the corrals we never trim their tails then they can swallow flies away they want but in the barn with the tunnel ventilation there's very very few flies in here at all and they're not really bothered by it at all so it's just really convenient in the milk and parlor it's about two in the afternoon and they finally dried off enough so that we can get out here and finish it off that is it for silaging 2020. i couldn't be happier uh we've put up an incredible amount of feed this year for us and right now on the yard we'll definitely have feed for two years we always try and do that just in case next year is super dry it is saskatchewan you never know if you're gonna get rain or not and if we got uh very little crops next year we'd still be fine to the next year and that's kind of what my dad always tries to do just get enough feed on the yard for two years and that's what we got this year so it's awesome to be done uh there's still a lot more work to do we got a home in year combining is coming up pretty soon and um yeah it's summer isn't over yet but this is one of those really big jobs that needs to be done every year and now it's done so that's awesome that's going to be it for today's video guys if you enjoyed be sure to hit those like and subscribe buttons down below check out the instagram sauce dutch kid and i hope to see you guys in the next video thanks for watching

Channel: SaskDutch Kid

Views: 117,956

Keywords: dairy farming, dairy cattle, farming in canada, canadian dairy farm

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Length: 13min 42sec (822 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 05 2020