Milking our New Family Dairy Cow! - Learning our Routine in the Dairy Barn🥛.

Our newest family dairy cow has already brought so much joy to our farm and to our herd, we seriously couldn't be happier. We made the long drive all the way to Virginia to get this girl, and on October 4th of this year, she officially became a part of our dairy farm. She settled in here beautifully, and not to mention, she milks like a dream. So this morning, I thought I'd bring you along with me as I head out to milk this girl and show you guys a bit of our daily routine. Look who is waiting at the gate already. Luna! She's already waiting. Good morning everybody! It is 6.50. I am about to go let Miss Luna in to this little area right here before we bring her into milk. Now she's always up here first, okay, because the farm she used to be at, she got milked at like 5 a.m., so that's what her routine is, but that's not what our routine is, so she thinks she's going to be milked at 5 a.m., but we have to work on getting back onto our routine and teaching her what time we get up and what time we milk, so. If anything, we're late to her. But yeah, she's always up first, and I'm going to let her in. Then we got all the other girls down there waiting to be milked, so. What are you doing? Let's get started. Head up to the barn. Welcome to the milk barn. We've got our two stanchions in here and then stalls, and then we got our little hayloft up here. But I got to get feed in the stanchion for Luna. Let's set up this milk cart, and we're going to put her feed in. Now, I do want to point out that dairy cows are creatures of habit, which means they thrive on consistent routines, from when it's time to be milked to when it's time for bed. They know our schedule down to the minute. That's why Luna is always the first one at the gate, because her milking routine started around 5.30 a.m. at her old farm. Now, cows are also incredibly smart and fast learners, so within a day or two, she will learn our milking schedule. That was good. She is a good girl, you guys. All right. I'm going to lock her head in, and then we're going to get started. So, now we're going to go in with our... Now we're going to strip her out, and we're almost ready to put the machine on her. Okay. Her udder is all clean. Now, I'm going to turn the machine on, and we're going to get started. So, as I milk the udder, we'll get a bit softer. Right now, it's kind of hard, but as it gets softer, I am going to have to massage each quarter, just to get everything out all the way. I'm just pressing on her gently. Individual quarter, I make sure I get really good, light pressure. All right. Last thing we got to do is strip her out, and then spray our teat disinfectant on there, and then we're going to let her out, and get ready for the next cows. You're always so good. Yeah. This is just to get any excess milk out. All right. I'm going to grab our teat disinfectant, right here. Our fight back. Don't hit your hips. Can I just let her go in here? You're free, baby girl. Oh. Nope. She says, no camera, please. All right, Luna. Good girl. Yeah. Good girl. All right, now that Luna is done, me and my mom are going to quickly milk the last two cows, and then I'm going to bring the milk up, and show you guys how we filter and rapid chill it. So, we're good to go. Good job, mama. As y'all can see, everybody is waiting. That was the oddest crow I've ever heard. What do we have here? Hello, sir. Hello. He is basking in the sun, you guys. Okay, so we are back in the house. I'm about to filter the milk into our rapid chill tank, and I'm going to show you guys how that works. So, let's get started. All right, we've got our 30-gallon rapid chill tank right here. All right, I've got our filter right here. We're opening it right here through the top. And as you guys can see, the milk will go in here, it will get filtered, and then it will go into this big rapid chill tank. All right, I'm going to turn it on real quick. It will turn on as we go. Which is pretty cool. We don't want to overflow it, so we're just doing a little bit at a time. Going good so far. And then at the end, I will measure to see how many gallons we've got. So, this is our last of the milk. So, all it's doing is turning that milk and chilling it. All right, now we are going to measure how many gallons we got. Most dairies measure in pounds, but we measure in gallons, so. Got our measurer right here. I'm going to stick it in, and let's see. So, we got past the 10, as y'all can see. Almost to 11, I think. It would be 11. That's what we normally get when we milk all three. We got 10.4 gallons. So. All right, Maddie's going to do the carts. Good morning, Maddie. Morning. And while we wait for the rapid chiller to do its thing, then we are going to jar the milk. So, until then, we're good to go. 30 minutes has definitely passed, and it is time to jar the milk. I've got a whole basket of jars right here. And I really think this is a very cool process, so I'm excited to show you guys how we do it. As you guys can see, we have this long spout right here coming off of it. I just turn this knob, and it fills up the jar. So, let's get started. Wow. Those look very nice. Yep. All gone, you guys. Well, that's all of it. All right. Good to go, you guys. Okay. The drawing is done. All I have to do now is just fill this thing up with hot water and rinse it out. And, well, that's how we clean it. It's all basically complete. That is how we filter, rabbit chill, and jar our raw milk. Very nice. Empty. I don't know where she went. Well, you guys, that comes to the end of today's video. Thank you guys so much for watching. I hope you all enjoyed it. I know I did. I love filming and milking the cows at the same time. But especially introducing our new cow, Miss Luna. I don't know if you all can see, but she's all the way in the back right there. And then we got the rest of the girls up here. We are so blessed to have Luna on our farm. And we hope you guys enjoy her as much as we do in more videos to come. Please make sure you like, comment, and subscribe. And there will definitely be more milking videos to come. Bye, guys. It is so windy out. I don't even know why. It's just so windy.