Morning Chores on a Dairy Farm

Do you make your bed everyday? Well cows get fresh clean bedding everyday. This job is not an easy job to do but it is a necessary one. This is what is implied:

1. Shovel
2. Scraper
3. Sawdust
4. Pails
5. Milk replacer
6. Scale

Bring the cows off the stalls and lock them by the feed alley. When all the cows are off the stalls, then you grab the scrapper and scrap the stalls, you need to scrape off all the sawdust and all the manure off the stalls.

Next Step is to scrap the slats, you need a shovel and you scrap the ends of all the stalls. This is so the cows don’t get really dirty tails when they are lying on the stalls. While scraping the stalls, the fetch pen for the robot gets scraped out along with the alley out of the robot and the floor of the robot.

When the stalls are all clean out they need to be bedded. There is a cart full of sawdust that needs to be pulled onto the slats and you fill the shovel with sawdust and bed 3 stalls with one shovel full. This needs to be done the whole way down. Once you have completed the stalls on both sides of the barn you let the cows go back onto the stalls.

Walk to the milk house and fill a pail with water, then weigh out 1.5 kg of milk replacer. Dump into the pail of water and mix it up until there are no more clumps of milk replacer. Fill 3 bottle fulls and bring to the hutches and feed the 3 calves.

When the calves are done drinking, grab the bottles and wash in warm soapy water.

Go over to the heifer pens and push up the hay and feed more hay to them. Carry hay over to the wooden sheds. Now you can go into the house and eat breakfast.