Pictures from Spring Valley

Tad · #21 02/18/11, 02:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Up North

Beautiful girls! I can tell you spoil them. I have to say though, I had a set up like that in WI. Don't miss it one bit. I love my parlor! All though, I wish I had your small tank. My 1000 gal tank is absolute overkill with what I'm doing now.

Sounds like us, we got a 1350 gal tank that holds 11,000 + and we ship about 6,000 a day right now. Our co-op had a lien on it so we bought it through them and the payment was $10 a month more than we saved in stop charges to go every other day! $10 a month for 3 years including instalation and it was all ours...how could we turn that down!

Tad · #22 02/18/11, 02:20 PM

Cows look great! We have that same surge pipline control unit. They put it in 2 years after I was born and its still cooking...go ahead and hook her up milk prices are on the rise! Just hope it keeps up with the feed!

springvalley · #23 02/18/11, 03:13 PM

Tad , How many cows are you milking? I would have no room in my milkhouse if I had a tank that big. I have to go get a 100 gallon tank from the neighbors place, hope I can still get it as she passed away this last Tuesday. > Thanks marc

jwal10 · #24 02/18/11, 03:24 PM

Our barn faced out, grain storage on the aisle in a long box. 8 to a side. Grainery on the end and feed ground with a Montgomery Wards hammermill and Farmall H and blown to the wood box. We carried the milk and strained into 10 gal cans. Shipped until 1964 and then seperated and sold cream and raised heifers until 1970. Always loved the sweet small of the barn....James

Tad · #25 02/18/11, 08:54 PM

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Originally Posted by springvalley

Tad , How many cows are you milking? I would have no room in my milkhouse if I had a tank that big. I have to go get a 100 gallon tank from the neighbors place, hope I can still get it as she passed away this last Tuesday. > Thanks marc

We have 70 tie-stalls and all are full, I think we are milking 58 or 59 right now. The most we have ever shipped in one pickup was 7800, thats on every other day pick up. We really have no reason to have one that big but it was a great deal and we were toying with seasonal at the time so we wanted one big enough to take 70 cows peeking on pasture at once.

nobrabbit · #26 02/18/11, 09:17 PM

We're beef cattle people but oh, what I wouldn't give for a beautiful Jersey cow. I have always thought they were so pretty and I would love to have a milker.

Patt · #27 02/19/11, 06:47 PM

That's a lovely well taken care herd of Jerseys! Nice to see. Looks like you have a good setup there too.

Gregg Alexander · #28 02/22/11, 03:56 PM

Nice looking operation Springvalley , only thing I would do is finish the pipeline,lol. I remember the days of carrying milk to the tank. Thought I had died when pop had the pipeline put in.