Ridgefield dairy

[Hendrik1293]

First off this isnt privately owned like most dairy's. looks like it might be a government owned one since there is a viewing deck and all that and since everything is indoor and high tech. Highly doubt it to be privately owned

[Vinnytcnag]

do you find the parlour suits the number cows you have?

[Sherbert0102]

nice set up

[fred2104amelia]

I want this farm!! = Life ambition! Finish Uni, then save my pennies, then construct!! Freds Peds!! :)

[kroneking127]

big old impressive farm, shame farms like this are doing the small family ran farms out of business

[TommyKLG]

@kroneking127

Not really.....They sold up a few years ago now!!

[friesiancowboy]

@kroneking127

Really? there is only 250 cows on this farm... and I work on one with 120 and it isnt that much of a diffrence

[liajam081]

bit of a big tractor to be pulling that feeder! we pull our keenan which is miles bigger than that with a jd 6100 2wd! you could pull that with the ford you see in the video

[droverC13]

you dont milk very many cows over there do you

[MegaMoto4]

the only thing wrong with this place is the cows are on concrete too much.

[Farmer872]

@MegaMoto4 you've obviously never been to a farm have you?

[MegaMoto4]

@Farmer872 actuallly i have in fact I go to one every day of the week where i work and the cows there are only on concrete during milkings after that they are free to go to pasture and we milk 130 cows

[Farmer872]

I was looking in farmers weekly and i saw that ridgefield is for sale

[vulcan1429]

Cows need to listen to music at all times. Mozart is the best. Music piped in to their living area greatly reduces stress and increases milk production.

[rakerman102]

How far apart are the free stalls in your barn

[prolwer1]

This is state of the art, The way it should be on any farm clean and animals taking care of

[accediaccediaccedi]

COMPLIMENTI

[estrellablanca]

wow those cows seem highly educated unlike the ones we have here, cool

[updrumgath]

if anything thats too clean. i personally believe you need to expose them to a bit of dirt and keep the immune system ticking over. also agree with many of the comments below, its more like farm managing than farming these days

[chutney674]

i wish people could see farmers not as evil souless barstards who stamp on bunnies and dont care about their animals and see them as people whos first priority when they get up is to make sure the cows are fed milked and beded down. farmers want to and have to care about the enviroment, as if a very tiny amount of muck is found in a nearby stream, their fined, there and then.

[ocurro]

me hace estremecer que la gente crea que este tipo de mierda es lo que los animales se merecen. pero lo bueno es que todo cambia. esto con tiempo tmb lo hará

[chutney674]

oh men i would love a farm like that!! they dont look like theyre milking a lot of cows thou. at the mo we r milking 300 cows but we have a shit palour

[nogerdsurg]

What is wrong with the 8 people who voted against this. This was very very nice,the animals have excellent living arangements and milking is also state of the art. The place was spotless. I love this place. This is how God's creatures should live, and may God bless the owners, and the workers. The only thing is that you all need more cows.I pray that maybe some of the poor cows from factory farms could come there.

[ocurro]

@nogerdsurg you're deranged, you're like a baby who knows nothing. "perfect for cows?" it's perfect for the people who live on exploiting them, thinking it's ok while animals don't care for hygiene, they care for being free. anyway. you ppl will never understand. yes, i'm a vegan

[jason51399]

@nogerdsurg ur a fukin ass hole not every1 can afford a placelike that

[jason51399]

@nogerdsurg ur a fukin ass hole not every1 can afford a placelike that

the cows arent alowed out also

[Farmer872]

@nogerdsurg You don't get it do you, I am a farmer, and I think you will find that this is as YOU say " factory farming, well as you watch this you don't seem to understand this IS factory farming.

These cows don't get out any day of the year. I know this because of the vast amount of a herd there is.

It looks all nice and tidy with your big john deere tractors foddering the cows, but if you saw the farm I own/ work on

[godzac]

@Farmer872 I totally agree. It certainly doesn't look like an ethical farm. They show off all the special equipment, but the cows never get out, they're surrounded by cages, and live on concrete. There is not a single thing which makes the life of a cow PLEASANT here.

[friesiancowboy]

Actually they do, if you reaserched more into the subject, i am a farm worker from wiltshire, i milk 120 holstein x friesian cows give 10,000kg a year on average and they still spend there day/night times on grass april-october, however I do not belive this a factory farm, it has 240 cows, which by todays standards, really isnt that much. Now on to factory farming, these cows are free to wander round, they can eat, sleep, drink or play with a cow brush,

[Farmer872]

@friesiancowboy Play with a cow brush??!! they use it to scratch their head not play with because on our farm the cattle use the feed barrier to scratch not a big fancy brush.......... 80 cows is big in my area not 200

[Farmer872]

@nogerdsurg there is no fancy equipment, all I have are the basic implements. The milking parlour wasn't " specially designed because I actually have an uncle who works for Alfa Laval/ De Laval in Ireland. And to just finish off, it doesn't matter how many cows you milk or rear, you could have a hundred cows , but I am certain the dairy farmer with 30 or 40 milkers will have better heifers. You are taken in by the "INTERESTING" words are conned into believing it all

[friesiancowboy]

So to be honest with you, this farm is a nice place for the cows to live, they arnt like factory farmed pigs and chickens which are in cages.

[Farmer872]

@nogerdsurg Finally, you can't just increasing the herd of cows you want, people who live near farms often complain about the smell of the slurry.

[MrThisIsMeToo]

Conference facility? LMAO is is hardly a farm at 200+ acres.

[DJHARV91]

you know something it's because of these big fuck off dairy farms that we will soon loose all our local dairy farms cause they cant aford the costs.

how does it work when the price of feed mix goes up £40 a ton but the price of milk goes up 0.25p a leter.

[533farmgirl]

beautiful barn (wish it was mine) plus in the most beautiful part of england (i have family living there) very clean healthy cows GREAT JOB

[birdlynn09]

Perfect for who? How would you like to live your life like that?

[ekhaat]

@birdlynn09 I am quite sure that these animals suffer from less stress than their owners; if anything negative, they are probably bored.

Cheers

[SurreyVideo]

Excellent video

[cessnawings67]

Cows like to eat when they are being Milked.

[ScRoTe1992]

@cessnawings67 so do i

[jordyspeedfreak]

@cessnawings67 their not eating their chewing the cud.

[atpchase]

@jordyspeedfreak Oh ok thanx for the correction.

[mahafakir]

These were nice Cows. I'd milk these cows free for a month. I can't afford to stay in England for longer period at my own expense.

[terceira]

they only show the good stuff whers the bad

[asquinas]

vegan are you a fucking assholl or wat

[haarstad88]

nice u can throw a party in the conference room:D

[stevenjo1966]

I collect milk from this farm every night. I have been to some farms over the years collecting milk but this one is something else! I was in awe of it when i first went there. Without a doubt the cleanest farm i've collected milk from & certainly the most modern!

[perezportero]

I agree with you

[bricky99]

is there still someone farming there i thought they had packed up if so how many cows

[VeganButterfly]

"Modern" is not what I'd call a system that exploits females and their reproductive systems for profit and pleasure. In a civilized society, sentient beings would not be treated as property.

[mahafakir]

Ridgefileld dairy needs you to vouch for its cleanliness. Is it why it has put up this video, I'bve seen nothing. So I do not know how clean or dirty this dairy is. And I do not know how their milking parlor looks like. I've seen one of their cows. I'd say it is very tall and very skinny and probably the Ridgefield cows are being starved. That would be a shame since no milk producing cow should be starved.

[rafalur1]

głupia chora niemiecka czystosc,.

[aro9998z]

in which town this farm please i need addresses and more information about this farm please please.thanks.

i look forward to hearing from you soon.

[21202850]

notablee!!

[gaaron1]

i loveeee cows and i really want to be a dairy farmer i work on a dairy farm

[VeganButterfly]

If you love cows, please don't exploit them for their milk. If you love cows you won't treat them as property, force them into pregnancy, steal their children from them, kill their children (or sell them to be killed), and kill the mothers when their milk production declines.

[mahafakir]

These vegans do not drink milk. But they stuff rats and gerbills in to their asses. Most of them are fags and boast aboyt the fact that they are stuffing their asses and vaginas with these poor creatures. They have set up videos on You tube and boast about it on their channels like this girl ellenrebecca or hotcalibabe who have their own google channels. They applaud male fags who boast about the gerbilling of their asses and even let them stuff their vaginas with Gerbills and Rats.

[cessnawings67]

@VeganButterfly Very nice.

[carloled10]

@VeganButterfly how are farmers cruel to cows if they spend months getting silage for them and thousands of pounds worth of things for buildings to hospitalize them and the money they put into machinery.your talking a pile of shit. think of the effort farmers put into taking care of these cows

[jonysevn]

@VeganButterfly cool love cows and badgers, hate agricultural buisnessmen.

[canadianredneck01]

that is one nice dairy

[newholland4life]

tractors a bit big for that wagon i think

[gbain13]

Why they need a conferance room?

[db1490dave]

3:06 is a gd tractor for the feader.

[SamHelliwell]

Whats wrong with a huge tractor on a feeder wagon?! So it burns more diesel, big deal!

[orbit15]

that was really nice, almost makes me want to start milking cows again, thanks. B

[rysunny]

good

[Kilkivantam]

Can I just say that it seems silly to have such a large tractor on a small 10 cubic metre feeder wagon. Especially with the recent high price of red diesel.

[Makemyday0126]

its kinda overkill alright, a 75hp small run about tractor is far better on a feeder like this, burn less fuel and very manouverable.

[kiddi250]

great video..how many cows do you have on your farm for milking and how much time does it take to milk them all ??