Yes I've done that in the past, works great.

Alas, it will take less than an hour for the cows to figure out how to pick pick up that bucket and carry or drag it along through the paddock. They are both curious and incredibly destructive!

To keep the wood chips, mixed in the flooding water, away from the pump wheel, I put a woven sack around the pump. The darned chips were floating in from above the bucket. Yes, it was deep 😱

I was going to say the same, but a washtub.

That’s a great idea.

The overhead shot makes everything make so much more sense relationally

Couldn't agree more, no good for the animals too. Great video .

Whoever invented plastic should have to clean up that mess in the Indian Ocean 😡

Maybe his father would do an interview.

Friesland flag would be nice touch.

That is a great idea!!!

😂 Where’d the other half go??! 😂😂😂 💨 💨 🇨🇦

The cows are saying they think conditions are horrendous this time of year - they are right

Ok, all you metal craftsmen and craftswomen, get busy making that 😅

I was wondering if a long-term plan could be to gently slope each paddock toward the center. Then in spring, it would almost develop into a small creek running through the center of all the paddocks to the end, there you could lead it to a holding pond or even pump it into the manure lagoon. Have to keep it a very gentle slope, so cows don't slip. Also make sure that where the creek goes under the fence between paddocks that there is no way for a cow to get caught there or to escape under the fence into another paddock. Would be some work, but might be a pretty natural, maintainable way to improve drainage in the outside paddocks.

It can’t handle the straw - it’s liquids only. Great idea, though! The lot of us viewers can solve this problem - keep your thinking cap on!!

He's said many times. 🐮

@@GAF19577 guess I missed it!!;;😞

@@phyllishalley8972 I'm going to say 320 Milking Cows.

​@@GAF19577ty .. looks like a lot more😊

@@phyllishalley8972 In total they typically have between 750 to 1,000 head of cattle. Including all the calves, heifers, dry cows and steers.

Sounds like my kind of weather! 🥶

I think it's just dirt. The cost of a cement floor for the whole 8 paddocks would be tremendous!

There are feedlots in Europe. They're just not as common as they are here in North America. They take good care of their outdoor cattle. They provide dry bedding every time that it rains, or snows. Which is very costly.

Wellcome to spring on the Canadian prairies. We had a fair amount of snow in the last month of winter. Then we had unseasonably warm temperatures which caused a very fast melt. When that happens the ground underneath is still frozen so the moisture cannot soak in and all sits on top creating conditions like you see now. A week ago we had no snow and I was thinking of planting potatoes. This week we got another snow storm and now again the ground is covered in 8 inches of new snow. Next week is supposed to be + 17 C so the process will repeat itself. I would guess 90 % of the livestock in the prairies live outside 365 days of the year winter and summer and do just fine. If you provide a wind break they can handle - 40 C. Very few farms other than dairy’s have barns anymore so housing animals like they do in the EU is not an option.