1st Time Milking the Cow in NEW! Mobile Milker

Oh, Randall finished our mobile milking station yesterday. You guys want to give it a try today? We're going to give it a try. Okay, we open this end up per Joel Salatin's suggestion. We only need a shade cloth right here. We extended the roof, it's, it's a foot wider on either side just to give them a little more shade. But it— you'll notice it's tin. Cows don't need full-on blockage. But, uh, the reason I kept that is because we want to stay dry while we're milking, right? I think that today is the day. I think we, um, try it out today. What do you think? Yeah, rain or shine, we're gonna be milking rain or shine anyway. Hey, are you guys done? Yeah, you did all the little animal chores? Wow. So y'all are wanting to play with your RCs, but you got to pick up the house first. Okay, I'll let you cut out on chores, but you got to do that house spectacularly. Okay, we have it here on tape. I'm gonna inspect. Do you want to be here for when we do the milking? No, it's no big deal. First time mobile milking legit on the Holler Homestead.

We've done it up in the woods, remember, with Violet. Oh, we tied to tree. We tied her to the tree.

Yeah, I know. So, all right, all right, this is a little different. I thought— Buenos días, mi amigo. Buenos días. Arun's putting up the net right there. I'm gonna go ahead and string trim a line, especially right through here. It gets crazy. We're gonna go right up through here with our line, so we're gonna mow that down so to not bog down our fence. I just pulled a Boots. I got to string trimming— for him it would be mowing— it just didn't stop. Oh yeah, I got like 3 or 4 days ready for us. But in the meantime, Brune set up this net. We got our cows in. They are no kidding around, happy. They got them. Oh, that's right, you were picking up the net. Yeah, they just want to come in. You just gave in. Yeah, I said I don't want to fight. You don't want to pick a fight with a couple 1,200-pound— especially with this thermal. See, I didn't give them enough. So yeah, I mean, cows basically took this down. Gotta put the sheep in here. I give them a little more according to what they were doing. They— guys, it's every day you move, every day you say, okay, did I give them enough? Did I give them too little? How did I know I didn't give them enough? Well, they ate this all down to the ground. There's no like cow edibles left, and their sides on their left, right in front of their leg, was indented. More than usual, and that's their first stomach. And so if they're eating and happy, that first stomach will be full. Aunt Phyllis is kind of a bad judge. She's always got an indention there, so it's harder to tell. Flossy though does not. But today you could tell pretty good she's hungry. You want that to be full. I mean, it's maybe not going to be full after a rest, after things have gone through, but generally you want that to be full all the time. Arun, you know how to call sheep? Sheep, sheep. Yeah, let's hear it. Oh look, you don't even have to call it. I don't even have to call it. Sheep, sheep, sheep, sheep, sheep. There you go. Go ahead. Now they're getting trained. Sorry guys, we don't have— but surprising, look, there's stuff in here for them. There's balm of Gilead, there's multiple flora rose. They love that. That's the really cool thing about sheep, they can eat grass They can eat bramble. Look, she's eating that weed down there. The cows were not gonna touch that. I don't think there's enough in here for them, so we are gonna bring them a bit of hay. Oh, oh, I think you missed it just barely. Look at that. Oh my gosh, I don't understand how much I love these sheep right now. This is just stuff that would have been left behind, mowed down. Now it's grass-fed lamb. Silvo pasture, the future of our farm. Just don't they look happier? Mr. Brown, he's, he's ready. You ready, Mr. Brown? He needs some water. We gotta go milk stuff. Oh, I'm gonna sneak in. I'm gonna sneak in while you distract him. Why wasn't it going in?

It's getting in.

It's getting in. Okay, it's getting in. Brynn's taking back seat to the string trimmer. Yeah, this is the one place we don't want to put the string trimmer in the very back because we carry hay in there and what if some fuel got in there? So we put it down there at the bottom and it kind of wedges in here and kind of wedge in on this. There, nice. So we're about to take the Go Milk But I remembered I, I set out marrow bones for moose, and then I remembered— I told you this book was going to be my new best friend— The Fat Kitchen. It does have a bone marrow recipe, and it's not too complicated. We're gonna get the marrow out of the bones. There's a plain, just get the marrow in just like 15 minutes at 450 in the oven. Then there's also a marrow butter where you mix the marrow with butter. You could do herbs. I'm not going to do herbs. I'm gonna do salt and make a spread that you put on steaks, and then we're gonna have a moose ribeye tonight. Moose, moose, sorry, old steer, uh, with marrow butter on it. Oh, look who's here! Hey, where you guys been?

Oh well, okay, remote controls, but then somebody—

look, the house looks very good right here. We're even going down here. It's looking good. Bathroom's kind of good. Uh-oh, Teddy's not gonna help the situation. Can we get Teddy out? Oh, do not let him jump on Mom's made bed. Is he under the bed?

Yeah, he's right here. No, no, here he comes.

He comes.

How's your room? The room could use a little bit of touch-up, but you're getting there. But look, guys, Did you forget? Did you forget the guest room slash toy room? Come here. You guys did a good job. You had a little break, you played with your RC car. Now can you finish this room? We're gonna carry some stuff out there. Thank goodness for Sally. So we gotta prepare a little more. We're gonna have a reservation tank. What you need? Yeah, sure. And then we're gonna have two collection tanks in case she steps in one or something. We'll have the other one because there's no just walking up the stairs to come back in the house to wash a bucket. Oh, brothers. Or people who don't want to go get another cup out. Just add that in there, Lily. If this works, I mean, we're gonna, we're gonna smoothify. We'll have some sort of container or something we can take in and outside. We'll probably take coolers, cool it off fast.

I don't know.

I mean, did you get us some twine? Uh, that might do. Let's get a little extra just in case. I'm gonna get us another twine. Oh look, is this what y'all have been doing? Yeah, you guys set that up and I'm gonna find this twine. Just in case we need a bit more. Let's do this.

Whoa!

All right, I've recruited everybody. I think this is a special day. I think they need to be out here when we do this, take a break from their RC. I think this is a neat moment. It's about to happen on this farm. Okay, I praised Sally yesterday. I praised my wife for calling it. This just wouldn't be happening without Sally. This mobile station stanchion net system, it just wouldn't be happening. Somebody had some more, I reckon. You added more?

No, no.

All right, wait, are you gonna ride that off the roof? You sure it won't crush? Yeah. All right, okay, let's see. Yeah, do not— hey, do not hit Mama's car. I'm not.

Oh yeah, here goes nothing.

Here it goes. Whoa, is it okay? The COVID came off of it. Yeah, okay, that's fine. Come here, come, everybody squeeze in. We got plenty of room. All right, here's the plan, guys. We're gonna leave this here. We still gotta put plastic, uh, decking on the bottom. And this is going to be where Randall's going to have to access it. Let's flip it around though, so the head gate's this way. And then, uh, what else? Oh, and you know, it's more level here for our first time milking into this thing.

Yeah, let's just flip it.

I have to pull it past. They're having the time of their life having Teddy chase that RC.

I'm—

pull it past, then hook it up one more time and back.

Oh, pull it.

This will be her first time, so she's gonna have to be trained to this. So we're gonna have to set up some temporary lines to funnel her into there. We've got it set up. This is definitely more work now, but once she gets trained to this, they're gonna go right in. I have some ideas to use the nets out in the field, but right now we've got a little bit of funnel. She's never been in this before for a milking. She's going to come down through this funnel. Lily's going to lure— you're going to lure with the alfalfa there. Wait, I maybe need you with the calf, and then you and I and Arun and Josiah, we'll go up and get the calf. We're gonna get the calf on a halter and get the calf at her head too, give her another incentive. This could go really rough. This might could go really smooth. So we'll get Phyllis coming down this road, she goes by the calf Let's let the calf out. Okay. And when Phyllis stops to let the calf nurse, then we'll rope off to the calf. You got him, Arun? Yeah, I got it. There we go. Come on, Mama, get Mama out. Okay, so far so good. Here, here, I'll let the calf out right here. There's a gate right here, Mama. Hang tight. Okay, come on, calf. Come on, Polly. Oh my, it's going super smooth. Here we go, we're gonna let her stand still for the nursing.

We'll catch Polly.

We won't normally have to use the rope halter, or just because we're going— we're leading them away. Normally I think I'll pull the shelter and just let the cows through one at a time. Put the shelter at the joint and they'll walk right in. All right, let's go. Let's keep her to the left of Sally. Come on, come on, come on, come on. There we go, there we go, there we go. Good girl. Okay, I think she'll get funneled right in. Show her the alfalfa, Lily. Okay, here we go. Okay, first funnel. All right, hey, she squeezed you just like All right, there we go, there we go. Look at that. Oh, oh, oh, get the— get— oh, we did it! First step. That's a big moment. Okay, tie, uh, her up at her head. There's no board on either side, so hopefully she's gonna sit still for us. I think I gotta get one of those bee— it's called a bee stool. Where you tie it to your body and it only has one leg. It'd be good for uneven surfaces, being able to walk around moving with her. We're gonna perfect this if this works. I know, I'm gonna, I'm gonna get her washed and then let you do it, okay? Okay, so, so far she's, she's sitting here while I— she's not moving around. Give her a lot of alfalfa. Okay, go for it, honey. Look at this. Hey, we didn't have to walk all the way over there. She's got the calf fire head. How is it, Lily?

Good.

Hey, now our milking together scene changes. We'll change every day. How about that? Now we gotta get us some of those cool stools. Look at that, 2.5-gallon reservoir there. I'm gonna have to run it back home. We gotta cool it off fast. I think in the future we might bring a cooler out. That went so smooth, guys. That was like incredibly smooth. We got her in sideways like this. I didn't think about that, but we both got under the shelter. She stayed right there the entire time. I think she liked it better. What's your impression of milking out here, partner?

Good.

You enjoyed it? Wouldn't that be fun to be on a new grassy spot every day?

Yeah.

Did you notice something, Lily? She didn't pee, she didn't poop.

She get a kick?

So I think she's less stressed. And guys, we aren't even in the pasture with everybody else. She's gonna be even less thrilled. Cool. And now we don't have to— all we got to do is walk her from here to there, not from way down there to there. This is a win. Just like that. Let's go. Come on, come on. There you go. All right. Oh, she want— she's got a little residue of alfalfa, but I think you've had plenty of alfalfa. Oh yeah, she knows what to do. Yeah, Rebecca. Yes, it worked splendid. Did it? So good. It couldn't have gone any better. Not one bit better. That makes me very happy. It went perfect.

And guess how much milk we got?

How much? 2 and a half gallons. Wow. On today's episode of Burn It Up Cooking Show from my new best friend Fat Kitchen, bone marrow. And not just bone marrow. Bone marrow—

Daddy, out!

Okay, let him out. Is he dry?

A little.

Oh no, he's not dry. There we go, that's better. That's better. Do it until he's good and dry. Okay, back to our show. So let's set this oven to 450. It's incredibly easy to make this. We've got our oven heated up now. Bones, marrow side up. You can see the marrow in there, marrow side up. So I guess we just asked for the marrow bones from the butcher when we sent in our cow. She put them in a nice bag for us. Let's hope this balances. I'm gonna put in here 450 for 15 minutes. Okay, just like that, the 15 minutes are over. Oh wow, impressed!

I think it actually works.

I was a little afraid these were maybe too tall and long, but it worked. Well, let's check. Let's see if those are soft. Okay, we should be able to dig it out. I'm gonna be able to dig that out. Wow, yes! This has cooled off adequately. I'm getting the marrow out. See, that looks good. That's good and white. That's what I remember from my experience, but there is some red in there like this. Oh, especially— oh, like maybe in the middle of the bones it didn't get cooked. I don't know, babe. I don't know enough about this. Most of it's white, so I think I blend it. No, you don't want to look at that yet. I don't even want to look at that yet. It looks kind of disgusting right now, but I think we're gonna blend it. I feel like maybe I need to bake that red out a little bit.

Yeah.

Timer's going off. I smell it. Oh boy, shoot. Did I cook it too much? I cooked it too much. Well, it's congealed. It's turned into oil. Ah, took it too far. So Here's what I'm gonna do. We're gonna blend all— we're gonna blend those anyway, so I don't need any chunks. So let's— it's gonna call for a half a stick of butter. Instead of melting it on the stove, I think now I can put it in here and it'll melt. So hot. So we're gonna make it— it was oily, now it's gonna be even more oily. I don't have much patience, so let's cut it up. Oh yeah, it's softening big time. That's working, but I realize I'm gonna have to let this cool. It doesn't need to be blazing hot going into the blender, so I'm gonna let that cool. That's gonna melt, and then we'll put it in the blender. Let's give it 10 minutes. All right, my timer went off. It looks like the butter's melted. That's definitely cooled off. Let's blend this thing. You know what we're missing? Salt.

I'm gonna pulverize this so there's no more—

All right, I'm just gonna pour it in this. And let it cool off, harden up. Butterfly. All right, I just finished cooking the ribeye. This is Moose's ribeye that came out looking good. Tomorrow butter, after it dried, after it came to room temperature, I stirred it up and it's a nice cream.

Let's try it.

That's a very nice way to mix it up. Get different nutrients. Very nice way to mix up a carnivore diet, for sure.

It's tasty.

Did anybody like it?

Yeah.

Josiah's got a big chunk. What? The marrow butter. You like it? All right, you're gonna finish it? That's the question. Dip it in there. You tried it, are you gonna finish it? Who will finish their marrow butter?

I don't like it.

I'm trying to get down to the truth.

I don't like it.

Grandma, will you finish your marrow butter?

Yes, it's tasty.