This content was created by Victor Justin Rhodes. This content was uploaded by Victor Justin Rhodes. This is a YouTube vlog titled "What am I Gonna Do With All this Milk!? 4+ Gallons a Day" (uploaded 2025-08-17). The excerpt is an informal homesteading/farm video in English featuring a host narrating farm work with family members (children named Austin, Josiah, Henry, Jonah and mentions of Ruth Ann, Gideon, etc.). Topics covered include milking cows (about 4 gallons), separating calves, securing pens and nets, preparing to make butter, mozzarella and ice cream from the cream, managing pigs and pig pens, and an evening family pizza/meal—a day-in-the-life, instructional/diary-style farm vignette.
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That's 3 gallons of jars. I'm gonna set out 2 more. I'm very hopeful of milking time this morning. No He-Man to bust through the fence. We've separated both calves. It could be as much as 4 gallons. Is the little calf still over? We only put— we just had to put the, uh, Honey's calf with the sheep and didn't have to do an extra net. Because there's no He-Man to pull up the net between the cows and sheep. I'm anxious right now because we're not there. Cows get over, they can still get each other. But once we get out there, it's going to be a real good feeling because we're, we're back to our normal systems and we're back to plenty of milk. Yes, we made it up here! We made it! We put the this calf in a physical cage. What, what, first week or so? Yeah, separating, it's just too much pressure when they're first getting separated. The boys really like their independence out here, so much so they don't like me here. Always— would you rather I go away? No, I'd rather you get your net. Okay, all right, I'll take it. As long as I let y'all be the boss. How many gallons you think we'll get? 4. You think we'll get 4? We've got to close this gap from there around this tree and over there. Hopefully I have enough net. Well, that took forever. No wonder they put me on that job. That was probably at least 30 minutes, that net was so tangled. How much milk do we get? Did we overflow the reservoir? Yeah. Heck yes! I think the reservoir is 2.5 gallons, 10 liters. How much is that, Austin? Okay, they got me on the grunt work. Hey, they're the boss, they're taking responsibility. Austin, I don't know, you may get 4 gallons when you milk this week. You guys can handle it. This feels so good. 2 pails of milk. Nobody even tempted the fence last night. I would like to say I slept really well, but I was still really nervous since we're just coming off the back of it. We just put up— we just put up cat— her calf for the first time. But I'm gonna start sleeping better and better. This is amazing. Feels great. Now we gotta go see how much that is. Wait, Henry, you want me to come get you? We're just going back. Come here, stinker. What are you doing wearing Gideon's town shoes? So is that where Mr. Brown's shoes have been going? You've been taking them? All right, let's go see how much milk this is. I'm gonna say 3 and 3/4. That'll be 3 gallons. I'm gonna say 5. What just happened? 1 gallon, 2 gallons, 3 gallons, 4 gallons. 4 gallons. I remember when I was at Ruth Ann's, one thing she said to me off camera, she said, my morning task after milking is just figuring out what to do with all this milk. What are we going to do with the milk today? So what are we going to do with the milk today? We might wait a little bit and we'll get all that cream too. How many do we have in here already? Okay, we need a good half a gallon of cream, so you might have it from just this. I think we do because we already have a quart up there. So you know what we're going to do with the milk today? We're going to make butter. I learned that your You want your cream not crazy cold, certainly not 40 degrees or it'll take forever to churn. But I never knew there was a sweet spot, so I went to Ruth Ann's. She thought it was 60, which is interesting enough. I looked it up on Grok, it's 50 to 60. We're actually at 52 now that we've mixed everybody. We're a little warm. I'm gonna wait till it gets 60. I like that number. Set a timer for 10 minutes. I feel like Ruth Ann just knew. She never took a temp. She could just feel it and she just would know. That's what happens when it didn't skip a generation. Her mom still does this. It didn't skip a generation. It's invaluable. Remember how to do it, Josiah? Yeah. As you may know if you watch this show— happy, happy 15th day of Grow 30, by the way. How Haven't gone to the grocery store in 15 days. Nice. Handy to have these guys. We're having a good day today. Okay, yesterday, if you watch the show, you know the breeder pigs got out. I kind of jerry-rigged it back together, but the mama pig is about to give birth. She could give birth soon. So instead of really fixing that pig port Fixing it, fixing it. No, no, let's put them in the pole barn. I can't. We can put Mama Pig where— we'll put Mama Pig over here and Beefcake over here, and they're still close to each other. They are herd animals. We have to rig this up too somehow. Is that wrong? That looks huge. I would get your gate. I would get your gate out to know exactly where that goes. We like to keep our pigs in the pole barn. We just got wood chips down. When we had him in there and we didn't want him to breed her, she— he busted through this. So how you gonna secure that? You could get up that beat-up gate he did and put it on that side. But you know what, they don't have the internet. They're pretty bored. Let's give them a TV then. We get pretty close to our data level. I don't think we can add any more screen time, not for pigs. Good call, Josiah. He said he ain't gonna walk by him. You're not gonna walk by him, buddy. You're gonna crawl, climb over the fence. He's huge. Good job on the front panels, boys. It feels really good to have them in secure pens separated for these new babies. We're just having a good day today. We are having a day full of wins. Yeah, I'm just getting to— the more this day progresses, the better I'm gonna sleep tonight. Getting secure, getting secure. Butter, here we come. I just started it, about 61 degrees. I'm putting on my timer to see how long it takes. Another thing we want to do is catch it right when it breaks. The cream will separate, or the— I guess it'll turn into butter, and then I don't know how to describe that. Turns into butter and separates it, and then the rest is buttermilk. That was quick, 5 minutes. Let's see if it, uh, separates nice. What we want is to be non-sticky when we go to press all those. This is amazing! This is like clay. It's not sticking to my hands at all. It's going to be a pleasure to press. I'm excited about this next trick I learned at Ruth Ann's. I learned so much about milk. I feel like we have our field systems down and milking down, not processing so much. I've been squeezing this to get the milk out of it, and I learned from Ruthann I don't need to do that. And we just— she just went like this. It's basically opening up the pores by rubbing. We're not so much pressing. Cornbread? No, I think they might— I don't think— no. Oh, pizza crust. That's right. It's family fun night pizza, and I think we have all the mozzarella this time from our farm. Just poured an excess of lamb broth. Well, yeah, and all this milk means ice cream. We got cream, we got cream for making butter, we got cream for making ice cream. Homemade gluten-free crust. We are coming into the evening family fun night. Let's see, is that going to be enough mozzarella? We made our own mozzarella from our own cows. You got to make it last for 4 pizzas. Let's try. I think it'll do it. What'd you do, go with more toppings? Basil, tomatoes? It could be. I'm gonna make a salad. And it's ready. Every single pizza. All the mozzarella from the land. Yep. Good job, darlin'. I made all of the mozzarella. Good job, boys. Hey boys, well deserved Friday fun night. Look, all that milking, all that moving the nets. Here it is. It's hard. Homesteading is hard. Growing your own food is hard, but so is going doing office work solo to pay for food. I would rather us work hard and grow food together and be together. Jonah, what do you think? Worth the hard work? Yes. Do you want to just call Domino's? No, this is worth it. Because if we call Domino's, I gotta go get that job. But Domino's isn't even nearly as good as this, is it, babe? No. Yes, so good. So many wins today. 4 gallons of milk, pigs in the pig port, or pigs in the pill barn, pizza from the land. I love it. Happy day.
