Tough decision... Bottle calves are mostly an entry path to more profitable endeavors. We have enjoyed you sharing your journey with us! Thank you. Congratulations and Good Luck in your upcoming plans! We will miss you here on TH-cam.
Isaac, I'm glad you're not leaving TH-cam. I have sort of the opposite problem as you. I have the time and money I just don't have the energy to do it all myself (I want to raise fiber goats) and finding reliable help that wants to make money around me in my little pocket of Missouri has been surprisingly difficult. I'm glad you're keeping an eye on your current limitations. Life changes and successful people adapt!
Life is all about making hard decisions. Sounds like you have thought this out and it wasn't a hasty decision. Good luck with your future plans can't wait to watch your journey.
I will miss the videos of the calves, you have taught us well in your videos, about raising bottle calves. I hope all things work out for you in the long run. Thanks for sharing with us.
When I was getting my herd started I had bottle calves too, ironically enough, also for 3 years. Once I hit enough beef cows/heifers it didn't pay to keep bottle calves around, makes sense to keep more of your own heifers. You made the right choice.
We started with bottle calves which is good for the exercise and lots of long days. We switched to low products daily cows and running 4 calves on each . Free up a great deal of time. Which got us onto more projects.
It's sad to see that you aren't continuing with bottle calves, but as a finance major in school I understand there are better investments for you to be making for the farm. Excited for the future!
It seems like they have stayed high for the last 2 years! I don’t see a huge future in it unless someone can get in with a dairy with hundreds of calves in a season and can get them at a discounted price.
@@FarmandHammer Back in the late 50's a neighbor in his teens bought bottle calves from a man who went to MN and brought them back and sold them for $7 each. He bought quite a few and put some out on shares. At that time if the dairy farmer got $3 it was better than hitting them in the head to get rid of them. About 8 years ago, you could still buy them for $50 here in WA State until the price of beef went up.
Be sure to get high health status sheep and build up a closed flock. Have you thought about Dorper sheep. They have an excellent conformation. Will be happy to watch your videos whenever you get the time to post them.
1st~ gr8 hat! 2nd~ gr8 wisdom deciding to carry on in ways that will support you & are sustainable for you given other work/life demands! 3rd~ iWanna simple tell you how much I have learned about bottle calves from you [thankYou] &finaLLy, i am grateFuLL for the misfits that are going to remain... blessing'Z aLLover them &you!
Cool. Change is inevitable in all of us. Thanks fir being honest with yourself. And us. You do you. God bless you and prosper you in the future. I'll be here as long as I can be. Take care of yourself.
Never apologize for growing. The bottle calf enterprise does sound interesting. I wonder if a 13 year old could handle such a challenge with the help of her little brother and sisters. We do have a "hamburger herd" of retired dairy girls, aside from our regular beef production, but we're getting them for .45-.50 per pound. With some reforming, they put out some great burger and tavern steaks.
You have to make the decisions that are right for you and your situation. Looking forward to whatever videos you post in the future and hope to share your new journey with you.
Good luck with your future ventures! If you do go into sheep, Sandi and Sheepishly.Me is great for honest real life of raising sheep. She raises indoors due to coyotes in her area. Her only regret I think when she started was that she didn’t get a better quality breed of sheep that had no disease issues. She’s been breeding trouble ewes out of her flock, but it takes awhile. Just a suggestion to start with the best quality you can afford right off the top. I can’t wait to see what the future holds for you. good luck?👍👍👍🐄🐑
I’ve been watching Sandi’s videos practically since she started! Big fan! But yes, I would be doing things differently than her. I’d be raising them outdoors and would have hair sheep breeds rather than wool. I’m hoping to get ewes from a reputable breeder near me and a ram from Greg Judy. But we will have to wait and see. Thanks for the advice!!
Could you please tell us how you calculate that having a beef cow-calf operation will be more profitable? Hair sheep will be a lot more profitable, because of their efficiency being so much higher, along with great selling prices
I don't know if you it over their but here in Australia we adopt up to six ccalves a time.on cows more if they have milk and once five or so months we do the same again instead of bottle or bucket feeding
You started our right with bottle babies. You have to get your foot in the door to grow your one cloed heard or get diversified. I opened the door to profits with raising meat chickens. A fast return on the investment, 12 weeks from chx to slaughter to sale.
So what you're trying to say is that you need a full time job which today is a 60 hour a week job in order to support your bad farming habit. Focus on the job. Get that pension and Social Security locked up because you'll be old before you know it and what you're trying to do here will get you there even faster.
Good day. I enjoy your videos and have been a subscriber for a while now. On your most recent and in past videos you've talked about your full time job. Just curious what you do for work, aside from farming.
Awesome video both breeds of sheep you mentioned are awesome just put the best dorper ram you can afford on them at least buy your second lamb season I started out whith full blood of both them breeds you mentioned ewes and built my ewe herd up the second year I used a dorper ram and haven't looked back since always using dorper ram on kat st Croix and % dorper ewes the Lamb's grow faster thus cost less money to feed with the dorper put it this way the dorper is like you guys using the Hereford bulls on you black cows they just complement each other the kat and the st Croix ahead better but the dorper influence equal growth so they both component each other on hair sheading and grown making awesome F1 and F2 females for breeding when putting legs of lamb and chops on the grown fast out the ram lambs .. St Croix are kind like the diary of the hair sheep the ewes don't look like much but put a dorper ram on them they will when better looking lambs and produce nice F1 ewes to build your herd we get st Croix here an avg 50 -100 cheaper at market and just worm and hoof bath the ewes and age them and we tsake 2-5% back to auction and the rest we run on fire danger grazing project's and run a dorper ram on them we could do the same with goats but goats cost more if a coyote eats one or someone steals one its a bigger loss so if we have any goats we keep them close to home
Just selling out the half dairy heifers. I’ll still be in the cow calf business and will be adding sheep this year to diversify a bit. Of course there is fescue seed season right around the corner as well.
@@FarmandHammer i still think I would think long and hard about that because now you will need to sheer them. There is no way out of that. With feeder you just need to feed them or good pasture. 🤠🤠🤠🤠
Hey i saw you said u rent acreage from your dad i want to do the same just wondering how do u determine rent cost like does that work if u can give me insight on it
When this small jag of heifer's get old anough you should run your nabors bull on them make a small jag of eysey calving minis be good for TH-cam video likes and keeping your channel monitised ..but def get you a small jag of hair ewes don't buy know tho buy hay know and buy in the drought I did that this got 5 ewes to add to my herd avg 85 each price sold one for 100 the next day for meat the others 4 I got 7 live healthy lambs from then I got to keep the ewe Lamb's and sell the rams at 2 +$ a lbs and sell them same ewes for 125 vs the 85 dollar investment
No more pigs for this year (freezers are full of pork). But we are planning on getting quite a few spring 2022 to raise and sell. Some new animals I’ll be getting this year are sheep.
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Just to answer questions in advance. Yes I will STILL be posting farming videos on TH-cam! I just won’t be posting bottle calf videos anymore.
whew! thankGooDness...
Sounded as though you were leaving. Glad you'll still be making some videos. It has to be hard working full time along with everything else. Thanks!!!
😉Change is good & you can never plan something to last forever cause you never know what the future holds esspecially like 2020!
Tough decision... Bottle calves are mostly an entry path to more profitable endeavors. We have enjoyed you sharing your journey with us! Thank you. Congratulations and Good Luck in your upcoming plans! We will miss you here on TH-cam.
I’ll still be on TH-cam. I’ll just be posting farming videos, just not bottle calves!
I’m glad you will carry on with TH-cam, I’m looking forward to your next chapter! Stay safe and keep well!!!
Good luck with your new venture. I think you've made a right decision. You're young and have good work ethic.
Good decision!! Farming and ranching can be a hobby or a business. I think only you know the best for your operation. You are smart and will do great!
Isaac, I'm glad you're not leaving TH-cam. I have sort of the opposite problem as you. I have the time and money I just don't have the energy to do it all myself (I want to raise fiber goats) and finding reliable help that wants to make money around me in my little pocket of Missouri has been surprisingly difficult. I'm glad you're keeping an eye on your current limitations. Life changes and successful people adapt!
Change is good. Can’t wait to see what lies in the future. :-) Hope all goes well! 🙏🏽🤗
So happy that you will be continuing to post farm videos! Wishing you the very best in your future plans!
Life is all about making hard decisions. Sounds like you have thought this out and it wasn't a hasty decision. Good luck with your future plans can't wait to watch your journey.
We all change who we are and what we do in our lifetimes, best wishes on the " New You"
I will miss the videos of the calves, you have taught us well in your videos, about raising bottle calves. I hope all things work out for you in the long run. Thanks for sharing with us.
When I was getting my herd started I had bottle calves too, ironically enough, also for 3 years. Once I hit enough beef cows/heifers it didn't pay to keep bottle calves around, makes sense to keep more of your own heifers.
You made the right choice.
Good luck dude you will do good in your next venture. Just work hard and it will be alright
It's all about managing your business.
What works for you.
Keep Smilin!
Whatever works or looks like it could bring you a better ROI, more power to you!!! Best
Of luck!
Congratulations!!! You do what makes you happy. Continue what you do best.
We started with bottle calves which is good for the exercise and lots of long days. We switched to low products daily cows and running 4 calves on each . Free up a great deal of time. Which got us onto more projects.
Awsome, I'm excited for your new step. Can't wait
It's sad to see that you aren't continuing with bottle calves, but as a finance major in school I understand there are better investments for you to be making for the farm. Excited for the future!
Yeah bottle calves cost high. From grow out to pay out. It's good to watch you grow, and keep it alive. Thank you
It seems like they have stayed high for the last 2 years! I don’t see a huge future in it unless someone can get in with a dairy with hundreds of calves in a season and can get them at a discounted price.
@@FarmandHammer Back in the late 50's a neighbor in his teens bought bottle calves from a man who went to MN and brought them back and sold them for $7 each. He bought quite a few and put some out on shares. At that time if the dairy farmer got $3 it was better than hitting them in the head to get rid of them. About 8 years ago, you could still buy them for $50 here in WA State until the price of beef went up.
The neighbor and I lived in southern ND.
I've always been jealous of the amount of concrete you have! Quite the setup you have there.
This is a great step forward! Congratulations!
Good luck with everything! I look forward to seeing what comes next. What is it going to take for you to give up the full-time job and farm full-time?
Be sure to get high health status sheep and build up a closed flock. Have you thought about Dorper sheep. They have an excellent conformation. Will be happy to watch your videos whenever you get the time to post them.
I’ve had a small flock of Katarina and some with a little dormer. They’ve been great!
Best of luck w/ new farming idea! Thank you for sharing.😷👍
Sounds like you have a plan and that's all that's important, good luck you got this
1st~ gr8 hat! 2nd~ gr8 wisdom deciding to carry on in ways that will support you & are sustainable for you given other work/life demands! 3rd~ iWanna simple tell you how much I have learned about bottle calves from you [thankYou] &finaLLy, i am grateFuLL for the misfits that are going to remain... blessing'Z aLLover them &you!
Cool. Change is inevitable in all of us. Thanks fir being honest with yourself. And us. You do you. God bless you and prosper you in the future. I'll be here as long as I can be. Take care of yourself.
Never apologize for growing. The bottle calf enterprise does sound interesting. I wonder if a 13 year old could handle such a challenge with the help of her little brother and sisters. We do have a "hamburger herd" of retired dairy girls, aside from our regular beef production, but we're getting them for .45-.50 per pound. With some reforming, they put out some great burger and tavern steaks.
You have to make the decisions that are right for you and your situation. Looking forward to whatever videos you post in the future and hope to share your new journey with you.
Yup! I’ll still have more cow calf videos and new sheep as well!
I enjoy your videos good luck with the new venture
The world is all about opportunities when a better one comes you take advantage of it so congratulations
thank you for posting your dairy videos.
Good luck with your new adventure.
I can't recommend Katahdins enough. I wish I could keep growing my flock exponentially, but I'm running out of new pastures to stock.
Good luck with your future ventures! If you do go into sheep, Sandi and Sheepishly.Me is great for honest real life of raising sheep. She raises indoors due to coyotes in her area. Her only regret I think when she started was that she didn’t get a better quality breed of sheep that had no disease issues. She’s been breeding trouble ewes out of her flock, but it takes awhile. Just a suggestion to start with the best quality you can afford right off the top. I can’t wait to see what the future holds for you. good luck?👍👍👍🐄🐑
I’ve been watching Sandi’s videos practically since she started! Big fan! But yes, I would be doing things differently than her. I’d be raising them outdoors and would have hair sheep breeds rather than wool. I’m hoping to get ewes from a reputable breeder near me and a ram from Greg Judy. But we will have to wait and see. Thanks for the advice!!
@@FarmandHammer i think you’ll thought this through well, I’m sure you’ll do fine. 👍👍🐑
Time to start smashing the scales down at the sale barn with some good ole American beef!!!!
Could you please tell us how you calculate that having a beef cow-calf operation will be more profitable? Hair sheep will be a lot more profitable, because of their efficiency being so much higher, along with great selling prices
Best of luck kid. Good decision. Stay away from those dairy cross animals if you’re staying in the beef side. ✊🇺🇸
We run cattle and Katahdin sheep. We plan on decreasing our cow herd and plan on increasing our ewe flock up to 300.
I don't know if you it over their but here in Australia we adopt up to six ccalves a time.on cows more if they have milk and once five or so months we do the same again instead of bottle or bucket feeding
sounds like you got a plan put God first he will bless you got a good head on you
Very very sad ..I enjoy the videos you have been posting . I have to say kind of sad that you're doing this!!!
You started our right with bottle babies. You have to get your foot in the door to grow your one cloed heard or get diversified. I opened the door to profits with raising meat chickens. A fast return on the investment, 12 weeks from chx to slaughter to sale.
You'll be great at whatever farm animal you decide to deal with
So what you're trying to say is that you need a full time job which today is a 60 hour a week job in order to support your bad farming habit. Focus on the job. Get that pension and Social Security locked up because you'll be old before you know it and what you're trying to do here will get you there even faster.
Good advice !
Good day. I enjoy your videos and have been a subscriber for a while now. On your most recent and in past videos you've talked about your full time job. Just curious what you do for work, aside from farming.
Awesome video both breeds of sheep you mentioned are awesome just put the best dorper ram you can afford on them at least buy your second lamb season I started out whith full blood of both them breeds you mentioned ewes and built my ewe herd up the second year I used a dorper ram and haven't looked back since always using dorper ram on kat st Croix and % dorper ewes the Lamb's grow faster thus cost less money to feed with the dorper put it this way the dorper is like you guys using the Hereford bulls on you black cows they just complement each other the kat and the st Croix ahead better but the dorper influence equal growth so they both component each other on hair sheading and grown making awesome F1 and F2 females for breeding when putting legs of lamb and chops on the grown fast out the ram lambs ..
St Croix are kind like the diary of the hair sheep the ewes don't look like much but put a dorper ram on them they will when better looking lambs and produce nice F1 ewes to build your herd we get st Croix here an avg 50 -100 cheaper at market and just worm and hoof bath the ewes and age them and we tsake 2-5% back to auction and the rest we run on fire danger grazing project's and run a dorper ram on them we could do the same with goats but goats cost more if a coyote eats one or someone steals one its a bigger loss so if we have any goats we keep them close to home
What are “bottle calves”?
I am very interested in the hair sheep idea!
Get you some Goats !!You will make better money.
I not so sure if I would sell out altogether . It is nice if you diversified . That way you are not all in with just one thing.
Just selling out the half dairy heifers. I’ll still be in the cow calf business and will be adding sheep this year to diversify a bit. Of course there is fescue seed season right around the corner as well.
@@FarmandHammer i still think I would think long and hard about that because now you will need to sheer them. There is no way out of that. With feeder you just need to feed them or good pasture. 🤠🤠🤠🤠
He’s looking into hair sheep. They do NOT need sheared
good video man good luck
Will you be posting videos on Beef Cattle and Sheep just like the Bottle Calf you did?
Yes! I’ll still be posting hopefully at least once per week about the beef operation and sheep!
Hair Sheep ?!? Wow don't hear that being profitable often
Try Dorpers for hair sheep, they work great for us.
All the dorpers I've ever had have fallen out of the flock after a season. Probably just the lines in my area.
Hey i saw you said u rent acreage from your dad i want to do the same just wondering how do u determine rent cost like does that work if u can give me insight on it
Best of luck to you!
In what field is your “regular” job?
Awesome Video as Always!!
What are u feeding them? Cracked corn?
So do you have help?
I don't I would keep my best
Scarred me i thought you were selling the farm
When this small jag of heifer's get old anough you should run your nabors bull on them make a small jag of eysey calving minis be good for TH-cam video likes and keeping your channel monitised ..but def get you a small jag of hair ewes don't buy know tho buy hay know and buy in the drought I did that this got 5 ewes to add to my herd avg 85 each price sold one for 100 the next day for meat the others 4 I got 7 live healthy lambs from then I got to keep the ewe Lamb's and sell the rams at 2 +$ a lbs and sell them same ewes for 125 vs the 85 dollar investment
What about Buddy
Want a helper ?
you must have a good-paying job or you would be only farming unless you're not good at it.
What about bigger cattle
Buenos videos
Sheeesh! what's up with that hat!!!?
Are you raising more pigs?
No more pigs for this year (freezers are full of pork). But we are planning on getting quite a few spring 2022 to raise and sell. Some new animals I’ll be getting this year are sheep.
McDonald’s will not be happy
Nooooooo!
:(
you made more of cpac on them than rasing them lol
Will u be still on TH-cam
I’ll still be posting other farming videos on TH-cam! Just won’t be raising bottle calves anymore.
Farm and Hammer. ☭?
So really beautiful how can i find you on instagram and facebook
I’m on Instagram. Should be able to find me at irenkoski
Farm & Hammer okay thank you so mutch friend i Search you