That little red landshark was lookin' to kick your arse LMAO......Cow yard looks great with those babies running amuck...Good to see the skidsteer back in action, I know I'd be lost without ours ..Thanks Doug.
Your snow has almost disappeared. Love friendly calves…they make sane cows. Love your building plan. I look forward to seeing it take shape. Nice calf numbers. Don’t forget sleep.
You filmed a pile of stuff as usual. When I go write a comment I try to remember back for something relevant to say (my wife might say, it's better to say nothing at all) but remembering your power nap. If I didn't get my 10mins after lunch before I retired, I would be useless by evening when there was still a lot still needing done. A tractor we had some years ago would splutter and have low power when the tank got low, or sometimes on a gradient. We did filters etc but still the same. Then I washed the tank out by dumping a lot of water in and by luck a piece of foam from somewhere appeared at the outlet and that had been the problem. As the tank got low or tilted the foam floated to the draw of the filter and kept back the fuel. Only luck that it moved to the outlet as the local firm were talking about a new tank.
I’ll just put this out there Doug cause we’ve done a lot of math on feeding grain to calves. We buy calves to background in addition to back grounding our own calves. In more than 20 years of doing this we have always been paid back market value on our feed that we put into those calves and there has only been two years where we did not make extra over top of that feed for our investment. That includes the cost of buying, selling, hauling, death loss, interest on feeder loans, drugs,etc. We view backgrounding calves as a way to market our extra hay and grain. It is cheaper for us to ship out pounds of beef than pounds of grain or hay. That’s my two cents on it. I know the return on our own calves is better than the bought ones cause they are not as stressed, but it’s harder to measure because they not weighed at weaning time like the bought ones. I feel they get a little better gain overall because of the way we wean, they go through less stress and sickness as a group. It’s not for everyone though. No grain feeders, bunks or TMR mixes either. Big fields where we feed rolled grain on the sod twice a day and hay and straw is rolled out twice a day. Haven’t hauled and spread a load of manure in 20 years either out of these feeding fields cause it’s already there making grass grow. We do clean the weaning, calving and working corrals out every three years or so to keep it manageable. But all of the cattle mostly stay out in fields most of the year.
Good afternoon, Doug. You've got to have a sleep every so often to keep on top of things. I get migraines periodically, nothing like a few hrs sleep to sort those out. One of our customers has about thirty Aberdeen Angus pedigrees. They fatten their stock on grass and still get a good return. There are mixed arguments for grain feeding. Obviously, you can get a lot more stock fattend faster. However, you need bigger numbers to make up for the smaller returns per cow. 👍
Thanks for update Doug. Well done for doing the sensible thing with your nap! BTW did you do the piping in Stranraer? They used to always appear at the annual Agric. show.
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That little red landshark was lookin' to kick your arse LMAO......Cow yard looks great with those babies running amuck...Good to see the skidsteer back in action, I know I'd be lost without ours ..Thanks Doug.
Your snow has almost disappeared. Love friendly calves…they make sane cows. Love your building plan. I look forward to seeing it take shape. Nice calf numbers. Don’t forget sleep.
Wow, you got a massive cuteness attack there, lol🤗😊! The skid steer sounds like a big V8😁💪👍!
You filmed a pile of stuff as usual. When I go write a comment I try to remember back for something relevant to say (my wife might say, it's better to say nothing at all) but remembering your power nap. If I didn't get my 10mins after lunch before I retired, I would be useless by evening when there was still a lot still needing done. A tractor we had some years ago would splutter and have low power when the tank got low, or sometimes on a gradient. We did filters etc but still the same. Then I washed the tank out by dumping a lot of water in and by luck a piece of foam from somewhere appeared at the outlet and that had been the problem. As the tank got low or tilted the foam floated to the draw of the filter and kept back the fuel. Only luck that it moved to the outlet as the local firm were talking about a new tank.
I’ll just put this out there Doug cause we’ve done a lot of math on feeding grain to calves. We buy calves to background in addition to back grounding our own calves. In more than 20 years of doing this we have always been paid back market value on our feed that we put into those calves and there has only been two years where we did not make extra over top of that feed for our investment. That includes the cost of buying, selling, hauling, death loss, interest on feeder loans, drugs,etc. We view backgrounding calves as a way to market our extra hay and grain. It is cheaper for us to ship out pounds of beef than pounds of grain or hay. That’s my two cents on it. I know the return on our own calves is better than the bought ones cause they are not as stressed, but it’s harder to measure because they not weighed at weaning time like the bought ones. I feel they get a little better gain overall because of the way we wean, they go through less stress and sickness as a group. It’s not for everyone though. No grain feeders, bunks or TMR mixes either. Big fields where we feed rolled grain on the sod twice a day and hay and straw is rolled out twice a day. Haven’t hauled and spread a load of manure in 20 years either out of these feeding fields cause it’s already there making grass grow. We do clean the weaning, calving and working corrals out every three years or so to keep it manageable. But all of the cattle mostly stay out in fields most of the year.
Cracking calves - a real credit to the dams, sires and yourselves.
Morning Doug ☕️☕️...ya I gotta get that earth put out for my little guys too...thanks for the mention buddy
Always enjoy your videos
Thanks for taking me along
Good morning Doug. Tea or coffee, the emoji cup looks the same (even when it's got some spirits in it🥃) ☕☕☕
Good afternoon, Doug. You've got to have a sleep every so often to keep on top of things. I get migraines periodically, nothing like a few hrs sleep to sort those out. One of our customers has about thirty Aberdeen Angus pedigrees. They fatten their stock on grass and still get a good return. There are mixed arguments for grain feeding. Obviously, you can get a lot more stock fattend faster. However, you need bigger numbers to make up for the smaller returns per cow. 👍
That there TL 140 I think is the reason you have to go off coffee!!! Seams to be a regular consumer or M &R on the books!!!
$2 years of purebred and never creep feed, we want to know what the milk can do.
Good morning Doug ☕️☕️👍
Advice; mix a bit of deccox with the earth and it really stops the cocci. works for us and would recommend
Thanks for update Doug. Well done for doing the sensible thing with your nap! BTW did you do the piping in Stranraer? They used to always appear at the annual Agric. show.