Watching you 2 work together brought a smile to my face. I remember doing that with my husband. You'll have that place looking good in no time! Stock panels are lifesavers! Those are nice looking calves!
Mel, I am not even done watching this and these animals are going to have a much better life than the poor souls before them have had! Good for you folks for having the right idea for humanely having a real farm. Stay well!
Hey Becky, that's a good question. The problem is that there was not enough land to support such a large number of cows. We're told that there was roughly 120 head of cattle on our 60 acres, of which only 40 acres is actually pasture. It didn't take long for them to graze the grass right to bare dirt.
@Charles Schwartz on farms, things happen. A cow may have twins and refuse one. A heifer may not have milk. Dairy cows are most always separated from the calves after 3 days. Bottle fed calves are a normal way of life on a farm. Calves have to be fed, or they die.
Charles, It’s not cruel. The most crucial time is in the first 10 days when they get colostrum after that the mother doesn’t make as much and they don’t need it as much. Sometimes the Cow mom is a milk cow or like Mel said sometimes they get rejected and that happens for a variety of reasons . Bottlefeeding is not easy And it’s far from cruel. Have you ever done it or been involved with it before?? Try it you might like it. I was a vegan for a few decades then I went to work on a dairy farm....
Watching you 2 work together brought a smile to my face. I remember doing that with my husband. You'll have that place looking good in no time! Stock panels are lifesavers! Those are nice looking calves!
Awesome video! They are beautiful calves
Thank you so much!
You guys will do great. You are workers
Thank you, Linda!
Mel, I am not even done watching this and these animals are going to have a much better life than the poor souls before them have had! Good for you folks for having the right idea for humanely having a real farm.
Stay well!
Thank you so much, Teresa! We pray we can give them everything they need to grow and thrive.
@@MelLockcuff I am certain that you will! Enjoy your new adventure!
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I did cows , but I then went to sheep and goats....sheep win out for us , in Alaska
Very cool! We have plans for sheep, but we have a lot of fence work ahead of us.
Wouldn't the previous owners cows graze in the fields? How did they starve? (Not a farm girl, LOL)
Hey Becky, that's a good question. The problem is that there was not enough land to support such a large number of cows. We're told that there was roughly 120 head of cattle on our 60 acres, of which only 40 acres is actually pasture. It didn't take long for them to graze the grass right to bare dirt.
I don't quite understand why you would adopt a calf before it was weaned from its mother. Sounds cruel to me to take it away.
Charles, they lost their mother, or their mother abandoned them. They can’t survive on their own.
@Charles Schwartz on farms, things happen. A cow may have twins and refuse one. A heifer may not have milk. Dairy cows are most always separated from the calves after 3 days. Bottle fed calves are a normal way of life on a farm. Calves have to be fed, or they die.
Charles, It’s not cruel. The most crucial time is in the first 10 days when they get colostrum after that the mother doesn’t make as much and they don’t need it as much. Sometimes the Cow mom is a milk cow or like Mel said sometimes they get rejected and that happens for a variety of reasons . Bottlefeeding is not easy And it’s far from cruel. Have you ever done it or been involved with it before?? Try it you might like it. I was a vegan for a few decades then I went to work on a dairy farm....
Ok I meant deliberately taking healthy calves from their mothers.