dividing the Dexter cattle for breeding & bringing in the bulls
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- It's time to divide the Dexter cattle herd for breeding & bring in the bulls! We have to divide the herd into three groups: one for each bull and one cull group that will not be bred. Our small farm doesn't have chutes or sorting pens, so we divide our herd the old-fashioned way: by bringing them to a gate and sorting them through the gate. Then the bulls get right to work!
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You make people really listen to what you're talking about, you're a good narrator. Thumbs Up
I agree
Bulls Go Wild? that got an actual LOL out of me.
I love watching your video's with the cattle. Calm enough that they don't go insane when you're moving them, but not so calm that they get playful with you and risk hurting you. Keep up the videos!
I'm just amazed how calm and well behaved your cattle is, especially those two bulls. Thank you for sharing, love your videos Pete.
Thanks Pete! Definitely, be watching this one again!
So glad you got some rain, thank you for sharing. Such lovely little cows and that baby...cute!
I really appreciate how you explain the whole thought process
Appreciate the breeding explanation at the end. You confirmed what I thought was the process and boosted confidence. Thanks a ton
First time I've seen Line Breeding explained in plain English. Thank you Pete!
Always such great videos! Very informative! this is my go-to channel for questions answered and in-depth explanations. Thank you tremendously!
I could be wrong... I often am, but when you were chasing the youngest calf... it went behind a cow with horns and she appeared to be limping? May have just stepped on something that threw it off balance... I love the life you've built...
I noticed that too, left rear. The limp is gone now.
Thanks Pete! Great learning experience! Fun and interesting video!
another great video thanks for all that you do to help educate us
Thanks for the video yet again!
Titus is a good looking bull...
Thanks for another well made and informative video. Glad to see you got some rain. Hope it was enough to help the grass. It has been dry here in SW Ontario but it is pouring steady here today. I hope some of it makes it to you.
Very interesting 🤔 ! Thank you 🙏 !
You make it look so easy, you two work together so good,
Thanks, I appreciate your help! I’ve been puzzling over this problem...and how to handle it! I put a deposit down on my first bull recently and he will arrive at the end of the month, so I need to sort my too- young heifers from my dry heifers who need breeding. None of mine are trained/halter broke; so glad to see they don’t have to be(-:
I'm a new subscriber and watched several of your videos, I found them to be very educational and intrresting. I do admire you and family for the incredible amount of work you do and appreciate the time you take making videos. God Bless you and yours.
Thanks Pete! I learned a lot of things about breeding.
You two are a great team!
What an awesome video. I was amazed by this. What a great video. Thank you so much for sharing this with us.♡
A excellent assistant you have
Great video, thank you!
Your weeds have the most interesting and helpful things tucked in them. Wish I had a tractor with a bucket/forks.
Love your videos, please keep them coming. Watching from Tasmania!!
It is great to finally see moisture on your farm and seeing turn back green! Hopefully you get another cutting looks like you have more rain heading your way. You might look into trying a little sorghum to pasture on . Not sure if it’s grown up your way or not but it is pretty drought tolerant just turn the cattle loose before it puts on seed. Thanks again for another great video
I’m happy you explained the breeding . I’m getting into pigs and I didn’t understand it that good.
i have a closed heard of 10 cows (red angus/devon) and used line breading for 10 years now with no issues. am on my second bull from that same heard. the genetics must be good!
Great informational video!
I liked the way you lead us through the breeding steps on your farm. You lost me on the in line breeding method, guess I needed that chart. Lol
Great info Pete, love the IH hat👍
Love your videos Pete!
He is no noncese person always tells the truth unlike others
Love the video which has no drama and a lot to learn...
Great job 👍👍
Well explained!
Another great video!
You got rain! I hope that is recent rain and your drought ends
this is good work 👍
Back here. Grilling some pork steak and watching your chanel.
And that is why I watch the ads in their entirety. You produce great videos!
Same for me. Not all of them pertain to me, but I appreciate these videos. It's the least I can do.
The cat was lucky 😂😂😂 love the videos
Learning something from you sir.
Pete you seriously need a reality TV show made about you. Great stuff.
the calf is so cute
keep on farming
Did you ever get any Dexter from stone meadow? That’s where I started my herd, now I have been breeding my cows with a lowline bull making beautiful calves
This looks like it would be a lot easier with a good dog! Scotch Collies are nice gentle herders, not too high strung, I bet that kind of dog would be a big help
I love the historical references
I assume your eartags denote year of birth. It seems like if you have two lines, then the lines could also be on the ear tag as either odd/even numbers or a letter at the end.
We've been enjoying your videos since discovering your channel Pete! You are doing a great job of documenting your farm life! We have a small herd of Dexters up here in BC Canada and are just starting to work on our cattle pens and sorting facility. We hope to increase our herd in the near future but we have issues with our pasture flooding each spring which brings up an entire different set of issues for feeding! Logic would suggest we lease pasture but we don't like the idea of them being off farm during calving season.
Thank you Ravenwood Acres! Best of luck with your Dexters.
I learned something new...
WOW Pete that's some job however at what age does a farmer say that's enough because if the farmer gets knocked over and trampled on that's game over ,fortunately the Dexter's are a smaller breed however if Titus took to rushing you boy are you in trouble .loved the video and your lady getting stuck in to the job on hand.Thanks.
Bulls gone wild,huh? Always wanted to see a bull smile,don’t they?
Pete,, Hilary is the hardest working woman I have ever seen. She is a perfect wife for a small farmer. Plus she's cute too.
Hillary has the same high fashion designer as I. Love my jeans and t shirts. God bless.
Very few novice breeders are good enough breeders to be line breeding. Line breeding can be a powerful tool but it’s every bit of not more likely to be a destructive tool. Personally I think it would be painful to cull cattle that have 2 generations of my breeding strategy as opposed to buying another bull and keeping the best cattle. Good luck on your breeding season
Your camera has to be a timex!! It’s still ticking!! 😂 thanks another great video.
It still works, but it smells faintly of manure now...
Just a Few Acres Farm 😂 😂
What is your pasture rest period when rains are enough?
Pete - What’s the dimensions of your poll barn where you run the cattle. Trying to figure out what I need.
When are the new calfs supposed to arrive? Early spring?
They’ll be born in May
Just curious how long it takes for Dexter bull to fill out like yours?
What do think about water nipples for chickens, thanks Bert
They’re fine if you’re raising a few chickens.
8:48 COMING THROUGH!
Interesting to see how others do it. I breed Dexters in Bristol, U.K. I don’t know if our non-short cattle are just massive but it looks like you’re breeding short-short here?
Hi, our cattle are non-chondro. They are generally within the 38"-44" rump height of the breed standard.
USE a cane or pole. Cow thinks you are wider! It works.
Hey Pete will Dexters eat Goldenrod? I think I’ve pinned down what’s mainly growing in the field I’m gonna our cows on. Haha I love your videos. I’ll typically put on a video and listen to it on to and from work.
Hi Michael, thanks! My Dexters won't eat goldenrod, but I guess if they get hungry enough they'll eat just about anything!
Just a Few Acres Farm well shoot. Lol I don’t want to spray it with any herbicide cuz people’s wells are next to field and have expressed no spraying. I’ll I have to mow it down again and over-seed it.
For some reason I heard slow funk music when I saw the title of this one. 😄😄😄
Marvin Gaye playing in the background...
Genetics 101! Thanks Pete......as always, a very informative video. If you ever get time, I would love you to explain a 3rd option, which is purchasing semen and doing AI. For a very small farm, or just a start up with 1 or 2 cows, (or someone afraid to have a bull), this may be a bit more costly, but none the less and effective alternative. I have even none some breeders who would introduce an "outcross" bull this way, to correct a problem within the herd
Hi Jim, I think AI is the best option for people with only a few head. Dexter semen in our area runs about $40/straw, so it would be cheaper than keeping a bull in that case.
@@JustaFewAcresFarm Thanks Pete! I agree totally. Some people who are just beginning, may feel more assured if they have their vet do it instead of the bull
Do you worry the calves would get bred too young? How do you prevent that? What age should you make sure the bull has no access to them?
They are way too young to be bred. They will start cycling at 12-14 months old.
Just a Few Acres Farm thank you! I’m getting some new additions to our homestead of Dexters and trying to learn as much as I can. I have 2 mommas coming with their babies along with a bull. I didn’t know if I was supposed to separate out or not. Thank you so much for putting my mind at ease. I truly appreciate all your videos!
Thanks for the info. Can you (or would you) breed a bull with a half sister? Both sharing the same sire?
I would not.
@@JustaFewAcresFarm Thank you. It didn't seem right to me, as well.
Wow
7:35 you know what he’s saying, Girls I’m here.
Can lowline bulls breed regular size heifers?
Do you weed out bad Mothers?
You make it look too easy.
A farmer in Northern Kentucky was killed by a bull a few years ago.
We do line breeding with dogs as well. But will bring in "new genes" every so many years. By this it means the same foundation pedigree but from a different kennel. A better explanation would be let's say, and ill use dexter line as an example. One person, or a group of people created the dexter breed. With some being sold to various farms. Lets say you kept your stock and some were sold down the road. The ones down the road were going to be bred to others that were obtained at different points, or other different breeders of the breed. New stock would be brought in from down the road as it carries those foundation genetics but has been mixed with different generics as well from another breeder of the breed. Still keeping it in line with a line breeding but also out crossing the genetics thus avoiding too tight of a line breeding.
Thank goodness for ear tags...
Where’s your lasso cowboy
No one:
The camera: plop
Hello from Arizona. Our family recently discovered your channel and have binge watched every video. Great content, very informative. We have learned a ton. Thanks for all you and your family are doing. In today’s video you mentioned upcoming content regarding actually breeding. Just a word of caution, our family follows another Channel called Our Wyoming Life. Very similar content. They had a video that showed actual breeding occurring and TH-cam ended up demonetizing the video because of a quick glimpse of their bulls wedding tackle so to speak.Just a heads up. We look forward to your next video. God Bless!
Hello Highlander, I also watch OWL, and I remember when Mike had problems with that video. Maybe I will show the wedding dance and not the bedroom activity, so to speak.
Im guessing most people didnt understand punnett squares in school
The you Pete
great wife great life
So true!
Why does Orden only get five cows?
Titus got 5 too
I think we get hung up imparting our humanity onto our livestock sometimes? My sister raised Missouri Fox Trotter horses and she had a champion stallion... I asked her if I had a good mare saddle horse (quarter horse or whatever) and we bred it to her champion stallion, what would we get? Her answer was obvious and made me feel a bit silly - "We'd have a horse". It is obviously important if you are raising registered breeds like you are.
Think of wild horse herds... they look great! Other wild species like Antelope, Deer, Elk, Moose, Buffalo etc.. They all do pretty well without us?
I grew up on a dairy and always wanted to start a cow calf herd (never got around to it) using dairy/beef whiteface heifers and then keep breeding back to beef.... 1/2, 3/4, 7/8 and so on until the dairy is bred out.
At the end of the day I suppose if the lineage of a calf doesn't sit well in your mind you can always just eat it? I promise you it will taste exactly like beef.
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Now i understand inbreeding better
Sir you are acting like a prey animal when you were sorting cattle. Enjoy your videos thanks for sharing.
Lucked out on choice of wife.
It looked like a lame cow at the 5:10 minute.I was going to ask it you ever have to trim their feet.
She had a limp but it was gone the next day. We've never had to trim hooves.
Why dont you have a horse ?
100
You went to Harvard?
Harvard 😝😝😝
Get ready for your planned video to be demonetized.
HAhahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, bulls gone wild
Hei, just found your chanel, and se a lot from oldest to newest, i just wonder, why keep and feed bulls, cant you just inseminate? Love from north Norway, Heidi