Hi, I am a 65 year old guy who grew up on a registered holstein dairy farm back in the 60's. We had 100 head of cows and milked time a day, long before pipelines and automated milkers. Watching your videos has kept me up to date on the new technology and upgrades to the dairy industry. I love how your videos are down to earth and easy to watch. I had the best upbringing a guy could ask for while on the farm. Hard work, long hours and a dedication to the cows helped me grow up to be a hard working man who took those values and used them to make a successful career of my own.
@@clowns76 We had Duvall milking machines and then when the cow was done, we dumped the milk into a stainless steel pail and it was carried into a milk house and poured into a strainer that went into a stainless steel milk tank. Three times a week a tanker truck came and pumped milk from our stainless steel tank into their’s.
That sound like hard work. But it was satisfying work I lived on the farm at my uncle's for the summer and we feed all the animals I actually enjoyed that
It was in Victorville California and it was I was probably about 12 years old 2 like 17 years old it was enjoyable working with cows and pigs in riding the three-wheel ATVs
I'm learning so much about modern Dairy Practices , back when i was privileged to help out on a farm with milk cows it was pull squeeze and squirt -- the cats loved me :) about 55 years ago
Most comprehensive in your explanation of formulas and cost. Being from Texas and ranchers every cow is income. Truly enjoy each of your videos. Some of the best cinematography of any you tube farm channel. Russell in Houston,Texas
Great video! Thanks for reviewing your plan for the steer - I looked into a small dairy around here, and when he got a male he would raise it for a month and auction it off. It probably cost him $200 and he made $100 at the auction. He was not a good business man, but always trying to do what is right.
That was an epic explanation, great job SDK 👍🏻, educating the world on how most dairy farms operate. Some use a nutritionist who monitors the cows health, and adjust TMR rations to keep a good balance
What impresses me is this kid knows his farm! I’m in California and most of the farms that my friends were raised on were pretty close to this clean. 99% of Farming families stay out of trouble with the Law. They have to be home in the afternoon and home very early in the morning to feed & Milk. This kid will be sitting pretty in about 10 years. Nice job young man. Very nice job!! The only draw back when it comes to you inheriting this farm. Dads “Never” seem to fully Retire. He will always be your Boss!!
Great comment! He is definitely ready for his inheritance!! I pray he gets a beautiful bride who loves the ladies& gents (cows) as much as he does! 🐄 ❤ 🚜🙏🏽
@@tantasroom8646 but the kid will always be a hired hand. Even if dad dies mom will only become his boss. Any time he wants to upgrade the farm. He will need to run it past his father then when dad dies run it past his mother. That’s when he will learn Mom always had the “yes or No” in her purse strings. Dad would just run it across mom after the kid go to bed. And most of the time after the two of them had gone to bed… I have probably 8 or 10 friends that after dad died thought they would inherit the farm ( ranch). They could do with it what they liked. But mom was still alive. When mom finally past on. They either sold their milking cow’s to the government. Then went out and purchased beef cows. Then after the market couldn’t bare that much meet on the market. They sold their beef cows once again to the government. Then they sold off the property. Which of course they kept a small piece for the brother or sister continued to live on rent free for the rest of their lives. But the ones running the farm now earned Millions of dollars. Most of them moved north where property was much cheaper and started all over again..
Thanks for the great explanation about bull calves Jan, and thanks for the rainbow. Love your drone shots! And I continue to be amazed at your passion in caring for your animals.
love your comments Jan....those little buggers, lol...thank you and all our farmers out there that keep us all well fed....your dedication is so appreciated!
Thanx tons for the explanations. You answered so many questions that I had as a non-farmer. You definitely have enough work to keep you out of trouble. Stay safe out there. I second the shout out for The Farmer on the Prairie. He has great content also.
I love how clean your farm is. Recently, I watched another farm in the US and was surprised at the difference. Keep up the amazing work! Videos are so interesting.
Thank you for taking the time to explain the life of a bull calf on your farm. It’s really sad what the initial thought is what happens after they are born. I buy bull calves from nearby dairies and raise them all the way to finish. We usually have around 100-200 head totally at any giving time. Would like to expand in the near future🤞
Didnt have dairy cows but on my ranch, bull calves we castrated and feed them out for about 6-8 months. When they were about 500 lbs on the hoof, we took them to the sale barn and sold them to feed lots. Those were fed to finish and became Big Macs, Ribs, Steaks and such. I had a discussion with a young lady who was mad because we sold cows for food. She told me why didnt we just go and buy it at the store . . . . . . . Yes, they are some folks out there like that.. Very clean farm, calves all look well cared for.
Another great video Jan. You did an excellent job of explaining the process of how you manage your calves and calf barns. It is easy to see by the condition of your calf barns that your family does the job right.I am not a farmer but have lived in an Ontario Agricultural Community all my life so I get it. You are a credit to your industry.
To anyone who wants to troll you or make stupid comments about slaughter a cow, calf or bull on the farm, is plain stupid If you need for income you can send to the meat packing plant any one of the mentioned groups. How does general public get steak, hamburger, roast, figure it out, it does not appear out of the sky, it is animal meat. If that is a bother to anyone then go away and stop bothering those who eat meat. Do not defame a working farm that is trying to earn a living. And this young man explains this topic very well. I do not notice those who complain setting up a rescue or farm and buying farm animals to put on them. Just trying to bully those who do farm. So shame on those ......
WITHOUT A DOUBT YOU HAVE THE CLEANEST OPERATION IVE EVER SEEN. YOUR ANIMALS ARE BEAUTIFUL. CONGRATULATIONS, IVE SEEN ALLOT OF FARMS, YOURS IS RIGHT UP THERE AT THE VERY VEST. THANK YOU FOR SHARING‼️‼️👍👍. Vinny 🇺🇸
Very clean, animal raised friendly and kind , kudos to your farm! We need more farms like yours! Plus you are a bright young man, very respectful! Thank you!
Very informative.....thanks! One of our neighbors had a dairy farm. The young bulls were sold when a week or so old for $5 each. Over time, the price went up to $50. The person buying had to do the castration and nipple bucket feeding for a period of time until they would begin to graze in the fields. Though big boned, Holsteins made good beef cows.
Great instructional video. I have never figured out why folks presume they know how every operation works. Thanks for doing a special video on the “ steak” steers🤓
This! This is the thing I find the most interesting by farming, every farm does it different. What might work on one farm might not work for the neighbour!
@@briarlee I'm sure you're perfect to leave such a ridiculous comment! You probably eat avocados that have been picked by slave labour and shipped two thousand miles though huh!?
@Raunak Anwar I just think there's some irony in vegans comments is all! Most live in a climate that could never support a vegetarians diet let alone a vegans. Yet they crap on farmers who grow most of their diet in their back yard. It throws me back how they think they're so holy! Especially when their food has such a large carbon footprint!
Im from philippines and working on a dairyfarm here in japan. thanks for your vlog, it gives me more information about dairy farming. more informative vlogs to come. thanks alot
Thank you for addressing the negative misconceptions truthfully and educationally. So sad the amount of negativity and misunderstanding without taking the time to gain knowledge and make an informed comment :). Your cows and your steer are very sweet to see and have always brought a smile to my face during these negative times...keep up the great work!
I don't believe I had any misconceptions when I commented on that video . I have taken time to gain some knowledge on what goes on in animal agriculture and the more I learn the worse it gets . 20% of the calves in the UK are killed on farm and dumped as waste : www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/26/dairy-dirty-secret-its-still-cheaper-to-kill-male-calves-than-to-rear-them Not that it matters to the animal if it was wasted or not .
Ellen, what misconceptions? That these sentient beings are being exploited for their milk and meat? That these cows have been forcibly impregnated to produce milk? That calves are separated from their moms after birth? That the Bobby calves are fattened up to be slaughtered soon? That the female calves will soon too being forcibly impregnated, to follow in moms footsteps? That all cows become burger patties when they can no longer produce milk for your tea? To me it's clear as daylight, you may sugarcoat it as much as you like, keep these animals in 5 star accommodations, it's still horrible wat humans, the supposedly moral agents, are doing to animals. Go vegan already, stop making useless excuses. If you don't you must never say that you love animals, or have a grain of feeling in your heart for animals.
@@jake4904 CONGRATULATIONS!! I wasn't even aware that an appointment had been made for the High Priest of Ethics, Morals, Compassion & Love. Is it still a term position or are you in permanently? Good luck and happy ruling and don't let those mortals get away with anything.
your one of the first dairymen i've seen that doesn't use corn silage. pretty interesting. i didn't even know there was oter types of silage other than hay silage. goes to show you learn something new everyday. keep up the great video's. God bless
Keep in mind that corn grows best further south in warmer climates. I lived in Saskatchewan 9 years and I did see fields of corn occasionally, but they were the exception rather than the rule.
We have a mix of winter triticale or barley silage, corn silage, haylage & oat/pea silage, mixed with dry hay bales and we add earlage (add combine corn head to our forage harvester and process the whole cob & put in silo at higher moisture), rolled oats, toasted soybean meal (from local soybean oil processor), DDGS (from local ethanol plant), minerals and supplements. We add water & molasses. Of course, we have different recipes (like you) for each set of cattle (active milkers, dry cows, heifers, steers). Keep up the great videos!
You would probably find it cruel to end a dog's life early so that you could taste it's body , yet a cow is the same as a dog in every way that matters and deserves the same moral consideration . Since , we have so much choice , why not just leave animals alone ?
The morality comes in the purpose of the animals deaths. Death just for death sake is not ok. But these animals are bred for a purpose and they are not abused in the process.
@@Grimskarr Sure, but not just any purpose would justify ending their life . The only purpose that justifies killing another animal is survival but since we no longer need to eat them, we are killing them for pleasure . Slaves were bred for slavery but that didn't make it moral . I would make the argument that taking someone's life so that you can enjoy they're flavour is abuse .
If you want to get Fat and have Diabetes ... eat what they feed cattle to get Fat (takes many years to get the Diabetes so ya have to be persistent to be both Diabetic and Fat)
This farm is the cleanest farm I have ever seen your passion and commitment to the milk cows and the youngsters is admirable your an example to everyone out there your love for the heifers is what I adore nothing is spared when it comes to their wellbeing and happiness
And when those milk producing cows become too old to keep milking, they too are destined for a Happy Meal box to feed little Jimmy and little Janey. Thus, the wheel keeps turning...
They don't become to old, they become less profitable for the farmers. Cows can live up to 20 years old, female dairy cows are executed at around 5-6 year old.
Such is the circle of life. No animals live up their maximum life span in the wild. “Wild”humans are old by 30 in pre-agrarian societies. Cows in the wild would’n live more than 5 to 6 years old anyway. It’s civilization that allows for old age, both in people and farm animals. Old age isn’t meant to be in any species under natural conditions. Farmed animals have outstanding quality of life, they are not stressed with being hunted and needing to fend for themselves. The price paid for the easier life is becoming meal for the people that give them this easier life. Their death is humane and much better than if they had to die by the jaws of a predator, gutted and eaten still alive.
@@gitanonumero1983 Hey there, whilst cows can live for around 20 years, not sure if that applies to high yielding dairy breeds to be honest. We're talking about cows that produce enormous amounts of milk, some can even have issues standing up, etc if left without being milked for too long. Even if they did live for close to 20 years, how many years would they spend practically as downer cows? That's no quality of life at all? Seems better off living in relative comfort on an animal comfort conscious farm whilst in the prime of life, then going for a quick and humane slaughter than many years of pain and disability. Especially for an animal with no way of being able to grasp what is happening to them.
Thank you for educating the haters and not slapping back at them. I had the question of whether you sold your bull calves or what you did with them and I am happy to be educated as well I do like watching your videos because your cows are always so content and happy they are beautiful animals so thank you for sharing
If you like them so much, why pay people to separate the baby’s from their mothers, oh yeah, you like Breast feeding as an adult too much. all these animals will be killed after all this, so this video is just another wanker doing pointless and horrible things, then making them seem lovely and pleasant.
@@gfgf2417 I'm a farmer in scotland and we buy dairy bulls and we put them on grass whenever we can to give them the best life we can and it saves us money because we dont need to feed them as much
Viewers should note that all the calves wind up going to the same place in the end. Some just take longer to get there. They are called old dry milk cows but they both have the same fate. Great video! Thanks for sharing❗❗❗ 🙂🙂🙂 👍👍👍
@@timothymbonham4453 Yes, but most of us will live a full life without being exploited. Not be killed after only living less than 10% of our natural lifespan.
@@MatthewWitt12 without being exploited?? The government milks us daily for taxes. It’s the same fate, except the government wants us alive for as long as possible while we can still pay taxes. Once we are old enough to retire, they care no longer and we can be let to die at “retirement homes”. Cruelty is part of all life. If the government decided we would be best slaughtered for meat, we would. That’s just life.
They have lives where they have all the food they want to eat, comfortable surroundings, company of their own kind, shelter, medical care, a stress free environment. Then they have one really bad day. We should all be as lucky.
Interesting story. My dad lived in Taber for a while and I have been to the sugar factory there. I had a friend growing up whose family owned a dairy farm in Lethbridge, Alberta. I would go out occasionally to spend time with him. I got to ride in the truck when they were putting greenfeed in the long white bags. Thanks for sharing!
I never suspected you would waste a good steer but I still found this to be an interesting piece. Good video for the folks with preconceived misconceptions. Peace.
Except it happens all the time : www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/26/dairy-dirty-secret-its-still-cheaper-to-kill-male-calves-than-to-rear-them
Terry Fandango what happens to the bull calves they don’t want is the go for kebabs at 6 weeks. Trust me when I say it dairy farmers hate to see it happen. They would much rather see calves go for their full 2 years to be rested for beef.
@@dannyquinlan2284 I'm not saying the farmers enjoy it . Just making the point that there's a brutal price to our current food system . It's funny how the farmers are upset by the wasted death of these calves but don't mind at all when the calves are killed if they're eaten afterwards . It makes no difference to the animals being killed if they're wasted or not . Since meat is no longer a nutritional requirement and we could easily choose something else to eat , we're killing them for something as trivial as taste pleasure . Pleasure can't morally justify taking an animals life .
Terry Fandango but farmers do care what happens to the calves. Yes it mightn’t be too priority but as long as they end up as beef somewhere it’s ok. Preferably over a 2 year period but what happens happens.
Terry Fandango if they weren’t fattened for beef and just let live the world would be overrun in no time whatsoever it’s an essential thing that beef is constantly produced
I love baby animals, they are so cute. And the dairy cows raised for 4H and stuff are kept beautiful. Baths and such,, those kids take great pride in their work
@SamIAm not always the truth. Was involved in 4H showing dairy cows. As for our family they're considered pets so we actually kept them until they naturally passed. Not all think this way but we did. There is an auction after the showing is done for beef cows and other livestock where most are used for consumption. Unfortunately this is how it has always been. Being raised on a farm I do understand how raising a cow for consumption can be done in a caring compassionate way. I see both sides but not all livestock exhibitors use their animals as market animals.
@Raunak Anwar These are not wild cows, they're not natural animals and they shouldn't be left in the wild. Same with farmed pigs, chickens and so on. They're our experiment and we're also the ones breeding them by the billions, which is also unnatural. There are more farmed animals on the planet than there are mammals and humans combined. Where there once used to be native species of trees, shrubs and animals, now there's nothing but empty land and farmed animals or monocrops to feed these said animals. Hence why we have so many floods. We need to reforest those lands, bring native species of animals back and stop bringing these animals into existence just so we can slaughter them.
@Raunak Anwar Some people who can afford it have farmed animals as pets, and there are also animal sanctuaries that take care of farmed animals and people can visit and interact with them. So I don't think they'd go extinct, but either way, being alive just so you can be exploited and later slaughtered is not a justification for forcefully breeding them by the billions.
@Raunak Anwar That's not what the most recent scientific studies have concluded though. I'm not sure if you are aware of the Blue Zones populations. There are a few villages/places on earth, where there are the most centenarians in the world, people who live up to 100 and over. These populations do not have much in common (like geographic location, environment, race, culture, etc.) except for one important factor, which is diet. Their diet is 95-100% whole food plant-based. The only time they consume meat, if any, is on special occasions, and they eat very little of it, generally not as the main course but as a side dish. These people have the longest lifespan out of all other populations. There's a quote I like from a doctor, I'm paraphrasing but it's close to "Most of the time, is not the illness that runs in the family, but the diet." Meaning that people's grandparents, parents, and they themselves might not share the same types of illnesses because of genetics, but because they eat the same stuff and their bodies react similarly. Even if you consider evolution, Bonobos are our closest relatives and they're almost 100% plant-based. I think the primary cause for such a high rate of illness In humans, all over the world, is based on the fact that we are wrongly assuming that we're omnivores. And if we're really being honest, most people consume animal-based products for taste pleasure and convenience and nothing else. But we like to dress that up with something more so we don't sound selfish, lazy and hedonistic. So yea, there's really no need to exploit and slaughter animals.
It’s actually 10 months!! Almost an entire year! Maybe things like this have happened once upon a time and maybe still do. However, that’s just a better reason to but your milk from a better source. A company that is well known and well respected for taking good care of their animals. Most bull calves aren’t killed!!!! They can be sold, raised to breed, raised for meat, etc. PEOPLE NEEED FOOD! Not everyone can afford high priced leaves. I sure can’t. I can grow my own crops and raise my own animals and still be proud of what I do.
Good Job Explaining This Kind Of Stuff. You Make It Really Easy To Understand Stuff That Goes On Behind The Scenes On Dairy Farms Like Calving, Feeding And Ai. Good Work Keep It Up!
40 years ago they threw away the bull calves at birth - now they find value in them - in NZ on youtube is a farming program called Country Calendar which is about farming in New Zealand - now we breed our dairy cows to other beef breeds like Angus and sometimes Wagu to add value to the bull calves - the very best of the dairy cows get AI normally to a good milking line bull - different weather and different farming as our stock is always on grass
The Male Bulls Are Grown For Beef, Exploited For Their Semen And Then Slaughtered After Spending 30% Of It's Lifetime! This Is What Happens To Bulls On Factory Farms.
The auction yard I bought 2 calves from unfortunately sells newborn calves from a dairy farm. I don’t know which dairy farms sold their newborns, but my main concern was they don’t give them colostrum! I was horrified when I found out. I bid against a meat company that bought most of the calves. The sweet jersey heifer I got eventually got sick at age 4 and had to be euthanized. I appreciate it SO much when colostrum is given to calves. Most farms do give it. Thanks for taking such good care of your calves!
Hey Dude love it. I fed 1 to 5 day old baby bullcalves up to 1000 pds and then sold them to a guy who fed them out to 15- 1600 pounds. And 2 yrs after I sold him a dozen hd I asked him how they did and he said they were the only ones he had that drank milk out of a bucket at 1200 pounds and laughed. I raised baby's at the minimum of 10 hd/ month x 16 years. I picked them up from a guy who bought them out of the state of Washington and hauled them to Iowa by semis and when I picked them up I put them in the back of my pickup with a topper and after 3 miles they laid down and went to sleep. I raised my calves in the white plastic domes and when I sold the domes I got 50 dollars a dome more than I PD for. yrs
Everything is so clean. I am so impressed. As far as steer, the time they have being grown is important. I won't eat veal or lamb, and as with beef cattle, I appreciate the life they are afforded before the day they are processed. My only misgiving is how the processor treats them. Enjoy your show and crave a nice cold glass of milk! And a burger for dinner.
I don't know where you are from but here in Canada the processing side has very strict standards and regulations that they must follow and have regular inspections that are done randomly without any notice
So happy to learn you raise the steers for beef. We had friends who ran a small dairy farm in upstate NY. We visited frequently as I so enjoyed helping with chores on our visits. All male calf’s were sold for veal. My wife to this day will not eat a baby cow!
I love your ethical farm life, and I love you and your family. Thanks for another great video and explaining how things are done on your farm. I envy your farm life! Stay safe and as always stay awesome 😎
@@calebmanuel17 you are a joke if you believe that. Im tired of complete and utter morons that dont actually know anything about agriculture and how animals are treated. If a black man is held captive and forced to pull a cart its slavery but if a horse does it its somehow not slavery??? If a black man is forced to run laps around a track daily and if they dont run fast enough they are shot in the head thats slavery but if a dog or a horse has to its not? If a black man is held in a cage and has rods drilled into their skull and evil experiments are peformed on them until they die thats slavery but if its a monkey or a dog its not slavery???? If a black women is held captive and raped to be impregnated, has her kid stolen and shot in the head and done repeatedly so you can keep stealing her milk to sell for profit thats slavery, but not when its done to a goat or a cow? You have been brainwashed to think animals are not victims. They suffer just like you would, just like people do. Watch this documentary if you want the truth because its very obvious you are clueless about the world ua-cam.com/video/LQRAfJyEsko/v-deo.html
80 Slim Shady's yes you are sooooo right! It is heartbreaking to see innocent animals treated this way. They cannot even live a normal life span. In Canada killing animals for food is unnecessary and cruel. (And we pay for this horrific cruelty with our tax dollars in the form of subsidies!) The only justification people have for consuming animal products is that taste buds seem to matter more than the animals’ lives. I wish people would care more about kindness and justice to all. Since I became vegan my health has improved and I have so much more energy. I am delighted that many people are beginning to realize that we do not need to harm animals. If only people would treat farm animals as well as they treat their pet dogs and cats. Unfortunately cognitive dissonance is so common.
Most farms in the UK here use a silage shear grab that you push into the face of the clamp and then the blade comes down like your loader with its 2 attatchments- it leaves a clean, flat face on the clamp that means less waste and spoilage from loose stuff all over the clamp front. Have you ever thought of one???
It's amazing because my sister and her hubby do the same things you do. They do their bull calves the same way, they don't mistreat their cows either. 🐄🐂🐃
The farm where dad used to work they never used to bread , but bought bull calfs for rearing up for beef . Fully grown and off to slaughter in ten months
Enjoyed the video. We raise bottle calves from dairies that don't have a steer program. It makes me hopeful to see a young man like you have a passion for the dairy industry.
Thank you for making today's video, watching it was the easy part! Found it very funny how you said we don't kill the bull calves, we castrate them then make them fat and then we kill the steers. Keep them coming Jan, love every one!
@@helenahusky2787 um...What? Cows use mud to stay cool in the summer heat. They aren’t always going to be that clean and sometimes it’s by choice that they are dirty. For some cows, even right after you clean them, they roll around in the mud and get dirty immediately after.
Any particular reason you can’t make small holes in the walls between the calves, which wouldn’t hurt the integrity of the walls but would allow calves to at least see each other for social reasons/health? Solitary confinement of any species is inhumane. Thanks
Risk of disease, calves are mainly seperated to help them mature safely and quickly in a sterile (or close to) environment. At such a small age, theyre very fragile and need careful handling. Once theyre bigger they have room and friends to play with.
@@popeyedog1087 She recovers in the birthing stall for a few hours, is treated with calcium supplements and glucose and is then milked for the colostrum to be fed to the calves. After the colostrum is milked out she joins the rest of the milking herd as usual.
What most dairy farms do where I'm from in California is breed all of their 2nd lactation and up cows to Angus, and then they sell the calves to feedlots.
You know probably the best dairy farm I saw was an organic one in Scotland they did it a bit different they did not take the calves from there mother. I get it its probably cheaper the way you do it and the emotional suffering the baby cow and mother endure is not a consideration..physically they appear well taken care off.
@@violettesager2386 Don't get me wrong I enjoy a good steak but I do actually take the time to check out what type of food I'm buying. There's a small farm not far from me and I get all my meat from there. I know exactly how they treat their animals, and I know how they slaughter them. Just because you're going to eat an animal doesn't mean you have to be cruel to it and to me taking a baby animal from its mother is cruel. You can raise an animalin a good environment and when it comes time to slaughter it for me you can end their life in a relatively painless way.
It shouldn't be about price . It should be about ethics . If the life they lead before they are killed is cruel then it should be banned I believe . This may mean that meat is expensive but so be it . They pay a higher price than we would .
@@caroleh4900 Your right...take a mother from there child no matter the species is beyond cruel. Like I said I am very picky were I get my meat and how the animal is treated
Those steers look 100% Holstein. Have you considered crossing with a beef breed like Hereford or Angus to get better beef quality? There's probably a lot of waste in a 1500 pound Holstein steer when processing. After feeding them for two years, profit will be real tight no matter how you get your feed.
@@saskdutchkid Nothing I saw in those outdoor pens suggests they will grade at prime or AAA as you Canadians refer. Maybe choice - at best. I guess Canadian buyers just don't know any better.
Some dairies never kill the bulls. Bulls can be used for mating, they can be turned into steers, or they can be sold as is to a rodeo and used for bullfighting. Some bulls will end up on the auction block where they get sent to a feedlot if they end up here they get sent to the slaughter house or the rendering plant and turned into feed or cheeseburgers and stakes.
ive been working in farm when i was younger and those animal look in TOP shape i dont know why the internet is freaking outttt this is the real face of mc donald and starbuck ... this farm is a exemple of modern farm very profetional
The fact you don't understand is because you have not done your research mate. You believe what the farmers want you to believe, not wat science proves...
We had lot of dairys around us and we bought day old bull calves for $90.00 a head. This was 40 years ago so they may cost more now. Holstein steers got big pretty fast so we always did pretty well raising them. But with most of the dairys you had to agree to take them all and you had to be prepared to come pick them up when they called. They had a list of buyers so if you couldn't come pick them up that day or the next, they called somebody else.
And that’s why I’m vegan. I had to give up meat because of digestive problems. You have a beautiful farm and you work very hard. I respect you and your family. I was raised on a farm is why I know about veil cutlets.💕
Vegan for health, not mere ideology. I can respect that. Thanks for being non-judgemental to farmers and the general population that consumes meat and dairy.
In America, a typical dairy calf is a mix breed rarely pure Holstein. The bull calves usually do go to the auction 24 hours after birth, year round. They are called Deacon calves.
So you talked about what happens to the steers. How about what happens to the heifers when they are past their prime for milking. Great videos by the way. Very nice farm you have there.
Has your farm ever had a beekeeper put in hives to increase yield on your crops? No idea if this works or worth time, and expense. I enjoyed your farm’s lovely treatment of steers, with the explanations why other farms wouldn’t be able to do the same. Would you be interested or willing to follow a heifer from birth, then once a week updates until she’s a dairy cow? Ta
Must be different way of raising a dairy herd, where I love we put the cattle out in spring and only take them in for milking. The cows come into the winter sheds around October time.
Why Grain? It is not a natural (in any high %) food for ruminants. Way back in the day (60's / 70's) we were doing various Silage but throwing/mixing some molasses grain pellets in the hopper sure made the cows happy to be milked (and was easier to mechanically handle). I left the Farming/Dairy Industry 1972 but it still interests me (doesn't make me lose as much sleep as Milking did;^) as I am now retired) but it is what I used to do. If anyone thinks that Milking Cows requires losing too much sleep ... Join the Military (and pine for the good old days when you had a few hours sleep in a row) Good Channel!
Hi, I am a 65 year old guy who grew up on a registered holstein dairy farm back in the 60's. We had 100 head of cows and milked time a day, long before pipelines and automated milkers. Watching your videos has kept me up to date on the new technology and upgrades to the dairy industry. I love how your videos are down to earth and easy to watch. I had the best upbringing a guy could ask for while on the farm. Hard work, long hours and a dedication to the cows helped me grow up to be a hard working man who took those values and used them to make a successful career of my own.
Hi sir how did yiu milk all of the cos back then
@@clowns76 We had Duvall milking machines and then when the cow was done, we dumped the milk into a stainless steel pail and it was carried into a milk house and poured into a strainer that went into a stainless steel milk tank. Three times a week a tanker truck came and pumped milk from our stainless steel tank into their’s.
That sound like hard work. But it was satisfying work I lived on the farm at my uncle's for the summer and we feed all the animals I actually enjoyed that
@@clowns76 where was that farm?
It was in Victorville California and it was I was probably about 12 years old 2 like 17 years old it was enjoyable working with cows and pigs in riding the three-wheel ATVs
I'm learning so much about modern Dairy Practices , back when i was privileged to help out on a farm with milk cows it was pull squeeze and squirt -- the cats loved me :) about 55 years ago
Lemme guess, you had great aim?💕👏👏😘😁
Privileged to help on a farm? Wow, what a middle class thing.
Really enjoyed how he was willing to break things down with costs, why his family does things, etc. It's the little things that matter
Way to go UA-cam aglorythums. I watched a video experimenting with salting steaks & now I'm here learning how to raise steers.
Most comprehensive in your explanation of formulas and cost. Being from Texas and ranchers every cow is income. Truly enjoy each of your videos. Some of the best cinematography of any you tube farm channel.
Russell in Houston,Texas
@Hi Russell how are you doing
Great video! Thanks for reviewing your plan for the steer - I looked into a small dairy around here, and when he got a male he would raise it for a month and auction it off. It probably cost him $200 and he made $100 at the auction. He was not a good business man, but always trying to do what is right.
This is the cleanest farm I’ve seen.
If you don't keep it clean ,the milk truck won't take your product...( In Wisconsin)
@@garymingy8671 in most places!,👏👏
@@garymingy8671 in most places!,👏👏
Prisons are clean too.
Im guessing you havent seen very many farms!
That was an epic explanation, great job SDK 👍🏻, educating the world on how most dairy farms operate. Some use a nutritionist who monitors the cows health, and adjust TMR rations to keep a good balance
What impresses me is this kid knows his farm! I’m in California and most of the farms that my friends were raised on were pretty close to this clean.
99% of Farming families stay out of trouble with the Law. They have to be home in the afternoon and home very early in the morning to feed & Milk.
This kid will be sitting pretty in about 10 years.
Nice job young man. Very nice job!!
The only draw back when it comes to you inheriting this farm. Dads “Never” seem to fully Retire. He will always be your Boss!!
Great comment! He is definitely ready for his inheritance!! I pray he gets a beautiful bride who loves the ladies& gents (cows) as much as he does! 🐄 ❤ 🚜🙏🏽
@@tantasroom8646 but the kid will always be a hired hand. Even if dad dies mom will only become his boss. Any time he wants to upgrade the farm. He will need to run it past his father then when dad dies run it past his mother.
That’s when he will learn Mom always had the “yes or No” in her purse strings. Dad would just run it across mom after the kid go to bed. And most of the time after the two of them had gone to bed…
I have probably 8 or 10 friends that after dad died thought they would inherit the farm ( ranch). They could do with it what they liked. But mom was still alive. When mom finally past on. They either sold their milking cow’s to the government. Then went out and purchased beef cows. Then after the market couldn’t bare that much meet on the market. They sold their beef cows once again to the government. Then they sold off the property. Which of course they kept a small piece for the brother or sister continued to live on rent free for the rest of their lives. But the ones running the farm now earned Millions of dollars. Most of them moved north where property was much cheaper and started all over again..
Your videos are always interesting, informative and most of all, to the point. I really enjoy watching them.
@Hi Dave how are you doing
Thanks for the great explanation about bull calves Jan, and thanks for the rainbow. Love your drone shots! And I continue to be amazed at your passion in caring for your animals.
love your comments Jan....those little buggers, lol...thank you and all our farmers out there that keep us all well fed....your dedication is so appreciated!
Thanx tons for the explanations. You answered so many questions that I had as a non-farmer. You definitely have enough work to keep you out of trouble. Stay safe out there. I second the shout out for The Farmer on the Prairie. He has great content also.
Thank you Jan! You did an excellent job with the details.
Keep them coming.
Thank you! Will do!
captain tackberry he did go and look it up
Alex Woodly he did go and look it up
Jan you are so intelligent and well educated. Your parents along with Lord Asquith school are to be commended!
I love how clean your farm is. Recently, I watched another farm in the US and was surprised at the difference. Keep up the amazing work!
Videos are so interesting.
Thank you for taking the time to explain the life of a bull calf on your farm. It’s really sad what the initial thought is what happens after they are born. I buy bull calves from nearby dairies and raise them all the way to finish. We usually have around 100-200 head totally at any giving time. Would like to expand in the near future🤞
Didnt have dairy cows but on my ranch, bull calves we castrated and feed them out for about 6-8 months. When they were about 500 lbs on the hoof, we took them to the sale barn and sold them to feed lots. Those were fed to finish and became Big Macs, Ribs, Steaks and such. I had a discussion with a young lady who was mad because we sold cows for food. She told me why didnt we just go and buy it at the store . . . . . . . Yes, they are some folks out there like that.. Very clean farm, calves all look well cared for.
What a dumb lady!
The new baby calves look lonely. They need their mamas.
Another great video Jan. You did an excellent job of explaining the process of how you manage your calves and calf barns. It is easy to see by the condition of your calf barns that your family does the job right.I am not a farmer but have lived in an Ontario Agricultural Community all my life so I get it. You are a credit to your industry.
thanks for always making videos that me and my girls can watch together. they learn so much from you.
Make sure to show your girls the slaughtering and the processing part as well. They should know the entire process.
You did a great job explaining that man. Thanks for the education. Love your vids and thanks to you and All farmers for helping us stay fed.
To anyone who wants to troll you or make stupid comments about slaughter a cow, calf or bull on the farm, is plain stupid If you need for income you can send to the meat packing plant any one of the mentioned groups. How does general public get steak, hamburger, roast, figure it out, it does not appear out of the sky, it is animal meat. If that is a bother to anyone then go away and stop bothering those who eat meat. Do not defame a working farm that is trying to earn a living. And this young man explains this topic very well. I do not notice those who complain setting up a rescue or farm and buying farm animals to put on them. Just trying to bully those who do farm. So shame on those ......
WITHOUT A DOUBT YOU HAVE THE CLEANEST OPERATION IVE EVER SEEN. YOUR ANIMALS ARE BEAUTIFUL. CONGRATULATIONS, IVE SEEN ALLOT OF FARMS, YOURS IS RIGHT UP THERE AT THE VERY VEST. THANK YOU FOR SHARING‼️‼️👍👍. Vinny 🇺🇸
Very clean, animal raised friendly and kind , kudos to your farm! We need more farms like yours! Plus you are a bright young man, very respectful! Thank you!
@Hi Christine how are you doing
Very informative.....thanks! One of our neighbors had a dairy farm. The young bulls were sold when a week or so old for $5 each. Over time, the price went up to $50. The person buying had to do the castration and nipple bucket feeding for a period of time until they would begin to graze in the fields. Though big boned, Holsteins made good beef cows.
this kid does a good job of narrating his video ......good job guy
Gotta love it when Jan sets the record straight.❤❤❤❤
Great instructional video. I have never figured out why folks presume they know how every operation works. Thanks for doing a special video on the “ steak” steers🤓
This! This is the thing I find the most interesting by farming, every farm does it different. What might work on one farm might not work for the neighbour!
Ye most people think that but i buy bulls and heifers off a dairy farm and he gives them same treatment as the heifers and i do the same
@@kieranogorman29 people who "farm" cows are horrible pieces of crap...hope they all get cancer for what they do to these animals.
@@briarlee I'm sure you're perfect to leave such a ridiculous comment! You probably eat avocados that have been picked by slave labour and shipped two thousand miles though huh!?
@Raunak Anwar I just think there's some irony in vegans comments is all! Most live in a climate that could never support a vegetarians diet let alone a vegans. Yet they crap on farmers who grow most of their diet in their back yard. It throws me back how they think they're so holy! Especially when their food has such a large carbon footprint!
Im from philippines and working on a dairyfarm here in japan. thanks for your vlog, it gives me more information about dairy farming. more informative vlogs to come. thanks alot
Thank you for addressing the negative misconceptions truthfully and educationally. So sad the amount of negativity and misunderstanding without taking the time to gain knowledge and make an informed comment :). Your cows and your steer are very sweet to see and have always brought a smile to my face during these negative times...keep up the great work!
I don't believe I had any misconceptions when I commented on that video . I have taken time to gain some knowledge on what goes on in animal agriculture and the more I learn the worse it gets .
20% of the calves in the UK are killed on farm and dumped as waste : www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/26/dairy-dirty-secret-its-still-cheaper-to-kill-male-calves-than-to-rear-them
Not that it matters to the animal if it was wasted or not .
Ellen, what misconceptions? That these sentient beings are being exploited for their milk and meat? That these cows have been forcibly impregnated to produce milk? That calves are separated from their moms after birth? That the Bobby calves are fattened up to be slaughtered soon? That the female calves will soon too being forcibly impregnated, to follow in moms footsteps? That all cows become burger patties when they can no longer produce milk for your tea? To me it's clear as daylight, you may sugarcoat it as much as you like, keep these animals in 5 star accommodations, it's still horrible wat humans, the supposedly moral agents, are doing to animals. Go vegan already, stop making useless excuses. If you don't you must never say that you love animals, or have a grain of feeling in your heart for animals.
@@jake4904 CONGRATULATIONS!! I wasn't even aware that an appointment had been made for the High Priest of Ethics, Morals, Compassion & Love. Is it still a term position or are you in permanently? Good luck and happy ruling and don't let those mortals get away with anything.
They still get killed for nothing more than taste
Vegan Forever and their nutritional value which is much higher than plants :)
Great detail in this video its so interesting to see how it all goes on.... Keep up the good work and great vids 👍🇬🇧
Very informative, I never thought so much go into the feeding. Well done.
your one of the first dairymen i've seen that doesn't use corn silage. pretty interesting. i didn't even know there was oter types of silage other than hay silage. goes to show you learn something new everyday. keep up the great video's. God bless
Keep in mind that corn grows best further south in warmer climates. I lived in Saskatchewan 9 years and I did see fields of corn occasionally, but they were the exception rather than the rule.
I admire your courage...trying to give a vegan a formal education is virtually hopeless. Good informative video.
I agree, that vegan teacher should definitely give this a watch
We have a mix of winter triticale or barley silage, corn silage, haylage & oat/pea silage, mixed with dry hay bales and we add earlage (add combine corn head to our forage harvester and process the whole cob & put in silo at higher moisture), rolled oats, toasted soybean meal (from local soybean oil processor), DDGS (from local ethanol plant), minerals and supplements. We add water & molasses. Of course, we have different recipes (like you) for each set of cattle (active milkers, dry cows, heifers, steers). Keep up the great videos!
You would probably find it cruel to end a dog's life early so that you could taste it's body , yet a cow is the same as a dog in every way that matters and deserves the same moral consideration .
Since , we have so much choice , why not just leave animals alone ?
The morality comes in the purpose of the animals deaths. Death just for death sake is not ok. But these animals are bred for a purpose and they are not abused in the process.
@@Grimskarr Sure, but not just any purpose would justify ending their life .
The only purpose that justifies killing another animal is survival but since we no longer need to eat them, we are killing them for pleasure .
Slaves were bred for slavery but that didn't make it moral .
I would make the argument that taking someone's life so that you can enjoy they're flavour is abuse .
@@Grimskarr So it's morally acceptable to kill an animal as long as I get sensory pleasure from it?
@Raunak Anwar Cows are great companions. They're only farm animals because we made them into farm animals.
@Raunak Anwar It shouldn't matter what they can do for us . It's the fact that they can suffer that makes them worthy of moral consideration.
You're a well informed young man. It's cool to listen to you talk about the daily operations.
sounds like the cows have a more nutritious diet than i do
Sheri For no they didnt
If you want to get Fat and have Diabetes ... eat what they feed cattle to get Fat (takes many years to get the Diabetes so ya have to be persistent to be both Diabetic and Fat)
Naturally ,because you don't produce milk!.
Maybe you will be lucky in your next life and be one of them.
Maybe stop eating cows then and eat whet they're eating. You know...plants.
This farm is the cleanest farm I have ever seen your passion and commitment to the milk cows and the youngsters is admirable your an example to everyone out there your love for the heifers is what I adore nothing is spared when it comes to their wellbeing and happiness
One of the best farming channels on UA-cam. I look forward to your videos.
Flatnose -absolutely the best farm video on UA-cam !!!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🌹
Yup I'm new , 5 mins in , kewl enough ...bravi ,press on. Conrade!
Great video, I always seem to learn something new! Thanks for posting so often lately!
And when those milk producing cows become too old to keep milking, they too are destined for a Happy Meal box to feed little Jimmy and little Janey. Thus, the wheel keeps turning...
00UncommonSense00 yes so sad and so unnecessary
1:30... they castrate them... said it so calmly like it's nothing... like chopping a male's balls off is no big deal.
They don't become to old, they become less profitable for the farmers. Cows can live up to 20 years old, female dairy cows are executed at around 5-6 year old.
Such is the circle of life. No animals live up their maximum life span in the wild. “Wild”humans are old by 30 in pre-agrarian societies. Cows in the wild would’n live more than 5 to 6 years old anyway. It’s civilization that allows for old age, both in people and farm animals. Old age isn’t meant to be in any species under natural conditions. Farmed animals have outstanding quality of life, they are not stressed with being hunted and needing to fend for themselves. The price paid for the easier life is becoming meal for the people that give them this easier life. Their death is humane and much better than if they had to die by the jaws of a predator, gutted and eaten still alive.
@@gitanonumero1983 Hey there, whilst cows can live for around 20 years, not sure if that applies to high yielding dairy breeds to be honest. We're talking about cows that produce enormous amounts of milk, some can even have issues standing up, etc if left without being milked for too long. Even if they did live for close to 20 years, how many years would they spend practically as downer cows? That's no quality of life at all? Seems better off living in relative comfort on an animal comfort conscious farm whilst in the prime of life, then going for a quick and humane slaughter than many years of pain and disability. Especially for an animal with no way of being able to grasp what is happening to them.
Thank you for educating the haters and not slapping back at them. I had the question of whether you sold your bull calves or what you did with them and I am happy to be educated as well I do like watching your videos because your cows are always so content and happy they are beautiful animals so thank you for sharing
If you like them so much, why pay people to separate the baby’s from their mothers, oh yeah, you like Breast feeding as an adult too much. all these animals will be killed after all this, so this video is just another wanker doing pointless and horrible things, then making them seem lovely and pleasant.
@Raunak Anwar lol i just love the way the vegans who have never been out of the city try to dictate what everybody should eat or drink
Good explanation
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It’s always good to see you here Eric!
They go out on grass from spring to early winter each day
@@gfgf2417 I'm a farmer in scotland and we buy dairy bulls and we put them on grass whenever we can to give them the best life we can and it saves us money because we dont need to feed them as much
Viewers should note that all the calves wind up going to the same place in the end. Some just take longer to get there. They are called old dry milk cows but they both have the same fate. Great video! Thanks for sharing❗❗❗ 🙂🙂🙂 👍👍👍
Yes, in the end, they all die. Like all other living beings -- including all of us, eventually.
@@timothymbonham4453 Yes, but most of us will live a full life without being exploited. Not be killed after only living less than 10% of our natural lifespan.
@@MatthewWitt12 without being exploited?? The government milks us daily for taxes. It’s the same fate, except the government wants us alive for as long as possible while we can still pay taxes. Once we are old enough to retire, they care no longer and we can be let to die at “retirement homes”. Cruelty is part of all life. If the government decided we would be best slaughtered for meat, we would. That’s just life.
They have lives where they have all the food they want to eat, comfortable surroundings, company of their own kind, shelter, medical care, a stress free environment. Then they have one really bad day. We should all be as lucky.
The steer was letting his voice be heard. LoL 🤣
Black and white lives matter. Lol
Coyote hammer human lives matter
Can it sing in the boy's choir?
Interesting story. My dad lived in Taber for a while and I have been to the sugar factory there. I had a friend growing up whose family owned a dairy farm in Lethbridge, Alberta. I would go out occasionally to spend time with him. I got to ride in the truck when they were putting greenfeed in the long white bags. Thanks for sharing!
I never suspected you would waste a good steer but I still found this to be an interesting piece. Good video for the folks with preconceived misconceptions. Peace.
Except it happens all the time : www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/26/dairy-dirty-secret-its-still-cheaper-to-kill-male-calves-than-to-rear-them
Terry Fandango what happens to the bull calves they don’t want is the go for kebabs at 6 weeks. Trust me when I say it dairy farmers hate to see it happen. They would much rather see calves go for their full 2 years to be rested for beef.
@@dannyquinlan2284 I'm not saying the farmers enjoy it . Just making the point that there's a brutal price to our current food system .
It's funny how the farmers are upset by the wasted death of these calves but don't mind at all when the calves are killed if they're eaten afterwards .
It makes no difference to the animals being killed if they're wasted or not .
Since meat is no longer a nutritional requirement and we could easily choose something else to eat , we're killing them for something as trivial as taste pleasure .
Pleasure can't morally justify taking an animals life .
Terry Fandango but farmers do care what happens to the calves. Yes it mightn’t be too priority but as long as they end up as beef somewhere it’s ok. Preferably over a 2 year period but what happens happens.
Terry Fandango if they weren’t fattened for beef and just let live the world would be overrun in no time whatsoever it’s an essential thing that beef is constantly produced
I love baby animals, they are so cute. And the dairy cows raised for 4H and stuff are kept beautiful. Baths and such,, those kids take great pride in their work
@SamIAm not always the truth. Was involved in 4H showing dairy cows. As for our family they're considered pets so we actually kept them until they naturally passed. Not all think this way but we did. There is an auction after the showing is done for beef cows and other livestock where most are used for consumption. Unfortunately this is how it has always been. Being raised on a farm I do understand how raising a cow for consumption can be done in a caring compassionate way. I see both sides but not all livestock exhibitors use their animals as market animals.
you treat them excellent
By fattening them up and sending them off to have their throats slit and bled to death? Are you alright?
Abra Cadavra Yawn, soft.
@Raunak Anwar These are not wild cows, they're not natural animals and they shouldn't be left in the wild. Same with farmed pigs, chickens and so on. They're our experiment and we're also the ones breeding them by the billions, which is also unnatural. There are more farmed animals on the planet than there are mammals and humans combined. Where there once used to be native species of trees, shrubs and animals, now there's nothing but empty land and farmed animals or monocrops to feed these said animals. Hence why we have so many floods. We need to reforest those lands, bring native species of animals back and stop bringing these animals into existence just so we can slaughter them.
@Raunak Anwar Some people who can afford it have farmed animals as pets, and there are also animal sanctuaries that take care of farmed animals and people can visit and interact with them. So I don't think they'd go extinct, but either way, being alive just so you can be exploited and later slaughtered is not a justification for forcefully breeding them by the billions.
@Raunak Anwar That's not what the most recent scientific studies have concluded though. I'm not sure if you are aware of the Blue Zones populations. There are a few villages/places on earth, where there are the most centenarians in the world, people who live up to 100 and over. These populations do not have much in common (like geographic location, environment, race, culture, etc.) except for one important factor, which is diet. Their diet is 95-100% whole food plant-based. The only time they consume meat, if any, is on special occasions, and they eat very little of it, generally not as the main course but as a side dish. These people have the longest lifespan out of all other populations.
There's a quote I like from a doctor, I'm paraphrasing but it's close to "Most of the time, is not the illness that runs in the family, but the diet." Meaning that people's grandparents, parents, and they themselves might not share the same types of illnesses because of genetics, but because they eat the same stuff and their bodies react similarly. Even if you consider evolution, Bonobos are our closest relatives and they're almost 100% plant-based. I think the primary cause for such a high rate of illness In humans, all over the world, is based on the fact that we are wrongly assuming that we're omnivores.
And if we're really being honest, most people consume animal-based products for taste pleasure and convenience and nothing else. But we like to dress that up with something more so we don't sound selfish, lazy and hedonistic. So yea, there's really no need to exploit and slaughter animals.
It’s actually 10 months!! Almost an entire year!
Maybe things like this have happened once upon a time and maybe still do. However, that’s just a better reason to but your milk from a better source. A company that is well known and well respected for taking good care of their animals. Most bull calves aren’t killed!!!! They can be sold, raised to breed, raised for meat, etc. PEOPLE NEEED FOOD! Not everyone can afford high priced leaves. I sure can’t.
I can grow my own crops and raise my own animals and still be proud of what I do.
Good Job Explaining This Kind Of Stuff. You Make It Really Easy To Understand Stuff That Goes On Behind The Scenes On Dairy Farms Like Calving, Feeding And Ai. Good Work Keep It Up!
40 years ago they threw away the bull calves at birth - now they find value in them - in NZ on youtube is a farming program called Country Calendar which is about farming in New Zealand - now we breed our dairy cows to other beef breeds like Angus and sometimes Wagu to add value to the bull calves - the very best of the dairy cows get AI normally to a good milking line bull - different weather and different farming as our stock is always on grass
The big factory dairies kill them at birth here - it costs more in formula and labor to raise them than what they are worth.
5:00 In Saskatchewan, even the rainbows are flat! I had no idea.
another informative video, so many misconceptions on calves.
On many farms they take them away at birth and shoot them - sometimes in sight of the mother. It is not a misconception.
@@Automedon2 It is a misconception. It's pointless to kill them upon birth...
"..and they become nice juicy steaks". 😊😂
Stakes aren't very tasty, unless you're a termite.
@@0xFF48 brilliantly done!
awesome
Mikey Pensando ,*steaks (yum),, stakes (not yum)
These will be slaughtered for super low grade beef. They will most definitely not be becoming steaks.
The Male Bulls Are Grown For Beef, Exploited For Their Semen And Then Slaughtered After Spending 30% Of It's Lifetime! This Is What Happens To Bulls On Factory Farms.
The auction yard I bought 2 calves from unfortunately sells newborn calves from a dairy farm. I don’t know which dairy farms sold their newborns, but my main concern was they don’t give them colostrum! I was horrified when I found out. I bid against a meat company that bought most of the calves. The sweet jersey heifer I got eventually got sick at age 4 and had to be euthanized. I appreciate it SO much when colostrum is given to calves. Most farms do give it. Thanks for taking such good care of your calves!
It’s unfortunate that there are some bad apples in any bunch, that give the good apples a bad rep. Every occupation has them
Hey Dude love it. I fed 1 to 5 day old baby bullcalves up to 1000 pds and then sold them to a guy who fed them out to 15- 1600 pounds. And 2 yrs after I sold him a dozen hd I asked him how they did and he said they were the only ones he had that drank milk out of a bucket at 1200 pounds and laughed. I raised baby's at the minimum of 10 hd/ month x 16 years. I picked them up from a guy who bought them out of the state of Washington and hauled them to Iowa by semis and when I picked them up I put them in the back of my pickup with a topper and after 3 miles they laid down and went to sleep. I raised my calves in the white plastic domes and when I sold the domes I got 50 dollars a dome more than I PD for.
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Everything is so clean. I am so impressed. As far as steer, the time they have being grown is important. I won't eat veal or lamb, and as with beef cattle, I appreciate the life they are afforded before the day they are processed. My only misgiving is how the processor treats them. Enjoy your show and crave a nice cold glass of milk! And a burger for dinner.
Educate yourself on processing. It is highly humane and controlled.Check Temple Grandin's videos.
I don't know where you are from but here in Canada the processing side has very strict standards and regulations that they must follow and have regular inspections that are done randomly without any notice
build that line yup
I sure enjoy watching your videos! I was born and raised on a farm and also a Canadian! Thanks for the videos! Keep up the good work!
What a beautiful clean farm.geez!
So happy to learn you raise the steers for beef. We had friends who ran a small dairy farm in upstate NY. We visited frequently as I so enjoyed helping with chores on our visits. All male calf’s were sold for veal. My wife to this day will not eat a baby cow!
As a young girl, that’s how I made extra money raising Holstein bull calves. $50 each back then.
Amazing, those cows and their followers are better cared for than a lot of people!
I love your ethical farm life, and I love you and your family. Thanks for another great video and explaining how things are done on your farm. I envy your farm life! Stay safe and as always stay awesome 😎
Theres nothing ethical about slavery and brutal murder
80 Slim Shady's I’m tired of vegans
80 Slim Shady's there’s no slavery and murder lol
@@calebmanuel17 you are a joke if you believe that. Im tired of complete and utter morons that dont actually know anything about agriculture and how animals are treated.
If a black man is held captive and forced to pull a cart its slavery but if a horse does it its somehow not slavery???
If a black man is forced to run laps around a track daily and if they dont run fast enough they are shot in the head thats slavery but if a dog or a horse has to its not?
If a black man is held in a cage and has rods drilled into their skull and evil experiments are peformed on them until they die thats slavery but if its a monkey or a dog its not slavery????
If a black women is held captive and raped to be impregnated, has her kid stolen and shot in the head and done repeatedly so you can keep stealing her milk to sell for profit thats slavery, but not when its done to a goat or a cow?
You have been brainwashed to think animals are not victims. They suffer just like you would, just like people do. Watch this documentary if you want the truth because its very obvious you are clueless about the world
ua-cam.com/video/LQRAfJyEsko/v-deo.html
80 Slim Shady's yes you are sooooo right! It is heartbreaking to see innocent animals treated this way. They cannot even live a normal life span. In Canada killing animals for food is unnecessary and cruel. (And we pay for this horrific cruelty with our tax dollars in the form of subsidies!) The only justification people have for consuming animal products is that taste buds seem to matter more than the animals’ lives. I wish people would care more about kindness and justice to all. Since I became vegan my health has improved and I have so much more energy. I am delighted that many people are beginning to realize that we do not need to harm animals. If only people would treat farm animals as well as they treat their pet dogs and cats. Unfortunately cognitive dissonance is so common.
Most farms in the UK here use a silage shear grab that you push into the face of the clamp and then the blade comes down like your loader with its 2 attatchments- it leaves a clean, flat face on the clamp that means less waste and spoilage from loose stuff all over the clamp front.
Have you ever thought of one???
Calves act like they want out, milkies, their moms, and to see and play with each other.
It's amazing because my sister and her hubby do the same things you do. They do their bull calves the same way, they don't mistreat their cows either. 🐄🐂🐃
This has been one of your most educational videos that I have seen from you. Thanks so much for all of the info.
The farm where dad used to work they never used to bread , but bought bull calfs for rearing up for beef . Fully grown and off to slaughter in ten months
Amazing !! explanation is great for the two types pf calves and their food... well done
Great informative videos as a retired UK Veg farmer its great to see farming is in good hands.
I noticed every body on about the calf. Think about the cow. She becomes decaffeinated.
Brent Reid 😪😪😪
Great comment 👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍
How cute and clever you are, and ignorant.
Congratulations, the the winner of the most ignorant comment!
Cute pun...but at least it doesn't come with a headache.
Enjoyed the video. We raise bottle calves from dairies that don't have a steer program. It makes me hopeful to see a young man like you have a passion for the dairy industry.
Thank you for making today's video, watching it was the easy part! Found it very funny how you said we don't kill the bull calves, we castrate them then make them fat and then we kill the steers.
Keep them coming Jan, love every one!
Those cows are so CLEAN!!! amazing
Yes they are! And that's how they should be too!
@@helenahusky2787 um...What? Cows use mud to stay cool in the summer heat. They aren’t always going to be that clean and sometimes it’s by choice that they are dirty. For some cows, even right after you clean them, they roll around in the mud and get dirty immediately after.
Any particular reason you can’t make small holes in the walls between the calves, which wouldn’t hurt the integrity of the walls but would allow calves to at least see each other for social reasons/health? Solitary confinement of any species is inhumane. Thanks
Risk of disease, calves are mainly seperated to help them mature safely and quickly in a sterile (or close to) environment.
At such a small age, theyre very fragile and need careful handling. Once theyre bigger they have room and friends to play with.
@@DanishButterCookie Where is their mom?
@@popeyedog1087 She recovers in the birthing stall for a few hours, is treated with calcium supplements and glucose and is then milked for the colostrum to be fed to the calves. After the colostrum is milked out she joins the rest of the milking herd as usual.
I see these like little bassinets in a hospital nursery. Yes the babies are separated but they aren’t alone.
What most dairy farms do where I'm from in California is breed all of their 2nd lactation and up cows to Angus, and then they sell the calves to feedlots.
You know probably the best dairy farm I saw was an organic one in Scotland they did it a bit different they did not take the calves from there mother. I get it its probably cheaper the way you do it and the emotional suffering the baby cow and mother endure is not a consideration..physically they appear well taken care off.
... still it’s sad thought ❗️😢
@@violettesager2386 Don't get me wrong I enjoy a good steak but I do actually take the time to check out what type of food I'm buying. There's a small farm not far from me and I get all my meat from there. I know exactly how they treat their animals, and I know how they slaughter them. Just because you're going to eat an animal doesn't mean you have to be cruel to it and to me taking a baby animal from its mother is cruel. You can raise an animalin a good environment and when it comes time to slaughter it for me you can end their life in a relatively painless way.
It shouldn't be about price . It should be about ethics . If the life they lead before they are killed is cruel then it should be banned I believe . This may mean that meat is expensive but so be it . They pay a higher price than we would .
Chris Weeks ...yes, so it should be ❣️
@@caroleh4900 Your right...take a mother from there child no matter the species is beyond cruel. Like I said I am very picky were I get my meat and how the animal is treated
Those steers look 100% Holstein. Have you considered crossing with a beef breed like Hereford or Angus to get better beef quality? There's probably a lot of waste in a 1500 pound Holstein steer when processing. After feeding them for two years, profit will be real tight no matter how you get your feed.
Nah dude tons of profit. A lot of them grade AAA so the qualities there
@@saskdutchkid Nothing I saw in those outdoor pens suggests they will grade at prime or AAA as you Canadians refer. Maybe choice - at best. I guess Canadian buyers just don't know any better.
...and I thought making a gourmet meal was complicated! Blessings.
Some dairies never kill the bulls. Bulls can be used for mating, they can be turned into steers, or they can be sold as is to a rodeo and used for bullfighting. Some bulls will end up on the auction block where they get sent to a feedlot if they end up here they get sent to the slaughter house or the rendering plant and turned into feed or cheeseburgers and stakes.
What dummy's would just kill them when you can make money!
Poor babies don`t get any time with their mamas...😢
Well they separate them so they don’t get trampled and die and after a while they’re put back with the others
ive been working in farm when i was younger and those animal look in TOP shape i dont know why the internet is freaking outttt this is the real face of mc donald and starbuck ... this farm is a exemple of modern farm very profetional
The fact you don't understand is because you have not done your research mate. You believe what the farmers want you to believe, not wat science proves...
@@kearress7350 And you guys believe everything about dairy farms in Mexico, on a screen
What a beautiful farm.
We had lot of dairys around us and we bought day old bull calves for $90.00 a head. This was 40 years ago so they may cost more now. Holstein steers got big pretty fast so we always did pretty well raising them. But with most of the dairys you had to agree to take them all and you had to be prepared to come pick them up when they called. They had a list of buyers so if you couldn't come pick them up that day or the next, they called somebody else.
@Hi Russell how are you doing
And that’s why I’m vegan. I had to give up meat because of digestive problems. You have a beautiful farm and you work very hard. I respect you and your family. I was raised on a farm is why I know about veil cutlets.💕
cheryl campbell some vegans are against farming what you gonna say.
Vegan for health, not mere ideology. I can respect that. Thanks for being non-judgemental to farmers and the general population that consumes meat and dairy.
God bless this man for doing the right thing and standing up to the crocks that are running the world.
"Dude! I'm tryin' to film a video, can you stop?" Mooo
In America, a typical dairy calf is a mix breed rarely pure Holstein. The bull calves usually do go to the auction 24 hours after birth, year round. They are called Deacon calves.
2100 acres and 290 that answered one of my Questions Sir
Appreciate your dairy & farming operation. Clean animal living. As much as possible. Good job.
So you talked about what happens to the steers. How about what happens to the heifers when they are past their prime for milking. Great videos by the way. Very nice farm you have there.
I’ve usually seen at about 6 maybe 7 years old is when they are retired to hamburger.
Hailey Miller how many times are they AI’d during that time?
VW5767 I’ve got no clue, you’d have to talk to a herdsman or dairy owner or worker. I don’t have my own milk cow yet. Soon though!
@@VW5767 usually once a year.
Heifers are young cows I think until after their second calf
Jan, impressive operations knowledge. Keep it up dude.
Has your farm ever had a beekeeper put in hives to increase yield on your crops? No idea if this works or worth time, and expense. I enjoyed your farm’s lovely treatment of steers, with the explanations why other farms wouldn’t be able to do the same. Would you be interested or willing to follow a heifer from birth, then once a week updates until she’s a dairy cow? Ta
The winters in his area are very very cold
Must be different way of raising a dairy herd, where I love we put the cattle out in spring and only take them in for milking. The cows come into the winter sheds around October time.
So bull calves are castrated when they're babies and without the benefit of pain killers? Wonder how SaskDutchKid would like it done to him?
Yeah. I've always owned horses and when foals are gelded they are given pain killers.
Ya know there is banding right? And he never said that they don’t give them painkillers. A lot of farmers do to cut down on stress
Most farms use banding, the calves don't seem to react at all.
Yes banding is castrating.
Why Grain? It is not a natural (in any high %) food for ruminants. Way back in the day (60's / 70's) we were doing various Silage but throwing/mixing some molasses grain pellets in the hopper sure made the cows happy to be milked (and was easier to mechanically handle).
I left the Farming/Dairy Industry 1972 but it still interests me (doesn't make me lose as much sleep as Milking did;^) as I am now retired) but it is what I used to do.
If anyone thinks that Milking Cows requires losing too much sleep ... Join the Military (and pine for the good old days when you had a few hours sleep in a row)
Good Channel!