Had to help a neighbor with no facilities the other day. Roped her, tied her to a post and jacked the calf out old school. Haven’t had to do that in 20 years. Sure appreciate my setup more now with the maternity pen.
Thank-you for the video! Can sure appreciate those challenges but you did a great job. And who would have known there is a completely natural way to stop global warming. 😂😂
@@AlbertaRanch , Just coming in now...and had to edit my comment. Had a new mom that calved and then decided to get something to eat. The calf must have been feeling a little to good and decided to introduce himself to the herd. I finally got them connected again and fought off all the other calves and mom's wanting to interfere. Think initially the cows were thinking, there's a new baby but no mom. this isn't right. 😂
That was an excellent idea tying the cow to the squeeze chute. Replace the old cut off halter with a new poly heavy duty halter about 5/8 in diameter with a break away hondo on it. Tie a piece of Red heavy round baler twine on the hondo and simply pull on the twine to release the cow.
Dang calves.. we try to halter break all the heifers we keep.. doesn't always happen.. missed 1 this year, we weren't going to keep, but decided to. Makes a difference later. We have dairy lockups in the maternity pens, makes it easier to get halters on.. then after we figure out what's going on and are ready to pull, the halter is tied to the lockups and we release the head.. and yes, gotta tie them right!!! Hopefully you aren't too close to any of the fires!!!
Lol. How dare you give them an ear tag……8:16 I was thinking it was time for the big puller. She’s pretty quiet as far as moving around goes. Always good when they get it figured out. I hope it rains too. Take care, Annette 🌺
@@AlbertaRanch I dislocated my elbow 6 years ago when I was 40 running for my life. Bought it the next spring. Hands down the best piece of equipment I’ve ever bought. We move our calves as they are born into their pasture groups in a different field. Tag and band them safely and over 95% of the cows follow it out well. The other 5 % we walk out on foot or with the quad if they are rangy.
@@AlbertaRanch I am also lazy and impatient waiting for them to suck. Works good to get a tube full down them without fighting the cow to get them sucking. They have 12 hours to figure it out then before they come up to the maternity pen.
@@AlbertaRanch it’s the original one out of the states. Believe it’s called calf catcher. Has a swivel on the front tire, step through the side off the machine. That swivel wheel is important, follows the machine around better. The knock offs have two fixed wheels. Not as nice.
Great video thank you. The best time of year
Yep it is nice to calve and see winter go.
"social services may need to get involved" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Priceless.
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Had to help a neighbor with no facilities the other day. Roped her, tied her to a post and jacked the calf out old school. Haven’t had to do that in 20 years. Sure appreciate my setup more now with the maternity pen.
Maternity pen..... now there's an idea.
@@AlbertaRanch best purchase we’ve made, besides the shark cage on the quad. Just used it tonight, put a weak calf on a cow.
Love the commentary and the talk to the cow and calf...sacrifice a halter to release the cow is not to big of a loss
I'll go back to halter tying school now.
Great video, on joys of calving. Good job on calf jack.
Thanks
I really like your videos. Most of them make me laugh at least once. Hello from St. Albert. Best wishes!
Thanks for watching
I always look forward to your videos because I do laugh out loud! That’s a great snow cone and gets a lot of the cows attention 😎 Thank you
@@conniesingh4760 laughter keeps us sane.
Thank-you for the video! Can sure appreciate those challenges but you did a great job. And who would have known there is a completely natural way to stop global warming. 😂😂
Straw would work even better 😁
@@AlbertaRanch , Just coming in now...and had to edit my comment. Had a new mom that calved and then decided to get something to eat. The calf must have been feeling a little to good and decided to introduce himself to the herd. I finally got them connected again and fought off all the other calves and mom's wanting to interfere. Think initially the cows were thinking, there's a new baby but no mom. this isn't right. 😂
@@kellydorney3514 not all mom's are created equal
That was an excellent idea tying the cow to the squeeze chute. Replace the old cut off halter with a new poly heavy duty halter about 5/8 in diameter with a break away hondo on it. Tie a piece of Red heavy round baler twine on the hondo and simply pull on the twine to release the cow.
Good idea
Good job I like your videos keep up the good work
Will do, thanks.
I love your videos. We used to own a 1/4 section near Barrhead so I'm familiar with the area. Love the rolling ranch land of the foothills.
Nice.....thanks for watching.
nice job there isn't much you can't do awesome video thanks
Except tie a halter 😂
Dang calves.. we try to halter break all the heifers we keep.. doesn't always happen.. missed 1 this year, we weren't going to keep, but decided to. Makes a difference later.
We have dairy lockups in the maternity pens, makes it easier to get halters on.. then after we figure out what's going on and are ready to pull, the halter is tied to the lockups and we release the head.. and yes, gotta tie them right!!!
Hopefully you aren't too close to any of the fires!!!
At least tie breaking hfrs is a good idea. Fires all an hour or so from us right now. Little bit of rain around so hopefully things calm down.
Lol. How dare you give them an ear tag……8:16 I was thinking it was time for the big puller. She’s pretty quiet as far as moving around goes.
Always good when they get it figured out. I hope it rains too.
Take care,
Annette 🌺
You guys get any rain today? 4 tenths here.
@@AlbertaRanch just a few spits. About 2/10 on Saturday.
@@TheCowEmporium we got enough to turn the grass green at least. Shouldn't burn to the ground now.
Mine are always trying to kill me!! Lol. That’s why I put a calf catcher on the quad. Works good as a shark cage.
Was pricing them out, maybe next year.
@@AlbertaRanch I dislocated my elbow 6 years ago when I was 40 running for my life. Bought it the next spring. Hands down the best piece of equipment I’ve ever bought. We move our calves as they are born into their pasture groups in a different field. Tag and band them safely and over 95% of the cows follow it out well. The other 5 % we walk out on foot or with the quad if they are rangy.
@@AlbertaRanch I am also lazy and impatient waiting for them to suck. Works good to get a tube full down them without fighting the cow to get them sucking. They have 12 hours to figure it out then before they come up to the maternity pen.
@@chadtosh6831 what brand of calf catcher do you have?
@@AlbertaRanch it’s the original one out of the states. Believe it’s called calf catcher. Has a swivel on the front tire, step through the side off the machine. That swivel wheel is important, follows the machine around better. The knock offs have two fixed wheels. Not as nice.
Now was your chance to take 3h’s calf and run and call him Kevin the 2nd
He's not worthy.
Lekker man lekker 🇿🇦
Thanks
Hope you get rain!
It's happening now.
Are you dry?
We were, been raining today.