A Day In The Life-Winter Calving With Me on The Ranch
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- Опубліковано 16 бер 2024
- Another winter storm is hitting the ranch. In this video I show a full day of calving and feeding cows. I try and show the challenges and difficulties that come along with calving this time of year. We use a few different tools to help our newborn calves out from a Roy L Heat calf warmer to colostrum supplements.
You are a great rancher. Your care for the animals shows!🤠
Thanks! I do care for them. I cuss at them alot too though haha. I try my best to take care of them the best I can.
Your hard work is very impressive. Hope it does not get to you too much. Everyone there appreciates you especially the calves.
The cold and snow do start wearing on me especially when I’m out in it so much. Luckily the weather is starting to change and warm up a bit.
Good work on them calves getting them off to a good start is the key for survival and vigor. Yeah l wholeheartedly agree with the low pressure calving thing it did seem like if a storm was coming cows were more apt to go into labor than a high pressure system we also use to notice that cows seemed to milk out cleaner with low pressure around. It is something that a person can get so involved with animals that you notice the changing weather conditions associated with milking and calving. When we quit milking and sold the cows I got a regular job and got out in the rat race it made me miss those days alot and there weren't many days that passed without thinking we had a good life bringing up kids and cows together. My youngest daughter and grandson still have show cows and we have pictures of them with calves and carrying around pet chickens LoL but it was all good. Great video take care and stay safe
You might have told me in the past but what did you do for work once you sold your cows? It does seem like they calve on the snowy days, or it’s just bad luck haha. It is funny how you notice certain animal behavior when you spend so much time with them.
@LuthiRanchWY Heavy equipment operator for a developer and quarry operation. Did a bit of traveling met some interesting people along the way we also did Foxwoods Casino first biuld-out, quite a ride actually. I was ready to hang it up after thirty years or so now I still play farmer with my grandson's cattle during the summer.
It’s hard to get it out of your blood haha
Those calves are very fortunate to be yours. You certainly take very good care of them and your cows. Spring will soon be here; well maybe.
I do my best to take care of them so thanks for the compliment! It is starting to feel like spring, we are around 50 degrees today. We still have alot of snow to melt though.
Ellis always makes me smile; I have three boys of my own about his age and a little older. It seems some things are universal! XD
Haha he will be 3 in April and has become quite the character. He’s starting to talk alot on full sentences now too so that’s been fun. I’ve enjoyed involving him more with farm work lately.
Nice Video Bryan, thanks for sharing 👍🏻
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!
Good luck calving Bryan
Thank you!
Your going to have to start wearing your bathing suit when checking calves😂😂
Great job 👍 thanks for taking us along doing chores.
Thanks! I was pretty wet by the end of the day taking care of all those new calves.
Great video Bryan
Thanks!
Hope you have a great day and better weather soon.
Better weather seems to be here for a bit now. We were close to 50 degrees yesterday
Good job as always looks like a shed for the vehicles could be on your wish list . Let's hope the beef prices hold they should
My wish list is too long haha. I hope the beef prices hold for awhile also. Thanks for the comment!
I have one question? Do you and Tyler have a contest who can do the best burn outs??.Pasture versus Snow..LOL!!! You are sure being kept busy but all look good! Hope things continue in that direction for you. Ellis looks like he's ready to go out and push snow with his Daddy..HA HA! Great post Bryan, keep the course, you will get a little relief soon.
Haha I guess I haven’t seen Tyler’s burn outs yet. It’s been a good way to get Ellis to take naps is to take him plowing. Our weather has been changing here the last few days. It was almost 50 degrees yesterday. Still a lot of snow I melt though. Hope you are doing well!
Good morning from Washington state, you definitely take great care of the calves and mother cows..I feel guilty having 65 to 70 degree weather…and running around in my Gator with A/C and heating…
Haha we are starting to warm up now too. We were close to 50 degrees yesterday. So now we get to start looking forward to the mud season!
@@LuthiRanchWY doesn’t look to warm lol…you are one tough dude..just beautiful there..
There is no denying we live in a beautiful area!
U need my bombardier. 😁It was so handy when I took care of cattle. For plowing snow to fencing.
Just and idea ...
I used to use a shag rug for traction. Worked pretty good. That calf warmer has already paid for itself.
I’d like to see a picture of your bombardier! That calf warmer has been a great investment.
That's a fascinating fact you mentioned that the cows are very well insulated from the snow just incredible.
They are pretty hardy animals.
it's hard to believe we're having spring and almost summerlike temperatures here in West Virginia and you're still dealing with all that snow.
Winters are long around here. Spring is in the air though. It was around 50 degrees today.
Love it when Ellis makes an appearance! Cool fact about the snow on cows backs. I didn’t know that
He’s getting old enough to come out with me more and more and that’s been fun. Glad I was able to teach you something new! Hope you guys have been enjoying your beef!
Omg I'm late again ,Lol and I'm 1 still 🤪
Haha
You a wonderful caregiver!
I try my best to take care of them
Thanks Bryan.
Wayne you are way too generous! I’ve only got so many hats I can send you haha.
@@LuthiRanchWY Ha. Don’t need a cap but enjoy your channel a lot.
Name the bottle calf after my daughter’s nickname, “Sweet!”
Have a good week. Saw you were as warm as we were today. We cooled down with a little rain and cool front but we haven’t been below freezing in 10-14 days here in south plains.
We can at least name the bottle calf Sweet! I might call her Sweets. We have been blessed with some warmer weather this last week. Still plenty of snow to melt though. I’m really behind on editing so if I’m still calling the calf “the bottle calf” in some of my next videos that’s why. I’m going to send you an email if you want to look out for it.
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Thanks!
One of summer projects built a shed for the utv ha ha when u have time
Haha right! We might have something in the works this summer.
@LuthiRanchWY be sure to build if big enough for the snow plow too n u will save your back n knees
This may be a very silly question - I live in the suburbs in a place where it doesn't ever snow, and thus have no idea what I'm talking about - does it ever snow enough to snow the calves in (or out of) the shelter? Or do the cows trample it down in front?
The cows keep it pretty well trampled down. But it could happen if we got enough snow and wind. I’ve never had to worry about it though.
u need a winter barn matey
I’ve thought about trying to change things up a bit with my calving. We have a Quonset that we used to use for the dairy cows. I’ve thought about trying to cycle them through there as they calve then kicking them out on the Idaho side after a few days inside. My dads cows are over there though so it hasn’t been an option yet.
Can you have a "wind block" made for the Northerners that blow in and shred some straw for them to lay down on or is that too costly right now. I have a name for the bottle calf. "Rosco"
I like that name! I’ve been thinking alot about wind blocks lately also and I’m hoping I’ll have something figured out for next year. I try and keep some straw out there for them but a lot of the time the weather makes it a waste of money to keep it out there for them everyday.
Is the bottle calf a heifer or steer
The calf is a Heifer
@@LuthiRanchWY what was the one who tried to do the polar plunge?
Haha a steer
So you work on a farm now? I thought you were a OD driver?
We have a family ranch where I have my own herd of cows and help my Dad grow hay and do all the other farm/ranch work. I still work for OD, OD is just my part-time job haha.
@@LuthiRanchWY Don't you work like 45 hours/week at OD?
Some weeks, but I am a part time PnD driver for OD. So some weeks they might work me 5 days and other weeks it might just be 1 or 2. I don’t have any free time the weeks they work me 5 days between OD and my ranch work. It’s been pretty slow for me recently with how slow freights been at OD.
@@LuthiRanchWY OK that makes sense. I was thinking damn how is he working all those hours at OD then doing all that farm work? 🤣