I have been working with cattle for twenty five years in southern Brazil, I plan to immigrate to Canada next year, and your UA-cam channel is great, it shows all the challenges of working on a Canadian ranch. Thank you for your work, your cattle are in a great standard.
You have a nice farm an herd of cattle .. gotta love our canadian winters .. jus never know what Mother Nature give us .. maybe if we give her a snickers she settle down an go easier on us lol .. when you roll hay out on ground do you not worry about waste as they walk in it an all .. my dad always wanted it in feeders so less waste on ground with price of hay an how scarce it can be !!
Trying to minimize hay waste is always in my mind. I am feeding 2 qualities of hay, one good and one bad so i roll out the good hay so every cow has equal access to the good and put the bad in feeders to limit waste. The cows know what the good stuff is and they clean up what's rolled out quickly without wasting too much.
That was a great turnaround on the heifer dilemma and trust it will work out well for you! I had a similar issue with my heifers awhile back. It turned out that their reproductive system development had been delayed by an underlying health issue. In my case, it was deer liver flukes. Just thought I would share.
glad you didnt burn it down LOL.... seems to work really well especially for you working it yourself.... really impressed and also about the heifer fiasco .... sometimes its better to be lucky than good lol.... you win some you loose some... just have to hope ya win more than you loose
And here I am whining about -20C. Sorry to hear about the heifers.. I'm glad they sold well at least! Are we blaming the bull or the heifers? The calves are looking awesome! But that heifer (300) is beautiful!!
Mother nature needs meds🙄😜🤪🤣😂 If you go back and see what the temperature was during breeding season, you will most likely find a gap... Happens here, get 100°f for a few days and depending on how far along the cows are, they slip or absorb the fetus. We've been hit pretty hard by the heat a few times. 2021 was another bad year for it. Stay warm and keep them fed!
I grew up helping my uncle on his cow calf operation SW of Corona, New Mexico and Alberta has always interested me since there is so much ag in the province. Thank you for the video and go Oilers! An Oilers fan in New Mexico, can you believe it?
Thanks for the video!Always love watching your videos;)They are so funny when they buck/jump around when you put out the hay😆.Do you have to put out new feed each day?Don't they get cold with the ice on their backs?Hope you have better luck with your bull next year.
Yes I feed every day. They are not cold as long as they are well fed, can get out of the wind, and have a bed pack to lay on. The main source of heat for a ruminant animal is their internal 4 stomach digester, which as long as it's fed, generates heat for them. They also grow a winter hair coat, and the black angus breed benefits from that hair coat being black which absorbs more sunlight. Thanks for watching.
Here's an article that talks about cattle in cold. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/cows-cattle-cherie-copithorne-barnes-cl-ranches-calgary-1.5428494#:~:text=%22Cows%20have%20a%20layer%20of,you%20want%20them%20to%20be.
We like to watch your Canadian ranch videos ...as my wife is Canadian ...we have around 80 pairs in Northern Wisconsin that she manages for us... Question: how wide is your alley where cattle walk down ...just before the head chute ? I wish I could get a birds eye view of your working pens & alleys...I need to improve our set up..
Would love to work with cattle in Canada
Nice looking calves
Thanks again
Enjoyed seeing the different aspects of your operation along with the weather variable!
The weather is always a factor with livestock. Thanks for watching.
I have been working with cattle for twenty five years in southern Brazil, I plan to immigrate to Canada next year, and your UA-cam channel is great, it shows all the challenges of working on a Canadian ranch. Thank you for your work, your cattle are in a great standard.
Thanks, good luck to you.
Just found your channel- enjoyed it.
Thanks for watching
Ladies in the back are troublemakers🤜🤣
Always 😁
@@AlbertaRanch i m mikela 50 years old..can you offer me an job in your ranch?I work already in farm but the owner He dont treat me well..
@@giuseppinavolpe2873 Sorry no jobs available here.
@@AlbertaRanch thanks x answer
Cattle a always in great shape at your ranch. And good bodied also. Stay warm and safe my friend.
Thanks, you too!
Great video!!!!!!!!!
Thanks
You have a nice farm an herd of cattle .. gotta love our canadian winters .. jus never know what Mother Nature give us .. maybe if we give her a snickers she settle down an go easier on us lol .. when you roll hay out on ground do you not worry about waste as they walk in it an all .. my dad always wanted it in feeders so less waste on ground with price of hay an how scarce it can be !!
Trying to minimize hay waste is always in my mind. I am feeding 2 qualities of hay, one good and one bad so i roll out the good hay so every cow has equal access to the good and put the bad in feeders to limit waste. The cows know what the good stuff is and they clean up what's rolled out quickly without wasting too much.
You love this darn kid anyway
Indeed
What a great video. Always look forward to the next. Stay warm.
Thanks, I'm stoking the fire as we speak.
Im in nh. It gets cold here too.☘️🇺🇸👍
It's a dry cold here.
Alberta looks like a beautiful place if a guy could just sit by the fire. Haha anyway glad to see you're wintering well. Best of luck.
Today it's raining, lol, hope all is well in your neck of the woods.
Herd is looking good. We sure had a stretch of cold 🥶.Forecast is showing decent weather for the next week or so. Have a good one
Will be nice, thanks.
Great video
Thanks
That was a great turnaround on the heifer dilemma and trust it will work out well for you! I had a similar issue with my heifers awhile back. It turned out that their reproductive system development had been delayed by an underlying health issue. In my case, it was deer liver flukes. Just thought I would share.
You never know.
If it got that cold here, I would leave ;). Hopefully the Massey makes choring bearable! Funny how things work out...
It builds character.....or insanity.
glad you didnt burn it down LOL.... seems to work really well especially for you working it yourself.... really impressed and also about the heifer fiasco .... sometimes its better to be lucky than good lol.... you win some you loose some... just have to hope ya win more than you loose
The old "kind of a bud box" is working well. If the heifers were all in shape then that fat red angus bull must have taken the year off?
@@AlbertaRanch bull semen checked? I have more opens this year than most but not like that
94%, so who knows?
Always like your videos, sorry about the heifers the ones you kept do look really good
Thanks, hope they work out.
Lekker man lekker
Thanks
That new truck sure looks nice. The -36c was only slightly better then last years -40c
Thanks, and now we have rain and mud. What a country.🙂
@@AlbertaRanch ya loved how it went from -27c to +4c in 2 days last week. We lost just about all of our snow cover.
@@jonathantarrant2449 it's a mess out there
And here I am whining about -20C. Sorry to hear about the heifers.. I'm glad they sold well at least! Are we blaming the bull or the heifers? The calves are looking awesome! But that heifer (300) is beautiful!!
I'm blaming the bull. Stuff happens I guess.
Mother nature needs meds🙄😜🤪🤣😂
If you go back and see what the temperature was during breeding season, you will most likely find a gap... Happens here, get 100°f for a few days and depending on how far along the cows are, they slip or absorb the fetus.
We've been hit pretty hard by the heat a few times. 2021 was another bad year for it.
Stay warm and keep them fed!
Could be. Or I sent out an overweight bull (Fat Albert) and he decided he would rather sleep in the shade. :)
@@AlbertaRanch when it gets that hot, that's about all any of us can do...
@@GosselinFarmsEdGosselin yep
Darn kids. They insist on learning the hard way. To be fair we all did.
Unfortunately the hard way seems to be the best way.
I grew up helping my uncle on his cow calf operation SW of Corona, New Mexico and Alberta has always interested me since there is so much ag in the province. Thank you for the video and go Oilers! An Oilers fan in New Mexico, can you believe it?
Watching McDavid score right now 😁
@@AlbertaRanch 🤠👍
Thanks for the video!Always love watching your videos;)They are so funny when they buck/jump around when you put out the hay😆.Do you have to put out new feed each day?Don't they get cold with the ice on their backs?Hope you have better luck with your bull next year.
Yes I feed every day. They are not cold as long as they are well fed, can get out of the wind, and have a bed pack to lay on. The main source of heat for a ruminant animal is their internal 4 stomach digester, which as long as it's fed, generates heat for them. They also grow a winter hair coat, and the black angus breed benefits from that hair coat being black which absorbs more sunlight. Thanks for watching.
@@AlbertaRanch Oh wow,that is so interesting!Thanks for taking the time to reply.:)
Here's an article that talks about cattle in cold. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/cows-cattle-cherie-copithorne-barnes-cl-ranches-calgary-1.5428494#:~:text=%22Cows%20have%20a%20layer%20of,you%20want%20them%20to%20be.
We like to watch your Canadian ranch videos ...as my wife is Canadian ...we have around 80 pairs in Northern Wisconsin that she manages for us...
Question: how wide is your alley where cattle walk down ...just before the head chute ? I wish I could get a birds eye view of your working pens & alleys...I need to improve our set up..
I think it was 28 inches. Being wood rather than metal it has been "stretched". It needs to be replaced. Thanks for watching.
Splinters off those walls?
No
Awesome Video! Thanks for sharing.
Question. Can we import cow from oversea to Canada?
I believe so, no idea what the process is.