Where the calves live! Beautiful new calf barn!
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- Thank you for viewing my video. This is a very nice barn, and the calves are extremely healthy, clean and comfortable. These are dairy calves, NOT VEAL. Some day, they will grow to be beautiful bovines, and produce safe, healthy and affordable milk for the world. My family cares deeply for our calves, and it is the most sacred responsibility on our dairy farm. I am a fifth generation dairy farmer and have cared for calves since I was 8 years old and take pride in caring for my calves. I also have a bachelors degree in Animal Science with a Dairy Emphasis.
Most calves are raised in individual pens for the first few months of their lives. We keep them separated for that short time to keep them healthy. This period is the MOST IMPORTANT time of their lives. They are fed a nurtritious diet and monitored by the farm calf manager and the herd veterinarian daily. Towards the end of 60 days, the calves naturally start eating a grain/molasses/mix "starter". Also during this time, the calves begin drinking more water, and less milk. At 60 days, the calves are moved into group pens -- ideally with 8-10 of their buddies. I understand why some may be concerned about keeping them separated from their friends, but it is truly for a short period of time when their immune systems are at the lowest. Do you take your newborn into an area where people may be sick? Or do you keep it isolated for a bit?
Social interaction with calves and cows is an area heavily researched. It is very important to mimize any type of social stress. For example, that little calf will stay with her same group of "buddies" for most of her life on a lot of dairy farms.
Please be respectful posting, or I have the right to remove posts. I am sure that you have questions -- I will promise to be 100% honest -- please ask. :) I would love to have a conversation about my calves.
What an awesome calf barn! Very clean, well managed, well planned and just a great place to raise baby calves. It's very obvious that these babies are healthy and well cared for too. Just like humans, it all starts at a young age - the healthier we can keep our animals as babies, the longer and healthier a life we can live. These animals are clearly in good hands and getting off to a great start! Thanks again for sharing.
Molly Bonow They need their mothers you idiot!!!
Oh look. RARA’s and vegans have arrived. Can’t have a positive comment on an animal video without them coming to shit on it.
These calves are healthy and clean. Just the way babies should be! Thank you for caring for them all so well!
Emily Yeiser Stepp they need their mothers you idiot!!!
What a great calf barn, so clean! This barn would sure be nice for winter, for both the calves and the people caring for them!
frommootoyou THEY NEED THEIR MOTHERS YOU NUMB NUT!!!
to all you people out there attacking with mean comments. you don't know how much people go thru to keep their farms going and the calves are perfectly fine. NO HARM DONE.
Is there harm done with the mom and calf show clear signs of distress for days or weeks upon separation?
Dear Ruby, p'haps you made a sincere effort to take care of ur calves & cows, but it is also true that calves can't be happy artificially, without their mother and company. The Lord has made them to run and frolic freely in the pasture and enjoy. Man has made his own life artificial by tearing himself away from nature, and also of other animals. Leave them d natural way, mom-child together, playing, grazing... u will c the difference.I'm sure if u love them, u'll certainly enjoy the change.
God bless you for the humane way you raise your dairy cows. I wish more people were as kind hearted as yourself & your crew. Thanks. Oh, almost forgot. What do you do with your males? ... Be Well,... Rhonda
They get fattened up, slaughtered and eaten.
great set up. on our farm we take the calfs away from the mother an hour or two after being born, the cows just cleans the calf and we feed them from the first feeding.we find this reduces the stress for the cows. we keep the calves in indivdual pens like in the video for the first 10days. then we put them in groups of ten after that.
Are the calves happier separated from their mothers than with them? I ask because near a farm and hear the mothers and calves make noise non-stop for days upon separation. There is a mother & child bond that all species share, however man has broken this bond in dairy production.
Thanks for sharing your video and for explaining your story, you and your family clearly work very hard to care for your animals and provide wholesome high quality dairy products for consumers. Thank you.
Kathryn Hohmann THEY NEED THEIR MOTHERS YOU IDIOT!!!
Makayla Johns Their mothers have a job to do, you idiot. If they calves drank their milk freely then the mother cow would not produce enough milk to be productive. That’s farm life. Get over it.
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GREAT!!!!! I am happy to see you are good protect calfs,
Protect them from what?
I'm not a vegetarian, and I eat butter. So, I'm not winning any Peta awards. But, I think it would be a more effective video if the announcer weren't trying so hard to sell an unnatural situation. It would be better if she said something like: "Look, you want beef and milk and butter? This is what we need to do to get it into your suburban grocery stores. While we do that, we want to be decent to the calves, but don't expect this to be some cow paradise where cows and their calves happily bond for life."
I used to think it was OK to commodify animals, too. I used to think it didn't really matter. It took a long time for me to realize that deep in my heart, and always in the back of my mind I knew that I had turned off my compassion. Finally I realized, late in life, that when I turn off compassion for a calf, because it's different than me, because my friends and family say it's "just an animal" that it makes it much. much easier to turn off compassion for another "different" human.
I have calves and also cows and i think that barn is very nice and there is lots of light. In my barn calves had larger space than yours, but i think that good too.
I'dont get peoples who say: That is terrible place to live with those calves! Because milk production is going to hell. It's almost impossible to keep calf with his mother longer than one day. Or maybe it's just in Finland! I don't know.
very nice calf's
Calves will be very happy with their mom's.
But if the calves are with their mother, we won't get any milk or other dairy products, if you want to see calves raised with their mothers, you need a cattle farm for beef.
Well, I've said it before and I will continue to say it. I would rather see cruelty to animals than people that are hungry. Although that in and of itself isn't cruelty. Our calves have never seen their mothers past their day of birth and noone can look at them and say they are abused or unhappy. They're as happy as can be. They frolic every evening before bed.
@S K lol
Yes indeed. These animals are a part of the food supply wether the snowflakes like it or not.
I want to start farming for veal, is there any advice I can get for transporting male calves? while the dairy farmers will want to keep the female calves for reproducing milk.
This is terrible and i feel so sorry for them. Dairy cows and calves are social animals and they need to be group housed. These individual crates are just awful and disrespectful for their nature and welfare. And they get fed from buckets?? they are less than 1 month old and they still need to suck from the artificial teats.
As long as they're getting real milk everything's fine
HORRIBLE. DONT BE FOOLED BY THIS VIDEO!!! What a horrible place. Those poor animals were born for a life of slavery and heart break. Dairy cows are pregnant for 9 months (just like humans) then their babies are taken off them at birth so they can be exploited for their milk. This happens many times over their short lives. When they are too run down (and give up) to be of any use - at about 5 years old (about 25 in human years) they go to the slaughter house. Don't be fooled by this video. There is NOTHING nice or sweet about this AT ALL. It's only one tiny part of the real story. Do your own research if you doubt me.
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10Itoruna i'd say that depends on their gender, if female, they'd be consuming milk replacer, not raw milk. The risk of transmitting diseases is just too great with raw milk.
They're in solitary confinement. They don't care what color buckets they have. Are they taken away from the cow at birth and left in these stalls for months? I've seen suckler calves kept together in Ireland and never realized until recently that on big farms they are isolated like this with no room to move around.
Some ppl does sadly not understand this.
Very nice barn!!
How do you know what I sound like by 3 words?
I dont know anything about the teat thing, but you can indeed have a major impact on health, although there are always inherent factors that increase risk, like muddy weather.
Farmers generally do good effort in ensuring calf health. One thing that farms still could do to improve calf health is to provide room termperature water from day 2 or so, as this is not very common now in the first few weeks of life, but results in way better calf health/growth and chances for scours are cut in half.
Hello,
What is the brand of your calf boxes ?
Thank.
That is exactly how baby animals wish to be kept (as opposed to being able to trot around and socialize and play with one another).
And that's exactly what they do after a few weeks,they are only housed in individual pens for a few weeks until they are strong enough to live in a group. Keeping them in individual pens allows any slow drinkers or smaller calves to get sufficient feed, if they were kept in a large group from the start the smaller and more timid calves would not get enough milk as the stronger calves would out compete them. This calf barn is actually an excellent house for that purpose, hygienic surfaces, good bedding and the calves look healthy and content. My only minor criticism is the gates don't allow the calves to touch each other, but it could be argued that this is beneficial from a health point of view as infections are not spread by physical contact. As long as they can see each other and have company of like kind it's not really an issue.
John White I don’t doubt this barn may be a shining example for what this type of facility does. But the bigger picture, for me, is that we human beings are a relatively capable species. I believe it is within our abilities to create means of surviving and thriving, without having to rely on practices such as manipulating (manufacturing) the very conception and birth of other sentient animals, for the sole purpose of exploiting their lives for our own benefit-for NO other reason, least of all any consideration of what serves THEM. Conjuring the notion that, regarding ethics, that would be a worthwhile endeavor, and achieving such a goal, would negate the reason to have an exchange of ideas on the topic of housing infant cattle, outright.
I won’t be holding my breath, waiting for that day; but it’s certain, I have a passionate hope it could become reality, in the future of life on this planet.
You are not fooling anyone but yourself. We understand that this is not their mothers "milk". We understand that they are commodities, not worth anything to you but money.
@Ravenfitch82 What are they suppose to do in the winter? There's not too much green grass here today, lots of nice white snow.
@seancarm I forgot to mention that my cows with calves and the rest of the herd all have access to barns and are free to go in and out as they please.
to be fair., i wish ALL dairy farmers would care about their cows and calves like you do. It may seem cruel to some to separate the calfs from the mother but if it is for their immune system, then there is a humane reason to.Just like if a human newborn needs special treatment in special care nursery or UV therapy for jaundice, they have to be separated from their mother for a while.
But only human newborns requiring special treatment are separated from their mothers, the rest are placed against their mother's skin immediately, and spend the first several months of their lives bonding with their parents. Can you imagine if human newborns were snatched up by some other species right after birth to be taken from their mother so that the other species could harvest the milk from the mother for their own consumption while the human babies were fed some fake milk simulator?! It's crazy!
@valeriaproductions Also meat is not a direct source to health problems if your diet is acceptable like my 97 year old grandma who is still living on our farm and eats meat atleast 5 times a week..but in good portion amounts.
These are facts.
@gerrygermoney What does this have to do with how calves live in these stables?
i wonder if the calfs ger diahrea and we try to injection them everyday but it cant be cure and died.what should i do?cos we keep the calfs stay together around ten.our calfs died everyday...
I have the perfect solution: stop bring baby cows into this world just so you can use them. No calves born into slavery, no calves sick, no calves dying.
Then where would milk, cheese, cream, beef, etc come from? These calves are fine, clean and fed, no torture here. It's not "slavery" to own animals, it's farming/agriculture, it's not "murder" to kill them for food, it's slaughter, it's not "rape" it's breeding. The definitions won't change because you want them to, these terms are for human against human crimes.
They can not be happy since they are not let to live to their fully capabilities as Nussbaum would argue.
@rubytails I never walk through a field with cows at all, lol. But I know the farmers do. I´ve never heard of an accident with bulls here. Accidents with cows yes. Right after they wanted to take away the calf.
@MegaSonicKing I understand that, and luckily for me my herd is small enough that i can keep calf and mother outside in fairly large pens until the calf is big enough to join the herd. Then I wean em and sell em as yearlings. I raise Pinzgauer beef cattle which have a calm temperment and I've never had any problems. I also understand how aggressive dairy bulls can be. I personally just wanna give all my animals the best quality of life no matter what.
Looks like a fun life.. They get to eat, drink and shit in the same spot. I feel bad their separated from their mothers, it must cause stress on both sides..
Indeed. Glorious!
But the cows are happy sooo...
People will rationalize anything.
Lets just hope they are slaughtered in a "humane"? way.
@MegaSonicKing I don't consider cows under a roof their whole lives alot of space. Maybe its just me but i think cows would be happier outside with plenty of green grass to roam...
Just because they'd be happier with their mothers doesn't mean they aren't happy the way they are now. Stop making judgments on something you know nothing about. And in large groups like this disease is a legitimate concern. Our 2 beef calves have been running together since we got them but they are also the only cattle we have so there isn't really any chance of them getting disease. They are also grass fed, but only because we have the resources to grass feed them. Large dairies probably don't
It is! But be careful to not feed water directly before/after giving them milk, preferably a 2, 3 hours apart at minimum. I heard it could give problems with their digestion (or so) and therefore their health. It also seems that watering down milk, for sick calves for example, only decreases their health even further.
Lovely shed for calves, well done
Where are their mums?
Well, you probably don't know that cows will only cry for their calves if they realize they have one. That's why you separate them at birth. They don't know they have a calf, the calf doesn't realize it has a mother. If you separated them after bonding then yes, the experience is unpleasant. I won't argue that cow's milk is the best (this is why we have goats among other reasons) but milk is a good food for any age.
After 9 months of carrying the calf in her body the mother doesn't know she had one? Are cows really that dumb?
Well can you feed them actual cow milk mixed with colostrum?
Kyle Choy They are fed milk until they are a few months old (yes, with colostrum which is very important) and then are weaned onto grain and hay.
if all the people who think this is cruel go out and buy the cows and calves and then we can see how they get along that would be good
HORRIBLE. DONT BE FOOLED BY THIS VIDEO!!! What a horrible place. Those poor animals were born for a life of slavery and heart break. Dairy cows are pregnant for 9 months (just like humans) then their babies are taken off them at birth so they can be exploited for their milk. This happens many times over their short lives. When they are too run down (and give up) to be of any use - at about 5 years old (about 25 in human years) they go to the slaughter house. Don't be fooled by this video. There is NOTHING nice or sweet about this AT ALL. It's only one tiny part of the real story. Do your own research if you doubt me.
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so what happens to your male calves? Are they treated as well. Also, once these calves have served their purpose as dairy cows will they be sent to slaughter
What would you do with them?
EthaN brutally smash the skull in with a hammer, hang up by the tail (still kind of conscious) and slit throat open as newborns! No, not really at all! Attempt to find a beef/rose veal producer to sell to and have them raised for good quality product, ensuring they too will be cared for whilst on farm.
These are the male calves. They are kept in stalls (very nice stalls as seen here), fed milk from the herd until they can be weaned onto hay, silage and grain. They when they reach 450-500 pounds they are sent to slaughter just like any other meat animal. They aren’t killed brutally or hit with a hammer like what’s his name says above, that’s ridiculous. They are stunned with a captive bolt gun (which is like shooting them in the brain) and then bled out.
The female calves are raised to be milk cows just like mom.
When dairy cows are no longer producing the amounts of milk to pay their way, they are also sent to slaughter so their meat can be used.
Vegans, animal rights activists and other snowflakes don’t like this because they think cows should grow up and be non productive, just grazing and doing nothing at all. I don’t know any business that allows for its resources to just sit around and cost money.
@@Nibbles2point0 wow, look at you. "They think cows should grow up and be non productive"
Non productive for YOU. Typical of meat eaters to see these animals as nothing more than commodity meant for our benefit alone.
Your calves are so quiet! We raise bull calves and ours never shut up.
@valeriaproductions Lactose the sugar..is what SOME humans cannot digest..90 percent of northern europeans can digest lactose(or in your words "milk" and then the list goes down from there when you get into asian, african, native american. It is a great source of calcium and if your unable to tolerate it then you have to ADAPT and choose other products. These calves are only in these huts for a few weeks ( maybe like when you were a baby did you need much room?)
They should be in the pasture with their mother, not in prison
The calves have mothers, but farmers separate them because of the demand on milk. In my eyes it's cruelty to animals.
Everybody who consumes milk and it's products supports this cruel system.
In my opinion it shouldn't be legally to separate cow and calf until the calf doesn't need it's mothers milk.
Honestly I think that this is way better than calf hutches. Those look too flimsy, like they could get blown away in a thunderstorm.
HORRIBLE. DONT BE FOOLED BY THIS VIDEO!!! What a horrible place. Those poor animals were born for a life of slavery and heart break. Dairy cows are pregnant for 9 months (just like humans) then their babies are taken off them at birth so they can be exploited for their milk. This happens many times over their short lives. When they are too run down (and give up) to be of any use - at about 5 years old (about 25 in human years) they go to the slaughter house. Don't be fooled by this video. There is NOTHING nice or sweet about this AT ALL. It's only one tiny part of the real story. Do your own research if you doubt me.
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yeah, wow lovely.
IF YOU ARE OK WITH HAVING KNOW ROOM TO WALK
Happy? Happy calves?
Exactly.
No sad and tortured calves
ole nausene you’re right, no sad or tortured calves here.
@bigwheezy312 My greatgrandfather smoked like a chimney and died and 96. That doesn't mean smoking isn't bad. He was just lucky.
Did you say you keep your calves with the herd/mother?
How come these calves can not be in a 'free-stall' barn? Why the individual stalling? If they are going to be separated from their mother/herd at such a young age, it seems it would be beneficial for them to be able to play, allo-groom, & sleep together. It's so sad they are separated from any form of social contact. It's amazing they even know how to behave in a herd seeing as there is no guidance from their parents.
You are obviously commenting on a video that you didn't even bother to watch. Doing that just makes you look like the complete fool that you most obviously are.
No, hours after birth isn't doing it properly. Ideally you don't even let them see the calf. Then again I read that in one incident even after the cow cleaned off the calf when they picked up the calf and carried it away she sniffed at the spot where the calf had been then promptly forgot there had been a calf. Even though the calf was still around afterwards. I don't like the thought of bottle babies when they have a mother, which is why our goats raise their kids but producers have to.
I'm sure that these calves aren't happy.
They need their mothers to be happy and their mothers call after them for days.
The consumption of milk and milk products had increased more and more. People don't know what their diet means for the calves and cows.
I'm sure the calves love the quiet, dry, environment!
Yes, coulorful buckets are a fair trade for a mother's love and external stimuli. Maybe the narrator prefers that, but the calfskin obviously don't.
@rubytails Almost every farmer here has a bull on the farm. And they just walk around between the cows. People can even pet them. If you take care of them properly they're not dangerous.
Not at all. I simply stated which of the two, if those were my choices, I would rather see. There certainly are other choices, but there are pros and cons to all and what I was really trying to say above is I consider the welfare of fellow humans to be more important that the welfare of animals.
It might look nicer and cleaner than most, but calves like to run and play with each other in big fields, and have the comfort of their mothers nearby. This is cruel :(
Calf are meant to be chained up...because they are food product and commodities..we don't want them wondering around and get lost...and human will lose money if those calf are gone...so you know..we need to protect our property..please remember..human own everything in this planet...including calf
Dairy cows don’t get the luxury of having their calves suckle their milk. Instead they get to live and be dairy cows. Just because non farmer people don’t understand doesn’t mean it’s cruel.
@@Jax2533 "Slaves are meant to be chained up...because they are workers and commodities..we don't want them wondering around and get lost...and human will lose money if those slaves are gone...so you know..we need to protect our property..please remember..human own everything in this planet...including slaves" Thats how you sound
@@YupRobin yup... Thats how i sound..but it exclude human... Human are protected by human right.. Whereas animal don't even have right... Animals are food rofl
I don't like the US system of dairy farming too (large scale and not personal anymore), but any animal and human is more susceptible for disease just after birth as the immune system is not very developed. The concentration of animals gives risks for contamination of young animals with limited antibodies, but as you state, cows are herd animals and need other animals around. That's nature, I don't think diseases can be prevented.
Grouphousing involves 1 feeder for more calves btw; it is easier
so poor babies.They all needs their mothers milk.God knows everything.God will punish badly those who separated calves from their cows.
nise. I wanna buid something like this for my calves
We do. My mom has a friend who owns a dairy. We got a pair of bull calves from her to raise as beef. We have the goats for milk.
Even if we do live where there aren't as many people going hungry all that means is less should be produced, not that it should be cut out all together. It's true that we eat too much. If you moderate it it is good to have. Grains like corn and wheat aren't that great for us either. Many people are intolerant to gluten.
You have to realize that if people aren't willing to raise their own milk then someone has to do it large scale and leaving calves with their mothers on that scale just doesn't work. We've got goats and we leave the kids on their dams for three months but this is just for the family. Actual goat dairies have to take the kids away at birth, and for good reason. To take the space/time/energy to raise the animals like we do you'd have to pay a whole lot more for milk. And most can't afford that.
We don't need to know how to run a dairy farm to know a distortion when we see one. We don't need to know how to bid on a dairy calf to know cruelty when it stares us in the face.We understand marketing, and understand that cows milk causes disease and suffering for all involved, with the exception of the people who make money on it.
well ok, this is one way to see it.. i have just finished my postgraduate course in animal behaviour and welfare and i have worked with calves for my dissertation (on their behaviour btw).
i assume that the video is from a US farm right? This explains it all. Why do they get sick in the first place? Have you ever wondered that? Isolated housing is not a precondition for welfare! It is easier and more manageable for the farmer.
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This is why I don't eat veal! No animal is meant to be caged alone like this. How sad!
the calf is taken off the mother to stop bacteria from growing
@S K Fair? You want fairness in this thing called life? Nature is the least fair entity by far. If only people like you would actually go see a real farm instead of being swayed by the comments on videos. It is really enlightening when you can have an open mind about farming.
@Ravenfitch82 so true.
Its funny how people here complain about these animals conditions when this is a example of fantastic but necessary young animal care at high standards. Having studied agricultural science for many years and worked on many farms i would like to see these idiots who complain about these animals conditions try and do a better job while still maintaining an economically farming system. Most farms generally by nature have low profit margins for their produce due to obnoxious half educated idiotic consumers. The same consumers who want animals to run free and pampered but still want cheap abundant produce and wont pay more for better animal welfare produced products. Wake up people, this is real life. You cant have the best of both worlds. You are more to blame than farmers are.
+MatthewRyankyle21 economical???? lmao animal agriculture is responsible for 51% of greenhouse gas emissions, takse up a caloric quantity of 7 billion people, takes 1/3 of the world fresh water and is the main cause of rain forest destruction, animal agriculture is the least economical business in the entire world and you say you studied it and yet still support it WOW
That is why the select few enlightened people in our society have chosen to face the facts, despite terrible discomfort, and make changes to live a vegan lifestyle.
Because, if nothing else, you are spot on: this is entirely dysfunctional. what people expect and what really happens is so disconnected. It simply doesn't work. Change needs to happen. Most people do not want to face it. I feel it's time to stop enslaving other species. One of my favorite quotes: "The idea that we have the right to inflict suffering and death on other sentient beings for the trivial reasons of palate pleasure and fashion is, without doubt, one of the most arrogant and morally repugnant notions in the history of human thought." -Gary L. Francione. There may have been an age in which groups of people needed to kill and eat animals to prolong their own survival. I was at the grocery store today; I can confirm that that is no longer an excuse.
MatthewRyankyle21 hey there, you are so dead right there mate! Whilst it does look a little sad seeing these calves here, they're in a far better 'cell' than MANY other calves are. Having raised a group of bottle calves once myself, I was constantly aware of their small enclosures, and I could assure they gained access to more space quite quickly, they still needed really small pens initially to learn how/when to drink their bottle/feed and to provide initial disease protection, etc. Also, they WERE NOT FOR DAIRY! I'd imagine any animal who'll be producing a product such as milk would require MUCH more initial preparation beforehand. As you point out, this is really the only practical way to provide that. As you also point out, if you wish to see a milk option for under AUD $1 a litre, that's the price all concerned pay. You can't get 'calf share' ultra animal friendly milk for that kind of shelf price! Thanks for your important comment here. Farmers work bloody HARD, often for very little, and don't deserve all this blame!
Yes, as human babies are susceptible to diseases.. That's why the get the colostrum from their mothers or other dams. I agree , their immune system is not very developed but if you keep the straw clean and dry and you control the temp, they are probably going to be fine I insist, an artificial teat machine would be so much better as it would alleviate their need to suck. If they don't suck, they will redirect this behaviour to other things or develop stereotypies such as tongue rolling etc
This is hysterical! "Milk replacer" for calves while unweaned adult humans indirectly suck the cow's teat via cheese, butter and cream. Absurd!
Absurd, indeed.
Calf are meant to be chained up...because they are food product and commodities..we don't want them wondering around and get lost...and human will lose money if those calf are gone...so you know..we need to protect our property..please remember..human own everything in this planet...including calf
@@stephm3659 Calf are meant to be chained up...because they are food product and commodities..we don't want them wondering around and get lost...and human will lose money if those calf are gone...so you know..we need to protect our property..please remember..human own everything in this planet...including calf
Super marketing !
They should be happy little calves with their MOMMIES!!!
Where I'm from that wouldn't work calves up against concrete wall is a no no I don't know why that barn would be fine if they legged wood to that concrete and changed the bedding to wheat straw or sawdust with it like that those calves will get sick
How can you possibly say that these calves look happy? They're kept in isolated cells with no environmental enrichment. Cows are social animals. This is cruel.
@gerrygermoney I wouldn´t want to live like that. No bread? No noodles? No potatoes? And I've seen what watercures can do. You know it can kill you?
@johndeere6400turbo THANK YOU for stating what I so badly wanted to say!!!
such lack of compassion. these babies are caged alone and cant be with their own mother for love or affection. this is for profit only. trying to pretend they are happy is just a means to justify your income off these caged. lonely babies. we are the ONLY species that drinks milk from other species when unnecessary. THE RIGHTFUL OWNER OF COW'S MILK - THE CALVES! COWS LOVE THEIR YOUNG AS DO ALL ANIMALS. please don't pretend that mother's don't care if their babies are stolen. R you a mom?
Where the calves live for how long??? Why are they removed from their mothers? Why can't they consume their own mother's milk? Why aren't they allowed to mingle with the other calves? Why are they in isolation their entire short lives? What happens to the males? Almond, rice, soy, oatmeal, flaxseed - All great alternatives to dairy!
Don't separated calves from their mother. It is painful.
The comment section is full of snowflakes.
The comment section on any animal video is a total shitshow. Such babies. They see calves being kept in a well lit clean quiet and beautiful barn, they aren’t stressed or unhappy or mooing, and they have plenty of food and water and plenty of bedding. People don’t understand.
I don't understand how you can look at a happy, contented animal and call it cruelty. And agriculture itself is a distortion as much as animal husbandry. I suppose that hunting and gathering is the only really natural way to get food. So you are no more natural than any person who eats meat or drinks milk especially when you consider that plants have been modified as much as animals to fit our needs. None of what we grow started out the way it is today.
This is so stupid and CRUEL. They are herd animals so they get VERY lonely. So much pride you have in this in humane MESS you've invested in. They can't even see each other. Only an idiot would have so much pride and happiness around misery and suffering. I can only hope in your next life you are born a calf in the same conditions.
Lisa Mays LOL you don't know or understand that Calves need to be separated for health reasons. They can scour and if they do and they scour in another calf's pin that calf gets sick. Also calves suck one another via mouth which is also unhealthy and dangerous to calves. They do not suffer nor are they mistreated. I really despise those who have never been on a Dairy Farm nor know anything about the industry. Get an education doofus.
+Lisa Mays
Mmmmmmm!!! Veal!!! Aaaawwww poor little calves they will NEVER see their mommies ever again!! They will always be lonely and will never get to feel grass on their feet!! Next thing you know they will be on our plates!!! YUMMY!!!
AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+Winters Rose
I know the industry takes mothers away from the children,
i know that cows are raped to impregnate, just so you can take their milk,
i know male calf are useless to the dairy industry so they are confined for up to 6 months and then slaughtered
I know the machines you put them one cause infections so you load them up with antibiotics,
I know cows are meant to live around 20 years and diary cows only life around 6-7 years.
All of these highlights cruelty and if you was in this situation you would be miserable and psychological damaged.
so how is going to a dairy farm really change any of these facts. it doesnt the act in its self is cruel, pointless and selfish.
if i stole you when you was a couple of days old, put you in a basement and controlled your whole life, then raped you and stole your children and then took your milk. Would it be ok as long as the basement was nice a clean and had a television and some games in their?
seriously wake up
You really despise those who have never been on dairy farms? Some people actually care about animals, since they are emotional Earthlings who deserve love and respect, just as much as us. Perhaps you are the doofus, the one who has no respect for other species on the planet. Get a life, moron
They "slurps it down" BECAUSE they are hungry and that's the ONLY reason.
Is this practice of isolating calves new? Is this a response to no longer using antibiotics? Glad they are clean but calves surely need the warm body, soft fur, tongue brushings and nose nuzzles of a mom to be happy. They are able to follow mom, explore and interact shortly after birth and isn't mom's milk what gives them immunity in the early days? Why not have an extra clean area for new moms and their calves so they can get that natural immunity and mom's TLC during their very youngest days then graduate them to a nursery where they can interact with one another and human caretakers rather than start out isolated? I'd pay more for milk from such a farm.
the reason why we drink milk is through evolution. egyptians and early europeans began drinking cow milk and making our bones stronger. today a lot of the world has the gene to drink milk in adulthood.
I see you are not entirely propper informed on this subject. They are social animals indeed, and while the first 2 weeks are critical for their health over the course of their whole life, it is also in this periode where they are by far mot susceptible to diseases.
On a farm where I occationally work, they used to group house calves from their birth, they many sick calves before switching.
It may sound cru, but housing them like this in their first 2 weeks is a precondition for welfare.
@rubytails basically you are using animals as a product. not an animal. and what makes a bull so dangerous? my bull is no danger to me, neither are my cows...
And the mother's when you take their babies away?
Aluapay they don’t care.
No harm done?? A most inane comment... it´s nothing personal, (it´s something global)
Their not happy. Would you be chained and confined.
This is cruel
They aren’t chained. Did you see the video? They are in box stalls which are roomy and comfortable.
miam miam
Even if some farms do seem to try and make the separation and following slavery with incessant impregnation, child stealing and milk theft as nice as possible, it isn´t right. The point is they are sentient beings and not orginally designed for constant milk production. Babies hould stay with their mothers, and the seperatina and absence of a mother is terrible for a baby.
Blah blah blah. Such PETA rhetoric bullshit.
Cruelty or hunger is a false dichotomy and one of the better known of the logical fallacies. You present two bad choices as if there are no others. Of course, there are other choices. I believe you did this on purpose.
I dreamt of a very friendly brown cow last night. He wanted to cuddle and put his hoof on me to hold hands. The police were following this very dangerous free cow. They wanted me to sign papers against the cow. I left the classroom with the other high school students and left the police papers on the table. I am thinking he was the meat I consumed last night. After a long tearful discussion with Vishnu,asking how I can stop eating meat he exclaimed "Simple Just do not put the meat in your mouth"
STOP smokin those bath salts!!