Profitable Beef Production… How we put beef on your table.
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- Опубліковано 28 жов 2021
- In this video I talk about how we grow our beef cattle, what we feed them and what we do to make them profitable.
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So informative, subscribed
Great video. This channel is going to be big !!!!!!!!!!
Thanks Liam, we can only hope🤞
So Great . specific last explain about grow curve and finishing end
Excellent channel very informative 👌
Thanks Ben! Stay tuned for more. 👍
Excellent video
Very informative
Thank you.
Well done 👍
I'm planning to have feedlot farm
nice information am in Uganda. fattening though on small scale. Thanks for the information.
Can you please make a video on the whole process? At the best of my understanding goes like: 1. artificial insemination 2. pregnancy 3. Separating the calf (culoster, profilactor to 15 days) 4. after 15 days it gets sent to paddocks with the other calfs untill 100 days?
I've got an exam on it soon. Our book is very boring, wanted to see and hear how the process goes. Thank you for the videos❤
Late to the party here, good vid. I like more of the business side of things. Helps me compare my own with others ! Becoming tighter and tighter in beef farming.
Keep it up. Subscribed
Thanks James. Glad you enjoyed it. Things aren’t easy in the beef industry at the minute
Wonderful video! Can i ask you how many protein do you have in the 2 type of ratio? Hi from Italy
How long do you keep weaners on the starter mix before moving them to the finishing mix?
Just subscribed absolutely super 👍.
Thanks Sean, I hope you enjoy the future videos. 👍
Very interesting, thank you for another informative video.
how many cows from the two class the starter and the finisher?
Great Stuff.....and learning loads!!!!! Thank you and well done👍
Thanks Keith, I hope to keep it up 👍
@@baldysfarm Me too !!!!
Top video, How many calf’s are you taking care of
Thanks Tariq. We have around 140 a year on the farm at the moment. All of which are home bred and not bought in.
Great video mate, What's your take on fodder feed for the animals?? Best regards !
Thanks Serg. We used to use a lot of fodder beet and we thought that it was good to help fill a ration out but it’s feed value was slightly limited. Also we found it made the 💩 a bit runny and it was harder to keep them clean. It has its place in the right ration though.
@@baldysfarm Thank you for the reply !!! Love the videos 💪
Have you considered fermenting your feed? If done right it could lead to the feed becoming more digestible. Ever heard about gibberelic acid? It help's grasses grow faster during cold weather(i.e early spring,maybe late autumn too).
Enjoyable video, can I ask a question, how many stabilise cows can you safely keep on 150 acres lowland grass farm, by that I mean cows followers and fattening stock
Thanks Stephen. That’s a really tough question to answer because there are so many variables. Do you want to make silage? Will you out winter or house them? What kinds of grazing is it? Do you get frequent rain fall? Will you regularly re seed? It’s very different for everyone because it’s so system dependant.
@@baldysfarm I would hope all silage and hay was made on farm, all concentrates would be Bourgh in, there is housing for about 200 head, it’s in Northumberland so good grass growing and some reseeding would be carried out yearly, straw would be bought in the swath locally, I hope this helps you answer my question
@@stephenross1581 So its hard to know exactly without seeing the place but I would imagine you could run at least 30 cows, with calves at foot and then still have enough grass to run your finishing steers and heifers. Id recommend tuitional grazing on no more than 3 day moves to maximise your grass production. Then you could make surplus into silage/hay. I personally think you could likely run 40 cows, plus followers and finishers but I would want to over promised without seeing the place. Other option would be to feed ammonia treated straw or straw and molasses to cows meaning you could stock a tiny bit harder. With the amount of cattle housing id also look into an integrated beef finishing scheme like elite beef to run along side the sucklers to give so cash flow year round.
If am in the country in Africa like Uganda, is it possible to get that bread to buy direct from your farm
Very good video, I am looking at buying some dairy bull calves to wean to sell as yearlings, would you be able to give some tips and advice, thanks
Always happy to help. Selling as yearling is often a good trade and especially if you have Angus or Hereford named sires to make them eligible for a finishing premium. Ideally you would want to get your calves all from one place and with a good health status. We always treated calves with rispoval intranastal spray for pneumonia and then just kept a close eye on them. The key is to have a shed that’s not drafty but with good airflow. Ideally you would want good grass silage or I’d recommend rotational grazing if your turning them out. This will give them more high quality grass to eat. Might be useful to give a good quality creep to wean them onto and in order to get them fleshing up for sale if needed. Just keep an eye on the cost of that though as prices are high. Ideally you want a 16-18% protein level. The higher the better. Where about are you? If you want more information let me know and I’ll see if I can get my email to you somehow 👍
@@baldysfarm thank you, this is brilliant a big help, I'm hoping to get the calves off a local dairy farm where they do have use a hereford bull, only about 5 or 6 just to get me started, once I get going I'll add more, I have alot of grass plus last year I added a clover mix, we have sheep at the moment but thought the calves could grase ahead of the sheep, we will be turning them out once there weaned
Forgot to say we are in pembrokeshire, would you recommend calf coats, as my partner has made one just curious if I need to put an order in with her 😀
Don’t you count the dry matter ?
They look very big for weanlings.what is the average weight of them
Mostly they are 250 - 280kg at this point. The largest will be over 300kg. They won’t have had any calf creep either. 👍
Hey! I am really impressed by your work. I would love to see more videos relating to cattle. And can you please tell which cattle bree is this and what ingredients do you use in the feed.
CAN I plz talk to you in private or at any other platform
Thanks Abdullah. I love doing the cattle
Videos so I’ll try and do more For you. If you have Instagram you can DM me @baldys_farm and I’ll see if I can help you out.
@@baldysfarm sure
Thanks alot man ❤
how does the 2% rule work if the silage is ad-lib??
Hey Graham, if silage is ad lib it’s more of a guideline to understand intakes. 👍 obviously when ad lib they will keep themselves full and can some times eat more, however that would usually lead to higher growth rates too.
Hello
Are you in Australia 🇦🇺 ?
Is very important you put city and Country also map
Hi, we are based in Leicestershire, UK. 🇬🇧 Ill edit the bio. Thanks for the heads up. 👍
How many cows do you have on your farm? And how many do you have to kill per day to be profitable (or if you don't mind me asking, how much profit are you earning per month?) I am only 17 year old, but I find the farming business to be very interesting.
Hey Owen. We currently run 140 suckler cows and finish all of the young stock. So at
Peak times there’s over 400 cattle on farm. Each animal generates a profit, but we could finish a lot more animals with the same equipment we currently use so in theory we could be more profitable if we had more cattle.
We don’t necessarily kill cattle every month as our block calving system means we get peaks and troughs in production so it’s hard to give realistic numbers but I guess we’d average 15 to 18 if you included cull cows. 👍
Why u don't feed corn silage?
Few reasons really. We don’t grow it because its very wet here and ruins you fields getting it out. It’s not great for your soil and we don’t have facilities to store it during the winter very well. It is a great feed though, especially for finishing cattle.
Sir if itsnot silase , just have the grass how about it ,
Grass is arguably better quality. We can’t alway graze in the winter due to weather so make silage to feed then.
Hello im from indonesian. Im cant using english language for good. Can someone write the recipe for cow fattening please
out of curiosity, what weight was the calf that was 17% of the cows weight?
Hey Gareth, I would have to look up to find out exactly but I believe the calf weighed something like 160kg and the cow was a big old lim/Angus cross cow.
@@baldysfarm hiya, you have a wonderful farm and beautiful healthy cows. I hope your farm stays open and in good condition. I love your videos! I do have one question: what tips do you have for me, as someone who wants to start a beef farm?
Why u don't grow angus?
We are now growing stabiliser cattle. Angus are nice cows but not a perfect fit for our system.
How much a bull is worth while you let it go to slaughter house? Regards from Poland
Currently we are getting around £4.15/kg deadweight for a carcass. So say they are 650kg liveweight and kill out at 56%, your looking at £1510.60 each which in Euros (at todays exchange rate) is 1769.13.
@@baldysfarm in Poland today average pay is £3,45/kg deadweight for carcass. 9 month old pure breed sucker cost £600 ish and then vet and feeding cost. But here bulls are heavier coz most farmers selling at 20/22 monts old with 700/850 kg liveweight , depends on breed and how good feeding was
How to start a farm
Hey Gilbert, That does sound like a great video idea. I’ve been fortunate enough to be born into a farming family but i know a few people who have started from scratch so may need to call on their expertise.
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