3 Issues That Stumped Me in January - Small Farm Grass-fed Red Devon Cattle and St. Croix Sheep
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- Опубліковано 27 січ 2024
- Join me today as I discuss three issues with our Red Devon cattle and St Croix sheep that we’ve wrestled with thru the month of January.
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Brother Jason, you are an inspiration for myself and hopefully others as well!!! Bringing Christ and our Creator into every video really makes your videos Whole and I just want to say thank you for taking the time to put this out for us to learn from. Just got my first Ewes and a couple lambs and it is very exciting!!! Keep up the Good Work
1st ewes, awesome!! Thanks for encouraging me!
I find the biggest challenge in January illness. As in my own haha I feel like I've been sick non-stop since Christmas! Hoping February comes with a boost to the immune system
Oh no, hang in there, friend! Keep those vit D levels up and get better!
@birchfieldfarming doing my best haha I think it's just all the visiting with family people do over the holidays then kids go back to daycare and preschool and school and just share everything with everyone. It is what it is lol thankfully we are all healthy otherwise so it's just a matter of enduring it until things improve. I hope you're doing well!
@@ShepherdsCreekWe’ve got the rain for Spring now, so all is well!😀
So true. The small farm has a lot of lessons for us and when something goes wrong it makes us look at what we are doing. But some times it is not what we do at all but we second guess our situation and get frustrated. I have had a cow prolapse a ewe die one week after giving birth, rams die that I brought in as a new blood line. But I to tried to learn from the situation and did a lot of praying as well. Just remember Job he did not do anything wrong. Thanks for sharing.
Wow, those sound like some intense situations! The farm can be an intriguing, unpredictable mix of connection with mystery and always something to learn. Thanks for encouraging and following along!
Thanks for sharing your animal farming experiences. Sorry to hear about the death of the twin lambs. Unfortunately it is true that when you have livestock some deaths are inevitable.
Yeah, hopefully something here for others to glean. Can be some hard times on the farm, but it’s a good way to live.
Thank you so much for sharing your experiences! I’m learning a lot from you!
Thanks for following along, Guy
millions of small family farms sounds like the making of a strong nation!
You got it, Marcus!🤠
7th generation farmer's beefer on a hill-could have been bloat. Check left side's "death triangle" for a very large air bubble. Can be relieved with a 14 gauge needle (or trocar?), we had 14 gauge x 2" needles on hand for giving cmpk IV, 50% dextrose IV, 23% calcium SQ (or VERY SLOWLY IV to avoid heart attack) to cows with milk fever. We had 750 milking dairy, so saw lots of different issues in each year, even a few odd things over the 17 years that we were a CAFO.
Only need to use needle/trocar, if cow is down with bloat. If can get up, WATCH.
Thank you for sharing your many years of dairy animal knowledge here - many benefits to the comments section here, folks!
@@birchfieldfarming i just wish brothers would go regen, but they are doing about 250 beefers with all the extras: tmr, vaccines, rx meds, otc meds,...under the roof. Removed stalls and went to bedded pack. 😒
@@user-kv2pt4lu9yYou never know how folks and situations might change! Stay hopeful! Wow, I can’t imagine that many animals - what in the world do they do with all the manure?
@@birchfieldfarming custom haulers were used in addition to 2 or 3 tankers the farm owned. For a while had used jumbo drag hoses for the nearest fields that were on the same side of US divided highway as the farm. They worked about 1,200 acres, much is leased land.
On calves, i held closed one nostril and the mouth and then blew hard into the top nostril. Amniotic fluid is generally clean. Risk of zoonotic disease exists, but is minimal. Discuss your farm's zoonotic issues with your vet. Pigs, kittens, and pups can be easily born backward without issue. Lambs, kids, and calves born rear feet first are likely to require assistance to live, and may not make it unless timing of assistance is soon enough. Soles up is an indicator that assistance is needed. Put these mothers and offspring on the cull or terminal generation list-you do not want to propagate these genetics. Limp could also originate in the shoulder. 60% of weight is on front legs.
Wow, great info here!