You put a lot of thought in your shed and it looks practical and usable right away. I like your sense of humor, good luck with the calving. We are expecting -30 to -40 F temps here this week in Minnesota. I won’t calve until late March with our small herd. You have some really high quality Red Angus
Minnesota is a very productive state and has real winter, from what I've been told. When I was younger my Dad was the President of the Sugar Beet Growers and a Anderson that was farmer and part of the sugar industry from Minnesota would call all the time to talk to my Dad and I would visit about the weather with him all the time.
Good day Boy that mini barns looks good. I can't get over how quick it melts. Like the little joke you told about a chinnok. I think that will really help in cold weather. We will get to see more. Thanks I glad you are back to showing face. Thanks
I think it will be nice, it won't help much when it is really cold and you have 20 cows calve in a day but my other barn that I need to move is too small to help with that as well. It does melt fast and then the wind switched to the North and it froze up pretty good last night , but I'm not complaining because it is way better than -40.
Love your mini barn , i have something similar, never crossed my mind to put a couple clear panels on roof for some light ,genius idea !! Good luck with the calving season 👍
Those clear panels are super sweet, when I sheeted the sides and was going to start the roof I thought this is going to be so dark and I decided then to order the clear panels.
Pretty slick, we've been slowly working on a calving barn. Going to be using it alot the next five years. I've been wanting one of those pens for awhile now. Anything is better than roping a heifer around the neck and tieing her to a fence post and pulling the calf
Last year our snow was so deep and it was so icy that I roped a bunch of hfrs to pull their calves and it wasn't much fun. They also don't mother up as well when you pull the halter off they tend to run away. I would like to build a big barn with lots of pens so that when it is cold the cows can all go through the barn but that would be a lot of money. I like the Morrand maternity pen but it is double the price of this one, I would like to build one using the Morrand head catch( same as my squeeze chute).
@@AndersonCattleCo we started building one a few years back and our biggest expense was the tin. Use old telephone poles and added it to the side of our existing barn. We can put about 10 pens in it and quite a few heifers.
like the head gate setup looks very well made ....beats waiting for a cow to get exhausted before u can handle her on your own .....have been attacked by other cows while pulling a calf from a cow .....wet cold ground conditions not easy to work with .! hope you video the head gate being used ....clear lights in roof are handy but take care around them ....after a while they get clouded and people have fallen through them when on the roof years later ...
If I can't walk them in I just rope them and get to work and I try not to keep any people hunters around. I did have a cow that didn't want me helping her friend so I roped her and snubbed her up to a post for a couple hours. If a heifer has been trying for 2 hrs I just get the calf out. The clear panels on the roof are pretty flimsy and I wouldn't put any of my weight on them.
Wyatt is an awesome helper, he will graduate high school in June and is off to College in the fall and then all 3 of my sons will be gone. Jessica isn't too excited knowing she will be my helper next winter. lol
it may be mini BUT that is all ya need... gunna be way more convenient than what you were doing... we have a tub style pen and it works well for us... May want to sheet the swing gate so the cow dont wanna look at you but it may work jsut fine anyhow... but i like it... simple yet very effective
I wish I could've got the other barn moved but at least I can pull a calf with out chasing her to the corral and hauling her to the barn with the stock trailer.
Looks like a much better option than the long walk for sure. Hopefully with it being a smaller facility they won't get too high headed...or you get to find out how sturdy construction y'all did. Either way, at least it's closer.
yup it will be handy, when I move the other barn home I will put cameras in it so I can look at my phone every 20min at a cow in the barn rather than having to get all bundled up to check her.
Nice looking set up.. I've been building the same barns for the locals out here in sask for 10 years ...just started making crowd tubs and alley all out of oilfield pipe too...the barns are not air tight but better then out in the open at -20 or colder
you bet , it is better than roping them on the bedding pile. Pretty competitive business welding cattle stuff. My Dads friend tried welding for Morrand like some of the other Mennonites that are welding in my area but he switched back to using oilfield pipe and doing his own thing because he couldn't pay his power bill welding for Morrand.
yes , last year we had 8' of snow and it was hard to get the heifers to the corral and one night my daughter helped me rope and pull calves on 3 heifers and it was -40. I took Jessica to the store that week end and told her to buy whatever she wanted.
you are 100% right , one day I will have a 30 stall barn but not in the next couple years, if I ever get a 500 cow ranch bought I will calve in May, June, and I won't need a barn.
AndersonCattleCo. I changed my herd to June to avoid the cold the few that I had already calving in May and June I liked way better I won’t know now how well I would like it due to selling them all here the 1st of April so maybe next year lol
I guess he will be putting calves in the house to warm up. I have neighbors that think I'm crazy not to have a 30 stall barn. I hope you survive that nasty weather and your stock, wind breaks really make the difference, especially when it is CRAZY cold like that. Ty said at college the dairy calves all wear little coats.
My son Ty lives in east central Alberta and they don't get chinooks and -20 is a normal day but he said they had a big warm up this week end and snow melted enough to have flooding issues on his rental house. Landlord this never happens.
That oil field pipe is popular stuff, I wish I could afford a semi load of pipe and sucker rod! Lol 1 question, why is your working facilities way over by the neighbors?
My working facilities are at the end of the farm where it didn't have irrigation. Before I had the pivot I irrigated with wheel lines and I didn't want to waste irrigated land. Now with the pivot it is still a dryland part so it is still the best place for a corral. Oilfield pipe has doubled in price the last few years, the US buys it all up because they can still drill with the used pipe where it has been rejected in Canada after it has been used so much. You can only buy it by the semi load and we have had a load ordered and 2hrs before it was supposed to be delivered the trucker got called to go to the US border and switch the trailer because the pipe was going to Texas , and we got told too bad so sad. Sucker rod is hard to find now as well, you have to know someone.
That is a nice lookin design & yeah you should make it easier for the mom's that's ganna give birth, in closer distance then walking them long ways if they need help, which you did it looks nice, so that way you have a little bet of respect for them;)👍 but inerways that one cow looks like she ganna do it tonight!? Which am just guessing, but inerways again nice building. And ah anther thing I don't think it really matters if you have little air opening in the building, animals ain't gonna freeze that much! ..lol
AndersonCattleCo. I don't quite understand, what you mean by feed in it? You mean by building it bigger? But inerways again nice video. and you do same a funny parson especially when you say something like am fat man hard to do somethings...lmao😂 not to many people says that about there weight, sure you might be fat..lol but at least you're not as lazy, to get stuff done. not making fun of you, if you are wundering? just Loughing what you say about yourself.
You put a lot of thought in your shed and it looks practical and usable right away. I like your sense of humor, good luck with the calving. We are expecting -30 to -40 F temps here this week in Minnesota. I won’t calve until late March with our small herd. You have some really high quality Red Angus
Minnesota is a very productive state and has real winter, from what I've been told. When I was younger my Dad was the President of the Sugar Beet Growers and a Anderson that was farmer and part of the sugar industry from Minnesota would call all the time to talk to my Dad and I would visit about the weather with him all the time.
Good day Boy that mini barns looks good. I can't get over how quick it melts. Like the little joke you told about a chinnok. I think that will really help in cold weather. We will get to see more. Thanks I glad you are back to showing face. Thanks
I think it will be nice, it won't help much when it is really cold and you have 20 cows calve in a day but my other barn that I need to move is too small to help with that as well. It does melt fast and then the wind switched to the North and it froze up pretty good last night , but I'm not complaining because it is way better than -40.
Love your mini barn , i have something similar, never crossed my mind to put a couple clear panels on roof for some light ,genius idea !! Good luck with the calving season 👍
Those clear panels are super sweet, when I sheeted the sides and was going to start the roof I thought this is going to be so dark and I decided then to order the clear panels.
I bet that mini barn is going to work really well for you. thanks for showing.
I've put 10cows in it so far and used the maternity pen to help a calf nurse that was struggling so it has been nice
I would a few soler lights in the barn for night work. Nice little set up and doesn't break the bank.
I've ordered some lights, me and you think a like
Pretty slick, we've been slowly working on a calving barn. Going to be using it alot the next five years. I've been wanting one of those pens for awhile now. Anything is better than roping a heifer around the neck and tieing her to a fence post and pulling the calf
Last year our snow was so deep and it was so icy that I roped a bunch of hfrs to pull their calves and it wasn't much fun. They also don't mother up as well when you pull the halter off they tend to run away. I would like to build a big barn with lots of pens so that when it is cold the cows can all go through the barn but that would be a lot of money. I like the Morrand maternity pen but it is double the price of this one, I would like to build one using the Morrand head catch( same as my squeeze chute).
@@AndersonCattleCo we started building one a few years back and our biggest expense was the tin. Use old telephone poles and added it to the side of our existing barn. We can put about 10 pens in it and quite a few heifers.
Thanks for the Mini calving barn tour. Looks good and I hope it works for your operation.
no prob, thanks for watching
Good deal . That help you 100%. Happy for you guys.
thanks it should be nice if something needs help
like the head gate setup looks very well made ....beats waiting for a cow to get exhausted before u can handle her on your own .....have been attacked by other cows while pulling a calf from a cow .....wet cold ground conditions not easy to work with .! hope you video the head gate being used ....clear lights in roof are handy but take care around them ....after a while they get clouded and people have fallen through them when on the roof years later ...
If I can't walk them in I just rope them and get to work and I try not to keep any people hunters around. I did have a cow that didn't want me helping her friend so I roped her and snubbed her up to a post for a couple hours. If a heifer has been trying for 2 hrs I just get the calf out. The clear panels on the roof are pretty flimsy and I wouldn't put any of my weight on them.
Really cool, keep it simple. That's great you have Wyatt to help. Love the skylight idea.
Wyatt is an awesome helper, he will graduate high school in June and is off to College in the fall and then all 3 of my sons will be gone. Jessica isn't too excited knowing she will be my helper next winter. lol
it may be mini BUT that is all ya need... gunna be way more convenient than what you were doing... we have a tub style pen and it works well for us... May want to sheet the swing gate so the cow dont wanna look at you but it may work jsut fine anyhow... but i like it... simple yet very effective
I wish I could've got the other barn moved but at least I can pull a calf with out chasing her to the corral and hauling her to the barn with the stock trailer.
Looks like a much better option than the long walk for sure. Hopefully with it being a smaller facility they won't get too high headed...or you get to find out how sturdy construction y'all did. Either way, at least it's closer.
Your mimi barn is awesome! Good job!
thanks
Looks real handy.out of the weather and wind,closer to home.
yup it will be handy, when I move the other barn home I will put cameras in it so I can look at my phone every 20min at a cow in the barn rather than having to get all bundled up to check her.
Nice looking set up..
I've been building the same barns for the locals out here in sask for 10 years ...just started making crowd tubs and alley all out of oilfield pipe too...the barns are not air tight but better then out in the open at -20 or colder
you bet , it is better than roping them on the bedding pile. Pretty competitive business welding cattle stuff. My Dads friend tried welding for Morrand like some of the other Mennonites that are welding in my area but he switched back to using oilfield pipe and doing his own thing because he couldn't pay his power bill welding for Morrand.
Nice, been wanting to build something like this for years. Sky light is a nice touch.
I was really happy with the sky lights
Nice setup y’all have there, with time and money a farmer can get some stuff done!
Barn turned out great guys wish I had one like that!
Thank you
the shed beats calving in that wind.A luxury that will do a lot to boost moral in in -20. hope it works for you.
yes , last year we had 8' of snow and it was hard to get the heifers to the corral and one night my daughter helped me rope and pull calves on 3 heifers and it was -40. I took Jessica to the store that week end and told her to buy whatever she wanted.
Looks like that’ll work real good. Sure beats doin stuff in the mud out side.
you got that right Jake
A mini barn is better than no barn when it’s -40 the little barn will be awesome
you are 100% right , one day I will have a 30 stall barn but not in the next couple years, if I ever get a 500 cow ranch bought I will calve in May, June, and I won't need a barn.
AndersonCattleCo. I changed my herd to June to avoid the cold the few that I had already calving in May and June I liked way better I won’t know now how well I would like it due to selling them all here the 1st of April so maybe next year lol
I like the design and yeah one man operation can handle it just put her in squeeze maybe tight for a calf jack but it will work for I think it will.
It will be ok , it isn't the solution but it is a step in the right direction.
Supposed to hit -60F here ths week in eastern Iowa. Crazy, one guy is calving right now with no shed and no wind breaks. $4,000+ embryos to.
I guess he will be putting calves in the house to warm up. I have neighbors that think I'm crazy not to have a 30 stall barn. I hope you survive that nasty weather and your stock, wind breaks really make the difference, especially when it is CRAZY cold like that. Ty said at college the dairy calves all wear little coats.
@@AndersonCattleCo yes. Ours all of coats. They help a lot!
What do you think of the tuff maternity pen? Do you like the sweep system better than the square shaped hi hog?
That's a great lil barn should would great.
I think it will help, I hope I never use it. lol
I know what your saying. Seems decent enough weather wise for now up there?
My son Ty lives in east central Alberta and they don't get chinooks and -20 is a normal day but he said they had a big warm up this week end and snow melted enough to have flooding issues on his rental house. Landlord this never happens.
Yeah strange weather every where. Mostly cold though -35 today with wind chill.
nice setup!!
thanks
Thanks for sharing !!!
you bet , thanks for watching
Looks good
thank you
How do you like the tuff maternity pen ? Does it get the job done,
it works just fine, it has some things that could be better but not that bad
@@AndersonCattleCo awesome thanks good to hear . Gotta beat roping and tying to a panel
Slick design
Thanks
That oil field pipe is popular stuff, I wish I could afford a semi load of pipe and sucker rod! Lol
1 question, why is your working facilities way over by the neighbors?
My working facilities are at the end of the farm where it didn't have irrigation. Before I had the pivot I irrigated with wheel lines and I didn't want to waste irrigated land. Now with the pivot it is still a dryland part so it is still the best place for a corral. Oilfield pipe has doubled in price the last few years, the US buys it all up because they can still drill with the used pipe where it has been rejected in Canada after it has been used so much. You can only buy it by the semi load and we have had a load ordered and 2hrs before it was supposed to be delivered the trucker got called to go to the US border and switch the trailer because the pipe was going to Texas , and we got told too bad so sad. Sucker rod is hard to find now as well, you have to know someone.
@@AndersonCattleCo copy, I figured there was a good reason!
That is a nice lookin design & yeah you should make it easier for the mom's that's ganna give birth, in closer distance then walking them long ways if they need help, which you did it looks nice, so that way you have a little bet of respect for them;)👍 but inerways that one cow looks like she ganna do it tonight!? Which am just guessing, but inerways again nice building. And ah anther thing I don't think it really matters if you have little air opening in the building, animals ain't gonna freeze that much! ..lol
I think the mini barn will be ok, maybe if I feed it ,it will grow into a big barn. lol
AndersonCattleCo. I don't quite understand, what you mean by feed in it? You mean by building it bigger? But inerways again nice video. and you do same a funny parson especially when you say something like am fat man hard to do somethings...lmao😂 not to many people says that about there weight, sure you might be fat..lol but at least you're not as lazy, to get stuff done. not making fun of you, if you are wundering? just Loughing what you say about yourself.
How many years have you and Wyatt been Farming ?
I've been farming my whole life, but I started my company 25years ago ,and I helped all of my children buy their own cows at 9 years old.