Greg explains how to tell if your cow is ready to calve.
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- Greg explains how to tell if your cow is ready to calve. For more grazing and livestock tips go to greenpasturesfarm.net and check out my books. There are several physical conditions that you can look for on your cow to tell when she is about to give birth.
I would LOVE for you to do a grass ID booklet. You are so knowledgeable about the different varieties and the values. It would be sure nice to have a field guide with pictures of each variety to add to our tool box.
That or even a video on grass identification would be awesome. Thanks Greg for all you do!
I can never get enough of the cows moving to the next pasture, they are so happy to get there.
Happy Easter to you and your family
All I can say is WOW Greg! That was beautiful. And fun too. What a great sound, the grass being torn off and down the hatch. That really was beautiful Greg, thanks!
Really would enjoy a video of you tagging the calves
You mentioned a distinction in tags. It opened my mind to a system in the tagging, where you track various conditions. I would be interested to study that.
Great video, we are looking to get cattle here soon and I really enjoy watching your videos.
Happy Easter, Greg and Jan! Those fat cows are making me grin ear to ear! I always have been in awe of how springy they get before calving. It looks like they are going to jiggle right off the day before, lol.
Bhahhahaha I laughed about the nice butt on a cow....getting ready to spread some hay out on some bad places on our land today! Fences going up too!
My cows have got to have a big butt! Happy Easter to you Josh.
Greg, I like the way you describe your herd. I have to tell this, I was watching this over my fiance's house and she heard you describing your cows (you want them to have a Big Ass) and she wanted to know what I was watching. Fortunately she's a farm gal and understood. Happy Easter to you, your family and your staff.
That's awesome Larry, happy Easter to you folks as well!
Happy Easter 🐣 to you and all yours! Happy herd and the pasture is getting greener!
Great tips, as always. Thanks, Greg!
Hi Greg, great video. I have always read that studies show that cattle hair loss and then getting wooly in the fall is predominantly due to length of daylight.
Thanks Greg. Beautiful herd.
Thanks Greg, Happy Easter!
we always say "if you don't like the weather, wait 5 minutes"
When should I separate my bull from her mama, if mama may be pregnant? We think she is pregnant and am wondering when I should separate them because the bull will occasionally still try an drink milk from mama
Tailheads gone 9:08 very close to calving indeed! I find tailheads and milkdripping the most usefull indicators.
Good video. Thank you
Happy Easter! Love watching you move your Cattle. Their always so happy. Wonder if DE would help with Lice. You can get close enough to your Cattle to put some on the large patches. Just a thought. Stay Safe God Bless and Peace Be With You All ☮️🙏❣️
Love watching the cows. There socialization is interesting to me. Thanks for sharing. The cows like mushrooms?
I think we have you beat. Ours is waist high left over from winter white and cold hard to walk through.
We are having a late spring here in norther Alberta the snow has barly started to melt.
Just grazing along
Yeah,yeah. Responding to hormonal cues the cow shows loosening around the vulval opening, gradually showing as a bit floppy. Closer to calving she will show swelling in the udder. She may move away from other cattle to calve. She may seek tree cover. Generally shes happy on her own. But if you have concerns, keeping the cows close is best.
thanks for the vid
Do not complain! Vermont gets the same weather!
Ah, 55 degrees is a heatwave here in England.
Lived in Missouri most of my life, live in Oklahoma now but Missouri weather is unpredictable. Lol
Nice
I remember the old movies, barn cows, the family would be out in the night delivering the calf. Silly, like another old movie I saw as a kid. The wagon train, carrying on, a storm, the cow got loose, the Mother says, "Oh no! What will we feed the baby?"
Ok, that cracked me up as a mother. 😂
@@NS-pf2zc I am very supportive of breast feeding Mother's, (though I encourage thorough cleansing of harmful chemicals and heavy metals before doing so), home birth, and a return to the old ways, the simpler, and much more healthful ways. Thanks for the greeting! Tom
Thank you Greg. Could you share sometime what you use for a numbering system on the ear tags for the cows, replacement heifers, and calves?
His number system goes like this: first number is the like this year for example is 0 and then the next number is the number of the calf born that year...he had one the other day for example 007 first 0 is for the year 2020 and then it's the seventh calf of the year so 07
@@Lanywillsonfan thank you. I think I may use the the digit for year, then cow number so as to be able to associate the cow with the calf to help us evaluate replacement heifer candidates.
If you can identify the mother of the calf when you are tagging them. I don't know how you would do that when the cows are all penned up for you to tag them
Probably easier to tag the calves then observe them in the field and record which calf belongs to which mother
I am a newbie. Is the back fence not needed because the new plot is more attractive to the cows, so they don't go back?
Thanks for the videos.
Man look at that grass.
Great stuff. I think someone else also asked, do you do pregnancy tests?
Mr Judy I got an idea yesterday while cutting grass around my garden
How about when you come to a paddock with seed heads see if your hay guy will come and bale your field and you buy it from him you don’t have to transport it and that hay will probably be better then other hay because the minerals you feed your livestock
I seen your video when talk about
Corriente cattle, what is a good snall frame bull to mix them with
Another freezer warning for tonight into Monday morning.
Did you have trouble crossing the cows at all?
Hi Greg what are your thoughts on If a heifer loses its first calf should you keep it for another year and see how it does next time or should you cull it?
We cull them, you cannot build a profitable herd out of heifers that missed giving you a calf their first year.
Greg Judy Regenerative Rancher thanks
how old should a heifer be before she breeds
Looks Like you can control the fleas, too.
How do you separate & load out culls/market steers/calving trouble moms in the middle of a pasture w/o a corral? I struggled with this for years & this winter I put in a high tensile fence corral in a central location but it’s difficult to get them to walk back home
How many calves are brought forth every year?
My dad allways said you don't want to be able to hold your thumb up in front of you and be able to hide the cows rear end.
That is a great quote, never heard that one. I will have to check that out Marty!! Thanks for sharing.
yes, she is a heifer. a cow means 2+ calves
Greg, what breed are your cattle?
Do you pregnancy check your cattle?
Did they young bull calf have a limp. His right front leg? Dark one my bad he just tripped
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head cow is always grazing
I like big butts and I cannot lie
I like big butts and I cannot lie...
Back fence, no back fence: you need to update your book. In the second you were adamant that there needs to be a back fence?!
When you move your animals twice a day onto lush ample grass supply, the mob does not go back and regraze what they were on.
Glenn, he's only saying no back fence when there's calving mothers so you don't lose any calves. Any other time the fence needs to go back up.