building the heifer yard
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2024
- Today we're setting wood fence posts for our new heifer yard using a mini-excavator with a vibrating post pounder. This one fence will double how much Dexter beef we bring to market! It will also give us the ability to use selective breeding to improve our herd and give us control over our herd size. Never has one small fence made such a big difference!
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This guy would be perfect for a PBS show
Should be, too bad PBS only puts out coastal nonsense. Even TOH went full woke
No he’s good on his own.
so true
That post pounder is amazing! Looks so much easier than digging post holes.
Very amazing detail explanation of how to control breeding cycle wow amazing I am a fan..
this shows how a professional is always a professional
Nice row of post good job of thinking a head.
Hey mate I'm from new Zealand. Have watched alot of you're videos and you and you're wife Hillary are just awesome and use bloody good farming practices. Keep it up! Much Aroha ( means Much Love in Maori our indigenous language)
That method of putting in a fense post is amazing.
Really cool post driving machine - I had not seen anything like this before.
GREAT VIDEO.
Pete, I really enjoy your videos. I was raised on a small farm when I was a kid. I had not eaten store bought beef until I was around 11, when we moved into the city. These bring back a lot of memories of my grandpa an dad working the small farm. Thank you.
Thank you for your awesome videos!! You do a great job!
Great food for thought!Thank you another awesome tutorial,
Pete!
You're welcome Manycallmemom!
Perfectly clear Pete🤔🤔🤔🤔
Great farm! I’d like to see a video on your corral system, how you load out animals and or work animals if needed.
Great idea Canyon Creek. I'll add that one to the list.
Clear as mud man, clear as mud. lol. Great job Pete.
You are going to hear this a lot from me, "your a wise man sir"
@@mwilliamshs We use propa English in Australia :-)
2600 subscriptions comes quick! I can only imagine it's occasionally discouraging to put out content for years to just a few viewers, but I've seen so many channels get that one post that for seemingly no reason makes the algorithm happy and they add a zero or two to their subscriber count almost overnight. Here's to hoping it happens soon. It will be well earned.
Cheers from WNY.
I hope so too!! I used to think maybe I'd wake up one morning, check the channel, and find that it exploded overnight. But now I'm more realistic & there's nothing wrong with steady growth.
I would have to agree with you on the steady growth. It really gives you time to get to know your subscribers better and form friendships.
Great explanation of how you will now be controlling your herd and which ones will go to market. As a mechanical engineer (retired) it amazed me to watch that post driver push those posts into the ground. I live in Maine and we have extremely rocky soil so I wonder if that would work here...Always enjoy your videos. JR
Very exciting. It's nice the have a contractor who will work along side you, and those are mighty nice posts. When I fenced in my orchard/garden last year, we could not pound more than 2 feet. It had to incur additional cost to drill/bore through shale for a number of posts. Looking forward to seeing the rest of the fence construction. Something very satisfying about seeing a quality fence come together.
Hi Vincent, wow that sounds like an expensive fence! I agree, I enjoy building quality fences when I have the time.
@@JustaFewAcresFarm It was. I was enlarging an existing space. I made it larger than I initially planned so I don't need to do it again. I have about 85 fruit trees. They are a lot of work, but I enjoy it immensely. Once I got to about 12, I realized I needed to get a commercial pesticide license.
I’ve never seen a post machine like that. What a great device. I’m going to see if there are any around my area.
Good info
Hello Peter, here is Stefan from Germany, love your Videos you carrying tons of Information through it, thanks a lot. We have 2 Dexter heifers already for personal beef use and I’m planning to get some more to breed for selling the Beef. It would be interesting for me to know how much the American Butchers pay for Dexter Cattle ?
nice job
i love farms when i grow up i want to be a farmer
Thank you the informative video. May you please talk about the cost? Thanks
What are fence posts?. My dad bought locust ..split. he would have loved that post setter..heck I would have loved it when I enclosed my half acre back yard...
I like this post!
LOL!
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Perfectly explained.....Who's on first!!!!!!!!!!1
Do they grow hedge trees out there they make good posts
WOW, that's neat
Really interesting.
Hey Pete. Thanks for another great video! What is the reasoning behind the winter pasture? Just an exercise yard?
What criteria do you use to suggest "this heifer is better that this"?
How long will you keep a breeding cow. What age do you feel is too old to send to the butcher. I love your channel
How are you managing inbreeding?
Hi Pete, can you tell me the model of the post driver your guy was using on the Bobcat Excavator for the fence posts. Thanks!!!
Thank you for all the info you give on so many topics. You are the most in depth help in teaching alot of farm aspects ive seen. Though a few acres to me is 5-10. 40 would be huge on my budget. Id like to hear more channels talk about profitibility with under 10 acres.
Here in the UK we put a point on the posts before trying to put them in the ground...
lol, usually we do too Jane! But with that machine no points are needed.
Additionally with the pressure and vibration the point won’t last long in tough or rocky soil. And of course in soft soil it isn’t needed.
@@guyg5702 Last long enough to get it in the ground though and I don't know of this "soft" soil you speak of...
Good job
That is going to be a nice set up.
When do you replace the bulls?
Hi ZaneyMay, I'm hoping to get a few more years (at least) out of them. They're good bulls and as long as they can do their job they'll be here.
@@JustaFewAcresFarm how long can you go with 2 bulls?
@@zaneymay Many years, because the cows they are breeding can live up to 15-20 years. And if that cow has a heifer calf we want to keep, then we can breed it to the other bull, who is not her father.
@@JustaFewAcresFarm I was just wondering how long it could be done that way until you don't have an unrelated pair. But yes I do understand what you are saying.
Do you cover the manure pile or just leave it to take the rain etc ?
Do you have any suggestions for running woven wire fence along a curve? We have considered doing several straight segments and just bracing each pseudo-corner for tension, but is there a better way?
Why aren’t the driven posts pointed, surely that would be easier to drive into the ground?
If you point them they will deflect off rocks and cause nothing but problems. Bludgeon them down!
Awesome investment, work smart not hard..
Do you ever sell breeded cows for others to start a herd.
How much you make on 12 cows, net net
Hi Peter, thanks for your video’s, I love them! Can you make one about thinking out witch bull to put with witch cow ? I think when a new calf is Born from bull A, in the future you will breed it with bull B. Is that wright? How do you register the dna of a calf en mix it with future breeding projects? Greetings from the Netherlands!
Hi Martijn, great idea! I'll do that video when we separate the herd in August. You are correct, if we have a heifer calf from bull A, then we will always breed that calf to bull B.
Thanks Peter, looking forward to that video. I am also interested in how you are breeding the 2nd generation calfs. So calf from bull A is breeded tot bull B in the future, how do you decide with witch bull the 2nd generation calf is grossed? It had genetics from both bull A and B. Again love you video’s and good luck with you business!
@@maastalent It'll be 10 years probably before we get to that point, because breeding cows live so long, and we are now able to cull heifers. If we have a calf whose grandfather is bull A and father is bull B, then it's probably time to shop for bull C. However, if our genetics are good enough we can choose to "line breed" the cows, which would be breeding that calf back to her grandfather, bull A. This has been done many times throughout history to concentrate good genetics, but we probably won't go that route.
I heard that bulls that smells vows in heat cans be stopped by hot electric fence, and needs a Phisical strong barrier.
Isn’t it better to add a cross wood beam on top of the posts or at 4’ height?
Hi Crazy Coyote, I think a lot depends on the bull's temperament. Currently our bulls are in the winter pasture which just has a 4' woven wire fence with a hot wire on top. The cows are right on the other side of the fence, and it works just fine, although the bulls complain a lot :). If I had a crazy Angus bull I'd be rethinking that fence design.
@@JustaFewAcresFarm I know a Gelbvieh bull will jump a fence like that :) I work for the Ag Research Farm at the University I'm attending. We have a Gelbvieh and a Hereford bull, and when we bring the Hereford by a pasture that the Gelbvieh is in, he'll jump the woven wire fence to try and fight with the Hereford.
It’s interesting that the posts don’t need to have a point on them to be driven down
Hi Mio, amazing, isn't it!
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Does this post pounder work with T posts?
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High ground to spot any predators plus good lead cows will always look to high ground for herd dominance. Told by grandfather who farmed his whole life. I'm not an expert info pass along
Pete, is this your 10- year plan coming to Reality ?
How did you learn all this .I am an ag and equipment tech . I have a small farm property in Westtown ny orange county . I Want to raise some beef cows but was not raised on a farm ? Love your videos thanx for the detailed info.
Hi Andrew, I grew up on a part-time farm that raised beef & made hay, so I got a general knowledge there. But when we started farming I read a bunch of books. Joel Salatin's and Allen Nation's were the most influential. Now I study up on things mostly using the internet. I try to get straight to the source of the science instead of reading people's opinions about things. One thing Joel Salatin said that always stuck with me was if you want to start farming, just do SOMETHING. Buy a few cows, chickens, pigs, whatever, and learn as you go. Best of luck & thanks for watching the channel!
Do you sell breaded cows, so others can get good stock to start their own heard?
Hi David, sorry, we don't. They're worth more to us as beef. If you look on the ADCA website there's a map of Dexter farms. That's a good way to find stock for sale.
Thank you for the information and your posts
@@mwilliamshs you are correct it should have read Bred. I am human and make mistakes. But breaded beef strips are good too.
I would understand why certain heifers you wouldn't breed (better stock) but if you breed the heifers would you then be able take that cow and her calf to be butchered. Isn't certain cuts of meat from calves???
Hi Larry, veal comes from calves but they're more valuable to me grown out and slaughtered at 2 years. You could do as you say, but a cow who's been providing milk for her calf won't fatten as much because of the energy needed to make the milk, plus you wind up bringing her to the butcher older, and as they get older some of the cuts get tougher.
@@JustaFewAcresFarm Like you I try to think about getting the maximum for what I have. Always trying to learn.....
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Have you looked into spaying?
Hi Christine, I don't know much about spaying; it doesn't seem to be very common around here.
It's getting pretty common place, I know at least over on the west side of the states. I'm in Oregon
how about selling the cows to people trying to have cows in their own yard
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