Good afternoon, gentleman- Muddy challenges ahead, rather difficult to navigate. Thank you for sharing this video. Fact, thanks for taking good care of your herd. Let the sun "shine" on you.
I was thinking of a secondary title “Good day to get stuck in the mud.” When you were saying “hey hey Hey HEY” I was saying “oh 💩” not a great place to try to run away from retreating cows 🤦🏻♀️ In all seriousness, another huge thank you and for the education in all y’all do to safely raise black angus cattle! Our farmers do not get all the praise the definitely deserve❣️ Please continue to stay safe🙏🏻❣️🙏🏻
More fine looking cows at Sonne Farms. What a herd! Congratulations to you, Brian, for the results of your breeding program. Some breeders try and don't succeed, you have.
I’ve always wanted to live on a farm………then I see all the hard work and what all the different weather brings and I know I wouldn’t survive. People who work the land and bring us our food are the most incredible people that have been created and thank you seems like such a small word for the appreciation I have for you all. May these weird weather systems calm down soon. Looking forward to see the newbies arrive. ❤❤
That's alot of work Cole & Brian... I was worried about you Cole when they headed back at you in the gate.😬😳🤪 Fun Vlog watching you both... Hugs & Blessings Always 🙏❤️💙💖💙🐕...💙🤗✝️
Thanks! What a dance you fellas have to perform. I used to hate having to walk home from school in that mess, back in the 50s, in the small North Dakota town where my Dad taught school. Uff da. I'm waiting for your next weather report, some of my west coast weather will be headed your way.
Love the ride along with Paw and the tidbits of wisdom. Now from Cole's prospective it makes good content. But, for the old guys, he is making a living legacy for future generations of Sonne's. This content works to give every Sonne in the future a glimpse in to the life and mind of Brian for the rest of time. I would like to see Tammy, in some of the videos, as to capture her view for historical content for the Legacy. Thanks!! Too Deep?
The conditions you guys have to work in month to month is something to be admired and appreciated. I admit I've cut back on my red meat consumption because of price, but when I do have it, it's great! And I sure don't blame producers like you for that.
Thanks for another great video Cole and Brian. It was an interesting video with the weather situation. Wow. Tough weather conditions. Water and mud everywhere!!!!!! Hard on both of you and your equipment, but most of all hard on your cows getting ready to calf. You take such good care of your cows ready to calf. Getting them into the best area you can for calving. You both are excellent herdsmen. Giving the cows the best conditions possible is important. Thank you for all you do for your cows. My compliments to you both for working in these wet and muddy conditions. Tough working conditions for sure. Hang in there. You are doing great with the conditions. Thanks for everything Sonne’s. You both be safe and take care. The Iowa farm boy. Steve. P.S. can remember the years we fought the wet and muddy conditions. You guys are doing great considering your weather.
So I’m not even out of the intro yet and I’m seriously excited we’re now onto clave watch 🤣 even more excited my predicted text now understands the word clave without trying to change it or underline it!! 2024 is going to be a good year for claves 😁😁😁😁
I always get a chuckle when they come up and sniff the camera out of curiosity. I've come to the conclusion that I love cows. They're big and cute, but can hurt you if your not careful.
Hey Brian Cole, thank you for the conscious effort you guys put in to raising your cattle! Describing what you do to keep them healthy and safe fantastic thank you peace out to you guys and may the first calves come soon
1) I never cease to be amazed how great your backing skills are. I wonder how many miles Brian has driven in reverse with trailers. 2) How many times have you come out of your boots in mud ? Goodness knows it happened to me when I had horses and worked for various horse farms. Gross as well as NO fun ! My heart goes out to you for dealing with all the different weather. You’ll be busy with calving. You probably said how many cows are expecting. All the best and prayers for an easy and successful calving season. Do you prefer heifer calves or bull calves ? Heifer calves add to your inventory for future breeding stock but the bull calves are what makes you the money probably, eh ?
Just wondering why do carve cows in winter 🤔 .We carve down in summer in Western Australia 🇦🇺. I've just about finished only 14 left. Mine you it was 42 Celsius today. Good luck with your carving mate 👍.
All good! I found a few of those snow moving mistakes as well. Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to drop the runners on the snow plow down a notch. Lot less gravel on the driveway now. But I do know where it went!!
Been a weird winter all over! The ground wasn't frozen when we had to plow our yard looks the same way! We got 10" with wind had 4' high drifts so we had to plow!
Last year was the first year to try the optimizer gel as the product I was using was on back order very impressed with the results. I’ve already started calving this year and it’s my go to product for newborn calves! Thanks for recommending this product!
Bellamy Brothers... Shoot Mr. Sonne now I'm craving me some Bellamy brothers. Dealing with both conditions I was trying to decide which I like least, deep snow or sticky mud.... I decided mud. You can brush off snow. I thought about your knee in these conditions but at least you have ground moisture I guess. Nice explanation about coccidiosis. Exactly how it is about being a "secondary disease".
What’s funny is that I just looked at the weather for Stolla Station , almost identical to S E Michigan, 19* . But they have more sun. And yes Lechter, S.D. Is one of my saved weather channel locations
Got my shipment of optimizer jell for 24 calving season last week. Good stuff in my opinion. Wish that corid stuff was available in canada as well. Thanks
I use byomoss in mineral and lick tubs and vitamin A as well mixed in the mineral and it works for me west river will look into what ur talking bout as well thx 👍
Your cattle are looking good, but mercy that mud and muck is pretty bad, same on my property. What's a fellow to do, got to go through the thaw to get to the good firm pasture. Brian makes a great point of the mud creating scour issues. Have a great weekend!
I have an idea for a future project- tear down the old metal silo- sell the scrap metal and you might get enough $$ to buy lunch at Storla Station! I hope claving goes well. 👍👍
Sometimes a slappy just isn't enough. Time for the ol' Hotshot. After a while, they just SEE it and move along smartly. For the longest time we didn't even have batteries in them. It's no worse than a good static shock when you pull the blanket out of the dryer in the middle of the winter. Ouch! Not nearly as bad as the electric fence.
Hello from Florida , I love starting out my day with one of your daily reportings !, thank yoiu !! For the first time , I looked up Dad's "Song of the Day" :: the Bellamy Brothers , phew the guy has an Ear Ring dangling. I never heard any of their music before now. ( I'll pass ) Thanks for all the down to earth life stories
I don't back as many trailers as you boys, but the clamp motion seems weird. We always wave at the elbow for yards, wave at wrist for feet, make pinchers ( thumbs touching fingers) for inches.
Feeding time girls, common and get it..."but I can't my hooves dirty." Hey Cole it's about time to fix that cracked front windshield, it's been that way for ages.
Something in the universe does not want me to watch this video!!! Restarted 4x, cats went zooming, restart, knock-delivery, restart, spilled my coffee, restart, robo call, agitation, restart! All in 10 minutes, I will persevere 😮😅😅😅
Can anyone explain why there is a strange triangler point coming out from the top of the roof on the old barn in this video, it has me curious for a while now and I can’t for the life of me understand why it was put there or what it’s purpose is.
In the “old days” there was a pulley attached to raise hay into the barn hay loft. It was what the barn was actually for, storing hay for winter feeding.
@@dannaumann9758 ok yes of course that would make sense, it would be much stronger and durable integrated into the roof, thanks for that, it was bugging me. Regards from Ireland.
Have you guys ever talked about having a ground load to move cattle. You already have the trucks, and plenty of cattle to move. Just curious on what your thoughts are.
I want to build you a old dent side Ford to move them cows and to use as a farm truck. From the ground up that’s fully restored upgraded and indestructible. Brian’s truck is running hard pulling that load and yours is on its last leg.
over the years and across all the farmers/ranchers in your family in that area. how many different types of operations have y'all had? i know cattle, soy/corn, and pigs. thhat silo in the background makes me think there was dairy too? just wondering
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we are up here in canada and we use optimizer gel and it makes a big diffrence on our angus cows
Glad to hear that!
I always love when they notice the camera and get curious.
Sometimes they get too "nosey" and smear the camera lens.
They really are curious about all sorts of things.
Wait, are you saying Cole does not train them to come up to the camera ?! 😯
@@dalegereaux1863 If he can do that, he's in the wrong business.😂😂🤠🤠
Thanks!
Thank you!
Good afternoon, gentleman- Muddy challenges ahead, rather difficult to navigate. Thank you for sharing this video. Fact, thanks for taking good care of your herd. Let the sun "shine" on you.
I was thinking of a secondary title “Good day to get stuck in the mud.”
When you were saying “hey hey Hey HEY” I was saying “oh 💩” not a great place to try to run away from retreating cows 🤦🏻♀️
In all seriousness, another huge thank you and for the education in all y’all do to safely raise black angus cattle! Our farmers do not get all the praise the definitely deserve❣️ Please continue to stay safe🙏🏻❣️🙏🏻
More fine looking cows at Sonne Farms. What a herd! Congratulations to you, Brian, for the results of your breeding program. Some breeders try and don't succeed, you have.
Thanks 👍
Brian's knowledge of cattle and agronomy are impressive
It's what a Farmer " does " !
Loving the Slappy! I know how you like your slappy!! Sloppy!!
thanks!
This kind of weather sure makes one thankful for the good weather when it gets here.
Thanks ! 👍😊
Hi Cole and Dad Brian thank you for sharing everything.Just love watching you both and all that you do.God bless you and your family.
thankyou Jean
I’ve always wanted to live on a farm………then I see all the hard work and what all the different weather brings and I know I wouldn’t survive. People who work the land and bring us our food are the most incredible people that have been created and thank you seems like such a small word for the appreciation I have for you all. May these weird weather systems calm down soon. Looking forward to see the newbies arrive. ❤❤
That's alot of work Cole & Brian...
I was worried about you Cole when they headed back at you in the gate.😬😳🤪
Fun Vlog watching you both...
Hugs & Blessings Always 🙏❤️💙💖💙🐕...💙🤗✝️
Thanks! What a dance you fellas have to perform. I used to hate having to walk home from school in that mess, back in the 50s, in the small North Dakota town where my Dad taught school. Uff da. I'm waiting for your next weather report, some of my west coast weather will be headed your way.
Thanks!
Overhere its extreme wet, always a bad time for the cows but we gotta deal whit it,greetings from a Dutch dairyfarmer
Thank you for all of your hard work, may God bless all the Farmers all over this planet ❤️🙏❤️
I am impressed by the song of the day. I have always listened to country music, but never heard "I Love Her Mind". Thank you.
Love the ride along with Paw and the tidbits of wisdom. Now from Cole's prospective it makes good content. But, for the old guys, he is making a living legacy for future generations of Sonne's. This content works to give every Sonne in the future a glimpse in to the life and mind of Brian for the rest of time. I would like to see Tammy, in some of the videos, as to capture her view for historical content for the Legacy. Thanks!! Too Deep?
The conditions you guys have to work in month to month is something to be admired and appreciated. I admit I've cut back on my red meat consumption because of price, but when I do have it, it's great! And I sure don't blame producers like you for that.
Support your local farmer/rancher and buy a 1/4 beef! Ours averaged $4.61, including processing fee!
I love ❤️ love love hearing you guys call after the cattle! “Hiya! Up! Hey!” 👋
Thanks for another great video Cole and Brian.
It was an interesting video with the weather situation.
Wow. Tough weather conditions. Water and mud everywhere!!!!!!
Hard on both of you and your equipment, but most of all hard on your cows getting ready to calf.
You take such good care of your cows ready to calf. Getting them into the best area you can for calving. You both are excellent herdsmen.
Giving the cows the best conditions possible is important. Thank you for all you do for your cows.
My compliments to you both for working in these wet and muddy conditions. Tough working conditions for sure. Hang in there. You are doing great with the conditions.
Thanks for everything Sonne’s. You both be safe and take care.
The Iowa farm boy. Steve.
P.S. can remember the years we fought the wet and muddy conditions. You guys are doing great considering your weather.
The gate system is very impressive. Great job guys.
Good work men you guys always do a great job with your livestock you two work so good together love the videos
So I’m not even out of the intro yet and I’m seriously excited we’re now onto clave watch 🤣 even more excited my predicted text now understands the word clave without trying to change it or underline it!! 2024 is going to be a good year for claves 😁😁😁😁
I always get a chuckle when they come up and sniff the camera out of curiosity. I've come to the conclusion that I love cows. They're big and cute, but can hurt you if your not careful.
Hey Brian Cole, thank you for the conscious effort you guys put in to raising your cattle! Describing what you do to keep them healthy and safe fantastic thank you peace out to you guys and may the first calves come soon
So very very wet. Good luck with calves! Thank you for sharing.🐂
I’m glad I’m not the only one who noticed the big chunks out of the lawn! I’m sure some good dirt will be added there when it dries up before Spring.
1) I never cease to be amazed how great your backing skills are. I wonder how many miles Brian has driven in reverse with trailers. 2) How many times have you come out of your boots in mud ? Goodness knows it happened to me when I had horses and worked for various horse farms. Gross as well as NO fun ! My heart goes out to you for dealing with all the different weather. You’ll be busy with calving. You probably said how many cows are expecting. All the best and prayers for an easy and successful calving season. Do you prefer heifer calves or bull calves ? Heifer calves add to your inventory for future breeding stock but the bull calves are what makes you the money probably, eh ?
Awesome video Cole and Mr. B. thank you guys so much
Our pleasure!
Brian is a great lead in to more information about cattle and how to care for them....
Hope calving goes well for yall under these conditions.
Praying for sunshine for you.
Great loading .
The end of July I’ll be coming thru South Dakota and I want to stop at Storla station! Hopefully I see you guys there.
I know the mud is bad, but it looks like there's a lot of water trying to soak deeply into the hay fields!
ENJOYED WATCHING THE VIDEO COLE AND BRIAN 😊
When I used to work outside for a living, it always perturbed me when the weather would snow, get cold, then get warm and melt. Mud season, ugh.
I come home one time when I first started and my mom asked if I rolled in the mud. The apprentice NEVER gets out of the mud !!
Just wondering why do carve cows in winter 🤔 .We carve down in summer in Western Australia 🇦🇺. I've just about finished only 14 left. Mine you it was 42 Celsius today. Good luck with your carving mate 👍.
Have you ever thought about running field tile in your feed lot to help get rid of water?
for sure! Its expensive and we often dont have a great place to run the water to but some day!
Thank you Sonne farms!
All good! I found a few of those snow moving mistakes as well. Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to drop the runners on the snow plow down a notch. Lot less gravel on the driveway now. But I do know where it went!!
Glad to see this moisture early in the year y’all going to have 100 bushel corn this year
Been a weird winter all over! The ground wasn't frozen when we had to plow our yard looks the same way! We got 10" with wind had 4' high drifts so we had to plow!
Ground looks a bit damp 🙂 A whole video of wrangling kattles, epic. Soon time for some CLAVES!!!! Take care.
Chunk out of the lawn and concrete. Welcome to the club, I thought I was the only one who did this.
haha happens every year
The Optimizer is a miracle.
Last year was the first year to try the optimizer gel as the product I was using was on back order very impressed with the results. I’ve already started calving this year and it’s my go to product for newborn calves! Thanks for recommending this product!
Great to hear!
We have baby goats just born on the 14th. I can’t put a picture or I would. Can’t wait to see the baby calf’s.
Man that's a bunch of critters to move in that mess in aday. You all be safe out there
congratulations on the new clave . You boys make my day .
I love how your cows acknowledge the camera. It’s like they know they are walking the “Red Carpet”! Hahaha
thank for mentioning Canada! we sometimes think the states forgot about us.
How can we forget about our Northern Neighbors!
Glad got your cattle moved to a place you can watch them better. Take Care and Be safe on the farm. Out
Bellamy Brothers... Shoot Mr. Sonne now I'm craving me some Bellamy brothers. Dealing with both conditions I was trying to decide which I like least, deep snow or sticky mud.... I decided mud. You can brush off snow. I thought about your knee in these conditions but at least you have ground moisture I guess. Nice explanation about coccidiosis. Exactly how it is about being a "secondary disease".
What’s funny is that I just looked at the weather for Stolla Station , almost identical to S E Michigan, 19* . But they have more sun.
And yes Lechter, S.D. Is one of my saved weather channel locations
@@johnwudarcki9315 I've done the same. Mt. Vernon too.
Nice video guys love watching your cow videos
Got my shipment of optimizer jell for 24 calving season last week. Good stuff in my opinion. Wish that corid stuff was available in canada as well. Thanks
Great video. Cows work well for you guys. Good luck calving
Great video. Curious cows. God Bless.
I use byomoss in mineral and lick tubs and vitamin A as well mixed in the mineral and it works for me west river will look into what ur talking bout as well thx 👍
Up close and personal 😊. Good Moving
I’m ready for spring. Nice of my girl sirloin to come by and give us a sniff.😂
very wise man brian great video
Springtime in the state of Alaska it 49 low is song of the day. Oh you got the mud block bruise
Your cattle are looking good, but mercy that mud and muck is pretty bad, same on my property. What's a fellow to do, got to go through the thaw to get to the good firm pasture. Brian makes a great point of the mud creating scour issues. Have a great weekend!
I have an idea for a future project- tear down the old metal silo- sell the scrap metal and you might get enough $$ to buy lunch at Storla Station! I hope claving goes well. 👍👍
welcome to KY from november to may reason we've gone to fall calfing.
Idea for a video … Mitchell sale barn and some footage of the trip to Mitchell .
Coincidentally, the Bellamy Brothers are cattle ranchers now in Central Florida.
You guys should mount some cattle cams for some “day in the life” snip it’s from their POV!
Sometimes a slappy just isn't enough. Time for the ol' Hotshot. After a while, they just SEE it and move along smartly. For the longest time we didn't even have batteries in them. It's no worse than a good static shock when you pull the blanket out of the dryer in the middle of the winter. Ouch! Not nearly as bad as the electric fence.
Opppps, that'll buff out later.
Awesome video Cole. 🚜🚜🚜
That’s how the lawn landscaping gets done 😊
Good job u 2!
Thank you for another awesome video
Yep looks like the weather here in SE z Michigan. I’d prefer it to be 25-32 degrees. Not 45-55 in February
Hey neighbor, Lapeer here. Little more sun at Stolla Station, same temps
And ya, we’ve been having crazy weather.
Haven’t had two winters the same in 71 years
Plantin' season.....harvest season....breeding season......calving season.....mud season. Rinse and repeat!
There is always that one cow that finds the camera.
It's like wildebeest crossing the Tsavo River
Thx for the video! Come on sun! 🤩
Hello from Florida ,
I love starting out my day with one of your daily reportings !, thank yoiu !!
For the first time , I looked up Dad's "Song of the Day" :: the Bellamy Brothers , phew the guy has an Ear Ring dangling. I never heard any of their music before now. ( I'll pass )
Thanks for all the down to earth life stories
If you went by looks you’d be limited to Lawrence Welk ‼️
Close your eyes and just listen to the music 🎶
I don't back as many trailers as you boys, but the clamp motion seems weird. We always wave at the elbow for yards, wave at wrist for feet, make pinchers ( thumbs touching fingers) for inches.
Feeding time girls, common and get it..."but I can't my hooves dirty."
Hey Cole it's about time to fix that cracked front windshield, it's been that way for ages.
There's the cow close up at 3:40 And at 11:50.
Something in the universe does not want me to watch this video!!! Restarted 4x, cats went zooming, restart, knock-delivery, restart, spilled my coffee, restart, robo call, agitation, restart! All in 10 minutes, I will persevere 😮😅😅😅
thankyou for your perserverance!
@@briansonne814😉
thank you
We had 4 inches of snow last night in Maryland, already started melting - its been a muddy mess this winter.
Oof! good luck
Can anyone explain why there is a strange triangler point coming out from the top of the roof on the old barn in this video, it has me curious for a while now and I can’t for the life of me understand why it was put there or what it’s purpose is.
In the “old days” there was a pulley attached to raise hay into the barn hay loft. It was what the barn was actually for, storing hay for winter feeding.
Great answer Danna!
@@dannaumann9758 ok yes of course that would make sense, it would be much stronger and durable integrated into the roof, thanks for that, it was bugging me. Regards from Ireland.
How old is the intro picture? The east side of the chute looks completely different!!
4 years!
Is that how your family got their name, the sunny shining on you all day
Hard to get your head around this is February. You might go from frozen to dust in a couple of weeks.😢
Have you guys ever talked about having a ground load to move cattle. You already have the trucks, and plenty of cattle to move. Just curious on what your thoughts are.
i look up your song of the day. i love her mind bellamy brothers lyrics
Great day to watch a video.
Glad you think so!
awsome video cole thumbs up and shared
Awesome thank you!
Awesome vid 😊and awesome gutters 😮
All that mud and slop is fine... if it's 92 degrees and you're raising pigs. 🐖🐷 I'm surprised we haven't seen a clave yet. 🐮
Claves!
Does alkalizing the ponds with some lime help at all?
Hey cole was wondering if you ship the gel to Quebec Canada hard to tell on the website
we do, it can take a while (almost 2 week) because of customs
Brain's a Pro
Always a great video.
Glad you enjoyed it
I want to build you a old dent side Ford to move them cows and to use as a farm truck. From the ground up that’s fully restored upgraded and indestructible. Brian’s truck is running hard pulling that load and yours is on its last leg.
over the years and across all the farmers/ranchers in your family in that area. how many different types of operations have y'all had? i know cattle, soy/corn, and pigs. thhat silo in the background makes me think there was dairy too? just wondering