hi I am 67 a retired farmer and cabinetmaker, when I was a kid we raised calves, we did not use nipple pails, instead we got them to drink by putting our fingers in their mouths and putting their noses in the bucket. it took a few times, but, they soon started to drink out of the bucket. I love to see the videos of you guys taking care of your stock. those of us who farmed way back when, always put the stock first. we went out to feed the cattle, or calves, before we had our own breakfast. Nothing is sweeter than seeing healthy stock bedded down on a cold day with a good feed. I grew up in Minnesota and farmed just southwest of the Twin cities, so, I know what winter is all about. I will always remember the good feeling of seeing healthy stock well cared for.

That silo works pretty nice for filling buckets

Who needs the gym when you have buckets of grains to pack?!

Knowing those low temperatures you have to work in is amazing. Explaining how to help the calves be healthier in what you feed them....all of the growing process ... so interesting.

Calves really growing, look good. We have had goofy weather in IN too. Won't be long until you are in the fields.

Thank you so much for these videos!

I used to pick a lot of ear corn and grind it with hay and supplement that made good feed for my cows and calves.

So many experts in the comments need to have their own KZfaq channel,

I think you guys have more corn everywhere except in the buckets lol!

I like to grind our grain but if corn is cheap you don't lose much by not processing it especially feeding young cattle whole corn they chew it, and once the kernel is cracked they can digest it .

Even a flat bed trailer would be handy in the future for moving things around the farm and moving equipment

Good job

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Your cattle look nice an they are clean. I feed a 11 % to my caves as a starter. with a lot of oats an Molasses. Like the videos.

Nice video Ryan keep it up.

As far as ground or not ground corn, my AG classes, FFA and experience told me that about 20% of shelled corn is wasted when not ground. Suppose that's why pigs love to root in the patties looking for the shelled undigested corn. With that said, one has to determine if the undigested corn offsets the lack of shelled corn reserves. In otherwords, is the process of slow weight gain per head feeding unshelled corn, better than feeding ground corn (limited reserves). A certain percentage of farmers actually use cobbed corn in cattle feed, most specifically when they are not in the "finishing" lot during winter months. Theory is, it's a better filler than standard mulch hay.

Boy, that's a whole other scale from feeding a few animals on a homestead, let me tell ya!

when it comes to farming it's not always about running equipment there's some manual labor to

I wish we could still be going eazy like you our corn is out of the ground and about 6-8 inches tall

Great vid ryan

same here

Dude you need some chickens to pick up the corn and feed the calves spill looking good my fav video's Of yours are the ones which cattle and the ones that involve corn shuck\chaff bales here in the west very few people make corn round bales they grow corn and just till it in ground once they harvest the corn

You have belted Galloway’s SWEET

very best video !!!!!! how many cows u have??????

I think there should be a new challenge/trend of uploading vids of your daily chores, one of those things where you nominate people to do it.

have u ever thought about geting a light bar for the bobcat?

How much you consume daily feed buckets?

Looks like you do a lot of traveling with the Skid Steer. Wouldn't it be easier to put it on a trailer or is driving it easier?

y'all have a corn grinder? how does that thing work? thought those were mostly big expensive things

> Hi I love the videos

I wonder how many cows are fed from John Deer Hy-Gard bucket.

Please can you do another video like this

How old are they when you wean them off

was that grounded corn ?

Rocket called shotgun. He's a great dog

how do you deal with warts on cows

how old are them calves now?

I’m surprised you don’t use your semi for moving your cattle trailer is it worth your time to get a semi trailer for moving cattle

You say ground corn, is that run thru a crusher just to flatten it like a penny or do you actually make ground feed with cobbs and oats ?

I'm not sure why you don't use your grinder mixer to mix a feed ration to your cows and calves?

Are those the calves from the Jan 20th vid ? Sure have grown.

I dont understand... Do you go though and give every bottle calf a bottle or do you use a bucket? Ive never really seen it done that way so I dont really understand it

Do your cows know when you are going to feed them each day? I know my cat does. Was wondering if cows where the same way. Thanks! Please make much longer videos.

hi Ryan

how many cows

give them cows some barley grounded up like the old days better for them

I have to ask, these "bottle calves" are they bull calves? If so, have they been castrated yet?

Contact Case or New Holland and see about getting some self driving tractors so you can farm 10,000+ acres. Have those tractors running day and night.

Can you say hi To me and I am 12 and I work on a Arkansas farm and my family has done it for 4 generations

Rocket did not look happy today.

wow I know corn adds weight fast on a cow but it is extremely bad for them and us if we eat the meat

get a polaris ranger

When when you feed whole kernel corn to cows they don't get anything out of it

Where's Jamie????

Why Holstein? There mean and Aggresive at times. I run a 20 head angus group with my family. 3rd generation

wow 3 firsts

Why do you own an SUV instead of a pick-up?

should have a longer shoot on your ben,not loose so much grain

what do you guys do for rats

with all that food on the floor dont you get prroblems with rats

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Sorry ,but you are wasting corn on the truck ,on the ground ??

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What do you do to keep rodents out with all the spilled corn or do you not have many problems?

Get Travis some gloves!

Hey Ryan did you my email

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Gee corn and hay don't give everything you need, here's an idea let the cows eat what there supposed to GRASS