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@MichaelMcGill_emtwo8 жыл бұрын
I worked for a neighbor who bottle fed calves; got up every morning at 4:00 am to walk over next door, and mix up their formula, and feed them. Usually no more than 5 at a time, but I really enjoyed that job. Calves at that age were so friendly, knowing that you'd be feeding them soon. Made that part of my youth a pretty special time. Getting ready to retire to Vermont in the next few years, and this video has got me thinking it might be fun to bottle feed a few calves a year...
@CiecieNewson6 жыл бұрын
How sweet! ~Smile!
@vasilemuresan46436 жыл бұрын
Michael McGill zyggf
@KCandFriendsUSA5 жыл бұрын
I’d pour them actual milk
@MrPERPS5 жыл бұрын
asshole
@pyroman60008 жыл бұрын
For those asking, since these lil guys were bought at a public auction, and because calves only a few days old have virtually no immunities built up. Anti-biotics are given because they could have been exposed to who knows what bugs while in the auction barn. And also because they have no access to colostrum to give them. Travis has had issues in the past with bottle calves getting sick and dying shortly after he brought them home. It's likely a one time shot to help them get through until they can build up their own immunity.
@scottviers37948 жыл бұрын
Agree with your first comment, but a buyer has to hope the farmer selling the deacons is a good caretaker and was sure the calf recieved colostrumin his first few hours of life. Thats the only way antibodies are passed from cow to calf. If not your going to have a real project.
@FiddleMaker638 жыл бұрын
+Scott Viers It is called a sale barn for a reason. Seller has no economic interest in making sure the livestock is good for the long hall. It just needs to get through the day of the sale and on the trailer. Buyer needs to take preventative measures to safeguard the investment.
@theycallmedavecowboydave85977 жыл бұрын
Dale Renno yep
@sagarSharma-ov9st6 жыл бұрын
+They call me dave COWBOY DAVE DDD the.
@wilsonblauheuer65446 жыл бұрын
there is a holistic type of antibiotic it's called milk from the mother until the baby is old enough to deal with pathogenic microbes on it's own, you douchebag. Except the greedy piece of shit farmer doesn't even want to spare a couple dozen gallons for the calf even get to it's feet with any strength. People try to romanticize animal farmers, but most of the ones I see are just money grubbing soulless shitstains.
@illdirtfarmer8 жыл бұрын
I love your alternator fan, calf milk blender!... I made one for myself yesterday. The fan, 2 feet of all thread, 2 nuts and washers and a rechargeable drill. Super easy!... I also added a piece of tubing to slip over the all thread, so I can hold it with 2 hands. Thanks for the idea guys!!!!
@TheRestOfTheStory8 жыл бұрын
I kept that fan around for this purpose. Didn't take me long to put it together but had plenty of time to design it in my head before hand.
@iteachvader7 жыл бұрын
7:15 I expected to hear "I'M BAAAAAAAAACK!"
@johnhuitt31356 жыл бұрын
My uncles who were farmers used buckets to feed the calves including the newborns. Fond memories!!!!!
@js9111006 жыл бұрын
Interesting I raise calf’s too I try and get them weaned onto meal asap and get them outside as fast as possible
@bluemtnsman8 жыл бұрын
Quite the enterprise there guys. I helped raise a bakers dozen when I was in high school about 45 years ago,,, it was both tedious and highly rewarding. I do wish you well with this.
@CosmeticsBeautyAndMaturity2nd7 жыл бұрын
please treat these sentient loving beings with respect.
@michelledinovo64466 жыл бұрын
erin mori. If children's natural compassion was nurtured and they were taught to respect all life, especially those weaker than themselves (like animals), they wouldn't grow up to be that way, eren mori. This video is a prime example. Brainwashed, conditioned on what is socially acceptable, without a thought to what is right or to the suffering of others, much less caring that they are the cause of their suffering.
@izzylou16446 жыл бұрын
I asume he does that barn would usually have 100 calfs (if you didint care about the animals) But if you carred it would fit about 20 calves.
@MrPERPS5 жыл бұрын
@MrBrenman21 they don't know just shit like you lol
@hobbyfarm68832 жыл бұрын
this is perfect for calves quit hating on this guy
@fancydarlin17 жыл бұрын
7:15 nice Independence Day quote 😉
@beartechdeck8 жыл бұрын
I love feeding calves. All calves, especially yours, are so cute. Calves like to follow me too. Your lucky, calves don't always drink for me.
@shanemurphy2778 жыл бұрын
just wondering do ye check the calves for signs of scour or pneumonia before ye try to buy calves
@TheRestOfTheStory8 жыл бұрын
They're usally all in a group of 40 or so at the barn and once they're in the ring you have to be quick to bid or not.
@alvinroundy68568 жыл бұрын
that is a ton of work. I have had bottle calves before. i hope you keep us updated on these.
@williambrouwers56648 жыл бұрын
7:21 made my day, thank you!
@ggrr48545 жыл бұрын
Ahh I remember bottle feeding calves, it was one of my favorite things to do. I still live on the farm and still have cows and chickens but we only used to bottle feed if the cows mom died in broth or after. Still was one of my favorite things to do.
@EmiDK8 жыл бұрын
Looking good. Are you gonna let them go free in a pen after wiening them?
@TheRestOfTheStory8 жыл бұрын
That's the plan. Already started weining the early ones out.
@rowdyhunt59387 жыл бұрын
need to get rid of the bottles and bucket train them. then you can save time , its cleaner and you can also keep fresh water in the bucket after they finish the milk. We also put starter grain in front of the calves after a few week of milk, just a small amount at first then build them up after a few months they are off milk and into pens then to the pasture. From your set up I don't think your raising these calves for veal. also just a thought you can put a hog panel loop around the sides a back of the cow stanchions and not need the chains safer and better for the calves. Just a thought.
@tractordawg8 жыл бұрын
our old barn is almost 70 years old and hasnt fallen down sadly but our new feed lot the ground under the floor is almost gone so we have to redo it
@waterskiingfool2 жыл бұрын
Would you do bottle calf's again if the price improved
@macfarms8 жыл бұрын
Nice SOLOSHOT hat, I just started using one of those. Works pretty not too bad.
@diegoa8007 жыл бұрын
i like how u call all of them a name and u make them your friend
@2233golf26 жыл бұрын
Hey man....good decision....I hate nothing more than an empty barn /stable........bottle calfs can be worth it.....way to go.....
@billbaas14025 жыл бұрын
Brilliant way to mix the milk
@philipkolterman60518 жыл бұрын
How many calves did you get
@peggyholliday52216 жыл бұрын
should have cleaned out that trailer and put straw and hay in there to keep them clean, safe and secure
@peggyholliday52216 жыл бұрын
and yeah chaining them up like that is awful.
@lantzsnavely98327 жыл бұрын
where these Holstein calves bought to be fed out for market or for milking? Just wondering I take Holstein's every year to the fair for beef.
@progosale10557 жыл бұрын
What did you gave them to drink exactly ? How much you bought them all of them in total?
@addmysnapchatchuygonzalez59457 жыл бұрын
yo man I just but 6 calfs for $50 each and thought they were expensive but hearing what you paid I feel a lot better
@nuahnuahy71366 жыл бұрын
Chuy Gonzalex do u know online site where and when to go auction,please ?
@garywhelton93048 жыл бұрын
nice looking stock . brings back memories when I was growing up on the farm here in New Brunswick CANADA . Hope they do well for you .
@markgamble83776 жыл бұрын
Brings back memories. Are they bulls or heffers. They all have their personalitys
@jayrominger8 жыл бұрын
Shoot a lot of vids on these calves it's really interesting. Oh, I should say please!!! So.......PLEASE!!!!!
@colecase75373 жыл бұрын
I know I am kinda randomly asking but do anybody know a good place to watch newly released series online?
@bowenrylan58733 жыл бұрын
@Cole Case lately I have been using Flixzone. You can find it on google :)
@chuckallen97786 жыл бұрын
When I was a kid back in the 60s my dad bought day old dairy bull calves. We bottled fed them every morning and evening. We didn't have the antibiotics that are available today and if the calf didn't get milk from it mother they would often get sick and die. I buried many of them, that was my most dreaded chore, if you can imagine a 10 year old kid digging a hole to bury a calf, no fun.
@raybon79397 жыл бұрын
It would take years to know what you guys know.what do these cows do while they are maturing. Providing milk I guess.
@bryang90958 жыл бұрын
57fitter your right about the bottle we do one week on bottle then on to the bucket!!
@ih12068 жыл бұрын
My brother is heading to the sale barn today to try and get us some calves. Prices on them have come down a bunch over the last year or so in my area.
@kladpapier7 жыл бұрын
Not a lot of people at the auction, but hey, that maybe helps keep prices low :)
@merf643 жыл бұрын
Would love to know the economics for calves. When do farmers usually sell them what weight/age? Also what price and roughly how much profit per cow.
@gregorycreech31228 жыл бұрын
makes me miss dairy farming. We also had Holstein.
@shawnquello3568 жыл бұрын
Love watching how good of care you give
@cosmolinefien31998 жыл бұрын
I guess I dont see the point of buying bottle calves. For us they cost more to feed and are time consuming. Can you explain why?
@randywilliams7878 жыл бұрын
Milk replacer is very expensive. Do you think you will make you're money back? I hope with the low grain prices it pushes feeder prices up for you..
@damonembrey99737 жыл бұрын
Whats the nasal spray for scours? Is that antibiotic just a more expensive version of Terramycin? No losses or sick out of 20-some calves? Thats pretty good.
@brendon44818 жыл бұрын
We have a milking barn that is almost the same style and has been standing for nearly 80 years. We milk 200 cows everyday twice a day
@bles8ed7 жыл бұрын
John Deere Man we have a barn with that cement trough thing in the floor. What is that? We don't know what it is. Thank you :)
@rogerwilson93618 жыл бұрын
Travis you and Ryan handle those claves pretty well and I like Fred also good luck with the laves.
@drunkcarwork46007 жыл бұрын
if i wanted a cow so i can suck the milk directly from its utters. would i need a filter for in-between my mouth and the utter
@clintwalton3198 жыл бұрын
Give us a update please
@bigal259384 жыл бұрын
What will you wind up doing with them?
@nikphoenix3 жыл бұрын
Funny watching this video with how Travis talks about never wanting to raise bottle calfs again.
@4pf.racing4pf.racing766 жыл бұрын
Been looking on a good video like this
@justinrobinson34258 жыл бұрын
different to see how we rear calfs in newzealand we just put them in a pen with fresh shavings.so to they get any meal or fresh water.
@JrPlayzZelda5 жыл бұрын
I bought 5 bottle calves 3 weeks ago. The smaller two had died on me but the other three are doing good and i only pay 30 dollars each.
@bigbarry6718 жыл бұрын
Good luck with them!
@cumminsdiesel8406 жыл бұрын
Brave man, I would never hold the bottle that close to the family jewels. Calves love to head butt the bottle.
@Homegaarden8 жыл бұрын
You foam the floor up, search concreat* foam. works great
@dbhomestead53637 жыл бұрын
that red holstein is a beauty
@dankruger28907 жыл бұрын
We don't call it the sales barn we call it the stockyard
@raybon79397 жыл бұрын
I foresee a farm industrial economy. With services falling back. Where city folk like me start farms.
@jamesmorton82247 жыл бұрын
ray bon The only way to feed a family for sure. Farms will become more valuable than gold.
@nicholasries29278 жыл бұрын
if you don't put the the bottles in the milk all the way and just put them in a little way they fill faster
@coolkids32027 жыл бұрын
I love bottle calves!!! not so mush when they grow up... we missed a testicle on the last boy we had....
@limekoolaid50836 жыл бұрын
Mollie Sheppard I'm just going to think about that for a while
@bryang90958 жыл бұрын
Time for the dairy cows!!! Find a mud jacker they should be able to push the floor back up!!
@davidjfiedler8 жыл бұрын
Yup, that's what I was thinking.
@vaishalipatel44507 жыл бұрын
David Fiedler dhwhsdyd Dy
@petercampbell24497 жыл бұрын
Bryan G i
@brendonconner51277 жыл бұрын
Bryan G nx
@Ethan-ck6iz6 жыл бұрын
It's never time for dairy in America
@nickbutton60828 жыл бұрын
Love your videos and that's a sharp setup
@TheMabbasi7 жыл бұрын
Great video and thank you guys for doing a wonderful job and because of people like we have food on the table.
@clairec14186 жыл бұрын
I know
@colerexel30486 жыл бұрын
great lookin calves
@michaellbingham53916 жыл бұрын
I wasa a dairyman for nineteen and I donot believe in chaining calves to stalls they love to be free and be in the sunshine
@firatdvm7 жыл бұрын
What is price of the calfs; 2-3 mounths age. I wonder.
@kellyr957 жыл бұрын
Well these guys were $100 to $175 each.
@joetiller10318 жыл бұрын
I've had to bottle feed a few, I got one now I'm feeding cow would not have it I changed her zip code. The first time for the bottle I put there head between my legs and force the bottle in there mouth after they get a taste no problem.
@kylewil12plays8 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised you guys didn't sell the bolt tank or milk tank witch ever you guys call it down there
@rajagi66646 жыл бұрын
most comments regarding how the animals are treated are lame. Guys did good job and good luck to there project. Cows are domestic animals you can't let them off loose in resting bays. They can wonder around when they are trained.
@jbmbanter8 жыл бұрын
Scours! Learned that term a long time ago. Not being a farm boy my cousin said one of the cows had the scours and I of course didn't know what he meant so he gave it to me in layman's terms. The shits. :)
@iowadairyboys8 жыл бұрын
Great video! I'm surprised I've never ran into you before at Blomington livestock or at Sloane IMP in Blomington before.
@TheRestOfTheStory8 жыл бұрын
How often are you over here? It's a pretty good jump from iowa to bloomington.
@iowadairyboys8 жыл бұрын
Every few weeks in the summertime.
@khychoy87187 жыл бұрын
6:07 did he scold the calf
@sroa3r7 жыл бұрын
Hi, can you please spell out the antibiotic/med you give to the calve, pls thx
@acemavrick36 жыл бұрын
sroa3r draxxin. I prefer nuflor
@acemavrick36 жыл бұрын
sroa3r also you must get it from the veterinarian. It is a by perscription medication
@Lasselele6 жыл бұрын
This form of holding calves ( chained) is not even allowed anymore in Germany, they have to be free and together with others have a minimum of 20cm of Straw under their Feed, endlesss amount of Water, fresh air at a certain temperatur, a ceratin amout of light for 10 houres and much more... Interessting how different America and Europe still are in terms of Milk and Meatproduction. Greets from a German Farmer ( milking 145 cows on 247acres) Keep it Up !
@HowFarmsWork6 жыл бұрын
They're chained up so they can't interact to prevent the spread of disease. After two weeks have passed and their immunities are built up and they got over their shipping fever, they were let out into a 10 acre grass pasture. Europe also banned GMO's yet still imports them.
@Ethan-ck6iz6 жыл бұрын
All those rules seem actually good, because the big nasty corporations would probably be the first ones to break them,
@davidandrews23063 жыл бұрын
THATIS GREAT ARE WE GOING TO SEE HANNAT MOREG
@kcmackie776 жыл бұрын
I Love cows . Thank you, for your awesome videos.
@jozsastienen76896 жыл бұрын
KC Mackie but you love them but you still drink milk and eat beef probably.
@silverseen83006 жыл бұрын
They don’t deserve to be pushed around and thrown into tiny cages with no natural surroundings. This is messed up. They are living creatures with feelings and you do this to them? You don’t deserve the calf’s and the calf’s deserve a big open field.
@travisjohnson82406 жыл бұрын
I can say the same about your dog, city-slicker
@whitneya.69306 жыл бұрын
Newborn calves, like infants, are born without a functioning immune system. Keeping them segregated and sheltered for a short period while their immune systems mature helps keep them from getting sick.
@Cherryfarmboy608 жыл бұрын
So how long do you keep them Ryan or Travis? We've always had cow/calf pairs. I know you said your selling as feeders but what weight are looking to get to?
@bernadettemcdonagh8626 жыл бұрын
why they tied to the fence???
@HowFarmsWork6 жыл бұрын
+Bernadette McDonagh To prevent the spread of disease. In their early days they like to lick each other and are very vulnerable to illness so they stay like that until they’re off milk then they’re out to pasture.
@mikebonge72065 жыл бұрын
What will these calves be used for? Future. Milk cows or veal cows?
@alistairclement42394 жыл бұрын
neither, they'll be beef cows
@jefffraser66662 жыл бұрын
Steaks
@elliesparks89436 жыл бұрын
They were so cute. What was the red marking's I saw?
@Dani-rk3sd6 жыл бұрын
0:13 "Time to go buy some calves, got all the chains hooked up" thats torture if you have to chain up baby cow's or any animals
@HowFarmsWork6 жыл бұрын
They're chained up so they can't interact to prevent the spread of disease. After two weeks have passed and their immunities are built up and they got over their shipping fever, they were let out into a 10 acre grass pasture.
@Larsonfarm18 жыл бұрын
How are the calfs doing?
@zapthycat8 жыл бұрын
How many of those 13 are around today?
@sawyerclerkin79516 жыл бұрын
First time seeing your videos.You farm in Wisconsin?Soon as I saw that sale barn I knew something lol
@lawak_wahaha23586 жыл бұрын
That milk look so good
@richardjimenez73946 жыл бұрын
Awesome thanks
@prestonkerr44218 жыл бұрын
Great job on the video thanks!
@4pf.racing4pf.racing766 жыл бұрын
Good video
@gaming4life8378 жыл бұрын
Where is ur farm based
@christinagalvan4566 жыл бұрын
What is the respiratory medicine called?
@keaganlong41768 жыл бұрын
Where are you getting your milk? Local farmer?
@keaganlong41768 жыл бұрын
Ya, I thought of that about 2 minutes after I commented. Thanks!
@karanadon1378 жыл бұрын
This took me back to the days when we raised veal. Thanks for posting.
@MrPERPS5 жыл бұрын
what a dick head
@claytonroorda65208 жыл бұрын
how many calves did you buy?
@shandahn6 жыл бұрын
It’s so funny but sad when the fall in the gaps why are there gaps?
@kalebowmanable8 жыл бұрын
+How Farms Work if you don't mind me asking but What are bottle calves and what do you do with them when they are grown?
@the_donut_kat13217 жыл бұрын
Kale Bowman munch munch 🍔🍟
@mark39728 жыл бұрын
what do u do with then when they are older???
@mark39728 жыл бұрын
thx 4 the info :)
@NYBwilk8 жыл бұрын
Was cool watching this , I deliver cow bedding to dairy farms where I live, what u guys use for bedding just straw ?
@donald10568 жыл бұрын
Did not want to go in that trailer!!
@jeffery196778 жыл бұрын
Time to fix that barn before it falls in.. It has another 20 years if you take care of it.. I SO miss raising bottle babies.
@SIDEKICKONYOUTUBE6 жыл бұрын
Wow you guys have very large property
@bryang90958 жыл бұрын
My thats the emptiness ive ever seen a sale barn in our area they sell every week day an u cant hardly find a spot to sit!!