My brother rang me to let me know how amused he was as well James 😄

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That’s why I prefer to have a decent gate, and the gate post, between me and mum when I am doing this job. There will only be one winner if she decides to give me a hiding, and it won’t be me.

When I first saw this, when he was ear-tagging the calf, the Mama Cow scared the shite outta me!!!

I had to use a little cunning Wendy, including grabbing one by his feet and pulling him under the gate this year. It’s a case of understanding the beast and out witting it. 🙂

They would be a bit chewy, some of them ere 20 plus years old. 😄

@@FarmerP and they still can't find out how to go under the gate. well the saying stupid as a goose are true loool

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True. It would have been more than a bum squeak then John. 😄

@@FarmerP could have filled the turdenator up in one go 👍👍

I can do that with the male punch tag, but not so easy with the female one Neville. 🙂👍

@@FarmerP okay I used to but maybe mine was a different tagger. Opps I might have been doing it wrong 🤣🤣🤣

@@nevillegill2879 There are many different tagging pliers out there 🙂👍

She is normally quite placid, but while she has a new calf...... Different story. 🙂

Like a I said, the bellow rattled the camera Paul, my ear was a lot closer. 😄

@@FarmerP hahaha yep at least you have safety all i had a qaudy to jump on lol

Could have been explosive.. 😬

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That would work... 😄

If you look again you will see I tag the calf behind the steel gate post, the strongest part of the race, she would struggle to get over there, but if she tried I did have an escape route out of there as a back up 🙂👍

Always good to have an escape route as a backup plan 👍stay safe

Cattle are a lot bigger than us and can show awesome spurts of power if you push the wrong buttons. Working with these animals is risky so you can never be on your B game, one wrong decision can put you in hospital, or a wooden box, particularly when there are young calves involved. Walt Disney, and a few others have given too many folks the idea that these animals can think and reason, sing and dance, be more human.... but at the end of the day they live on instinct, rank and habit, they are controlled by hormones and basic requirements. Big animals must be respected, and treated with care and caution... This is the lesson.

If she could have got to me I would be in hospital now Fearghal, or the morgue. That’s why I get behind the gate post, it’s the strongest point on the race. 🙂👍

@@FarmerP better to be safe than sorry. That's why I will never work on a farm I am happier as a bus driver

I can’t see a decent alternative any time soon, this is a simple low tech, high user friendly, difficult to forge identification.

@@FarmerP RFID chip maybe helpful, my old horses had ID chips.

@@cheechU38K We don’t get much choice on the tags, passport applications are tied to them, if you don’t use approved tags you won’t get a passport.

@@FarmerP so sad for that 🥺

The eight we have had were the ones I knew about Sandy, but a couple more would be a bonus after loosing so many last year.

@@FarmerP I hope you get some more before the end of the year thanks 🙏 for the video over the year keep them coming

I will let all our members know vie the Community hub Angela. 🙂👍

Thats way we dont pot the tags in in till we ween the beef cavs but thay ar rejust at birth

@@andrewjardine7226 The calves are a lot stronger then though, and the chance of them causing an injury is far greater. I prefer to tag as soon as I can after they are dry and had a belly full of colostrum, get them registered and job done. 👍😄

Ouch I can imagine that. Terrifying, but a good example of why you never do it alone if you can’t safely separate calf from mum. Not all farm memories are good ones.

@@FarmerP hi, very true. When she first calved you needed to go round checking thr cattle in a vheacle. She produced the best calfs but she became to much of a liability so she had to go for chop. The joys of farming!

I could have kept the other two in, but then it would be three unhappy cows instead of one.. 😄

I take it from all of them Craig, leaving any cleansing in the barn is asking for infection,

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Unfortunately it’s a legal requirement, we have to tag and register within 27 days of birth, calves can get much bigger and stronger in that time so the sooner the better, it’s safer for the calf and me, provided I can keep mum away.

@@FarmerP So to mama cow, oh well. But she probably still doesn't want any tattoos until the calf is grown and can pay for them itself. 😜😜😂😂😂

@@MrRoadie6 chuckle.. 😄

Brave? Not really, it’s a job I am legally obliged to do David, but I thought I would share the experience to highlight some of the risks farmers must mitigate to put food on folks tables. 🙂👍

It was worse from 500 mm Brendan. 😄

No they are Dexter cows.

Our Dexters rarely exceed 400 kg… 800lb. But that’s still more than 4x me.

I just noticed my math errorl! Duh!! A Ton is 2000 pounds.. Not 1000! Good lord!!

He is still a little shorty, but happy enough out with the ewes. 👍🙂

No, not this time..... Just a little trouser squeak. 😄😄👍

It’s not usually as bad as this Tim. This has been an exceptional year for it.

She meant it too....😬

Eh? .... 😄👍

It’s her calf Jim.

@@FarmerP I didn't realise that the colour could be so different. Thanks.

@@JimWhitaker Dexters have three colours Jim... Black, Red and Dunn (brown) Black the most common, and Dunn the least. Any colour cow could have any colour calf. The red heifer in this video has a black mum. 🙂👍

Just a bit 😄

Have you heard them on weaning day?

Oh I don’t know about that, they are quite capable of creating a right royal racket too Whanker..

yep and been with cows on weening day

@@whankerakerill6293 They all make a racket... 😄😄👍

Bloody sheep. I have been flattened once or twice by those woolly buggers too in my time. 😄

@@FarmerP 🤣 you need to stick some concrete in your boots lad!!

@@casto- 😄👍

I saw a good one a year or two ago, farmer in the States I think had a big bale ring strapped to his loader with some mesh zip tied to the bars to stop the calf escaping , he would drive out, drop the ring over the calf then tag the calf inside the ring. Another guy had a Mule or similar with a 6’ square cage bolted to the side and an automatic gate on the front, w He could catch a running calf, shut the gate, stop, jump out and tag the calf in the cage, jump back in, release the calf and on to the next one..... The things we do eh. 😄👍

@@FarmerP yeah I had seen the one with the cage before... we didn't have a side by side at the time and our pasture is way to rugged and complex to drive fast in. steep slopes and such

Never had a cow go for me but had a freesian bull charge at me once. Luckily I was always quite wary of him so as soon as I saw the movement i vaulted the gate. The bull couldn't quite stop in time and charged into the heavy yard gate actually denting it slightly.

Our Dexters may be small in comparison to the big continentals or dairy breeds, but still worthy of a healthy respect. Most of our population see the peaceful cows grazing the green pastures, with little idea of the risks a minority take to produce their food, dairy cattle (not young heifers) are used to more human contact so are usually a bit easier to handle, where the beef farmers may only touch their animals a few times each year... At the end of the day, they all have the ability to do you a serious mischief if you are not on the ball 100% all the time.

No comment... 😇😄

Yes its movie maker... I went fishing and found it. Movie maker has no bells and whistles, but its dead simple and does everything I ask of it. I keep a copy on a memory stick.... Just in case 🙂👍

While you are quite entitled to your beliefs and ideals, whether I agree with you or not, how you choose to live your life is none of my business. Human kind has spent the last 200'000 years developing and advancing to where we are today, and it was all made possible by a protein rich diet that we exploited from animals, Rather than sit in the jungle eating vegetation all day creating cabbage farts, our enriched diet gave us time to explore and learn, evolution has followed us and with the help of our diet created the modern human. It would be very difficult, and very time consuming to go backwards without the help of world wide vegetation growers and profit greedy processors taking full advantage of your religion. Your ideals although understandable, are also unsustainable, your love of animals is believe it or not shared by meat eaters as well, in many ways we appreciate them even more than the vegan fraternity, many would simply not exist at all if it wasn't for their protein values. Perhaps you should take a little time to work out how and where your vegetable diet comes from, and the processes required to put it on your plate, including the rather large numbers of wild creatures that have to die for it. Unless you grow all your own, with no chemicals and no pest control.... I will count you as one of the hypocrite numpties who prefer to see their world wearing blinkers, or eyes completely shut to the realities that surround them. Animal proteins are safe, natural, sustainable, healthy and with modern despatch and processing morally justifiable. As for ear tagging by the way, its a legal requirement to allow traceability... How many piercings did you choose to have?

They can inflict serious life changing injuries, we should never forget that, or do so at our peril.

The bull would be less interested, he only want to find the next lady bulling, it’s the cows that you need to watch.

I did warn you... 😄👍

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We have 27 days to register them David, they are a lot harder to handle every day they get older and stronger, it’s less stress on the calf and me to do them at a couple of days old. You can’t register calves over 27 days old. No registration = No passport. No passport= The ministry gets upset if they find out and You can’t do anything with the animal.

Thank you very interesting

For a continental breed yes, for a pure Dexter, that would be quite a leap, if you notice, I do the deed behind the gate post too... The strongest point.🙂👍

@@FarmerP we have suffolk red poll not the biggest bit can still clear a gate if they want to. Good idea being behind the post.

They are big animals, and deserving of much respect Kraig, complacency with cattle will put you in harms way double quick. 🙂👍