Coyotes Killed a Calf…

Alright, let's see what was born in the night. Got 2118 at 2 o'clock, 2815, or I mean 2245 at 815. So just two. And one, I'm not sure what the question mark is, but just two, we'll see if I've got any more newbies. 2118, there you are, there's your calf, looks like he's doing good. No more in this pad. 2105 is just starting, so I'm going to turn the rest of these out, put her in the barn. Go. Oh, get up. Yeah, I don't think she's going to get up. So I'm going to just pull him right here. He's a big calf. Looks pretty big. He's still alive. Head is part way out. Who knows how long she's been at it. She could have been at it for hours already. And I know you guys can't see, tell what's going on, but you're just going to have to deal with it. Oh, come on, big boy. Oh, there's the head. Yeah, now she's pushing. I hope he lives. There, now he's coming out. She just couldn't get his big head out. It's a big calf. Oh, there we go. Come on, buddy. This is a long birth. A long birthing process. Yeah, get all that gunk out of your throat. Look at the size of this calf. We'll come back and look at him in the morning, but he was big. It's no wonder she couldn't have him. She's in shock. I'll try and get her up, but if she doesn't get up, I'll come check on her in a couple of hours. There you go. There she's up. Our big guy. He's turning three months old this weekend. It's pretty hard to believe, but he's kind of got a little bug. He's not feeling too great, are you, buddy? But he's got to go finish eating now, and I'll go feed the cows. But I think him and Damaris are going to come help later on today, aren't you? Huh? This calf is the one I pulled early this morning. The heifer's up, doing all right. Looks like she's got some sore hips, which I don't blame her. This calf is probably the biggest calf that we've had yet this year. But it looks like she started licking him off. Hey, buddy. How you doing? But he's a big calf. He hasn't got up and sucked yet, it doesn't look like. But we'll keep an eye on him the rest of the day. I'm sure in an hour or not even, he'll be up sucking. So she seems like she likes him at least. But yeah, he was a big calf. Glad we got him out when we did. While our heifers are coming along real strong, our cows are just starting to trickle in. So we're starting to have one or two calves. Not very many, they're just starting. Probably by this weekend and the beginning of next week, they're going to start popping out like crazy. The cows are a lot less work than the heifers. They've already had a calf before where the heifers, this is their first calf. So cows, they know which calf is theirs. We don't have to sort them off on their own very often. We don't have to pull near as many. So they're going to be coming along real nice. And the workload will cut down a little bit. Not a ton, but a little bit. All right, 16, you want some food? Morning, Dad. Pretty good, how are you? Good. I had one big one this morning. I couldn't even get her up out of the lot. I just pulled it out there. Is it all right? Yeah, it's fine now. Really? Yeah. I think this is probably the biggest one we've got so far. Really? Yeah, he's pretty big. Oh. She was pretty sore, didn't want to get up. Is she now? Yeah. She is? Yeah. Kind of crazy. Okay. So I just gave them two so far, the cows. All right, I'll give them two too. Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty nice. No. They go graze in the afternoon too. Yeah, the big ones? Oh, just those new ones. Okay. Lots. Yeah. Okay, I'll do that after. Feed everything and check the heifers quick. I'm going to go over and grab some cows and take them to the sale. Which cows are you bringing to the sale? Just some more open ones. Oh, okay. Yeah, they're pretty good. I'll just sell them now before I'm so busy I can't take any. The ones we sorted off in November? Yep. Okay. The ones from pre-testing time. Okay. We've been feeding them. Okay. Sounds good. Yep. Then we'll just have another load or two left in there. Okay. Sounds good. Yep. That'll work. Okay. I see that 255 that was back in the ground. Yeah, he is. That calf. Do you want to haul him off to his mom or get his mom in? Okay, she's kind of dumb. I don't know what her deal is. Maybe they need to just stay in. Yeah. Just move in a lot with the rest of the heifers. Okay. I turned her out again yesterday, but he's right back. Yeah. I don't know. She just kind of takes off and doesn't look back. I think I'm just going to stay in there where we can keep an eye on him. Okay. For a few days or so. Yeah. Definitely don't turn one night. Okay. Wait on that. Sounds good. You need to stay in the pen for a little few days. Yep. Okay. All right. Sounds good. You're good. The 2055 calf my dad was talking about, we've kind of been having some problems with him and his mother. He was born probably a week ago, and we kept him in the barn. So we kind of have a system. We keep him in a pen, just the mom and the calf for like a day, and then we turn them mingling group of five or six pairs. And then they can kind of get used to finding their calf with other calves around and other cows around. And then we turn them out to pasture with all the rest of the heifers. So we did that with 2055, did that whole process with him, turned him out. And then the next day he was back down at the barn looking for his mom. So we brought his mom back in, put him in a pen again, did the whole system over again. And I turned them back out yesterday. But when I came to check the calves this morning or the heifers this morning, he was back in right by the barn looking for his mom. So I don't know, his mom, she seems a little dumb and he might be a little dumb himself. So we'll have to do that again, bring them in. And like he, my dad was saying, we'll just leave them in a pen for a little while so they can really know that they're a pair, that they need to, that his mom needs to take care of him and this is her calf. And maybe her motherly instincts will kick in. These calves from the neighbor's bull, they're looking pretty good. Pretty big and fleshy. This is all we have left for heifers left to calve. We're calving about 160 heifers. 130 of those are AI bred. So we've had about 110 already, so there's only about 50 left. And 20 of those are still AI bred ones that we're going to have here real soon. And then there might be a little break, then we'll start having our bull bred ones. So those AI bred ones are ones that got bred on their first cycle. And then the bull bred ones got bred the second cycle. They didn't get bred AI, they got bred the second cycle with the bull. There's not a lot left. It's gone really quickly, a lot faster than it has in previous years. You stay here, pup. See how mama likes you. Want everything? Sure. What a nice mama. 211 green. Came out here back behind the house to take some of these calves that we've just started having in the last couple days. And there was one that was down here. But I came down here and all I found was a calf's head and just some chumps. So I don't know if I'll show the head. Or maybe I'll show it, but if you don't want to see it, skip over it. I won't show it right now. So I think the coyotes got it and killed it. We did have a guy come out to hunt this week, and he killed one really big male. Coyote got rid of it, but he said there were still a few more around. He was going to keep coming back every morning to try and get them all. So we're trying to get on top of them. And, you know, me and some friends shot a couple about a month ago. So it's kind of a bummer to lose them like this. It sucks. But we've got to get these coyotes under control. So I'm going to show a picture of the calf's head if you want to see that. If you don't, just skip ahead 15 seconds or something. So here's our calf head. Again, if you don't want to see it, you should have skipped ahead. Okay, that one's good. But we usually don't lose many calves to coyotes unless they get them right away. Dad said he's going to call the state trapper. Wait, who is that? I don't know. Must be its mom, maybe. Dang, that kind of sucks. They said there was one abortion up here, but he's got good-sized teeth. Aborted. Let's go see what her number is. Well, we tried to bring those abortions in and get them out of here right away, too. There's only been one or two, which does happen. But abortions are, what, like almost 1% of cows are going to abort anyway? Like 3 quarters of a percent, is that right? I'm not sure. I think it's not even 1%. But the one abortion we had, so we should see her number. Yeah. Buddy, you've got to chase these coyotes away. I know a lot of people don't think coyotes can kill calves. Well, it's probably true. They can't kill a nice, big, healthy calf that's got a day on it or two days on it. But, you know, we've seen it happen lots of times where for cows having a calf out there, they'll sneak up. If she's laying down, they'll sneak up behind her, start killing the calf and eating it while she's giving birth, before it even gets out. And what, a few years ago, we had the hired guy that was working for us then, he was in here, like this morning, doing what I'm doing, cleaning cow pies, whatever. And he heard some ruckus in the barn and ran in there, and there was a coyote that snuck in in the barn looking for a calf, so he grabbed a metal pipe and he ended up killing it with his hands. But that one was kind of diseased and a little weird. They'll kill them, 100%, and we've got some pretty big, nasty coyotes around here. So hopefully the state trapper can come out, get a bunch of them, and that guy who's been coming out hunting, maybe he'll be able to get some more too. They're really smart. Come on, little guys. Out to pasture, let's go. Come on. You'll like it out there. This 2055 calf and cow we were talking about earlier, I'm turning all these little calves out that we let mingle over the night. In 2055, the cow, she was here waiting, and you know, her calf ran back into the barn tonight, so getting her back in was real easy. So maybe she cares about her calf more than I thought. She might be all right. Which one? Got my vet with me doing my work. So yeah, put the diluent in the syringe and then put it into the modified lye. And then you can put it in. Do you usually put air in there? Whatever. You're the master. You're the nerd. I usually put air in there. It helps. That's a little trick? Yeah, that was pretty easy. Yeah, there's some in there. All right, a tag. 22 white. Hey, little buddy. Got our baby bull calf tagging baby bull calves. Here you go, hun. I'm going to go grab him. Put the vitamins. What do you mean? That other syringe. Right there. Oh. He's got a poopy butt. He's healthy. Oh, bubbers. Bring him back here. He's snorting. It's okay. Yeah. He's just trying to intimidate. Hey. Just have the side by side to your back. What's that? You're fine. It's fun. What would she do to you? Huh? What would she do to you? She could chase you. Attack you. But most of them are all talk. I don't think she actually would. But there's a couple of them. All right. You like that, baby? You like that? You like that, buddy? This could be you in a couple years. Well, more than a couple. We got 2055 in here. Her and her calf seem to kind of like each other. They're not really certain what they think, but we'll keep them in here for a few days. Make sure they really, really like each other before we turn them out. It was a pretty slow day calving heifers. I think we only had one or two. But that's okay. It kind of feels good to catch our breath. Get our feet under us again. The cows are going to be coming really hard and heavy next week. So that'll be a lot of fun. Busy again, but it'll be good. So things are going good. I hope everything's going good with you guys. I apologize that the hoodie link wasn't working. We got that all fixed. So if you're interested in a hoodie, check that out. Check out the link. It's in the description of the video. But thank you guys for coming along. Really do appreciate it. Hope you're doing well. We'll see you in the next one.