Calves are Home: Results are in!

Tastes good Morning folks finally cattle work Weaning we're starting today. Love bringing them calves home getting those cows to stocks dad's on his way here He's got 15 calves in a trailer I just stopped at Storla station and got a couple stress lick tubs threw them in there hooked on to the portable corral We're gonna bring 35 calves home from a pasture just a couple miles east of here So we kind of gotta keep moving when I starts getting around five o'clock and it's almost pitch black out With our old setup it said right on there one man Ten minutes no lifting It was more like two man about ten minutes One of them probably got a hernia with this thing It's more like that one man ten minutes. No lifting. I wouldn't have even attempted it with our old corral, but this healer It's uh, it's a Cadillac. I'd be surprised I wouldn't believe you if you said there's something better than this one had another baby appointment this morning Everything's healthy looking good Doc did say for weight the babies in about the 78th percentile a little bit big but then they got to the head. They said the head It's in the 90 98 or 99th percentile. Meaning his head is bigger than 98 out of 100 babies He's a big boy There's our bigger pasture by home there's 35 pairs out here, it's gonna take two trips, but we're only three miles away from home You're a little sluggish today if you think I'm not myself today guys I Feel like I got a vice grip on my little toe and it also feels like the vice grip is inside my shoe Clamp to my little toe. So I'm a little slow I'm not so jovial and we'll get her done Come on honey, you got to keep going. You've got to go you got to go missy Oh 20 the first load, okay It takes two guys to push them into the trailer And one guy to keep them from coming out of the trailer Pretty tough when you only got two guys We got the first 20 loaded up and a four-wheeler and we'll come back for the next four wheeler in the last 15 calves So once we get these last ones home We're gonna run them through the shoot be giving them a five-way shot as a booster We'll give them some stuff called therapies We did that last year and we'll be weighing the bulls on the new Gallagher scale. We installed this summer Get this connected to the shoot So we'll be giving them a five-way We gave them five way and seven way in September and we're giving them a booster today. We also have Therapies we use this last year. That's supposed to reduce stress. They claim the calves will quit balling earlier Ball for less amount of time They have tons of studies on it when we run bulls through the shoot and if they have a low weight and we don't think We want to sell it as a bull won't make the cut. We're gonna band it with our calicrate bander Now one thing exciting that I want to mention to you right now You know with people asking us what we use so often this summer with the help of some folks my wife We have started a vet store online at sunny farms calm. We of course have Optimizer gel still on there. We shipped to US and Canada with that but new things on there on the website sunny farms calm We do have therapies the the big bottle, which is the one liter and the 300 milliliter We have the calicrate bander, of course and a bunch of other things a lot of things centered around calving So I just ask you to check that out if you're in need of some stuff for weaning or especially calving Go to sunny farms calm and see if it's worth your time I just really appreciate y'all looking, you know watching the videos and maybe checking out our new online vet store We got a heifer 418 Weighing 612 It's a good weight for a heifer a Little backstory here dad's making fun of me because I am bad with numbers and 953 just became 95 93 Caught it before it went away Good boy Excuse me get out of here Oh Hey, come on, come on big fella, he's one of the top guys Yep, hey nice-looking fella So earlier today I was spreading some straw for bedding But the big idea behind that since we've had a half inch of rain in the last about 70 days We're hoping that keeps the dust down, but we got their pen pretty much ready and it looks nice. It's pretty good We also have these windbreak panels set up, you know They're gonna be looking for their mom's pacing a lot. And so we're hoping that they're walking along this fence They run into Windbreak panel the hang a left and then they run into a bale and hopefully they start eating You want them to quit walking around you want them to just eat get a full belly So we've got a couple of things set up like that. We also have a couple stress lick tubs grab those this morning How's they work? That's a good question Look it and it relieves the stress That's what the scientists say And then we have a big water tank up here for them in three or four days. We'll start giving them a liquid sulfa, which is supposed to help against Shipping fever and it's kind of an antibacterial. So we got a whole bunch of things trying to keep them healthy So in the north feedlot we have about 40 ish pairs From the two pastures close by they ran out of feed So we've been feeding them in the bunks for the last few days and that's tomorrow's job We'll get them up split them work the calves and then there's about 20 pairs over at my place the South Farm So we'll split and work 60 calves and then we'll chase uncle Jeff's down the road and probably work his split his I would definitely Appreciate if you checked out sunny farms comm and the new online vet store Of course many of you have purchased the optimizer gel over the last few seasons And so that's still there shipping to US and Canada and then the rest of the vet supplies There's about 15 or so other items that will ship to the contiguous u.s. That's a new exciting frontier for sunny farms Thanks for watching folks. Love to see you next time. Have a good one Look at these guys. They're circumnavigating the windbreak panels. They're just headed straight across they outsmarted me