No no turn around Boop go
that's good on top
hi I'm Mike good morning and welcome to another day on the ranch hey Bambi
all right it's just past nine o'clock and today we have on our schedule
something that's going to take us all day to do but really should only take
about 15 minutes we are going to take our steers that we have ready to go to
butcher over to Sturgis to our processing facility where they will be
slaughtered and packaged and eventually end up in the farm store in order to do
that we first have to get a brand inspector out here to take a look at
them load them on the trailer drive them to Sturgis
unload them and then come home while we're in Sturgis we're also going to
pick up a new shipment of beef jerky so we got a busy day planned and very
minimal work involved in it the brand inspectors job is to make sure that the
cows or calves that we're selling our ours she makes sure that the brand is
authentic and complete and that's pretty much it oh and she makes sure the state
gets their cut I've had these guys really be in the last week we've sold
out of hamburger and all steaks in the last week so this week Aaron's doing all
like roast sales trying to get rid of some roast and then these guys will be
back in a couple of weeks so that'll be nice get restocked but people are just
buying like crazy these are our steers that are ready to go today we're gonna
go ahead and move them up in the Corral's and get them on the trailer
we've already fed the cows this morning and we've got the trailer hooked up
we're ready to go so let's get to work the steers themselves are just about two
years old we they were born here on the ranch they've never had any antibiotics
they've never had any growth hormones any of that kind of stuff they were fed
grass up until about 90 days ago at that point they still get grass but they also
receive a ration of corn oats and barley and that helps them just put on a little
bit of weight a little bit of fat for marbling check this out I turned on a
stock tank this morning and I forgot about it so it overflowed maybe a big ol
mess something else to clean up one thing that I always like to do is
make sure that I've got all my gates set
before I start moving in any cattle that way you kind of get a less chance of
escapees you walk through it you make sure there's no gates open so we make
sure we have all the gates open we need the gates closed that we don't need and
if you get this all done ahead of time the chances of running into trouble are
a lot less
we got a shape straight shot right into the trailer now all we need are some
stairs come on guys let's go come on not that way that way no that way that
way going the wrong way turn around no no no turn around go come on there you
go look at you guys oh you're so smart
come on let's go so each one of these steers probably weighs close to a
thousand to 1,200 pounds right in there maybe a little bit less but what we're
looking for is a hanging weight of about six to seven hundred pounds of piece and
then that translates into the amount of meat that we're gonna get
there's comfy guys okay
all righty
my tags are expired hey my tags are expired somebody remind me to grab a new
sticker when I get to the house I've got the tags I paid for them
I just haven't put the sticker on so we got to do that I want to get pulled over
on our way to South Dakota and once again for just let's see what two days
ago I think I was there I'm headed off to South Dakota once again heading to
Sturgis South Dakota to drop off these steers it's important that we do this
this time of year and we were actually a little bit worried about it
all of our freezers end up getting a little bit empty and with this
coronavirus stuff they've really really cleaned out here over the last couple of
weeks so we were hoping that they the states wouldn't start shutting down
butcher shops and processing facilities which they have not in South Dakota
other states I've heard they've have but in South Dakota they have not they've
haven't really done a whole lot in South Dakota there isn't even that much
shutting down of businesses and stuff like that yet so luckily the Sturgis
meats is still open they're still processing so we can take these guys
over there hopefully get them done relatively quickly within two weeks
we'll have more beef to bring home and then restock the farm store right now I
know that the farm store is completely out of hamburger steaks I think those
two two things they're out of and then but there's still lots of roasts and
cube steak and that kind of stuff which is not really I don't consider that
steak by the way
crap I need to turn around
thank you
much better okay now we can go
all right so I am here in the Gator and since Mike has gone
taking steers over to Sturgis I am gonna go check the cows before the farm store
open so nobody was doing anything this morning but I'm gonna go give them a
drive-through so let's go do that it's been cloudy all morning and was
foggy but the Sun is trying to shine and it's pretty nice out what's that glowing
surprising me
well I looked so pretty since my harrowed
so I was really an abandoned we would have the first half today
because Micah's God and so I could see a lot of glory that I got to be there for
the first half nobody's really by themselves
I don't think it's going to happen today Oh Jackrabbit all right of you guys
gonna have a baby did you ever baby today for my kids back
please
well no babies today at least not yet it really doesn't look like anybody's doing
anything I'd be surprised if we had one today
but there's always tomorrow itself I don't get to call make and break that
I got to be there for the first cast
hey how's it going you got it come on boys
all right thank you sir thank you Mike yeah when I go I'm gonna go get some
jerky up front so
I'm here to pick up jerky for Galloway Oh
but I've got lots and lots and lots of beef jerky with me this is my favorite
flavor of beef jerky that we sell on the website its teriyaki flavored beef jerky
the teriyaki flavored beef sticks are also really good what I really like the
beef jerky and as long as nobody tells Aaron like it's not snag so make where I
get home
what's up
and we're home everything looks to be where I left it
and I didn't get any crazy phone calls from Aaron wondering where I was or
anything bad happening back here so that's always a good sign no news is
good news but now I'm gonna take the boxes of beef jerky inside we have
inventory we do have to do we have to get stuff posted on the website
for sale and hopefully you guys will order beef jerky we'll find out thanks
for joining me once again and we'll see you next time right here on our thirty
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