hi everyone it's Jack at Mainsgill so thanks for tuning in again thanks for watching the
youtube so what we are doing today is we got me ian and rob here and what we are doing is we're
turning out the first cattle of the year so what we've got here is a load of the cows and calves
we've just sent them out the building so we just run them all out the building into this yard quickly
and what we're gonna do now is we're gonna run them down down the track
into the field and hopefully they'll go mad we'll see what they do normally they
go daft when they go turned out so we'll see what happens here we go good girl
so that's it i've had the drone up i've shown you them coming down so we've ran them from the
yard you'll see on the drone we went through a field next to the yard down this long track
which comes down the side of the fields that's the silage field over there there's 40 acre field
for silaging and then we run down here through the parkland so the sheep have been on this one
but then we're going down to the next one which is where there's been no sheep
for a while so there's a bit of grass now and it'll make them happy
so we're going to move them down get them onto that next field and they should be happy
looks like they've got some neighbours as well as you'll see that the belted galloways from
next door have been turned out so they've got some neighbors so i'm sure they'll be going to
talk to them in a minute but we're going to get them turned down there now and then looking good
so we're happy with all the calves are turning out so far this year they seem to be doing well
there's uh quite a lot of them now they're taking shape the calves so they're fairly shaping up
we mix our own calf creep so we just get a little bit of concentrate and then we mix it with our own
barley and our own beans and uh we do that to feed to them so we put a bit molasses in it so i might
show you mixing them up one day but we haven't put any out yet but we're just going to start
putting a bit of that out now because they've still got plenty of milk off the mums but the
creep just gives them a bit of summit to nibble at to get them onto the solid food just like a
baby just a bit summer to nibble at and um yeah so we'll get them on that and that should fairly make
them grow as well but we'll keep walking them down now big angus cow here with a blue calf so she's
all looking all well she's got plenty of milk that's why we quite like them angus cows them
dairy anguses or the angus because they just have a lot of milk underneath them same with the blues
so we'll keep them going we'll get them down there
again all the angus is at the back so an angus with a limi calf angus with a blue calf
and an angus with a charolais calf so they're all here the angus seemed to be staying at the back
and the limis took off there at the front but we'll get to them we'll show you them
there is some smart calves down here somewhere come on girls
yeah so as you can see lots of different coloured calves that one's quite a bonny coloured one
markings
come on you see some are bigger like this one some are a lot smaller like that blue
behave yourselves that's a nice calf that one
so yeah so these are just the first ones we're turning out these there's
46 calves down there 46 cows 47 calves and a set of twins down here
out of one of these angus's i think she's further up she's got twins
so yeah as you can see that field there's got more grass on it so i'm flicking them into there
move them up here come on lady move them up here
in the corner they'll run through and then they'll be happy plenty of grass to go at
go on go on go on
so i'm just walking up behind the calves now pushing them through
so we have the Charolais calves the limi calves the blue calves obviously when the
bull and you get the heifers and the steers so heifers and bulls what we do is we rubber ring
them so we don't have any problems we can just we know they're all fine then we rubber ring
them and what that does is that makes that's a way of castrating them that's what that is
and it just makes them drop off and then they can't cause any problems
then what we do is we fatten the steers sell the steers through auction and the heifers we use
them all through the shop so we'd rather use the heifer meat in the shop so that's why we use them
so that's it they're all in the field now they're all disappearing behind it's quite a big field
so they've got plenty of room to go it's 46 down here did we say 46 cows so plenty of room for them
spreading out as you can see they've got the reds down best thing for cows is grass they love grass
so they're moving about now they're disappearing and uh yeah so that's good thanks for watching
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