Hey everybody its Ryan welcome back to how farms work
So today we are going to be loading the calves out of the pole shed as well as the steer lot
So last night I went through and steers were up in the barnyard
we left the gate open for a few days to let them get used to coming up in here and just kind of relaxed so
it's one of their new favorite spots to hang out and
Last night I went through and closed the gate on them. So they're locked up in here
So the steers are rather excitable because they don't really get handled much even though calves in the pole shed
We don't get in there very often with them
But there are a couple that come up to us and lick us when we're feeding in the box. So
few days ago we went through and we cleaned out the barn hand the pole shed to try to clean it up and
just get some that men who were out there because you really don't want to haul manure or
Haul calves when the manure is like six inches deep because the calves get excited. They start running they could fall and hurt themselves
They could slip and sling a bunch of manure into your face or you could slip and fall and get hurt
If a calf comes charging at you you want to be able to move relatively quick and not slip
So we went through and cleaned everything out. But unfortunately yesterday it came through and rained on
Everything so it is rather wet
Even though there's just a thin layer of manure on the pole shed out where we're gonna be sorting calves because they like to hang
out down in the corner and
where the gate is but
hopefully it shouldn't be too bad sorting them off Travis and dad are bringing the
Truck and the trailer over right now. So we're waiting for them to show up
If I have to recommend one thing for you guys get one of these if you handle cattle at all
we never really thought they'd have much use but we got them from us whip just as gifts and
This thing has been one of the most useful things that we've had to sort cattle with we used to have just regular whips
You don't really want to hurt the cattle at all. Even with the whip
It's just to tap on their butts to let them know that you're there and try to push them because they are
Prey animals. So the benefits of this thing, is that when you shake it
Makes a rattling noise
Which does tend to scare them a little bit and it gets them up and moving and it's definitely a useful thing to have
So if you're looking for one of these, I'm sure us. Whip has them on their website go check them out
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Everything's going
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Get it there
They just blew the tread off one of the trailer tires
So thankfully we have a spare from the flatbed sitting in the main farm
They're gonna swap it out and we're gonna get back to loading steers up
Once they come back we're gonna start loading up the steers that we're out on pasture this summer
someone asked me, you know, we're selling cattle to today or tomorrow and
Why did I purchase cattle the spring the cattle a purchase is a spring where bred heifers so I'm gonna keep those
I'm gonna leave them out on pasture. I'm gonna breed them
They'll have calves every spring and then I'll keep the calves for about a year or so
until they're roughly 500 to 750 pounds and then
Sell them off and that's a one way to make money off cattle. So these guys are going up for auction
They're not for sure going to the slaughterhouse. I really doubt that
They are they're probably gonna be going to someone else's farm
We finished out which is about 1,200 pounds. And these guys aren't the most part anywhere over a thousand. I don't think
Oh
We're gonna sort out the steers and my heifers, so we're gonna do this up in the full set. I just kind of quick clean
Out the lot took the bumps out. So those obstacles are gone
that way we can have them annotator confined space because when they're out on
pasture or on the steer lot for as long as they've been
Usually they don't want anything to do with us so they get pretty wild so we just want everybody to be nice and calm and
By having a nice wooden fence just in case things go south and they always go south. It's really nice to have
That's your bed
Good
We got all the steers sold and everything went off without a hitch I sold for cattle total
3 steers in one heifer and
Surprisingly enough the heifer went for about a dollar 12 per pound
Which was significantly lower than the other ones now
I like to sell in pairs because what will typically happen if you sell just one heifer they'll run her through by yourself and
I don't know if anything happened, like maybe she went crazy in the ring or something like that
But typically they'll go for a lower price though, then they will sell in pairs. So I like to sell them in pairs
but we only had sent one heifer and
Her weight was 675 at 112 a pound
for a total of 750 six dollars
I sold
three steers
One was a larger one. His weight was 740 and he sold for a dollar 25 a pound for nine hundred twenty-five dollars and
the other two steers average 675 and
their
Total price was 141 for total of 1903, which I think is pretty good
So that's everything from my sales ticket total. I made about 3,400 bucks. I'm looking at going out and purchasing or renting a bull here
because I need to get my cattle bred again for next year and
I'm not totally sure what that's gonna cost. I mean buying one can run me anywhere between like two thousand to three thousand dollars
Depending on how high our genetics how good of genetics you want to go for
Otherwise I probably would have kept
One of my bowls if I could because I didn't have any Bulls this year. I had castrated them all and
I would have kept one back and then just sold the mother called her out
But everything went pretty good here the Holsteins unfortunately again sell quite as well, but that's expected with Holsteins
Dad's, I know sold for anywhere between like 120 and 140 a pound
whereas the Holsteins that he sold were anywhere between sixty and eighty cents a pound so I like
to me anything over a dollar is good and
Holsteins just don't sell as well and
We would have liked to race them up a little bit bigger, but unfortunately our corn situation. We just kind of wanted to sell everything
clear house
And then that way we can start getting work on cleaning out the corn silo because like I mentioned in a previous video
We got to clean the corn out that's in it
So every now and then I'm gonna start doing something
where I'm gonna share one of your guys's videos at the end of my videos and
I found a video on Twitter by someone by the name of Lance. Weis is from Australia and
He's using something called weed seeker by Trimble, which is essentially a smart
spraying system that identifies weeds as you drive over them and it applies the
Spray directly on the weed now. That should save you on spray
I've heard several
Reviews on the weed seeker and people have had mixed results on it, but it's not exactly a new new technology
essentially what it does is it uses cameras to identify weeds that are out in the field and it
applies a precise amount of spray on those weeds now some of the downsides
With that is that you can't use it in season?
so everything has to be not yet grown up and
As you're going over the field, you're not going to have any residual
So if you were hoping to put something down that would keep the weeds from coming up
what this would do is basically just
Apply it be applied on anything that has grown up. So that's a video by Lance Weis. Go check it out on Twitter
We also have it on Facebook. If you're interested in following us on there. I shared it on snapchat and Instagram as well
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