Hauling Calves

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  • čas přidán 18. 12. 2021
  • We haul the calves and wean them off the mothers!
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Komentáře • 87

  • @michaelowen1750
    @michaelowen1750 Před 2 lety +4

    something we found out with a wooden floor trailer-- when we added the cheap horse stall mats and screwed them down with big wahsers, the cows and calves actually didn't slip anymore.. we figured we saved a couple broken legs with it..

  • @randycharest4507
    @randycharest4507 Před 2 lety +14

    Ryan wishing you and all of your family a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

  • @allhailthewatcher7310
    @allhailthewatcher7310 Před 2 lety +1

    Some barn grip on the trailer flooor would reduce slipping

  • @reggiefaggart196
    @reggiefaggart196 Před 2 lety +1

    Merry Christmas to everyone. Be safe.

  • @petruzzovichi
    @petruzzovichi Před 2 lety +1

    Excellent report especially the ending where you speak directly to the viewers. Well done Ryan.

  • @tbix1963
    @tbix1963 Před 2 lety

    Thanks for sharing your thoughts and videos. Nice to see Travis and Hanna. Wishing you and your family the best and a Merry Christmas. 🎄

  • @davdhynes3518
    @davdhynes3518 Před 2 lety +1

    A lot of nice looking angus

  • @zanderollis2078
    @zanderollis2078 Před 2 lety +3

    Put some bull wire on the bottom of that trailer to prevent them calves from slipping so much

  • @SimonKL11
    @SimonKL11 Před 2 lety +6

    Working with cows can be very dangerous, but great to see that everything worked out well😉👍
    Nice video again👍👍

  • @farming4g
    @farming4g Před 2 lety +1

    Now that you mention it there isn't anywhere on the trailer to tether something... could weld some hooks on there to be able to chain panels to it, and repaint it good to prevent rust.
    Merry Christmas!

  • @patkelly7999
    @patkelly7999 Před 2 lety +2

    Good job Hannah, Ryan and Travis:):)

  • @farmshoffman8475
    @farmshoffman8475 Před 2 lety +2

    Great awesome video Ryan. Merry Christmas to your family from mine to yours from Ontario Canada

  • @busterbailey370
    @busterbailey370 Před 2 lety +1

    Glad to see ur videos I miss them

  • @agger838
    @agger838 Před 2 lety

    Ryan for hooking up goose neck put your phone in the back window on top of the seat with the camera on pointed at the ball. Works great

  • @zilla2006able
    @zilla2006able Před 2 lety +2

    I hope you have a nice christmas and a happy new year👍

  • @meisenhower2254
    @meisenhower2254 Před 2 lety +3

    Hope you, Hannah, Travis and family have a very Merry Christmas. Jesus is the reason for the season.

  • @brittblanton8342
    @brittblanton8342 Před 2 lety +1

    Thanks for the update Ryan, working with livestock can be dangerous. Take care and have a great week 👍

  • @gearoidkelly533
    @gearoidkelly533 Před 2 lety

    Happy Christmas

  • @jeffreyhouston2043
    @jeffreyhouston2043 Před 2 lety

    Watching you guys work cows is always so entertaining, lol.

  • @clinthochrein888
    @clinthochrein888 Před 2 lety

    Kinda look like me whenI step out the cattle trailer stumbling 😄 Merry Christmas!

  • @jeffkoch9634
    @jeffkoch9634 Před 2 lety +1

    Ryan Merry Christmas to you and your family also

  • @jordanschneider6505
    @jordanschneider6505 Před 2 lety

    New video in time for Christmas

  • @timothyschulte4831
    @timothyschulte4831 Před 2 lety +2

    You need some screening, small stone, on the trailer floor.

  • @bigguydiy2184
    @bigguydiy2184 Před 2 lety

    Times have changed, the farmer I worked for as a kid in the 70's did not use a stick to get the cows move but a 2x4 or a 1x2, which every board was closest to his hand. I remember the sound the 2x4 made when it struck the cow. Those cows move for him LOL that's for sure.

  • @davedunn2124
    @davedunn2124 Před 2 lety +1

    I dont normally offer advice but you guys had better get something in the floor of that trailer before a cow breaks a hip. Rubber mats, conveyor belting, steel cattle panel stapled down, cleats, lots of options. We like mats made from conveyor belting because we drag em out a couple times of year with the 4 wheeler and wash good

  • @genechronister7085
    @genechronister7085 Před 2 lety

    Nice vid! Have fun

  • @marckimbrell4645
    @marckimbrell4645 Před 2 lety +1

    The trailer floor needs something put down so it is not so slick and the animals can get traction.

  • @streetrodder2846
    @streetrodder2846 Před 2 lety +1

    Yeah Ryan, get those 'honey do's done during the off season. (:-D -- Hi Hannah👋😄

  • @ninjabugy
    @ninjabugy Před 2 lety

    6:58 cows said hey

  • @nealhadley1482
    @nealhadley1482 Před 2 lety

    Wishing you ALL a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. I have been slacking in my video watching, but it seems like a new cattle trailer and truck????

  • @tomhill4765
    @tomhill4765 Před 2 lety +1

    You need some "Slappies" to help drive those cows. Sonne Farms uses them. CZcamsrs also.

  • @josephcummins7785
    @josephcummins7785 Před 2 lety +4

    Love the vids, I always look forward to them👍

  • @RetnuhWehttam9753
    @RetnuhWehttam9753 Před 2 lety +4

    I would like to wish you and all your family Ryan a very merry Christmas and a happy new year…….congratulations on all the content throughout the year . Looking forward to the new content throughout 2022……thank you Ryan.

  • @coreyriskowski2520
    @coreyriskowski2520 Před 2 lety +1

    We want more videos with your boss in them. Lol

  • @benpen1605
    @benpen1605 Před 2 lety +1

    Seems like a GM family, good choice

  • @Blackwellll3066
    @Blackwellll3066 Před 2 lety

    Cool video to see

  • @charleslynch7274
    @charleslynch7274 Před 2 lety

    Definitely looks like a stressful job for u guys and the cows glad no one got hurt

  • @ronniewalker2881
    @ronniewalker2881 Před 2 lety

    good job boys good video

  • @johnbrown9623
    @johnbrown9623 Před 2 lety +3

    Great Channel folks. Merry Christmas to you and all you're loved ones.

  • @carsonrhodes7969
    @carsonrhodes7969 Před 2 lety

    It’s always interesting seeing how people in other parts of the country work cows. Down here in texas, when we work the cows at the ranch I work at, we always have at least 1 person horse back. It tremendously helps when sorting calves off, and just moving the cows around in general. And where y’all were using those sticks tappin the cows, we’d be using hotshots on them or stick whips

    • @agger838
      @agger838 Před 2 lety +1

      I seen some guy using a helicopter down there to herd them lol

    • @carsonrhodes7969
      @carsonrhodes7969 Před 2 lety

      @@agger838 yea, that’s more out towards west texas where they got all the open plains. It’d be real hard to use a helicopter where I am, too many trees

  • @chesterraybon3442
    @chesterraybon3442 Před 2 lety +1

    I'm sure y'all can relate to being stepped on by a 800 lb. cow. Ouch!!.
    Great video.
    Merry Christmas to you all and your families.

  • @jasondeters62
    @jasondeters62 Před 2 lety

    Need to make a panel out of rebar to on that floor to have better traction for the livestock

  • @robiscrupe7694
    @robiscrupe7694 Před 2 lety

    exactly how much work on the house are you doing full redo or partly redo and we like you to do a walk through when you are done with it my family farmhouse was built in 1840 and the living room is all original log part left we added the kitchen dining room and 3 bedrooms and bath upstairs in 1955 and i was born in 78 and loved the house as i saw it do you have that same vision for yours and i like your house as well reminds me of the old family homestead have a great holiday and see you next year

  • @richardmiller3919
    @richardmiller3919 Před 2 lety

    Nice Pontiac Booneville? I had one SSEi before.

  • @coletaylor6078
    @coletaylor6078 Před 2 lety +1

    Can u make a video on how to drive the 7600 and the 4020 and the 4640

  • @jeffreyhall5679
    @jeffreyhall5679 Před 2 lety

    Are you planning to put rubber mats in the new trailer at sometime

  • @brentkreinop489
    @brentkreinop489 Před 2 lety

    I doubt it works for cows, but the way my brother would lead the older sows back and forth between the farrowing crate barn and their normal pen was to pinch them in the nose and walk toward the place he wanted them to go. They'd chase him wherever he wanted them to go. This worked for the sows, but not for the old boar when we had to sell him. For that one, they'd pushed, poked and prodded this boar for half an hour but he wouldn't climb the short ramp to the back of the pickup. His "equipment" was rather large and Dad had a mini sledge hammer he'd been driving temporary posts with. My brother says Dad, once he'd been fed up with this boar's recalcitrance, picked up that hammer, looked at the smooth face, shook his head, and flipped it around to the waffle headed face, nodded once, and slammed that boar in the "equipment". The boar jumped from the ground, didn't touch the ramp, and hit the head board of the stock racks on the truck. If they'd used the first stock racks Dad had previously used that didn't have a front rail, the boar would have gone through the back glass :) I don't think we ever had more than six or eight cows at one time, mostly we bought the excess calves from the relatively small dairy next door, raised them up to a month or so passed where they were eating only grain and hay, then sold them on. Dad mostly enjoyed the bottle feeding time period for raising calves, and didn't care to keep them much longer than that unless the freezer was getting empty :) Dad's been gone now fourteen years and I am about to close on buying a house with sufficient property to have a couple steers and maybe a couple of feeder pigs myself, mostly to fill a freezer or three :)

  • @jaypoindexter2502
    @jaypoindexter2502 Před 2 lety

    Stick some old carpet in the bottom of that trailer and they don’t slip and slide. Makes easier clean out also.

  • @fazerainbow5674
    @fazerainbow5674 Před 2 lety

    awsome video ryan defially need to make time for your self aswell so you can ger your owe chores done lol nothing wrong with that thumbs up and shared

  • @stephengaldo2690
    @stephengaldo2690 Před 7 měsíci

    Really appreciate these videos. I notice you use 3500 HD SWD not Dually. Any reason on the preference? I know in my area in southern tier of NY it’s too hilly and I have to go off road a lot so I prefer SWD too. Let me know your thoughts! Thanks and God Bless!

  • @alanmcgregor4909
    @alanmcgregor4909 Před 2 lety

    Oreo cows , are they Belted Galloway?

  • @plowboy6636
    @plowboy6636 Před 2 lety

    Are you satisfied with the trucks (duramax) hauling , maintenance any issues etc. i am looking at a used one (2017) and was looking for any insight. Thank you

  • @lucasgore9763
    @lucasgore9763 Před 2 lety

    If you put cattle panel on your wood floor in the trailer. It will help them from slipping as much

    • @srad98ful
      @srad98ful Před 2 lety

      Cattle panel I think you mean stall mats. The big thick rubber ones.

  • @AdjudicatorBrbal
    @AdjudicatorBrbal Před měsícem

    I want to get into live stock hauling so bad. But theres not a lot of pro and con vids. My reason is just to know what im getting into. I love being active. And being a city boy i hate sitting still. The idea of sitting in an office space basking under ambient light is traumatically suffering. Me and my wife love animals. We live in a townhome right now and we have 19 pets. Lol because eof how bad we want to raise & sell heifers and goats. Man i want to live this life. I feel so stuck in this city trying to figure out where to get my foot in the door with this type of farm life.

  • @alanl.simmons9726
    @alanl.simmons9726 Před 2 lety

    Have you ever tried grasping the tail and lifting it get the cow to move?

  • @tedwpx123
    @tedwpx123 Před 2 lety

    👍👏

  • @rossnolan2883
    @rossnolan2883 Před 2 lety +1

    Fantastic 👍👍🙂

  • @harryfarmingvideo5328
    @harryfarmingvideo5328 Před 2 lety

    Nice cattle good video

  • @huathai8204
    @huathai8204 Před 2 lety

    Wohh, déjà vue...

  • @chadnielsen3120
    @chadnielsen3120 Před 2 lety

    Are you guys going to make a map for farming simulator 22 still wanna play on your guys farm

  • @FoodwaysDistribution
    @FoodwaysDistribution Před 2 lety +1

    How many fingers did Travis lose?

  • @benjaminclingaman7551

    I understand about your new truck My grandpa kept His mower In the barn And he covered it up For the same reason you don't wanna set on a more with a bunch of bird crap all over it I don't know anybody That would drive a truck around that has bird crap on it.

  • @ArmpitStudios
    @ArmpitStudios Před 2 lety +1

    Ryan, you might wanna block everybody involved in the “Investing in cr***o” thread. Damn scammers.

  • @m.webber5118
    @m.webber5118 Před 2 lety

    What else is happening at the farm?

  • @srad98ful
    @srad98ful Před 2 lety

    That floor is way too slick. Some stall mats will help before a cow breaks a leg.

  • @jbmbanter
    @jbmbanter Před 2 lety +3

    If you are going to give Hannah credit for helping then you're going to have to show her face in interactive situations. I'm proud for you guys but I'd love to see "both" of you!

  • @gastonbenvenuto5790
    @gastonbenvenuto5790 Před 2 lety

    👍👍👍🙋‍♂️🙋‍♂️🍾🥂🚜🚜🚜

  • @jaredmoorman1300
    @jaredmoorman1300 Před 2 lety

    Why save your truck?! That’s like saving your girl so they next guy gets to have the fun!

  • @donmadore3340
    @donmadore3340 Před 2 lety +1

    Looks like you need some rubber mat on your trailer floor unless you don't care about your animals getting hurt

  • @richardpoe2461
    @richardpoe2461 Před 2 lety +3

    I’m surprised or puzzled why you don’t feed a higher protein ration. Shelled corn by itself is like bread and water. You have a feed grinder, make more use of it. Mix in some soybeans.

    • @Buckin18792
      @Buckin18792 Před rokem

      Sounds like you got it all figured out @richardpoe2461 you should head over there and donate your time, money and knowledge on how to run someone else’s farm.

  • @nsgkuaov
    @nsgkuaov Před 2 lety

    I have just read a few of the comments, something I rarely do, take my advice don't bother to read them most are grand but there are some really bitter and weird people out there, enjoy your stuff as we say here in Ireland,f@€k the begrudgers, keep it up.

  • @fritzheidi2647
    @fritzheidi2647 Před 2 lety +1

    What about the mice get in it chewing on your wires

    • @MrMarb100s
      @MrMarb100s Před 2 lety +1

      friends dad parked his duramax similar to ryans last winter,worst mistake,cost him just under 3 grand to fix wiring issues,as well as the critters chewing a hole thru the air cleaner box

  • @Adam_Poirier
    @Adam_Poirier Před 2 lety +12

    Hey bud. Between the wind damaging your property, a bunch of dinks wanting to cover the farmland with solar panels, and all this other crap going on in the world today, I would say your doing pretty good. I hope you and your family have a very merry Christmas Ryan

  • @benkiefer9060
    @benkiefer9060 Před 2 lety

    Any interest on deleting the def system on your truck?

  • @keydanasefa8438
    @keydanasefa8438 Před 2 lety

    Why no tuning on the diesel pickup

  • @keydanasefa8438
    @keydanasefa8438 Před 2 lety

    Your dad needs a tune on his truck

  • @robertstibz9506
    @robertstibz9506 Před 2 lety +1

    The cows know your scared of them. You have to show who is boss around here.

  • @brianclark5498
    @brianclark5498 Před 2 lety

    Wouldn't hurt to throw a tarp over the truck to help with the birds

  • @logpile1318
    @logpile1318 Před 2 lety +2

    Let's Go Brandon!

  • @huskerboy3471
    @huskerboy3471 Před 2 lety

    Hi

  • @benny8300
    @benny8300 Před 2 lety

    So mean

  • @bobjohnson9603
    @bobjohnson9603 Před 2 lety +3

    Wow…..dude…..you’re a delicate little flower aren’t you…..” calf ran me over last year”
    During your live stream of finishing beans, when you had a tummy ache….I was wishing you would’ve told Travis you weren’t feeling good and needed to go home….must see episode. Lmao