Loading Skittish Steers While the Herd Wails
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- čas přidán 26. 06. 2023
- This morning Hilarie and I are loading steers and taking them to the butcher. Afterwards, we take care of the rest of the bellyaching cattle and make a nice dinner.
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Pete is like the Mr. Rogers of farming
Yes!! I agree!!
You nailed it there!😂
OMG I SAY THE SAME THING!!!
😂 i agree
I doubt Pete has Mr McFeeley as his Mailman
Pete, you don't give yourself enough credit............you have already explained the cycle of life for your cows many times. I think those who don't "get it" maybe never will?? We appreciate you and your Hard Work soooo much!!
I agree. I think the ones who don't get it is because they don't want to get it.
I'm still a tad angry that grandpa sold the farm cause they had 8 girls and 1 boy. Maybe it's just jealousy.
Or hear me out It's different people. The internet isn't filled with one person it's billions of people. Are there a few trolls that just like to cause problems? yes. But education is always needed. By your logic Kindergartners should be learning about string theory because we have explained the ABC's to every single person before them.
Well said.
I have to laugh at people who complain about how cruel farming is then have no problem grabbing meat in a styrofoam tray wrapped in cellophane and dropping it in their shopping cart. It's like hiring a hit man to avoid guilt when snuffing out an enemy.
I appreciate you sharing the life cycle of the animals. Can't imagine there's any place better to be a cow. Rotating through the fields to the best grass every few weeks is a pretty nice life.
I love watching the cattle excitedly following you and calling to each other. They know you take good care of them. And you do. ❤❤❤😊😊😊😊
Truth
I’ve had our cows bend the cheap gates just by rubbing against them to where they come off as well too. Very aggravating! The more expensive green gates they carry are slightly better.
Can’t beat home made, sch 40 pipe !
Thanks for showing the hair pulling parts that other don’t! Have a good day!
Or the wooden examples as shown at the butchers' new unloading dock.
Tyler over at Farmer Tyler Ranch builds some durable pens and gates using service rig drill stem. Tyler is still pretty young and the fences he built will out last him.
You guys have such a beautiful farm! You both care so much, ❤ I love the way the cattle follow the leader😂
And he always does a great job on this farm.
The sound of the cattle chopping down at the pasture plate is distinct indeed. The way they ran through the opening in the fence, a display of euphoria knowing desert was on the menu!
So good to see new facilities at butcher 🙂
It shows that the new owners are investing in their future and plan to be around for a while! Good news for Hillarie, Pete and the rest of the family at Just A Few Acres Farm!
The receipe is not only in New York, but maybe the name is. We call them butter potatoes, or sometimes new potatoes. Cooked in saltwater with the skins. When cooked, melt butter over them. Sometimes add parsley and a little garlic powder for seasoning. Good eating.
Butter potatoes and mashed potatoes are the only way my grandmother and mother ever prepared them.
I could listen all day long to those cattle grazing. So satisfying. Also, tell Hilarie I could eat my weight in those deviled eggs. Dang they looked so good!! Thanks for the upload!!
OMG I am the same with deviled eggs (and egg salad)! I make a meal out of them. lol I'm lucky they don't make me gassy!
Wouldn't it be nice of the whole world was like your world?!>> Thanks for posting !
You have explained the cycle of life for your cows many times. I think those who don't "get it" maybe never will. Being raised on a farm myself I did learn early that all the sweet baby boy calves would be someone's dinner down the road.😐 I think you do a great job along with your beautiful wife Hillary . It would be nice if the whole world was like your world!❤ Thank You for this channel I look forward to your posts. Have a Wonderful week to You and Hillary 🥰
I understand not having words for farm animals and the cycle of life. Being raised on a farm we learn early about many lessons of life and death. I do think you are right about pets. Have a wonderful day and as always thanks for you pieces of your world.
Awesome. Thanks Pete. Love this channel. ❤️👍👊🙏
Have a great 4th! 62 now,not complaining. Making some baby 👶 backs soon. I helped my grandfather in his later years after farm down sizing. He always got the 🐷 piggies to butcher when I wasn't around. Oinky was my favorite. Knowing it was happening at age 8. Worst part of farming, seeing your chickens and piggies move 😒 😢 on .
Thanks for including Hilarie in the video. Always great to see her
Pete, I love the connection you have with the animals and the Earth. You are a unique family who I admire. Being a white collar guy who is retired, you show me the best side of life.
It seems that you are also quite interested in matters related to agriculture.
There's just something soothing hearing the cattle feed and tear at the available munchies! Brings back some fond memories, for sure----also some sad ones when we had to select the cattle for the market. As a kid we really didn't understand and would stand around for the better part of a week for them to come back. Well, the did, in a packaged fashion but we didn't figure that out until later. 🤒 Thanks for another great episode. . .
Keep up the great work raising home grown products nothing tastes better than home grown beef, chicken and vegetables!! The more public gets educated about health benefits the more there going to enjoy it
Pete and Hill, thanks for always being y'all! I really enjoy spending time on the farm with you. Pete, thanks for all the things you try to explain. I appreciate it! You're a great family! Love from SC!
Pete and hill U both murderers should be ashamed of Ur selfs putting those poor cows through that why don't U put Ur selfs through what the cows go through
Love your videos! I love when the wife gets in there and shows you how it's done! That's how it is on my little farm!😂
The butcher shop dispatches the steers for all those meat products for the farmers market. It's what farming's all about. Grass fed beef in a peaceful environment as possible, for an excellent source protein for the general public. Best of both worlds.
It is bewildering to me when i run into the your food comes from Walmart crowd. I am also 54 and have been part of farming part time all of my life. I constantly have to show patients and explain to people that have only known urban scenery all of there life about how it all works and the benefits of buying local most listen but yet keep forgetting there local guys UNTIL 2020 the empty food shelves they saw really opened the eyes of alot of people. Now everyone wants to know about everything
Great episode Pete and Hilarie!
That butcher's setup looks very nice for cattle.
I agree Pete, I think people only know pets. Agriculture being so monopolized these days has taken the personal connection with food away, whether that food is salad greens or steak, people don't "get it" when it comes to the why and how. For animals OR plants I believe that you take good care of them because they will then take good care of you, its respect for the sacrifice of life, to give life through sustenance and resources.
Thanks again Pete for this channel.
They sure like that new pasture. It's like you never feed them. Chomp, chomp, chomp. Happiness is!
I think the few acres cows have a real curiosity. They complain until they get something new. Thanks for sharing.
Hi Pete. My wife is my best friend, and I see that in Hilary for you. She’s wonderful and you’re a blessed man!
Gooood morning Pete & Hillary ! So nice to hing out with y'all, geting all the chores done! God bless
I’m a townie but my grandmother was a farmers daughter and my grandad didn’t want to be a coal miner so worked in farming when he was young so it’s in my blood.
We lived off the rabbits and chickens that my dad had on his allotment gardens (rented off the council in the UK). I’ve had laying hens most of my life in my garden and since my dad died have put them down when they got sick. I love to see how you farm as it’s the closest to what my ancestors did along with ‘Working horses with Jim’ also a New York State CZcamsr. Thank you Pete and Hilary 😍👏🏼👏🏼
Such a wonderful video. Love your Florida t-shirt as that is where I was born and raised. I too grew up on a farm... the kind with an outhouse and a well in the front yard... hound dogs for hunting and hand cut cane poles for fishing. We made our own toilet paper and had a huge garden. My ma'maw taught me how to sew on an old treadle sewing machine and we churned our own butter, made our own pickles and soap in a huge kettle in the back yard, made our own buttermilk and picked wild blackberries. My pap-paw was a bootlegger and we had mules and milk cows that we milked by hand. We didn't have butchers to take our animals to for slaughter and processing, it was always done right there at home by hand... a day long process or longer that took many hours. I have so many fond memories, it takes a long time to go over them when I get in that mood to reminisce and get lost in the pleasure of them all. I had the most marvelous childhood because of those times. It was the best time of my life, living on a farm and I cherish each precious image, one by one. I totally get it how you described the natural beauty of raising your own meat, taking care of it with sensitivity to their needs and comfort, giving every critter a good life and then humanely ending their lives with a thankful heart of appreciation toward them and the cycle of life and the goodness they give us as we give goodness to them. It's biblical to care for animals and use them for food. It's natural and right and good and the way it was meant to be. I love the way you expressed that and it's sad to know there are people who have lost that ability to understand even though they have no problem going to a grocery store and buying meat. There's just no logic or common sense or intelligent reasoning to that. Strange, isn't it. It's an invisible blindness they carry that is a form of hypocrisy against the meaning of life and all that is natural in nature. It's one reason why I will never live in a city again. And why my heart and soul will forever be in the country as close to nature as I can get. And is why I love your show so much.
Pete, you must say to the herd as you cattle drive them to the next pasture, "GET ALONG LITTLE DOGGIES", LOL. That's what Clint Eastwood would say in the many cattle drives in the TV series, Rawhide. Love how they follow you to greener pastures!
My favorite channel. I put it on the big screen and turn off the lights and it feels like I'm there working alongside Pete.
thank you Pete and Hillary for bringing us along
Ha! The Bovine Frolic! Young calves hopping around in packs, missing the open fence, moms' munching on a new pasture. The send off to the butcher is in the circle of life. Spiritual actually.
Great video today! I recently tried salt potatoes for the first time and they were very good. It's funny how excited the cattle get when they get on new pasture.
I laugh at cows getting released into pasture in the spring. Seeing cows getting 'the zoomies' is just too funny.
It amazes me how peaceful your farm is there’s no hardly excitable animals there they stay so calm like you manage them to where they know they’re being filmed like taking kids out to the grocery store. They mind you when you’re supposed to. It’s just amazing.
Cattle grazing in a light rain. Very calming. Enjoyed the video Pete.
Jamaica 🇯🇲 here good morning love how you and wife work together the animals are happy blessings
My ex wife is English and her father was the head meat inspector for part of Essex County. The farms there are beautiful and the animals are well looked after. My father in law, (ex) once told me that if he went out to the processing facility and the cattle were crowded together or not clean, he'd shut the whole operation down and make them do it right. His concern was not only for procedures and health concerns, but mostly for the welfare of the cattle. He reasoned that if they were nearing the end of their lives, they should be clean and well looked after before the slaughtering . I respected that. His name was Norman and he was a good man.
I just love you guys! When you look into the camera at the end of your videos I see all the goodness of man in the beauty of your eyes and the smile that is as real as the day is long. So THANK YOU for being who you are. With love from Arizona.
That is perfectly said!
at 15:12: wise words! I grew up in the 60s in a very small village in Germany. The "process" you are talking about was normal for us kids, we got used to it.
I really appreciate all of your videos! And your way of thinking.
My husband and I love watching you and Hil work together. We want to do essentially the same things you do on your farm as a team also. It's our dream. My husband grew up on a farm and he's an awesome mechanic so your channel ticks all the boxes for us! Keep it up! We love you guys!
Thank you for sharing, till next time!
Pete, those kind of potatoes are not unique to New York, we have them all the time in Quebec. Absolutely great potatoes!
chat potatoes is what I know them as, cooked as Pete said, especially with butter. And I am from the other side of the world!
Pete and Hillary thank you for sharing. I truly enjoy seeing Hilary working with you pete. My wife & I bought a farm in Missouri. I hope we can work together well and grow closers during the process.
The sweet taste of all your labors are meat for the table. Boosted by the enjoyment and confidence of knowing - what’s in your food. And thankful for the energy to sustain.
Thank you for sharing your country side , lovely .
You are the pied Piper of the beef . They trust you .
Prity neat .
So glad you and your lovely wife works together. It’s fun when you can do this.
Pete, thanks for inspiring me to get into agriculture. After I get out of the military I plan on doing very close to what you're doing. I have an interest in sheep so I'll probably add that in. Love your stuff.
Best of luck Simon!
Simon, If you can, mind mentor or two and learn as much as you can from them. It will save you a lot of mistakes and money.
I meant find a mentor.
@@GaryHeald-uv5im for sure! That’s a great idea. I have a few family members that are farmers. Even CZcams has been a great resource.
I’m the farthest thing to a farmer and I have understood the process because you explained it well. The people who say they don’t get it in my opinion are the same who like to argue about everything.
Hi Pete, I love your shows and look forward to them. You show a great deal of respect for your family and your business and it shows.
They all love you and need you and that is a wonderful thing. Good luck in the coming season.
After many years of building holding pens and loading chutes I finally built one that incorporated all the things I've learned over the years and I'm always amazed at how well it works. Now I'm 71 years old and I'm thinking about getting rid of the cows 😔 go figure. Good job on loading the steers 👍
Thank you for feeding myself and my family. God bless you and all farmers
Hi from Australia, love your work guys!
Those cows excitedly running into the new field, so cute!!😍
Hi from Israel…Love that you give time to hear the cows munching and crunching. It’s such a satisfying sound!
Yup, Hillary is too cute. And yes, I've been the guy that gets out of the truck 11x before I get the hitch aligned
I like knowing where my food comes from especially these days where they are putting some in our foods and lying to us about it! Thanks
I get it. Too many don't and never will. I have said it before, but it can stand repeating. Pete, you and your family are good stewards of what you have been put over. The land, water, and the animals are treated with respect, yes, even love.
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 the farmer raises an animal for food it go to market and to the consumer / this is what I call the circle of life
It's true city people will never fully understand. We always named out pets , pet them , play with them and all. Then they went to the butcher if they were the larger animals, But rabbits and chickens we did from when we were young. But there was never an issue, our pets had a very good life while they walked, and yes we had tears when they would die for no reason ( disease or sickness). But they were also the best tasting compared to the supermarket.
another good video.
Hope you have a relaxing evening Mr. Pete and Ms. Hillary!!
Food does not come from the refrigerator. Farming is the heart of America.
I guess the term "salt potatoes" might be a regional thing. However, here in Kentucky the dish of cooking small potatoes in saltwater and dressed with butter is eaten often. I've just always heard those referred to as "new potatoes". No matter the name, still delicious!!😊
40 years ago 4 calls tree back and wrapped in the house my FDA approval
The two little piggies aren't keeping up with the vegetation right now - but they are growing. No worries, by the time they are ready to head down the road that paddock will be clean. Last year's crew did a great job fertilizing the soil! 😊
Dry in upper midwest also, it's time to cut and/or buy what you need as it's not going to grow to any substantial amount even if rain happens; we always have grass to cut in the upper midwest, it's just we have enough or more than enough. If you ever come to Minnesota, make sure to visit the Mn State Fair, one of the biggest in the Nation for fairs that revolves around AG. Aug. 24 - Labor Day, Sept. 4, 2023 | Minnesota State Fair
Very pleasant ending with Hillary. Was pleased to view the automated process at the beginning seeing how easily one can back to the hitch without a “hitch”‼️🤣
Please let Hillary know she is awesome love this channel so much.
I just love Hilary's sense of humor
Thanks Pete, and Hilairie. Nice trailer. I understand the concept of grass to table. Please keep posting vids. I love them.
Again thank you very much for sharing life on a farm. Enjoy your dinner. Looks real good.
I absolutely love this channel! Thank you A Few Acres Farm! I'm in Puerto Rico vacationing with the family but still love to relax watching some of my favorite CZcams channels and this one is at the top of the list!
Pete your videos keep getting better every time, thanks
I must say I'm quite impressed with your operation!!
Heck with the cattle, let’s have some DEVILED EGGS…👍🏻👩🏻🍳👏🏻 I follow deviled egg chefs everywhere…🕺🏻🏃 Hillary is really a Pied Pipper in my book 🙋🏻♂️
Yes, yes, yes -- back to my childhood! How the cows went practically crazy every spring, when they were let out to freedom. Also, how they had to be steered back in the fall before frost and snow. And how the milking during the summer time was an old fashioned hand job, while in the winter it was performed by a piped vacuum system. And, the leader of the herd carried a bell from the neck. The milking adults were kept close to the house in fenced areas, with a rotation from one area to the next. The young ones were taken further, into unfenced area limited by a lake and some woods. Both the spring time and the fall time moves were something we kids participated. In the fall we liked to pick some cranberries on the way. It was a rare specialty on our farm, where the common wild berries were blueberries and lingonberries. Oh, about the small potatoes -- they were first harvested just before Midsummer and invariably enjoyed at the Midsummer Feast.
We raised hogs and cattle for a lot of years and I understand the modern thought process. Most people do not know where their food comes from and do not understand the work and care involved in its production. Great videos and keep trying to explain the process.
They often don't even get the vegetable side of it. Now they are doing fake synthetic meat? Guess it will be synthetic veggies next. Not for me. God gave me real plants and real meat to eat.
Yes been there done that growing up steers too sell or eat , farms looking good Pete 👍
THANKS PETE & HILARIE
Hillary totally owned this video! I about died when you turned the camera to her at 4:10 and she's stretched out leaning her whole body into that trailer door! You go girl!!! 💪😁✌️
I understand your thoughts on caring for and then dispatching critters. 👍👍👍
Good to see contented cows munching away.
As usual, a very fine, (relaxing video this time around) presentation.
It is also very nice to see your "better half" in the videos - as well as your kids - from time to time. Once they (children / kids) reach their late teens and later, they tend to have their own lives to explore & learn, so I totally understand their fewer appearances.
Having family members along with you, brings an even more relatable essence to your shows. Course, folks that farm and such, can relate more than, for example me, since I am not a farmer. I do however, relate to pretty much most of your videos since I truly realize the way that our food gets to the stores, etc.
Thanks for sharing part of your world.
Peace.
Somebody needs to send that young man a Florida State Seminoles Tee Shirt!!
Hi Pete and Hillary thanks for taking us along. I didn't know that about the USDA certification mostly because all the steer's we raised we ate. Quite a useful tidbit of knowledge Pete thanks for sharing it. As always good luck and God bless and stay safe out there.
Keep the great work up friend from Scotland
I have a steer that has a date for freezer camp next month and I have anxiety about loading him without proper facilities. Watching this eases my mind a little. I have a bunch of heavy temporary fence panels I can use to get him herd him onto the trailer.
Looking forward to getting meat that we raised ourselves!
Great video Pete, we lived on a dairy farm, and the cows were raised to produce milk. Therefore they were fed and watered daily.
Thanks Pete and Hilary!!!!
Thanks Pete and Hilary!
The best sleep comes from a good day of work! Thanks for the video.
Hilary got a solo thumbnail! Her CZcams career is expanding!
Pete : "You guys think you wanna go to your new pasture"?
Cow: "moo awa awa awa awaaa"
So I grew up in the suburbs. Never even had a brown egg until I met my wife in my late 30’s. She introduced me to keeping chickens and we grew into farming from there. Now we raise chickens for eggs and meat, turkeys, ducks, dairy goats, sheep, pigs, beef and dairy cows. I butcher all of the birds myself as well as deer during hunting season. I definitely now understand both sides of the fence when it comes to butchering animals that you care for. Or any animal really. For me, I love having and caring for the farm animals so much that it is hard to see them go to butcher. But I know that if we want to eat them it’s just part of it. I think as someone that did not grow up farming and now operate a small farm, I grow more attached to each animal because I have had so few. So it’s my first pig that I grew up or the first calf that we had born here on the farm or the first sheep I’ve ever had. As we do more and more I think it will get a little easier but it will never be easy.
You made me hungry Pete! Thank you for sharing 🤗👍
Pete, Love how you yell to the cows and they know your voice and the prospect of fresh meadow grass is a win-win for them...our herd of milkers did the same thing but they responded to the old bell we would ring at their gate...we had to cross the road with them so it usually
would take two of us...they would line up at 3:30 and wait for us to show up...they were ready to get milked and just made sure to stay out of the way...we had the barn ready and the grain and hay in their head stantions...by 6:00, we had them milked and turned out, and ready to have dinner...the relationship of farmer to their herd is the dynamics most folks never see...Carry on...Cheers from Maine
Pete, I think it is obvious to everyone that watches your channel that enjoy your cows, and they enjoy the way you treat them. I get a kick out of the way they come running to you the minute you show up in the paster and I think if you walked off the end of a bridge they would all walk off it too.
Pete, you have to grow up on the farm to understand. I am proud to be the son of a farmer. Brought me closer to God. I pray I have passed that on to my children
Grew up on a farm and then daddy became a butcher in 1971 till he sold the Waterside Woolen Mills butcher shop in 1991. Had grand good times wrapping meat with Daddy. Farmer and Waterside Woolen Mills owner, five blessed daughters........... Passed into GLORY in 2008. What a joy to call him daddy. He taught us people were more important than people. BLESSED in Pennsylvania........