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Id love to see a video showing the recovery of the pasture behind those hogs. Perhaps after you get a couple fall showers ahow the last several paddocks
We could probably feed it to the pigs, I just wanted to be sure. We gave her a shot of GNRH to help with ovulation. It is just a hormone and I have been told it is safe for consumption but I like to give it a few days just to be safe.
@Nocommenting I saw a summary of your question but when I went to respond it disappeared. Can you repost? I am more than happy to answer your questions.
We are crazy....... I don't like to feed the milk to anyone when we are injecting hormones into the cows. I am sure it is fine but I just don't like to do it. If the cow steps in the milk and we can't drink it I will feed to the pigs all day long!
@@AlemanFamilyHomestead I get that I would probably look at it from a perspective of how long until they butcher but I totally respect trying to keep the food clean.
Our vet doesn't go to the farm to do AI unless you have a lot of them. So we have to take them in. But with that being said we took three in one did not cycle so he did not inseminate her but the other two are bred. We've got three more with CIDR in right now, and they're actually supposed to go back to the vet today. Now he has a gomer bull which is supposed to make the accuracy of AI above 90%
We have been blessed to have people come out and AI, we do pay a visit fee but it is worth it! The bull would be nice to increase conception accuracy. We have talked about getting a Bull, I just don't want one around the kids.
@@AlemanFamilyHomestead I meant to call it a gomer bull basically it's infertile or diverted so when the cow will stand for the bill they know she is cycling.
@@OldPecanHomestead Got it! We have never done that before. We have had the most success syncing with CIDR, GNRH, and Progesterone. We have just been trying to avoid that and time the heat. But we have not been successful.
Agreed! Water access points are huge. Since we rotationally graze, our perimeter fence is all we use for permanent fencing. This allows us to place our animals anywhere on our land by using portable electric fence.
@@AlemanFamilyHomestead we really need to train our goats to two wire electric we were using premier but had on get tangled and die so we are done with that stuff.
I am sorry to hear that. We have had a hen and a goose get tangled in the net but we have never lost a bigger animal in the net. We have never raised goats before so unfortunately I am little help with training goats to electric. If you can get them trained is it a game changer for rotational grazing though!
Yeah i don't care who you are anything over 95 is terrible. We have been incredibly lucky the last several days in Oklahoma we haven't broken 90 somewhat rare this time of year.
You’ll be lucky if she holds to any service/breeding in that condition. A beautiful cow, but they need to be on a rising plane of nutrition and probably at least one condition score more than she is in this clip.
Thank you for the feedback. We have the cows on free choice minerals and were out of a few minerals at this time. A great reminder to keep up with the minerals!
Hi sir, thank you for upload AI videos. Please try not to edit and cut the video in between just upload the full video. In that way you will have more watch time and more ads revenue.
It seems like your stantion floor is a little slick with the rubber floor mat. If you could give her a more textured floor so she doesn't slip as much, she may stand better for you. I realize that armchair quarterbacking is much easier. However, one thing that we did was to find some confinement hog flooring, which is a heavy wire mesh and lay that over the top of your rubber mat. If you then bolt that wire mesh over the top of it, it will make it a little more difficult to spray off, but she will not slip when she stands on it. I hope that this helps.
Thanks for the recommendation! You are correct, she does slip a lot on the rubber mat. It is interesting, our last milk cow never slipped on it. Annabelle likes to kick and step. I like the idea of giving her more texture but I am not sure I want the cleaning process to take more water/time. We don't have a drainage system in the stantion area so more water will cause more of a flooding issue on the ground. I will take a look though! Where did you pick up the hog floor?
@@AlemanFamilyHomestead There is a hog barn that is near our place. If I remember correctly, the local welding shop had gotten some old hog flooring from somewhere and we bought it from them. I understand the not wanting to make more work cleaning. What if you built a metal floor/ grate, however you wish, but build it about 3 inches above your floor. If the manure and other stuff can fall through then you could just scrape it out underneath. Another option is that they make rubber floor mats that are made out of an interweave of old tires. There are a lot of different options available and you can just find or build what works. On another note, if you decide to ever rebuild your stantion, if you make your posts taller and tie them all across the top with boards, then the posts will not move or flex as much. I just noticed that it moves around a bit and we have found when we build corrals that if you bolt or nail planks across the top of your posts, it makes it more study. Good luck.
@@RockingNS19 Thanks for all of the info! The station was originally built as a portable stantion because we weren't sure where we were going to put it. It has tires on the front of it. We have talked about throwing some kickers on it to stabilize. Our last cow was not as crazy in it so it was never an issue. We appreciate all of the feedback!
Explain the situation..first. Who, ( animal), what ( why) and when…( it became nan issue)…then the listener will follow with a better understanding . lander Wy
It was a sad situation, she was our first milk cow. She couldn't get pregnant. We went through 4 rounds of AI and then sent her to our AI specialist for 2 months. She would get pregnant and then abort 1-2 months later. She gave us three beeves and LOTS of A2/A2 milk over the years. She was a great cow
But was mary sick ? . Or she just couldn't produce ? . Or she was just old ? . Not being judgemental . I just don't understand why she put down . Thank you
No worries! Mary's role on the farm was to provide A2/A2 milk and a beef every year. We had to dry her up in order to send her to our specialist for 2 months. So not only was she unable to provide beef, she no longer was giving us milk. On top of that, we were feeding her hay daily. She was healthy, she just was no longer providing for our family.
@@AlemanFamilyHomestead Ok I thought you would keep cows like Mary around until they died on their own . So they get put down after they no longer produce .
It is really up to you and how you want to run your farm. We came into this with one goal in mind, to produce clean food for our family. These animals cost money to feed and maintain, so they need to produce as well. Unfortunately, Mary stopped producing and was costing money with no return. We do the same thing with our laying hens. Statistically, hens egg production will go down after 2 years. So we cull all of our hens after 2 years of laying eggs and start a new flock every 2 years. We of course freeze the hens and use them for stewing hens. Again, it is up to the person. I know lots of people who keep hens for years. At the end of the day I am attempting to feed my family with the cleanest food possible in the most cost efficient way. The downside to that is that we need to make hard decisions like putting Mary down.
Not sure yet. This is the first dairy cow we have harvested. Our last beef was half jersey and half wagyu. So she had plenty of fat. She is still hanging in our cooler, next week we are going to start processing. If we need to add fat we will pull the frozen tallow from our last beef. Great question! It will give us something to think about as we process.
