Welcome to the farm! Eric and I are poultry and cattle farmers in East Alabama. I am a first generation farmer, and Eric is a 5th generation farmer. We have 8 poultry houses raising a little over 1.6 million chickens each year. We also have about 250 cows. We mostly raise angus and simangus calves for beef. We are now offering farm to table beef!
My wife, Nicole, is an accountant for the chicken company, and we have two boys, Parker, 4 and Coleman, 2. Eric's wife, Carrly, works with Georgia Power. They have a daughter, Chloe, 7 and a son, Landon, 5.
Come follow along and see what goes on at our farm!
When you wash the ceiling how do your brooders handle it? Or do you steer around the brooders? Does the water dripping from the ceiling keep you from being able to blow the dust off the tops of the brooder later? Any trouble with brooders lighting later?
Yes, we’ve been very pleased with our Arrowquip chute. The only thing I wish we would’ve done is add the load cell bars underneath for a scale to begin with. We have a scale platform that we put on the inside, but spend the money and put the load bars underneath to start with. It is a high quality chute!
man if y'all were closer I'd have took every bit of that rock, got a huge hole to fill, I have already put 180k of crushed concrete in it, looking forward to the rebuilding and the history of the cabin👍
I grew up on our large dairy farm. We had one cow, her name was " Cranky "... Who would go you, every time she had a calf. But just a few days after taking the calf from her, she was a quiet little lamb.
Eric, great job on the telehandler, Johnny Jett would give you praise. Do you know the species of wood? And I assume you numbered and tagged all of the logs. Look forward to see it erected again.
I am very easy to get along with and I realize my stock can get out also... but if there is a repeating pattern of it... you have to take them to court and make them pay so they understand. People will absolutely walk all over you if you let them.
I don't get it. Sarcasm because they're eating his grass? Truth because even with all thst cows are more difficult? Or because he doesn't want to cut the hay cuz its a lot of work?
It’s sarcasm. We put a lot of work and money into our hay fields to produce good hay for our cows. It’s frustrating when the neighbors cows get out and make themselves at home in a hay field. Basically the neighbor is getting free food for his cow at our expense.
Man when timing is everything, thankful for the July moisture, but when it comes time to bail it's a gamble at best, It rained here yesterday (Madison and Marshall county), didn't check my gauge but I'm betting over 1/4" caused it rained 4 + hours here, glad y'all were able to still make some Hay, my Grandfather used to joke about the crabgrass, He'd say he took his cows off crabgrass and put them on water, and the ADG went up considerably🤣🤣🤣 enjoyed the video and in a sick twisted way kind of miss the days of Haying, even squares, I love the smell, and you are correct on the raking and bailing, it makes all the difference in the world👍🙏
Hey Eric, thank the Lord that you’re only hooked on caffeine, cows and chickens. As Jamie Johnson said ” the high cost of living ain’t nothing compared to the cost of living high”
We are right at 1100 bales this year. Most of that is wrapped hay. We were hoping to cut a little more this year but we’ve been so dry I’m not sure if we’ll get to. We had about 75 bales leftover from last year. Most of that is dry hay
