Love the little guy's persistence. "I'm hungry." "Cut it out!!" "I'm hungry." "Cut it out!" "I'm hungry." "Cut it out." "I'm hungry." "Ok fine. Just let me eat my grass."
That chute with it’s contraptions is certainly a multipurpose device. It was heart-warming to see the little calf quietly nurse and obediently follow the cow. Congratulations on your success!!!
As a mother who couldn't feed her baby because he had medical complications I can tell you just how bad it hurts to be full of milk unable to feed my baby...
Surrogate coupling is a very difficult challenge. Well done!! Amazing effort to pair a cow who lost a baby with a calf who lost his mom! Well done! Awesomeness!!! I’m so happy with your effort to encourage this!
Isaac, thanks for all your efforts to show people not only the business side of farming but also the personal side. After this cow losing her calf... wow. And then you went out and got a new calf, despite how busy you are in the spring... and filmed what it takes to get her to adopt it. Great work. We all learn so much from your videos! This one and the last one would be so good for a school lesson.
↑↑↑ this ↑↑↑ My thoughts while watching the first half(?) were "this NEEDS to be shown to some trade associations and whatever to get it out into the non-farming public at large". Seriously, it conveys every reason for doing this in a logical way without pandering to the emotional aspect. For some odd reason many people think that livestock is treated like they don't matter to the farmer/rancher even though that animal is a large investment AND the means by which the farmer/rancher lives. Life must really suck for them, thinking that all humans are by nature inhumane and short-sighted. Then again, maybe they're smug - think that they are superior to others?
Great adoption, Issac, I do like the fact that your main aim is to produce meat from grass. I watch other American channels where the carbon footprint producing meat from combinable crops must be cost to force them on quicker, and the meat is not as healthy as grass fed. I hope there is a premium market for grass fed beef.
Slightly different with sheep. When an ewe has a stillborn, give a triplet usually from another ewe, but got to wrap it in the skin of the stillborn lamb otherwise no go. Only two teats on sheep, and goats, so good to move a triplet from the original mother. Got to leave them isolated for a few days, away from original mother. All is okay then.
I think there is some truth to it. I have always heard it too. We have tried it before and I’m not so sure it really worked. It may have helped a small bit but definitely didn’t make it easy.
