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..
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
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!
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.
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 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
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
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 :)
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
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
