Selling Calves at Auction - From Ranch to Market

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Each year the ranch earns one paycheck and that is when we sell calves. Join us as we take a look at the year of the calf, from beginning of their time on the ranch to the end as they are loaded on a cattle truck to head off to auction. Ensuring another year for the ranch.
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Join us on our journey as we leave a life in corporate america to come back to Wyoming and help on the family ranch.
Our Wyoming Life features our Wyoming ranch and our ranch family. Giving you a look into the workings of ranching from raising cattle to raising and harvesting crops. Erin will join you weekly out of the garden, showing you how she helps provide for our family through gardening and growing produce and selling at local farmers markets, and Mike will take you along as he tends to the animals and land of ranch, from calving to fencing to planting and harvesting hay in a documentary style.

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@hsilva3213 5 лет назад

This guy should be a narrator for National Geographic or Discovery channel

@OurWyomingLife 5 лет назад

Thank you very much and thanks for watching -Mike

@wardapandita4432 2 года назад

Oh my gosh, the thought.The voice is sexy ☺️. And he's very informative.

@glowilk5377 4 месяца назад

Yes- consider a voice over career. Leave the cows .🐄

@jonathansullivan3089 6 лет назад

I agree, as a fellow cattleman, my favorite time of year is seeing the newborn calves come and in the weeks that follow seeing them run, jump and play. To me, that is what it's all about, and taking care of them and seeing them grow, and keeping back some good looking heifers and watching them grow into cows and seeing how their calves compare. It is always hard to sell the calves, even harder to sell some of the older cows that was kept maybe just a year or three too long. Thanks for all your vids Mike. God bless and I hope it's a good check for ya.

@OurWyomingLife 6 лет назад

I hear ya, some of the older cows are very much the hardest. Thanks you - Mike

@tlahuicolexiii2844 5 лет назад

The way you produce your content is easy to understand for someone like me who knows nothing of this subject 👍

@tychoruniko 5 лет назад

Same.

@denimcowboy501 4 года назад

Love of the land is so important. Love of what you do is so important. Love that leaves a legacy is so important.

@bevmalone1555 5 лет назад

This is so wonderful! Were farmers too, but not on your scale by any means. We’ve just sold off our babies so, we definitely know that feeling of sad goodbyes. Were down to 15 but it’s enough for my husband to care for and the farm. We really enjoy watching your videos and thank you for sharing. Many Boom years to you!

@montrichins6040 2 года назад

The call of the ranch. My family ran cattle in Wyoming when I was a kid. Miss it.

@rodneyhill2737 3 года назад

I cant imagine the hard work you put in. Your living the life I always dreamed of living as a kid.

@marilynmcneely206 4 года назад

Love the phrase....happiest hello...saddest goodbye......very true

@codywaligursky8873 5 лет назад

Best channel I've seen in a LONG TIME. You guys rock. God bless you

@OurWyomingLife 5 лет назад

Thank you very much Cody and thanks for watching -Mike

@joycejaschke2700 3 года назад

God b

@tobiasintrabartolo3031 4 года назад

I really appreciate your work! You’ve got a humane, yet realistic way to farming. Most people like to romanticize it, ignoring that there is the less fortunate parts of farming like selling calves or sending cows to feedlots etc. (or the alternative... calling the farmers the bad guys ugh.) You make sure to mention the reality of farming, all the while showing the good to real farming and that’s really admirable! I’d prefer a real ranch-raised beef or dairy than some of the alternatives.

@cordeliacaffey3462 Год назад

Oh my. I just discovered your channel. Thank you so much for all the work you and your family do. Thank you for sharing your lives with us and educating us about “the circle of life”. I look forward with excitement and anticipation for this journey!!

@codyludwig2811 6 лет назад

that's one thing I learned about cows, is separating, One thing I did find out is that a lot of the mooing is the mothers looking for her calf, I heard that a mother and calf can pace up to I forget how many miles, mooing and not eating properly and not gain weight.One vet in Canada forget his name, He came up with a nose tag to help keep the cow and calves calm during the time when its time to ween the calves, but some of the calves learn how to flip the nose tag out of the way. was to help stop em from sucking but every idea has a back draw. I do love cows,they do give man so much, like meat, leather, glue, money, milk products etc

@jessmillar8614 6 лет назад

Great video once again... hope the calves sold well! My brother actually does some auctioneering at the barn you sent them to. Take a breath and get ready to do it all again before you know it.

@ackack612 6 лет назад

Viewing the landscape and you cannot help but think about the country 200 years ago, westward expansion and this is what confronted those who ventured West. What we see today is what they saw then........kinda takes your breath away.

@mattfencl3614 6 лет назад

Glad Im not the only one who has thought of that too.

@floydmora1 5 лет назад

Thank you for all yall do. Keep up the great work from deep in the heart of Texas.

@joesephburgio3438 2 года назад

Excellent words of wisdom, well done my friend. Im better for watching your video. Life is so important and the struggle for making it better. It's people like you making it better that counts!! Thank you. Joe B.

@ronfontenot4534 6 лет назад

Could be the best video you made. Very thoughtful and very informative to a non rancher. Your goal of teaching people where their food comes from was a huge success.

@mattfencl3614 6 лет назад

Just when I think its the best video they have put out. They put out another one and raise the bar a bit higher.

@ericchandler90 5 лет назад

Over the years I've grown accustomed to the handful of nights when the cows are restless. To me it's just a reminder that fall is finally here. Thank you for putting in the extra hours making these videos for us to enjoy.

@dwain437 4 года назад

I love it !! So many just dont understand where all there food come from ... Everybody , everyone should have to spend at least a day on a farm . A tuff day

@ryangilio3477 6 лет назад

Thank you very much for all the hard work!! Keep it going. This is one of my favorite channels!! Thanks again to all ranchers and farmers!!

@brailwolf 5 лет назад

It's more than a piece of dirt or lifestyle. it where your heart is ,, it's home. thank you for sharing with all of us.

@fionakirwan3255 4 года назад

I love farm life.. my dad grew up in Ireland and moved to America when he was an adult. We were supposed to visit Ireland this year and my aunt was gonna get married. I'm incredibly sad because Covid-19 ruined our trip, and I loved seeing all their cows, etc.

@larrylucero8077 Месяц назад

Beautiful place beautiful Cattle and a beautiful life

@ezekieladeyemo6838 3 года назад

Grew up in Africa and I miss this so bad. I pray for your success, more grease to your elbow

@paulthomas2236 5 лет назад

Keeping people fed is a thankless job GOD bless you and your family

@popparedneck8326 4 года назад

love what you you keep us alive

@pigmentrich224 4 года назад

I can watch these videos all day. Mike has a voice for radio ironically but it's very reassuring and trustworthy lol. Good job guys👍💪

@Planespotterdude 3 года назад

What I know about ranching. Always a lot to do. You make a list and it’s long. The most important at the top. Urgent. Some days the whole list is urgent. You can’t get it all done and you add the leftover to the next day. You never get done. But it’s addicting too

@khipk123 6 лет назад

Mike you have an excellent way to give perspective on things. You can be a great story teller in the news room :)

@sinvulakooabdul823 3 года назад

Watching this all the way from 🇳🇦Namibia Katima Mulilo atleast I have something to enjoy during this lockdown.

@debcarpenter8519 6 лет назад

Mike, Congrats on another year on the ranch. I can imagine it would be hard to ever go back to working in the city again. I miss the plains of Wyoming and watching your channel is my way of being back there. Thank you Mike and Erin. Good luck on the sale!!! Deb

@larrycates7655 5 лет назад

Yep it makes for a long night when the cows are calling for their gone calfs . Especially when you only have 100 acers .. they can't get out of ear shot.

@KingJJG2005 5 лет назад

I’m happy he treats the animals properly

@StoneyRidgeFarmer 6 лет назад

Great video Mike...I really enjoyed seeing the journey liked and shared on the fb

@gojoe36 5 лет назад

I would like to hear you break down all the different types of Cow operations, like Calf Cow versus feeder cattle(steers) and how they sell them as 5 weight or 6 weight etc. and lay out the different types of Cattle operations.

@learnmore5247 5 лет назад

Forget about ABC , CBS, CNN ,FOX ,NFL, The music Awards, and the other nonsense shows. This is the real life of Green Acres. Thanks for inviting us.

@mikefortune4796 6 лет назад

Hi Mike and Erin and family great video Mike its always hard to say goodbye to the calves but you were very good to them and looked after them very well cheers Mike and Erin hears to the next 50k subs good luck to you mate

@DJ-bh1ju 5 лет назад

Do you have training as a narrator or communicator? You certainly sound like a professional, like it was a previous profession...

@rorydonnelly7772 5 лет назад

He was a radio presenter

@sixtoes2313 5 лет назад

See his "Our Story" Mike explains a few thinks.

@pauladinucci7910 3 года назад

Yes, I think Mr. Mike was previously in radio. Yes, he has a fabulous voice and he works hard at his channel.

@mitchellsmith2686 2 года назад

Mike you have an incredible stake in American History, y'all are awesome people!

@jerrycoon4504 6 лет назад

Congrats on 50K!! Thats a milestone. I agree, a glass of whiskey is in order. This was a pretty cool vid. Calves are cool! Cheers!!

@dr.phil-federalinspector6023 5 лет назад

I really miss the farm/ranch life..left it 50 years ago..that was a huge mustake..but I was only 19 then .and had no say..now am 69..and regret it terribly...family fight ruined it for many.. 14000 acres all gone now....

@fooddude9921 6 лет назад

Mike, if nobody has ever told you, you should get a talent agent and become a narrator for documentaries, TV, etc. Your voice and rhythm is as good as and as distinctive as Mike Rowe's or Paul Harvey's.

@takayama1638 5 лет назад

Before long, this starts looking like work. Of course, I ain't afraid of work. I can sit around and watch it all day.

@pauljennings2693 5 лет назад

I notice that you have horses, yet still work the cattle with the side by side (Gator). That tells a lot about the current usefulness of horses. Here in Texas, horses are pets, yard ornaments and an indulgence. Great quality video work.

@populares9175 5 лет назад

Depends on your state. I have noticed Montana, Wyoming, Colorado all use horses fairly often to help with ranching. I think it is as much about tradition as anything. I grew on Missouri and Kansas border and it's far less common in those states.

@believeinyourself7511 5 лет назад

Thank you for making this beautiful video. I enjoy the narrating so well. God Bless You and your family.

@kylebuchmann8585 6 лет назад

Thank again Mike see you in the next one 👍

@kennethfillmoreCoolCatKen 5 лет назад

This is so true without Ranchers we would not have our meat chain love Ranchers and farmers I used to work on a Rideing Stable and loved working with the horses and there is a lot of work to it putting up Hay cleaning the Stables takeing care of the horses is a lot of work

@timmybower6705 6 лет назад

Wow. What a great video. Got to love farmers. Doing what they love to do.

@OurWyomingLife 6 лет назад

Thank you Timmy -Mike

@timmybower6705 6 лет назад

Your very welcome. I know what it like to be a farmer for sure. I know lots of people here in Alberta where I live that farmer and some of them I’m adopted to. It alway great time with family and friends that have farm.

@calebmanuel17 4 года назад

timmy bower l lives Ontario Canada

@messyjc8653 5 лет назад

Another awesome video thanks mate! I see others have raised this question too, but I just wondered if you've considered contacting a mobile dairyman at all? I've heard they have large milk parlour trailers and travel from farm to farm. You may find, as you have many cows, that they'd be prepared to come to you and finish off the milk cycle of your cows, and then keep any milk, hopefully costing you nothing! Just thinking of the cows in pain, and your family not sleeping, and still needing to work! Wish you all the best mate, thanks for sharing!😀👍

@aubreysvlogs8581 5 лет назад

I’ve lived on a ranch my whole life and i couldn’t love it more!

@OurWyomingLife 5 лет назад

Awesome, thank you very much - Mike

@ojjenkins7110 6 лет назад

Congrats on 50k Mike and Erin. Head em up move em out :-) keep that ranch going.

@OurWyomingLife 6 лет назад

Thats the plan, thanks OJ - Mike

@robertvan2531 3 года назад

I miss getting to go out and watch and baby caffs being born.

@christophebuisson7536 4 года назад

I just subscribed just because i support you and your lifestyle, wife and I been to wyoming and loved it. But to move there and work the land would be a huge undertaking ! God bless you and your family, thank you for beautiful videos!

@chadhazekamp6952 6 лет назад

Great video Mike. I just got home last night took a load of feeders to a feed lot in kansas

@chadhazekamp6952 6 лет назад

Arnold Romppai I run a pot for a company here in ny

@melissawilliamson7907 6 лет назад

I don't know what is more sad. Selling them at 6 mo like you do. Or rasing them to a year and half, and them leaving in a meat truck, like I do. 🙁

@isaacmaldonado7481 5 лет назад

Great channel! A real look at what the day to day at a cattle ranch looks like.

@stevelyerlajr5364 5 лет назад

Thanks for a great video.

@OurWyomingLife 5 лет назад

Thank you for watching -Mike

@Ajaxxgopw 3 года назад

Mike, awesome, video. Best one you ever done. Thank you.

@observelistennlearn1415 5 лет назад

Too bad that I never met a ranchers daughter. I think I would had loved that lifestyle.

@diegoleija1437 5 лет назад

Why do I feel like I'm watching the movie "The Sandlot". With you narrating

@hectorazul7462 5 лет назад

I work in a slaughter house, I have seen hundreds of thousands of cows and bulls slaughtered. It used to bother me in the beginning, but a necessity. Now those cattle are more of an object, a number. I have distanced my feelings from their purpose in life, but what still hurts me is to see when get to the company hurt or sickling looking. I don't mind how they are slaughtered, is a super quick and I dare hope is as painless and quick death as it seems to be.

@braddeyarmond2300 6 лет назад

Calfs look Good Mike

@larrybaber1645 4 года назад

Awesome voice and down to earth true.

@sergioT575 5 лет назад

EXACTLY: BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS. NURSING THE SICK ONES BACK TO BEING STRONG CALVES ARE THE HARDEST ONE FOR ME TO LET GO 😍😍🐂🐃🐄

@timsmith5837 6 лет назад

Thank you, just what was needed after a tough week. We just took ours to auction and you made it a little bit easier.

@OurWyomingLife 6 лет назад

Awesome Tim, hope you go some time to catch your breath! - Mike

@dianereiser6417 6 лет назад

I couldn’t do it, I love animals and I’d want to keep everyone of them. I’d be the poorest rancher out there.

@OurWyomingLife 6 лет назад

I get that, :) - Mike

@rays7756 4 года назад

Same here lol

@sassymouth2056 4 года назад

You could if it meant food on your family’s table. You sure could.

@phoenixc7245 4 года назад

I couldn't eat a baby ever

@OurWyomingLife 4 года назад

We don’t eat baby cows.

@CaptchaNeon 4 года назад

I don’t believe I heard more than a few uh’s. You’re very well spoken, although narrator seems to be more suited for you with that TV/Radio voice instead of farmer but hey, you’re doing what you’re passionate about and that’s all that matters. Thanks for this video, it was very informative.

@carolcovey8563 6 лет назад

Awesome, hope they fetch a pretty penny!!! It's hard and exciting at the same time. As for me, I am off to attempt to cut our last cut of hay with a tractor that is 3 sizes too small since my M5-111 has been in the shop since the beginning of October. Kubtoa has no plans to fix it before December. Ugh. Only if they knew how important hay is. Or cared. One or the other.

@cindiwatson5415 Год назад

Love your story.

@TriddlerDD 5 лет назад

Nice. Thank you. I also went from working in the city for twenty years in IT to working full time on a family ranch. Less money to be honest but way more of what is important in life. God bless.

@jorgebonilla7571 5 лет назад

You guys got something good going here keep up the hard work stay safe

@fckickboxer 4 года назад

I live in the city. Work a professional job. Hate it. Been thinking for years about learning how to become a rancher and buy a plot of land. Looking at wyoming.

@ProfessorKitchen 6 лет назад

I always wonder what the cows are saying to each other as they stand there and low at each other. Are they discussing the weather? What Mike is wearing today? Are they playing a cow version of Marco Polo?? We may never know.... You and your neighbors help each other out herding your cows for auction. As long as that takes, I assume y'all each go to auction on different days. Do you get together with them to determine the scheduling for the year or just hope that 3 other people aren't doing it on the same day y'all are? Thanks for another great video!

@OurWyomingLife 6 лет назад

I would say Marco Polo. I guess we have never planned it out. There are a few different sales barns within the same distance, they all sell on different days, so it seems to work out. Depending on when you calve you may sell on a different date, and then there is always the issue of lining up a trucker to get them there. We have run into a few scheduling conflicts but usually it just works out :) - Mike

@rkelsey3341 5 лет назад

Cows are incredibly stupid. As a rancher friend says, "If they hadn't been domesticated, they;d be extinct." They are motivated by feed and that's about all they think about.

@kevincameron8437 6 лет назад

Pretty cool info. Thanks for sharing

@lesliehyland6113 5 лет назад

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@matthewjackson9615 5 лет назад

Better than I thought it would be. The narrator is very good.

@OurWyomingLife 5 лет назад

Thank you and thanks for watching -Mike

@HeavensGatesCherryFarm 6 лет назад

Love watching your videos, so much to learn and thank you for sharing!!!🍒🍒

@jennygoodwin8740 4 года назад

This is a really well presented video. Very interesting.

@terribethreed8464 5 лет назад

How much does a feeder calf, young right after weaning, go for these day's? I've been trying to get my 4 son's & daughter interested in starting their own small homesteads. So I've been sending them homesteading channel's that they & my grandkid's might enjoy. Planting the idea seeds so to speak lol.

@servihomestead4324 5 лет назад

Wow, great video, sir. Takes a lot of work to make a vid like this. We only have chickens now but hope to get a cow and calf soon. Thanks!

@SonneFarms 6 лет назад

How do you tame your animals so well?

@RuthieMadison 5 лет назад

Thank you so much for sharing this with your viewers. I am author who is writing a book based on a cattle ranch. God bless you.

@worldtraveler9480 3 года назад

I really like your video. I like ranching.

@290wayne 5 лет назад

Very nice video! Thanks for sharing!

@steveallen8760 2 года назад

You're awesome bud

@toddbrewer8215 6 лет назад

Congratulation on 50K.

@vickyburton2434 4 года назад

Here in Texas, we still use horses and the occasional helicopter. Do you have horses on your ranch?

@OurWyomingLife 4 года назад

Yes we do. No helicopter

@danielweinstein7189 4 года назад

Some years we take from our savings and some we get to add to it.

@patricianewton1417 4 года назад

That is an excellent explanation.

@MoviesSam 5 лет назад

Hey Mike - Great video. I've learned so much about ranching from you. Please allow me a stupid (or perhaps uninformed) question. Why don't you use horseback to bring the cows in ?

@kenvr2287 3 года назад

You should do voice overs....your voice loves the microphone 🎤

@elaineeast-byers2339 6 лет назад

Fingers crossed I hit the lotto (😂) and I too will hopefully one day learn your beautiful way of life. Thank you for all the time and effort you put into your videos ❤️

@OurWyomingLife 6 лет назад

Thank you for watching, good luck on that lotto :) - Mike

@sreerajthamban9654 5 лет назад

Nice video mate. The only thing missing in your farm is a Great Pyrenees!!

@tomloos3910 4 года назад

I enjoyed watching!!

@nigelabraham5790 5 лет назад

Wyoming Life look at the nose tag to weening your calves.

@OurWyomingLife 5 лет назад

We truck wean and the others that we keep we have never had any trouble weaning but I'll check it out. Thanks for watching -Mike

@theamerican7131 6 лет назад

very good. thanks for sharing. thumbs up.

@OurWyomingLife 6 лет назад

Thanks Paul - Mike

@karljacobson1575 6 лет назад

The feeder market is better, so you should get a decent price I hope!! I sell in February after I feed em for a bit! Where do you go with them?

@tw3145wallenstein 6 лет назад

Belle Fourche livestock market in South Dakota

@OurWyomingLife 6 лет назад

Each market has its ups and down, Gilbert did a lot of feeder a few years before he died and lost his butt. Its always a gamble when you cant set price. Thanks Karl - Mike

@karljacobson1575 6 лет назад

Tyler Wallenstein 10-4 thanks...

@karljacobson1575 6 лет назад

Our Wyoming Life I understand that!! Hope they sold good....

@isaiahboren5652 6 лет назад

No dislikes :)

@efrainsifuentes3409 4 года назад

I love your story thank you just wondering what you did before ranching God bless

@CelesStrife 6 лет назад

you gotta know when to hold em, know when to fold em! hehe

@allrise9923 5 лет назад

really cool video thank you

@johnnywhite1681 3 года назад

Great videos!

@fionakirwan3255 4 года назад

0:50 they're so cute I can't-

@rkelsey3341 5 лет назад

Just to let people know, beef has been excluded from the universal Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) requirement. Therefore, animals from Canada, Mexico, central and south America can be shipped into the USA, slaughtered and processed here, then be labeled "Product of the USA." This cheaper beef brings down the price of American raised beef by as much as $300 per head, and makes it less profitable for American ranchers to make a living by selling their true "Product of the USA" beef at auction. Beef needs to be returned to the mandatory COOL labeling program so American consumers can know for sure where the beef they purchase at the market comes from and can make an informed choice when they buy beef products!