Cross Timbers Bison: SEASON 1 MARATHON! (Part 2 of 4)

[Music] all right so i had this question quite a bit it's a really good question it's probably the number one question that any person interested in bison or buffalo would ask what is the difference between bison and buffalo i'm gonna try to help you and uh we're gonna talk about a little bit [Music] okay first things first we need to go way back we need to go way back and to where the first europeans came over here and so the europeans kind of started taking over the north american continent what we know is the u.s particularly and so as they started coming over here and checking everything out they saw this animal this big beast you know roaming out by the millions and um what they knew of this animal that they were used to seeing this big brown you know burly beast um out here grazing you know naturally and looking all majestic and stuff um they were used to them and they thought that buffalo and the when they said that um what they're referring to or what they thought that our buffalo these buffalo were as was the cape and water buffalo well which is in the eastern hemisphere and uh so you're talking you know there's there's places in africa and there's places in europe where the cape and the water buffalo are located and so they were used to seeing this big beast of an animal and you know the cape buffalo and the water buffalo are both very large mammals and when you first look at them this is what you see and i hate to say it but if you google buffalo now and you know on google and you look at uh some of the images uh you'll see cape buffalo and you'll see water buffalo come up and uh that's that's right because those are buffalo they're not our buffalo but um so when the first peoples were over here and you know they were seeing this animal that's where they got it they started calling a buffalo referring to what they were used to in europe and in africa and so what happened is this common name of buffalo started to surface it started to being passed along and that's what people referred to them as and as you know history tells itself the numbers grew more people kept coming from europe and so uh that word just kept going and that common name was referred to as buffalo all right so even the natives um had their own common name for the bison maya get over here sit sit down we don't do that stay all right so the natives even had their common name for for buffalo as well and that was from the english term uh that was brought over and so whenever people started calling that it even spread to the native americans and so let me talk about kind of today and what i hear is you know when you grow up the very first thing that you hear is the word buffalo and it's totally fine that's what you've heard that's what you hear in television and that's what you hear in the media people refer to them as buffalo we always have but now that the bison or buffalo is starting to kind of get spread more in the u.s and and people are starting to know more about them and the reason that is is because not too long ago a couple years ago the bison the american bison became our national mammal and there's a reason behind that you guys know that the bison um almost became extinct um in the late 1800s and uh you know it was a survivor and uh you know it it got through the tough times and with you know a lot of good conservationists noticing this and and even a a really good president by the name of teddy roosevelt noticing this and trying to put a lot of effort towards saving these majestic animals and you know almost 100 years later we've got we've got them as our national mammals which is awesome talking about you know this common name today is still used i go to a lot of bison conferences uh you know meetings and and you still hear that name you know being spread around buffalo you see a lot of people's ranches named you know buffalo ranch and and uh you hear bison mine are obviously bison uh because when i jumped into this i just felt like i wanted to go ahead and give it the the true name so let's break it down a little bit so you have buffalo which is a common name and then you have what the genus species is of american bison is bison bison that is the genus species of these animals right here it is a bison bison and which we just call them bison that is the american bison if you go way back there's a couple of other different species of bison but the real true what we have today is just american bison which we call bison so you've got common name uh that was spread a long time ago and then you have the actual scientific name also just kind of a common name today is bison and uh you know what it's okay you can call it either one if you want to get technical you call them bison you hear me say bison but at the end of the day they're the same animal of the american bison you just can't get it confused uh okay with the water buffalo or the cape buffalo over you know in europe and places like that so don't feel bad it's okay you're talking about still the coolest gum animal okay it doesn't matter it's fine okay but it's bison or buffalo don't be afraid to call it buffalo you're not wrong just don't get it confused with cape or water buffalo so even in one of my favorite movies which you know i talked about i even named my bull after him um so in dances with wolves you even hear that and that was a very popular movie in the early early 90s and you guys know that that movie um really kind of got me inspired with the whole connection with native americans and bison and i just love those kind of movies any movie uh you know kevin costner in is great uh if you already haven't seen watch yellowstone because it's really good but um you know when you hear he's on his tent at dunbar in that movie uh but you know there's the whole famous scene where he's sitting down i'm talking to that friendly tribe that he's trying to create a bond with and they're sitting down um drinking coffee this is one of my favorite scenes um you know he puts a he puts a jacket in his shirt and he hum hunches over and he's you know doing the whole tataka thing and you know we always laugh about it and stuff but um that's a funny scene because he's he's acting out to try to you know portray hey buffalo where are the buffalo uh but you hear them say that and the the sugar says buffalo buff funny scene one of my favorite scenes but you know it's stuff like that where we've heard them before and you know we you see that in the movies and you see it in the media and so it's okay that's been laid out for us as the term buffalo if you ask me what i would prefer and i'm just about this big and the whole bison world i would say bison the name of our magazine cover the name of our national bison association it all has the word bison in it we try to stay technical um but when you go to those associations you still hear that term being passed around don't i mean i am not an expert at this i am not a really great historian this is what i've learned as i've grown up and this is what i've learned from teaching oklahoma history and just you know being in this over a year and a half now so i'm not an expert at the bison versus buffalo but this is what i've learned and talked to people and picked up in books that i've read and just tried to pay attention to so um you know i'm not perfect at it but this is what i know to be uh buffalo versus bison and i just gave you the pretty short version of that so i hope that i helped you do i hope i helped you understand what the difference is um just compared to our american bison to the cape and the water buffalo um you know if you just stick with uh in the term american bison if you want to call them bison buffalo it's okay so people ask well what kind of bison do you have well let me break it down there's two types of bison in america there's planes bison which is this are these guys and then there is the wood bison let me show you what the difference is between wood bison and plains bison okay so on the woods bison you've got the hump that comes up a little bit more forward like you see here on dakota all right so on wood bison they live up in the north and you're going to see them in canada for sure but they also will be up into uh you know they can be up into montana wyoming idaho and some of those northern united states they're a little bit bigger than the plains bison and uh their hump comes forward they uh have a lot more kind of hair up in the front it's not as throwy it's not as curly up in the front it's a little shaggier up in the front kind of a you know long straight here i guess you could say if you talk to some woods bison people which i know some up in canada some good people up there they can tell you a little bit more about the difference between woods and plane planes bison minor planes bison um so the ones that you know you saw in the movies and the traditional you know the plains indians native americans hunting the bison those are these bison you're going to find those woods bison up far north you're not going to hardly see any down this way really but um not a huge difference they're still bison uh they're just woods and planes so you've got your genus species of bison bison and then you've got a kind of two subgroups here or two different groups of american bison all right guys i hope i've helped you today i hope that i've taught you a little bit more about bison and i hope that you know a little bit at least the difference between buffalo and bison and um you know what at the end of the day they're the same animal just don't get it confused with those other buffalo over in europe um but it's the same thing people know what you're talking about and now um if people ask you can correct them if you want you can say no it's bison i'm sorry that has taken me this long i kind of covered a bunch of other stuff and i you know it's okay to get back to the basics just like i have to do in teaching and coaching every now and then you got to do that and so um you know well over 13 videos in 13 videos in and we're just now talking about bison versus buffalo these are interesting animals and there's so much history about them that you can really get into if you want to read about but feel free to ask me any questions not an expert at this but if you have any questions you can feel free to ask me so hope you guys enjoyed the video today taking you back kind of into the classroom a little bit um being a teacher you know it's kind of natural to do that so um but i hope you learned something today um follow us on instagram or facebook crosstimmersbison and uh if you already haven't subscribed to youtube go ahead and hit that subscribe button thank you guys very much all right start over okay i got some good news for you so i've been telling you i've been leaving you out to dry we've got some t-shirts they are printed and ready to go so i'm going to give you directions on how you can get one 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this before it's just coincidentally you know i had my gopro sitting down and this is what happened check this out [Music] hey guys welcome back dusty baker crosstimers bison just out here checking on the herd checking on the little bulls i got it's a little nap time i just fed them so they're happy and and plump so it's kind of like that nap time after lunch you're like oh just ate lunch and now you're full i know it's a hard time of the day that's kind of where they're at right now but hope you guys been doing good everything is good here it's really good because everything has gotten greener again we've uh since we build the hay we've gotten quite a few inches of rainfall and so that's really good and exciting and i know the bison love it because they love that fresh green grasses they can still get late in the summer whenever we know that fall is knocking on the door and that green grass will disappear like you saw on my one of my previous videos but luckily um some of the heat has escaped oklahoma just for a brief moment and we're loving it here and uh i know that the bison are too but finally got some cooler temperatures and some rainfall so that's always good um but you know i just uh i have i kind of had the gopro out just trying to get some good footage on them i love just sitting out here and watching them they're just they're just fun animals to watch and they're just so curious i i mean they're like a goat i don't know if you've ever been around to go before um yeah but they're just they're so curious so i have the gopro sitting down and i can watch it on my phone and so i'm just sitting here watching them and almost every single one of them go by and sniff it smell of it lick it just to check it out because these animals spend so much time out in these pastures uh they know wherever every nook and cranny kind of is and so um this was something new out there and they didn't take them long to find it and they found that gopro and they had to go check it out so i've got some good footage that i'm going to show you today that now how cool is that to have baby bison calves come up that close to a gopro you're so up close and personal um right there with that bison cap basically trying to eat the gopro uh but it's crazy that we can see the inside of the baby bison's mouth that's something we will probably never get to doing unless you actually have them in a squeeze shoot and you have to do that but we should never have to do that so crazy good footage um natural footage of this just the baby calves being them just being little kids like just like us uh you know once when we're we're young um so curious like they are they want to smell everything and in this case maybe eat it or taste of it [Music] do [Music] [Music] [Music] do [Music] so you kind of see how curious these animals are they want to know everything that's going on they uh they just they're so interesting to watch and it's fun to sit there and um just see kind of what where their minds going and and what their what their focus is and what they're interested on um that's that's the fun part about being out here with them is uh they just they'll get into all kinds of stuff if you if you just if you would let them hey buddy i still don't have any i'm sorry dunbar wants cues but i've already fed him he's he's eating like a horse right now which he needs it okay i know i'll bring you some cubes okay so i got some exciting news um we've finally named the bulls uh we already had one pretty much named uh our very first one um he was our firstborn calf ever from the crosstimers bison and uh we named him chaska one of our uh followers uh kind of threw it out there and some comments after a video um and so we're gonna take it and run with it chaska means first born son and sue and the reason i kind of i really like that is first of all uh these those two mamas which are now uh they came from the quapon nation um like i've talked about several times but they uh the koapa tribe is i know there's many branches uh or groups of sioux and this is one of them is quapaw tribe and so um we kind of discovered that name through that through those some comments from a from a follower and i appreciate it um and so we're gonna run with chaska for for our first born bull and uh he's doing great both of them are doing really good on the second one we named him teddy because his mama is from teddy roosevelt national park is where her bloodline comes from and being able to have a a bloodline or a bison from a national park and teddy roosevelt national park out all of them that's so awesome and i'm lucky to have that so we've got chaska and we've got teddy um teddy roosevelt is one of my favorite um presidents of all time he did a lot of conservation he was a big time hunter but you know he explored a lot of places in america and he wanted to protect him and so we should be very thankful of people like teddy roosevelt so why not name a baby boss and calf after teddy as you can tell the baby bulls are doing awesome they're so pretty um you just it's so cool to see how red they are and you can tell how they just stick out out here against this green grass but they're doing really good they're getting so big still milking on mom like normal which is what they should be doing i even caught them eating some feed which is good that's okay they'll be eating feed it at some point as they get older um want to eat as much grass as possible okay get those natural nutrients in them um but you know someday they'll they'll eat some feed so one of the questions i get is what are you going to do with these baby bulls and well there's a couple of different things that you can do so you really it takes a while to really see kind of what their confirmation is and how good of an animal are they gonna be what are they what i mean by confirmation is that can be several things you know just their body structure and and how they're built uh little details kind of you know that they have good genetics um is is a quick way of putting it but we just kind of will keep these um little bulls for a while see how they turn out and uh you know we're not in a hurry to make any decisions right now the the ideal prime weight to take them to market or age to take them to market for meat purposes is like 18 months and then you know until like uh 22 or 24 months so right about two years is kind of the optimal time to take them to the market if you want to process them for meat um i know that kind of scares some of you guys like no but poor little babies they're not gonna be babies then wouldn't do nothing like that but um you know that's part of that's part of this industry i'm not there yet people ask me what are you going to do with these animals well i don't have enough right now to have market animals which is to process them for me and sell for me i wish i could sell you guys some meat because it's so good it's so good and it's so good for you but i just i just don't have the operation for that right now i mean i have a young herd as you can tell they only have two babies and it takes about two years to really have animals that you want to market and sell for meat purposes so we're not we're not in a hurry to do that but you know if in a year or so a year and a half if these bulls look really good um we could possibly sell them for breeding purposes um both of their mamas are really good mamas and like i've talked to you about before um they're both from the kuapa nation one of them is uh got bloodlines to teddy roosevelt national park which is awesome and um it's so cool that we have that right here in our own small herd which is really exciting you know i mean we wanted we wanted some heifers but didn't get heifers that's okay you know we've got two little stud bulls here that are uh really good looking bulls and they're doing excellent right now so we're just happy to have babies uh you know on the crosstimbers farm and uh but you know um ideally you wanted heifers to uh grow or expand your hurt which would have been awesome and that's great and you know if things work out right and mother nature takes its course dunbar is as you know the guy we're counting on and uh you know we could have we could have several babies uh next early summer or or spring which would be really awesome um so pretty excited about that that would be really cool to have you know five or six babies and that would be really good so so what i love about this tree right here okay this is called a black jack oak and um as part of my brand or the name of my herd cross timbers so a man never really explained what is cross timbers so cross timbers is an area in eastern half kind of in the central part of oklahoma where the prairie meets the forest is what it is called and this is one of the dominant deciduous trees that occurs here in our region it's a lawn that stretches all the way up to northern oklahoma down in even texas and it's kind of that central kind of eastern part of the state where uh the trees and the hard woods of eastern oklahoma meet the great plains essentially and you know this is one of my favorite trees it's uh it's a blackjack oak like i said but the blackjack oak and the post oak are two of the most common and dominant deciduous trees hardwood trees of the cross timbers region in oklahoma and as you can tell it's well used for some really good shade in the hot summer time but it's just a really cool pretty tree that we have out here and this was kind of one of the things that uh really kind of made me you know come up with the idea of cross timber's bias i want to describe something for oklahoma and you know and something related to where our farm is and where these bison are today and that big blackjack oak is one of the reasons that represents this cross timber's herd and just across timbers region in oklahoma all right guys i hope you enjoyed the video today um i know it's been a while since i gave you a checkup on the baby bulls but they're doing awesome they're getting so big and uh they're starting to lose their color you know on the kind of their knees is what we would call it or something down their midline or the tips of their ears and around their nose some of that brown or dark color is coming in and it's really pretty um to kind of have like a highlight through all that red there's a black coat underneath there that's starting to sneak through there but uh these little guys here are doing awesome and they're just fun to watch they're they're they're learning from from mamas and just checking everything out just like they do so but uh if you already haven't come follow us on instagram or and facebook subscribe to us on here um we our t-shirts are up and i've already sold some and you guys if you're interested in buying a crosstimer t-shirt go ahead and you can go down my website it's down here on the link below it's crosstimbersbison.com and you can get you a t-shirt and rock it out if you'd like um also my sister which is dj from dj from arms family homestead um her and daniel came out here this past week and my sister as you know is a professional photographer she's done this for a long time she does a great job she came out here her and daniel and they took some photos of the bison i haven't had any really real photography done by them been wanting to and my sister came out here and she took a lot of photos of them and they are awesome they look really good she does a great job and so if you're interested and going on and purchasing some of those photos uh you can and you can check uh her link i'll put it here also for you um dj arms photography uh she does a great job and i'm proud of her and i'm just very thankful to have somebody like her and my family and so you guys go on there and and check it out and uh if you like any photos go ahead and and let her know and she'll get you taken care of and i'll be posting some of those photos and and get some out because they are really really good photos so anyways hope you guys enjoyed the video today um thanks for following us our small little hurt here in southern oklahoma we really enjoy doing this thank you guys [Music] [Applause] [Music] hey guys dr baker with crosstimers bison you know one of the questions i always get besides what's the difference between bison and buffalo is do you have to have a permit to raise bison what does it take to raise bison [Music] so guys what i want to talk to you about today is how to start a bison herd there's no perfect way of doing this i'll just tell you my experience and what i did um i had a background in bison and obviously love this animal and that experience back when i worked at the national park service kind of led me into you know the influence of getting bison and so that first of all was the encouragement of others and then just the influence of my background history with these animals i wanted to be able to raise them so i had the inspiration there and the encouragement of the family members and my and my wife to do something like this and so that was a support system that i got that really helped a bunch but there's several different things that i want to talk to you about today that will help you get started to be honest with you there's no special permit there's no special license or anything to raise bison these are not exotic animals you know you're not you're not raising animals that are are from a zoo i know there's bison in some zoos but this is not an exotic animal um this is a natural species that occurs here and uh basically you just treat them it's it's kind of like cattle um if you want to start raising cattle for whatever reason you want to start raising cattle for you can do it you don't have to have any special permit to raise bison you don't have to have a special license or anything like that you if you want to do it you can as long as you have really good facilities obviously to contain the bison good fencing and you kind of have a background in it it would it would definitely help but to be honest with you if you've had experience raising cattle then then you're not far off of raising bison there are a couple different things um you know behavior differences and and different handling systems and and behaviors and more stress there is a difference between raising cattle and raising bison but if you do want to raise bison it's not that difficult to start you just need to get in contact with somebody that raises bison maybe somebody in your local area and that's where it starts from there if you've had if you have somebody local or somebody in your state that you can contact and start from there that that's probably the easiest way to do it and they'll kind of point you in the right direction i'll do whatever i can to help i would love to help um you know i'm here in oklahoma and i can answer any questions that you have for me that's not a problem you know i just i got mine i got in contact with a guy and i was just really lucky because this guy happened to be a big time bison guy and he's 30 minutes down the road from our farm and so i was just really lucky and i got a hold of doc parsons and and he pointed me in the right direction but i had experience raising bison i say raising them taking care of them handling them with my experience in the national park service when i was in college so i had some experience there and i wasn't really scared to raise them or be in the pen with them at all obviously a little nervous when you buy your own herd but it's a little bit different but you can do it you can definitely raise your own bison um okay those are not bison but those bacteria bison i don't know what's going on here but anyways you're you can you're more than welcome to get in contact with me if you would like to raise a bison um if you if you have some experience raising cattle or or bison and drone general and um you want to expand go for it i i encourage you to do so they're amazing animals and uh they're fun to watch they're just absolutely fun to watch they're hanging out down here in our bottom pasture and just enjoying life another resource that you can reach out to is the national bison association it is a great association when i go to the conferences the bison conferences there's a summer conference and then there's a winter conference the winter conference is in denver my wife and i attended last year had a great time but you can even get on the website and you can get contact information there and that will be very helpful if you're interested in raising bison that's actually a good start and you can branch off from there and figure out you know maybe who's in your area maybe there's somebody local that raises bison maybe you've driven down the road and seen a bison heard you know if you can figure out who owns those bison maybe that's a good start somebody within your state that raises bison but you can always go to the national bison association look online uh i believe it's www.bisoncentral.com and you can go on that website and get a lot of good information and there's a lot of good contact information on there as well [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] knew this tree was good for something huh eleanor does that feel good what do you got in your hair hey guys i hope i helped you out today i uh hope that i've encouraged you with some of my videos to raise bison um it's not for everyone i hope that you guys understand that these animals are very different than cattle they're different than any sort of livestock that if you've ever raised livestock before they're a very unique animal they're a special animal and they have character um they are very very social animals which that's so interesting about them um which that's one of the things that just will attract you to them it's just how social they are they have this this this family and you know they you can see how they interact with each other and and even me as well in my family while more out here but take your time um and see if this is the right thing for you go visit a bison farm go and see how they operate you can go to a large scale buy some farm or you can go to a small scale buy some farm obviously mine is smaller i started out small and the that's fine with me i think this is easier to start out this way and by the way ted turner started out with a very small bison herd as well and he's the largest bison producer in in the world so it's okay to start out small but use your resources dig into and get as much information as you can go visit a farm that's the best thing to do see how it all operates see how they do things and make a decision from there and you know have a have a good background of of raising animals that would be a good start and uh you have to have good property uh with that provides grass and um obviously good fencing which um i'm going to talk to you about in the upcoming video hey guys i hope you enjoyed the video today i hope i've encouraged you to to raise some bison um and i hope i've at least drawn some interest to you um to do that um if you guys have any questions or anything you guys can contact me um you can go to my website crosstimersbison.com um you can check us out on facebook and instagram and if you already haven't followed us along and check out our small herd here in southern oklahoma thank you guys so much well hey guys welcome back to cross timber's bison we're right in the middle of breeding season and i'm seeing a lot of cool stuff that dunbar is portraying he's our only bull out here and this is his first breeding season it's our three young heifers first time for breeding season our two-year-old heifers and so we've got a lot of action going on around the cross timbers farm stay tuned [Music] um hmm hey guys so um we're right in the middle of breeding season and um you know probably got a solid month and a half maybe left this morning i've noticed um dunbar is escorting um bell star around so um that's uh that's a good sign you know he'll uh during this time he'll kind of single his heifer or a cow out and um you know kind of squirt her around and and follow around and he'll smell of her and he'll he'll try to breed her every now and then i haven't actually seen him breed any of these heifers yet or the cows but uh you can definitely see some signs of the breeding season and he's uh he's just being natural and doing his thing uh but you can definitely see the signs of of what he's trying to do so there's a good chance that she's in heat they should be in heat right now or they've all been in in heat so um we won't ever really know um you know if he's bred them or not not until we start to see the signs later on um unless we you can do ultrasounds once you work them and and get them in the squeeze shoot you can do some ultrasounds but i don't have that technology yet maybe someday i will but that's really the only way to tell if they're pregnant or not or you know when it gets closer to birthing season you can see signs as those those heifers or cows you can kind of tell if they're pregnant or not so but we won't know for a long time really until until that baby comes out like ours did in june and july this year which was pretty late but so right in the middle of reading season it's a good time what you got in your hair buddy dunbar's got some cockle burrows in his hair some morning kisses i'm a big boy so what normally happens when i feed him is dunbar our bull he usually eats by himself he he kind of takes a hold of his own trough and does his own thing which is fine he's got to bulk up and put on some weight and keep putting on that weight especially in the middle of breeding season when a lot of bulls are working pretty hard they can lose a little bit of weight but uh you know this morning i was talking about um how he's been escorting belle stall around and this morning they chose to eat breakfast together i thought it was cute he usually doesn't like to share at all got a helper today are you helping maya huh are you helping dunbar is not having a fight with any other bulls or mature bulls like you you've probably seen on yellowstone or any of those shows where you can see bison in those big national parks fighting for that dominance he's only two years old so uh he is the dominant bull out here and which is a good thing so um i i have noticed some of his traits of of running other heifers off i've noticed him um chasing the calves off a little bit and that's just his dominance of showing that he is the main guy and um you know he's trying to breed we're we are right smack into the middle of this breeding season and um you know he gets to do his thing which uh we just let mother nature take its course and it's just fun to watch him as he as he does his thing and so just being a bull and hopefully he's getting all these heifers bred so like i said i haven't actually got the seam get any of these heifers bred but um he's doing a really good job of getting cockle burrows in his hair that's for sure aren't you buddy unfortunately uh we have cockleboro weeds here and we've tried already tried to spray em once and we just gotta stay on top of them so so here's kind of a perfect example of what's going on as as you've got dunbar out here singling up one of uh that's actually one of the cows who just had bulls and you can kind of see once he singles out his heifer or cow um you know this is the testing moment could last couple hours could last a couple of days of weather she's going to allow him to breed or not so this is where some of that dominant behavior comes in of where i've actually seen him run off uh the other cow and i've actually seen him run off um you know a couple of the cavs actually i'm showing that dominance that he normally wouldn't do but uh this is an important time for him and um you know he's he's he's trying to uh escort his girl around and try to you know do his thing so um and hopefully he's able to do that with these heifers ideally it would be really really good um to have to have uh you know five babies uh come this spring you know we had our first two here at the crosstimers ranch this spring and uh you know right in the middle of breeding season um hopefully he's getting all five of these our three heifers bread and then the two cows um bread you know he's he's two years old going on three this spring uh this coming spring and uh that means he can breed you know along with these these uh heifers we've got eleanor bellstar and peaches they're also two years old they're my part of my original first herd and it'll be their first time to go through breeding season here on this ranch so um as far as the cows we've got qualpon dakota this will be their second go around but it'll be their first time hopefully being bred by dunbar because um chaska and teddy are two little bull calves that are having fun in the background over there um they uh they're from a different dad i don't know exactly what it is i remember quapon dakota came from the quapaw tribe up in northeastern oklahoma and oh looky there my dog um just got ran off by dunbar so there you go there's a perfect example just my blue healer out here in the middle of pasture with me thinking she's a bison dog but she ain't look at him he is not liking this situation right here um maya you better get over here come here maya she's like screw that i ain't going close to him i know he's gonna come check me out got a lot going on here you gotta say hi hi hi wasabi what's up what do you guys think about the bison really cool really cool besides the babies of course they're changing colors you notice that yeah wait that one too look at it that's eleanor she has been bad she's been rubbing on a tree here why don't you do this i'm going with those cubes and then put it in there stick your hand through there there you go oh she dropped it go do the wrong one come here bellstar did she do it oh there you go she ate it is this one that's peaches is this one bell store no no no she's not over here you guys these are the two of the sweetest ones well i'll say that and then they start to fight and then eleanor eleanor ellen moore oh dean you got to push it in there man i try no you got to put your hand through the panel she won't hurt you at all come here she won't hurt you there you go see that work good job i barely even touched me good job she barely even touched me there's nothing you need to feed this one now oh look at that tongue will the babies eat these cubes i don't know yet jacoby maybe so there's your bull this one now star nope that's peaches peaches is the nicest one she's nice eleanor's the sweetest though peaches beaches beaches you want one you want one it's really hard yeah it is it's like sensitive no it's rough isn't it he got him full is it rough jacoby yeah yeah it is you want it do you want it or not you got to put it through there you're oh my gosh she's so scared put it in there she can't reach through there wildlife at its best bison deer oh all right guys well i hope you enjoyed the video today um just right in the middle of breeding season and he's used to it you're gonna do an ending for me yeah okay we'll do it in just a second then all right so um but i hope you get to understand a little bit more about how at least dunbar works here on a small farm here just a young bull um and some of the the trades that he's carrying and his uh his behavior i notice he's been beating a lot of uh um some of the weeds or some of the shrubs that we have here in this in this specific lot i'm just showing that dominance that he has but i hope you enjoyed it i hope you enjoy seeing kind of how they interact together and how he kind of singles out as his ladies and you know mother nature takes his course hopefully and and um everything's taken care of and hopefully he's breeding these these heifers and some of these cows but since we do have a couple of guests out here we're gonna let them do a formal ending for us that we don't always get we've got uh houston from arms family homestead and we got our boy jacobi out here hanging out with me checking the bison um if you already haven't followed us on youtube you can pause at crosstimers bison i've got some hats made now if you're interested in a hat and of course our t-shirts as well um you can follow us on instagram and facebook and just follow us or our little small herd along as uh as we're going through the the summer getting into the fall so guys what do you think really cool really cool yeah you see they're super excited about bison sorry they're not ghosts but they're still pretty cool though aren't they yeah all right guys go ahead and end it for us so guys if you haven't right now subscribe bring the notifications amen boom you wonder why you get cocker burrows get out of there [Music] so this is peaches see what's on peach's forehead that's what we're gonna work on today we call those cockle burrows and they get stuck in just about everything obviously the bison you can see the fresh ones the green ones that they've been rubbing on and all they're doing is simply pushing that weed back so they can get to grass and those cockle bears get stuck in everything even if i walk by them they'd be stuck to our pants and i can't stand them i want them gone and so today my wife and i marissa we're gonna go out and we're gonna spray these dad gum weeds and get try to get rid of these cocker burrs [Music] so [Music] um they're almost just as big as each other you know what [Applause] well hey guys what's happening welcome back to crosstimers bison i'm dusty baker behind the camera today is my wife marissa today we're going to do something a little different we are going to spray some weeds today out in one of our big pastures as you can tell we're having some issues with what we call cockle burrows that's the common name that we call them and you can see those nasty things that are getting matted on the bison no they're not ticks they're just it's a simple uh sticker and it's a pretty good size sticker and i absolutely hate them i cannot stand these things um and my family knows i hate them because i hate seeing them stuck in my bison and there's nothing i can do to get them out once they're in there it's not like i can go up and pick them pick them off like it's my dog or anything so the only way to really get these things out is to run them through the chute and comb them out and that would still even then be a tough process and i know the bison wouldn't really go for that so a way to reduce these is what we're gonna do is we've already fed the bison since they're up here and we are going to rotate pastures i've got a lot um that has been rested for about uh 20 plus days now and we've we've shut it off from the bison that's part of our rotation system we've shut it off it's had time to recover there's some more growth in there now and so we're going to shut off the big pasture which is where they've been which is where they've been getting all these cocker barrels from and we're going to shut them off and then we're going to move them into one of our pastures that has been kind of it's had some time to heal and grow some fresh grass that the bison will love [Music] do [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] foreign [Music] all right so we're out here in our big pasture and so if you want to come take a close look this is what we're dealing with i don't know where this thing come from but this is my least favorite plant probably in the world this thing absolutely sucks so here is what the cockapro is and it is sharp and it is pointy and look at all those fine hairs and a lot of um just a lot of stickers basically here and this is just one plant we're going to get into batches of them and i absolutely hate these things and they get all over the bison and they'll stick to just about anything they'll stick to your dogs they'll stick to your clothes and so we're going to try to get rid of these today so the bad part about these cockle burrows is once they attach to a host which could be a dog it could be a cow obviously our bison so once it attaches to a host and those bison move and they go somewhere else they dust on the ground they roll around they lay down once that cockapoo falls off there goes the seed and so that's how these things really spread unfortunately they'll attach to just about it anything and then when they fall off and they could fall off you know far away from where the plant starts there you have a reseed and it starts all over again today i'm going around with just a simple hand sprayer and knocking out these and we'd rather do this than spray the whole field um you've got direct contact direct spring right here on each plant it's going to take longer and a little bit more labor but i'd rather do it this way than spray the entire field so this is the best way to do it in my personal opinion i know some of you are going oh he's spraying herbicide freaking out because the bison will be in here but we give this thing plenty of time to recover we'll give this up to from a week to two weeks and and really all it needs for that herbicide to settle in is 48 hours and that's that's still plenty of time but we're going to give this lot probably a week or two to really kill these off and get that herbicide away so we're not taking really any risk at all so it's we're going to have plenty of time for this pasture to recover it's not everywhere but it's sparringly spread out and we're going to attack the big portion of it [Music] do [Music] [Music] i'm barely six foot and i mean that's that's above my knees but when you take a look here every single one of these plants has i don't know 20 to 30 of these cocker girls and inside the taco barrels are two seeds and so do the math that's a lot of seeds that are spreading out in these pastures it's not very hard to spread these things spread these things especially when they die like today it's a little windy here in oklahoma like it always is but those things will fly and they'll just keep spreading so here we have some of the dead ones as you can tell this plant will start to die and they'll turn brown the first thing that they do is they'll fall to the ground like here just like so right there once they've fallen and there they're seated right there so look all these dead plant materials stuck to them so this one is starting to die look at that that is nasty so what i've heard is velcro came from these weeds this um sticker um and it makes total sense that velcro could come to this because these things i mean they'll just they stick together they stick to just about anything here are some fresh ones i said the most effective method of getting rid of um we have green grass out here this is this is bermuda and the bison do eat this grass up here in one of our top big pastures so we can't really burn and um so uh the best time to burn is is in the fall or in the spring and maybe if i talk my stepdad into it we can burn this pasture and hopefully get rid of a lot of these weeds and starting with these right here fire can do some amazing things it can bring a lot of fresh grass up and regenerate you know a lot of that natural grass that occurs here that's a bison absolutely love so that's another method that you can use obviously can't burn because it's we're getting into fall we've got a lot of green grass and that's what the bison need is green grass so this is just something that we're going to have to deal with it's part of it part of this whole acreage that we have here is using the bison to kind of consume those grasses and bring back some of that natural grass these bison as they go through here and they trample on this grass and they pee and they poop on it they're actually doing it a favor they're shoving a lot of that good nutrients and those seeds back into the soil every time that they travel through here and they're grazing and so um as we use that throughout these pastures you know over time it'll take a little time we'll get rid of a lot of this kind of stuff okay so here we have some cockaburras that some of that are already dying and then here we have some fresh ones but um you know if you wanna if you wanna know what these things feel like it's basically like um velcro i mean these things stick together i i mean just like velcro like even the fresh ones stick to it but they're they're just a lot more pointy um i mean if you squeeze too hard though i mean they'll they'll get into your skin pretty good so um absolutely something that we don't want here so perfect example of peaches right here that has lots and lots of cocker barrels on her head and uh i feel bad for him i know it's just part of it uh this exotic and invasive species of of weed that we have kind of frustrated that we have these on our bison it's part of having um you know animals as part of having a farm and those are some of the things that you have to deal with and we'll take it unfortunately they'll be stuck to the bison for a while at least some of them like peaches here but um so when you see uh these cocker barrels in the video you'll know hopefully what i'm talking about now that's basically sticking velcro in your hair is all it is and they'll keep them for a while when they shed next spring into summer that's when they'll kind of fall off and unfortunately they'll recede from there but hopefully we'll be able to do some burning if i can talk i'll step dead into it we can hopefully do some burning and get rid of these cocker burrows well that's it for today guys i hope you enjoyed the video i know it's not a lot of the bison um not really happy with what's all over their face right now with the cockle burrows this is just one of the things that we have to deal with when you when you let your bison out into new pastures pastures that they haven't really spent a lot of time in and so this is just part of what some of the things you have to deal with on a farm and hopefully spraying them will help a little bit i think in the end maybe in the fall or in the spring we're able to burn that pasture which is something that i love to do maybe we can do that and maybe everything will get cleaned up and the buy some will love that fresh grass that'll come up in the spring and early summer but anyways if you haven't subscribed to us uh follow us on youtube across dimmer's bison and follow us on facebook or instagram and just stay in touch with us you have any questions [Music] so one of the things i always try to do is i try to get eleanor her own trough as you can see here hers is singled out kind of away from all the main feeding troughs that we have i like to make sure that she's getting some feed too and plus she's just the sweetest she is the sweetest heifer that um that we have or out of all of our bison but there's definitely some definitely some hierarchy and some pecking order with these animals and so we try to make sure all of them are getting taken care of as much as we can [Music] um come here i know i haven't talked about it much but there is a pecking order in this small box in here these animals are so social and there's definitely a system that they have it really started with our two most dominant well they're mamas now so they're cows it started with them really and when we brought them into this pasture and with this herd they were older they were already three years old they were bred and so and plus they were just bigger and so they really took over in this in this small herd from our original four um bison that we had um so it really kind of changed the dominant the dominance here in the hierarchy the bull's pretty much been the most dominant and and he will be as he gets older especially as he can contest with some of these older cows bell star our largest heifer of the original herd is one of the most aggressive and was the dominant um in the herd for a while and then dunbar or bull is caught up to her and obviously it's breeding season so that dominance is really shown and exploited here but um it's really crazy to see how these animals work and and coincide with each other and how there really is a dominant system placed and that takes place everywhere i mean it that takes place in all the the big ranches all of the national parks that you see yellowstone that pecking order takes place in all of these um it's really easy to tell in mind just because of how small my herd is but even in a small herd of eight with those two calves there is a pecking order and it's just really interesting to watch and see but definitely those two quapaw heifers are are two of the most aggressive plus they have babies right now and i think some of that dominance in that protection mode comes in when we're talking about the pecking order we're up here feeding um the bull runs off he's got his own trough over there and you can kind of watch and see who kind of takes control in this corral in this feeding area that we have but our two quapaw heifers for sure take control so this is bill star she's one of our more dominant more aggressive heifers and here's peaches and then one of our favorites eleanor eleanor unfortunately has become one of the um less dominant animals of this herd she's kind of the weak leak unfortunately um she was one of the largest when she first got here the eleanor is now kind of on the lower side of things even though she's the sweetest eleanor has been kind of pushed to the side and she's one of the weaker ones of the group of this pecking order unfortunately here's an example right here guarantee you watch this just like that velstar comes in kicks eleanor out let's see if she'll let her eat with her oh but here's the most dominant of them all and there you go you've got qual paul paul paul and dakota are the two most aggressive out of all of them and there's another example right there so there there's your winner there's your winner right there that is dakota and there's teddy falling a lotta wrong right along with her so i think your winner's right here the most dominant besides the bull he's pretty dominant now he's the largest hey guys well i hope you enjoyed the video today i uh i hope you understand a little bit more about the uh the pecking order and these bison and that that takes takes part in every bison herd there is across north america but it's just part of the system these animals are very very social animals and it's fun to just kind of watch how their family works and how their system works and and they and they you know they they fight just like just like families do and and and so you can kind of see that order and and that management within the herd so um but anyways just uh a couple little things so we've got hats for sale on crosstimersbison.com on my website as well as t-shirts and you can get online and check that out and if you haven't followed us um you can follow us on facebook or instagram and you can check any of that stuff out i've got a lot of good pictures up there my sister took of the bison um a couple months ago so we're getting close we've just about just about got that pad um cleaned off we're trying to get a lot of those cinder blocks gone and then we've got some construction there and then i'm going to get a shoot and get a alley system and we're going to put this thing on there and we're going to get our bison handling system put together one other thing i do want to say is we are hosting a bison sale it is part of the oklahoma bison association um i'm one of the officers on the oklahoma bison association and we host a sale every year it's actually in my hometown and it's in sulphur oklahoma we have a sale barn here in sulphur and it's really good and it's really set up for for what we do but we've got a lot of bison coming this year last year we had over just a little under 100 and then this year we have at least 100 coming this is going to be a much larger sale it's november 2nd i believe it's on a saturday and it's coming up pretty soon so me and other members of the oba are getting that thing ready and hopefully i'm gonna take you on that journey with me when that happens and it's november 2nd if some of you are in oklahoma or or near us and you want to come see a show come to a bison cell and you'll see some really interesting stuff go down you'll see all kinds of different um bison producers and and some different bison as well so it's it's fun to watch and they bring every anything from from young baby calves six months old all the way to full grown cows and bulls and so it's really interesting you can learn a lot at those sales and one of the things that i do is i go and work it so whenever people are bringing them in well got a dog plan um i um work it and i help get them in their certain pins and keep them separated and we uh we identify them and do all the paperwork for them and get them ready for the sale so hope you guys enjoyed the video stay tuned with us thank you guys for following thank you for all the support and all the very positive comments you guys leave thank you what do you have to say stop it why are you angry huh why are you being angry are you real you must be upset because i don't have any cubes you are upset you're like those bison in that park it's called yellowstone have you ever heard of it those people that go up there and never been around bison they're not like you well i don't know you get pretty angry sometimes those bison up there are different bell star a little feisty you're over in their territory so i'm not hopping in there with you a little feisty oh fine there's no sense for this you're really upset i don't have any cubes that's yours this is mine okay i'm gonna let you be you just do your thing [Music] hey guys welcome back to cross timber's bison i know it's been just a little bit it's been a minute or two but um we've been really busy um we're in the grind of football season we're getting down to just a couple more games left and hopefully make playoffs um that's what we're shooting for uh but as you can tell here um it is hay season um in one of my videos you saw where we cut this hay right out here in one of our own pastures we got 33 bells of hay as the first time that we were able to um get some hay out of our own pasture and so that's good we don't have to go buy any or we don't have to go find any from from any other producers uh but we've harvested their own hay right here um so today um i'm going to get a bella hay and we are going to feed the bison now this is not just you know just giving them hay and feeding them like like we do in our corral where we feed them grain and whatnot but this is different these bison gets so excited when they have hay when there's this big bale of hay out there which these are these are decent-sized bills hey um they get super excited they rough this thing up they get in a fight with it they rub on it they scratch it and and then of course they'll eat it but um it's just kind of a different thing i know you're like hey what's what's this it's just a bella hay right i'm just gonna eat it wait until you see what these bison do when they get their first bill of hay [Music] so one of the things that we're going to do today is we are going to give the bison their very first bail of hay the grass is finally starting to die we found we we had a really really close to a frost or a freeze last week we finally are getting those fall temperatures that we love here in oklahoma it's beautiful i mean it's 70 something degrees and it's just absolutely beautiful here in southern oklahoma but we finally got some cool weather um and the unfortunate part about that is um excuse me once you get that frost once you get one of those first freezes that grass starts to die we've been really lucky because we've had good run over rain over the summer and now that the it's cold enough the grass is starting to die so what that means is we pick up the feed a little bit um we we've got to get keep some weight on them and so we're going to feed them a little bit more of some of our grain stuff and then we will give them some hay [Music] so what we're going to use to give the bison this hay is we're going to use a little single bell hay hauler this thing is handy it i bought it last year once i got the bikes and i needed in the winter time to haul hay but this year we're really lucky because we bailed um one of our hay pastures for the first time ever and we got 33 bills of this summer in late july a lot of natural grass some johnson grass in there but now that we've got our own hay which is over there um we don't have to go very far anyways i've got this little single hay bale hauler it's it's pretty neat got it on the farm truck here and uh it's a uh it's battery operated i i went and bought a car battery and it's all for remote control let's take a look all right so what we have here is a um battery operated um lifter hay bale lifter and um a single bail hauler whatever you want to call it whatever the name is for i don't know i don't care as long as it holds the bills i hate for me and lifts them up but uh this little um battery operated was pretty awesome we got the remote control here in and out i can see it there we go but this thing works pretty well um luckily we don't have to take our bills very far but this is uh this is pretty handy to to to get these uh hay bales moved around for the bison okay so you saw me take the string off or the wrap um here in southern oklahoma um you you won't see a lot of completely wrapped bells of hay we just don't have a lot of problems with mold necessarily here that much so we just use these normal wraps however you have to get these completely off the bells of hay you you can't have any strings left over um this can be really dangerous um it's great because it it holds these big bills of hay together however if this stuff gets consumed or gets in a cow a goat a sheep or our bison this thing can get wrapped up in their intestines and can kill you know any type of livestock really quick so you really got to make sure that you get all of this string or this wrap you really have to get this thing out of that bella hey no extra strings on this at all make sure you get everything we don't want to have any issues because if while they're grazing this hay they'll just accidentally take this and once it goes in their system um you're gonna have some some issues so make sure you gotta get all this out of there so there it is right there the first bill of hay for the bison this year they'll come over here and and they'll the bull he'll he'll beat this he'll beat this thing up it's kind of like a big toy for him to to to beat around on and uh they'll rub on it and and scratch on it and obviously eat it they love hay and it's good roughage form for them to have and the good thing about this excuse me this hay is it came straight from this land here straight from this farm and this is this stuff is just gonna go right back into the earth and the cycle continues for us and the bison do a great job of that um just like they've done for for hundreds of years so hey guys um wife and i got the bella hay set out the bystander way down in the bottom of our pasture so we're gonna go ahead and drive down there check on them and see if we can get them rounded up and to come up here with us and let them know hey you got your first bella hay of the year and see see how they respond to that [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Laughter] so do [Music] so i've got my body cam here just have my gopro attached to uh to my chest here just to kind of free up my hands a little bit and still get some some filming done [Music] hey guys you guys ready for some hay come on hey easy come on here they come keep going speed up a little bit come on maya come on stop at the gate that's good right there hon so so so she just tried to jump over it oh my gosh i just completely whipped just when i didn't think anything would be going on i turned my back the bison run in because we fed them but eleanor just tried to jump over the bella hay so sorry i missed it i may have got her just laying down right here after because she just completely tried to jump over it on it i'm not sure she was really excited because we got their first bill of hay and then she just fell right here next to it so um gosh i wish you guys could have seen that that's crazy as you can tell here already destroyed you saw what the bull just did they get pumped whenever um they get the hay in here and you can see the first thing they want to do is not come up and eat it like you think they would no they want to hit it rub up against it beat it up well i hope you guys enjoyed the video today it's fun to watch these bison um you know get excited about something just like us going down in the pasture kind of rounding them up checking on them making sure everything is good and then trying to get them to come up to the corral where we keep our bells a hay and you can see the excitement of them following us up the pasture and uh and running and stuff it's so fun to watch them just just run and uh these are majestic animals and when they get to running like that you know it's really fun to to see them run but um they're all doing great calves are getting so big and you know it's that time of the year leaves are gonna start falling and cool weather it's been gorgeous we love this time of the year in oklahoma and you know it's just a fun time right now and and i think the boston are feeling good and they love their cold weather they're ready for that cold weather to settle in and that that heat to escape because uh you guys know that um or if you don't know bison love cold weather and they uh they face the storm when it hits so but anyways i hope you enjoyed the video today got some exciting stuff our alleys being built so that's really good and uh down in texas and um we'll head down there in probably a month or so to uh to get our alley and then as far as our shoot goes um we're gonna get a shoot that's located um here in our state of oklahoma um and then we're gonna get this thing cleared off and get our get our handling system all set up and everything will be good to go and um the sale is coming up november 2nd if you're around in oklahoma uh plan on coming to that it's a show um right now we've got about 150 bison that are supposed to be there and so if you're around or or close come to the cell it's pretty fun if you need any more information get in contact with me and i'll let you know uh [Music] [Applause] hey guys welcome back to crosstimers bison i know you're probably wondering where the heck am i well today's going to be a little bit different we are at the sale barn where all the buys are going to come into the cell barn today and we're going to get ready for our cell tomorrow um it's quite a show and all these bison come from all different you know parts of parts of oklahoma or this region and and they all come in here into these pins and get sorted out and then tomorrow is the sale so today i'm going to show you a little bit about how all this goes down and how all these bison come in here safely and are put into these pins it's a show hope you're ready [Music] so [Music] so here's the first trailer for today it's got 32 cows in it so we're gonna unload these cows and work them one at a time and get them sorted out again [Music] every animal that is unloaded has to go through the proper procedure before it can be sorted out in the livestock facilities one it's given an identification number called a back tag that's the yellow round sticker placed on their left hip and that's just a simple identification number to use throughout the cell they're also going to be identified of what sex they are how old they are to be accordingly placed in a livestock barn in certain pins what i'm doing is i am giving them their bangs vaccination metal id tag and it's every metal tag that i'm giving in their right ear is a different identification number for every individual bison and that is recorded so that every new owner of that bison will have the proper identification number which is the middle tag in that ear [Music] it takes a lot of work to sort these animals out work them properly and safely and handle them all every one of these people that are helping through this are members of the bison association or just volunteers family and friends having the animals sorted out throughout the barn makes the sale go by a whole lot easier and it's easier for buyers to come by and look in different parts of the barn where different ages and genders are located so this is called a back tag tags go on the bison whenever they come off the trailer into the sale barn and this is just a marker or identification number to use just for the sale this uh it's put on with a little bit of glue it's put on the back kick as you can see right here and it's just an easy identification for the sail it'll fall off eventually or when you run into a shoot you can take it off of them [Music] [Music] so younger robert [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] it's a lot of bison got everything from cows to bulls to old cows young cows heifers calves you name it hey guys so where i'm at right now is the ring and this is where the auction will go down as you can tell um everybody a lot of the buyers will be in here and um the bison will come through they'll come through the ring and they'll hang out in here for a while people will take a look you'll have the auctioneer um talking about the animal when they first come in and then also they'll talk about the producer a little bit where the bison from and then the auction will start for each animal sometimes they do it by herds it could be a small herd it could be it could be a couple of of bison it could be just one big bull um there's different classes and categories so um it just depends but this is where it'll all go down and this is where um you know maybe maybe i could get some more bison i don't know we'll see i bought both of my quapaw heifers from here last year and so um we'll see we're thinking about it we we may get a couple more to add to the cross timbers herd well hey guys it's sale day here in seoul for oklahoma and it's time to go in here and check out these bison and see what prices are going for and see maybe if we can get some bison today stay tuned um 709 so one of the cool things about these sales is people from all over oklahoma bring their animals here to sell and you just never know where the lineage is and where some of those bison were purchased from uh and their offspring where do they lead back to in other ranches there's these bison here at this hill could go back to any any other herd there's no telling where what hurt across the country they could come from and so it's really neat you're seeing tons of different animals from different ranches and different producers which could be all over the country essentially with these bicycles so in total i think there was about 113 animals last year was the first time we held this sale for the oklahoma bison association and i think there was right at close to 70. this year we had 113 which is really good so you know that's it's good to have more animals more more advertising gets out every year and year and so we always want more animals and we always want more buyers at these sales it's good for the bison industry and it's good for the oklahoma bison association and hey guys so sales over and now this is the holding area where all the bison have been sorted out into specific pins for buyers so when the animals are ran through the actual ring and they're auctioned off and then you have a buyer they have they're given a number and that number certain pins where the buyer has bought certain animals and then they try to keep those animals together the buyer has purchased and so all the workers are back here sorting out all the bison as they come through the ring and come out after they've been purchased and they sort them out to get ready to get them ready to be shipped out and so that's what we're gonna do next is we're going to get all these trailers backed up here and we're going to load these bison up and so um the buyers can take home their new bicycle so check this out we bought two heifers and guess what they came from the quapon nation we bought two more heifers um in the auction today my wife and i did so they're from uh one of the same producers up in the quapon nation so we will have two new koapa heifers coming in these are yearling heifers so which that means that they're one year old or more and hopefully by next summer they'll be able to breed and then the year after that they'll be able to have babies so two new additions to the family and what we're to do is we're going to load them up and we're going to take them to the farm and join the cross timbers herd nope [Music] [Music] look there's the boston [Applause] this is the first morning of the two new additions to the herd we've got two new quapaw heifers that we purchased from the cell yesterday and they have joined the herd and everything is going good they came up and they ate this morning with the rest of the herd and i think they're adapting really well so i basically have uh four koapa females in this herd now since we've added the two um heifers and basically if you don't know what the qual paul when i talk about qualpal there's the koapa indian native american nation up in northeastern oklahoma and they produce a lot of good bison and last year at this bison sil i bought two bread heifers kwapa and dakota and they had the calves and now i just purchased two yearling heifers and they don't have any babies they're not bread someday hopefully they will be and so we have four quapaw females and two quapaw bull caps so one of the reasons we didn't just put these heifers out into the big pasture we went ahead and pulled them in some of our small lots here this is kind of our hay lot where we we bring in the bells of hay like you saw in my previous video so we brought the herd in we got them out of the big pasture and we put them in here so that we could um bring in the new heifers and because when you bring new animals in you don't just want to let them take off running and so uh you want them to come in here kind of get used to the new environment the new herd and and kind of slowly uh give them a chance to adapt to the new situation that they're in so they're gonna hang out in one of our smaller lots um where we feed them and where we give them hay and they can hang out here for a while and get used to the we have our two new heifers they're getting along pretty well they still have the back tags on them they stay there for a while they're doing pretty good i'll make their way in the herd so what we'll do the next couple of weeks is we're going to keep you updated on how these heifers kind of grow into this herd and how they adapt to this new herd a new environment we've already fed them this morning they'll get used to our feed and hey they already have been eating hay where they came from and so it'll just be a process of them getting to know everyone in the herd these are very social animals and um you know they it takes a little bit of time for them to adapt to not only a new environment but to a new family as well and so that'll occur you know here over time but so far everything's going great they've accepted them they're going to be you know lower on the totem pole and kind of that hierarchy system that i've already talked about just because they're they're new and they're the youngest besides the two calves but the mamas protect them so we're going to keep you updated on the process of of having the addition of these two new heifers well hey guys that's it for today i hope that you guys i got to learn a little bit about how bison sales go um luckily it's in my hometown of sulfur which is probably about 10 or 12 miles from where the farm is here so but i hope you guys enjoyed seeing the process of how everything goes um it all ended pretty smoothly and you know all the the buyers come in and picked up all their their bison and sorted them out and got them loaded on the trailers and they headed home to join their new herds a lot of people were there were buying bison for the first time they are buying a starter herd some are buying um bison to just add to their original herd which is what i did and we even had a buyer from montana buy a whole bunch of cows and they're being shipped out uh today to to go all the way up to montana so a different range of people different range of producers and that are doing different things with their ranches or with their bison so but pretty exciting stuff we've got two more bison to join the herd and some heifers because we didn't have baby heifers or ba or baby calf heifers this year this is kind of a good way to replace is buying one-year-old heifers so what that means is next summer we should um have some of these heifers bred at least our two new ones and then they'll be having babies the next year so it takes a little bit but you know it's nice to grow your herd and have more heifers you can't have enough heifers um which means more calves so thank you guys for following us um you can look us up on facebook or instagram hey guys what we're going to do today is we are going to build a feed trough i've already split this barrel in half i've cut it with a sawzall and now i'm going to use um some wood frames i got some two by fours treated and i have a 4x4 post that i'm going to use to build us a feed trough so we can have more room for our bison her to eat as as we feed them every day farmers diy right here look at that [Music] so hey guys welcome back to crosstimers bison i'm dusty baker as you guys know we bought two heifers last weekend at the oklahoma bison association sale in sulfur oklahoma and we brought home two new additions to the family and one of the issues that we're having is it's not a major issue but it's something we need to take care of is we need to get more feeding troughs um because of the hierarchy system those heifers are the youngest in the group minus the two little bull calves we have um they're kind of on the lower end of that and so part of our feeding program and the way we do it they get kind of shoved to the side a little bit and so with their first week here they've been doing great they've been eating hay they've been eating some feed but they're getting shoved off of of the feed troughs by the older ones especially the bull and our two biggest mama cows so what we're going to do today is i am going to use these old barrels here and i am going to make a feed trough out of these and so our heifers and you know whoever wants to use this will use this um to feed out of but i'm going to use these i've already sliced them in half and i'm going to make a feature off of them stay tuned [Music] all right we are almost finished it's taken a minute to figure this out never built one of these my wife and i have had to do some engineering but uh nobody said farmers were uh great carpenters is that what you call them whatever they're called nobody ever said that farmers were great carpenters so but we're getting it we just hope it lasts a long time that's the purpose of it and we want uh the bison to eat a little bit more peacefully without being ran off and make sure that they're all getting the equal amount of feed that they're supposed to be getting let's wrap this up beautiful sunset bison been watching us for the past couple hours and then to our backs we hear some rumble in the grass and turn around look and there's a herd of deer behind us so it's kind of kind of cool to have the deer and have the bison just out here hanging out with us and then you got maya who's worked so hard today too tired okay so it looks like we're done i need to clean the inside of it out but [Music] it's not perfect i think um when we build another one again at some point we do a couple things different but it's pretty awesome we'll see how it holds up bison can be really rough on equipment that can be really rough on feed troughs and so you know this was cheap i mean this was under 20 bucks i had some i had some deck screws left over i had some finish screws left over and then uh you know i had a friend give me one of these tubs and i just split it in half and we just put it together my wife and i put it together in probably less than two hours and that's the first time i've ever done it and um it's gonna work great i'm gonna put drill some holes in it when it rains it'll drain out in the bottom but other than that we'll see how it works we'll keep you updated well hey guys uh this morning we're gonna feed the bison we my wife and i built that trough yesterday and then we set it out and kind of in an isolated area and we're gonna see if we can get those heifers to come up and eat the grain we're feeding more grain right now and that's mainly because it's winter time there's there's not a lot of grass on the ground which is fine uh we're always putting out hay we've already put out three or four bills of hay and um since that first uh video of of me putting out hay now they're eating a lot of hay but we're going to go ahead and feed them and see if we can get some of those new heifers isolated where they can um get the amount of feed that they need they're still trying to acclimate to their new environment and and the new herd so there's some hierarchy going on right now with these herds or with these animals and you know they're trying to find their place and i think they're on the lower end right now so it just takes a little bit of figuring out when it comes to um how to eat and where to eat you know because the the bull he heats where he wants to eat he's the most dominant and then you've got the two quad paw heifers which kind of run the roost also as well so hopefully they'll come up and eat let's give it a go hey big boy got all the little cocker birds in you you guys ready to eat see you can already tell we've got the main herd up here ready to eat and then there's the two new heifers right there not uh anxious to come up here real quick um but that's why we're doing this is hopefully um adding that other trough and i probably am going to have to make another one or go buy another one just for room so that we can get those new heifers to come up and eat and get the food that they need uh you can see the heifers got one in the back or both of them are in the back they're close to the feed but haven't came up quite yet what you have up here is you've got peaches and you got eleanor sorry it's so windy um what we're going to do right now is these heifers have not been out in the big pasture and we're going to let them out the big pasture right now they're already ready to go here we go there they go in the big pasture i love watching them come out for the first time we've had them locked up in one of our smaller lots for a while because uh just trying to get them acclimated to everything but it's so fun when they get so excited to get out in the big pasture where they belong and let them roam around so it's always fun to watch [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] well hey guys that's it for today i hope you enjoyed the video of just doing you know some random stuff around the farm we my wife and i put a feeder together yesterday and probably put it together in about i don't know probably two hours with us too doing it but uh i'm glad she helped me do that and you know i'm saving a lot of money by buying one of those instead of a feed trough so um pardon the wind this is the great plains and you know i know some people are like he needs to work on his sound issue in the wind well you know what i'm sorry i'm not a professional photographer but uh this is part of oklahoma it's always windy here and we live out on the plains so right there at the edge actually of the great plains and the eastern woodlands of oklahoma guys thank you for everything thank you for the support thank you for watching got a lot of random stuff done on the farm we're getting that slab cleaned off and here in the next couple weeks we're going to get our handling system and we're going to get the squeeze shoe once we get that whole concrete pad cleaned off and we're going to have a full out bison handling system so we can work our bison uh hopefully towards the middle or uh late i say middle it is the middle of november geez uh late november maybe around thanksgiving thank you guys okay [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] so hey guys dusty baker with crosstimers bison welcome back as you guys know we've got two more additions to the herd we've got two young heifers [Music] that's so sweet you fix it yeah [Music] [Music] hey guys it's dusty baker with crosstimers bison welcome back um we're going to do something these next couple of days um it's going to be a little bit different as you guys know i've got a concrete slab that i'm about to get ready to put our bison handling shoot on notice it's been cleaned off i still have to do a couple of things to it but it is almost ready to go but what my wife and i are gonna go do is we are going to pick up the squeeze chute and then we are also going to drive to texas to pick up our custom-made alley system i got two eight-foot sections um make a total of a 16-foot alley and we're gonna take that and our squeeze chute and we're gonna put it right over here on this big feet thick uh concrete slab so we've got some exciting stuff happening um and we're gonna get all this bison handling system put together and get it ready to go so we can use it here pretty soon stay tuned guys [Applause] [Applause] so [Applause] [Applause] all right guys you see it right here we have our squeeze shoot toro squeeze shoot i got it here in shawnee oklahoma i've been talking to these guys um for about three months now i came and looked at them once and i really liked them it is a heavy duty squeeze chute and you know gotta have that for the bison so we've got it loaded and we're gonna take it to doc parsons the bison guy always work with the vet and he is going to build a cage for the front of it that we have to have for our bikes when we work them we can't just use this normal head gate here we've got to have a special cage on the front uh like you probably saw in one of my other videos at the livestock sale we're at the bison sale in sulphur you've got to have that crash gate on the front for bison because they kind of will be aggressive and will can run try to run through it so gotta have that cage on there when we work them so doc is gonna build us a cage and we're gonna leave it there a while for him before we take it to the house and get it set up well good morning guys um we are in loving texas and it is super windy out here always is we are in far west texas uh we are about to go to seminole texas about an hour uh southwest of lubbock and we are going to get our alleys alley system and we've got the trailer rocking and rolling the wife and i are about to head out so we're gonna go pick up our alley systems so all right well hey guys look what we got we've got an alley system we have a heavy-duty bison handling system custom made out here in seminole texas far west texas southwest of lubbock i called and talked to a guy named willie and he really helped me out he threw up a plan of what we could do for our bison and the alley that we wanted to design he did a great job and he put this together for us him and his guys over here at jb uh pipe seminole texas but look at this this is heavy duty we've got sliding gates it's just going to be awesome i'm really excited about it it is heavy duty this is this is heavy duty pipe it's going to be great for our bison um it's going to it's going to make things go a whole lot safer and smoother and we're gonna be able to work our bison um at our farm at the cross timbers farm in seoul for oklahoma and we don't have to take them to the vet anymore and hopefully things go better with that and um we're going to take this system home got a little bit of drive to go back to southern oklahoma and we're excited to get it back there and set it up so here you can stop it and chop it up we're almost getting there we're almost getting there we're getting it meanwhile the sloppy mess bison are still just chilling so oh so now we've got them on here concrete pad we're using is not exactly level this is an old concrete pad used for the dairy barn yeah what are you doing so we're gonna have to shim it and make it level and get these straight where exactly we want them now uh that's pretty got all the bison fed they're doing good everybody's busy eating so but what i wanted to talk to you about um so we set our alley down our two eight foot alleys that we got from west texas um what you've noticed probably is like man there's a lot of different uh videos and stuff going on well this last this video is basically a combination of several days we had a lot going on of course it's thanksgiving and as a teacher i get the holidays off um so um we used a lot of that time to work on bison stuff and cabin stuff and family time and thanksgiving and those things so it's a lot of balancing and trying to keep my whole wife happy too i know she bless her heart she's so patient with me but we are hustling to get this bison handling system set up and we're getting a lot closer so i just want to talk to you a little bit about that all right so i'm basically standing at the head gate of where um the bison are going to come down the old alley of the berry this is kind of what you would call a the tub or the end of the u and they're going to come through here and they're going to come out and come straight down this alley i know it's been a week-long process of of of driving from here to here picking up stuff picking up the alley systems picking up a squeeze shoot that's over at um doc parsons place in stratford my vet guy the guy who i bought my bison from he's gonna put that crash gate on the front and that shoot's gonna sit right here on the front of this and so that's at his facility right now and he's getting that built for us they've got to have that crash gate like i explained um so we can work them but it's a process it takes a lot of work um and a lot of time and patience but we are getting a lot closer and so stay with us this is 2b continued um and next time we'll have hopefully squeeze shoot up here and we will have a full system going and then we'll show you our first process of working the bison here at the cross timbers ranch thank you guys well i hope you guys have enjoyed the process of getting this handling system put together we still have a ways to go um it it takes a lot of work and it takes a lot of effort from from other um from from other people my stepdad has helped us my wife she's been very patient and and helping she's out here she's been driving the tractor around and helping as much as she can neighbor let us borrow his big john deere tractor to lift these um shoots off with our um these alley systems off with and so it takes a lot of effort and a lot of work and it'll all be worth it because once we get it done we can work the bison see how it goes the first time and then make slight adjustments to our setup and that may be moving panels around or building a little bit more fencing or corral panels or anything like that so i hope you enjoyed the the process of going and seeing you know the effort that it takes to raise these animals and my i just have a small farm of them you know here um and so uh we're getting there as a startup bison um farm we're getting a lot closer but once you have a handling system things are going to be a lot better i promise and that way we don't have to take them to the vet or any place like that to get them work so it's a long process but we're getting there and you got to see that over just a week right there traveling around all over oklahoma and over in west texas thank you guys check out our website um at crosstimbersbison.com you can check us out on facebook you can check us out on instagram and you can still go to the store um i've got some hats up there i got some new hats coming man i want to check that out and we still have our t-shirts up there thank you guys um [Music] [Applause] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Music] hey guys it's dusty baker with crosstimers bison welcome back so what we're going to do today is we are out of feed as you can tell um i just put out my last bucket of feed for these bison and um they're giving me that look so it's time to it's time to get some feed and it's winter time so we're feeding more grain and we're feeding more hay as well um just because like you've seen in my last videos uh there's just not a lot of grass left to eat for these bites and and if there is they're going to find it and they're going to consume it so but i want to talk to you a little bit about right here this is a one ton bulk feeder feed buggy whatever you want to call it's called several different things but let's take a look at this right here this is it's pretty handy you've probably seen it in some of my videos of me feeding out of it but it's really handy these have become very popular here in the past couple of years it seems like you're starting to see a whole lot more of them and i they're just easy you can buy bulk feed cheaper and matter of fact the feed that i get that we feed our bison you can't buy it in a bag so what we do is we we have to get it bulk and um i think daniel from arms family homestead feeds the same feed to uh to his goats and his critters as well but he has a bulk feeder too but so in order to get that feed we had to have this bulk feeder and plus it just lasts longer and now we have a herd of 10 bison so now we're putting on some more feed every day we're adding more feed so it's just way better to have one of these one of these things i've had it for about a year now and um i'll talk to you a little bit more about it later but we're going to go pick up feed over in stillwater milling it's where it's kind of the central location down here in southern oklahoma to get feed at least um in where we're from there's lots of people that can feed here and they have a lot of variety but we're gonna go pick up feed it's probably about 25 minutes away from the farm so it's super convenient all right let's go all right welcome to the inside of pearl the truck um there's a lot going over here a lot going on over here at the mill you can see right here this is the scales and this is where i'm going to pull up and i've got to weigh everything on the scales um my buggy's empty and then i'm going to go inside and get a form and get my weight and then i'm going to go get my feed and go back on the skill weigh how much feed i got and i'm gonna go in get my ticket and pay for my feed a little bit of process but it's all right [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] eleanor [Music] you get it all [Music] [Applause] [Music] he's thinking about it [Music] [Applause] [Music] so i don't know what the heck is going on just got the tractor out here and cleaning up the pasture a little bit and for some reason the blood got flowing and they started acting a little bit different and i'm not sure the blood started rolling and they do not like what's going on there's some old fence out here in one of the pastures i'm just trying to clean it up and they're not used to this tractor and all this stuff i'm moving so they don't know how to handle it so this is pretty funny to watch so so these bison are so curious they're like goats i may have said that before but they are really like goats i come out here in the pasture and they just come alive they've been napping and hanging out and i interrupted their nap and um i mean they come out here and got a smell of everything and check everything out looks like this guy back here doesn't need to be playing in barbed wire [Music] exactly stirring up stuff these animals are so curious oh geez eleanor [Music] that itch whoa hey whoa thanks for lowering the front end loader there peaches dunbar you just want to fight with something everybody else is hanging out you guys are in the way there's one new heifers check it out all right guys hey guys i hope you enjoyed the video it's good just to get a lot of work done um during football season i don't have a lot of spare time it takes a lot of time from me um but you know gotta keep the bison fed we're upping up their feed some more um it's winter time less grass and then also we've got a larger herd now so um hope you guys enjoyed it seeing the process how we do things and then when we have a little bit of extra time time trying to get some other stuff done around the farm using a little tractor um that we have so thank you guys um thanks for following thanks for all the the comments you guys are really positive um you can follow us on facebook or instagram you can check out our website crosstembersbison.com um for merchandise or anything like that thank you guys one two three three two one there's hung on all right okay start [Music] counting you

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Published: Sat Jul 17 2021