We Got TWINS! Full Barn

dad there's this one hole in my jeans and the wind is just stabbing me oh my [Music] good morning everyone it is currently about negative eight degrees fahrenheit there's no breeze which is pretty nice and dad had quite the night i slept through it but well we'll let him tell you what's going on here in a second was there another one yeah we had three during the night that one just got born oh my atlanta what happened was she calved out in general population last night and that one had your water bag out so she was trying to claim her cast so i got i moved the twins down got the one with the water bag in a pen and then i got the new pair in a separate pen well then they were right next to each other so that one with the water bag was trying to stick its head through the gate and click the calf so then i made space between them and that was at four and then i came back out at 5 30 and see it just capped and it had the water bag over its head and it was breathing hard and i just walked in reached in pulled it off just in time she hadn't got up yet she'd calved already and maybe she would have got up and licked it off in time but sometimes not so and then we just walk in here and got another brand new baby it's just working on standing and hopefully it'll get stuck in here all these pens are full except one what are we gonna do about that what are we gonna do about it now all of a sudden i gotta bring in about 20 gallons of water every day maybe like 40. right here we got the twins and so what do you do with twins a cow anyway would claim just one of them start kicking the other one away but i don't know the heifers are they kind of go with whatever don't they yeah yeah and so she she'd try to raise both of them she might be able to but she'd probably start losing a lot of weight so in my experience the few times that i've tried let a cow raise twins sometimes don't read back because they're working so hard raising two calves two calves end up sometimes not being the greatest sometimes when they do breed back they calf real late the next year i like to keep them on there as long as they're willing to feed them and then until you need a calf if you lose one but yesterday afternoon we had two neighbors call and ask if if they could get one because they lost a calf in the cold we're going to go ahead and let them the first ones are called let them put it on it that's kind of what we do out here somebody has an extra one but it helps someone keep a cow around that they would have otherwise gotten rid of because they'd lost a cab right they're kevin efforts too couple days from now we might say dang i wish we'd kept that cap yeah need three buckets of water got some dual drinkage going on from the twin she was our biggest one somebody said somebody commented she's gotta have twins in her and they were right i just opened that barn door to bring some water in and snow fell right on my neck and it's melting and then the nice negative eight degree air touches it oh it's a mess i need a doll so now we got seven babies we're up to seven babies someone commented we should keep a tally this year that's a good idea we'll do boys girls unless except do you think those mamas are going to get mad at me for assuming their gender and also updated list on brian's bosses we got brock wires sorry i missed you mispronounced your name last time mike brown blake prophet joe sullivan we got the ones in the barn watered oh that son of a are you serious did it drink it already it's not that wet no it's wet last thing i want to say before we start feeding cattle we've already gotten some comments you know it's the coldest month of the year why are you calving now one big reason for us is we sell bowls to customers yearling bulls they need to be ready and mature enough to breed their cattle once they buy them by calving as early as we can we make sure those bowls have enough time to get mature so they can breed and do a good job out in the pastures for our customers they have a little bit over a year to get mature and ready which is a short amount of time especially when you take in consideration the person online that wasn't very mature and started attacking us online and calling us stupid and dumb for calving at this time when he's commenting on something that he probably knows nothing about it's quite an assumption we need our bowls to be mature now not only that we start our heifers early because they need a lot of help it's their first time dad actually saved one's life last night that wasn't necessarily because it was a first time heifer but if our cows were calving at the same time we'd be stretched a lot thinner we wouldn't be able to watch our heifers as well third big reason the hardest thing to get bread is a second calf heifer because they're still maturing a little bit they just had their first calf they're raising a calf and they're trying to get re-bred and so by calving our first calf heifers earlier it gives them more time to get bread on time and if they're late that second time they're probably going to be late the third calf fourth calf and if they're even still in the herd so that is why we're calving now that's why we have a nice barn to calvin we sort them up at least once a week getting the ones that are close up into the barn at night so i would not say we're stupid or dumb and if you look around at our farm i would say that my dad has been pretty dang successful at it thank you very much [Music] [Music] morning gotta love these waterproof area boots i've been wearing them for almost two months now i recommend them they they have been great i think if i would have bought muck boots again the soles would be falling off already going check these out link is down below yeah water is gonna be running all day again today if y'all are still here after all that talking dad and i just did thank you sorry it's just the beginning of calving so i feel like we're doing a bit of a injustice to you viewers if we don't give that information right away so you know and understand what's going on i hope you aren't thirsty because it's going to be a minute i just saw a really big rat well it was gross did it have a hat on because it's cold out here no but had a really long girl's tail like they do i suppose it sucks to be right but i hope so because i hate them i hope it sucks i hate to do that for a living it's a hard way to make a living living in the side of a dirt mound you come back and you come back in your next life and you look in the mirror you're my gosh come get it did that work good if you wouldn't have stopped i thought i was helping it's trying to sneeze oh yeah i could see the snow fall off those trees once he once he sneezed it's quite the icicle our boiler system is working today ellie you helping we'll probably end up moving this pair to here and putting that one in there there's some cleanings and some gross stuff that i'm gonna pitch fork out of there not an ideal situation today is the eighth of february we're still two days early we didn't think we were gonna have cats this early dad did you put the bull out earlier than you thought there's something going on [Music] a couple weeks ago we ordered a ton of barn lime which you just sprinkle that down creates an environment where the bacteria don't grow very well so that's one way we're trying to keep them healthier got another thing iodine which i'm going to be spraying in a little bit explain that but not only that i told you it's really cold and it's going to be cold for the next week next saturday today's monday next saturday the high is negative 4 the low is negative 18 degrees fahrenheit which is almost negative 30 celsius so it's gonna be cold but we got a boiler in here which is burning propane what that is heating is before we got in floor heat and we turned that on for the first time purposefully since we've had this barn two days ago and so that's keeping the calves a little bit warmer but this whole barn there's lines through the concrete or underneath the concrete pushing liquid that's warmed by this propane that it's burning during the winter we always have it on in the shop and in the office keep us warm keep our machines starting good looking at the forecast dad and i were like well we have the in-floor heat if there's any time to use it it's now because it's going to be very cold and it is very cold and so that's nice when you put your hand on the floor i mean it's not warm by any means but it's not that negative eight negative four degrees fahrenheit outside temperature the sun's shining on that one she looked like a charolais they're a little frosty the girls this morning hey i just gotta steal food from you one more time i guess got a lot of movement to it so the nice thing about cabin in a building is there's not much wind the worst thing is there's no sun the sun can kill a lot of bacteria a lot of bad stuff what do we have in the buildings especially we try to make sure we get them some iodine on their umbilical cord on their navel because that umbilical cord's job was to get nutrients to the calf when it was growing and now it just sucks up bacteria puts it right in the navel and they can get infections so this iodine will help dry that up plus it'll kill bacteria these older calves they're still in the buildings so i'm gonna keep putting that on them we gave it to them when they first calved and we're going to keep it on them to just make sure they don't get an infection moved her down and we can eventually get her in here we like to get them out of there pretty quickly because a lot of manure a lot of bacteria name of the game when calvin just keep them healthy yes [Music] sure do have some nice heifers in here hey did i tell you i was in line at the grocery store the other day kind of young guy he's checking out pretty young gail cashier he had uh two bananas six pack of beer pound of hamburger and the gal says to him you must be single and he goes uh oh you're right can you tell by what i bought no you're ugly that hurts man this stuff fills up so slow when all the tanks are on are your fingers shut by the tubes the water pressure sucks someone messaged me on instagram and said it'd be cool if we kept a tally of the cow or the bulls and the heifers so what are we at four balls okay and three girls so we'll try to keep that updated i'll explain my numbering system on bowls the mother's number on the bottom there's sire blackhawk on this in this case on top on heifers since it's 20 21 the first digit is a one this year because it's born in 21 21 and it was the second calf second heifer born this so we just do a running tally on heifers and that way if they become replacement heifers and cows this will be their lifelong number 102 and the top number is the mother's number yes so when we go to move pairs to pasture we have that information for grouping them up in pairs to move and it's a ball the bull calf can have the same number as the cow because it's not going to stay in the herd we've gotten many questions how do you know which calf it belongs to which cow they got their ear tag and the top number is their mother's number of course that does fall out from time to time not very often when they're that young and then what do we do when we take pairs to pasture yeah yeah we keep grabbing the ones we know and then you know all right this mother keeps going to this one and it let it suck so they must be a pair a lot of people ask what pears are that's just a is that fruit off a tree i wish oh that'd be a lot easier to hurt into a trailer but it is a mother with its calf just two of them makes a pair short for cow calf pair a lot of talking in this one but we gotta explain we're just starting cabin and i mentioned earlier most of you haven't been calving with us because the channel has grown that much since last year cabin so welcome cleaving we're claiming yep we claimed last year too oh we did so ever since we've been doing this channel we've been claiming claiming because you guys can't smell good a few girls could not calve for give it a week the barn's kind of full right now for being about zero degrees it ain't too bad out looks like ellie peed on the building she did it on the hay this morning too now there's the perfect poop she got all five of the bottom rails the only reason she missed the top rail is because her pooper's below the top rail wonder if she's disappointed that she only got five of the six well done ma'am well done we can go in for lunch not worry about the water from running over did you actually figure out how to turn it on wow look at you that sounds like sarcasm you're a movie star now i'm a director producer so what do you give us they're good on mineral let one of our neighbors take that calf it's good for the calf it's good for the cow and it's good for our neighbor's cow because this heifer that just had the calf she would have got real skinny trying to raise those two that calf wouldn't have been getting as much milk as it could have used and so it wouldn't have grown as well it would have been probably a little more hungry the neighbor he had a cow that you know spent the whole last year getting ready to have a calf and and so he would have had to get rid of that that cow because it wasn't producing our heifer will be in better body condition that calf will be able to grow a little better are you getting sick of me yet [Music] i'm starting to think about that fence over at the south farm where we're going to put some critters eventually but last year when we brought pears over there the cows absolutely destroyed this fence half of it's laying down i was like well i guess i'll go pick that up so we're going to see if this girl will start and supposed eight degree fahrenheit weather come on feels good in there get the skid loader running get the grapple on it i suppose i could have drove that over here so i didn't have to walk better check on the heifers before i take off make sure nothing's cabin outside and we'll get going y'all could use a bale about tomorrow that's probably my least favorite thing about bobcat their quick attach system has a few hiccups every once in a while [Music] i guess that's what they'd call the bluetooth binders come on you can do it oh yeah even the tires are up it's just my lucky day nothing's keeping me from working huh we're back before supper wow [Music] [Applause] [Music] i smacked you with a stick are you all right this is what we're tearing out as you can see it is bad you know that that would hold cattle for a couple weeks down in the corner it is completely tore down well around the bale feeders especially is where they ran through the fence so that's what we're working on just ripping this crap out not sure if we'll put it in back new well especially not now since the ground's frozen but this summer we'll see what happens [Music] this is take a couple minutes that looks pretty cleaned up all nice and fancy ready to put new in if we ever decide but this north side is a little bit [Music] longer yeah it's all gone all those oh there's like two that i couldn't get out did you pull them out or break them off yes it's really time get your hand out of here i won't perv [Applause] i'm like oprah winfrey right here you get the perlits you get the perlits [Applause] [Music] well that's gonna be about it for today we did sell that twin so i guess we can take one of these marks off here so we're up to four bulls two girls it's gonna get colder the next few days which sucks but we got the in-floor heat on so we're burning we're burning fuel hope you enjoyed watching today's video thanks for the likes and the nice comments we appreciate it so we will see you next time have a good one [Music] looking at the forecast yeah i don't really want to get political but i think the new president he you know he already solved climate change seems like

Channel: Sonne Farms

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Keywords: sonne farms, south dakota, calving, baby, calf, beef, angus, cow, john deere, barn, feed, calving barn, twins, triples, momma, bobcat, skid loader

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Length: 21min 22sec (1282 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 17 2021