A Cow's Calendar and Nutritional Changes It Brings
On the ranch we live by two calendars, a traditional one that we all are know and love and another that can be unpredictable, moody and cranky, a cow's calendar. Today we look at how a cows calendar works, what makes it important and how it can help us be better managers of our herd.
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Join us on our journey as we leave a life in corporate america to come back to Wyoming and help on the family ranch.
Our Wyoming Life features our Wyoming ranch and our ranch family. Giving you a look into the workings of ranching from raising cattle to raising and harvesting crops. Erin will join you weekly out of the garden, showing you how she helps provide for our family through growing produce and selling at local farmers markets, and Mike will take you along as he tends to the animals and land of ranch, from calving to fencing to planting and harvesting hay.
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Love watching these videos. I have a chronic Illness that keeps me stuck in bed most days but for whatever reason God put it in my heart to want a ranch. These videos are a fantastic distraction from what I’m not able to do but also teach me a ton just in case I get some kind of miracle. Thank you, sincerely. I appreciate you.
From a Montana Rancher- I have cut Protein and Mineral Costs by 90% by just feeding Wheat or Barley Grass Sprouts about a 1/2 Ton a day to the Thousand Cows. It Costs about $50 a Ton to grow and you are done in 7 Days and feeding it. After the Cows get use to it, they just come a running for it when they see the Pickup coming.
Mike's a natural with the video and narration ! Very nicely done....
A great video. One of the best informative video's I've seen on KZread. It's not only geared for mass production like yours but it's also great for small homestead operations. Thank you for doing this for us.
@1jumbox
4 жыл бұрын
This guy is NOT mass production!! His operation is much more toward a more traditional use of resources. Support this man's operation with all your effort, for they are the ones that keep us fed!!
Love the photography... doesn't need sound-amazing shots.
Another very informative video. Thanks for helping us understand the thought process of ranching,
@OurWyomingLife
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks Mike!! See you again soon - Mike
Really enjoy the video,watching from Australia.
You have ranching down to a fine science. Not being born to it I would say you are doing very well. I know you have devoted many hours to study and observation. Well done.
Morning 😘 Mike Another wonderful video. Hope your mother-in-law doing much better. Thanks for sharing. Enjoy your day.
An old rancher told me years ago that the grass has to mature before the cow can and then the ranch can. So you are absolutely right Mike
I'm not a farmer, a rancher, etc.. but still your videos are entertaining. I am either bored or just want to know as much about everything I can. Either way keep it up.
I watch these Videos because Mike does such a great job of simplifying the ranching process he makes it easy for an average joe such as myself to understand who what when how and why things happen on the ranch!!! 💪 Video Mike !!!
You guys are my favorite ranchers, every bit of advice you put out in your videos, I learn from. Can’t wait for my ranch to grow because of you guys. Keep on rockin!
Cow Production Cycle...a Cowlendar, if you will. I really do enjoy learning about the operations & planning practices at the ranch. Please keep it coming!
I always learn from your channel, thanks!!!
I like the way Mike is objective while discussing cattle ranching.
Great video Mike. Have a blessed week
I knew you were hardworking but OMG Mike - y’all are the hardest working people I know!! Thank you so much for taking us along. I have learned so much from your wonderful videos. Don’t know how you do it all but God love you...❣️❣️❣️
So informative! Thank you very much!
Thanks for the information
Thank you so much for the video
Thanks mike
Great review!
very nice explanation of the cow cycle. thank you!
I like this video. Very informitive...makes you think...steveb
Very well done video as always, Mike...Thanks! I really enjoy your channel.
Nicely done, Mike.
Good job!!
Great info!!! Thanks
@OurWyomingLife
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching - Mike
Informative. Great video.👍🙏🇺🇸
Thanks for the lesson in cow gut maintenance. Jo Jo in VT 😊💕
Thanks for the lesson Mike ! 🇺🇸
Wow. That's a lot of information in a short video. Great job.
As always Mike......another excellent video!
Great videos keep it up! And thanks for my hats. My 2 year old son Jackson loves watching with me.
Great explanation of cattle yearly cycles and how you have to base their feed to certain times in the cycle. I love your vids so much. I don't even have cattle, but growing up thru my teens we had black Angus and our neighbor had Herefords. So it brings back lots of fond memories. I'm partial to Angus since we raised them.👍🐃😊
amazing how much effort you put in these videoes Mike! inspiring for a young cattle farmer myself! Thank you for all your videoes!
This is great content. It's educational, well produced and professional. I love the exploration of the economics behind the ranch while tying to the natural cycle of the ranch.
Mike, I greatly appreciate this high quality, set simple to understand video. Being currently in a college livestock nutrition course and having a family member and several family friends who are cattle nutritionists as well as being a cattle feeder and cow/calf producer, cattle nutrition is something I think about daily. I'm glad you explained why you choose to calve in April and May in your part of the country because of weather and nutritional needs of the cow. It is different everywhere. We choose to calve Mid-February through early April because we implement an AI program for our herd which is a seedstock herd and AI our cows and heifers before they go to grass for the best conception rates.
Good job
Very good video. Love how its organized and the graphics are really helpful. Another winner video!
Awesome stuff there!!!
Bravo!!
Hi again! MIKE lol you almost sound like you know what you're doing lol! Excellent vid full of info. You should be really proud of how far you've come from the beginning. Good job...
@OurWyomingLife
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much :) - Mike
Following you from Southern California
Very interesting.
Keep up the awesome videos Mike
Another well done video , cycle of the animal is amazing, good to see the function behind the methods of feeding your stock.
love seeing the cow!!
As always Mike, another great video. Looking forward to the auction. 🖒🖒
Good information here.
Good video Mike be safe
@OurWyomingLife
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you Daniel - Mike
Hi Mike love your vids so much !!!
I really like your videos, it's really informative since I am new to this industry. Nice work, and keep it up.
These videos are TOP NOTCH
Raching has come a long ways
Hey Mike. Keep up the great Content, you inspired me to make my own channel.
@OurWyomingLife
4 жыл бұрын
Very cool. I'm sure you will do great ! - Mike
How many licks does it take to get to the bottom of a lick barrel? The world may never know..
@OurWyomingLife
4 жыл бұрын
If you have a week or so next summer you can come and count.. I'll bring the refreshments! - Mike
@jbweld6193
4 жыл бұрын
@@OurWyomingLife only if there is a tootsie roll at the center.. and you have to eat it.
@Theghostofpeter
4 жыл бұрын
Lol
@davidhintz1
4 жыл бұрын
about 3 according to the Tootsie Pop owl
@tammysarrazin7078
4 жыл бұрын
lol ask the owl lol
Good video
@OurWyomingLife
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you Dillon - Mike
Fall begins Monday mornin Sep 23 at 1:50. Happy Fall Mike.
Here’s a New Idea! Give your T-Shirt suplier 12-photos of Our Wyoming Life (Pigs, Cows, Chickens, you rolling out a bale of hay feeding the cows, Aren behind her Farmer’s Market Table, some Round-Up pics, .....) and CREATE a 12-Page WALL CALENDARS with one photo per month For Sale on your you tube channel to raise funds for new farm equipment.
Can you make a video o the lifecycle of the cow from birth to death. How many years they can live, how many babies they can give, milk production, bull to cow ratio, possibility of 2 or more babies, oldest cow you have, etc.
Seems like you & I need to have a sit down with Mother Nature & explain how some of your rain keeps getting shipped down here to Texas every year so she can do something about it! :-) Great informative video as always!
Would it help if you serenade the cows with some Trace adkins? They may not get the minerals but they will get an earful of trace.
@territn8871
4 жыл бұрын
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Hi Mike love watching from South Africa very similar farming problems and challenges one question what is your calving percentage and i hope the calf price is good
What are the "flowers" at 2:00?
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What edit software do you use, Mike? You make such clean videos.
@OurWyomingLife
4 жыл бұрын
I use adobe premiere pro for most of it :) Thank you sir - Mike
@ez1913
4 жыл бұрын
May need to brush up on your trombone. LOL kzread.info/dash/bejne/o6eTj8emmpTXgpc.html
With so many cows all using the same mineral feeders, is transmitting diseases a concern? Like how humans can spread diseases in saliva and snot such as hepatitis, cold/flu, etc.
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What type of camera and mic
Mike? Tractor supply sales a 90 pound bag of gracing hay that covers an acre. Is that accurate? Does your hay continue to grow annually? Or do you replant? 👍🙏🇺🇸
Do y'all sell 100% of your calves or do you keep back some as replacement heifers to keep your own herd up?
0:56 some dandy cattle right there.
Very informative video Mike! Interesting to see how humans adapt to a natural cycle not their own. Was down to 41 here this morning. Seems like a hint that fall and frost are not far off. Time to check on your high tunnels for leaks? -Bob...
@OurWyomingLife
4 жыл бұрын
Well they always leak lol, some day Erin will get the green house she really wants. Thanks Bob - Mike
so muck to keep track ……..and 108 k subscribers yeah jim
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How many head do y’all have ?
@carminesilverado
4 жыл бұрын
I'm not Mike but the run about 150 cows
@grumpyyoungmen6276
4 жыл бұрын
How many cows would you say are necessary to make a living ?
First
@OurWyomingLife
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks Sean - Mike
You can’t do all this to break even not a chance
@1jumbox
4 жыл бұрын
Here lies the difficulty, the processor/packing house was never to be able to participate in the markets. What we are seeing now is the reversal and reason for that clause in the free market needing to be there!
do Cows see color ?
@OurWyomingLife
4 жыл бұрын
In addition to gray and black, cows see muted versions of yellow and blue. Unlike human eyes, cows have only two color receptors. They won't see all the possible shades of yellow and blue, especially as they lean toward the green spectrum, but their world isn't totally made up of shades of gray. Thanks for watching - Mike
@carminesilverado
4 жыл бұрын
@@OurWyomingLife Mike I'm Mike too
What are your thpughts on the climate crisis?
Very interesting.