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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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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  • @missybliss4357
    @missybliss43573 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @LFGRIM123
    @LFGRIM1233 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @kahvac
    @kahvac4 жыл бұрын

    Mike's a natural with the video and narration ! Very nicely done....

  • @terribethreed8464
    @terribethreed84644 жыл бұрын

    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

    @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!!

  • @terrinadeau8965
    @terrinadeau89654 жыл бұрын

    Love the photography... doesn't need sound-amazing shots.

  • @mikewilder
    @mikewilder4 жыл бұрын

    Another very informative video. Thanks for helping us understand the thought process of ranching,

  • @OurWyomingLife

    @OurWyomingLife

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Mike!! See you again soon - Mike

  • @markkent9010
    @markkent90104 жыл бұрын

    Really enjoy the video,watching from Australia.

  • @larrysmith1568
    @larrysmith15684 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @feliccasampson5376
    @feliccasampson53764 жыл бұрын

    Morning 😘 Mike Another wonderful video. Hope your mother-in-law doing much better. Thanks for sharing. Enjoy your day.

  • @patrickburgmeier7902
    @patrickburgmeier79024 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @69zenos1
    @69zenos14 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @washingtonsglobal735
    @washingtonsglobal7354 жыл бұрын

    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 !!!

  • @haleygutierrez3965
    @haleygutierrez39654 жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @roguevirus
    @roguevirus4 жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @kaycox5555
    @kaycox55554 жыл бұрын

    I always learn from your channel, thanks!!!

  • @munenex
    @munenex4 жыл бұрын

    I like the way Mike is objective while discussing cattle ranching.

  • @triciaadamson2285
    @triciaadamson22854 жыл бұрын

    Great video Mike. Have a blessed week

  • @susanchamblee2549
    @susanchamblee25494 жыл бұрын

    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...❣️❣️❣️

  • @reynazimmerman1266
    @reynazimmerman12664 жыл бұрын

    So informative! Thank you very much!

  • @normangilden3453
    @normangilden34534 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the information

  • @dylansutherland6414
    @dylansutherland64144 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for the video

  • @thomassoifer7412
    @thomassoifer74124 жыл бұрын

    Thanks mike

  • @frankmetcalf9595
    @frankmetcalf95954 жыл бұрын

    Great review!

  • @mpgfoo
    @mpgfoo4 жыл бұрын

    very nice explanation of the cow cycle. thank you!

  • @stev6brownfield894
    @stev6brownfield8944 жыл бұрын

    I like this video. Very informitive...makes you think...steveb

  • @14Marathons
    @14Marathons4 жыл бұрын

    Very well done video as always, Mike...Thanks! I really enjoy your channel.

  • @jimharris4013
    @jimharris40134 жыл бұрын

    Nicely done, Mike.

  • @rochellklegstad1333
    @rochellklegstad13334 жыл бұрын

    Good job!!

  • @altonriggs2352
    @altonriggs23524 жыл бұрын

    Great info!!! Thanks

  • @OurWyomingLife

    @OurWyomingLife

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for watching - Mike

  • @lizardtoenails4632
    @lizardtoenails46324 жыл бұрын

    Informative. Great video.👍🙏🇺🇸

  • @joanneganon7157
    @joanneganon71574 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the lesson in cow gut maintenance. Jo Jo in VT 😊💕

  • @sixtoes2313
    @sixtoes23134 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the lesson Mike ! 🇺🇸

  • @WPRJersey
    @WPRJersey4 жыл бұрын

    Wow. That's a lot of information in a short video. Great job.

  • @Gianthunter331
    @Gianthunter3314 жыл бұрын

    As always Mike......another excellent video!

  • @WandWizardLLC
    @WandWizardLLC4 жыл бұрын

    Great videos keep it up! And thanks for my hats. My 2 year old son Jackson loves watching with me.

  • @territn8871
    @territn88714 жыл бұрын

    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.👍🐃😊

  • @FriisErik
    @FriisErik4 жыл бұрын

    amazing how much effort you put in these videoes Mike! inspiring for a young cattle farmer myself! Thank you for all your videoes!

  • @lumpskie
    @lumpskie4 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @jaystowater6746
    @jaystowater67464 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @ronaldssemuyaba5124
    @ronaldssemuyaba51244 жыл бұрын

    Good job

  • @redcossack245
    @redcossack2454 жыл бұрын

    Very good video. Love how its organized and the graphics are really helpful. Another winner video!

  • @kevechevroletcoupee4621
    @kevechevroletcoupee46214 жыл бұрын

    Awesome stuff there!!!

  • @ronfontenot4534
    @ronfontenot45344 жыл бұрын

    Bravo!!

  • @CC-xk6cp
    @CC-xk6cp4 жыл бұрын

    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

    @OurWyomingLife

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much :) - Mike

  • @aguilar1015
    @aguilar10154 жыл бұрын

    Following you from Southern California

  • @henrymorgan3982
    @henrymorgan39824 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting.

  • @hamishkay3010
    @hamishkay30104 жыл бұрын

    Keep up the awesome videos Mike

  • @1jumbox
    @1jumbox4 жыл бұрын

    Another well done video , cycle of the animal is amazing, good to see the function behind the methods of feeding your stock.

  • @garrygreenwood4310
    @garrygreenwood43104 жыл бұрын

    love seeing the cow!!

  • @stevehairston9940
    @stevehairston99404 жыл бұрын

    As always Mike, another great video. Looking forward to the auction. 🖒🖒

  • @worldtravel101
    @worldtravel1014 жыл бұрын

    Good information here.

  • @danielrandolph9170
    @danielrandolph91704 жыл бұрын

    Good video Mike be safe

  • @OurWyomingLife

    @OurWyomingLife

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Daniel - Mike

  • @Shiftn
    @Shiftn4 жыл бұрын

    Hi Mike love your vids so much !!!

  • @davepham5308
    @davepham53084 жыл бұрын

    I really like your videos, it's really informative since I am new to this industry. Nice work, and keep it up.

  • @luciogallardo4141
    @luciogallardo41414 жыл бұрын

    These videos are TOP NOTCH

  • @johnnydominguez1365
    @johnnydominguez13654 жыл бұрын

    Raching has come a long ways

  • @afarmerslife2092
    @afarmerslife20924 жыл бұрын

    Hey Mike. Keep up the great Content, you inspired me to make my own channel.

  • @OurWyomingLife

    @OurWyomingLife

    4 жыл бұрын

    Very cool. I'm sure you will do great ! - Mike

  • @jbweld6193
    @jbweld61934 жыл бұрын

    How many licks does it take to get to the bottom of a lick barrel? The world may never know..

  • @OurWyomingLife

    @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

    @jbweld6193

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@OurWyomingLife only if there is a tootsie roll at the center.. and you have to eat it.

  • @Theghostofpeter

    @Theghostofpeter

    4 жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @davidhintz1

    @davidhintz1

    4 жыл бұрын

    about 3 according to the Tootsie Pop owl

  • @tammysarrazin7078

    @tammysarrazin7078

    4 жыл бұрын

    lol ask the owl lol

  • @dillonphelps8844
    @dillonphelps88444 жыл бұрын

    Good video

  • @OurWyomingLife

    @OurWyomingLife

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Dillon - Mike

  • @ojjenkins7110
    @ojjenkins71104 жыл бұрын

    Fall begins Monday mornin Sep 23 at 1:50. Happy Fall Mike.

  • @cajunnathan4586
    @cajunnathan45864 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @ManOfSteel1
    @ManOfSteel14 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @ProfessorKitchen
    @ProfessorKitchen4 жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @hamidwaseem1268
    @hamidwaseem12684 жыл бұрын

    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

    @territn8871

    4 жыл бұрын

    😆😆😆😆👍

  • @charmainefletcher986
    @charmainefletcher9864 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @nickianderson1716
    @nickianderson17164 жыл бұрын

    What are the "flowers" at 2:00?

  • @snapstring3134
    @snapstring31344 жыл бұрын

    👍

  • @ez1913
    @ez19134 жыл бұрын

    What edit software do you use, Mike? You make such clean videos.

  • @OurWyomingLife

    @OurWyomingLife

    4 жыл бұрын

    I use adobe premiere pro for most of it :) Thank you sir - Mike

  • @ez1913

    @ez1913

    4 жыл бұрын

    May need to brush up on your trombone. LOL kzread.info/dash/bejne/o6eTj8emmpTXgpc.html

  • @0xFF48
    @0xFF484 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @barbjarvi6543
    @barbjarvi6543 Жыл бұрын

    🐄❤️

  • @calebmanuel17
    @calebmanuel174 жыл бұрын

    What type of camera and mic

  • @lizardtoenails4632
    @lizardtoenails46324 жыл бұрын

    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? 👍🙏🇺🇸

  • @austinblanchard2756
    @austinblanchard27564 жыл бұрын

    Do y'all sell 100% of your calves or do you keep back some as replacement heifers to keep your own herd up?

  • @cherryfarms2135
    @cherryfarms21354 жыл бұрын

    0:56 some dandy cattle right there.

  • @wranther
    @wranther4 жыл бұрын

    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

    @OurWyomingLife

    4 жыл бұрын

    Well they always leak lol, some day Erin will get the green house she really wants. Thanks Bob - Mike

  • @jamesajoachim3
    @jamesajoachim34 жыл бұрын

    so muck to keep track ……..and 108 k subscribers yeah jim

  • @loriehabel1552
    @loriehabel15524 жыл бұрын

    💥👍

  • @grumpyyoungmen6276
    @grumpyyoungmen62764 жыл бұрын

    How many head do y’all have ?

  • @carminesilverado

    @carminesilverado

    4 жыл бұрын

    I'm not Mike but the run about 150 cows

  • @grumpyyoungmen6276

    @grumpyyoungmen6276

    4 жыл бұрын

    How many cows would you say are necessary to make a living ?

  • @seanbaxter4522
    @seanbaxter45224 жыл бұрын

    First

  • @OurWyomingLife

    @OurWyomingLife

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Sean - Mike

  • @feelthesteel5173
    @feelthesteel51734 жыл бұрын

    You can’t do all this to break even not a chance

  • @1jumbox

    @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!

  • @carminesilverado
    @carminesilverado4 жыл бұрын

    do Cows see color ?

  • @OurWyomingLife

    @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

    @carminesilverado

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@OurWyomingLife Mike I'm Mike too

  • @dbirdeycapozzi9807
    @dbirdeycapozzi98074 жыл бұрын

    What are your thpughts on the climate crisis?

  • @tinkwilkinson9446
    @tinkwilkinson94464 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting.