The channel is based around our Registered Dexter Cattle, but you will also find homesteading, family farm fun, farming supply reviews, and other farming tips n tricks videos. Planning to add sheep, and pigs when it makes sense!! Come along for the ride. See what we do right, and learn from what we don’t. Thanks for stopping by 🤠
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I am doing this addition to my Manual 1991 F150, and I was wondering where the gray safety switch plug went. Is it a part of the harness, or does it plug in elsewhere? Thanks!
How do you know it's charging??
I picked up some Dexter heifers at 13 months old. One of them had a calf at 15 months, That means she was 6 month old when bred. The breeder never had this happen before and now separates them so there's no contact with a bull at an earlier age. The calf is completely normal and healthy.
Thank you for your content. I’m new to your channel and really looking forward to your comparison video. 😊
Great video. Thank you very much! ❤
2 years later, thats now about 110k to build...its a joke
Very kool Thank you
FYI you can get a rebuild kit for the Roundup pump sprayer which includes seals, o rings and a new nozzle
Pretty babies
Amazing video. Saving it.
Looking good sir.👍👍
pump zero / battery stopped working after 4 uses...
You just answered several questions I've had. Thank you.
Glad it helped. Thanks for watching!
I'm not a big fan of the lockjaw. Insulators, in my experience. The wire shorts out to the post a lot, especially in the morning, for morning dew Or if a bird sits on the top of the post. And poops on the insulator it will short out. I do use them temporarily for moving a hotline
I haven't used the original ones, but we went with all of the HD-360 which are a little bigger and we've never had an issue.
The Gallagher reels are not pricey. They are expensive. I have several of them, but you're right. They are very great to have. Nice to see you doing another video
Thanks Shaun. If I had about a million more subs like you. Appreciate your support!
@dexterranch Not a problem.
Like the black bull!
Looks like a black angus
❤❤❤BEAUTIFUL BOY
He's one long, big boy.
Thats a beffy boy
I’m wanting to sell my large breed cattle and get sum Dexter cattle
Damn, can’t ANYONE make a video that pertains to the actual title? I’m probably 5 minutes into this thing and all I’ve seen you do is talk coffee, a dark room, walk a little bit and look for your cattle. Sorry, but you’re not that interesting. None of us are. THE INFORMATION is what’s important. Just friggin get to it.
My apologies sir. I do hear you, and thanks for watching.
I see the numbers for the sale but that doesn't show us If the sale was profitable vs expenses to raise the animal. I only subscribed for numbers because I have 80 acres and trying to decide If cattle or pigs are more profitable. Pigs have a higher reproduction rate than cattle but there has to be a balance, can both the cattle and pig actually be sold for a profit because in the end, profit is all that matters. It would be useful to see the expense and the sale price with a final profit number in a video.
Shh. If the buyers get educated, which they will. They will be asking questions before they bid. I am glad you got a good price, but someone will not be happy that they didn't buy an Angus. Just saying. I have dexters because they are easy keepers and my market is me me and mine. They don't care if it is a little smaller, infact they like it. I am glad to hear you fooled them, but don't bank on that. Next year could be different.
I grew up with dairy breeds, I have Dexters now because they are small, easy on me and the facilities, and the small size makes buyers of hanging beef happy because they can take a whole instead of splitting a bigger breed and they get it all the way they want it, that is a plus as is the quality of the meat if fed right(I feed mine grain, I tried grass fed, would not take one for free).................If your going to raise and sell at a sale barn, they are NOT it. They are small and the feed conversion is poor, there is better choices.
TP you are right if your business plan is to sell at the sale barn exclusively then you should pick another breed. This is an option if and when it’s needed for Dexter breeders.
Sure is good to see you back. Your place is looking good.
Thanks Shaun! Hope all is well!
@dexterranch Yes, all is well. Here our herd has grown quite substantially. We are now at seventeen head and two left to calve. It was nice to see you. Do another video I hope you have more coming
Been in this game all my life............I would NOT recommend doing what your doing, guys are buying what they think they are, and they are not. That will work for a time, but the community at the sale barn atleast where I am is tight, you won't get away with buyers thinking they are getting something they aren't for very long and word will get out and you'll be on the low end, not the high end of the sales chart which isn't good. Also keep in mind cattle are tight right now, that will change like everything else sooner or later which also factors into the price. I actually had this very conversation with the owner of the closest sale barn to me a few weeks back, he heard I have a glut of heifers I wouldn't mind moving, said why don't you let me sell them, they are black and look nice and will bring good money. I explained the exact thing I am here, another local guy would buy them thinking they were something else, and then breed them and have a bunch of runts compared to his commercial breeds calving in the next pen over...............Immediately the mouth would start running and my ear tags would turn my name into absolute shat over night...........No thanks I told him. Not saying it isn't done, but long term I don't know if its a good idea because I got to live here too.
Tp. I hear what you are saying, and I think it’s a valid argument. That said a Dexter bull/steer being fed can get to 850-950lb. So as far as butcher weight goes that’s not far off from normal butcher weight. Furthermore these animals are coming in the auction as weaned. A comercial steer is going to weigh 500-700lb at weaning. If you look at my tickets the calves that brought $2.80 were 280lb average weight. My point in the video was that nobody goes to the sale and gives a genetic breakdown on their animals so Dexter owners shouldn’t either. But at 280lbs all the clues are there that this is a small animal and the buyer decided that he could make it work. 🤷🏻♂️.
I agree with you, it cant be sustainable to hide information at a sale.
You must understand a buyers of feeders are looking for deals, especially in the current market where everything is tight, small calves are a risk but if you got a lot run on crap feed there is potential there to really make bank once you get them home, only issue here is the breed they bought isn't what they thought it was and will never amount to alot compared to what I could have with a Angus or a Cross of one, just will never happen. I guess the moral to my story, if your going to sell at a sale barn, forget Dexters, there are better breed choices for that.
Big fan of your channel. Love the Dexter breed. About unrolling hay please keep in mind you only unroll what you need. The rest can stay on the unroller for when you need more... square bails are always more expensive
Hi Nicholas. Thanks for the comment and glad you like the content. I have never bought an unroller. I know this is possible, but I do worry about the impact of taking my skid steer out there daily if it’s wet. This would probably work a little better with a tractor so that the ground doesn’t get torn up so bad. Thanks again.
It's good to see you're back.
Gotta be in the right sale and the right barn.
Just bought two Irish dexters! One 3yr old bull and a 17 week old little guy. Our first go around here can’t wait to fatten him up w some sweet feed for 90 days and see how it turns out? Nice video thanks
this virtually applies to any breed of cattle
I don’t understand how grain fed is popular when grain costs so much. The extra weight and faster time to finishing seems unlikely to actually allow more profit.
Really enjoyed you videos. Will there be more?
Stop talkin' and show us your dexters !
Many other videos on the channel show them. Thanks for watching!
I stopped using 15 gauge because of how much it stretches I went to a 14 gauge
They are crazy cheap to run. The dc compressor and fans use almost no power.
Thanks
The more I learn, the more I find people have rules because somebody made a rule.
Thanks. I have a six month old bull and just bought 2 pregnant cows. By December the calves should be here. I’ll keep this advice in mind. Love Dexters
Thanks for the great info and yes I like this style of video
beef tallow for cooking? olive oil does not handle the heat.
Its not a pressure washer. Its a no pump sprayer
The head unit(,battery) is universal. It fit just about any oump sprayer jug. And it sprays 20 psi ive had mine for years. I love it. No stopping to spray
By time the sticker wore off you would know. All it says it what the lite blinking means and its only 3 modes😅
I like to believe there must be options to post holes to stop incursion from deer and such into a vegetable garden and to fruit trees we are in the process of establishing. Your video and several others I've seen say not so. The vacuum is one tool we have yet to employ, I'm sure it is soon to be added to the task at hand. Aged musculoskeletal tool is to put it bluntly a disadvantage to any such labor this intense. But the hands of time are not slowing for mortal man nor woman. One that takes on such a project upon entering their 7th decade from birth receives the best help from faith and family. Best wishes to you sir, Godspeed ❤❤ p.s. from Marion County, AR aka Rock City!
This was great, and now I can test my system to find out why it is not working for me
Have prices gone up a lot because 1997 units are still $26,000 ??
It's insane
I love how the kids got tired of waiting and started pushing them off LOL
It’s so strange how people don’t understand scale. You can easily scale down what Greg does to a smaller farm. I used to raise sheep on five acres moving them once per day. Unrolling hay isn’t something that needs to be done all at once. I used to do the same thing he did by just spreading standard square bales then moving the sheep of of them and into the next pasture before they finished. I made enough money off of working and raising sheep the same way Greg does his cattle and sheep to eventually buy my 160 acre cattle ranch debt free and buy a starter herd and now I’m a full time rancher…
Ok. Call me a city girl, but after watching all the care that went into caring for your cows-eating them seems -brutal. If i were your wife, i would be looking at you sideways. I mean you are nice, but you were nice to the cows, too, and look what happened to them. Im sorry. I just cant watch. You turned me vegan.
Bobcats have terrible wiring harnesses too, ive had two machine's a 2007 s175 and a 2018 s70 and both had intermitent wiring gremlins so bad i just bit the bullet and installed new harnesses. Cool to learn about myself since i dont feel like paying the dealer outrageous money and also the satisfaction of doing it myself. You can lose your butt quick buying a lemon machine