Tom, put some powdered lime down on the concrete after you remove the soiled bedding. Then bed on top of it. We were having navel and respiratory issues and after we started spreading the lime our issues almost disappeared
Happy New Year Tom! Every time when I see you mucking out, I think you need a skidsteer with a grapple. It will even replace some other machines on you farm to
Have you not thought about just redesigning a shed you already have for a calf shed? We ended up using a lambing shed for calf before and that worked really well for a quick fix? Just a thought. Also really impressed how much a young lady is learning with you guys!! Definitely restores faith in humanity!!!
Tom, you may have found another star with Anna. She's good on camera. Dad is a super star. Of course the cows are the main stars. You must face the fact that you are just the moderator. LOL Keep up the good work.
If you put lime down right on top of the concrete after you clean it'll help with bacteria, we've even sprinkled lime on top of a layer of bedding and put new bedding on top of it if there was a outbreak. That was the last resort if we couldn't get the pens cleaned out within a week or two (Wisconsin winter)
Saskdutchkid has feeding the calves in new barn. O0:05- 04:00 to when you want to stop. Short after meet Mom- on how to feed system, bottle holders etc. Another system is saving colostrum, freeze, fridge. Colostrum within 4 hours. They’ve had to increase the sizes of pens for each small calf barns. They pull calves from heifers, Neline has a great explanation for reasons.
It doesn’t matter how long or short the video is or even how often you manage to get videos out all that matters is making sure that you don’t stress yourself out over it Tom, anyway happy new year
For temporary measures, strip out the and utilitise the other half of the emergency calf house, it's currently dead space. Shift the hoof crush - at least 2 single pens or a triple one there.
And thats why we kept our calves in a barn that was completely enclosed during the winter...but we get plenty of snow here in the winter so the damp isnt a problem and we very very rarely ever had problems with sick calves
The ever increasing pressures on time come at the expense of the little things such as keeping gutters cleared in the calf house to keep it dry. Things have changed a lot over the years. You and your team are doing well considering the pressures.
do you have a good relationship with other farmers with regards to sharing information about building and farming in general, or is there a healthy competition, or both ?
We do just the same with cattle, calves etc. Especially helps with wormers, products to work the best without having so such hair/straw on their backs. 😀
Would it have been useful to throw some buckets of disinfectant down ,after you mucked out, to help keep infection levels down. Also , how did you go on with the orange pulp ,delivered a few weeks ago , did you use all ok or had the last bit rotted off.
Happy new year to everybody. Great job Anna. Ginger guy always doing the best work. Luke hero class always. Thomas you’re looking good my man 2025 is your year. Be well be you.
Tom , a farmer I watch in Canada SaskDutch Kid have great calf buildings that there calf’s progress through. Definitely worth a look if you want to see nice calf buildings . In fact they recently extended one because they had a similar problem to yourself too many calf’s. But in saying that I also watch another farm in America that turn there cattle outside in the snow etc in the hight of winter so everyone is different. Great information video as always 👍
Our place in Queensland hasn't had any real rain for 12 + weeks. D'you reckon your dad could dig a land drain from your place to ours? Calf housing is clearly a bottleneck. Pleased to see Anna explain how fast pneumonia can impact young stock. You're doing pretty well in less than ideal circumstances.
I got some muck from the separater and what good stuff for the garden and vegetable plot you want to bag it up and sell it to the public Tom or put some on one field and see the difference between slurry and that grass will grow
Happy new year Tom & team Just wondering when you clean you calf areas out do you lime the floors or spray disenfect? Dairy farms I’ve worked on wed always lime the floors as we did with the cow cubicals. Is it a case of trying to build the calf’s immunity up ?.
A minute before Anna said it I thought about the moisture. Any chance you could increase the air flow? As well as drying out a bit, it helps kill germs, then re-bed a little later? Gotta get a bit more consistent airflow to dry the place more. The brick is porous and can harbor moisture and cooties. We have cows for show. (Total moneymakers) Huge scare if one looks a little off.
I really like how saskdutchkid's calf building has been built. It's very easy to clean and also expandable climate controlled and single pens too. It would be great for you to have a new calf building it's needed
About 18:50.... Even the calves listen to dad. 😂. It would be good if you did a factors of production calculation. A timeline of who is calving when, like a budget, to calculate your maximum capacity based on conception and herd numbers. It will inform your new building size with respect to expansion and allow you to avoid using the old spaces for calves after implementing a new building, So says the sofa! You've had a very impressive 2024. Regards, Stephen.
Sell some cows and build a poly tunnel. You'll be back up to needing a calf shed in no time n youll just end up keeping the poly tunnel for separate storage
@16:45 That building seems pretty enclosed. With all that water sitting on the floor all the time I'd bet you'd benefit from a fan in there to help circulate the air. Not blowing straight on the calves, but pointed maybe on the other side.
Would taking the jersey off the angus help cool it down lol Well explained Anna, makes more sense now what the issue is Would a white board in the calf house, help to keep everyone informed as to potential issues ?? Nelly the heifer, packed her bag and said goodbye to Tom's circus lol You certainly have a great committed team working on the farm Tom
Hi Sam n Oliver, just want to let you both know me and my wife, absolutely love your channel, we would both like to do something for you all to help you out, what would be the best way to contact you to sort out what we want to do, you wished my wife Dawn a happy 50th in September and she was absolutely over the moon, and I bloody love my “happy being miserable” cup and t shirt👍🏻👍🏻
You would be as well to get a new larger calf building If affordable just for the calves health and comfort and well I guess all of yous ease of caring for them etc I don't think in the short time throwing something together would be wise unless completely necessary as you would end up paying twice for the same thing if that makes sense you all do an amazing job rearing fantastic head of cattle and it would be my opinion (others may disagree) to (if it's financially doable) bigger and newer can be better as you seem to be very much at or over capacity for calves and I understand the quantity will go up and down but me personally I would rather have the space and not need to use it rather than not have the space and need it anyway sorry it's long winded but keep up the amazing work team love the vids as always.
Anna should do a blog on u tube as comedic as she is. Call it a girl on a farm just giving her good looks and humor a twirl. Anna knows the calf barn have horses in the building rather than small calves. Anna deserves a cake to celebrate a year of employment.
Great video. Always busy on a farm and especially when you’ve also got calves! I so look forward to seeing or hearing the plans you have for the calf barn. I know it’s hard work for you but I find it incredibly interesting to hear what you want and why they do things differently and the benefits you and the animals get from it. Like with your barn, I had no idea how important air circulation was until the video with the smoke test. I look forward to your videos, thanks for always having great content. ❤❤
Tom, happy new year to you and your family! I am after some advice not just from you but from anyone else who sees this comment who is also involved in agriculture, on how I can get in to farming. I’m only 15, so obviously a little way off being able to work properly, but would still love to know what I can do now. All the best
Cammy from The Sheep Game also suggests the cattle markets, try and get a job there, it will help with networking and puts you in the front line to prove your commitment and work ethic
Anna is amazing such a professional lady listening to the ginger warrior and obviously loves her job and the animals
Tom, put some powdered lime down on the concrete after you remove the soiled bedding. Then bed on top of it. We were having navel and respiratory issues and after we started spreading the lime our issues almost disappeared
Love the videos, would it be nice that you did an episode on your apprentices on how they got into the job and how you employ them.
And a who's who. Lots of faces we don't know about recently
Watch back and he said before they from
Collage or uni like work experience
@@s1mon1983 keeps it interesting
probably from college you can do work experience very good especially if you wanna learn new skills and meet new people looks good on your cv
Great meeting u today Tom outside ya farm shop was pleasure meeting u and buying some meat from ya shop thankyou Carl
Nice to see a young lady so interested in her job keep it up Hannah
Anna is a definite asset to the farm . ❤
Great video,seeing lots of the calves,need to see more of Anna,she’s great
Happy New Year Tom! Every time when I see you mucking out, I think you need a skidsteer with a grapple. It will even replace some other machines on you farm to
Have you not thought about just redesigning a shed you already have for a calf shed? We ended up using a lambing shed for calf before and that worked really well for a quick fix? Just a thought. Also really impressed how much a young lady is learning with you guys!! Definitely restores faith in humanity!!!
"Dairy on the Prairie " They have the best looking calf building I have ever seen. They are in Canada and super cold.
Tom, you may have found another star with Anna. She's good on camera.
Dad is a super star. Of course the cows are the main stars.
You must face the fact that you are just the moderator. LOL
Keep up the good work.
If you put lime down right on top of the concrete after you clean it'll help with bacteria, we've even sprinkled lime on top of a layer of bedding and put new bedding on top of it if there was a outbreak. That was the last resort if we couldn't get the pens cleaned out within a week or two (Wisconsin winter)
Saskdutchkid has feeding the calves in new barn. O0:05- 04:00 to when you want to stop. Short after meet Mom- on how to feed system, bottle holders etc. Another system is saving colostrum, freeze, fridge. Colostrum within 4 hours.
They’ve had to increase the sizes of pens for each small calf barns. They pull calves from heifers, Neline has a great explanation for reasons.
So glad someone else watches SaskDutchKid like I do.👍
He already has frozen colostrum. He mentioned in a previous video a long time ago.
Dad showing how to do it, great tractor reversing there.
It doesn’t matter how long or short the video is or even how often you manage to get videos out all that matters is making sure that you don’t stress yourself out over it Tom, anyway happy new year
For temporary measures, strip out the and utilitise the other half of the emergency calf house, it's currently dead space. Shift the hoof crush - at least 2 single pens or a triple one there.
Adrian over at IweFarm has had problems with his calves as well, he put it down to the wet weather. Let's hope 2025 is as successful as 2024.👍
And thats why we kept our calves in a barn that was completely enclosed during the winter...but we get plenty of snow here in the winter so the damp isnt a problem and we very very rarely ever had problems with sick calves
lol. Your little laugh, big eyes and then apology is hysterical!!!
Love to watch ur videos. You and your dad are so cheerful. And positive. That's awesome. Have a great and blessed day. God's blessings upon you 😊
Great video Tom what a great team of workers you have got
Look at the Saskdutchkid . They just added to their calf barn. Very well made for our Canadian winters.
I want to see the Ginger Warriors tractor collection and hear the story behind them. And I don't think I am the only one people love vintage vehicles.
The ever increasing pressures on time come at the expense of the little things such as keeping gutters cleared in the calf house to keep it dry. Things have changed a lot over the years. You and your team are doing well considering the pressures.
The calves look amazing hannas doing a top job ❤
do you have a good relationship with other farmers with regards to sharing information about building and farming in general, or is there a healthy competition, or both ?
We do just the same with cattle, calves etc. Especially helps with wormers, products to work the best without having so such hair/straw on their backs. 😀
Great video! Feels like back to Tom after being a bit all over the place recently (understandably). Glad to see it’s going well. Keep up the good work
We will be over at Lytham Hall to see the snowdrops at February half term, usually a fantastic display.
Looking forward to seeing what u and welderfabber hav got planned
Maybe put some stalosan down before bedding up to keep it drier and cleaner. Great stuff when lambing too.
Why do you not use lime to keep bacteria down?
You should put wood pallets on the bottom and then put the bedding on top
She is funny. Nice young people has fun working with cows.
Looks like you don’t just need a calf building but a young stock building too😅
Favourite videos are the ones es with the stock for sure
Great video Tom
Would it have been useful to throw some buckets of disinfectant down ,after you mucked out, to help keep infection levels down. Also , how did you go on with the orange pulp ,delivered a few weeks ago , did you use all ok or had the last bit rotted off.
Happy new year to everybody. Great job Anna. Ginger guy always doing the best work. Luke hero class always. Thomas you’re looking good my man 2025 is your year. Be well be you.
I think with the bad weather coming in Saturday night into Sunday, the UTD game at anfield is highly likely to be postponed👍
Keep the calves on there own stops the spread of diseases also use lime too helps alot
Happy New Year Tom and family, we are wishing you all good health, happiness and prosperity xxxx
Tom , a farmer I watch in Canada SaskDutch Kid have great calf buildings that there calf’s progress through. Definitely worth a look if you want to see nice calf buildings . In fact they recently extended one because they had a similar problem to yourself too many calf’s. But in saying that I also watch another farm in America that turn there cattle outside in the snow etc in the hight of winter so everyone is different. Great information video as always 👍
Use the big square bales, some galvanised sheets and gates to make outside calf shanty town. Cheap and healthy
Nice natural connection between you and Anna Tom.
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Poly tunnel with ventilation fans. And high dry pens.
Tom watch the sasdutchkid videos. Amazing calf building.
Hi Tom. Good morning. Happy new year. May this year be new beginnings,more blessings to you and your family and crew.
Should definitely design a calf building with an automatic calf feeder in mind for the future.
Why don't you throw down some barn lime before putting in fresh bedding?
Should watch Dairy on the Prairie, it’s a dairy farm in Canada, they have a really good calf house.
❤ from Norway Godt nyttår til deg og dine
Hi Anna ❤ You 😊 Happy New Year Everyone 🎉
I agree anna should do a RUclips channel she is so funny and explains very well love the peaces she does its a creade to her
Our place in Queensland hasn't had any real rain for 12 + weeks. D'you reckon your dad could dig a land drain from your place to ours?
Calf housing is clearly a bottleneck. Pleased to see Anna explain how fast pneumonia can impact young stock. You're doing pretty well in less than ideal circumstances.
I got some muck from the separater and what good stuff for the garden and vegetable plot you want to bag it up and sell it to the public Tom or put some on one field and see the difference between slurry and that grass will grow
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL.
GREAT VIDEO AS ALWAYS
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Happy new year Tom & team
Just wondering when you clean you calf areas out do you lime the floors or spray disenfect?
Dairy farms I’ve worked on wed always lime the floors as we did with the cow cubicals.
Is it a case of trying to build the calf’s immunity up ?.
Thanks Tom , regarding the Irish hammer on the trailers tail board , so the English still think the Irish are backwards , anyway thats hilarious 😂
bonjour pour la litière des copeau de bois
I'd say spread a bit of lime and wood chip first before you spread straw it keeps the beds dryer.
Hi Tom it's been a really damp few months which won't have helped the calves at all. Love to Anna❤
Anna helps to explain everything
How chuffed was Lytham Hall that you churned up their grass? 😂😂
@@mandiegorst6465 I apologize and said we are making abit of a mess. They wanted another load 🙈
😂@@TomPembertonFarmLife
Good one Tom, you need a calf Hotel.
Group pens with auto falf feeder
A minute before Anna said it I thought about the moisture. Any chance you could increase the air flow? As well as drying out a bit, it helps kill germs, then re-bed a little later? Gotta get a bit more consistent airflow to dry the place more. The brick is porous and can harbor moisture and cooties. We have cows for show. (Total moneymakers) Huge scare if one looks a little off.
He is building a calf barn now
😂clipping the calves,the calves probably do the same as my dog when I vacuum, run 😂
Thanks for the updates, Take are
Tom I wouldn't mind an hour long video.
Happy New year to you all
Are vet told us it’s been a bad winter for pneumonia
Tom you seriously need a new office😊🇺🇸🙏❤️🙏🇬🇧
Have you ever thought about getting some calf igloos temporarily until you get around to building a new calf building, Tom?
I really like how saskdutchkid's calf building has been built. It's very easy to clean and also expandable climate controlled and single pens too. It would be great for you to have a new calf building it's needed
Enjoy the game on Sunday. At least it's not in the mice infested stadium in Manchester.
About 18:50.... Even the calves listen to dad. 😂. It would be good if you did a factors of production calculation. A timeline of who is calving when, like a budget, to calculate your maximum capacity based on conception and herd numbers. It will inform your new building size with respect to expansion and allow you to avoid using the old spaces for calves after implementing a new building, So says the sofa! You've had a very impressive 2024. Regards, Stephen.
Sell some cows and build a poly tunnel. You'll be back up to needing a calf shed in no time n youll just end up keeping the poly tunnel for separate storage
it's time you make a dissent barn for the calfs
@16:45 That building seems pretty enclosed. With all that water sitting on the floor all the time I'd bet you'd benefit from a fan in there to help circulate the air. Not blowing straight on the calves, but pointed maybe on the other side.
Anna, we need a story time!! You are so knowledgeable! Happy New Year from USA Louisville Kentucky
Would taking the jersey off the angus help cool it down lol
Well explained Anna, makes more sense now what the issue is
Would a white board in the calf house, help to keep everyone informed as to potential issues ??
Nelly the heifer, packed her bag and said goodbye to Tom's circus lol
You certainly have a great committed team working on the farm Tom
Hi Sam n Oliver, just want to let you both know me and my wife, absolutely love your channel, we would both like to do something for you all to help you out, what would be the best way to contact you to sort out what we want to do, you wished my wife Dawn a happy 50th in September and she was absolutely over the moon, and I bloody love my “happy being miserable” cup and t shirt👍🏻👍🏻
Morning Tom
Anna is ace
Anna's a lady of many words :)
You would be as well to get a new larger calf building If affordable just for the calves health and comfort and well I guess all of yous ease of caring for them etc I don't think in the short time throwing something together would be wise unless completely necessary as you would end up paying twice for the same thing if that makes sense you all do an amazing job rearing fantastic head of cattle and it would be my opinion (others may disagree) to (if it's financially doable) bigger and newer can be better as you seem to be very much at or over capacity for calves and I understand the quantity will go up and down but me personally I would rather have the space and not need to use it rather than not have the space and need it anyway sorry it's long winded but keep up the amazing work team love the vids as always.
I watch a farm in the USA that use poly tunnels for their calves, it would make a great substitute until you get your calf building.
@@lesleywatkins1172 me and Luke were talking Polly tunnels today
@ it’s a quick and cheap solution!
Buon anno beberton😮❤
Anna should do a blog on u tube as comedic as she is. Call it a girl on a farm just giving her good looks and humor a twirl. Anna knows the calf barn have horses in the building rather than small calves. Anna deserves a cake to celebrate a year of employment.
Hi good afternoon from Indiana
Delivered to one of massy feeds mills Friday there a joke
Great video. Always busy on a farm and especially when you’ve also got calves! I so look forward to seeing or hearing the plans you have for the calf barn. I know it’s hard work for you but I find it incredibly interesting to hear what you want and why they do things differently and the benefits you and the animals get from it. Like with your barn, I had no idea how important air circulation was until the video with the smoke test. I look forward to your videos, thanks for always having great content. ❤❤
You know your problem...is...all of you are doing too good a job...😃🥳🌠
26th! I GOT NOTHIN’ Roger in Pierre South Dakota USA
23:23 great content again
maby some sawdust down to soak up the sitting water next to the pens mite help tom
@@DennisGoodayle we have done this before tbh
@@TomPembertonFarmLife did it help
Tom, happy new year to you and your family! I am after some advice not just from you but from anyone else who sees this comment who is also involved in agriculture, on how I can get in to farming. I’m only 15, so obviously a little way off being able to work properly, but would still love to know what I can do now.
All the best
Join your local young farmers group or go speak to a local farmer and ask if he needs help during holidays or weekends.
Cammy from The Sheep Game also suggests the cattle markets, try and get a job there, it will help with networking and puts you in the front line to prove your commitment and work ethic
Wisdom from the ginger warrior, hit the diff 😉😀👍