Our Brooder Set Up For Broiler Chickens And The Unboxing Of This Year’s Cornish Cross Chicks
The chicks have arrived! In this video I show you the brooder set up, chicks being released from the boxes and talk about my process for this. The broilers are Cornish Cross so they’ll take about 8 weeks to mature and they’ll spend 3 of those weeks in the brooder. At the end of the video you’ll get some close ups of the baby chicks.
We finally turned our new shorthorn bull out with the cows yesterday. His name is Halifax but we call him Hal for short. He’s really well built and is a 2 year old. He isn’t very friendly and is a bit high headed.
This is the second calf to go into the creek, but we have a solution. We will post it in the next video. So far this little guy is doing great and is nursing. We’ll register him and hopefully show him. I will film us halter training the calf and his growth along the way.
Here’s the cattle on their second pass through this pasture, around June 6th they were here last. Almost 2 months rest between grazing. Pretty good for a Canadian climate.
Just fed out a large bale with the old Ford tractor. It's the only one that can lift our bales but it's open cab so it's a little chilly to operate in -31°C.
Calving season is over for us now, we only have the milk cows left and they are a whole other story. As you hear in the video, we had 13 animals calve but the first heifer lost her calf so we only have 12 calves this spring. As you can see the cows are liking all the fresh green grass they get this time of year while we rotationally graze them through the pastures.
She got sent to pasture because Elma, now Daisy nursed out our milk cow that’s in production. Who we rely on for milk for the kids. You also get to see our other milking animals June and Shimmer.