Nurturing Young Livestock

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Visit to Tom Pemberton's farm ENGLAND! Farming the English countryside!

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What happens here

The tour proceeds to various calf pens. Calves under seven days old are shown wearing coats for warmth in the cold weather, emphasizing animal welfare. Later, older calves (7-21 days old) are introduced, including Charolais and Angus breeds. Tom explains that Charolais are good for meat but grow very large, leading the farm to transition towards Angus for higher quality beef suitable for their farm shop. He demonstrates hand-feeding the calves, highlighting the direct interaction and care given to the animals. This illustrates animal husbandry practices crucial for a productive farm, which in turn influences the broader agricultural landscape and nutrient cycling. Healthy livestock management, including proper nutrition and welfare, is an integral part of sustainable farming practices.

Goal: This step focuses on the care and breeding practices for calves, including the transition between breeds for optimal meat quality for the farm's market.

Tools and materials

Calf Coats
Milk Powder Cake

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we are all about so here we have anything under seven days old we have the Angus cards and we have coats on because it's nice and cold so yeah the coats help them grow and that's what you're about nice healthy card so guys did you see the little cow sucking on my finger there they're just predisposed I guess pre-programmed to suckle to suckle to look for that milk it's pretty interesting and they don't have any teeth kind of flood in the UK folks don't wear sunglasses you can't go to a store really and buy sunglasses gas stations in the US all have sunglasses and ball caps not so in the UK so most of the time ball caps in the UK are worn by young younger gentlemen like in their early 20s which I'm not the next stage we're all would they come into the car field which is here and then anything over the 70 days 7 to 21 days coming to here and they're all a milk and then they get put onto a knot which is a little cake note which has got a bit of milk in it and the milk powder so they can get them off the milk onto a hard or not well it's all about friendly cars what kind of Cal is this so this is a Charolais okay so we have sherilee we have quite a few crosses here and we started with the Sheryl AIDS and for their meat they put a lot of meat on and the fat content in the meat for the marbling but now we've gone away from that because you just get a little bit too big for us so we've gone for an Angus so now we've just got last bit Sheryl I going through and I'll go an Angus because it's all about the farm shop and high quality beef so that's what we do now we put the Angus in the Jersey so Cheryl aides are great and they do do good beef but they just get too big and a massive like this guy is just huge these are really friendly I'm big on putting all your effort into the cows I love being friendly girl I love cows they'll come up to you and very mischievious friendly that's what we're about healthy happy cows Thanks yeah good and they're just like so we go for this little area and we've got more carbs they're just absolutely everywhere around here if there is a building with a roof on we have an animal underneath this like I say 300 had to start with 200 acres we are busy we have muck everywhere and we're constantly betting up but as farming life I look like the

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