Calving Season: You Never Know what'll happen

We had a cow that birthed her twins pre-maturely in a previous to this video. Luckily, one of our friends has an old cow that had a calf that she was not going to be able to support, so we were able to give this mother a calf and keep her on the farm. Also dad dumped hay in the feed wagon too fast and plugged it hard.... Nice going
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[@glenncook4936]

Farming life is so much more calming watching it instead of living it......😁

[@tomcurtis197]

Nope, can't run for the border!! Guess you'll be calfenated!! Great video! Really great to see how much care you give the young calves and mothers!!

[@SonneFarms]

Thanks for watching!

[@erichwendley2459]

I'm75year old Geezer From Pendleton, New York. Always wanted to be a Farmer, But it never happened although I was Fortunate to work on Farms many times in my Early Life, I Love the Great Relationship you have with you Dad, Cole. Don't ever let it slide, Life is too Short. Super Great Videos, And a great Sense Of Humor!!

[@luissilveira2452]

Thanks for your videos it's nice to see your love for what you do and how proud your dad is of you (he can't hide it)

[@EZ-viewing.]

I love your honesty, down to earth commentary and priceless inputs from dad. I love what you’re doing together & your genuine close commitment to each other. I really enjoy watching what’s happening on your farm. God bless and best wishes from Melbourne Australia. Cheers.

[@SonneFarms]

Thank you Mark!!

[@marylouise890]

Mark Goodman 👍😊

[@meghanplamondon8639]

I think your spring break will be extended way beyond calving time.

[@johnjcastro2604]

Good job guys!

[@jackbarry9469]

My whole semester is online now

[@kevinklingner3098]

@@jackbarry9469 in

[@firstlast5681]

Yay great video guys and Brian I'm glad that you get an extension on your spring break LOLOL

[@johncalander2092]

And so it has started calving. Stay warm

[@albertlong1465]

Good work Cole

[@lynardok6654]

Glad you are alive and able to be doing chores! It's a privilege to work with your Dad - enjoy it while you can. You have a beautiful farm and family with good values. We love watching - and in these crazy times its good to be able to see family together. God Bless!

[@rlyman111]

Good spring break!

[@joeymartin5080]

Great video! More Spring Break just means more quality time with dad and hopefully more video content! Thanks for sharing!

[@timothybailey7118]

Good demonstration of how farmers/ranchers fight for life of the animals they raise.

[@markbailey8944]

we will be cow tipping and calf chucking today LOL

[@michaelhuff1334]

Good content men! My father and I have worked and farmed together my whole life. People who have that opportunity dont know how lucky they are. We live in Michigan, but have friends in bridgwater, sd. Have hunted pheasants there for years. Keep up the good work. Enjoy watching your channel.

[@scottchasney5162]

Thanks for the smiles Cole!!!

[@herdingcats3850]

You two work well as a team. Good to see. Have a good breakfast today as a reward. Be safe the rest of the year.

[@bennetts-revenge_2]

I love how gentle you are with your calves and their mommas

[@casey5711]

You guys took care of those calf’s, thanks 😀👍🏾🚜

[@xXCoolishbeanzXx]

Keep the videos up I wanna see more and so does everyone else

[@SonneFarms]

Thanks!

[@frankscruggs4749]

Good video Cole and Cole`s dad,thanks for taking time to make it.

[@kevin.463]

Another great video Cole, love your operation

[@rogerfuhr8067]

Nice cattle facilities and good looking cattle. Enjoy your time together.

[@alohaerickson]

Momma was pretty happy to get her wayward calf back.

[@YouTube_Professor]

Wow stellar air guitar, you would give Zach a run for his money.

[@jerryjohns7358]

Real reality TV. Great as always.

[@allantrautman3476]

Great footage of the calf sucking; that's 80% + success, that calf will not only survive it will thrive.

[@Kelleena1on1]

Your eyes are like the ocean . Interesting life u have

[@bcpfarmandtrucking6560]

Stay healthy and help your dad with calving 👍

[@shaneflickinger]

Keep calving those tags and enjoy your extended spring break.

[@SonneFarms]

😂😂😂

[@zawadafarms7402]

Your dad is hilarious with the Mountain Dew 😂👍🏼👍🏼.

[@stevenduplantis9436]

Yup say good by to spring break. Keep the vids up! I like them!

[@jjcactusandsucculents-open2156]

Yes Dad needs some help with calving! Stay home! Great video! Thank you for sharing! :-)

[@danfinley3690]

Calving pretty cool watching video keep them coming always enjoy the content

[@marv1405]

Really appreciate you putting out more frequent videos while you are home on extended spring break. We are mostly house-bound so looking for entertaining and interesting ways to spend time. Think I've gone through all your videos so think I'll go repeating some. Pray the corona virus passes you by.

[@SonneFarms]

I hope y'all stay safe as well!

[@pusherw2861]

You had a busy day,👍

[@rhythmgamefanatic7834]

Like wacthing sure looks like hard worktop keep up with but thanks to the farmer's for what they do for us

[@danielrandolph9170]

Good video Cole & Brian and a good mountain dew commercial Brian lol yal be safe . Daniel from central Mississippi

[@user-ig7yy9zy2s]

Good job

[@breannemartin4764]

It's cute how gentle y'all are with the babies. Then run from big mommas headed out 😂

[@iowANFarmer]

That calf under the tree reminded me of the newborn that was hunkered in my drain pipe supply pile snoozing out of the wind and watching me work in the mud for an afternoon.

[@SonneFarms]

They like to find interesting places!

[@brycerisen7073]

We are gonna throw it over the fence I was like well damn 😂😂

[@mrnate4280]

Love your channel man been watching for a while now

[@pharvalleyaussies6215]

Mt Dew thumbs up

[@wayneburndred7457]

Great video

[@HootMaRoot]

It's good seeing others getting animals to adopt the the young of others that wouldn't be able to look after there own. When I used to help with sheep when I was young we did the same sort of thing, if there was any with still birth we would make them adopt a lamb from one that had triplets or was to old

[@Marshall_Weber]

Awesome Video As Always!!!

[@SonneFarms]

Thank you!

[@mikebonge7206]

Great farming.

[@mikey188834]

Jamming to the music in the truck 🤣🤣

[@robinsaba3888]

Great video!!!seems like y’all are really really busy!!!at least you have work outside to do,I am stuck in the house bored because of the quarantine!!!😂😂😂

[@davidwhittredge3416]

A little George Thoroughbred! To keep you “Rockin” Good video as always.

[@christopherbrogan1309]

Good stuff

[@IcamanSogge]

I hit wrong button sorry for this your videos are good and entertaining thanks.

[@NorthCountryOffgrid]

I’m betting Dad gets his wish! Nobody is going to Mexico!!🤣🤣👍🏻

[@cheshillyard2870]

another great video ,look good rockin out there mate ,O by the way,did those tags calve yet lmao your one funny guy ,but I love you ,so is your dad funny,keep it up Hugs till next time

[@charliesmith3633]

I subscribed ,committed and liked

[@SonneFarms]

Thanks!!

[@janefarmer416]

Go Packs Go !!!!!

[@barbjudson1256]

You’re now a full time farmer son woohoo 🥳

[@beverlyallen5308]

All the babies you gota stay and help wit all the babies for dad

[@smallscalefarming8947]

That 6r works great for what you use it for

[@johnmoore669]

Fresh Protein Tub-- " Nothing but the best " lol-- Great Video.

[@benburns5995]

Hope your family stays healthy to take care of all those calves. At least it keeps you away from other people to help not get infected.

[@BrianGLee-bc7hj]

Skip the break stay home and help with the calves

[@richardjellis9186]

Why do you have to cull a cow with no calf.? Can you not hand milk a cow, and slowly reduce this until she's dry again,? Is it that this is too much work, could it not be a surrogate to a twin or a calf with a mother that can't feed it's calf for what ever reason.? Or am I missing something.? (I know nothing 🧐). I'm learning every time I watch one of your vids. Keep 'em coming. Love you guys.🥰🥰 Rich UK 🥰🥰

[@rcscofield2003]

Gotta love that good ol' South Dakota wind lol.

[@CurrentChoices]

why wind not drying mud out yet?

[@rcscofield2003]

@@CurrentChoices cause it still freezes at night here in South Dakota

[@donnyblondy8506]

JVR of the philladelphia flyers

[@Pickhinke]

Saturday made after watching this

[@SonneFarms]

Good!

[@wayneburndred7457]

Dad doing the dew

[@terriniemeier6578]

Mountain Dew, Dew it!

[@josephrodgers3119]

Morning..

[@greenthumb6875]

Put the dog close to second calf heifer pen while she’s needing to bond to another calf. Sometimes dog helps mothering instinct kicks in quicker helping the imprinting process.

[@SonneFarms]

Very interesting!

[@s.pursell8901]

"My spring break got extended by a week. I think I'm going to Mexico." Don't worry after you finish out calving season I think you still have a week or two before the borders open back up. Then again you may have recorded this before Mexico said "Stay the hell out".

[@bobjohnson1710]

Be thankful you live out in the boon docks. You're much safer there right now than in town cooped up with other people. Here in Louisiana, we've lost 16 people (14 in the Metro New Orleans area) to the COVID 19 virus in the past week. I think if the human race survives this epidemic, you'll see a lot more folks leaving the cities and heading back to the country to put a little space between them and their neighbors!

[@downhilltwofour0082]

An extra week of Spring break and the border to Mexico is closed, Dang it!

[@piperdoug428]

Dad doin da Dew

[@jerryodriscoll3691]

'We are gonna chuck it over the fence' 'Or we could set it down nicely' 'Nah we are gonna chuck it' Brilliant 😂

[@samanthaflynn6140]

Grrrrr. Stupif YT....didnt give me a notification when this posted!

[@CurrentChoices]

Mountain Dew Rancher!!

[@wilycat5290]

Probably was a long spring break huh. 😕

[@Geordi-xe5ly]

What about a small trailer to hook behind the side by side to haul calves let the cows follow you

[@tryan7]

You two work hard on the farm. Too much dew is not good for your teeth. Be careful and best wishes.

[@Dirk3672_StupidYT]

You sure have a lot of soft ground. Would tracked tractors be better on the ground and effective?

[@SonneFarms]

They would work better, more traction and better flotation

[@timjohnson8725]

Wondering if that side by side is low geared for pulling??

[@SonneFarms]

It has a high and low gear

[@christiansweeney5738]

just a quick question do you feed the heifers only hay or do you do grain to?

[@SonneFarms]

Yea, everybody gets at least a little grain, helps keep up weight when it is cold

[@patrickahlgren8840]

Hey have another question for you buddy hopefully you can be my go to for question do u brand your cows and should I I've seen it but I'm subscribed to u and a few other channels like yours but your more around my age and I like the way u do your stuff around the farm so I wanna ask u

[@SonneFarms]

We do not brand our cattle. In Eastern SD we have smaller pastures and it is easier to watch over our cattle and make sure they don't get mixed up with other farmer/rancher's cattle

[@patrickahlgren8840]

Oh ok ear tagging is a must though correct

[@Klein_farms]

Hi

[@bigdealbill1021]

Okay, I sit corrected Steel water tub... Crystalx Tub. Have you ever tried " Orphan No More" on your donor calf??? Or does Dad know the art of trickery to make your 2 year heifer accept calf as her own.

[@SonneFarms]

We use O no More all the time, sometimes we forget though

[@bigdealbill1021]

I would like to see Dad and You have a dance off.

[@robinsaba3888]

Oh by the way, the Mexico border is closed 😂😂😂

[@troypersson7630]

Drain tiles in your feedlot, would that help. I have no idea just wondering.

[@SonneFarms]

It would help, it would be expensive. Something to look into though

[@barryrohrmeier2399]

Since you'll be home you should let your Dad cruise next week.

[@SonneFarms]

I don't think you could pay him enough to go on a cruise right now haha

[@barryrohrmeier2399]

Not that kind of cruise.... an easy week

[@noblebeefandforage3686]

How old do you calve out your first time heifers? Mine are usually calving out when they are 2 years old but some farms in my area hold them back another year cuz they say it's easier on them.

[@SonneFarms]

2 years when they are first calving

[@dianesides6049]

What do you think about Aberdeen lowline bulls for 1st calf heifers?

[@tanneriverson662]

Green and red don't mix lol

[@BWYinYang]

Cole rapping cause he doesn't have to go back to college town.

[@cameltanker1286]

Nothing like a little product placement.

[@dkjphills79]

I have only been watching your vids for a few weeks. Are you guys raising black Angus?

[@SonneFarms]

That correct

[@dkjphills79]

@@SonneFarms do you raise both the bulls and the heffer for meat. Or do you raise the cows and sell them to farmers to raise and process.

[@calebmanuel17]

@@dkjphills79 cow calf production

[@faithnoellecurtis3360]

I have a question about your farm, if you don't mind: Your farm is referred to in a plural sense, implying that your farm is multiple land parcels in one. And you sometimes say "North farm", etc. I've seen farm real estate listings that show multiple land parcels that are all in the same offering, but are not all contiguous, but still close together. Well, is yours multiple land parcels in one? If so, how did it get to be that way?

[@briansonne814]

Over time in your farming career it is not uncommon to add acres to your operation. Contiguous is very nice but it is not always an option. Often times when you buy an old farmstead you continue to call it by the previous owners name in order for the people working in your operation to recognize what piece of land you are referring to.

[@eggenfarms3470]

How many cattle do you have

[@calebmanuel17]

Which state do you live

[@SonneFarms]

South Dakota

[@josephrodgers3119]

Ba ba ba bad

[@yayapj4]

Where are your children?! 🤣🤣🤣