Frederick: Morning girls, how are you? How are you? My goodness! Texas has great fruits and Florida has oranges and we've great beef, which is the best beef in the world. That's 77, grab 77. Okay, just a minute, okay. We'll get her tagged.
Gary Sumption: When a cow has trouble giving birth, we call the pull stall and maybe the delivery room. We just got a good solid steel head gate here that catches the cow's head, we know bring this around to have her go in there and then we used to do the get old come along and get old strings and when we get hold of them and we pull out. We help her.
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Gary Sumption: It's just a giant granola bar. It's got oats and it's got corn, we put a little sugar and milk on that, we would probably do fine eating on their self. It's good for their hair coat. You see they get a shine to them, they're very healthy and we do take a lot of pride in what we do and we worked very hard at it, and to do it right, it takes a lot of time and a lot of energy. It's in your bones, and we don't know a lot of the other things, so the tradition carries on.
I'm going to go and grab the four wheeler, and bring that cow up, she's in the preliminary stages, we'll bring her up and maybe we'll take her to the barn. Here in Eastern South Dakota we cattle them in February and March, you can't do it on a prairie, you have to get them into a barn, you have to get them out of weather conditions or the calf will die.
So, whenever you have to handle them, they have to cooperate. They weigh 1500 pounds. I can't drag them in. Turner, get in front of her, crowd her, we wanted to go in there. Oh, come on! But that's definitely going to be born now. Push, push it and grab it, jump up there and push it John, push it John, she's got her shoulder, let her back her shoulder.
Now, push, get up, we have got leverage stand up her, there you go, okay. Turner let her on, I'm not on, come on. There we go, okay, there we go, get those off, here's alive, take your breath, okay, he's alive, good. Lucky, really lucky.
He's alive! That was a nick of time. If we didn't get here in time to bring her in so she's born in the barn, then we got to pick the calf up, carry him to the barn, and then we got to put take him, and then there'll be another one and another one and so, it's -- then it happens at night. So you got to be here at night, or else they will not make it, they will not survive.
May be you're hungry? We've worked a whole year to make this cow and then see this calf born, oh that's exciting. It's our reward for some of the hard works we've done. It's a great day to be born in South Dakota, no matter what species we are.
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