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How to pronounce blackjack oak in English?

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all right
so i had this question quite a bit
it's a really good question it's
probably the number one question
that any person interested in bison
or buffalo would ask
what is the difference between bison and
buffalo
i'm gonna try to help you and uh we're
gonna talk about a little bit
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okay first things first we need to go
way
back we need to go way back and
to where the first europeans came over
here
and so the europeans kind of started
taking over
the north american continent what we
know is the u.s particularly
and so as they started coming over here
and checking everything out they saw
this animal this big beast you
know roaming out by the millions
and um what they knew of this animal
that they were used to seeing this big
brown
you know burly beast um out here grazing
you know naturally and looking all
majestic and stuff
um they were used to them
and they thought that buffalo
and the when they said that
um what they're referring to or what
they thought that
our buffalo these buffalo were
as was the cape and water buffalo
well which is in the eastern hemisphere
and uh so you're talking you know
there's there's places in africa
and there's places in europe where the
cape and the water buffalo are located
and so they were used to seeing this big
beast of an animal and you know the
cape buffalo and the water buffalo are
both
very large mammals and
when you first look at them this is what
you see
and i hate to say it but if you google
buffalo now
and you know on google and you look at
uh
some of the images uh you'll see
cape buffalo and you'll see water
buffalo come up
and uh that's that's right because those
are buffalo
they're not our buffalo but
um so when the first peoples were over
here
and you know they were seeing this
animal
that's where they got it they started
calling a buffalo referring to
what they were used to in europe and in
africa
and so what happened is this common name
of buffalo started to surface
it started to being passed along and
that's what people referred
to them as and as you know
history tells itself the numbers grew
more people kept coming from europe
and so uh that word
just kept going and that common name
was referred to as buffalo all right so
even the natives
um had their own common name for the
bison maya get over here
sit sit down
we don't do that stay
all right so the natives even had their
common name
for for buffalo as well and that was
from the english term
uh that was brought over and so
whenever people started calling that it
even spread to the native americans
and so let me talk about kind of today
and what i
hear is you know when you grow up the
very first thing that you hear is the
word buffalo
and it's totally fine that's what you've
heard that's what you hear in television
and that's what you hear in the media
people refer to them
as buffalo we always have but now that
the bison or buffalo is starting to
kind of get spread more in the u.s and
and people are starting to know more
about them and the reason that
is is because not too long ago
a couple years ago the bison the
american bison
became our national mammal and there's a
reason behind that you guys know that
the bison
um almost became extinct um in the late
1800s
and uh you know it was a survivor and
uh you know it it got through the tough
times and
with you know a lot of good
conservationists
noticing this and and even a a really
good president by the name of teddy
roosevelt
noticing this and trying to put a lot of
effort towards saving
these majestic animals and you know
almost 100 years later we've got
we've got them as our national mammals
which is awesome talking about
you know this common name today is still
used
i go to a lot of bison conferences
uh you know meetings and and you still
hear that name
you know being spread around buffalo
you see a lot of people's ranches named
you know buffalo ranch and and uh you
hear bison
mine are obviously bison uh because when
i jumped into this i
just felt like i wanted to go ahead and
give it the the true name
so let's break it down a little bit so
you have buffalo which is a common name
and then you have what the genus species
is
of american bison is
bison bison that is the genus species
of these animals right here it is a
bison bison
and which we just call them bison that
is the american bison
if you go way back there's a couple of
other different species
of bison but the real
true what we have today
is just american bison which we call
bison
so you've got common name uh that was
spread a long time ago
and then you have the actual scientific
name also
just kind of a common name today is
bison and uh you know what
it's okay you can call it either one if
you want to get technical
you call them bison you hear me say
bison but at the end of the day they're
the same
animal of the american bison you just
can't get it confused
uh okay with the water buffalo or the
cape buffalo
over you know in europe and places like
that
so don't feel bad it's okay
you're talking about still the coolest
gum animal okay it doesn't matter it's
fine
okay but it's bison or buffalo
don't be afraid to call it buffalo
you're not wrong
just don't get it confused with cape or
water
buffalo so even in one of my favorite
movies which you know i talked about i
even named my bull
after him um so in dances with wolves
you even hear that and that was a very
popular movie in the early early 90s
and you guys know that that movie um
really kind of got me inspired
with the whole connection with native
americans and bison and i just love
those kind of movies any movie
uh you know kevin costner in is great uh
if you already haven't seen watch
yellowstone because it's really good
but um you know when you hear
he's on his tent at dunbar in that movie
uh but you know there's the whole famous
scene where he's sitting down
i'm talking to that friendly tribe that
he's trying to
create a bond with and they're sitting
down um
drinking coffee this is one of my
favorite scenes
um you know he puts a he puts a jacket
in his shirt and he hum
hunches over and he's you know doing the
whole tataka thing and
you know we always laugh about it and
stuff but um that's a funny scene
because he's
he's acting out to try to you know
portray
hey buffalo where are the buffalo
uh but you hear them say that and the
the sugar says
buffalo buff
funny scene one of my favorite scenes
but you know it's stuff like that where
we've heard them before and
you know we you see that in the movies
and you see it in the media and so
it's okay that's been laid out for us as
the term
buffalo if you ask me what i would
prefer
and i'm just about this big and the
whole bison world
i would say bison the name of our
magazine cover
the name of our national bison
association
it all has the word bison in it we try
to stay technical
um but when you go to those associations
you still hear that term being passed
around
don't i mean i am not an expert at this
i am not a really great historian
this is what i've learned as i've grown
up and this is what i've learned from
teaching
oklahoma history and just you know
being in this over a year and a half now
so i'm not an expert at the bison versus
buffalo
but this is what i've learned and talked
to people
and picked up in books that i've read
and just tried to pay attention to
so um you know i'm not perfect at it but
this is what i know
to be uh buffalo versus bison and i just
gave you
the pretty short version of that so
i hope that i helped you do i hope i
helped you understand what the
difference is
um just compared to our american bison
to the cape and the water buffalo
um you know if you just stick with uh
in the term american bison if you want
to call them bison buffalo
it's okay so
people ask well what kind of bison do
you have
well let me break it down there's two
types of bison in america
there's planes bison which
is this are these guys and then there is
the wood
bison let me show you what
the difference is between wood bison and
plains bison
okay so on the woods bison you've got
the hump
that comes up a little bit more forward
like you see here on dakota
all right so on wood bison
they live up in the north and you're
going to see them
in canada for sure but they also will be
up into uh you know they can be up into
montana wyoming idaho and some of those
northern
united states they're a little bit
bigger than the plains bison
and uh their hump comes forward
they uh have a lot more kind of
hair up in the front it's not as throwy
it's not as curly up in the front it's a
little shaggier
up in the front kind of a you know long
straight here i guess you could
say if you talk to some woods bison
people
which i know some up in canada some good
people up there
they can tell you a little bit more
about the difference between woods and
plane
planes bison minor planes bison
um so the ones that you know you saw
in the movies and the traditional you
know
the plains indians native americans
hunting
the bison those are these bison
you're going to find those woods bison
up far north you're not going to hardly
see any down
this way really but um not a huge
difference they're still
bison uh they're just woods and planes
so
you've got your genus species of bison
bison and then you've got a kind of
two subgroups here or two different
groups of
american bison all right guys i hope
i've helped you today
i hope that i've taught you a little bit
more
about bison and i hope that you know
a little bit at least the difference
between
buffalo and bison and
um you know what at the end of the day
they're the same animal just don't get
it confused with those other
buffalo over in europe um but
it's the same thing people know what
you're talking about and
now um if people ask you can correct
them if you want
you can say no it's bison i'm sorry
that has taken me this long i kind of
covered a bunch of other stuff
and i you know it's okay to get back to
the basics
just like i have to do in teaching and
coaching every now and then you got to
do that
and so um you know
well over 13 videos in 13 videos in and
we're just now talking about bison
versus buffalo
these are interesting animals and
there's so much history about them that
you can
really get into if you want to read
about
but feel free to ask me any questions
not an expert at this
but if you have any questions you can
feel free to ask me so
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classroom a little bit
um being a teacher you know it's kind of
natural to do that
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today um
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hey guys dusty baker with crosstimers
bison i have some really cool
footage for you today um i've never seen
any sort of footage like this before
it's just coincidentally you know i had
my gopro sitting down
and this is what happened check this out
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hey guys welcome back dusty baker
crosstimers bison
just out here checking on the herd
checking on the
little bulls i got it's a little nap
time i just fed them so
they're happy and and plump so it's kind
of like that nap time after lunch you're
like
oh just ate lunch and now you're full i
know it's a hard time of the day that's
kind of where they're at right now but
hope you guys been doing good everything
is good here it's really good
because everything has gotten greener
again we've
uh since we build the hay we've gotten
quite a few inches of rainfall
and so that's really good and exciting
and i know the bison love it
because they love that fresh green
grasses they can still get
late in the summer whenever we know that
fall is knocking on the door and that
green grass will disappear
like you saw on my one of my previous
videos
but luckily um some of the heat has
escaped
oklahoma just for a brief moment and
we're loving it here
and uh i know that the bison are too but
finally got some cooler temperatures and
some rainfall so that's always good
um but you know i just uh
i have i kind of had the gopro out just
trying to get some good footage on them
i love just sitting out here
and watching them they're just they're
just fun animals to watch and
they're just so curious i i mean
they're like a goat i don't know if
you've ever been around to go before
um yeah but they're just they're so
curious so i have the gopro sitting
down and i can watch it on my phone
and so i'm just sitting here watching
them and
almost every single one of them go by
and
sniff it smell of it lick it just to
check it out because
these animals spend so much time out in
these pastures uh they know wherever
every nook and cranny kind of is and so
um this was something new out there and
they
didn't take them long to find it and
they found that gopro and they had to go
check it out so i've got some good
footage that i'm going to show you today
that
now how cool is that to have baby bison
calves come up that close to a gopro
you're
so up close and personal
um right there with that bison cap
basically trying to eat the gopro uh
but it's crazy that we can see
the inside of the baby bison's mouth
that's something we will probably never
get to doing unless you
actually have them in a
squeeze shoot and you have to do that
but we should never have to do that
so crazy good footage um natural footage
of this
just the baby calves being them just
being little kids like
just like us uh you know once when we're
we're young
um so curious like they are they want to
smell everything
and in this case maybe eat it or taste
of it
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so you kind of see how curious these
animals are
they want to know everything that's
going on they uh
they just they're so interesting to
watch and it's fun to sit there and
um just see kind of what where their
minds going and and what their
what their focus is and what they're
interested on um
that's that's the fun part about being
out here with them is uh
they just they'll get into all kinds of
stuff if you if you just
if you would let them hey buddy i still
don't have any
i'm sorry dunbar wants cues but i've
already fed him
he's he's eating like a horse right now
which he needs it
okay i know i'll bring you some cubes
okay so i got some exciting news um
we've finally named the bulls uh
we already had one pretty much named uh
our very first one
um he was our firstborn
calf ever from the crosstimers bison and
uh we named him chaska
one of our uh followers uh kind of threw
it out there and some comments after a
video
um and so we're gonna take it and run
with it chaska means
first born son and sue
and the reason i kind of i really like
that is first of all
uh these those two mamas which are now
uh they came from the quapon nation um
like i've talked about several times
but they uh the koapa tribe
is i know there's many branches uh
or groups of sioux and
this is one of them is quapaw tribe and
so um
we kind of discovered that name through
that
through those some comments from a from
a follower and i appreciate it
um and so we're gonna run with chaska
for
for our first born bull and uh
he's doing great both of them are doing
really good on the second one
we named him teddy because his mama
is from teddy roosevelt national park is
where
her bloodline comes from and being able
to have
a a bloodline or a bison
from a national park and teddy roosevelt
national park out all of them
that's so awesome and i'm lucky to have
that
so we've got chaska
and we've got teddy um teddy roosevelt
is one of my favorite
um presidents of all time he did a lot
of conservation
he was a big time hunter but you know he
explored a lot of places in america
and he wanted to protect him and so
we should be very thankful of people
like teddy roosevelt so
why not name a baby boss and calf after
teddy
as you can tell the baby bulls are
doing awesome they're so pretty um
you just it's so cool to see how
red they are and you can tell how they
just stick out out here against this
green grass but
they're doing really good they're
getting so big
still milking on mom like normal which
is what they should be doing
i even caught them eating some feed
which is good that's okay they'll be
eating feed it
at some point as they get older um want
to eat as much grass as possible
okay get those natural nutrients in them
um but you know someday they'll
they'll eat some feed so one of the
questions i get
is what are you going to do with these
baby bulls
and well there's a couple of different
things that you can do
so you really it takes a while to really
see
kind of what their confirmation is and
how good of an animal are they gonna be
what are they what i mean by
confirmation is
that can be several things you know just
their body structure
and and how they're built uh little
details kind of
you know that they have good genetics um
is
is a quick way of putting it but we just
kind of will keep these
um little bulls for a while see how they
turn out
and uh you know we're not in a hurry to
make any decisions right now
the the ideal prime
weight to take them to market or age to
take them to market
for meat purposes is like 18
months and then you know until like uh
22 or 24 months so right about two years
is kind of the optimal time to take them
to the market if you want
to process them for meat um
i know that kind of scares some of you
guys like no but poor little babies
they're not gonna be babies then
wouldn't do nothing like that
but um you know that's part of that's
part of this industry
i'm not there yet people ask me what are
you going to do with these animals
well i don't have enough right now
to have market animals which is to
process them for me and sell for me i
wish i could sell you guys
some meat because it's so good it's so
good and it's so good for you
but i just i just don't have the
operation for that right now i mean i
have a young herd
as you can tell they only have two
babies and it takes about two years to
really
have animals that you want to market and
sell for meat purposes so
we're not we're not in a hurry to do
that
but you know if in a year or so a year
and a half
if these bulls look really good um we
could possibly sell them for breeding
purposes um both of their mamas are
really good mamas
and like i've talked to you about before
um
they're both from the kuapa nation one
of them is uh
got bloodlines to teddy roosevelt
national park
which is awesome and um it's so cool
that we have that
right here in our own small herd
which is really exciting you know i mean
we wanted we wanted some heifers but
didn't get heifers that's okay you know
we've got two little
stud bulls here that are uh really good
looking bulls and they're doing
excellent right now so we're just happy
to have babies
uh you know on the crosstimbers farm
and uh but you know um
ideally you wanted heifers to uh grow
or expand your hurt which would have
been awesome and that's great and
you know if things work out right
and mother nature takes its course
dunbar
is as you know the guy we're counting on
and uh you know we could have we could
have several babies
uh next early summer or
or spring which would be really awesome
um
so pretty excited about that that would
be really cool to have
you know five or six babies and that
would be really good
so so what i love about
this tree right here okay this is
called a black jack oak and
um as part of my brand or the name of my
herd
cross timbers so a man never really
explained what is cross timbers
so cross timbers is an area in eastern
half
kind of in the central part of oklahoma
where the prairie meets the forest
is what it is called and this is one of
the dominant
deciduous trees that occurs here in our
region
it's a lawn that stretches all the way
up to
northern oklahoma down in even texas and
it's kind of that central
kind of eastern part of the state where
uh the trees
and the hard woods of eastern oklahoma
meet the great plains
essentially and you know this is one of
my
favorite trees it's uh it's a blackjack
oak like i said
but the blackjack oak and the post oak
are two of the
most common and dominant deciduous trees
hardwood trees of the cross timbers
region
in oklahoma and as you can tell it's
well used for some really good shade in
the hot summer time but it's just a
really cool pretty tree
that we have out here and this was kind
of one of the things that
uh really kind of made me
you know come up with the idea of cross
timber's bias i want to describe
something
for oklahoma and you know
and something related to where our farm
is and where these bison are today and
that big blackjack oak is one of the
reasons that represents
this cross timber's herd and just across
timbers region in oklahoma
all right guys i hope you enjoyed the
video today um i know
it's been a while since i gave you a
checkup on the baby bulls but they're
doing awesome they're getting so big
and uh they're starting to lose their
color you know on the
kind of their knees is what we would
call it or
something down their midline or the tips
of their ears and around their nose
some of that brown or dark color is
coming in and it's really pretty
um to kind of have like a highlight
through all that red
there's a black coat underneath there
that's starting to
sneak through there but uh these little
guys here are doing awesome
and they're just fun to watch they're
they're they're learning from
from mamas and just checking everything
out just like they do so
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um also my sister which is dj
from dj from arms family homestead
um her and daniel came out here this
past week and
my sister as you know is a professional
photographer
she's done this for a long time she does
a great job she came out here her and
daniel
and they took some photos of the bison i
haven't had any really
real photography done by them been
wanting to
and my sister came out here and she took
a lot of photos of them and they are
awesome they look really good she does a
great job
and so if you're interested and
going on and purchasing some of those
photos uh you can
and you can check uh her link i'll put
it here also
for you um dj arms photography
uh she does a great job and i'm proud of
her
and i'm just very thankful to have
somebody like her and my family
and so you guys go on there and and
check it out
and uh if you like any photos go ahead
and and
let her know and she'll get you taken
care of and i'll be posting some of
those photos and
and get some out because they are really
really good photos so
anyways hope you guys enjoyed the video
today um
thanks for following us our small little
hurt here in southern oklahoma
we really enjoy doing this thank you
guys
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hey guys dr baker with crosstimers bison
you know one of the questions i always
get
besides what's the difference between
bison and buffalo
is do you have to have a permit
to raise bison what does it take to
raise bison
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so guys what i want to talk to you about
today is
how to start a bison herd
there's no perfect way of doing this
i'll just tell you my experience and
what i did
um i had a background in bison and
obviously love this animal
and that experience
back when i worked at the national park
service kind of
led me into you know
the influence of getting bison
and so that first of all
was the encouragement of others and then
just the influence of my background
history with these animals
i wanted to be able to raise them so i
had the inspiration there
and the encouragement of the family
members and my and my wife
to do something like this and so that
was a
support system that i got that really
helped a bunch
but there's several different things
that i want to talk to you about today
that will help you get started
to be honest with you there's no special
permit
there's no special license or anything
to raise bison
these are not exotic animals
you know you're not you're not raising
animals that are are from a zoo i know
there's bison in some zoos but this is
not an exotic animal
um this is a natural species
that occurs here and uh
basically you just treat them it's it's
kind of like cattle
um if you want to start raising cattle
for whatever
reason you want to start raising cattle
for you can do it
you don't have to have any special
permit to raise bison
you don't have to have a special license
or anything like that you
if you want to do it you can as long as
you have
really good facilities obviously to
contain the bison good fencing
and you kind of have a background in it
it would it would definitely help
but to be honest with you if you've had
experience
raising cattle then then you're not far
off of raising bison there are a couple
different things
um you know behavior differences and
and different handling systems and and
behaviors and
more stress there is a difference
between
raising cattle and raising bison
but if you do want to raise bison
it's not that difficult to start
you just need to get in contact with
somebody that raises bison
maybe somebody in your local area and
that's where it starts from there if
you've had if you have somebody local
or somebody in your state that you can
contact
and start from there that that's
probably the easiest way to do it
and they'll kind of point you in the
right direction i'll do whatever i can
to help i would love to help
um you know i'm here in oklahoma and i
can answer any questions
that you have for me that's not a
problem you know i just
i got mine i got in contact with a guy
and i was just really lucky because this
guy happened to be
a big time bison guy and he's 30 minutes
down the road from our farm
and so i was just really lucky and i got
a hold of
doc parsons and and he pointed me in the
right direction
but i had experience raising bison i say
raising them
taking care of them handling them with
my experience in the national park
service
when i was in college so i had some
experience there and
i wasn't really scared to raise them or
be in the pen with them at all
obviously a little nervous when you buy
your own herd but it's a little bit
different
but you can do it you can definitely
raise your own bison
um okay those are not bison but those
bacteria bison i don't know what's going
on here
but anyways you're you can you're more
than welcome to get in contact with me
if you would like to raise a bison um
if you if you have some experience
raising cattle
or or bison and drone general and
um you want to expand go for it i
i encourage you to do so they're amazing
animals
and uh they're fun to watch they're just
absolutely fun to watch they're hanging
out down here in our bottom pasture and
just enjoying life another resource that
you can
reach out to is the national bison
association
it is a great association when i go to
the conferences the bison conferences
there's a summer conference and then
there's a winter conference the winter
conference is in denver my wife and i
attended
last year had a great time but you can
even get on the website and you can get
contact information there
and that will be very helpful if you're
interested in raising bison
that's actually a good start and you can
branch off from there
and figure out you know maybe who's in
your area maybe there's somebody
local that raises bison maybe you've
driven down the road and seen a bison
heard you know if you can
figure out who owns those bison maybe
that's a good start
somebody within your state that raises
bison
but you can always go to the national
bison association
look online uh i believe it's
www.bisoncentral.com
and you can go on that website and get a
lot of good information
and there's a lot of good contact
information on there as well
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knew this tree was good for something
huh eleanor
does that feel good
what do you got in your hair
hey guys i hope i helped you out today i
uh
hope that i've encouraged you with some
of my videos to raise bison
um it's not for everyone i hope that
you guys understand that these animals
are
very different than cattle they're
different than
any sort of livestock that if you've
ever raised livestock
before they're a very unique animal
they're a special animal
and they have character um
they are very very social animals which
that's so interesting about them um
which that's one of the things that just
will attract you to them it's just how
social they are they have this this
this family and you know they you can
see how they interact with each other
and
and even me as well in my family while
more out here
but take your time um and see if this is
the right thing for you
go visit a bison farm go
and see how they operate you can go to a
large scale
buy some farm or you can go to a small
scale buy some farm obviously mine is
smaller i started out small
and the that's fine with me i think this
is easier to start out this way
and by the way ted turner started out
with a very small bison herd as well and
he's the
largest bison producer in in the world
so
it's okay to start out small but
use your resources dig into and get as
much information as you can
go visit a farm that's the best thing to
do see how it all
operates see how they do things and make
a decision from there
and you know have a have a good
background
of of raising animals that would be a
good start
and uh you have to have good property uh
with that provides
grass and um obviously
good fencing which um i'm going to talk
to you about in the upcoming video
hey guys i hope you enjoyed the video
today i hope i've encouraged you to to
raise some bison
um and i hope i've at least drawn some
interest to you um
to do that um if you guys have any
questions or anything you guys can
contact me
um you can go to my website
crosstimersbison.com
um you can check us out on facebook and
instagram and
if you already haven't followed us along
and check out our small
herd here in southern oklahoma thank you
guys so much
well hey guys welcome back to cross
timber's bison
we're right in the middle of breeding
season and i'm seeing a lot of cool
stuff
that dunbar is portraying he's our only
bull out here
and this is his first breeding season
it's our
three young heifers first time for
breeding season
our two-year-old heifers and so we've
got a lot of action going on around the
cross timbers farm
stay tuned
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hey guys so um we're right in the middle
of breeding season
and um you know probably got a solid
month and a half maybe left
this morning i've noticed um dunbar is
escorting um bell star around
so um that's uh that's a good sign
you know he'll uh during this time he'll
kind of
single his heifer or a cow out and
um you know kind of squirt her around
and
and follow around and he'll smell of her
and he'll
he'll try to breed her every now and
then i haven't actually seen him
breed any of these heifers yet or the
cows
but uh you can definitely see some signs
of the breeding season
and he's uh he's just
being natural and doing his thing uh but
you can definitely see the signs of
of what he's trying to do so there's a
good chance that she's in heat
they should be in heat right now or
they've all been in in heat so um
we won't ever really know um
you know if he's bred them or not not
until we start to see the signs later on
um unless we you can do ultrasounds once
you work
them and and get them in the squeeze
shoot you can do some ultrasounds but
i don't have that technology yet maybe
someday i will
but that's really the only way to tell
if they're pregnant or not or
you know when it gets closer to birthing
season you can see signs as those
those heifers or cows you can kind of
tell if they're pregnant or not so
but we won't know for a long time really
until until that baby comes out
like ours did in june and july this year
which was pretty late but
so right in the middle of reading season
it's a good time
what you got in your hair buddy
dunbar's got some cockle burrows in his
hair
some morning kisses i'm a big boy
so what normally happens when i feed him
is dunbar our bull he usually
eats by himself he he kind of takes a
hold of his own trough and does his own
thing
which is fine he's got to bulk up and
put on some weight
and keep putting on that weight
especially in the middle of breeding
season when
a lot of bulls are working pretty hard
they can lose a little bit of weight but
uh
you know this morning i was talking
about um how he's been escorting
belle stall around and this morning they
chose to eat breakfast together i
thought it was cute
he usually doesn't like to share at all
got a helper today are you helping maya
huh
are you helping
dunbar is not having a fight with any
other bulls or mature bulls like you
you've probably seen on yellowstone or
any of those shows where you can see
bison in those big national parks
fighting for that dominance he's only
two years old so
uh he is the dominant bull out here
and which is a good thing so um
i i have noticed some of his traits of
of running other heifers off i've
noticed him
um chasing the calves off a little bit
and that's just his dominance of
showing that he is the main guy and um
you know he's trying to breed we're we
are right smack into the middle of this
breeding season
and um you know he gets to do his thing
which uh
we just let mother nature take its
course and it's just fun to watch him
as he as he does his thing and so
just being a bull and hopefully he's
getting all these heifers bred
so like i said i haven't actually got
the seam
get any of these heifers bred but um
he's doing a really good job of getting
cockle burrows in his hair that's for
sure aren't you buddy
unfortunately uh we have cockleboro
weeds here and
we've tried already tried to spray em
once and we just gotta stay on top of
them so
so here's kind of a perfect example
of what's going on as as you've got
dunbar
out here singling up one of uh that's
actually one of the cows
who just had bulls and you can kind of
see once he
singles out his heifer or cow um
you know this is the testing moment
could last couple hours
could last a couple of days of weather
she's going to allow him to breed or not
so this is where some of that dominant
behavior comes in
of where i've actually seen him run off
uh the other cow and i've actually seen
him run off
um you know a couple of the cavs
actually i'm showing that dominance that
he normally wouldn't do but uh this is
an important time for him
and um you know he's he's
he's trying to uh escort his girl around
and try to
you know do his thing so
um and hopefully he's able to do that
with these heifers
ideally it would be really really good
um to have to have uh you know five
babies
uh come this spring you know we had our
first two here at the crosstimers ranch
this spring and uh you know right in the
middle of breeding season
um hopefully he's getting all five of
these
our three heifers bread and then the two
cows
um bread you know he's he's two years
old
going on three this spring uh this
coming spring and
uh that means he can breed you know
along with these
these uh heifers we've got eleanor
bellstar and peaches
they're also two years old they're my
part of my original
first herd and it'll be their first time
to go through breeding
season here on this ranch so
um as far as the cows we've got qualpon
dakota
this will be their second go around but
it'll be their first time
hopefully being bred by dunbar because
um chaska and teddy are two little
bull calves that are having fun in the
background over there
um they uh they're from a different dad
i don't know exactly what it is i
remember quapon dakota
came from the quapaw tribe up in
northeastern oklahoma
and oh
looky there my dog
um just got ran off by dunbar so there
you go there's a perfect example
just my blue healer out here in the
middle of pasture with me thinking she's
a bison dog
but she ain't look at him he is not
liking this situation
right here
um maya you better get over here
come here maya she's like screw that
i ain't going close to him
i know he's gonna come check me out
got a lot going on here
you gotta say hi hi
hi wasabi
what's up what do you guys think about
the bison really cool
really cool besides the babies
of course they're changing colors you
notice that yeah
wait that one too look at it that's
eleanor she
has been bad she's been rubbing on a
tree
here why don't you do this i'm going
with those cubes
and then
put it in there stick your hand through
there
there you go oh she dropped it
go do the wrong one
come here bellstar did she do it oh
there you go she ate it is this one
that's peaches
is this one bell store no no no she's
not over here
you guys these are the two of the
sweetest ones well i'll say that and
then they start to fight
and then eleanor
eleanor ellen moore oh dean you got to
push it in there man
i try no you got to put your hand
through the panel she won't hurt you at
all
come here she won't hurt you
there you go see that work good job i
barely even touched me
good job she barely even touched me
there's nothing you need to
feed this one now oh look at that tongue
will the babies eat these cubes i don't
know yet
jacoby maybe so there's your bull
this one now star nope that's peaches
peaches is the nicest one she's nice
eleanor's the sweetest though
peaches beaches beaches you want one
you want one
it's really hard yeah it is it's like
sensitive
no it's rough isn't it
he got him full is it rough jacoby yeah
yeah it is you want it
do you want it or not you got to put it
through there you're
oh my gosh she's so scared
put it in there she can't reach through
there
wildlife at its best bison
deer
oh
all right guys well i hope you enjoyed
the video today um
just right in the middle of breeding
season and
he's used to it
you're gonna do an ending for me yeah
okay we'll do it in just a second then
all right so um but i hope you get to
understand a little bit more about how
at least dunbar works here on a small
farm here just
a young bull um and some of the
the trades that he's carrying and his uh
his behavior i notice he's been beating
a lot of
uh um some of the weeds or some of the
shrubs that we have here in this in this
specific lot
i'm just showing that dominance that he
has but
i hope you enjoyed it i hope you enjoy
seeing kind of how they interact
together and how he
kind of singles out as his ladies and
you know mother nature takes his course
hopefully and and um
everything's taken care of and hopefully
he's breeding these these heifers and
some of these cows
but since we do have a couple of guests
out here
we're gonna let them do a formal
ending for us that we don't always get
we've got
uh houston from arms family homestead
and we got our
boy jacobi out here hanging out with me
checking the bison
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really cool really cool yeah you see
they're super excited about bison sorry
they're not ghosts but
they're still pretty cool though aren't
they yeah all right guys go ahead and
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you wonder why you get cocker burrows
get out of there
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so this is peaches see what's on peach's
forehead
that's what we're gonna work on today we
call those cockle burrows
and they get stuck in just about
everything
obviously the bison you can see the
fresh ones the green ones
that they've been rubbing on and all
they're doing is simply pushing that
weed back so they can get to grass
and those cockle bears get stuck in
everything
even if i walk by them they'd be stuck
to our pants
and i can't stand them i want them gone
and so today my wife and i marissa
we're gonna go out and we're gonna spray
these dad gum weeds
and get try to get rid of these cocker
burrs
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they're almost just as big as each other
you know what
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well hey guys what's happening welcome
back to crosstimers bison i'm dusty
baker
behind the camera today is my wife
marissa
today we're going to do something a
little different we
are going to spray some weeds today
out in one of our big pastures as you
can tell
we're having some issues with what we
call cockle burrows
that's the common name that we call them
and you can see those nasty things that
are getting
matted on the bison no they're not ticks
they're just it's a simple uh sticker
and
it's a pretty good size sticker and i
absolutely
hate them i cannot stand these things um
and my family knows i hate them because
i hate seeing them stuck in my bison
and there's nothing i can do to get them
out once they're in there
it's not like i can go up and pick them
pick them off like it's my dog or
anything
so the only way to really get these
things out
is to run them through the chute and
comb them out
and that would still even then be a
tough process and i know the bison
wouldn't
really go for that so a way to reduce
these
is what we're gonna do is we've already
fed the bison since they're up here
and we are going to rotate pastures
i've got a lot um
that has been rested for about uh
20 plus days now and we've we've shut it
off from the bison
that's part of our rotation system
we've shut it off it's had time to
recover there's some
more growth in there now and so
we're going to shut off the big pasture
which is where they've been which is
where they've been getting all these
cocker barrels from
and we're going to shut them off and
then we're going to move them
into one of our pastures that has
been kind of it's had some time to heal
and grow some fresh grass that the bison
will love
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all right so we're out here in our big
pasture and so
if you want to come take a close look
this is what we're dealing with
i don't know where this thing come from
but this is my
least favorite plant probably in the
world this thing
absolutely sucks so here is what the
cockapro
is and it is sharp and it is pointy
and look at all those fine hairs
and a lot of um just a lot of
stickers basically here and this is just
one plant we're going to get into
batches
of them and i absolutely hate these
things and they get all over the bison
and they'll stick to just about anything
they'll stick to your dogs
they'll stick to your clothes and so
we're going to try to get rid of these
today
so the bad part about these cockle
burrows is
once they attach to a host which could
be a dog
it could be a cow obviously our bison
so once it attaches to a host and those
bison move
and they go somewhere else they dust on
the ground they roll around
they lay down once that cockapoo
falls off there goes the seed and so
that's how these things really spread
unfortunately they'll attach to just
about it anything
and then when they fall off and they
could fall off
you know far away from where the plant
starts
there you have a reseed and it starts
all over again
today i'm going around with just a
simple hand sprayer
and knocking out these and
we'd rather do this than spray the whole
field um
you've got direct contact direct spring
right here on each plant it's going to
take longer
and a little bit more labor but
i'd rather do it this way than spray the
entire field
so this is the best way to do it in my
personal opinion
i know some of you are going oh he's
spraying herbicide freaking out because
the bison will be in here but we give
this thing plenty of time to recover
we'll give this up to from a week to two
weeks
and and really all it needs for that
herbicide to settle in
is 48 hours and that's that's still
plenty of time
but we're going to give this lot
probably a week
or two to really kill these off
and get that herbicide away so we're not
taking
really any risk at all so it's we're
going to have plenty of time
for this pasture to recover it's not
everywhere but it's sparringly spread
out and we're going to attack the big
portion of it
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i'm barely six foot and i mean that's
that's above my knees but when you take
a look here
every single one of these plants has i
don't know
20 to 30 of these cocker girls and
inside the taco barrels
are two seeds and so do the math
that's a lot of seeds that are spreading
out in these pastures
it's not very hard to spread these
things spread these things especially
when they die
like today it's a little windy here in
oklahoma like it always is
but those things will fly and they'll
just keep spreading
so here we have some of the dead ones as
you can tell
this plant will start to die and
they'll turn brown the first thing that
they do is they'll fall to the ground
like here
just like so
right there
once they've fallen and
there they're seated right there so
look all these dead plant materials
stuck to them
so this one is starting to die
look at that that is nasty
so what i've heard is velcro
came from these weeds
this um sticker um and it makes total
sense
that velcro could come to this because
these things
i mean they'll just they stick together
they stick to just about anything here
are some fresh ones
i said the most effective method of
getting rid of
um
we have green grass out here this is
this is bermuda and the bison
do eat this grass up here in one of our
top big pastures so we can't really burn
and um so uh the best time to burn is is
in the fall
or in the spring and maybe if i talk my
stepdad into it we can burn this pasture
and hopefully get rid of a lot of these
weeds and
starting with these right here fire can
do some amazing things
it can bring a lot of fresh grass up
and regenerate you know a lot of that
natural grass that occurs here
that's a bison absolutely love so that's
another method that you can use
obviously can't burn because it's we're
getting into fall we've got a lot of
green grass and that's what the bison
need is green grass
so this is just something that we're
going to have to deal with
it's part of it part of this whole
acreage that we have here is using the
bison
to kind of consume those grasses
and bring back some of that natural
grass
these bison as they go through here
and they trample on this grass and they
pee and they poop on it
they're actually doing it a favor
they're shoving a lot of that
good nutrients and those seeds back into
the soil
every time that they travel through here
and they're grazing
and so um as we use that throughout
these pastures
you know over time it'll take a little
time we'll get rid of a lot of this kind
of stuff
okay so here we have some cockaburras
that
some of that are already dying and then
here we have some fresh ones but
um you know if you wanna if you wanna
know what these things
feel like it's basically like um velcro
i mean these things stick together i
i mean just like velcro like even the
fresh ones
stick to it but they're they're just a
lot more pointy
um i mean if you squeeze too hard though
i mean they'll
they'll get into your skin pretty good
so um
absolutely something that we don't want
here
so perfect example of peaches right here
that has
lots and lots of cocker barrels on her
head
and uh i feel bad for him i know it's
just part of it
uh this exotic and invasive species of
of weed that we have
kind of frustrated that we have these on
our bison it's part of having
um you know animals as part of having a
farm and
those are some of the things that you
have to deal with and we'll take it
unfortunately they'll be stuck to the
bison for a while
at least some of them like peaches here
but
um so when you see uh these cocker
barrels in the video
you'll know hopefully what i'm talking
about now that's basically sticking
velcro
in your hair is all it is and they'll
keep them for a while
when they shed next spring into summer
that's when they'll kind of fall off and
unfortunately
they'll recede from there but hopefully
we'll be able to do some
burning if i can talk i'll step dead
into it
we can hopefully do some burning and get
rid of these cocker burrows
well that's it for today guys i hope you
enjoyed the video
i know it's not a lot of the bison um
not really happy with what's all over
their face
right now with the cockle burrows this
is just one of the things that we have
to deal with
when you when you let your bison out
into new pastures
pastures that they haven't really spent
a lot of time in
and so this is just part of what some of
the things you have to deal with on a
farm
and hopefully spraying them will help a
little bit
i think in the end maybe in the fall or
in the spring we're able to burn that
pasture
which is something that i love to do
maybe we can do that
and maybe everything will get cleaned up
and the buy some
will love that fresh grass that'll come
up in the spring and early summer
but anyways if you haven't subscribed to
us uh follow us on youtube
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and just stay in touch with us you have
any questions
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so one of the things i always try to do
is i try to get eleanor
her own trough as you can see here
hers is singled out kind of away from
all the main
feeding troughs that we have i like to
make sure that she's getting some feed
too
and plus she's just the sweetest she is
the sweetest heifer
that um that we have or out of all of
our bison
but there's definitely some
definitely some hierarchy and some
pecking order with these
animals and so we try to make sure all
of them are
getting taken care of as much as we can
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um
come here
i know i haven't talked about it much
but there is a pecking order in this
small box in here these animals are so
social and there's definitely
a system that they have
it really started with our two most
dominant well they're mamas now so
they're cows it started with them really
and when we brought them into this
pasture and with this herd
they were older they were already three
years old they were bred
and so and plus they were just bigger
and so they
really took over in this in this small
herd
from our original four um bison that we
had
um so it really kind of changed the
dominant
the dominance here in the hierarchy the
bull's pretty much
been the most dominant and and he will
be as he gets older especially
as he can contest with some of these
older cows
bell star our largest heifer of the
original
herd is one of the most aggressive and
was the dominant um in the herd for a
while
and then dunbar or bull is caught up to
her and
obviously it's breeding season so that
dominance is really
shown and exploited here but um
it's really crazy to see how these
animals work and
and coincide with each other and how
there really is a
dominant system placed and that takes
place
everywhere i mean it that takes place in
all the
the big ranches all of the national
parks that you see
yellowstone that pecking order takes
place in all of these
um it's really easy to tell in mind just
because
of how small my herd is but even in a
small herd of
eight with those two calves there is a
pecking order and it's just really
interesting
to watch and see but definitely those
two quapaw heifers are
are two of the most aggressive plus they
have babies right now and
i think some of that dominance in that
protection mode comes in
when we're talking about the pecking
order
we're up here feeding um the bull
runs off he's got his own trough over
there
and you can kind of watch and see
who kind of takes control in this corral
in this feeding area that we have
but our two quapaw heifers for sure take
control
so this is bill star she's one of our
more dominant more aggressive
heifers and here's peaches
and then one of our favorites eleanor
eleanor unfortunately has become
one of the um less
dominant animals of this
herd she's kind of the
weak leak unfortunately um
she was one of the largest when she
first got here
the eleanor is now kind of on the
lower side of things even though she's
the sweetest
eleanor has been kind of pushed to the
side and
she's one of the weaker ones of the
group of this
pecking order unfortunately
here's an example right here
guarantee you watch this
just like that velstar
comes in kicks
eleanor out let's see if she'll let her
eat with her
oh but here's the most dominant of them
all
and there you go you've got qual paul
paul paul and dakota are the two most
aggressive
out of all of them and there's another
example right there so there
there's your winner there's your winner
right there
that is dakota and there's
teddy falling a lotta wrong right along
with her
so i think your winner's right here
the most dominant besides the bull he's
pretty dominant now he's the largest hey
guys well i hope you enjoyed the video
today
i uh i hope you understand a little bit
more about the uh
the pecking order and these bison and
that that takes
takes part in every bison herd there is
across north america
but it's just part of the system these
animals are very very social animals
and it's fun to just kind of watch how
their family works and how their system
works and
and they and they you know they they
fight just like just like families do
and
and and so you can kind of see that
order and and that
management within the herd so um
but anyways just uh a couple little
things so we've got hats for sale
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any of that stuff out i've got a lot of
good pictures up there
my sister took of the bison um a couple
months ago
so we're getting close
we've just about just about got that pad
um cleaned off we're trying to get a lot
of those cinder blocks
gone and then we've got some
construction there
and then i'm going to
get a shoot and get a alley system and
we're going to put this thing on there
and we're going to get our bison
handling system
put together one other thing i do want
to say
is we are hosting a
bison sale it is
part of the oklahoma bison association
um
i'm one of the officers on the oklahoma
bison association
and we host a sale every year it's
actually in my hometown
and it's in sulphur oklahoma we have a
sale barn
here in sulphur and it's really good and
it's really set up for
for what we do but we've got a lot of
bison coming this year
last year we had over just a little
under 100
and then this year we have at least 100
coming this is going to be a much larger
sale
it's november 2nd i believe it's on a
saturday and it's coming up pretty soon
so
me and other members of the oba
are getting that thing ready and
hopefully i'm gonna
take you on that journey with me when
that happens and it's november 2nd
if some of you are in oklahoma or or
near us
and you want to come see a show come to
a bison cell and you'll see some really
interesting stuff
go down you'll see all kinds of
different um
bison producers and and some different
bison as well so it's it's fun to
watch and they bring every anything from
from young baby calves
six months old all the way to full grown
cows and bulls and so
it's really interesting you can learn a
lot at those sales and
one of the things that i do is i go and
work it
so whenever people are bringing them in
well
got a dog plan um i um
work it and i help get them in their
certain pins and keep them separated and
we
uh we identify them and do all the
paperwork for them
and get them ready for the sale so hope
you guys enjoyed the video
stay tuned with us thank you guys for
following thank you for all the support
and all the very positive comments you
guys leave thank you
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stop it
why are you angry huh
why are you being angry
are you real you must be upset
because i don't have any cubes you are
upset
you're like those bison in that park
it's called yellowstone have you ever
heard of it
those people that go up there and never
been around bison
they're not like you well i don't know
you get pretty angry sometimes
those bison up there are different
bell star
a little feisty you're over in their
territory
so i'm not hopping in there with you a
little feisty
oh fine
there's no sense for this you're really
upset i don't
have any cubes that's yours
this is mine
okay i'm gonna let you be you just do
your thing
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hey guys welcome back to cross timber's
bison
i know it's been just a little bit it's
been a minute or two but um
we've been really busy um we're in the
grind of football season we're getting
down to
just a couple more games left and
hopefully make playoffs
um that's what we're shooting for uh but
as you can tell here um it is hay season
um in one of my videos you saw where we
cut this hay right out here in one of
our own pastures we got 33 bells of hay
as the first time
that we were able to um get some hay
out of our own pasture and so that's
good we don't have to go buy any or we
don't have to go find any from from any
other
producers uh but we've harvested their
own hay right here
um so today um i'm going to
get a bella hay and we are going to feed
the bison now
this is not just you know just giving
them hay and feeding them like like we
do in our corral where we feed them
grain and whatnot but this is different
these bison
gets so excited when they have hay when
there's this big
bale of hay out there which these are
these are decent-sized bills hey
um they get super excited they
rough this thing up they get in a fight
with it they rub on it they scratch it
and and then of course they'll eat it
but um
it's just kind of a different thing i
know you're like hey
what's what's this it's just a bella hay
right i'm just gonna eat it
wait until you see what these bison do
when they get their first bill of hay
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so one of the things that we're going to
do today is we are going to
give the bison their very first bail of
hay
the grass is finally starting to die
we found we we had a really really close
to a
frost or a freeze last week
we finally are getting those fall
temperatures that we love
here in oklahoma it's beautiful i mean
it's 70 something degrees
and it's just absolutely beautiful here
in southern oklahoma
but we finally got some cool weather um
and the unfortunate part about that
is um excuse me once you get that frost
once you get one of those first freezes
that grass starts to die
we've been really lucky because we've
had good run over rain over the summer
and now that the it's cold enough the
grass is starting to die
so what that means is we pick up the
feed a little bit
um we we've got to get keep some weight
on them
and so we're going to feed them a little
bit more
of some of our grain stuff and then
we will give them some hay
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so what we're going to use to give the
bison this hay
is we're going to use a little single
bell hay hauler
this thing is handy it i bought it last
year once i got the bikes and i needed
in the winter time to haul hay
but this year we're really lucky because
we bailed um one of our hay pastures for
the first time ever and we got 33 bills
of
this summer in late july a lot of
natural grass some johnson grass in
there
but now that we've got our own hay which
is
over there um we don't have to go very
far
anyways i've got this little single hay
bale hauler
it's it's pretty neat got it on the farm
truck here and
uh it's a uh it's battery operated i i
went and bought a
car battery and it's all for remote
control let's take a look
all right so what we have here is a um
battery operated
um lifter hay bale lifter and um
a single bail hauler whatever you want
to call it whatever the name is for i
don't know
i don't care as long as it holds the
bills i hate for me and lifts them up
but
uh this little um battery operated was
pretty awesome we got the remote control
here
in and out i can see it there we go but
this thing works pretty well
um luckily we don't have to take our
bills very far
but this is uh this is pretty handy to
to to get these uh hay bales moved
around for the bison
okay so you saw me take the string off
or the wrap um here in southern oklahoma
um you you won't see a lot of completely
wrapped bells of hay we just don't have
a lot of problems with mold
necessarily here that much so
we just use these normal wraps however
you have to get these completely off
the bells of hay you you can't have any
strings left over
um this can be really dangerous um it's
great because it
it holds these big bills of hay together
however if this stuff
gets consumed or gets in a cow a goat
a sheep or our bison
this thing can get wrapped up in their
intestines and can kill
you know any type of livestock really
quick
so you really got to make sure that you
get
all of this string or this wrap you
really have to get this thing
out of that bella hey no extra strings
on this at all make sure you get
everything we don't want to have any
issues because
if while they're grazing this hay
they'll just accidentally take this and
once it goes in their system
um you're gonna have some some issues so
make sure you gotta get all this out of
there
so there it is right there the first
bill of hay for the bison this year
they'll come over here and and they'll
the bull he'll
he'll beat this he'll beat this thing up
it's kind of like a big toy for him to
to to beat around on and uh they'll rub
on it
and and scratch on it and obviously
eat it they love hay and it's good
roughage form
for them to have and the good thing
about this
excuse me this hay is it came straight
from
this land here straight from this farm
and this is this stuff is just gonna go
right back into the earth
and the cycle continues for us and the
bison do a great job of that
um just like they've done for for
hundreds of years so hey guys
um wife and i got the bella hay set out
the bystander way
down in the bottom of our pasture so
we're gonna go ahead and drive down
there check on them and see if we can
get them rounded up and to come up here
with us and let them know hey you got
your first bella hay of the year
and see see how they respond to that
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so
do
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so i've got my body cam here just have
my gopro attached to uh
to my chest here just to kind of free up
my hands a little bit
and still get some some filming done
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hey guys
you guys ready for some hay
come on
hey easy
come on
here they come
keep going speed up a little bit
come on
maya come on
stop at the gate
that's good right there hon
so
so
so
she just tried to jump over it
oh my gosh i just completely
whipped just when i didn't think
anything would be going on
i turned my back the bison run in
because we fed them
but eleanor just tried to jump over
the bella hay so sorry i missed it i may
have got her just laying down right here
after because she just completely tried
to jump
over it on it i'm not sure she was
really excited because we got their
first bill of hay
and then she just fell right here next
to it so um
gosh i wish you guys could have seen
that that's crazy as you can tell here
already destroyed you saw what the bull
just did
they get pumped whenever um
they get the hay in here and you can see
the first thing they want to do
is not come up and eat it like you think
they would no they want to hit it
rub up against it beat it up well i hope
you guys enjoyed the video today it's
fun to watch these bison
um you know get excited about something
just
like us going down in the pasture kind
of rounding them up
checking on them making sure everything
is good and then
trying to get them to come up to the
corral where we keep our bells a hay
and you can see the excitement of them
following us up the pasture
and uh and running and stuff it's so fun
to watch them just
just run and uh these are majestic
animals and when they get to running
like that
you know it's really fun to to see them
run
but um they're all doing great calves
are getting so big
and you know it's that time of the year
leaves are gonna start falling
and cool weather it's been gorgeous we
love this time of the year in oklahoma
and you know it's just a fun time right
now and
and i think the boston are feeling good
and they love their cold weather they're
ready for that cold weather
to settle in and that that heat to
escape because uh
you guys know that um or if you don't
know bison love cold weather
and they uh they face the storm when it
hits so
but anyways i hope you enjoyed the video
today got some exciting stuff
our alleys being built so that's really
good
and uh down in texas and um
we'll head down there in probably a
month or so to uh
to get our alley and then as far as our
shoot goes
um we're gonna get a shoot that's
located
um here in our state of oklahoma
um and then we're gonna get this thing
cleared off and get our
get our handling system all set up and
everything will be good to go
and um the sale is coming up november
2nd if you're around in oklahoma
uh plan on coming to that it's a show um
right now we've got about 150
bison that are supposed to be there and
so if you're around or
or close come to the cell it's pretty
fun if you
need any more information get in contact
with me and i'll let you know
uh
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hey guys welcome back to crosstimers
bison
i know you're probably wondering where
the heck am i well
today's going to be a little bit
different we are
at the sale barn where all the buys are
going to come into the cell barn today
and we're going to get ready for our
cell tomorrow um
it's quite a show and all these bison
come from all different
you know parts of parts of oklahoma or
this region
and and they all come in here into these
pins
and get sorted out and then
tomorrow is the sale so today i'm going
to show you a little bit about how
all this goes down and how all these
bison come in here safely
and are put into these pins it's a show
hope you're ready
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so
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so here's the first trailer for today
it's got 32 cows in it
so we're gonna unload these cows and
work them one at a time
and get them sorted out again
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every animal that is unloaded has to go
through the proper
procedure before it can be sorted out in
the livestock facilities
one it's given an identification number
called a back tag that's the yellow
round sticker placed on their left hip
and that's just a simple identification
number
to use throughout the cell
they're also going to be identified of
what
sex they are how old they are to be
accordingly placed in a livestock
barn in certain pins what i'm doing
is i am giving them their bangs
vaccination
metal id tag and it's
every metal tag that i'm giving in their
right ear
is a different identification number for
every
individual bison and that is recorded so
that every
new owner of that bison will have the
proper identification number
which is the middle tag in that ear
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it takes a lot of work to sort
these animals out work them properly and
safely
and handle them all every one of these
people
that are helping through this are
members of the bison association
or just volunteers family and friends
having the animals sorted out throughout
the barn
makes the sale go by a whole lot easier
and it's easier for buyers to come by
and look
in different parts of the barn where
different ages and genders are located
so this is called a back tag
tags go on the bison
whenever they come off the trailer into
the sale barn
and this is just a marker or
identification number to use
just for the sale this uh it's put on
with a little bit of glue
it's put on the back kick as you can see
right here
and it's just an easy identification for
the sail
it'll fall off eventually or when you
run into a shoot you can take it off of
them
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younger robert
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it's a lot of bison
got everything from cows
to bulls to old cows young cows
heifers
calves you name it
hey guys so where i'm at right now is
the ring
and this is where the auction will go
down
as you can tell um everybody a lot of
the buyers will be in here
and um the bison will come through
they'll come through
the ring and they'll hang out in here
for a while people will take a look
you'll have the auctioneer um talking
about the animal when they first come
in and then also they'll talk about the
producer a little bit where the bison
from and
then the auction will start for each
animal
sometimes they do it by herds it could
be a small herd it could be
it could be a couple of of bison it
could be just one big bull
um there's different classes and
categories so um
it just depends but this is where it'll
all go down
and this is where um you know maybe
maybe i could get some more bison i
don't know we'll see
i bought both of my quapaw heifers from
here last year and so um
we'll see we're thinking about it we we
may get a couple more to add to the
cross timbers herd
well hey guys it's sale day here in
seoul for oklahoma
and it's time to go in here
and check out these bison and see what
prices are going for
and see maybe if we can get some bison
today
stay tuned um
709
so one of the cool things about these
sales is
people from all over oklahoma bring
their animals here to sell
and you just never know where the
lineage is and
where some of those bison were purchased
from uh and their offspring
where do they lead back to in other
ranches there's
these bison here at this hill could go
back to any
any other herd there's no telling where
what hurt across the country they could
come from
and so it's really neat you're seeing
tons of different animals
from different ranches and different
producers which could be all over the
country essentially
with these bicycles so in total i think
there was about
113 animals last year
was the first time we held this sale for
the oklahoma bison association
and i think there was right at close to
70. this year we had 113 which is really
good
so you know that's it's good to have
more animals
more more advertising gets out every
year
and year and so we always want more
animals and we always want more buyers
at these sales it's good for the bison
industry and it's good for the oklahoma
bison association
and hey guys so sales over and now this
is the holding area where
all the bison have been sorted out into
specific pins for buyers
so when the animals are ran through the
actual ring and they're auctioned off
and then you have a buyer they have
they're given a number and that number
certain pins where the buyer
has bought certain animals and then they
try to keep those animals together the
buyer has purchased and so
all the workers are back here sorting
out all the bison as they come through
the ring and come out after they've been
purchased
and they sort them out to get ready to
get them ready to be shipped out
and so that's what we're gonna do next
is we're going to get all these trailers
backed up here and we're going to load
these bison up and so
um the buyers can take home their new
bicycle so check this out
we bought two heifers and guess what
they came from the quapon nation we
bought
two more heifers um in the auction today
my wife and i did so
they're from uh one of the same
producers up in the quapon nation
so we will have two new
koapa heifers coming in these are
yearling heifers
so which that means that they're one
year old
or more and hopefully by next summer
they'll be able to breed and then the
year after that
they'll be able to have babies so two
new additions
to the family and what we're to do
is we're going to load them up and we're
going to take them
to the farm and join the cross timbers
herd
nope
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look there's the boston
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this is the first morning of the
two new additions to the herd we've got
two new quapaw heifers that we purchased
from the cell yesterday
and they have joined the herd and
everything is going good they came up
and they ate this morning with the rest
of the herd
and i think they're adapting really well
so i basically have uh
four koapa females in this herd now
since we've added the two um heifers
and basically if you don't know what the
qual paul when i talk about qualpal
there's the koapa
indian native american nation up in
northeastern oklahoma
and they produce a lot of good bison and
last year
at this bison sil i bought two bread
heifers
kwapa and dakota and they had the calves
and now i just purchased two yearling
heifers
and they don't have any babies they're
not bread
someday hopefully they will be and so we
have
four quapaw females and two
quapaw bull caps so one of the reasons
we didn't just
put these heifers out into the big
pasture we
went ahead and pulled them in some of
our small lots here this is kind of our
hay lot where we
we bring in the bells of hay like you
saw in my previous video
so we brought the herd in we got them
out of the big pasture
and we put them in here so that we could
um bring in the new heifers and because
when you bring new animals in you don't
just want to
let them take off running and so uh you
want them to come in here kind of get
used to
the new environment the new herd and and
kind of slowly
uh give them a chance to adapt to the
new situation that they're in
so they're gonna hang out in one of our
smaller lots um where we feed them
and where we give them hay and they can
hang out here for a while and get used
to the
we have our two new heifers they're
getting along pretty well
they still have the back tags on them
they stay there
for a while
they're doing pretty good i'll make
their way in the herd
so what we'll do the next couple of
weeks is we're going to keep you updated
on
how these heifers kind of
grow into this herd and how they adapt
to this new herd
a new environment we've already fed them
this morning they'll get used to our
feed
and hey they already have been eating
hay where they came from
and so it'll just be a process of them
getting to know everyone in the herd
these are very social animals and
um you know they it takes a little bit
of time for them to
adapt to not only a new environment but
to a new family as well
and so that'll occur you know here over
time but
so far everything's going great they've
accepted them
they're going to be you know lower on
the totem pole
and kind of that hierarchy system that
i've already talked about
just because they're they're new and
they're the youngest
besides the two calves but the mamas
protect them so we're going to keep you
updated
on the process of of having the addition
of these two new heifers
well hey guys that's it for today i hope
that you guys
i got to learn a little bit about how
bison sales go
um luckily it's in my hometown of sulfur
which is
probably about 10 or 12 miles from where
the farm is
here so but i hope you guys enjoyed
seeing the process of how everything
goes um
it all ended pretty smoothly and you
know all the
the buyers come in and picked up all
their their bison and sorted them out
and got them loaded on the trailers and
they headed home
to join their new herds a lot of people
were there were buying bison for the
first time
they are buying a starter herd some are
buying
um bison to just add
to their original herd which is what i
did and we even had a
buyer from montana buy a whole bunch of
cows and
they're being shipped out uh today to to
go all the way up to montana
so a different range of people different
range of producers
and that are doing different things with
their ranches or with their bison
so but pretty exciting stuff we've got
two more bison
to join the herd and some heifers
because we didn't have baby heifers or
ba or baby
calf heifers this year this is kind of a
good way
to replace is buying one-year-old
heifers so what that means is
next summer we should um
have some of these heifers bred
at least our two new ones and then
they'll be having babies
the next year so it takes a little bit
but you know it's nice to grow your herd
and have
more heifers you can't have enough
heifers um which
means more calves so thank you guys for
following us um you can look us up on
facebook or instagram
hey guys what we're going to do today is
we are going to build a feed trough
i've already split this barrel in half
i've cut it with a
sawzall and now i'm going to
use um some wood frames i got some two
by fours
treated and i have a 4x4 post that i'm
going to use
to build us a feed trough so we can have
more room for our bison her to eat
as as we feed them every day farmers diy
right here
look at that
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so
hey guys welcome back to crosstimers
bison i'm dusty baker
as you guys know we bought
two heifers last weekend at the
oklahoma bison association sale in
sulfur oklahoma
and we brought home two new additions to
the family
and one of the issues that we're
having is it's not a major issue
but it's something we need to take care
of is we need to get
more feeding troughs um because of the
hierarchy system
those heifers are the youngest in the
group minus the two little bull calves
we have
um they're kind of on the lower end of
that and so
part of our feeding program and the way
we do it
they get kind of shoved to the side a
little bit and so
with their first week here they've been
doing great they've been eating hay
they've been eating some feed but
they're getting shoved off of
of the feed troughs by the older ones
especially the bull
and our two biggest mama cows
so what we're going to do today is i am
going to use these old barrels here
and i am going to make a feed trough out
of these
and so our heifers and you know
whoever wants to use this will use this
um to feed out of but i'm going to use
these i've already sliced them in half
and i'm going to make a feature off of
them stay tuned
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all right we are almost finished
it's taken a minute to figure this out
never built one of these
my wife and i have had to do some
engineering but uh
nobody said farmers were uh great
carpenters is that what you call them
whatever they're called
nobody ever said that farmers were great
carpenters so but we're getting it
we just hope it lasts a long time that's
the purpose of it and we want
uh the bison to eat a little bit more
peacefully
without being ran off and make sure that
they're all getting the equal amount of
feed
that they're supposed to be getting
let's wrap this up
beautiful sunset bison been watching us
for the past couple hours and then to
our backs we hear
some rumble in the grass and turn around
look and there's a
herd of deer behind us so it's kind of
kind of cool to have the deer
and have the bison just out here hanging
out with us
and then you got maya who's worked so
hard today
too tired okay so it looks like we're
done
i need to clean the inside of it out but
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it's not perfect i think um when we
build another one again
at some point we do a couple things
different but it's pretty awesome
we'll see how it holds up bison can be
really rough on
equipment that can be really rough on
feed troughs
and so you know this was cheap i mean
this was under 20 bucks i had some
i had some deck screws left over i had
some finish screws
left over and then uh you know i had a
friend
give me one of these tubs and i just
split it in half and
we just put it together my wife and i
put it together in probably
less than two hours and that's the first
time i've ever done it and
um it's gonna work great i'm gonna put
drill some holes in it
when it rains it'll drain out in the
bottom but other than that
we'll see how it works we'll keep you
updated
well hey guys uh this morning we're
gonna feed the bison
we my wife and i built that trough
yesterday and then we
set it out and kind of in an isolated
area and we're gonna see if we can get
those heifers to come up
and eat the grain we're feeding more
grain right now
and that's mainly because it's winter
time
there's there's not a lot of grass on
the ground which is fine
uh we're always putting out hay we've
already put out three or four bills of
hay and
um since that first uh video of
of me putting out hay now they're eating
a lot of hay
but we're going to go ahead and feed
them and see if we can
get some of those new heifers isolated
where they can
um get the amount of feed that they need
they're still trying to acclimate to
their new environment
and and the new herd so there's some
hierarchy going on right now with these
herds
or with these animals and you know
they're trying to find their place and i
think they're on the lower end right now
so
it just takes a little bit of figuring
out when it comes to
um how to eat and where to eat you know
because the
the bull he heats where he wants to eat
he's the most dominant and then you've
got the two quad paw heifers which
kind of run the roost also as well so
hopefully they'll come up and eat let's
give it a go hey big boy
got all the little cocker birds in you
you guys ready to eat
see you can already tell we've got the
main herd up here
ready to eat and then there's the two
new heifers
right there not uh
anxious to come up here real quick
um but that's why we're doing this is
hopefully
um adding that other trough and i
probably am going to have to make
another one or go buy another one
just for room so that we can get those
new heifers to come up and eat and get
the food that they need
uh
you can see the heifers got one in the
back
or both of them are in the back they're
close to the feed but haven't came up
quite yet
what you have up here is
you've got peaches and you got eleanor
sorry it's so windy um what we're going
to do right now is these heifers
have not been out in the big pasture and
we're going to let them out the big
pasture right
now they're already ready to go here we
go
there they go in the big pasture
i love watching them come out for the
first time
we've had them locked up in one of our
smaller lots for a while because uh just
trying to get them
acclimated to everything but it's so fun
when they get so excited to
get out in the big pasture where they
belong and let them roam around
so it's always fun to watch
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well hey guys that's it for today i hope
you enjoyed
the video of just doing you know some
random stuff around the farm
we my wife and i put a
feeder together yesterday and
probably put it together in about i
don't know probably two hours with us
too doing it
but uh i'm glad she helped me do that
and you know i'm saving a lot of money
by buying one of those instead of a feed
trough so
um pardon the wind this is the great
plains
and you know i know some people are like
he needs to work on
his sound issue in the wind well you
know what i'm sorry
i'm not a professional photographer but
uh this is part of oklahoma it's always
windy here
and we live out on the plains so
right there at the edge actually of the
great plains and the eastern woodlands
of oklahoma guys thank you for
everything thank you for the support
thank you for watching got a lot of
random stuff done on the farm we're
getting that
slab cleaned off and here in the next
couple weeks
we're going to get our handling system
and we're going to get the squeeze shoe
once we get that whole concrete pad
cleaned off
and we're going to have a full out bison
handling system so we can work our bison
uh hopefully towards the middle or
uh late i say middle it is the middle of
november
geez uh late november maybe around
thanksgiving
thank you guys
okay
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hey guys dusty baker with crosstimers
bison welcome back
as you guys know we've got two more
additions
to the herd we've got two young
heifers
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you fix it yeah
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hey guys it's dusty baker with
crosstimers bison welcome back
um we're going to do something these
next couple of days um
it's going to be a little bit different
as you guys know i've got
a concrete slab
that i'm about to get ready to put our
bison handling shoot on
notice it's been cleaned off i still
have to do a couple of things to it
but it is almost ready to go but what my
wife and i are gonna
go do is we are going to
pick up the squeeze chute and then we
are also going to drive to texas to pick
up
our custom-made alley system i got
two eight-foot sections um make a total
of a 16-foot alley
and we're gonna take that and our
squeeze chute and we're gonna put it
right over here
on this big feet thick uh concrete slab
so we've got some exciting stuff
happening um
and we're gonna get all this bison
handling system put together
and get it ready to go so we can use it
here pretty soon stay tuned guys
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all right guys you see it right here we
have our
squeeze shoot toro squeeze shoot
i got it here in shawnee oklahoma i've
been talking to these guys
um for about three months now i came and
looked at them
once and i really liked them it is a
heavy duty
squeeze chute and you know gotta have
that for the bison so
we've got it loaded and we're gonna take
it to
doc parsons the bison guy always work
with
the vet and he is going to build a cage
for the front of it that we have to have
for our bikes when we work them
we can't just use this normal
head gate here we've got to have a
special
cage on the front uh like you probably
saw in one of my other videos at the
livestock sale
we're at the bison sale in sulphur
you've got to have that crash gate on
the front for bison
because they kind of will be aggressive
and will
can run try to run through it so gotta
have that cage on there when we work
them
so doc is gonna build us a cage and
we're gonna leave it there a while for
him
before we take it to the house and get
it set up
well good morning guys um we are in
loving texas
and it is super windy out here always is
we are in far west texas
uh we are about to go to seminole texas
about an hour
uh southwest of lubbock and we are going
to
get our alleys alley system
and we've got the trailer rocking and
rolling the wife and i
are about to head out so we're gonna go
pick up our alley systems
so
all right well hey guys look what we got
we've got an alley system we have a
heavy-duty
bison handling system custom made out
here
in seminole texas far west texas
southwest of lubbock
i called and talked to a guy named
willie and
he really helped me out he threw up a
plan of what we could do for our bison
and the alley that we wanted to design
he did a great job
and he put this together for us him and
his guys
over here at jb uh
pipe seminole texas but look at this
this is
heavy duty we've got sliding gates
it's just going to be awesome i'm really
excited about it it is heavy duty
this is this is heavy duty pipe it's
going to be great for our bison
um it's going to it's going to make
things go a whole lot
safer and smoother and we're gonna be
able to work our bison
um at our farm at the cross timbers farm
in seoul for oklahoma
and we don't have to take them to the
vet anymore and
hopefully things go better with that and
um
we're going to take this system home got
a little bit of drive to go back to
southern oklahoma
and we're excited to get it back there
and set it up
so
here you can stop it and chop it up
we're almost getting there
we're almost getting there we're getting
it
meanwhile the sloppy mess
bison are still just chilling
so
oh
so now we've got them on here
concrete pad we're using is not exactly
level this is an old concrete pad
used for the dairy barn yeah what are
you doing
so we're gonna have to shim it and make
it level
and get these straight where exactly we
want them now
uh
that's pretty got all the bison fed
they're doing good
everybody's busy eating so but what i
wanted to talk to you about
um so we set our
alley down our two eight foot alleys
that we got from west texas
um what you've noticed probably is like
man there's a lot of
different uh videos and stuff going on
well
this last this video is basically a
combination
of several days we had a lot going on of
course it's
thanksgiving and
as a teacher i get the holidays off um
so um we used
a lot of that time to work on bison
stuff
and cabin stuff and family time and
thanksgiving and those things so
it's a lot of balancing and trying to
keep my
whole wife happy too i know she
bless her heart she's so patient with me
but we are hustling
to get this bison handling system set up
and we're getting a lot closer so i just
want to talk to you a little bit about
that
all right so i'm basically standing at
the head gate of where
um the bison are going to come down the
old
alley of the berry this is kind of what
you would call a
the tub or the end of the u and they're
going to come through here
and they're going to come out and come
straight down
this alley i know it's been a week-long
process
of of of driving from here to here
picking up stuff picking up the
alley systems picking up a squeeze shoot
that's over at um doc parsons place
in stratford my vet guy the guy who i
bought my bison from
he's gonna put that crash gate on the
front and that shoot's gonna sit right
here
on the front of this and so that's at
his
facility right now and he's getting that
built for us
they've got to have that crash gate like
i explained um
so we can work them but it's a process
it takes a lot of work um and a lot of
time and patience but we are getting a
lot closer
and so stay with us this is 2b
continued um and
next time we'll have hopefully squeeze
shoot
up here and we will have a full system
going
and then we'll show you our first
process of working the bison here at the
cross timbers ranch
thank you guys well i hope you guys
have enjoyed the process of
getting this handling system put
together we still have a
ways to go um it it takes a lot of work
and it takes a lot of effort
from from other um from
from other people my stepdad has helped
us
my wife she's been very patient and and
helping
she's out here she's been driving the
tractor around and helping
as much as she can neighbor let us
borrow his big john deere tractor to
lift
these um shoots off with our
um these alley systems off with and so
it takes a lot of effort and a lot of
work and
it'll all be worth it because once we
get it done
we can work the bison see how it goes
the first time and then make slight
adjustments
to our setup and that may be
moving panels around or building a
little bit more
fencing or corral panels or anything
like that so
i hope you enjoyed the the process of
going and seeing
you know the effort that it takes to
raise these animals and my i just have a
small farm of them you know here
um and so uh we're getting there
as a startup bison um farm
we're getting a lot closer but once you
have a handling system
things are going to be a lot better i
promise and that way we don't have to
take them to the vet
or any place like that to get them work
so
it's a long process but we're getting
there and you got to see that
over just a week right there traveling
around
all over oklahoma and over in west texas
thank you guys check out our website um
at crosstimbersbison.com you can check
us out on facebook you can check us out
on instagram and you can still go to the
store
um i've got some hats up there i got
some new hats coming
man i want to check that out and we
still have our t-shirts up there thank
you guys
um
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hey guys it's dusty baker with
crosstimers bison welcome back
so what we're going to do today is
we are out of feed as you can tell um
i just put out my last bucket of feed
for these bison
and um they're giving me that look so
it's time to it's time to get some feed
and it's winter time so we're feeding
more
grain and we're feeding more hay as well
um just because like you've seen in my
last videos uh there's just not
a lot of grass left to eat for these
bites and and if there is
they're going to find it and they're
going to consume it so but i want to
talk to you a little bit about right
here this is
a one ton bulk feeder feed buggy
whatever you want to call it's called
several different things
but let's take a look at this right here
this is
it's pretty handy you've probably seen
it in some of my videos
of me feeding out of it but it's really
handy these have become
very popular here in the past couple of
years it seems like you're starting to
see a whole lot more of them
and i they're just easy
you can buy bulk feed cheaper
and matter of fact the feed that i get
that we feed our bison you can't buy it
in a bag so what we do is we
we have to get it bulk and
um i think daniel from arms family
homestead feeds the same
feed to uh to his goats and
his critters as well but he has a bulk
feeder too but
so in order to get that feed we had to
have this bulk feeder and plus it just
lasts longer
and now we have a herd of 10 bison so
now we're putting on some more feed
every day
we're adding more feed so it's just way
better to have one of these
one of these things i've had it for
about a year now and
um i'll talk to you a little bit more
about it later but we're going to go
pick up feed
over in stillwater milling it's where
it's kind of the central location down
here
in southern oklahoma to get feed at
least um
in where we're from there's lots of
people that can feed here and they have
a lot of variety
but we're gonna go pick up feed it's
probably about 25 minutes away from the
farm
so it's super convenient all right let's
go all right welcome to the inside of
pearl
the truck um there's a lot going over
here a lot going on over here at the
mill
you can see right here this is the
scales
and this is where i'm going to pull
up and i've got to weigh everything
on the scales um my buggy's empty
and then i'm going to
go inside and get a form
and get my weight and then i'm going to
go get my feed
and go back on the skill weigh how much
feed i got
and i'm gonna go in get my ticket and
pay for my feed
a little bit of process but it's all
right
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eleanor
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you get it all
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he's thinking about it
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so i don't know what the heck is going
on just got the tractor out here and
cleaning up the pasture a little bit and
for some reason the blood got flowing
and they started acting a little bit
different and i'm not sure
the blood started rolling and they do
not like what's going on there's some
old fence out here in one of the
pastures i'm just trying to clean it up
and they're not used to this tractor and
all this stuff i'm
moving so they don't know how to handle
it so this is pretty funny to watch
so
so
these bison are so curious they're like
goats i may have said that before but
they are really like goats
i come out here in the pasture and they
just come alive they've been napping and
hanging out and i interrupted their nap
and
um i mean they come out here and got a
smell of everything and check everything
out looks like this guy back here
doesn't need to be playing in barbed
wire
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exactly stirring up stuff
these animals are so curious oh geez
eleanor
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that itch
whoa hey whoa
thanks for lowering the front end loader
there
peaches dunbar you just want to fight
with something
everybody else is hanging out
you guys are in the way
there's one new heifers
check it out
all right guys hey guys i hope you
enjoyed the video
it's good just to get a lot of work done
um during football season
i don't have a lot of spare time it
takes a lot of time from me
um but you know gotta keep the bison fed
we're upping up their feed some more
um it's winter time less grass and then
also
we've got a larger herd now so um hope
you guys enjoyed it seeing the process
how we do things
and then when we have a little bit of
extra time time trying to get some other
stuff done
around the farm using a little tractor
um
that we have so thank you guys um thanks
for following
thanks for all the the comments you guys
are really positive um
you can follow us on facebook or
instagram you can check out our
website crosstembersbison.com um for
merchandise or anything like that
thank you guys
one two three three two one
there's hung on all right okay start
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blackjack oak::noun | Spocien Dictionary

blackjack oak

noun

a common scrubby deciduous tree of central and southeastern United States having dark bark and broad three-lobed (club-shaped) leaves; tends to form dense thickets

Type	Words
Synonyms	blackjack, jack oak, quercus marilandica
Type of	scrub oak

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About a dozen of them swooped in and buzzed the front yard and settled for a short while in the top of our blackjack oak.

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The beef, that has been prepared for the event by the Victor Buckles family since the early 1980s, is cooked over blackjack oak that is only found in sandy soil in North Central Florida.

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Some species include loblolly pine, sweetgum, dogwood, redbud, cedar-elm, willow, trumpet creeper, blackjack oak, Spanish mulberry, flatwood plum and osage orange.

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The beef, which has been prepared by the Victor Buckles family since the early 1980s, is cooked over blackjack oak that can be found in sandy soil in North Central Florida.

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For instance, a number of trees with more southern ranges, such as the blackjack oak, Quercus marilandica, are found at their northernmost in Ohio just north of the Ohio River.

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Then he gets into individual species, showing the specific shapes and sizes of leaves and acorns, two things that are most helpful in separating a Southern red oak from a blackjack oak, for example.

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blackjack oak::noun | Spocien Dictionary

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