The Stockholder's Manual
The Stockholder's Manual
The Stockholder's Manual
The Stockholder's Manual
The Stockholder's Manual
The Stockholder's Manual
The Stockholder's Manual
The Stockholder's Manual
The Stockholder's Manual
The Stockholder's Manual
The Stockholder's Manual
The Stockholder's Manual
The Stockholder's Manual
The Stockholder's Manual

The Stockholder's Manual

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If you’re ready to take care of animals like you mean it, we’ve put together the most comprehensive guide of never-before-shared knowledge.

You moved out to the country (or are thinking about it...) because you wanted to be self-sufficient. You've read the books. You've watched some YouTube. You've got grit and land and a desire to do things right.

What happens when your animal goes down and you have no idea what you're looking at?

Most people panic. They call the vet (if there even is a vet nearby), they feel helpless. Then they get the bill. Sometimes the didn't know enough to call soon enough. So they get a bill and dig a hole. Sometimes they annoy the vet with 30 questions about skin conditions and the vet doesn't call when it matters most. 

Here's what no one tells you: having a relationship with a livestock vet isn't like getting drive-through dinner. You have to know something to even establish a productive relationship. 

And the worst part? Half the time, if they'd just known what they were looking at, they could've handled it themselves.

That's the gap. And it's not your fault it exists.

Nobody teaches this stuff. Not really. The books with depth are written, in theory, for commercial operations. The homesteading books are often shallow in the places where it really counts. The YouTube videos stop right before the part you actually need. Or was thrown up by someone who is five years in and is just a newbie with an audience and a camera. So you're winging it. With a living animal. On a timeline that doesn't care how new you are.

I wish I could unhear how many times I've heard about huge vet bills and that also came with a bill for a backhoe.  

That knowledge gap between you and what people in the country used to know about taking care of livestock isn't just inconvenient. It's expensive. It's devastating. And it doesn't have to exist.

 



There's a better way.

DrK has been a holistic dairy vet for over 30 years. He's seen everything. Milk fever at midnight. Retained placentas. Calves that won't nurse. Cows that won't eat. Emergencies that look scary but aren't. And emergencies that look fine until they aren't.

Real situations on real farms. Real animals, real problems, real decisions and real outcomes explained in plain language, on camera, in pdfs, audios, lectures and case studies — so you know exactly what you're looking at when it's looking back at you. So you can prevent the problem before it's a train-wreck. So you can actually enjoy your animals instead of panic-searching and wondering. 

The Manual is searchable. There’s printable sheets for your barn binder. It works at 3am. You don't have to ask a group and wonder who actually knows what they are talking about and who is just regurgitating. And unlike your nearest farm vet, it's available right now.



WHY THIS IS FOR YOU:

BOOKS DESCRIBE. THE MANUAL SHOWS.

You can read 300 pages about milk fever and still not recognize it when you're staring at a downed cow. Seeing it on video, with commentary from a vet who has treated hundreds of cases, is a different category of knowledge entirely.

THE INTERNET LIES. THE MANUAL DOESN’T.

Facebook farm groups are full of confident people who are confidently wrong. Dr. Karreman has 35 years of clinical practice and a farm that runs exactly like yours: calves on cows, multiple species. The difference between his wisdom and a stranger's advice is the difference between saving your animal and losing it.

EMERGENCIES DON’T SCHEDULE THEMSELVES.

The vet call you need at midnight on a Sunday will cost you hundreds for the emergency visit alone – if you can even get one out. You don't know how alone you are until you have a real need. The Manual is the knowledge that helps you handle what you can handle, so you know when you actually need to call. The Manual also talks about how to have a good relationship with your vet. One Manual holder said that the knowledge she has learned has allowed her to have the kind of relationship with a vet that he leaves her all the medicine she needs because he trusts her to use it well. That is priceless. 

WHAT YOU'RE GETTING:

Not a course. Not a book. A Manual.

The Stockholder's Manual is a living, digital resource built by Hubert J. Karreman, VMD, and Suzanne Karreman of Reverence Farms who own a working 60+ cow regenerative dairy in North Carolina that runs more like your homestead than a commercial operation.

It's a digital resource and a printable manual in one. Inside you'll find over 250 video case studies of situations you are actually likely to encounter filmed on real farms, with real animals, in real emergencies. Not staged. Not theoretical. And every time they add new case studies and how-tos, you get them automatically.

Nothing like this has ever been built. There is no other resource in the world that attempts to be this comprehensive, this visual, and this grounded in the reality of small-farm livestock husbandry. We're not being dramatic. We looked.

Manual Table of Contents (Last updated 10/2026)

Introduction to The Stockholder's Manual

  1. Let's Cover The Basics 

  2. Disclaimer

  3. The Stockholder's Manual Transcript 

  4. Introduction 

  5. What Does it Mean to Be Holistic?

  6. Does Being Holistic Mean Using Natural Treatments? 

  7. Difference Between Care for Pets vs Farm Animals 

  8. Should I Have More Than One Cow? 

  9. Fundamentals You Need to Know 

Printable Content

  1. Drk's Lecture Series Transcript

  2. Dry-off Guide

  3. Treatment for Grain Overload (Preventing Acute Acidosis)

  4. DrK's Fly Spray Recipe

  5. How to Pick a Semen Tank (new & used)

  6. Feed Rations

  7. Lameness: My cow is walking odd

  8. The Atlas

    1. The Atlas By Chapter:

      1. Calving

      2. Digestion

      3. Hoof & Lameness

      4. Mouth & Teeth

      5. Milk Fever / Ketosis

      6. Odd & Rare Conditions

      7. Pink Eye

      8. Respiratory

      9. Skin Issues

      10. Udder

Strategies & Tools

  1. The Immune System

  2. Practical and Applicable Knowledge

  3. How to Do a Complete Physical Exam

  4. Choosing Your Local Vet

  5. Importance of Vet Relationships

Holistic Treatments

This is your opportunity to get a first hand look at how Dr.Karreman thinks and acts when it comes to treating animals holistically – he will download his brain and experience.

  1. Techniques for Prevention

  2. Modes of Treatment

  3. Conventional Treatments

  4. Biologics

  5. Introduction to Botanicals

  6. Dr.K's Remedies (Botanicals)

  7. Homeopathy

  8. Acupuncture and Physical Medicine

  9. Iron, Copper & Liver Health

  10. DrK's Holistic Products

    1. BreatheWell

    2. EatWell

    3. EyeWell

    4. FeelWell

    5. GetWell

    6. HeatSeek

    7. LivWell

    8. TummyWell

    9. UdderWell

Calving

  1. Intro to Calving

  2. Bumping Calf Video

  3. Calving in Barn

  4. Calving Setting – Relaxed

  5. Calving Setting – Agitated 

  6. Calving Setting – Herd Midwife

  7. Calving Setting – Privacy

  8. Calf in Amniotic Sac

  9. Removing Amniotic Sac – Quick Delivery

  10. Removing Amniotic Sac with Cow

  11. Stalled Labor & Breaking Water Bag

  12. Assisting Calving I

  13. Assisting Calving II

  14. Assisting Calving III

  15. Assisting Calving IV

  16. Assisting Calving V

  17. Helping a First-calf Heifer

  18. Calving While Standing

  19. Manure During Birth

  20. Cow Nursing on Herself While Calving

  21. Normal Calving with Light Assistance

  22. Unideal Calving

  23. How to Stimulate Newborn to Breathe

  24. Cow Needs Help Calving – One Foot of Calf is Backwards

  25. Heifer not progressing; water broke

Post-calving/lambing/kidding

The first few hours of life are the most foundational for the entire life of the animal. Managing colostrum, the umbilicus and sanitary conditions are crucial.

  1. Cow Eating Placenta

  2. Normal Cow Behavior – Cleaning Calf

  3. Normal Cow Behavior – Stimulating Calf

  4. Normal Cow Behavior – Postpartum

  5. After Calving Care: Colostrum & Calcium

  6. Importance of Colostrum – Helping Calf

  7. Calf Rising to Nurse Timeframe

  8. Checking for Full Belly on Calf – Side View

  9. Importance of Colostrum – Complete Feeding

  10. Calf Laying to Nurse – Calf Shaking

  11. Calf Laying to Nurse with Guidance

  12. Deep Udder & Nursing – Monitor Feeding

  13. Calf & Cow Laying to Nurse

  14. Calf Nursing in P arlor/Stall

  15. Helping Calf Nurse

  16. Deep Udder & Nursing – Position

  17. Checking for Full Belly on Calf – Top View

  18. How to Administer Bovikalc Bolus

  19. Importance of Calcium at Freshening

  20. What to do once the animal is born

  21. Feeding Calves

  22. Happy & Healthy Calf

  23. Umbilicus Care

  24. Checking For Retained Placenta

  25. Helping Placenta Eject

  26. Mitigating Stress after Calf Loss

  27. Moving Calf & Cow Pair

  28. Normal Calf Poop

  29. What to Do to Support a Weak Calf

  30. Checking Calf Hydration

  31. How to Graft an Adopted Calf on a Cow

  32. Cow Adopting Calf

  33. Cow not producing? Tubing colostrum quickly turns around calf

Calf Rearing

  1. How to Feel a Calves Belly for Fullness

  2. A calf got too much milk? Giving Electrolytes

  3. Part 1 Raising Calves on Cows

  4. Part 2 – Weaning Calves

  5. The Blue Nose Ring

  6. Weaning Nose Ring

  7. Weaning Nose Ring for Determined Calves

  8. Permanent Nose Rings: Pain-Free Reminders Not To Suck (NOT For Weaning)

  9. When, Why and How We Use Antibiotics

  10. Rolling a Calf to Un-twist a Stomach

  11. How to Tube a Calf

  12. How to Tube a Calf with One Person

  13. Raising Bull Calves

Behavior & Training

  1. First Time Heifer in Milk Parlor

  2. Difficult First Calf Heifer

  3. "Mean" heifer advice

Lambing

  1. Lambing

  2. Lamb Nursing

  3. Lamb Nursing – Check for Complete Feeding

Milk Fever

  1. Milk Fever

  2. Early Milk Fever

  3. Pupil Contraction with Milk Fever

  4. Giving CMPK IV

  5. Milk Fever Treatment

  6. Milk Fever Treatment – Aborted Calf

  7. Administering Bovikalc

  8. Call with Dr . K about milk fever

  9. Milk Fever Call with Suzanne

Retained Placenta

  1. Retained Placenta

  2. Retained Placenta with Therapeutic Treatment

  3. Checking After Retained Placenta

  4. Aborted Calf & Retained Placenta

  5. Dead Calf & Retained Placenta

  6. Administering IMPRO – Retained Placenta

Udder Health

  1. Mastitis and Udder Health

  2. Dry Off Guide (audio and guide)

  3. Acute Teat Injury

  4. Pictures of Extra Teats on Cows & Calves

  5. Extra Teat Canal/Cistern

  6. Gas in Udder

  7. Let Down

  8. Helping Calf Nurse while Laying Down

  9. Cow Nursing on Herself

  10. Injecting IMPRO

  11. Udder Rot, teat scabs and possible lice

  12. Blood in milk/pink milk

  13. Teat Degloving

  14. Teat cuts/lesions due to calves

  15. The role of diet in udder health

  16. Edema in front of udder

  17. Unhealing lesion on udder

  18. Non-pregnant (open) cow dripping milk

Mastitis

  1. Mastitis & Udder Health

  2. Mastitis

  3. Coliform Mastitis: Organic Treatment

  4. Coliform Mastitis – Treating Immediately

  5. Coliform Mastitis – Late Treatment

  6. Chronic mastitis – cow fresh again

  7. Coliform Mastitis

Staph aureus

  1. Treating Staph Aureus

  2. Staph A Discussion

  3. Staph A with low SCC

  4. 3 Types of Staph-A and Making Dairy Products

  5. Staph-A discovered through testing, non-symptomatic

  6. Bought Staph-A cow and now there is Staph-A in the herd

  7. Cow has normal milk – CMT+ – Staph-A

Digestion, Ketosis & Acidosis

  1. Digestive Disturbances and Ketosis

  2. Diarrhea with Blood

  3. Scours

  4. Administering Mineral Oil

  5. Animals eating from a mulch pile, including possibly dangerous plants

  6. Ketosis in Sheep

  7. Cow not eating well, not chewing cud often

  8. Mysteriosis: Cow Intermittently Off-feed, In Pain

  9. Grass Tetany

  10. Treatment for Grain Overload (Preventing Acute Acidosis)

  11. How To Put Condition On A Skinny Cow 

  12. Different types of bloat require different treatments

  13. Feeding Grain

  14. Grain Overload

  15. Cow with free-gas bloat, standing,"off"

  16. Preventing & Treating Bloat

  17. Down animal: positional bloat

Parasites

  1. Parasitism

  2. DrK's Fly Spray Recipe

Pink Eye

  1. Pink Eye

  2. Giving Cow EyeWell for Early Pink Eye

  3. Giving Calves EyeWell for Early Pink Eye

  4. Eye Irritation – Treatment to Prevent Pink Eye

Respiratory

  1. Pneumonia

  2. Labored Breathing

  3. Euthanasia of calf after protracted pneumonia

Hoof & Joint Health

  1. Lameness

  2. Spotting Lameness in Gait

  3. My cow is walking odd

  4. Flushing Infected Joint

  5. Examining Hooves

  6. Sheep Lameness

  7. How to Trim Goat/Sheep Hooves

Mouth & Teeth

  1. Cheek Abscess

  2. Dental Care

  3. Irregular Jaw Movement

  4. Tooth Extraction

  5. Floating Teeth On Ewe

Reproduction

  1. Detecting Heat

  2. Heat-Detection Patch

  3. Cow Signal for Heat Detection

  4. Mounting

  5. AI – Artificial Insemination

  6. Pregnancy Check

  7. Pregnant Cow Behavior

  8. Normal Discharge

  9. Opaque Discharge

  10. Semen in Discharge

  11. Drawing Tail Blood for Pregnancy Test

  12. Blood Tail Draw Pregnancy – Setup after blood draw

  13. Reading Pregnancy Test From Blood Tail Draw

  14. Pregnancy Test Palpation – 5 Months Pregnant

  15. Pregnancy Test Palpation – 75 days pregnant

  16. Pregnancy Checking Cora

  17. Pregnancy Check – Cow Due Day Before

Black Leg

  1. BlackLeg – Needs Immediate Treatment 

  2. Black Leg

  3. Black Leg I

  4. Black Leg II 

  5. Black Leg III

  6. Vet call with DrK about Black Leg

  7. DrK Treats a 4 month old calf

Odd & Rare Conditions/Situations

  1. Dropped Hook Bone

  2. Amputation, deer leg

  3. Creating Healing Stall/Area – Deer

  4. Hardware Disease

  5. Investigating sudden cow deaths: anemia, blood in urine & herd health

  6. Udder gored by horn, milk leaking out

Sheep and Goats

  1. Helping Lamb to Thrive

  2. Sitting a Sheep

  3. Disbudding Sheep/Goat

  4. Treating Infected Wound – Sheep

  5. Drenching Sheep I

  6. Drenching Sheep II

  7. Lameness in Sheep

  8. Sheep Toxemia

  9. Older Sheep

  10. Goat Ear Laceration

  11. Lambing, kidding, calving and late-term pregnancy issues

Treatments & Antibiotics

  1. Antibiotics

  2. Grain Overload Protocol

  3. Tying Cow for IV

  4. Tying a Slip Knot

  5. Tying a Slip Knot II

  6. Importance of Restraining

  7. How To Give IV

  8. Antibiotics for abscess

  9. Treating Severe Skin Sloughing

  10. Surgical Removal of Wart

  11. Flushing Infected Joint

  12. Checking for "pings" or a twisted stomach & for "hardware" disease

  13. Chiropractic Care I

  14. Chiropractic Care II

  15. Chiropractic Care III

  16. Moving Cow on Sled

  17. Administering Whey

  18. Giving Probiotic-rich Yogurt

  19. Administering BoviSera

  20. Drying off a cow with UdderWell and T -Hexx

  21. Checking for Dehydration

  22. Dehydrated Cow – Tubing 

  23. Tubing a Calf

  24. Calf Bolus

  25. Drenching a Calf

  26. Drenching a Calf II

  27. Pumping Water – Fertility Treatment

  28. Administering Bolus in Uterus

  29. Bull with Broken Back

  30. Why your vet uses Excede and when/why to reconsider

  31. When, Why and How We Use Antibiotics

  32. Dressing a Leg Wound

  33. Why do we treat livestock fevers?

  34. Does this need stitches?

How To Protocols

  1. How to Pick a Semen Tank (new & used) 

  2. How to look over a new animal for purchase

  3. Giving an Injection

  4. What size needle should I use?

  5. Injection in Jugular Vein

  6. Reversing Sedation

  7. Administering Tinctures

  8. How to administer calcium bolus

  9. Parvo Protocol

  10. Feed Rations

Disbudding, Dehorning, Castration and Tattooing

  1. Dehorning Video

Bovine Leukemia Virus

  1. BLV : Thoughts and Strategies

Diseases

  1. When, Why and How We Use Antibiotics // A Case of Possible Joint Ill

  2. Why We Vaccinate Bulls Before Shipping 

  3. Handling Bulls: Disease Testing and Professional Talk About Disease

  4. Common Diseases

  5. Cow aborted in later pregnancy: Neospora caninum (document)

Body Condition and Rumen Fill

  1. Rumen Scoring

Dr K's Closing Remarks

  1. Closing remarks from DrK

WHO BUILT THIS:

The vet your grandpa would’ve called.

Dr.K spent decades in the trenches with organic and holistic livestock – not in a lab, not writing theory, but on farms. Real ones. Big ones and small ones. Farmsteads that look like yours.

He’s written books. He consults with farms across the country. He has spoken on stages around the world. And when he and Suzanne built the Stockholder's Manual, they built it because they were tired of watching good homesteaders lose good animals to problems that were entirely solvable – if only they'd known what they were looking at.

The knowledge gap between you and someone who's done this for 30 years just closed.

ONE PAYMENT. LIFETIME ACCESS. NEW CASE STUDIES ADDED AUTOMATICALLY.

It's the closest thing to having a holistic farm vet on call, forever, without the invoice.

Get Instant Access for $297

WE KNOW WHAT YOU’RE THINKING

Let’s address the skeptic in the room: 

"I've got books. I don't need a digital product."

We love books too, but your books will tell you what milk fever is. The Manual will show you what milk fever looks like when your 1,200-pound cow is down in the mud at dusk and you have fifteen minutes to make a decision. These are not the same thing. Nobody in the history of agriculture has read a textbook and then successfully eyeballed a subclinical ketosis case for the first time. Seeing it on video, with commentary  is categorically different from reading about it. 

Sure we are all trying to be on our phones less, that’s why you bought dirt. But when your cow goes down, your screen time goes up substantially googling, YouTubing, “talking” to AI, rummaging through Facebook advice (please don’t) – all when you could just use the search tool inside the Manual, watch a 5 minute video and be done on your phone. 

“I’ll just call my vet”

Great plan. Your vet will love hearing from you at 11pm on a holiday weekend. And when the after-hours emergency call costs a couple hundred $$ before they've even looked at the animal, you'll wish you already knew whether this was a real emergency or something you could handle yourself. The Manual teaches you to know the difference. That's not replacing your vet. That's being a better steward so your vet can focus on the cases that actually need them. We have testimonials where people have saved 4-5 vet visits already, and their vets will now talk to them like peers and leave them prescriptions to have on-hand. This is the stuff that lights us up. This is what changes the countryside. We can’t live a pastoral life of our dreams if we are burying livestock. These are the skills that actually make the life you want possible.

“I can find all of this on YouTube for free.”

You can find someone's uncle trying to treat a cow on YouTube, yes. But when your animal is in pain and circling the drain, you don’t have 4 hours to peruse YouTube to find something you hope is the answer. Yes, you can also find 482 conflicting opinions in a Facebook group. What you cannot find, anywhere, for any price, is 250+ case studies assembled by a vet & farmer team with 30+ years of experience, organized specifically for the homesteader and small farmer, updated continuously as new cases arise. We genuinely looked. Nothing like this exists. This is it.

“It’s a lot of money just for dairy cow information. I have a variety of animals.”

This Manual is for anyone who has livestock. Most of the discussion is about cows, and some sheep, but all of the treatments are applicable to farm animals generally. This is not some theoretical guide. This is nitty-gritty, in-the-trenches stuff from a veterinarian and a dairy farmer who have together been in this for more than five decades. This is a steal at this price. This is easily a $1000 eduction. And it's true worth is whatever your animal is worth to you. It can save their life. 

THE BOTTOM LINE

Nothing like this has ever been built. Nothing.

No one else has attempted to create a video-based, vet-built, homestead-focused case study library of this scope. Not the extension office. Not the land-grant universities. Not any publisher. Not anyone on the internet. Reverence Farms did it, because someone had to.

You got into this life because you wanted to do it right. To actually know your animals, take care of them, and not lose them to ignorance. The Manual is the resource that matches that commitment.

INSTANT ACCESS. PRINTABLE SECTIONS. AUTOMATIC UPDATES FOR LIFE.

Built by farmers, for farmers. When you buy the Manual, you're supporting a family farm in North Carolina that exists to help operations like yours succeed. This isn't a course company. This is Reverence Farms.

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Disclaimers: This Manual does not replace veterinary advice, and is not meant to diagnose or treat disease. It is for educational purposes only. If your animal needs help, your local veterinarian is still your best ally and some situations require a veterinarian no matter how prepared you are. Although every attempt has been made to cover situations in a multi-factorial way with many possible treatments and outcomes shown, we cannot possibly cover every issue that could come up with your livestock. It is our goal to make you better prepared in every situation you face, and a better advocate for your animal. Dr. Karreman is happy to speak with your veterinarian directly about non-antibiotic, non-steroidal and non-hormonal treatment plans as part of his mission to make modern veterinary medicine inclusive of natural and plant-based methods. He does not exclusively advocate for natural medicine, as there are cases where the life and health of the animal requires modern pharmaceutical care.

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