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I’m so glad I came across your channel. It’s thanks to Adrian i farm we farm who gave you a shout. I’ve just come back from Kerry it’s where my mother and father are from. My uncle was a dairy farmer but my cousin has now gone beef. Where about in Kerry are you. Our nearest village would be Duagh.
Hi there. Great to hear you are enjoying the videos. Fair play to Adrian, I'm down south, kilgarvan. Daughter is a good journey from me. I played hurling and football there many a time. Where are u living now
Welcome back Sir and absolutely spectacular beautiful shooting filming footage compilation countryside content video and you guys nailed it again .. loved the beautiful lovely content and great video .. have a wonderful blessing Friday from Montreal QC Canada
Thanks for the update on Tiny! It's amazing, her ability to heal the wounds she had, what a tough little lamb. Great video, your Dad should have his own tv show, it would be a hit!
Great video 👍❤ You have busy auld day by the looks of things as well as fun, Tiny seem to be a wee tinker when she wants but a wee cutie 🥰 Thanks to Adrian for recommending your videos 👍
Glyn, I always enjoy your videos. Your father is a funny man, with a great spring in his step! Good on him. The pair of you are great team! Hope your father’s pain in his shoulder improves, soon! Thank you for sharing …
I know he’s older so am I but a physical therapist saved me from surgery on my shoulder and neck took a couple times a week for a couple months but so much better than surgery do some talking to him ❤
I swear your dad is a hoot! Love y’all’s relationship. Y’all make me want to visit Ireland. Keep up the hard hard work cause I can tell you’re passionate about it. Much love from Durham NC.
Nice one Glyn tiny is a savage weight 😂😂😂 Really enjoyed the video listening to you and your Dad is some crack Their no end to all this rain and a lot more on the way next few days Looking forward to the next video
Hi Glyn, great to see Tiny doing so well after getting attacked. At least with her being small she is easy to handle and move. Her stunted growth hasn't affected her ability to move well and get into trouble. Hope your dad's shoulder heals up ok. Enjoyed seeing the clips of eating breakfast, talks in the kitchen and just everyday activities. In a future video please explain what all the colored Paint Stripes mean on the Sheep? Seems like most colors are with Blue or Red stripes. With having so many overcast, rainy and cool days it must be chilly working outside in that weather.
So red paint is for one of our hills and blue is off another hill. It's our logo to know them from neighbours sheep also. Hopefully the shoulder will be ok Thanks a lot, appreciate the comment. Glad you like the channel, keep the comments coming
Found your channel with all others, cammy, will, super serious, ewenit (sp) , Sandibrock and others. I think my husband is kinda watching when i do. Dad's accent is a bit much but he is working on it. Love your dad. Watching from St Charles Illinois USA
although im same age as your father i used have same arguments etc with my father on our hill farm in co durham england ...we had swaledale oure and mule lambs too very lifelike your channel ...never easy on hill farms🤔😉😂 atb from dave 👍👍👍👍
We have purebred Flocks of KERRYHILL ,Lanark and North Country. We use the KERRYHILL rams mainly on any ewe lambs or Hoggets of the North Country ewes . Find them easily lambed with great vigor and thrive.
As always great video. We have hair sheep katahdin.- katahdin crosses, here in Michigan USA. Our ewe lambs are expected to lamb by approx. 1 year old. We use katahdin ram or an austrailian white ram
Thanks so much for the comments, do ye lamb outside or inside, I looked up the breed there. I never seen it before. Very interesting to learn about them. Appreciated the comment. USA usa
We only run about 120 ewes. We lamb half in December and half in April. We lamb indoors and out. Our sheep will breed out of season. Our lambing rate runs about 190-205%, with a conception rate of 90-100%. No supplemental feed is given, only grass or hay. Katadhins are pretty heat and cold tolerant, good foragers. Good parasite resistance. We added the Austrailan White to get more thickness in the topline.
That is super going. And a really high lamb percentage, it must be busy do with having two separate lambing times. Hopeful the next year is lucky for y. Farmers need all the luck we can get😂
You asked for any suggestions on videos. You do a great job with your videos. When lambing season rolls around, you might consider doing a video each day of lambing. Rather than releasing one video with a summary for all days, release a video at the end of each day of lambing. In my mind, there is no bigger attraction than the lambing season!
Hi Richard, as much as I would like to that I wouldn't have the time, takes a lot of work editing the video's. But will try improve on it👍 appreciate the comment
Good video again seems to be very wet with you like here in North Wales 🏴.beltex good choice for ewe lambs but charmoise also getting popular producing small lively lambs 🐑👏👍
Thanks John appreciate the comment. Ya it's been the wettest year in a long time. The sheep and us are well sick of it. Do you that time of ram? I'll go with the beltex this year anyway👍
Yea I had a beltex lad here and he tipped all my hoggets and few ewe lambs easy lambed and ones the lambs are born and they get that first bit of colostrum they start bulking up real good carcused lamb
Very good video I am turning into quite the armchair sheep farmer. I have an idea for a good video how about yourself and David, I think he might be up in Cavan, and Karol I think he is in Sligo both good sheep farmers getting together with your families and having a big barbecue it would be great fun, and your father could cook the snagers "sausages".
Great video. Mule lambs are a solid weight for breeding, be interesting to see the cross out of them. I use a rouge on my ewe lambs, can't rate the rouge high enough for ewe lambs.
@@sheepshepherd Thanks for the response Glynn I'll definetly do my homework on them 👍🏻 I appreciate your videos a lot I always look to your videos to get more educated on sheep farming 👌😁 With the cheviot then what ram would you recommend?
@Seany596 I would recommend cheviot ram or lleyn ram until you get into swing of things. Lambing can be tough work and they are two easy breeds to start with
Hi Glyn, we use Charollais Ram on Ewe Lamb before, but the problem we found was that they require that extra attention when lambing down . So we stopped doing it that way and went back to the old system and waited until they were full grow ewe..The beltex should add great weight to the lambs when selling for market.
Ya you're spot on James,I won't be putting our own ewe lambs just the mule lambs i bought that are over 59 but ya, they will need to be looked after for sure. Appreciate the comment 👍👍
Some craic .Great ewe lambs the Beltex should be grand just make sure you scan them and don't feed to heavy the mules are great mothers and will have loads of milk , the eaten are lively at birth and quick to suck . A charollais is good but your to high up there and they have less wool on the lambs. That's a great Beltex you have. Brazilians in Barnastooker class.😅
I enjoy your videos so much! I find your dad a Great shepherd and his stories are a hoot! But sometimes I dont quite understand what he is saying, like when you asked about breeding Tiny. What was his answer? My thought was that she might not be able to pass a lamb through her small and narrow pelvic bone. Which is a complete guess - what did y’all decide?
Haha that was a joke. She wonr be ready for another 2 years I'd say or maybe she might never be ready." He said no she's too small" So happy that you like the video's. Keep the comments coming 👍👍👍
Lleyn rams make for an easy lambing on ewelambs, but I think your Beltex will do a good job as their lambs are born small and I expect you will get better butcher’s lambs.
Hi Wendy, I have two lleyns also they will be going to my hoggets, they are easy lamb, you are right. Thanks a lot, appreciate the comment. Glad you like the channel, keep the comments coming
Charlie or rouge good on ewe lambs or hogget ewes.the rain is playing havoc on you down there,muck everywhere.those ewe lambs have done well with you.will make great hogget ewes
Cheers Nic. The lambs are flying it in fairness. Glad you like it and I really appreciate the comment. Keep them coming 👍👍👍 Ya I'd say them rams would be a good shout
Just wondering what you do with regards hay or silage for the winter time , do you boys make your own or buy feed in , love the videos , reminds me so much of growing up on the family farm up here in the North East of Scotland, hard way of life but at the same time very rewarding especially when everything goes to plan 😊😊
It's rare when stuff goes to plan😂😂 Great to hear from ya in Scotland, lovely country. We buy hay usually and use alot of lick buckets and we feed ewes 6 weeks out from lambing with a high protein nut . They would also be on a big run of ground, so there not too bad. It's the snow that gets us. Alot of feeding needed when it lands. Are u farming now
@@sheepshepherd No my father sold up and retired 30 years ago ,it was a small family farm and to be honest if we kept it on it would be more like a large croft compared to the size of farms required now to make a decent kind of living and I would have had to diversified into something else to make it work or have another job on the side . Used to have grey face ewes and some Suffolk crosses which we all put to a Suffolk tup, most of the lambs we sold through the fat ring in Elgin auction mart . My father sadly passed away 2 years after selling the farm and had owned it since the 1940s after coming home from fighting in ww2 , like most farmers I'm sure you will agree he hardly had a day off in his life but didn't know anything better ,I still vist the farm now as its a local contractor friend who now owns it and not much has changed , your videos bring back a lot of good memories of farm life .
@Jwp714i that's great it brings back some memories. He was in the war, that's so interesting and then went farming. Exactly no day off really but none the wiser😅 Appreciate the comments
Your poor dad needed to put feet up he wasnt happy lol Tiny so funny we had one and didnt a fox try and take him we found him dragged into a drain and it tried to pull him in through wire. He died. Fox came back next night but dad got him. We also had 2 foxes working together took down healthy hogget but my brother caught them in the act again few days later trying again. very unusual
Love your videos Glenn How do you get on with sheep on cattle slats ? I have a spare pen in the cattle shed wondering if the gaps in the slats are too wide for ewes feet. I saw in this video you had the rams on cattle slats but I suppose they have much bigger hooves. I run a blue texel and have no trouble with him on ewe lambs but I’m only a north Kerry hobby farmer.
Cheers Aidan. Hope you like the videos, I don't have the machinery like Adrian but we are trying our best , I owe Adrian for the shout out, he's a super farmer, appreciate the comment
limerick tippereary border ,pissing here since june , an odd dry day, miles of turf here still in rows in the bog not even footed,under water most of it. . @@sheepshepherd
Weather is everything for lads trying to lay blocks,plaster houses or put roofs on houses 2 glen . We are all in the same boat. And it looks like Noah,s Ark this year🤣. Fuck we will be fine . We dident die a winter yet@@sheepshepherd
Another great video, In my opinion it’s a good idea to put the Beltex to the ewe lambs for easier lambing, The Charolais are great for easy lambing but they can be a slight bit soft I sometimes find, I’ll look forward to the tipping/tupping video which hopefully you’ll do a few of them which ewes go to which ram, by the way do you still have any Belclare rams
No I don't have any belclare. 1lleys, You're 100% spot on I had a bad experience with charolais ramsast year never again. That's why I went with beltex this year. Live and learn🙈😂👍 ya I'll do a video for sure on that 👍👍
I love watching sheep videos but grew up on a horse farm in Kentucky-and know very little about sheep. Thats my excuse for asking possibly a stupid question. What is “tipping “? Is it the same as “tupping”, which I understand. 🤓
Can't beat the quad for spreading. The tractor here would cut the field in shit. We have soft ground here 🙈😂 Ya the drivers are a good job alright. Is that what you use, appreciate the comments 👍👍👍
Robex is ram for yee early on off ewe 43kgs kill 23.5kgs espeselly off crossbreed ewes and if wanted keep for ewes rouge ram is job of scotch ewes way head texel more milk and better crops lambs .
That was quick lad I'm a sheep farmer by heart from Wicklow only found your channel. Now at dairy cows in regards to Tiny there's an old saying "if a sheep had his way he'll die twice" love your channel
