Jesus well done on getting that hung lamb out, that's showed your skill and experience there, no fair weather farming there! We all kick ourselves over missing things during lambing, tiredness kicks in and work load is heavy and things get missed. But you do your best and keep going 👍
I'm always glad to see the details and the "real" parts but even with having my own sheep, seeing a lamb skinned is probably a little too real for me 😬
It’s a good practice to take temperature on unresponsive lambs before hot box some will need IP glucose first. Cheers, you’re in the heat of battle now lad. Love watching.
We don’t always know exactly when they were born. If it’s pretty newly born but limp as a rag unable to hold its head up it can be dead in a half hour in cold or wet weather. It will still have brown fat and can be warmed up then tubed. If over 5 hrs old, temp below 37C and unable to hold it’s head up it should get glucose in the body cavity. Thermometers are cheap and it only takes seconds to see where the lamb is at. I wasn’t being critical of Cammy, he’s making good job of it and had some good saves. Just putting it out there as some born a while will need the shot before warming or they’ll have a hypoglycaemic fit and die.
The thing is with lambing live and country file, they often interfere just for the camera when the ewe is doing fine. The best lambing live was the Scottish one. I was very impressed with the whole set up.
Cammy, that scene with the hog was brutal; my heart was in my throat up until the lamb appeared. Many thanks for sharing the whole event. Felt a bit of an emotional toll once it was over. Good on you for working so hard to help the poor thing. I can't help but imagine the emotional impact it must take on you in those events. How frequent do lambs get that stuck? Would you expect another incident before lambings over? Thanks again for showing both the rough and the smooth. Hammers it home how difficult a time lambing is. Did notice the multiple layers of merch going on! Will have to indulge in some SheepGame kit myself. Kind regards.
Great video Cammy!!!!! Thank you for sharing all sides of the story!!!! Farming is a tough life, notice I didn't say job!! No 9 to 5 in farming, the animals set the hours. The most important trait of a good farmer is caring about the animals. It is easily seen that you truly care for your sheep!!!! Stay safe and best wishes for smooth sailing!!!🐑
Thanks for sharing the good and the bad. That’s life, right. Wonderful getting to know the next generation of Sheep men and women. Thanks for caring so much about your animals.💐
I was just about to say that Sandi Brock has shown us about every scenario possible during lambing and low and behold you called her name for her “Nanny Machine”. Hope you can get one going too. What a great sheep farmer and educator you are. Thank you. Never seen the skinning, that is amazing. 😉
What a vlog Cammy, the longest so far, everything came by, good and bad. Every lamb that dies shouldn't have been, but it happens, that's farming as you say it in the 🇬🇧. I also experienced this year, you cannot get up early enough, they lambs at the craziest time 🕓. Sometimes I think: they do it for it, bully farmer😴 😂. Also thought, that lamb is dead (stiff) clearly needed 🌞, but you shouldn't overdo it Cammy 🔥. You can use a radiant heater in your case? or hair dryer, but not warmer than 40 degrees Celsius. Perhaps a bucket of warm water would have been enough in this case too? Another tricky case, lamb is stuck with its head, without legs, in the birth canal. Typical case with the Texel. Not enough workspace, especially with hoggets. You can place the 🐑 with his butt on a platform (bale of straw / fence), but if that would have mattered to this sheep? who knows. Sometimes saw a vet do that. At least you did it 👍. First point after lambing, tearing teats, have the lambs been drinking? Sometimes the lock hole is so closed that it becomes a difficult task for them. Maybe get a little tricky if they walk outside and they are a little skittish. PS. nice to see that you involve the youth, you know, don't let them do heavy labor 🤣🤣🤣
My goodness! I was holding my breath for that hung lamb and ewe. I admit, I've had four kids myself so my eyes teared up a bit watching you struggle so hard to get that lamb out. How is the ewe doing? I was afraid you'd lose them both for a bit. Good on you, Cammy. Well done!👍
Well done Cammy. I once had a ewe with what turned out to be triplets. She birthed a single at 8am in the paddock but appeared to be uncomfortable for the rest of the day. I had no way to get to her till my son and husband came home for dinner. We cornered her and I delivered Siamese twins that we dead. (Joined at the belly, like a mirror image of each other) She trotted of with her single and was as right as rain. People wondered how I ever got them out. I cleaned them and froze them and posted them to a University for an autopsy study which they really appreciated. All very interesting. They even sent me the results from the student. What an effort you did Cam. Hat off to you.
Wow, never saw such a hard birth. My toes were curling when you were pulling. Good job getting the lamb out. Whatever the outcome, it had to be pulled. 🇨🇦👏🏻🍻
I've seen it. Not done it yet. Anything to avoid bottle feeding. I've got a yearling ewe haltered right now because she don't enjoy nursing her lamb. She'll learn it though. Even if I have to hold her and let it drink every time I'm around until next week. She likes it a lot, but if he goes to nurse she tries to kill him.
@@swamp-yankee I don't know anything about sheep, but tranquilizing a cow, just enough to make her happy but not enough to make her wobbly on her feet, before putting the calf on really works. We get the calf started nursing with the cow in the chute, then when the calf is sucking good, but still hungry, we put them in a pen together. By the time the tranquilizer wears off she thinks the calf is hers. We also use Orphan No More, or CalfCoax, just to help her think the calf is hers. We also skin calves and put the hide on the replacement. It only failed once.
@@nebraskafarmer9015 I ended up only having to help the lamb nurse 4 times over two days before they rejoined general population. They've been doing great on grass for some weeks now.
✍🏽 Wow, 4 am in the morning. Thank you for showing us the birth. ✍🏽Taking care of our animals that take care of us and taking care of ourselves. Humanity at its best❗️ ✍🏽 PPPPPP= Proper Planning Prevents Poor Project Performance... One Journey🗺🌎🌍🌏Let's Make It Count❗️ ====
Excellent work Cammy, glad you've got some good people around you to help. With the colder nights at the mo looks like you'll have some more 4.30am starts. At this time of year the day is not long enough and the sleep is a lot less if at all some nights. Take care and take the rest when you can. 🤗
Loving these lambing vlogs, Cammy. I've been lambing outdoors for years but it's great to see how you are doing it. So much better than Lambing Live on the TV with terrific non scripted commentary. Real human touch too with those children.
Those children are just adorable. Here she goes again, I would have made an episiotomy on the hung lamb, just enough to break the tension, and if the chord was still intact, leave the lamb attached for a moment to give it better chance of survival. Ask your vet about giving intraperitoneal glucose to a cold unresponsive lamb as it will prevent it from dying from hypoglycaemic shock once it is warmed up. I agree with the advice, I have had people buy my 3/4 Texel ewelambs, sold with the advice not to lamb them as ewelambs, but they go ahead with a Texel tup and then complain that my stock was crap because they didn’t cope with the impossible.
A lot in this Video. Real life view of sheep farming. Thanks for showing the hard stuff. Also for discussing the breeding impact on lambing . Better days for you. Great seeing the children.
Would it help to get a large syringe and attach tubing or a large catheter to it, and fill both with lube? Then work/thread the tubing past the lamb's shoulders, or swollen head, and deposit lube where hands can't reach. Would that help when turning the lamb to shift it and get a leg forward? We use the method to help get a big puppy over the pelvis or a stuck puppy. Outstanding helpful informative video. Thank you.
Don’t be so tough on yourself cammy, the sheep game is never 100% we can only do our best. It’s a tough time of year without enough hours in the day, you did a great job on the stuck lamb.
Smiled when you mentioned Sandy Brock, I love watching her channel, have only just found yours, so I now have double the joy of watching lambs being born.😊
@@ChristophersMum I’ve learned a ton from Cammy and Sandi Brock! So thankful that these two are willing to share the good, the bad and the ugly for those of us who are learning! Priceless!
Jesus Cammy, that was the most hung hung lamb I have seen in my life man 😳. Massive well done for getting that out alive. Poor wee Lambie and poor Ewe 🥺. Oh and poor your hand!! Shame about those cheviot twins. Kick yourself so much for missing stuff. Ken the feeling. We've all missed shit we should have seen. Oh well, all the best to the raeburn twin and tomorrows a new day. Loved the kids they were so funny 😄
Thank you Cammy for sharing all the bad parts... we had a first time ewe lamb the other day, and when I found the twins they were dead. I didn’t think she was quite that close to lambing, and was so upset that I hadn’t been checking her a bit more often. I thought cause I had not known, the lambs died from not getting their colostrum, but I see from your video, that lambs can go a fair time without before it’s too late. I am starting to wonder if she slipped them a bit too early and they were already weak or silly. Thank you for being so candid. I was really beating myself up, but I see it’s not my inexperience that was the issue. I just need to learn from it and get on, no excuses. Bless you, and your lovely family/friends. 🙏💖
These kids are so cute.. I love the way cammie can get them to talk. Saying about the good Scottish names made me laugh my mother in law was Scottish and called my hubby Stewart my hubby picked our son's names Callum and Logan I think he was following his mums name choices xx
Sandi Brock got a really neat tool. It's a handheld milker 4 sheep. That way she could get the colostrum right off of the mom if she was taking care of the Lamb herself.
I love that you watch Sandi too :) small sheepish world. When he said “my back hurts” I laughed sooooo cute! You did a good job, can’t win them all. I was impressed with that pull, I was wondering if you were going to do an emergency C-section due to it being so stuck.
A great channel Sandi has. That's definitely true in farming about not being able to win them all but we do the best we can. I was a tough one for this young sheep but amazing how they recovered and are doing so well out in the field, will try and catch up with them if I spot them on my rounds.
I was so sure we were going to end up watching a fetotomy on that suck lamb! If it gets away without even a hyperextension, it's got to be the luckiest lamb I've ever seen!
That stuck lamb! Watched with baited breath. Reminded me of my eldest's forceps delivery! Poor hogg. Glad they're ok. Sorry about the last two lambs. Great vlog 👍
I thought for sure that stuck lamb had 2 heads! I'm glad you were able to get the lamb out in 1 piece! I hope there's a happily-ever-after ending for this pair.
Just the one head on this one, both bounced back from the tough birth super quick and are doing great out in the field, will try and catch up with them when we're out feeding.
I am not surprised that she didnt take the twin that had to be rewarmed. It would not have smelt right, especially as it had colostrum that wasnt hers. Never mind she was saved
Great terminal sire for the mule no doubt but fully agree with your thoughts retaining Texel X replacements and putting back to Texel. Hoggs especially but ewes as well IMHO. Bigger lambs, narrower pelvises, lower scanning %, more mastitis etc etc. If you’re going to go for it it will be labour intensive.
Aye the fleece does help a bit when catching, would be a different game if they were shorn before lambing, Meg is the dog and she is a great help at lambing time
I live in Durban, South Africa- overlooking the Indian Ocean -- not a sheep in sight. But I’m hooked on your show. Well done to you and your team Cammie.
Do you bring all the sheep in if it’s going to be too cold? Doesn’t look like you’d have the room. What about predators at night? Do you keep donkeys in the fields with the sheep? I’m from Florida USA. I live in agricultural county. Farmers put donkeys in with their herds to keep predators away.
I have never pulled lambs but I have pulled many goat kids. The process looks very similar, it is always such a chore when it is just a head out with both fronts back. I can’t imagine trying to press a wool-covered lamb that is on the dry side back to retrieve legs. Yikes!
Hi Cammie, I think it would be quite useful for us non-experts if you had a permanent note in the description which explained what hogs, mules, gimmers, etc are. I know you've explained, but I can never remember.
I am a midwife I have delivered a few stuck babies. Do lambs get birth injuries or develop Cerebral palsy from a difficult birth? In May ways its similar to a human birt but we definitely dot want the arms coming out with the head😮
So, I learned that if the lamb no longer smells like it should, mom won't take it. By giving the lamb colostrum, it changes the smell. I put a coat of the ewe's shorn fleece over the lamb and fasten it on, and no issues. Of course, you have to have shorn wool from the ewe that lambed.
Cammy good on you for having the heart to continue in such a brutal industry Could not handle the loss of lambs or the mutilation by dogs Love and respect working dogs
If he does a lot of them, they will. They won't let Sandi, of Sheepishly Me show hardly anything now. Same for some other channels. It does seem to help if they put a warning screen in, but maybe they still lose monetization?
The little ones made me smile, nothing better than how their little minds think sometimes :) And after that birth oh my gosh that Mum still taking to the baby was really beautiful. Big baby for sure. And wow that was nothing I would have ever thought of or heard of but to put her babies skin on another well it certainly did work. You do a lot Cammy, so do not be so hard on yourself. :)
