For ease of management i’ve brought the cheviot ewes in to the shed. These ewes have never been fed so may not respond well. That said they are in tremendous condition!!
I love your accent, and how you say touch wood. My mother would say knock-on-wood. She was Scots-Irish. Please don't change the way you speak; it's like music.
I just started following. Sandi sent me over, the accent made me stay. I live in Florida USA. I have about a dozen sheep because it's all I can handle. My first two sheep were cheviot. No shearers around here. So I switched to Katahdins,Tunis and Dorper. But I must have sheep even if just a few. Am really enjoying your channel.
@@TheSheepGame They are Hair sheep.They don't need shearing. Dorpers are meat sheep, black head white body. Katahdin are great mothers and good dispositions. Tunis are brown with light eyes and good moms too. I do have one mixed ewe with theTunis which is called a Cracker sheep, native to Florida brought over from the Spaniards a few hundred years ago.She DOES need shearing. Very parasite resistant.
Beautiful looking sheep. Clearly the enclosed space and closer contact with you is affecting their sense of comfort. They aren’t sure what is happening and need time to adjust. I love that you leave them out on the pasture, unlike a Canadian farm which raises them inside for their entire lives, and thus never gives them that ability to separate themselves so they can birth in comfort. Of course the climates are unsuitable in Canada but you have to question why raising them for slaughter only without a natural life at all.
I thought that was weird too when I first saw it but the Canadian sheep don't know the difference because they never were outside. And they never have to deal with predators. Probably a lot of sheep are raised that way, just like indoor milking herds, and we don't know it.
so that is where the saying "knock on wood " comes from? great grand ma used to say that so did grand ma, and mom, now i find myself saying it also,,,, this breed of sheep is it a dual purpose sheep? for wool and meat?
Kelvin Stewart they are a hill breed and particularly these kinds. They’ve had plenty grass in front of them the whole winter which helps😁. Lambed them outside last year but due to change of location that’s not ideal so trying this.
I’ve noticed you spreading nuts on the straw...if I did that, my ewes wouldn’t eat it as there is ‘Pish’ urine on the straw. I run Suffolk/ Texel cross in Donegal. P.s. love your videos, you’re doing a great job. Thanks.
What do you make of the scotch half-bred? I tried a border Leicester but sent him for fat after 1 crop, way to much entropic lambs. Tried a blue faced two years later but he killed himself this year so I'm going back to pure Cheviots although I've just bought a southie tup to run with the northies... Am I the devil?
@@TheSheepGame Aye but the mule is an ugly sheep compared to the half-bred. Shame really it's seems a thing of the past. I blame the border breeders for not sorting out the entropium genes. Saying all that the price I got for the mule lambs each year.... Looks aren't everything 😁 and yes don't listen to some of your messages you should change your accent perhaps to Borat. I was once doing some work with international students from all over Europe everyone talked freely with eachother but apparently struggled to understand me... And I'm from chuffing England wtf?!
