How much harder would it be to not pick up the lambs like they are pieces of trash? Or to hold them instead of set them over a hard board and push down on them while you mark them? Shepherd, not sheephurter. Sheep are not stupid. They know when you don't care. Other than that you do a decent job shepherding.
I am sorry you feel this way. We take special care to hold the lambs to limit injury to them and ourselves. Also I can only show a small portion of what happens during lambing and of what the sheep are doing during this time. What you didn't get to see was the doctoring that happens when a lamb or ewe is sick, injured or having trouble birthing. You don't see the lambs who are bottle fed because they are without a mother, the lambs who will not stay in their pen with their mother, the mothers who are mean so the lamb is removed and cared for by another, the lamb following the shepherd through the pens, and so much more. There is so much more to what happens than what you see in this short video.
@@oneatatime8677 Yes, I don't see that. I have not seen you handle them. I am referring to your "help", they seem like they don't care about not being rough with the lambs. I just know that you can easily hold two lambs without being rough, because I have done it myself. I also know you can dock, castrate, vaccinate, and mark a lamb without reducing efficiency or laying them over a board like that. Like I said in my last comment, "Other than that you do a decent job shepherding".
@@oneatatime8677 you are handling your lambs perfectly fine. Really nice operation! Got a good chuckle out of your ewe cart 😀. They look like nice solid ewes and good moms.
