The notion of feeding anything but properly dried hay to horses, would have given me visions of colic and botulism dancing in my head. A lot of people, watching YT farming, just don't understand that horses haven't the digestion that ruminants like cattle and sheep have. So watching farmers prepare wet feeds for silage bags and bins or wrapped haylage for their dairy herds and flocks was a bit of a journey for me. Watching Sandi Brock's silage operation this week, where the cut crops were being bagged so wet that they looked like something a juicer would produce is an eye opener. The similar process for UK dairy farms, especially this extremely wet year, knowing that you are relying upon a proper fermentation to produce safe feed. Harvesting and baling hay for equine feed is an even more fussy process, especially where moisture is concerned.
Agreed. We have to be soo picky for our horses, re their hay. When I first started watching this channel and Sandi’s I had some initial mental adjustments…not knowing much about ruminants.
Getting hay dry has been a nightmare for just about everyone everywhere this year it seems. But even "wet" hay or silage has little value if it looks more like a veggie juice than hay. It should be damp not dripping. It is a very tough year for feed.
Love the stills at the end… particularly the one with the white nose stuck between the two blue panels, sooo cute! ❤🐑🐏✂️🐩 i do find the shearing videos interesting and a nice change of pace…so good to get all that heavy wool off before the heat.
That's awesome you have all your birdhouses filled with Wren clutches! Hopefully pretty soon you'll hear little peeps coming if you aren't already hearing them now! I love it!
That was a day of progress!! Your editing of the two days was great as the video flowed smooth and coherently. Your birds must be so entertaining to watch coming and going the houses. I love hearing their songs. Thanks for a great video and have a wonderful weekend! Stay safe!!!🙏❤
Lunch looks delicious! I love food trucks! Starbucks isn't bad either. I really hope that the hay is alright. Hopefully the beans get more heat too. Your bird houses are perfect. It looks like the birds like it too! It's so much fun watching shearing. The sheep look so good when they get up again. I'm so glad that shearing is getting done. It is a bit of a wait sometimes lol! They all look so different now! I like the way they look. Jacob does a great job. I'm so glad the hay didn't have to be destroyed! Hay and shearing was a big day for you, thanks so much for sharing. Have a great Friday, see you tomorrow! ❤🐑
Unfortunately, the haying is not going well as you'll see soon. Shearing went great though and our little wrens seem to love the new wren community we've built for them!😁
Good Morning Lynn & Arnie. Glad I was able to catch this video early before we attend a memorial service for my mom who passed away on 5-28. Since none of the stranglers are pregnant how many ewes gave birth, how many lambies were born? Just curious. To me is seemed like a whole lot of lambs this year. They have grown up so fast except for Little Mister, he is doing good. It still seems to be the smallest of the lambs his age. But he is precious boy!!! Going to make a good pet!!!! Have a great weekend !!! See ya next video! 🐑❤️🐏
So sorry to hear about your mom! I will have to check how many lambs we actually had. I really don't dwell on numbers like some people do. We did average 1.8 on Suffolks and Dorsets though which is normal for our Suffolks and a bit higher for the Dorsets who usually come in around 1.6. We had approximately 225 ewes have live lambs. We had a few who lost lambs but very few. I can only recall two but there must have been a few more.
Hello from Ohio.Glad to see your corn and beans are doing so good I would have someone come and bring in your hay if you have to.The sheep look so pretty after their shearings.❤️🐑
I do enjoy shearing days. The sheep really do look so different. I’d never get it straight. 😂😂 So glad you got the hay in bales and hopefully wrapped. THANK EWE!!
Good morning Arnie and Lynn. Your nutritious meal look pretty yummy. Corn and beans are growing. And the warm weather is coming. That rain is such a bugger some time. Just love the birds. Well sorry there weren’t any pregnant straggler but then no more lambs to care for so probably a good thing. All the sheep will be glad the wool is off with the heat coming. My goodness they are quite the lawn mowers for sure. Have a good evening and enjoy your weekend. Big big hugs to you both. 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰😉😉😉❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Yes, I was actually happy that we are done lambing so the last lambs born were May 11th. With this awful heat now, I am grateful most of the sheep are shorn! Have a nice weekend 🥰🥰🥰🥰
Very big day! Why do freeloaders get a second chance? This chance included two rams and at least five cycles (? three months?). Aren’t these low-fertility ewes?
Not all groups got a clean-up ram - just the last Suffolk groups but not Gladiator, Knockout or the Dorsets. All but one Dorset straggler was a first-timer so gets a second chance because they are young and it is actually common. The Suffolks are about 50/50 first-timers. A few of the older ones had triplets later last year. But had no previous issues. I don't really find "inferile" ewes. It is very rare, here, to have a ewe miss two years in a row. Flukes can always happen in a pregnancy whereby lambs get absorbed or they could have gotten sick or who knows what but if they are a first-timer or middle-aged with a previously good history, we give them another chance. I feel that is fair.
i had a terrible supprise today hope my nose aint broken harry try to mount fridolin then fridolin head hit my head when i was sleeping they keep acting gay i hope they stop it soon
