Sheep Farming: How Our Lamb Rearing Barns Are Set-up 

Thank you very much! I appreciate you noticing.

Thanks. We love them and vice versa I'm sure. Life is better that way I think! 🙂

Me too. No matter how often you see them, they never get old!

Our barns are 50 feet wide X 140 feet long. I'm not sure how tall they are.

@@EwetopiaFarms Noted, that is 15.24 Meter (W) x 42.67 Meter (L) and for the height I can be adjusted accordingly. Thank you for the information, I wish I could have a nice-robust barn just like yours in the near future. Thank you very much.

Thanks. Most are breeding stock. Market lambs go to the sales barn at auction.

When the barns are full, each one holds comfortably - not crammed full - 120 ewes with about 220-240 lambs

Hi and thanks for your question. In Canada most sheep farmers, including us, use straw as bedding on the barn floors. The straw absorbs most of the urine. When it starts to get dirty, we roll more straw out on top of the old. About 2 or 3 times a year, we use our skidsteer to clean out all the old bedding and replace it with new bedding. We use straw because it is absorbent and because the sheep like to snuggle up in it as it is warm and cosy and comfortable for them. It keeps them clean too. Please watch my videos in the How We Do It section on putting out new straw and cleaning the barns. Thanks!

We always put down fresh bedding because healthy sheep need to live in clean conditions.

@@EwetopiaFarms u r doing awesome job ❤️

@@kashifqayum thank you so much!

Will try answer this with a video in Q & A tomorrow!

Gravel and sand mix. The main barn is concrete but we prefer these floors

Hay - either mixed grasses or alfalfa/grasses mix. They also get corn when necessary- to gain condition, flushing, pregnancy and lactation

We have Suffolk, Dorset and commercial crosses

No they are warm enough with their wool coats. In fact they do better in colder temperatures. But they do need shelter from cold winds and getting soaking wet.

Yes, however lambing in January-March in freezing conditions, I wouldn't recommend. They are great once lambs are dry or in warmer weather. I would say they must have curtains though.

They are not pastured raised but do go out on pasture

All the time except at feeding time

We live in Joyceville just northeast of Kingston in Ontario Canada

Sorry, I don't understand. Do you speak English?