WHEN TO BUY A HANDLING SYSTEM FOR YOUR SHEEP FARM. | Lakeland Farm and Ranch SG200 Sheep and Goat
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- Опубліковано 21 тра 2024
- Here is a complete tour of my Lakeland Farm and Ranch SG200 Sheep and Goat handling system and advice on when you should buy a handling system for your own sheep farm. Also included is how I trained my sheep to the handling system.
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0:00 LAKELAND SHEEP HANDLING SYSTEM
1:05 SYSTEM TOUR
7:14 MAKING A CHICKEN COOP OUT OF A WOODEN CRATE
9:02 HOW I TRAINED MY SHEEP TO THE HANDLING SYSTEM
10:18 WHEN TO BUY HANDLING SYSTEM FOR YOUR SHEEP FARM.
In this Video I talk about:
Lakeland Delux Spin Trim Chute
Lakeland Crowd Tub and Alley System for Sheep
Lakeland 3-way sort gate
Lakeland Easy Panels
Working Dorper Sheep without a handling system
Handling system for sheep and goats
Lakeland Farm and Ranch Direct
Tilt table for sheep
Flip Turn Table for sheep
Micro Ranching for Profit
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About this Channel: This channel chronicles my journey as a sheep farmer from the very beginning. My primary occupation is in business management. In 2020, I discovered the principles of regenerative agriculture and embarked on a journey with the end goal of building a profitable small farm on 23 acres by 2027. Thank you for joining the journey!
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So if we dont exceed 15 sheep , its not necessary?
We try not to have more than 10 sheep at a time. I wasn't happy when my husband bought our chute, especially with the shipping cost from Canada (the only place he found one). After using it, I know it's worth every penny. We're too old for the wrestling and head-butts to the chin that happened with our previous method.
If I only had 15 sheep I’d buy the Delux Spin Trim Chute and find a way to makeshift the rest.
In my opinion the full system is too big an investment for a flock of less than 30.
Like Vicki said, the spin chute is going to save you a lot far as injury and effort.
A trip to the ER with a cracked chin and rib is probably going to cost twice what the spin chute does. 😅
If it came to it, i wonder if i could put the turn between our two stalls where a small gate is?
@@brandonjohnson6562 I think it would! This guy looks like hes doing something similar to that: ua-cam.com/video/q9JH2UnZUGQ/v-deo.html
@@theShepherdess ohh, now it definitely looks feasible now! Thanks alot for the video! Now i know we can get by with just a turn cradle.
As a Muslim I must say it is excellent what you are doing these are true footsteps you are following within the abrahamic faiths I wish you all the best, I shall be going back home aswell and start a farm
Hi grace, good to see you again. Thanks for the review on your sheep handling system. I do disagree with you on how many you need to justify buying it. Ten years ago I was running a small flock and I grabbed a ewe by the neck at a feed bunker, I pulled her back and up, when I did that she took her rear legs and kicked off the bunker. This put me backwards on the ground with her on top of me and blew a disk in my back. Only now am I starting to get over the pain. I encourage everyone to be honest with them selves about having livestock and aging in place. No matter what animal it is,( think smarter not harder.) Get setup for the long haul. If you love what you do then make it so you can do it in your golden years. After all, that's what we're all working for any ways. Take care Grace, thanks for what you do. Be safe, God bless
I’m going to pin your comment, Rick! This is so important to consider.
Grace you are a true Christian inspiration for all of us “lost sheep”. God bless you and your loving family always.
Thank you for your encouragement!
Your content is really amazing! Lots of Love from Portugal 🥰🙏🏼
Outside of proper infrastructure, my handling system was the best money spent. So much easier then pallets an old dog kennel pannels. Enjoy the new toy
It's been a game changer for my farm! I couldn't imagine expanding my flock size without at least the alley system.
Great video! One suggestion, on your guillotine gate, tie the loose end of the rope at the far end of your chute. That way it is handy to just grab and pull anywhere as you walk back and forth along the chute.
My family and I own a small dairy farm in Illinois. I enjoy your videos. I always learn something from them, even though we have cows and you have sheep! Good luck with everything.
Thank you, Tom!
Loved that testimony at the end! Praise the Lord!☺️💖
I very like this video i miss the long video like this is so informative i wan to more please 🙂
Thank you, We've been trying to decide if we needed to buy this same system. We currently have 20 sheep but we are older with some physical limitations. This was the confirmation that we needed.
The rotory table/chute is the best thing to invest in for herd health! So many people skimp on these things. I have used pallets and cattle panels but hooves had to be done standing. Patience is the key. Well done!
We bought the spin chute and put it inside the barn with panels my husband had already made. It has been a game changer for tagging, injecting, deworming and trimming hooves. They don't love it but can always be coaxed with feed. Often they try to leap right through but the exit gate closes on them automatically. This is so much safer and less stressful for human and sheep alike than wrestling on the ground.
Love hearing this! Thank you for commenting!
While I was looking forward to seeing you put your Sister in it, flipping her over and trimming her fingernails, the "crate to coop" segment more than made up for it. Her chicken boots are awesome, btw.... If the "Best Dressed Rancher" award expands to chickens next year, you might have a little competition. :) Thanks for taking the time to demo the system for everyone.
Congratulations! on the handling system. Looks like it’s going to be very useful. Keep up the great work, and thank you for the inspiration!
Our Lakeland Handling System just arrived today!! So excited to put it together and let our sheep explore it this weekend! Thanks for sharing your thoughts on the system and your tips. I believe we ordered ours soon after you posted this video and have been anxiously awaiting its arrival! We currently have 20 Katahdin ewes (1 year old), a year old ram and wether, and 18 six-week-old ram and ewe lambs. We plan to sell our ram lambs and add enough ewes to take us up to 30, and purchase another ram. You started your videos a year before we purchased our flock and you have been a valuable resource for us. Thanks so much for sharing with and encouraging others! You have made a difference!
I am so happy to hear this, Emily!! Thank you for sharing.
Nice system. Thanks for putting this together.
Great video! I really appreciate your content and grateful that you share. Cheers.
Awesome review of that system, thanks 👍
Great review‼️, way better than Lakeland's video.
Looks great! We've been considering something like this for some time now. I'm still a handwrangler but the rams aren't very easy to man handle! We'll hopefully be able to upgrade maybe next year!
I like the spin trim chute. The rest would be easy enough to build.
Thanks for the review of the handling system, I've been eyeballing it for a few yrs for my goat's, with some lower back injuries (& now age creeping up), it's still a thought, as bending over to trim hooves can be painful, but I'm also considering dropping my goat number's & stick with my mini cow's lol I already have a squeeze chute for them.
I'd like to send Thanks for the veteran who was waiting for your review, for his service & sacrifice to our country. (For selling his bike for his system)
Good and necessary equipment for animals! 👍
Thanks so much for sharing!
Thank you for sharing.
In my opinion, if you are just starting and/or have only a few sheep, just build a simple squeeze chute and build it strong. It is the quickest way to worm, vaccinate, bag, and tag sheep.
Grace if you ever choose to have classes I would pay!! You are a great teacher. Thank you. I don't have sheep at this point. Thinking about leasing land for sheep and cattle.
Thank you so much, Clifford!
Awesome video once again, the Lakeland system looks next level wow. You really motivate me, when you have the Holy Spirit to direct your path, you always go the right way as you said in Proverbs 3:6.
Don't stop pressing forward, Run that full Race. Be blessed.
Just wow!
Great tip on not treating on the first pass. I have the same with my cats and the cages that are needed to transport them to the vet. I leave the cages out all the time so that the cats can use them as beds. I love the fact that your now using your head instead of the local lads brawn, work smarter not harder. Your sisters got an eye for a bargain, old packing create becomes a chicken hotel with very little cost. That is a trait much in demand these troubling days. How is you little ball of fluff doing (miniature Toby) ? As always thanks for posting.
Amen. Thank You so much for not making it a sales pitch, and informing us on if we need this or not. Yes I agree handling pens are needed but your “debt free” message will carry more weight. Awesome job and thank y’all a bunch.
Thank you, Mark!
That is a great handling system.
Nice chicken tractor.
Thank you, Patricia! I hope you are doing well. ❤️❤️
@@theShepherdess you're welcome. ❤️
Thank you for the well wishes. They are needed. I am working on getting my energy and strength back after having a bad bout of shingled and of all things muscle spasms at the same time. It sure hurt! Now it's eat healthy, rest and have good sleeps. Sunshine and walks. 🙏🙏 ☝️☝️ The Lord is my healer and my strength.
I like how you figure things out. That setup should help a great deal when working the sheep. 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🇨🇦❤️❤️
I am sorry to hear about your health struggles! I prayed for your healing this morning. ❤️❤️
@@theShepherdess thank you so much! It means a great deal to me. ☝️🥰
Great Job! I have been eyeballing the aluminum panels for some time. I have various portable corral panels but they weigh 2-3 times what the aluminium panels do and we had to put wire on them to prevent sheep escaping under or through the panels. Those are 👍🏻. Enjoy!
Thank you, Brenda!
I had 600 ewe’s and a few cow’s and about 75 meat goats I designed and built a handling system that could be used and workable for all three. I had most of my cattle halter broke and the where use of being tied and worked with. I had no wild or misbehaving cows. I tried to keep my expenses and over head low.
Good morning Grace
Yes a goat/ sheep handling system is on the bucket list for my farm. I just can’t go into debt . Six months till my mud hole is paid off. And taking all the overtime I can get leaves little time. Just a catch 22 position I’m in. But that’s my life.
On a happy note. 46 babies on the ground. I’m thinking about my next UA-cam video. Maybe a composite of the mud show of April and early May.
Still learning the process and very frustrated.
Enjoy your day
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It is recommended that the mesh be enlarged or movable to facilitate shearing of wool.
Well put together video. Also, when your sis says "I feel like a professional with this mic" and then proceeded to talk way too close and make the sound distort made me chuckle.
I laughed out loud too! She's funny :) :)
I bought the guillotine gate, the three-way-sort-combo-self-locking-headgate, a creep gate, a couple of the alleyway panels for my sheep from Lakeland. I was new with sheep, and since I was going to have to work them by myself. We were building our "barn" (12 x 16), and we custom built it with and around the Lakeland products. I would agree, no reason to get them for a small flock. (my numbers fluctuate from 9 to 20 animals).
What I discovered was that the self-catch headgate was pretty much useless for my sheep (Jacob Sheep - they all have horns, some more than two, one of my rams has 7 or 8 horns) but it does have a panel opening on both sides for accessing the animal, so I use it as a three way sorting chute. I do like the panels that make the alley, but they're way too heavy for me to move them by myself. Luckily I didn't plan to move them once the barn was built. The guillotine gate was also very heavy for me. I have used it some and it does help get the sheep into my 16 foot long chute (two lakeland side panels with the dropdown bar, like in this video are one side of the chute, the barn is the other side). But I just don't use it that much because I find it's easier to get a bucket of feed, and lead the animals into my shed-sized barn. I did use the creep panel Lakeland makes, but because my sheep are a medium-to-small breed, what I discovered was that if I adjusted the bars to be any larger than the smallest setting, my ewes could get in and consume all the creep feed. (Luckily I didn't have a lethal quantity of feed/grains in the creep pen.
I did find the folks at Lakeland to be very friendly and helpful, and I have to say their advertised "Direct to your farm" claims on the website were the final impetus. Unfortunately the shipping company they chose to complete the journey were unreliable, and once the stuff was transferred to this local carrier, they called us to come pick up our stuff. Lakeland did compensate me for this failure, but I wasn't very pleased. Overall I think I would not get this system if I had to do it all over again. But the reason I would make that choice is (A) the system, particularly the automatic head-lock and the creep gate are not well suited to smaller sized sheep, nor larger sized armament, (B) my flock is too small to make it worthwhile, and (C) the components are too heavy to shift on a day to day basis.
I have herd that if they can see the end of where they are going they are more likely to go so metal panels on the out side of the system and wire panels on the inside makes it for a easier transition from my understanding ma’am
Great
Had a apparatus like this many years ago but felt flimsy and chute was kinda cruel to me, i could hear them grunt when locked. Best way for me is with hog panels and t-posts. I just basically made a circle and lock them all in where 2 people can easily walk around and between them. Less stress on the flock, i could easily feel and see them more relaxed and more pet friendly. Works good for de-worming, tagging, injecting. I have around 100 dorpers. Idk if would work with goats, that's a whole new ball game.
I don't know if you have livestock guard dogs or not, but chicken wire isn't predator proof and the raccoons etc go right through it. Hardware cloth is the only way to go with metal roof panels for the area with the tarp. You'll also want something for a place where they sleep so nothing can get underneath and kill them that way. Everything loves chicken!
Just here for the Coop de Crate content.
LOL! 🤣🤣
I want to start some sort of ethical farm chain that'll crush factory farming! Have you seen Dominion?! I already knew about Earthlings.
Grace, you mentioned being able to narrow the alleyway down, making it harder for the sheep to turn around. How exactly do you manage that? There are two holes at the bottom where it looks like you should be able to put the bar in. Unless we aren’t doing something right, we can’t get ours to angle in at the bottom. The only gripe I have about Lakeland’s product is there were no instructions when it arrived. We just had to figure it out by looking at different videos. Thanks for any help you can give.
I need to add a follow-up comment for those who may be reading this at a later date. A few days after I posted my question about narrowing the chutes and not have instructions, someone in customer service at Lakeland texted me. He apologized that I did not receive the user guides for the system we purchased when it was delivered. He gave me links to everything that I needed. He also asked if there was anything else we needed. When I told him that we just wished that there were more of the steel pins that hold some of the equipment together and we would like to purchase some, he sent them to us free of charge to make up for not receiving our owners manuals. I should have contacted them first before asking here, I guess!
Great repurposing with the crate. Only thing I would change is the chicken wire. Chicken wire will keep chickens in, but will NOT keep predators out.
Thank you very much!
Got the system but cannot figure out how to make the chute panels more narrow? The width at the top seems fixed but at the bottom I see some holes that if I could figure out how to place the panels in those holes the chute would be narrower at the bottom.
I always wanted a handling system. Could you please give the name of the mic that you were using. Great sound 🔉 quality. Thanks.
Certainly! It is a "Rode Wireless GO
@@theShepherdess :😱 expensive. Thanks so much.
To me the most valuable tip was that you do not treat sheep in their first trip through the system. Thanks for telling us this.
It saved me a heap of frustration on the first run. Zero expectation, zero disappointment... haha!
Awsome products but 13k or so for “ combo “ is out of my budget . I have 25 or so goats . For now I’ll try to make a home made one but would love to buy one of those in future !
Can you use the catch gate for shearing?
I considered it, but I don't think the spin chute would work super well for shearing. That said, I am giving some haircuts in July and will try and let you know which part of the system works best for the job! I think I am going to try to shear their backs in the alley way, sandwiching them between me and the guillotine gate as I trim.
Ass always, presented to perfection!
Thank you, Max!
The wood for the chicken coop very likely is filled with formaldehyde that is leaching into your ground - unless of course you already made sure of this.
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I have seen these handling systems work great with sheep. However, I raise Kiko goats. Kikos have wonderful sweeping horns. I just wonder how well it would work for them, especially a full grown buck. I did buy a second hand rotating head chute. Thinking it was a great purchase. I put my dairy goat in it first to try out because she is easy to handle. Major fail! She proceeded to squat down and got all jammed up. I had to get her out with it sideways. When I emailed the manufacturer, they told me my first mistake was buying it for goats. I was devastated! Not sure what to do with it now. Trying to think if I can alter it so that it is safe for my goats. (And I am an older woman on SS)
That's a good point about the horns. Lakeland has a demo video on the spin trim chute that involves an animal with large horns. That said, I haven't used the system on goats to I can't offer the firsthand experience.
Thanks for commenting!
@@theShepherdess I'll have to check them out.
Where are you? I’m looking for a used spin table because I only need it for a few animals and can’t justify the new price at present.
@@OkTxSheepLady Southeast Kentucky
From which country you bought this plz?
Hi Grace- I have a really unfortunate question, lol. I live in a “Suburban Farm” Zoned area. A couple neighbors of mine got wise to the work I have been doing to establish pastures on my small acreage for sheep and felt the need to passively let me know that they were concerned about the smell. I live in horse country. I am shocked that people are concerned about livestock smell in a place like this where other livestock are everywhere. Can you offer your opinion on Sheep smell so I can understand why someone might feel that way? I haven’t noticed, so maybe something is wrong with me. Thanks-
We have small acreage with sheep. They create no smell whatsoever out in the pastures. Now, in the barn stalls where they urinate, the smell can be atrocious before we clean it. But neighbors would not be able to smell from there.
@@vk33771 That’s good to know, and makes a lot more sense to me. Thank you for your input!
Sheep definitely have a smell some people hate. Even with daily moves on pasture. When my flock comes through an area there is a smell for a couple days as manure dries out in the sun. Just like cattle. If you just have a few of them, and keep them clean I don’t see how a neighbor would smell sheep in a disruptive way unless they are walking in your field, or have an overactive imagination.
@@swamp-yankee Lol, yeah, the self-inflicted, over-active imagination is what I am anticipating as well.
Hi Matthew!
I did a front yard/back yard grazing project and there is definitely a smell up-wind of the freshly grazed lawn. The grass was really short (grazed almost to the ground) and the manure very concentrated. There is less of an issue when the grass is left at 6" or taller. The residual grass height prevents the wind from carrying the smell.
I hope this helps!
What shots do you give your sheep?
This season I have given CDT shots for breeding stock. For sick animals I will occasionally give a shot of penicillin and Vitamin B!
I just want the tilt table.
How much would one of these cost
Sometimes you've got to put the boot to the backside. LOL
I don’t I don’t find you on rumble?
Wow your sheep have arm Pits. Mine have legs
How much did it cost ?
As of Nov. 5, $10,775, includes shipping to your location, plus sales tax. In my area sales tax would be $646.50 or a total of $11,421.50. She is in Texas, the sales tax is 8% so a few hundred more.
@@kenyonbissett3512 plz let me know from which country you bought this
@@fawwaazpeeroo1432 USA
There’s are better Sheep handling Systems out there than Lakeland tho too honest really. Yes it Cost but you reap the benefits in the long term tho and make it easier on yourself too when handling your Sheep too really Kiwi Shayne investment is the Key too be a good profitable Farm and also using technology as well tho . Wether it’s a Small or big farm too really
If you have more than 50 you won't need to give them any shots. You'll find out that you never needed them and that they don't need to eat grains. As a matter of fact, you'll learn that store bought bags of feed make you're live stock sick.
Not sure your system is cost effective. I’ve had 30-40 does for over 10 years, less for over 20 years; and it was in my 18th year I finally built a raised trimming stand. Built mostly out of repurposed wood. Saves my back mostly. My goats show a profit. BTW I’m over 60 now
To grace there are better Systems out there to be honest really. The System you have is Okay but NewZealand and Australia have best Systems available really.
Considering the amount of sheep 🐑 in Australia 🇦🇺 and New Zealand 🇳🇿 it makes sense that innovation is the best and ongoing. Unfortunately, shipping to America would be prohibitive. 😢
You technically never have to buy one. You can hire when you sheer
When? I guess when you think your herd of 15 sheep is going to generate a return of $10,000 to pay for it. Or when your youtube channel pays for it.
Your handling System okay but there are far Better Sheep handling Systems out then Lakeland tho really. And you don’t need to train you Sheep either Specially as you are breeding them and Selling them and also eating them really too
Link to this system?
Here you go! www.lakelandfarmandranch.com/usa/product/sg200-sheep-goat-handling-system/