LAMBING 2021 HAS STARTED... 4 days early! | Vlog 1 - Lambing 2021
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- Hoping to keep these going every day through lambing!! In this one I have a couple premature sets of triplets and I show you more of my lambing setup.
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I’m 30 years old and I’m a sheep farmer from Ayrshire in South West Scotland, which is why I have such a strong accent! I was born and raised on a sheep farm watching my dad who was the shepherd.
At 18 I went away from farming to work in the city (something I still do) and at 23 (2013) I decided I wanted to do something for some extra money so I went on a sheep shearing course. The hardest thing I’ll ever do was learning to shear sheep. [shudders thinking about it]
I shore whilst on my holidays from work for 2 years and then in 2015 my dad died so I decided to get my own sheep so I could continue working with sheep as it was something I loved doing. From there it escalated quickly from my first 4 sheep in my mum’s garden to now running around 600 breeding ewes.
I shore over 15,000 sheep this season in UK and I also travel to Norway for shearing in March and September. (Covid messed it up this year)
A few years ago I bought myself a sheep pregnancy scanner and have been building up my run since then.
I watched a few farm vlogs on UA-cam and decided I could have a go and now here we are!
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I can’t believe you moved those bales by hand!
Have done one or two before, but do try and get one or two people to help if they are around 👍
Great news Cammy,gents hairdressers have reopened in Scotland,subtle hint
Hilarious 😃 🤣 😂, keep your curls.
I love his ginger fro
I might get to one before shearing season starts, but the hair is currently keeping my head warm in these cold winds🤣
Ginger!!😮😂 At least you didn't mention the greys 🤪
This will be my first lambing season with The Sheep Game. Las Vegas is here cheering you and the ewe’s on for healthy lambs ❤️
Great to have you onboard Laura, hope you enjoy the vlogs 👍
Really really like your videos. Sometimes I just go back and look at all of the old ones has see how far you have been on UA-cam. Great sense of humor really sharp and fun you are. I love your dog
Grate vid cammy. Lambing has just started for us and we have been battling whith blizzard like conditions all day
Thanks David, hopefully the weather picks up and all the best for a good lambing 👍
Wet boots makes for a bad day. Tough way to move hay bales. I do it the same way.
Your videos always give useful information. Cheers Cammy.
Aye lucky it was towards the end of the day so I didn't have to suffer for too long 😂
Great video as usual plus a Tarzan display to finish off. Cheers 🍷🍺👍🏼
Cammy I seem to recall some sheep farmers having problems with lambs drowning in water buckets. I think that is why many of them hook the buckets up.
We used the same as Cammy,never lost any lambs ..only ever put small amounts of water in.
Yeah if there is too much water in the buckets there is a chance a lamb could drown, but I always remind anyone filling buckets its just to be an inch in the bottom of the big red buckets and touch wood so far its worked well.
Great talking point about the antibiotics at lambing time Cammy.
My back was sore looking at this 😄🙈
Haha, trying to keep good form and I came away injury free 😁
oh that rain and wind looked brutal. But your sheep are well taken care of.🦌💌❤️🐑🇨🇦
The weather was pretty nasty for a few days but seems to have settled out now and hopefully it stays dry and bright for a few weeks while we get these lambs on the ground.
Phew! You’ll be giving yourself a hernia. Just thought to mention, I used to use live yogurt. The salesman admitted it was just as good. Strange how sheep turn one way in the pen spinning a straw rope. Hope the spell of arctic weather doesn’t cause problems
Fantastic video for a beginner like me. Keep the tips and tricks coming to help us noobies out and don’t worry about fancy music. Would never have thought straw could end up on their leg like that and cut circulation.
Aye, these vlogs will be a little bit less edited with lots of lambing content for you all.
@@TheSheepGame Great!
Loving the lambies on your first vlog! Buzzing for your vlogs to come!!
Will do my best to keep them coming 👍
Just discovered your channel a few minutes ago. This is my first year for watching goat kidding and lambing. (and I LOVE your accent). Great job with your lambs
Great to have you watching Sherry, hope you enjoy the rest of the lambing series.
Great video! You had a rapt audience while wrestling with the hay bail😻I think they were pulling for you💥❤️🐑
They knew what was coming and willing me on 😊
Hope you managed to dodge the snow Sunday night and forecast for the next 3 or 4 days. Snow always seems to start just as the lambing season starts up here in the Western Isles
We had a couple flurrys of snow but nothing like it said it might be, been a windy few days but now wet 😊👍
Well now, that IS miserable weather! But those ewes and lambs look good. Great video as always.
Thanks for the explanations of both what you are doing and what you are saying.
And take care of yourself, Man. Lizzie can't have you getting hurt with a baby on the way. There has to be a better way of moving bales. Not that watching you wrestle it around wasn't impressive, but it can't be good for you in the long run. Cheers!
Luckily the weather has brightened up just now and hopefully it stays this way for a while. Normally I wouldn't be moving a bale by myself, I would get a couple others to help or use the merlo but it was late enough and nobody around for this one, so should be just a one off.
Ditto the above!
Hope you and Lizzie are well. Your videos are good. Love seeing the little ones.
We are well thank you, although I may be a little worse for wear and the end of these next few weeks 🤣 but will be worth it with plenty of healthy lambs on the ground.
Aww you almost made the jump. Sucks to have a wet boot though for sure. Nothing cuter than the little babies stretching. And good grief how you are moving those bales be careful. The lambing set up is really nice. Very quiet for now, but in a few days I am sure will be very loud lol. Excited for the lambing season.
Aye, don't think anyone is fond of the soggy wellie 🤣 pace has picked up now and the ewes are firing them out 😁
Aye, a sair fecht with the bales! Fingers crossed for you this season.
Will say it was easier than all the small bales though 👍 hoping for some good weather and a smooth season
Would highly recommend provita lamb response to replace your spectam, theres also provita jump start for weak lambs and recommened for triples also, i replaced spectam with lamb response this year for the first and had no problems such as watery mouth and lambs where alot lively, lamb response is a probiotic which has already be explained
Well done with that bale Cammy. Nae easy working by yourself.
I got the impression all the ewes were channeling their buddies in Shaun the Sheep’s flock...they all just stood there, looking completely baffled from the time you pushed the bale off the trailer til you secured it inside their hay ring. (I didn’t notice if any were wearing curlers and knitting in the background...🤣).
I am kind of used to it, but do usually try and get a couple others to help move the bales if they're around 👍
Haha, probably thought I was stupid, but wee still keen for a fresh bale!
Cammy watch your back! Love the little lambies. They're so nice to watch. Hoping you have a good run with lambing this season.
Yeah will try and keep good form if I need to mover a bale again, but if the merlo is available we'll use that👍 lambing is going well so far and the ewes are firing them out now.
Great effort with those bales mate that will strengthen your back muscles and then some for the uk shearing season coming up.
Haha, aye do need a bit of a warm up for the season ahead!
Nice one hope the weather cheers up triplet left on is better than a pet ,we start outdoors in a week or more ,al the best 👍
Hopefully the weather is looking better now, will leave the triplet in the pen until it needs to go outside and then will take one off.
We have this same situation- early lambing, rainy , windy weather (or snowy 😒) it supposed to be spring and +10/15 and its -5 🙄 Greetings from Poland , Wzgórze Owiec-sheep hill team ☺️
Hopefully this weather system soon passes and we get some better spring weather for the lambs to thrive 👍
Supplementing the colostrum with powdered stuff is a good way of avoiding problems. Straw might be straw but combines vary a lot in what state they leave it in.
Sheep is all i know Sam so trying to learn more about these things. These lambs on mule mothers won’t need much topping up but i got some really good powdered stuff from @Farmvetfilms
Loved this video. Looking fwd to seeing more!
Its kicked off now Kim, plenty to see in the following vlogs.
Ewe will do yourself a mischief ,shifting those bales like that 🤔😎
Trying to keep good form, and mostly I am able to get a few people to help or the farmer helps we out with his Merlo.
I know you wish you had a tractor or something to help move that bale ! But , honestly, I think there's many of us that don't have all the cool tools that make farming easier ! Next big bale, though, you might use a thick board to lever it over instead of sheer brute force, Cammy. You don't want your back out so you can't pick up that baby when it's born, you know !
Should be just a one off moving that bale by myself with nobody around normally I would try and get a couple others to help or see if the merlo was free.
Can’t wait for the daily vids
Going to do my best to keep them coming, although maybe a little less edited than my normal ones.
Those bales are heavy! Good job Cammie. I found when I push the top of the bale, it’s easier than lifting from the bottom. But our bales are dry hay not silage bales so it may be different . Love the videos as they are, without music. I often listen with headphones and loud music mixed it , 😲 yikes 😬
Down to the last eight started a week early too but good lambs nice to see the first ones born know you've done the job feeding right good luck don't dwell on the disasters look at positives know it's hard when it's pissing with rain and you're having a shit day 🐑😭😭
Very good, you're in the home straight now then 👍 Always one or two problems at the start but we are in the thick of it now and its going well.
So beautiful those first lammies of the year. And maybe you nee to train a bit more in hopping over the stream.
Rolling a round bale, which has a flat spot😕... fair play to you... keep up the good work.🤗👍
Thanks Chris. Good workout!
I love that my captioning says “applause” as you were wrestling that huge roll of hay in for the ladies 😂😂.
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When you are getting the haylag in the barn or shed, suggestion so its not so back breaking or painful to your back could you use a leveraging board to help roll the haylage in from the trailer.
Cammy may I make a suggestion? As a female I have to out-think tough tasks because I don’t have the strength a man does (obviously). When I move round bales I use a pole or a 2x4 board to pry underneath and just lift the end of the pole or the board like a fulcrum and roll the bale or the barrel forward. It works! And you won’t get exhausted or hurt doing it...maybe give it a try? Your back will thank you ☺️
Excellent tip! I will keep this in mind for future if I’m struggling!
Yer aff yer heid pushing that bale around 🙈 best of luck! Looks like you're off to the races!
Always try to fit a work out in at the shed 🤣
Very good video Cammy, get yourself a wee tractor and loader and save the body,
Sounds like a good idea, but really would just be needed for 2/3 weeks of the year and then would be sitting for the rest so maybe not quite cost effective.
Great video, go on explaining some of us know nothing.
Will do my best to explain why I am doing things and not just do them, think that's the best way to fully understand.
Sheepishly Me just finished lambing and she had a rough go this time. Keeping my fingers crossed yours is better. You are going to seriously kill your back with those round bales.
Happy to see another Sandi fan. Love her! It’s because she suggested watching Cammy is why I’m here. Great endorsement
Fingers crossed we have a pretty smooth run and the weather is on our side mostly. Will try and avoid doing the bales by myself, normally there is a couple of extra people around to help.
top class to you on your video the mule hogget with the triplets is a sight of top quality cammy mules is great mothers keep it up you don't have to join a gym when rolling a bale of hay good man.
Thanks Paul, I do love working with the mules make our job so much easier, haven't been to the gym recently so this is my current work out style 😉🤣
I wouldn't like to tell you but my ram ( Kevin- who is a dorper sheep) blunted one of Those round bales yesterday and rolled it a meter. Looked easy-peasy.
Some strength in him then Kiah! 💪
Funny I tried rolling mine a couple of days ago....nope 🤣 didn't budge. I know it's got rocks in the middle making it heavier than it looks. Kevin is massive 😳. I was actually very impressed that you did move that bale AND flip it.. worried you were going to do an injury .
God, I felt for you pushing that bale.
Really enjoyed the video keep it Up.. thanks for the bell notification 🇨🇦
Cheers Azamy!
I seem to remember in a previous video you saying, "Why would I need a tractor?"
Maybe those bales are why? 🤣
I get a real buzz off the challenge of getting the bail in the feeder. Great wee workout and £15k saved buying a tractor 😁😁
@@TheSheepGame 😂 I wish I was your age again.
Another brilliant Vlog as usual...miserable in that weather though! Wondering what happens to the deceased lambs? How u dispose of them? X
G'day Cammy keep up the good work mate from Doug in Tasmania.
Cammy, while I enjoy watching you "Heman" the round bale of hay around wouldn't it be easier to get a tractor to do the work? I enjoy your vlogs.
Probiotics and antibiotics are very different things. A probiotic is something that encourages the growth of bacteria and production of enzymes within the gut. Lambs are born with some intestinal tract helpful bacteria, but it takes the colostrum from the mom and her milk, to get the whole GI tract working properly. An antibiotic has the opposite effect, in that it kills harmful bacteria from infections - and even a “broad spectrum antibiotic” isn’t capable of killing off all types. Antibiotics can knock out the good bacteria too. Stuff applied topically like your iodine spray, should do its job only on the skin surface; the only way it could end up inside a lamb or its mom would be if either one licked the iodine off.
So beautiful love all the new birth at spring hard work for you guys but worth it how tiny & cute were those lambs it sounded just like the lamb said ooohhh nnooo when you moved it when it was cuddled with mum good luck with the rest of the births
Would that Navara not back in any nearer to the feeder?
I'm so glad I chose to watch this while eating breakfast lol. Nothing worse then wet socks!
Sets u up for the day =D
Usually triplets come a few days earlier. When the sheep has a lamb and you know she is going to have more you should pull them out and you will have more live lambs than waiting for her to do it herself. Do ye check them during the night time?
That is true multiples come a little earlier. We usually let the sheep work away if we can see that there are no obvious problems. The ewes are checked around midnight and them 5am, ewes have been lambing particularly well and I have only needed to lamb one sheep so far.
I used that probiotic for my lambs I do a early lambing and they thrived a bit more than the batch before but I am going to weigh them tomorrow so hopefully they will be able to go soon
Good if you can already see a difference and be interesting to see how the weights are too 👍
The northern Irish farmer. Recently I was reading about the difference between prebiotics verses probiotics . The prebiotics are good to get rid of the preservatives in our food. The probiotics balance the much needed normal bacteria in the gut.
How do you clean the straw out of the barn? Sandi Brock has quite a system as you probably know. Just wondered how you did it!!
This reminds me of “Little Bo-Peep” & “Mary Had a Little Lamb” from Nursery Rhymes (1983)
Congratulations 🥂 with your first triplets of 2021 Cammy. Not the best weather ☔ to have during the lambing season, snow ❄️ fell here today 🇳🇱. April does what he wants. Sadly born prematurely, it looks like the 🐑 gave everything, adjusted ration? Fertile variety, but not so ideal commercially, triplets. May also depend a bit on the age of the ewe. Hopefully enough milk, seem some dehydrated? Am curious what they would weigh in connection with what race the father is? PS. isn't it easier for you and your back, a shovel with bale clamp, taking into account the height of the canopy.
What a difference Cammy, these lambs and the ones from the year before, when you turned a triplet and a single into twins. Giants.
Nice vid Cammy. Just wondered where the coat you were wearing in this video was from.
It's Ridgeline I think
@@fern1416 thank you
Yes its a Ridgeline jacket, was gifted it for christmas and pretty much live in it just now 😂
Good workout moving those bales 😂 you might have a problem with your back when your older but we will worry about that then some game 😆
Aye that's my current work out style 🤣 hopefully using good form should save my back.
WOW! Be careful of your back! I don't know about farming sheep, but i think it might be a little easer to roll the bale if you had a ramp so it doesn't get the flat spot on it.
Thanks for the few tips because my dad past way this year and the ewe were in lamb so it was just me and my mam and sister 👍👍
I'm sorry to here that Colm, I'm sure you are doing him proud and glad you have picked up a few tips 👍
Thanks
You need Sandy’ telehandler!
Cammy 2 gates across you could reverse the trailer to the feeders just hold the ewes back while you doing it and get a bale hook for handling them bales
Would be handy, but would only be in use with me for 2/3 weeks of the year and then just sitting the rest so maybe not very cost effective just now.
Love your videos! Great head of hair, yep you are lookin like your sheep😁
Antibiotics are great if not overused (speaking of internal). They saved millions of lives in WWII and since. And think on it, iodine dip of the umbilicus is using an antibiotic.
Fair points Miriam. I think topical use of antibiotics is less of an issue than injectables but they are one of our greatest discoveries / inventions for sure!
@@TheSheepGame I have always been careful about antibiotics I have a PhD in microbiology and know the consequences of overuse. That said, antibiotics clearly saved my life when I had a ruptured bowel. Nonetheless I remember the era I'm 70 years old when people would ask for antibiotics when they had a viral infection ....
Those bales look blooming heavy to shift by hand
Saves me going to the gym😁
I was pushing the bale with you!!! Sorry I don't think it helped you though!!!!
How do you handle your police job during lambing? Do you take time off the be with the sheep?
Stay safe and best wishes!!!
Thanks, its the thought that counts Cindy 👍 As of the end of March I have taken a 2 year career break from the police so go full time farming with scanning in the winter and shearing in the summer, so will see if it all works out.
@@TheSheepGame That is AWESOME Cammy!!! I know you will be missed by your co-workers!!!! So happy to know that the danger of that job is put on hold!!!!
Great video!❤❤❤
My sheep game hat hasn’t been of my head since we started lambing 😂
Great that you're getting plenty of use out of it, hopefully we get a bit of warmer weather and you can get a bit of sun on your head 🌞
When younsaif:always a goodvsign"..I expected you to mean the wagging tail !
Yeah 😁
So it begins......
The year soon comes around and we are at it again! 🤣
I saw a vid where a new lamb in a birthing pen got into the bucket of water left on the ground and drowned. That shepherd now hooks the water bucket on the bars of the pen, up above a lamb's reach.
Yeah that’s definitely the best way to do it! We got some wee blue buckets that fall over easily. Not as good as hanging them up but i’ll keep improving the setup as the years go by😁
The dog was concerned for you after your jump.
A mans best friend right there 🥰
Lambing time is so exciting! Are ya gonna shear off those curls and sell them to the wool pool? ;-) great video, keep them coming...
I'm kind of quite fond of my hair just now, even Lizzy can't convince me to have it cut, but don't think I last very long at shearing time with it like that 🤣
Great VIDEO
Wish I had a shed for my wee flock, they get to do everything outside on pasture.
Always good to be outside when the weather is good but is handy to have the shed if it turns a bit nasty.
you could try wood chip in the outside area doesn't go soggy when wet!
Good shout Gareth! Might try that next year!
You need a skid steer for moving those bales
There is a merlo at the yard here but its not always available when it is though we try and use it 👍
A 4ft length of 3 by 3 or similar helps as a lever bar with round bales put it under the middle of round side and push, use it to stop it rolling back too. Hope ya get some sleep.
Clever idea for the bale, will have to try it out if I'm on my own again, trying to get a few zzz's in 😊
Great start to season.
Just as well you had your Scots portage not trying to be disrespectful get the tractor driver to put the bails on their side then put a strap over the middle back to front mite be easier to get them off the trailer
Good one
Ok, curly top, time for a trim. Lambs are darling.
Think its growing on me, I'll be sad to let it go 🤣
Great video 👍 Just wondered, (apologies if you've answered this before) if you separate the triplets by putting one onto a ewe with a single or keep them as is? I think I've seen it done on various this farming life videos? Is it actually a done thing?
We call that grafting here. Very tricky business, the timing has to be exactly right. And it entirely depends on the ewe, some are better at accepting a lamb that isn't theirs, better than others. I have 2 (Katahdin) ewes with triplets now, and they are doing great with their own mothers. & I always check to see if the lamb yawns and stretches when it awakes, Cammy is right that's a good sign of a happy lamb for sure. Observation is the key.
Yes the ideal will be that we can get a single to take one of the triplets, we would try to be around when the single is lambing and maybe even lamb her if she is in the final stages so that we have the chance to catch as much of the juices and fluid as we can and use this to rub over the lamb we are trying to adopt, can be known as "wet fostering" does depend a bit on the ewe and if we get the timing right.
A wet boot is the worst!!!! 😭😭😭 You've got lovely lambs though 👍👍
Only myself to blame for the soggy foot 🤣🤣
You should feed your sheep at 2 o'clock and u want get any ewes lambing in the middle of the night
Ah that's an interesting theory 👍
How do you clean your barn! It doesn't look like you have the equipment that Sandi has at her disposal!! Also, how old is your barn and is this your farm?
I get the farmer next door in with his machinery. This is an old barn and I just rent it. I don't own a farm or any land.
Take care of your back.no tractors in Scotland 🏴.navels we found better dunked not sprayed.safe lambing for you and everything goes to plan👏🏴🐑👍
Yes, use a milking cow teat dipping cup, squeeze the bottle to bring up some iodine - let go of the squeeze and it is sucked back down. If you have to put it down and it falls over minimal loss and the ones we use have a handle that hooks and hangs on any hurdle.
A tractor for me would be sitting for the majority of the year just to be used at lambing time so maybe not particularly cost effective just now.
I'd get those water buckets off the ground and up about 6inches. Lambs drown all too often in them.
We put just and inch of water in the bottom of the buckets which limits the chance of a lamb to drown and so far we haven't had any👍
@@TheSheepGame they can still drown. Its happened to another farmer. One who actually watches your channel and gave you a shout out. Flat back buckets and clips are far cheaper then a lamb life
Cammy,you need a tractor ,those bales will ruin your back,great to see good lambs being motherd so well..Best of luck with the rest,great job 🇨🇮
On this occasion a tractor wasn't available but we do try to use one when we can, if I can keep good form I shouldn't injure my back and can use it as my training instead of going to the gym 😉🤣
ARE YOU GETTING MORE BABY EWES OR MORE BABY RAMS SO FAR?
Sheep are clever not stupid
Aye probably cleverer than most of us think!
Was the probiotic giving results? Or did you quit?
Cammy we watched you and lizzie pick up sheep at moorfield farm kilmarnock. Where are you based. I was guessing somewhere near cunningham head area.
I live in a house in Capy estate Barry👍
Any chance you could get an agri student to help out for a few weeks ? Round our way they are always looking for the chance to get some experience
I've got a friend keen to help me out and that's working well 😊👍
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This reminds me of A Christmas Romance (1994)
this is so good to learn.. thanks granny90
Glad you are enjoying Joan