In a pack, dogs lick each others ears to keep them clean. It can also just be an affectionate grooming thing, but if Kinsey is licking a particular ewe's ears often, you might want to check the ewe's ears for infection.
We had a little dog-Gretchen- who used to lick the cats ears all the time--when we got another dog after Gretchen passed the poor cat would go to get her ears licked and couldnt figure out why that "stupid" (I'm remembering the cat's expression) dog didnt react to the same clues Gretchen did. As always, Sandi, great job--I look forward to each of your videos!
Information jam packed, sheep filled, Sandi smiles, Mark cameo, Kinsey caring for sheep.... what more can we ask for??? This video was just superb in every way!! I love these videos, you share every aspect and every sound, there's nothing quite like it, but we get a great glimpse of your farming life. It's almost like being there with you. Thanks again for another amazing video!!! My days are complete with Sandi and her Sheep!!
I am having a hard time trying to figure out what the 945kg of "calich" is. For the maintenance ration really is. UA-cam could be spelling ot wrong. I am new to sheep and have 4, 1 buck and 3 ewes. I justbwant to make sure I'm not making simple mistakes that could harm them.
@@carlaanderson7102 Please discuss with veterinary doctor in your aera. Ration depends on weight of sheep, quality of feed etc. Also be in touch with nearby sheep farmers, get advice from them. 🙏
Yashwat Gavade - Very good suggestions. May I also add that the soil, climates, Seasons, & humidity ranges are very important. Also, whether the sheep spend time in pastures & what grows there. I would not give them any city water because of the chlorine, chloramine, fluoride, or other chemicals the utilities companies put in their water supply. If you use well water, have it tested by a lab for things bad for sheep, perhaps every 6 months, or after very heavy rains or flooding. The wrong pathogens can be disastrous for all animals & people. I had no idea how fast sheep can get deadly diseases, & so many different ones. Goats are similar in the same way. If you have a local Farmers or Sheep Herders Assocation, County Farm Extension Ofc., Or State Agriculture Dept. they can give you brochures, information, & probably training classes, that apply to your geographic area. Good luck with your adventures.
I'm not so much a numbers gal-- but I love getting a glimpse of the science behind your operation. We need to know ALL that it takes. Growth literally and metaphorically isn't just luck. Success is hard work. PS: I love that my favorite sheep farmer wears holey overalls AND a Pandora bracelet while she scoops manure and cuddles baby birds. You are awesome. Best to you always!
I'm always worried that one evening, Sandi is going to look at her wrist and notice something missing... Then she spends all night internally re-examining every ewe she assisted that day!
You look really refreshed, you've both not stopped for so long. Thank you so much for sharing your life with us. It brightens my day when I see them and your animal welfare is beyond good 😍😍😍
Back to school today with my 1st grader and 8th grader and have been up since 4:20 this morning. This momma is TUCKERED out already, migraine going and needing a nap..... your video is EXACTLY what was needed today. Fed kids, sandwich for mom, Sandi's new video, then NAP!!!! 🙏🙏🙌🙌
It just so happens I was on u tube one day and I noticed a young lady talking about sheep, well I was hooked, I watched a few of your vlogs and decided to start from vlog 1 and I caught up last month. I'M HOOKED! I can't wait for the next vlog. You have come such a long way and even tho I am not into sheep, I find you such a hard working person and very educational. And don't let people get you down, your doing a great job! I saw where other farmers mentioned your name about hoof grooming. AWESOME!
Thankfully, I have few enough horses that I can buy my feed directly from my local feed mill already mixed to the ratios I need. Right now, I only use two mixes - a Senior feed for the older ones and a performance mix for the other adult horses. Two kinds of hay, served in flakes - alfalfa and timothy. Who gets what type depends on the nutritional needs of the animal and the time of year. Supplements are given to each individual horse per feed (twice daily) and tailored to specific needs. No youngsters or breeding stock to contend with which is nice. I'm math phobic, so kudos to you for balancing and mixing your own ratios!
Good Afternoon! I have absolutely no reason to know any of this information, HOWEVER, I am remarkably interested in this and truly appreciate the education that you provide. I am in awe of the amount of knowledge that you need to have to manage your sheep and your farm. I truly had no idea and find myself appreciative of everything that you do! Have a blessed and safe week 🤍🐑🤍
@@terryst9835 it might be a family farm but it's factory raised, or atleast that's what we in Scotland call factory farming as they are in a barn from when they are born until the die
@@HootMaRoot they're in the barn only because of predation pressure in her area. She'd lose most of the lambs and some ewes yearly if they were outside simply due to predation. But it's not a factory farm. Those in North America are absolutely gigantic, many times bigger than Sandi's. Think several thousand animals in one barn or on one range/plot of land, like several thousand cattle ranging on one piece of land, or a few thousand chickens in cages in a barn
@@LeafGreenLPs it's still small scale factory farming. I grew up near small scale sheep factory and many sheep farms. but I would say she does look after the sheep a lot better than any of the big places do
Great information shared. Mark, doing the “heavy” work that Australia/New Zealand travel created. Pulling it all together is about as bad as the third cutting of alfalfa was. Thanks as always for sharing you life with us.
What great information, and all that goes into keeping your flock healthy and in production.Makes those feed sheets all that more important. I love your dog licking the sheep's ears. I had a dog that would go out and lick the calf ears and always joked that he like his rawhide ears on the hoof!! Glad you had a great time off, and was happy to tag along with you!!
How in heavens name do you see a profit when you spend so much on feed. I know you grow your own when you can but the cost involved in growing harvesting and storing etc aren’t nil. The extra care and dedication it takes to balance out the feed because they’re raised inside and maintenance of all the equipment. Extraordinary and most interesting in an are you serious way. Love it. Thank you.
Ok.....my OCD just kicked in. I’m coming to clean the cobwebs out of the feeders in the lamb barn and clean off the proportioner too! Lol. Great system girl.
Sandi Thank You very much for the videos of your sheep feed levels for each of their stage of life. Take Care Be Safe Alway's Around all Farm equipment. .
What paper is your husband working on? Those folks that thought farmers were dim just got an education. I think farmers have to be very smart/clever/resourceful/hard-working to not go belly up. Such hard work. Thank you farmers for your persistence and work to feed the world
Thank you for the good shout out to farmers!! They have to be frugal, a chemist, decide which chemicals to purchase for different years for which old and new weeds that appear, "weather guesser" bookkeeper, mechanic, good banker, to always save money and not to have to borrow it for operating from year to year, it takes us well over thousands of dollars each year to get seed, chemicals etc. purchased for each year. This doesn't include machinery, repair bills for machinery and other unexpected expenses. Farming is enjoyable most if the time but, is a big business and a lot of work.
Mark has been working on a Nuffield Scholarship. This is the work he was doing when he traveled to Australia and New Zealand earlier this year. Unfortunately the trip was cut short due to COVID. You can watch his travels on his blog here. ua-cam.com/video/BDQWDM-6NjQ/v-deo.html
Early this year Mark went to Australia and New Zealand on a Nuffield scholarship, to study other country’s crop management. He has to write his paper on everything he learned in the last two years, and how he can incorporate that information into his operation. The time in New Zealand was cut short due to COVID.
Hey Sandi! Terry is bang on! Mark is working on a Nuffield Scholarship which involved some travel, and now he has to write up his report to finish it up!
Even for a long term viewer it is really really interesting and thought provoking. The amount each sheep eats per day in particular. Wish I could weigh out a days ration for one sheep to get a visual on it!
Mrs. Sandy thank you sharing your videos!! I love learning about your feed programs, I love that you add how many acres would it take to grow your feed program for your sheep. I'm trying to get my sister and some family members on a feeding program and having them understand why I have a forage program for my livestock. Again thank you Sandy much love and hugs to your family!
This was so awesome to see! It’s also nice to see Mark! When he is finished with his paper, I hope that y’all start Unpopular Farmer again! I miss that! Much love to y’all!! Kristin 💖💖💖
Speaking of feeding, you mentioned a bit ago that you wanted to try feeding later to prompt the ewes labor/lamb later in the morning. Are you going try that this lambing session?
With cows if you feed them late afternoon early evening the bulk will calve durning daylight. The idea is they get a big full gut of food, sit down to ruminate and the pressure( lack of room in the gut cavity) will kick off labour. There is also homeopathic remedies that are good for inducing and priming the uterus for speedy labour. Same for mating.
Sandi, wow! Thank you for taking so much time to explain all of this to us, and doing all of the math to figure it out for us. I find it so interesting, and I’m not even a farmer- so I can only imagine what farmers think! Gotta love computer . You’re amazing!👍👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️
I _love_ mowing! We had 2 acres we kept mowed while I was growing up. Give me tunes, a drink bottle, and I'm happy for a couple hours or until more gas is needed. I'd be more than happy to do yours if I weren't 3000 miles away. 😉
A little more funnerer... technical farm jargon..lol love you Sandi..mean it.. Just wanted to say that your smile is infectious in a really good way. Thank you Sandi..
Thanks Sandi, The investment in machinery and acreage needed for one person, with a little help, to produce a continual crop of lambs is an eye opener.
I love your feeding setup. Your head for business, ag and livestock goes a long way toward making a successful operation. And of course in farm lingo that means perhaps break even sometimes! It's all such a gamble, isn't it? But we love farming anyway. lol Kinsey cracks me up, licking ears and biting the tires on the feeder. Silly doggo! Does she follow you around when you mow, turning herself green? Love ewe and your farm!
math was never my strong suite but even just knowing the averages helped us figure out feed! one horse in a bad cold winter can easily eat up to 5tons of hay with about a 2 ton grain feed put with it(going from November to may) so average for 5 horses was about 30 ton of hay and 10 tons of grain and each actually ate diffrent! the hard keeper got twice as much grain than the easy keepers but they ate more hay....so knowing the average and having some left over was always nice on the pocket book. NOW I'm just down to one easy keeper but this will be his first winter without a buddy to keep warm with...I see his grain ration as doubled already and as much hay as he can clean up each day....here's to hoping we guessed right🤞
Thank you so much Sandy!!! I am going to do an assignment on that area of Canada, about climate change and Agricultural sectors. I felt so inspired after seeing all your videos.
I have a good friend who was looking for a ram. She went to a farm and she just walked up to the ram pen and the one that came directly to her and wanted her his face rubbed and to say Hi. She got one of his offspring. She aways said you don't have a mean animal on the farm. Big, strong and eager to be with the girls, is different than being mean.
You & Mark ABSOLUTELY AMAZE ME❣️❣️❣️❣️You are such a PERFECT MATCH❣️❣️❣️❣️I stay in total AWE of you two‼️‼️Anyone who thinks farming, in ANY WAY is easy just have no idea what it takes, especially to be a Successful Farmer be it Crops or Animals‼️Thank you for taking the time to share this information for all of us to know you both better❣️❣️Thx for taking the time to better educate us👍👍Prayers & Love, barb Lewis, S.E. ohio
Sandi, you’re an amazing soul!!! I love watching your videos, I don’t even accomplish 1/3 of what you do. In a day... I can’t wait to see the new babies, so excited 😆 Sending y’all love and blessings from Pennsylvania USA 🇺🇸🙏🏼♥️🙏🏼♥️🙏🏼♥️
Our neighbour growing up ,fence his yard and put sheep on it. They have a very nice looking yard. I don't remember any major droppings, but then I was a kid and didn't care.
Sandi. Thank You for the video showing us the feed set ups for each stage that the ewe's are in. I know that it is very important that humans get their minerals. Human body will use organic mimeral to help with some vitiman shortages. A gpod organic company ( T R C has a 75 organic mineral liquid package ) could a mineral shortage in some ewe's be the still birth problem ? Please Take Care of your self Plus Be Very Care Full around all Farm Equipment.
This was really interesting because all you normally see is people feeding but you don’t know what and how much goes into sheep feed or any animal feed most people know about dog and cats food etc but not large animal feed so thank you
Speaking of feeding ... Strangely enough, my furry overlord™ looks forward to your videos. Of course, that might also be because she knows that if she pesters me during, I’ll tell her that I’ll feed her “right after the baa baas.” Now, she perks up whenever she hears sheep sounds. Pavlov would be happy. 😆
Appreciate your time, very useful information for even house farmer’s in Pakistan , I always recommend to farmers watching your Chanel videos , such a Great job, because I love 🐑 sheep 🐑 goats 🐐 since I was 7 years old, keep it up, congratulations 🎊🎉🎈
This was super awesome. Thank you for showing the in's and out's. You look refreshed and ready to take on the challenge of lambing! Remember you were going to change the timings of feeding so you have lambs during the day. Hugs from Halifax
I love your videos! Although I no longer raise sheep, It brings back precious memories with my father. We never had the involved science you did; I learn so much. Kinsey is sweet and loves the sheep! Blessings from Texas!💗💗💗
Thanks for letting us know about the feed rations. Glad its you doing it I don't think I would be able to remember it all. God bless you from Michigan USA
Hey Brock family!👋 Great math lesson, Teacher!😅 Sorry I get to some of ur vlogs late but I work nights so I sleep threw the day and look at them during the night! 😆❤👍
RAMS!!! Ahem -- sorry. Love those guys. Question -- what happens if you guys lose electricity for an extended period of time? Do you have back up generators to run your equipment or do you have to do everything by hand?
Very interesting.......there is so much that is done that brings a lamb from conception to birth and beyond.......to the meat produced...the feed is just one part of the process......wow.....thank you for taking the time to explain it all.
That’s a good video! Very helpful information, something to go by and keep in mind if I ever decide to sheep farm. I watch the new borns and how cute they are and how you make me want to run out and buy up 1,000 sheep, you make it look easy. Lol I’m sure it’s not as easy as you show it and I’m sure it took you a long time to get there. You Rock Sandi!!!
It’s a big piece of plastic mixing around with the food how do you stop the sheep from eating it and I love the way you have being putting your hair up with the bandanna
I think the sheep would mostly spit it out or not even bother with it since in previous videos they seemingly ignore the pieces of plastic as they know it isn’t food. Since those pieces are pretty big. I could be wrong though.
I saw that when she picked it up and dumped it in the mixer. Thought she would show us her taking it out, but did not. Just worried it would tangle some how in the augers.
Very interesting to see how you calculate the feed for the various stages of the lambs. Great video! I am a California city gal but I have always been interested in farm life. I am a retired nurse! Thank you!
I get stupid baby bird season when the fledgling can fly but not well. I keep garage and she'd doors closed so they don't get stuck inside (not enough flight control to go out a door). Since yours live in the barn they seem to find other places to get stuck. Love your videos and appreciate the time you put in them.
When you figured the math on the lamb barn, based on lambs sold, did you also figure in there the ewe lambs you kept? If not then the figures would be based on more lambs eating than just the ones being sold/shipped.
You may think me mad but I once used a bunch of rubber snakes and a fake owl to keep birds away. There are plastic owls that have heads that can move by the wind and it is impressive, the birds were gone the next day, so far never to return.
Love your channel, Sandi! With the bird problem, have you tried tin foil? My mom had issues with wrens nesting above her front door, in the garage, and even behind her truck wheels. (They build super fast...) She found that taping small rectangles of tin foil on a string and taping the string near the birds point of entry kept the birds away.
Aha! Another dog who licks ears! I have one too. She licks cat ears. Cats love it. They sidle up to her when they want to be groomed and she happily obliges, starting with ears.
Great video!! I love all of your videos. One thing I feel should be mentioned (sorry if it was and I missed it in the video 🙈) For the ewes it seems like so much kg/hd but with silage being higher moisture content when based on dry matter basis it would be quite a bit less. We feed our ewes at a rate of about 2.5kg/hd/day but of dry hay only (plus mineral tubs haha).
I got a show wether like 7 years ago or so and he refused to eat his sunglo brand show lamb feed so I switched him to high noon and I mixed it to transition him over so he didn't scour and he would pick out everything that was high noon(except the cotton for some reason) and leave the sun glo. At least my friend's lamb was eating it for him
When I started grade school in 1942, Rock Island, Illinois-USA we learned ounce, pound, tons etc. I'm now 83 and still stuck with that and have never worked with the metric system. I have to convert KGs to pounds. I do have a calculator to do that.
Oh Sandy I thought the same thing about the lawn and the sheep when we lived in New Zealand. So I opened the gate and let them all in, it was fun for about an hour until they got in the flower beds and did a hit n miss in the over grown garden and moved back to the field they were in. I was left with sheep s**t everywhere!! Front and back porch, the walk ways, the driveway. I don't recommend unless you don't mind the clean up! LOL
Did you ever accidentally trow the bucket in the mixer 😆 Love this video, I did not know sheep ate this much and so much different sorts of ingredients!!
@@sumayyahhomeschool5650 I think she meant it as a question as in "Have you ever" lol I once had to climb to the feed loft for the drop feeder for the milk shed as a teen and accidentally threw the shovel down one of the shoots, disconnecting it, because my brain stopped working and I just let go of the shovel while digging the pellets, throwing it like the world's worst spear. I just stood there wondering how my brain just let that happen. I then hurriedly pulled the shovel back, reconnected the shoot and told absolutely nobody (I was 16 and working there for a week on work experience). So I imagine accidentally throwing the whole bucket in the mixer is definitely a possibility 😂
Do you and Mark run as one farm or do you treat the sheep and crops separately? If separate do you buy the feed from him in return does he buy the compost from you? Just curious. Thanks for the video.
It's funny (no pun intended)that you say funny farm..just the other day another channel I'm subscribed to mentioned they watch you. They're C&J funny farm.lol.Thats 2 channels that watch you that i watch! Ur more popular than you know. God bless y'all & keep on growing!
In a pack, dogs lick each others ears to keep them clean. It can also just be an affectionate grooming thing, but if Kinsey is licking a particular ewe's ears often, you might want to check the ewe's ears for infection.
We had a little dog-Gretchen- who used to lick the cats ears all the time--when we got another dog after Gretchen passed the poor cat would go to get her ears licked and couldnt figure out why that "stupid" (I'm remembering the cat's expression) dog didnt react to the same clues Gretchen did. As always, Sandi, great job--I look forward to each of your videos!
Information jam packed, sheep filled, Sandi smiles, Mark cameo, Kinsey caring for sheep.... what more can we ask for??? This video was just superb in every way!! I love these videos, you share every aspect and every sound, there's nothing quite like it, but we get a great glimpse of your farming life. It's almost like being there with you. Thanks again for another amazing video!!!
My days are complete with Sandi and her Sheep!!
You missed the dog making up with the sheep for helping to herd them. Lol
Ment to add that is a pretty complete list. Always getting the cart before the horse.
This ration feeding per ewe, lamb calculations is excellent. This is one of the best video. Thank you so much for sharing this.
Glad you liked it!
I am having a hard time trying to figure out what the 945kg of "calich" is. For the maintenance ration really is. UA-cam could be spelling ot wrong. I am new to sheep and have 4, 1 buck and 3 ewes. I justbwant to make sure I'm not making simple mistakes that could harm them.
@@carlaanderson7102 Please discuss with veterinary doctor in your aera. Ration depends on weight of sheep, quality of feed etc. Also be in touch with nearby sheep farmers, get advice from them. 🙏
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Yashwat Gavade -
Very good suggestions.
May I also add that the soil, climates, Seasons, & humidity ranges are very important.
Also, whether the sheep spend time in pastures & what grows there.
I would not give them any city water because of the chlorine, chloramine, fluoride, or other chemicals the utilities companies put in their water supply. If you use well water, have it tested by a lab for things bad for sheep, perhaps every 6 months, or after very heavy rains or flooding. The wrong pathogens can be disastrous for all animals & people.
I had no idea how fast sheep can get deadly diseases, & so many different ones. Goats are similar in the same way.
If you have a local Farmers or Sheep Herders Assocation, County Farm Extension Ofc., Or State Agriculture Dept. they can give you brochures, information, & probably training classes, that apply to your geographic area.
Good luck with your adventures.
I'm not so much a numbers gal-- but I love getting a glimpse of the science behind your operation. We need to know ALL that it takes. Growth literally and metaphorically isn't just luck. Success is hard work. PS: I love that my favorite sheep farmer wears holey overalls AND a Pandora bracelet while she scoops manure and cuddles baby birds. You are awesome. Best to you always!
Awe!! thanks so much!!
I'm always worried that one evening, Sandi is going to look at her wrist and notice something missing... Then she spends all night internally re-examining every ewe she assisted that day!
Now I have followed you for a long time and I intend to continue with that because you are an incredible woman. love you
Wow! thanks!
Rolf Juto ... I so agree! Sandy is an incredible women!
You look really refreshed, you've both not stopped for so long. Thank you so much for sharing your life with us. It brightens my day when I see them and your animal welfare is beyond good 😍😍😍
Thank you so much!
One busy woman...feeding sheep, mowing and figuring rationing. Tell Mark we miss his videos!! Stay safe😘
Back to school today with my 1st grader and 8th grader and have been up since 4:20 this morning. This momma is TUCKERED out already, migraine going and needing a nap..... your video is EXACTLY what was needed today. Fed kids, sandwich for mom, Sandi's new video, then NAP!!!! 🙏🙏🙌🙌
Kinsey was making that ewe so happy. Her tail was seriously wagging!
Sandi: So, I have 3 main feeding cycles...
Also Sandi: and the 4th one is....
😄 And that's just one of the many reasons we love Sandi.
Does anyone else get a big silly grin when Billy and the boys come to say hello to Sandi? 😂😀😍
It just so happens I was on u tube one day and I noticed a young lady talking about sheep, well I was hooked, I watched a few of your vlogs and decided to start from vlog 1 and I caught up last month. I'M HOOKED! I can't wait for the next vlog. You have come such a long way and even tho I am not into sheep, I find you such a hard working person and very educational. And don't let people get you down, your doing a great job! I saw where other farmers mentioned your name about hoof grooming. AWESOME!
Thankfully, I have few enough horses that I can buy my feed directly from my local feed mill already mixed to the ratios I need. Right now, I only use two mixes - a Senior feed for the older ones and a performance mix for the other adult horses. Two kinds of hay, served in flakes - alfalfa and timothy. Who gets what type depends on the nutritional needs of the animal and the time of year. Supplements are given to each individual horse per feed (twice daily) and tailored to specific needs. No youngsters or breeding stock to contend with which is nice. I'm math phobic, so kudos to you for balancing and mixing your own ratios!
Gosh, who remembers "The Gong Show?" LOL That was such a cute reference Sandi!!!
Love it when she uses that reference! It’s great!
I also heard Daniel from Arms Family Homestead mention your vlogs. Yes, it is awesome. Just like you Sandi.
Yeah he mentioned this channel the other day. Surprised me he watches cuz he has meat goats, not sheep.
Could you post a link to that one?
@@ubetchya78 . He still needs to trim their hooves.
That was so great wasn’t it! I was hoping Sandi had watched it. 🇦🇺👍👏🐑❤️
Good Afternoon! I have absolutely no reason to know any of this information, HOWEVER, I am remarkably interested in this and truly appreciate the education that you provide. I am in awe of the amount of knowledge that you need to have to manage your sheep and your farm. I truly had no idea and find myself appreciative of everything that you do! Have a blessed and safe week 🤍🐑🤍
Forget the ram barn! Set up a little fence and lean-to and let those boys mow the lawn when they aren't working! :D
This was so interesting, many things going into keeping sheep happy and healthy. Ps just love how expressive sheep ears are.😍
This channel should be shown in every school . This is farm life .
This is factory farm life
@@HootMaRoot This is NOT a factory farm, it is a family farm!
@@terryst9835 it might be a family farm but it's factory raised, or atleast that's what we in Scotland call factory farming as they are in a barn from when they are born until the die
@@HootMaRoot they're in the barn only because of predation pressure in her area. She'd lose most of the lambs and some ewes yearly if they were outside simply due to predation. But it's not a factory farm. Those in North America are absolutely gigantic, many times bigger than Sandi's. Think several thousand animals in one barn or on one range/plot of land, like several thousand cattle ranging on one piece of land, or a few thousand chickens in cages in a barn
@@LeafGreenLPs it's still small scale factory farming. I grew up near small scale sheep factory and many sheep farms. but I would say she does look after the sheep a lot better than any of the big places do
Getting educated early this morning! Love Billy selfies!!!!
Billy selfies are the best!
Great information shared. Mark, doing the “heavy” work that Australia/New Zealand travel created. Pulling it all together is about as bad as the third cutting of alfalfa was. Thanks as always for sharing you life with us.
Sandi you are looking so healthy .....your well deserved days rest did you good xx
And thank you for sharing your feeding system with us. It really helps break down the different aspects of this setup. 😀
What great information, and all that goes into keeping your flock healthy and in production.Makes those feed sheets all that more important. I love your dog licking the sheep's ears. I had a dog that would go out and lick the calf ears and always joked that he like his rawhide ears on the hoof!!
Glad you had a great time off, and was happy to tag along with you!!
How in heavens name do you see a profit when you spend so much on feed. I know you grow your own when you can but the cost involved in growing harvesting and storing etc aren’t nil. The extra care and dedication it takes to balance out the feed because they’re raised inside and maintenance of all the equipment. Extraordinary and most interesting in an are you serious way. Love it. Thank you.
Ok.....my OCD just kicked in. I’m coming to clean the cobwebs out of the feeders in the lamb barn and clean off the proportioner too! Lol. Great system girl.
Talking of funny farm, c & I funny farm gave you a mention today! That's 2 fellow tubers watching you.YOU ARE FAMOUS, SANDI!!!!!
Sandi
Thank You very much for the videos of your sheep feed levels for each of their stage of life. Take Care Be Safe Alway's Around all Farm equipment.
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What paper is your husband working on? Those folks that thought farmers were dim just got an education. I think farmers have to be very smart/clever/resourceful/hard-working to not go belly up. Such hard work. Thank you farmers for your persistence and work to feed the world
Thank you for the good shout out to farmers!! They have to be frugal, a chemist, decide which chemicals to purchase for different years for which old and new weeds that appear, "weather guesser" bookkeeper, mechanic, good banker, to always save money and not to have to borrow it for operating from year to year, it takes us well over thousands of dollars each year to get seed, chemicals etc. purchased for each
year. This doesn't include machinery, repair bills for machinery and other unexpected expenses. Farming is enjoyable most if the time but, is a big business and a lot of work.
Mark has been working on a Nuffield Scholarship. This is the work he was doing when he traveled to Australia and New Zealand earlier this year. Unfortunately the trip was cut short due to COVID. You can watch his travels on his blog here. ua-cam.com/video/BDQWDM-6NjQ/v-deo.html
Early this year Mark went to Australia and New Zealand on a Nuffield scholarship, to study other country’s crop management. He has to write his paper on everything he learned in the last two years, and how he can incorporate that information into his operation. The time in New Zealand was cut short due to COVID.
Hey Sandi! Terry is bang on! Mark is working on a Nuffield Scholarship which involved some travel, and now he has to write up his report to finish it up!
Even for a long term viewer it is really really interesting and thought provoking. The amount each sheep eats per day in particular. Wish I could weigh out a days ration for one sheep to get a visual on it!
Mrs. Sandy thank you sharing your videos!! I love learning about your feed programs, I love that you add how many acres would it take to grow your feed program for your sheep.
I'm trying to get my sister and some family members on a feeding program and having them understand why I have a forage program for my livestock. Again thank you Sandy much love and hugs to your family!
This was so awesome to see! It’s also nice to see Mark! When he is finished with his paper, I hope that y’all start Unpopular Farmer again! I miss that! Much love to y’all!! Kristin 💖💖💖
This is the content I’m here for! Love the science behind what I eat. Great job explaining to this city slicker
Wow!! I didn't realise u needed to be a genius to be a farmer 🤯😳😂😁
If I feel like I’m slacking in my day, I’ll watch you busting it, and feel like I’m burning calories! Lol!
Speaking of feeding, you mentioned a bit ago that you wanted to try feeding later to prompt the ewes labor/lamb later in the morning. Are you going try that this lambing session?
With cows if you feed them late afternoon early evening the bulk will calve durning daylight. The idea is they get a big full gut of food, sit down to ruminate and the pressure( lack of room in the gut cavity) will kick off labour. There is also homeopathic remedies that are good for inducing and priming the uterus for speedy labour. Same for mating.
Sandi, wow! Thank you for taking so much time to explain all of this to us, and doing all of the math to figure it out for us. I find it so interesting, and I’m not even a farmer- so I can only imagine what farmers think! Gotta love computer . You’re amazing!👍👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️
Hmm.. may I borrow your mixer for when I do Christmas baking?? hahah!
Hahaha 😅🤣
Itza Moi lol
Only if you share....rum balls anyone? 😂
LOL!! Thats a lot of Christmas baking!!
I _love_ mowing! We had 2 acres we kept mowed while I was growing up. Give me tunes, a drink bottle, and I'm happy for a couple hours or until more gas is needed. I'd be more than happy to do yours if I weren't 3000 miles away. 😉
You're doing a fantastic job Sandi.Plus you know how to math!! Yaaay!! Stay blessed Brock Family.💖
LOL! thanks!!
@@SandiBrock you're welcome!
I'm here all week.😜
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Excellent video today. Really appreciated the run thru of the amount that goes into each ration.
A little more funnerer... technical farm jargon..lol love you Sandi..mean it..
Just wanted to say that your smile is infectious in a really good way. Thank you Sandi..
So nice! Thanks Todd!
Always nice to come home to see you have posted a video! ❤️
As usual very informative and you made me laugh with the"l run a funny farm"comment!
Thanks Sandi, The investment in machinery and acreage needed for one person, with a little help, to produce a continual crop of lambs is an eye opener.
I love your feeding setup. Your head for business, ag and livestock goes a long way toward making a successful operation. And of course in farm lingo that means perhaps break even sometimes! It's all such a gamble, isn't it? But we love farming anyway. lol Kinsey cracks me up, licking ears and biting the tires on the feeder. Silly doggo! Does she follow you around when you mow, turning herself green? Love ewe and your farm!
math was never my strong suite but even just knowing the averages helped us figure out feed! one horse in a bad cold winter can easily eat up to 5tons of hay with about a 2 ton grain feed put with it(going from November to may) so average for 5 horses was about 30 ton of hay and 10 tons of grain and each actually ate diffrent! the hard keeper got twice as much grain than the easy keepers but they ate more hay....so knowing the average and having some left over was always nice on the pocket book. NOW I'm just down to one easy keeper but this will be his first winter without a buddy to keep warm with...I see his grain ration as doubled already and as much hay as he can clean up each day....here's to hoping we guessed right🤞
Thank you so much Sandy!!! I am going to do an assignment on that area of Canada, about climate change and Agricultural sectors. I felt so inspired after seeing all your videos.
I have a good friend who was looking for a ram. She went to a farm and she just walked up to the ram pen and the one that came directly to her and wanted her his face rubbed and to say Hi. She got one of his offspring. She aways said you don't have a mean animal on the farm. Big, strong and eager to be with the girls, is different than being mean.
You & Mark ABSOLUTELY AMAZE ME❣️❣️❣️❣️You are such a PERFECT MATCH❣️❣️❣️❣️I stay in total AWE of you two‼️‼️Anyone who thinks farming, in ANY WAY is easy just have no idea what it takes, especially to be a Successful Farmer be it Crops or Animals‼️Thank you for taking the time to share this information for all of us to know you both better❣️❣️Thx for taking the time to better educate us👍👍Prayers & Love, barb Lewis, S.E. ohio
I really love learning about lamb farming and what it takes to keep them going. Great video! God Bless, Daryl
Thank you so much for these videos. I love the lambies but I love the behind the scenes. ❤
Sandi, you’re an amazing soul!!! I love watching your videos, I don’t even accomplish 1/3 of what you do. In a day... I can’t wait to see the new babies, so excited 😆 Sending y’all love and blessings from Pennsylvania USA 🇺🇸🙏🏼♥️🙏🏼♥️🙏🏼♥️
This was so cool ! Could this help you budget / plan the future of your feeding needs ? It’s like meal planning for sheep 😂
Our neighbour growing up ,fence his yard and put sheep on it. They have a very nice looking yard. I don't remember any major droppings, but then I was a kid and didn't care.
Sandi.
Thank You for the video showing us the feed set ups for each stage that the ewe's are in.
I know that it is very important that humans get their minerals. Human body will use organic mimeral to help with some vitiman shortages. A gpod organic company ( T R C has a 75 organic mineral liquid package ) could a mineral shortage in some ewe's be the still birth problem ? Please Take Care of your self Plus Be Very Care Full around all Farm Equipment.
Great job! You put your heart and soul into your work and videos! Keep going educating us. 😁
Well wow and holy moly!! That's a lot of feed! Pretty cool stuff, TFS Sandi. 😄
This was really interesting because all you normally see is people feeding but you don’t know what and how much goes into sheep feed or any animal feed most people know about dog and cats food etc but not large animal feed so thank you
Speaking of feeding ... Strangely enough, my furry overlord™ looks forward to your videos. Of course, that might also be because she knows that if she pesters me during, I’ll tell her that I’ll feed her “right after the baa baas.” Now, she perks up whenever she hears sheep sounds. Pavlov would be happy. 😆
Love it!!!
I salivate when I hear the sound of the coffee pot bubbling lol.
Supposedly English speakers salivate when saying or thinking the word salivate.
Mmmm. Coffee.
When my daughter sees there a new video she insists she gets a special treat so we can watch it together.... back to school cant come any faster
Appreciate your time, very useful information for even house farmer’s in Pakistan , I always recommend to farmers watching your Chanel videos , such a Great job, because I love 🐑 sheep 🐑 goats 🐐 since I was 7 years old, keep it up, congratulations 🎊🎉🎈
This was super awesome. Thank you for showing the in's and out's. You look refreshed and ready to take on the challenge of lambing! Remember you were going to change the timings of feeding so you have lambs during the day. Hugs from Halifax
I don't know a thing about ranching... but I look forward to all of your videos. 😃👍🍀
So awesome for sharing all of your fun times at the farm
HI MARK have a nice day o and you to SANDI LUL . Just remember two heads are better than one even if they are sheeps heads yesss.....
I love your videos! Although I no longer raise sheep, It brings back precious memories with my father. We never had the involved science you did; I learn so much. Kinsey is sweet and loves the sheep! Blessings from Texas!💗💗💗
Thanks for letting us know about the feed rations. Glad its you doing it I don't think I would be able to remember it all. God bless you from Michigan USA
Hey Brock family!👋 Great math lesson, Teacher!😅 Sorry I get to some of ur vlogs late but I work nights so I sleep threw the day and look at them during the night! 😆❤👍
I never realized how much feed u fed!!! Omg!!! Wow....that could break the bank!!!
RAMS!!! Ahem -- sorry. Love those guys.
Question -- what happens if you guys lose electricity for an extended period of time? Do you have back up generators to run your equipment or do you have to do everything by hand?
Very interesting.......there is so much that is done that brings a lamb from conception to birth and beyond.......to the meat produced...the feed is just one part of the process......wow.....thank you for taking the time to explain it all.
That’s a good video! Very helpful information, something to go by and keep in mind if I ever decide to sheep farm. I watch the new borns and how cute they are and how you make me want to run out and buy up 1,000 sheep, you make it look easy.
Lol I’m sure it’s not as easy as you show it and I’m sure it took you a long time to get there. You Rock Sandi!!!
For safety, you should dump the mineral in your bucket with your haylage or corn silage and dump it into your TMR mixer wagon that way.
Thank you for sharing all the information this seems to be very important nice to know busy lady love your life very smart
Thanks for watching!
I look forward to your videos! Thank you for sharing with us! ❤️
You do such an amazing job explaining everything!!! You’ve got the best, most enjoyable channel on UA-cam!!!
It’s a big piece of plastic mixing around with the food how do you stop the sheep from eating it and I love the way you have being putting your hair up with the bandanna
I think the sheep would mostly spit it out or not even bother with it since in previous videos they seemingly ignore the pieces of plastic as they know it isn’t food. Since those pieces are pretty big. I could be wrong though.
Look like you did remove the plastic at 8:40
Jennifer Besenyei I agree. She does her best to remove the big pieces she finds
I saw that when she picked it up and dumped it in the mixer. Thought she would show us her taking it out, but did not. Just worried it would tangle some how in the augers.
It had me on edge for a good chunk of the feeding. I bet she pulled it out as she was feeding though, I've seen her do that in the past.
How you manage to be so neat and tidy is beyond me!!!!
We need to get Mark one of those little vacuum cleaners for his keyboard 😂
Very interesting to see how you calculate the feed for the various stages of the lambs. Great video! I am a California city gal but I have always been interested in farm life. I am a retired nurse! Thank you!
I get stupid baby bird season when the fledgling can fly but not well. I keep garage and she'd doors closed so they don't get stuck inside (not enough flight control to go out a door). Since yours live in the barn they seem to find other places to get stuck. Love your videos and appreciate the time you put in them.
Thanks for giving me something super interesting to watch while I sit waiting for my kid to finish sports!
When you figured the math on the lamb barn, based on lambs sold, did you also figure in there the ewe lambs you kept? If not then the figures would be based on more lambs eating than just the ones being sold/shipped.
Wish I was closer, I'd come by for some lamb snuggles...
Me too!
Pepper out of fly poop. Hum. Lol. Had to rewind to make sure heard that one right.
You may think me mad but I once used a bunch of rubber snakes and a fake owl to keep birds away. There are plastic owls that have heads that can move by the wind and it is impressive, the birds were gone the next day, so far never to return.
Plastic gets used in bunk style storage also- so, stick to what works best for you
Oh goodness, when your dog was going after the wheels on your feed cart I died. My dog does this with my lawnmower wheels. Silly pup!
Love your channel, Sandi! With the bird problem, have you tried tin foil? My mom had issues with wrens nesting above her front door, in the garage, and even behind her truck wheels. (They build super fast...) She found that taping small rectangles of tin foil on a string and taping the string near the birds point of entry kept the birds away.
Aha! Another dog who licks ears! I have one too. She licks cat ears. Cats love it. They sidle up to her when they want to be groomed and she happily obliges, starting with ears.
Sandy it was actually Arms family Homestead that follows and mentioned you in one of their blogs. Sry for giving the wrong farm.
Great video!! I love all of your videos. One thing I feel should be mentioned (sorry if it was and I missed it in the video 🙈) For the ewes it seems like so much kg/hd but with silage being higher moisture content when based on dry matter basis it would be quite a bit less. We feed our ewes at a rate of about 2.5kg/hd/day but of dry hay only (plus mineral tubs haha).
I got a show wether like 7 years ago or so and he refused to eat his sunglo brand show lamb feed so I switched him to high noon and I mixed it to transition him over so he didn't scour and he would pick out everything that was high noon(except the cotton for some reason) and leave the sun glo. At least my friend's lamb was eating it for him
When I started grade school in 1942, Rock Island, Illinois-USA we learned ounce, pound, tons etc. I'm now 83 and still stuck with that and have never worked with the metric system. I have to convert KGs to pounds. I do have a calculator to do that.
Awesome. 🐑🌽
Oh Sandy I thought the same thing about the lawn and the sheep when we lived in New Zealand. So I opened the gate and let them all in, it was fun for about an hour until they got in the flower beds and did a hit n miss in the over grown garden and moved back to the field they were in. I was left with sheep s**t everywhere!! Front and back porch, the walk ways, the driveway. I don't recommend unless you don't mind the clean up! LOL
Did you ever accidentally trow the bucket in the mixer 😆
Love this video, I did not know sheep ate this much and so much different sorts of ingredients!!
I think it that was part of the storage bag from the outside hay, she scooped it up with the tractor.
@@sumayyahhomeschool5650 I think she meant it as a question as in "Have you ever" lol
I once had to climb to the feed loft for the drop feeder for the milk shed as a teen and accidentally threw the shovel down one of the shoots, disconnecting it, because my brain stopped working and I just let go of the shovel while digging the pellets, throwing it like the world's worst spear. I just stood there wondering how my brain just let that happen. I then hurriedly pulled the shovel back, reconnected the shoot and told absolutely nobody (I was 16 and working there for a week on work experience). So I imagine accidentally throwing the whole bucket in the mixer is definitely a possibility 😂
Thanks for sharing
Do you and Mark run as one farm or do you treat the sheep and crops separately? If separate do you buy the feed from him in return does he buy the compost from you? Just curious. Thanks for the video.
delsurf71 good question
delsurf71 probably maybe all depends on who owns what bcz the land n all pay taxes. Anyway it’s confusing bcz it’s Canada
It's funny (no pun intended)that you say funny farm..just the other day another channel I'm subscribed to mentioned they watch you. They're C&J funny farm.lol.Thats 2 channels that watch you that i watch! Ur more popular than you know. God bless y'all & keep on growing!