Is the sheep feed ruined? (Evaluating corn silage & cleaning the Grober lamb feeder) Vlog 285
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
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Well, not just me... my entire family! I'm back for another month of daily vlogging.
There will be sheep, planting (both the crops, and the GARDEN), my kids, and whatever else gets thrown in the mix.
The thing about farming, is there is no pre-planning.
I mean, there is... but you have to be ready to change those plans.
So if you are ready for a little farming adventure... I'll be here!
Today is all about feed.
Looking at my corn silage, I have to decide if I should open my last bag. This time of year I'm always scared I will run out of feed...
We are a month away from first cut hay.
I also took the time to show you how I clean out my Grober Eco2 Lamb Feeder.
And the kids helped me fill some dry corn bins.
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I look forward to getting on here with you every day. You make my confinement bearable. You don't know how much you help all of us, too. Thank you for the look we get into your life. We all love your sheep and baby lambs. Hugs, Keep safe my friend.
All that spoiled silage you can use on your garden this year, rototill in directly. Or mix it with manure for next year, stir it a couple of times over summer, then lay it out to over winter in the garden. You'll have a great start for next year's garden.
I though I was the only Canadian that is running out of feed for my cows
Nope!
We found it was worth trying a crop of yellow sweet clover just to get the jump on a new crop of timothy/alfalfa started. Yellow clover is biennial but tough as any professional boxer so gives that added protection for any new crop attempting to break through for its first years, even when harvested in its 1st, immature year. Roots and stubble still serve the necessary purpose for the wanted crop!😘🤗🤗🤗😁😎
Its Canada! With Canadian weather! Never have too much hay, nor is there such a thing as anyone being "the only one" to be running short on hay...!
I personally love how you think of us. Thank you!
Thank you for taking the time to share. I know it involves extra time and work, a tough combination for a very busy farmer. God bless you and all the farmers out there. A situation like we are experiencing now shows us how much we depend on you to keep the food supply rolling. We have shut down a huge packing plant here and it still has not opened back up.
9:35 oh Sandi who is that spotted lamb!!! Please tell me it’s a ewe lamb because wow It’s just beautiful!!!
I agree!
I'll have to look!
It is so cute!
That's the lamb I love too!! ❤
Elise Golladay yes the sheep are good girls cute sheep
I am learning so much from you Sandy. You explain things so well! I have no experience with anything related to agriculture so most of this is new to me. I am an RN in California. I have always been drawn to medical videos and vet videos... but ever since I found your channel I have branched into Ag channels. Yours is my most favorite channel. It started with the lambing but you have other jobs so you have led me into Ag! I love it. It almost makes me wish I had a do-over in life so I could have gone into Ag instead of medicine. Thank you for teaching and showing us the ups and downs of life. I look forward to your videos every day and when there is no new video I go back and watch older videos. I just cant get enough! Your smiling face keeps me smiling especially during this lockdown from the Covid-19 pandemic! I cannot tell you how much you mean to me... especially during this time!
Compose the corn silage if you can and use it in your garden once it's finished - it's a loss on animal feed, but not on plant feed!
You are killing it Sandy! You should be so proud of yourself. Thanks for keeping us a part of your lives ❤❤❤
My pleasure!!
You need to be sure to take care of your health and sleep. Your operation and family depend on you. There is no replacement for a mom or farmer, even for a short period.
The look the mom sheep give you when you pour the grain into the baby's area is priceless. I could watch this channel all day.
Use the old silage on the new veg beds.
👍👍👍 that sound like a great it would be cool to see how it works corn stocks make good compost so corn silage should do the same
I think she said something about mixing it with other stuff she had and putting it in a field later.
I absolutely love your videos, if you had a nickel for every time you swing your leg over a panel, you’d be a millionaire. If you move the rams to the old cow barn, and they have access to pasture, get them a pet donkey. I caught an older video from New Zealand (I think it was), they used donkeys against the wild dogs, it was a wildly successful strategy.
I just watched a video on that the other day, ABC from Queensland, Australia.
ua-cam.com/video/sLyJ9qc6JKw/v-deo.html
That is true about the donkeys. They scare the coyotes out here in Oklahoma in pastures of cattle. If you have more then one they will gang up on the wolves or coyotes.
Just beware donkeys will also kill dogs
Mmmmmmmm, freshly cut alfalfa. The best scent!
Sure is!
It's really interesting to me to see the details on the chores (such as cleaning the "nanny").
Great to hear you count your blessings. It always works for me. Be well and safe family brock.
I have been watching your daily updates I honestly don't know where you get your energy from Sandi. I'm locked down just outside London doing a few exercises everyday, practicing my piano and doing a few jobs around the house. Your family spend all day working on your farm and then spend the rest of your time editing for UA-cam , I take my hat off to you.
I love the genuine happiness on your face when you show your flock. You’re definitely doing what you should be. You exemplify following your dreams and how if you love something it doesn’t seem like a job!
I just had the best time. My husband and I went to a farm in Iowa to pick up a lamb and I saw a baby be born. Sandy I must say I am completely jealous of your life I was only at the farm for about an hour and I fell in love with it. There were so many babies. And of course we talked about you and I said I am probably one of your biggest fans I told the gal that I literally check my phone probably 10 times every day to make sure I haven’t missed when you upload your new videos. God bless you and your family and I can’t wait until your next video.
My husband and I are starting a homestead in middle tenneessee (us) I never knew how much is to be done but we love it. With that i have no time for UA-cam bc im also in my last year of school as well. Anyhow. No matter how busy I am I always find time to watch your channel. Yes I'm subscribed to others but I watch everyone of yours vs everyone else. Ooops. 😋 i love your channel and what you do keep up the great work.
I get excited every time you post a video. I love your videos. Thanks for all the work you do to post the videos I know this just adds more work to your already exhausting daily grind.
OMG I grew up in the midwest US and I never knew that alfalfa is just a type of clover! I am learning so much from you.
Alfalfa and clover ARE both legumes, but they are also totally different plants
@@terryst9835 Thanks, It just looked like clover. I still have a lot to learn.
In which Sandi has engineered the world’s biggest chip clip
I have used your vlogs as an outlet for companionship during this self isolation. So I really appreciate your comments. Your vlogs are interesting and I empathize with you over good and bad. It’s amazing what all you do!! My uncles were cattle farmers (crops as well as cattle), but I knew NOTHING about sheep! Thank you for sharing!
Why you dont do a nodule at the end of your agbag?whe have a lotnof ag bag for the cows and whe never have any problems
Sorry for the mystakes i am from Québec and i talk french 😅
Thanks for sharing everything with us Sandi. The editing is a lot of work so I really appreciate the time. ✌️
Your kids seem like such well rounded, respectable, hard working young people. The fact they they are willing to help you at a moments notice is awesome. It’s so good to see that you have raised them to work and to appreciate everything they have. They truly seem to be great kids/young adults!!!
I can’t believe you only have two ewes left. Seems like it went so fast this year!!! I so enjoy watching lambing season!!! So nice to see those kids growing so fast as well!!! Thanks for sharing your life with us!!!
3:34 she has your smile
Your videos closed a small portion of the social isolation gap... especially for this NY’er! Thank you so much 🐑 💜🐑💚🐑💜
I once plowed rotten clover hay into the garden in the spring and got the best garden crop ever. Maybe rotten silage would do the same????
Glenn ....Great comment..! Heck,...there are foreign countries that use human waste as fertilizer and this nation buys those vegetables from them,...so,...your suggestion is pure organic to organic...!
harmon1286 actually some states in the USA spread human waste on fields.🤢
@@harmon1286 We used pump our septic out and put it in our fields.
Glenn ....wow,...that’s interesting that Dept of Agriculture would sign off on that,...but,...! Thanks for update. I remember when the circus came to town, that the local residents would pay cash for elephant manure.! Good stuff..! Thanks, again, Glenn.
Salmon Hunter ...now that’s being efficient...!
You could always compost the spoiled haylage/silage and use in your up coming veg plot. Mix with some of your ordinary barn waste - you’ll get fabulous veg.
Kinsey said, "if the sheep can poop in the barn, so can I". 😂
LOL!
@@SandiBrock He was just so proud
Sandi Brock I want the virus to go away
They’re figuring out its more of a vascular virus vs respiratory. People have been getting transfusions and being put on ECMO and it seems to be helping....but the vent patients are so sick, and that’s why it’s taking forever to get off the vent. There definitely needs to be some sort of vaccine to maybe help prevent new infections but I don’t think we are actually going to be rid of this for a long time. 😢
@@conniepayne931 you don't know anything about vaccines, period.
Starlings they nest everywhere. They should have left them in Europe.
Round them up and send them back. If I had a barn, no birds, no rodents, trained dogs if I had dogs.
Susan Treibs
‘If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.’ - Jane Austen
Salmon Hunter birds migrate. What do you mean?
@@spookshow6999 They are not native to North America. The Starlings were brought over from Europe as a song bird and then released.
Look how big the lambs are!!! Awww!!! Love watching them grow. It would be even better if I could smell that barn smell. Love it! Soothes my soul.
I love that you talk to your baby plants the same way you talk to your lambs! It definitely shows how invested you are to your farm.
I feel blessed watching you each day in your work !
Thank you Sandi... I very much appreciate you and your video.’s ❤️ Keep safe ❤️
The white stuff looks like mycelium - PUT IT IN YOUR GARDEN SOIL! :D Not in the compost though.
Thx to your podcast I ordered meat from a local farmer. Home delivery in 2 weeks. Time to think and act differently.
I've never seen you in a hat thought you were Jess lol I had to wear a hat for seven years when I worked in the deli cut alot of lunch meat I'll tell ya glad I'm retired now my hair was thining bad still hasn't grown back I'm so glad you had a video today those babies are getting so big holy cow or should I say holy sheep lol it's nice your all together I'm here by myself my son comes and checks on me my daughter lives so far from me plus she's a nurse so she doesn't come near me cause I'm old. Lol my granddaughter is at her house until if ever school starts up again so nice to see your videos love them
I watch for every episode and you are so caring about your animals, your family and everything that is really important. Thank you for sharing your lives with us.
You are such a blessing to me. My heart is farming but I am no longer able to do much. Your sheep are my absolute favorite on UA-cam, although sheep are the one farm animal I’ve never had. I also love the field work.
A high point in Sandi's day: doing donuts with the feed cart!! Ha!
I'm glad that you think of us as company for you. We feel the same way. I'm getting pretty friendly with my Amazon Alexa as well. She knows all my favorite songs and what I need before I do!
Hey Sandi just before 9:39 you had a ewe walk away from the fence with a lamb limping. You could only see her butt as she went head first to the other side of the barn and it was hard to tell if it was a front limb or back but she had a lamb with her. Just watching out for you babe...... Hugs from Minnesota
Hey Jess was smiling, ok she can go back in the field , Jack has to stay in barn
would you try winter rye to harvest in mid to late spring if harvested before it heads makes very good feed and can follow with beans or corn just a suggestion
I have sheep and you have taught and helped me so much. Thank you!!!
Your channel is great Sandi!!❤️😊😁
Put hoses in washing machine with vinegar and soap. I throw that out there.
As always another great Vlog! You really have to be a “jack of all trades” to be a farmer! Blessings from Texas. That spotted lamb....how cute!
You have really got some pretty baby lambs !! Some with really unique markings . Love them !!
Tubes...use vinegar and hot water. Smush the tubes between finger and thumb for the yucky sticky bits!
Sandi, you have the most wonderful smile!!! Makes me feel happy!! 😊
thanks Jerry!
I agree. And beautiful teeth.
The ways sheep find to die are just mindblowing. I read this sheep related quote on another shepherd channel I follow the other day, pretty much to that effect, sheep always try to find a way to die. Crazy woolly creatures. Let's hope it's all fine. I can't believe what a small thing can cause such devastating consequences. Nuts
I was just watching the video from November where the roof came off your barn and watching this video and I just wanted to tell you your sheep trust you and I love you I watched your face when you walked in that barn as you were so heartbroken and looking at your sheet with worry and concern and I don’t know if you noticed but when you’re there the second time putting the gates back up your sheep were no longer huddled in the back of the barn but had come to forward to where you were because they feltCared for and safe. And that’s what you do for them.
I have an idea why you get spoilage at the end and maybe a better way to fix it. You take 2 boards and screw through the boards but you roll up and over which gives a chance for any water to run down the plastic between the boards and into the hay or corn silage how about rolling the boards down and under instead of up and over. I worked the flea market and tables never get wet that have the boards rolled under the tarp.
I love the daily vlogs, I look forward to seeing what is going on up there in Canada, you do an excellent job!
More lambs yay
Ps I live Ruby's babies
I love them too!!
Sandi Brock I watch your videos because of the babies, so I like each video and share. That’s it.
I am always anxious to see what the new day brings! Whether it's in the sheep barn or working with Mark...LOL...it's always a great video! THANK YOU!
I am glad you do videos!! I love them!!
We 💜💜💜 feeling like we are part of your world/daily life! This is all so new to me (currently live in coastal California) but it is so fascinating and I’ve learned so much. Thank you for your generosity in sharing so much with us!
Question: now that your count is up (as in lambs) what is your ratio now from lambs: ews? Great video 💙🐝💙
Sandi, I’m so great full to have found your channel... You have gotten me though respiratory failure, colds and this pandemic... I look forward to your videos to take my mind away from everything that’s happening in this world and I appreciate you, so I make it a point to watch all the commercials and hit the LIKE BUTTON, I really hope everyone else does the same, because we want these videos to keep on coming... Blessings to you and your beautiful family... Sending love from Pennsylvania USA 🇺🇸
I love being part of your world. Thank you.
I'm so excited for daily !!
Love seeing all the happy lambs, jumping and running around
Thank your videos. I live alone and am high-risk so the past two months have been really hard. So I rotate you-tube videos, reading, and 1000 piece puzzles. I love your videos and have watched all of them!
Take care of yourself and stay safe!
Two more set of twins to go 👀 seeing all the twins are amazing. Hope you get your curtains fixed before to long. Sandi Happy May Day 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹❤😇
It’s lovely to see you so happy, Sandi 👌😀
I am a young man in Palestine, and I love animals a lot and love them a lot. I raise sheep, but only a little, because my condition does not allow me and raise them in a normal way, not in a modern way. I encourage you to continue, and this is a great thing from the princes to do this work.👍❤️🇵🇸
I like seeing your blog everyday, just a relaxing thing to see and hear the lambs and you talking to the ewes♥️🐑🐏
The Most HUMANE farm I've ever seen.
I think Kinsey is happy when the kids are home. She gets lots of hugs.
Your daughter looks like you ,your son like mark
Yes Sandi , you make us feel like part of the sheep family , thank you ! Stay safe ! Bob
such a great video! I'm new to the channel and was wondering if you could do a video about the different breeds and the differences between them as well as if there are different market prices. If you can, thanks so much!
Use the spoiled on your garden?
Did u ever find that limping mom
I saw her again in this video time 9:37ish ewe closest to creep her lamb is about to nurse it looks like
She only took one step, could have just been a badump not a limp
I really enjoyed all of the show and tell today. My favorite was your "hay" fields. As you pointed out and named the seedling coming up I learned that hay is not just some specific plant. I suspected that but still interesting. Then you went to the established field to show the size those are so far. Did those self sow or were they replanted also? It will be interesting to see Marc's crops at a mid-faze also. No need to go out of your way. I did bing watch Marc's channel last fall. So fun watching the December kids romping around.
I look forward to you videos EVERY day :)
Thanks for being my friend
This boy is your son?
Of course. He looks just like his daddy.
Noticed a Billy girl or boy in the shipping barn. Are you going to keep her/ him ? Interesting video on the Grober and silage
feeding operation. 👍🍀🌿❤ ✋
So glad you guys started UA-cam Love both Channel's!!!! Keep them coming!!!! Be Safe!!!!
Sheep are clever not stupid
Thank you for the new growth tour. Yes silage can smell bad.
When you opened the door to the Grober it reminded me of Monsters Inc. Lol
I said the same thing!
9:26 WOW...the speckled lamb!!...oh I do so love it...SANDI...PLEASE...KEEP....HIM...PLEASE...
Bailed me out on hay... ha ha ha 😆🧡
You should paint your ‘Grober Box’, like the TARDIS!!!!
So much fun!!!!
At sized chip clip
Ag not at
It struck me yesterday, the four of you run a huge factory, but in some ways it seems more like a jail, as you are committed 24/7 /365 to keeping sheep alive. It is definitely appreciated by hungry people, but the thought had a weird impact on me. I really enjoy the learning experience and think Sandi is an awesome video personality, so I have been watching consistently since subscribing.
Thank you so much for wanting to share all this with us! And it is so great to see you happy that your machine is fixed!!
Hello Sandy,
I know it’s a 4 years old video, I just happened to watch it now.
It’s known that mold causes abortion to sheep and other animals. So for the cheap price of losing a few bales, you can risk your entire crop of lambs.
Thanks for sharing!!
Hi Sandi I am such a fan. I follow you on Instagram as @Lalindy129. Vlogging was the best thing to do! Through this quarantine, my mother has said "Thank God for Facebook, Instagram and You Tube, otherwise I would have felt so alone!" She is right, through social media we are able to stay in touch with family and friends and be in contact and interact. We are also able to create new friends via Vlogs (like what you do) and connect to the outside world and this connection helps us to make new friends who share the same interest, get the support we need that we might not get through our surrounding relationships, and still live in society and not feel isolated and alone. It is a life saver of sorts! Love your videos!!
Across to other barn
They are so big.
Not babies no more
Do you find that when you’re dealing with the last few lambs that you’re more excited for each mommy to be done ..I myself am relieved they look like a house poor mommies lol
I look forward to seeing you and the lambs everyday x
I am SOO VERY GLAD you vlog every day. It’s something I look forward to.
Hope everything is okay tomorrow. Question when do you have time to clean house and and cook
When you went to pet Ruby Sue and Rusty and slunk back after being rejected it took me back to Middle school.... Oh No... That's fine I didn't want to come to your party anyway..😐😂💜
Sheep are clever not stupid