FARMER takes 90 LAMBS to MARKET
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I’m 32 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 850 breeding ewes.
I shore over 19,000 sheep this season in the UK and have my own shearing run which lets you see many different farms in the summer months.
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!
Thanks for watching my videos and please subscribe if you want to see more in future.
Classic Cammy…one step ahead until…He discovers that the trailer is not attached 😂. ♥️
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@@TheSheepGame gotta love ya though ♥️
I've done that more times than I'd like to admit 😂😂
@@ewetube.videos lol 😂
Oh Yeah ! LOL😂
Great video! Love it that you don’t edit out your mistakes. Your honesty and self deprecating humor are so endearing 😂. And the talent-film a video, back a trailer all while explaining all things sheep! ❤ Great seeing Meg & Jess. Thanks for the “positive vibes!”❤😊
Thanks so much! 😊
You are no slouch at math either!
Wonderful video, tough for the price drop, but I am sure you have good days as well. Thanks for all the hard work!
g'day sheepfans. Today, admittedly inspired by The Sheep Game, i went to watch the sheering and wool handling at a local show. It was plenty interesting and exciting but only since I now understand a little from watching Cammy. I was also proud to recognise some breeds. Anyways - time to watch the Vid 😊
Brilliant! I miss the shows in the winter!
Loved you showing the use of flockwatch at the market. Just shows how easy it is to use and versatile too.
Your cheerfulness is appreciated very much! Plus the ability to laugh at yourself !
Between Flock Watch and your TePari you are a high tech sheep farmer, quite a leap from where you started. Well done
Hope Lizzy is feeling well. Love to Jock 🌟!
Totally Lesa! Thanks very much she’s great but we both have the cold just now 😁
Michael Cusack Smith
Great video Cammy. Always love seeing your trips to the market. The new intro etc. are lovely.
I have such admiration for your work. So much out of your control. Thanks for letting me be part of your journey.
"I went very Scottish there" the market really brings it out of you. 😄
Aye 😁😁
It’s great waking up to your smiling face and a video. Well wishes to all the family. Please let us know when the wee one makes his arrival. Love from South Alabama USA ♥️
Thanks! Will do. Shouldn't be until 17th Dec approx!
So cool to see your dog working!! Amazing!
Love the positivity mate, we've had a gruelling couple of trips to the mart recently ourselves. Any day you're reasonably healthy and doing what you enjoy is a good one. 🔥🔥
Aye it's a wee sticky patch just now. Trade was up again yesterday tho which is positive.
@@TheSheepGame stores are very slow over here atm. Cost of feed probably is alot to do with it.
Greetings from Midwest USA! I discovered your channel from Sandi Brock and I love it. A sheep farmer myself, I need the encouragement from your videos….thank you. I’m really impressed by the “pocket” shearing machine. I’ve never seen one before! Where did you get it? It’s the coolest thing ever! BTW, prices crashed here as well last fall. Hoping for a comeback this winter as I will have fall lambs ready pretty soon! Love it when the boys are also in the video! Loved seeing Angus in another vid!
Congratulations Cami on you sheep price and most of all your positive attitude with that handsome smile as always ❤️
Morning Cammy! I’m finally catching one early because I can’t sleep 😂😂😂 here in middle Georgia USA ♥️
Morning Tammy!
At the end of the day Cammy, selling prices are out with your control if grass is only being fed. Still over £100!!!! though - not bad 👍🏻 Thanks for the video and your honesty! ❤
That’s it and i’m still happy with those prices 😁
Always love your videos. I wish I could visit your farm someday. At 66 it’s not likely but I sure enjoy watching you and your sheep game!
Thank you!! 🥰
I compost the clutching wool. The tiger worms love it. Makes lovely compost!
What are tiger worms? Just break down the compost or do they have another function?
A day's work before most of us are out of our beds! Send the pup my way, a good life waiting in Devon 😉❤️
👍👍😁 Those lambs looked very good. Glad you got a decent price. Stay warm.
Wow this is fun and great video! Thanks for the honesty! Hope times are better!
Nothing wrong with the price you’re doing really well and there a fine bunch of lambs keep it going 👍
Cheers Paddy!
Your positivity is inspiring.
As you said Cammy….Positive Vibes!!! Thank you. ❤️🇦🇺🏴😊
Another great video! Love the sheep, who are naturally the stars of the show…I’m in thee middle of breeding season and have a slow mo ram that I have to back up with another who I wasn’t planning on using. It might be time for him to go to market but he’s a 162kg ram that gives us enormous lambs…usually 45kg by week six for weaning. He’s actually practically a pet for 10 months of the year (only dangerous during breeding season)
Love your videos. Informative for us and your assistants. Teaching them necessary, useful things they don’t learn in school is great. I’m glad the bottom has not dropped out of the market. Don’t see why it should. Meat is necessary. I miss the music and last intro. I understand updating to include sponsees but it was so cute hour you timed sheep movement with music.
Don't feel bad mate ... I once drove 12 miles before I remembered I'd forgotten the trailer. Which is also where I'd left my phone and my mate. Good lad he had found my phone when he tried to ring me. I confess I may have had a couple of drams (=half a bottle) the night before 😳
🤣🤣🤣🤣 brilliant
Always going along with you no matter where you go. Winter is coming fast. Brrrr
Thanks Liz!
It must be tough to sell-off so many lovely little lambs. I think I would be terrible as a lamb "Farmer/Herder/Owner?", I couldn't bear to send them to market. Positive Vibes!!!
I take great pride in producing such good lambs so that sort of balances out having to see them leave the farm.
Always appreciate that you are positive when others would be whining and moaning. You can't control lamb prices, best not to mither about things beyond one's control. I always say if you keep your flock healthy the lambs others would have lost, that you'll have to sell, can make up the difference in a small drop in prices.
Good point☝️ and Cammy (and Lizzy) are caring, observant shepherds.
You have really improved your videos 📹. Have come along way! Bless you and your family 👪!
I heard a story of a guy who was taking his girl fishing. They stopped for fuel and snacks. While he was inside paying for snacks she got out and unhooked the trailer. He didn’t realize he left his boat at the gas pump till he was almost to where they were going fishing.
Cammy I think your ahead of the game. At least you looked to make sure your trailer was fallowing you. 😂😂😂
🤣🤣 that’s a great prank i like it🤣
Great video! I enjoy going to the sales!❤❤❤
First video I have ever watched of yours. Very good 👍 I'm a fan. I am a sheep farmer as well in waupun wi USA. I would love to have some of your equipment. Looks like a great operation 👍
Welcome Shawn! I'm a long time American fan of Cammy's. He offers a lot of varied content - lambing, shearing, scanning for pregnancy, selling/buying and amazing Scottish scenery. All with a positive attitude and sense of humor.
Yes, welcome to the Sheep Game. 🙂🐑🐏💜
Thanks Shawn and thanks guys for the support! 😁
Great video Cammy...I really like the new intro...love to the family ...from Perth Scot.😁
Very good looking lambs. I like the look.
I won’t lie I’m absolute buzzin for the next lambing season
same =D
As an American, I love the term “buzzin!” 😊(Over Here buzzed describes the feeling prior to being drunk) I’m also buzzin for lambing!❤
saw your add while watching Sandi Brocks channel. Cool!
Great video Cammy aye you done well with the lambs good man 👌
I keep falling asleep when I try to count how many you have
Love the puppy 😆😆😆😆
A boy Cammy another good video 👍🏻. You had one of those days 🤣.
Pup acts up first thing in the morning you know it's gonna be one of those days, even Meg was looking at ya saying "what were you thinking Cammy" 🤣🤣.
I thought you did well on the lighter lambs, bigger lambs were worth more but that's how it goes, have to take the good with the bad.
Aye on the day i'd still be getting a better price than most!
I can remember when the prices crashed here in Australia, we culled 3 million sheep, it was costly farmers more to transport the sheep to market then what they would sell their sheep for.
Well done to sell 90 lambs without any hard feed, good to move on before the weather takes a turn. Your lambs weighted well off grass, onwards and upwards.
Great video friend
Last year our lambs brought over $3.00/lb. This year prices are around $2.00/lb for prime lambs. I am holding mine until the weather turns colder and the Muslims start cooking more. Feed prices are higher this year so a lot of producers are shipping lambs early. Large runs of lambs at the sale barns. Hopefully that means less lambs available in December. Price drops a lot after 90-100lbs so it is a tricky marketing situation.
Sounds Tough Jesse. Our price should hopefully rise in December too!
Mornin cammy, like the new Pfp 😀
That was a great look at how it’s done ✅ my mate works on a sheep place near me in Australia 🇦🇺 they have 15.000 sheep 🐑 it blows my mind the amount of work that goes into sheep 🐑 it really does ! I see men go for weeks shearing sheep 🐑 it looks like a hard life but a honest one ☝️ ❤I see my mate when he has done ✅ 120 a day shearing 5 days week lol 😂 he’s a wreck lol 😂 good on ya mate ya set up is mint 💎✊
Thank you for the long distance animal therapy ❤
Folks don’t understand the margins Cammy. Let’s hope it stays positive❤
The hardest part of sheep farming where you are is coming up with names for them. Here in Australia with herds of up to 90,000+, we just call them all Bruce.
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Love the video, but I’m also aware that today is TUPPING DAY, isn’t it? So excited for that vid! -Catherine in New Jersey, US
7th for us =D. Lots of people put them out on 5th though =D
@@TheSheepGame Hey Cammy, will there be a video on the ram sales and the tupping day coming ?
As usual an enjoyable video. Always fun to watch your adventures. Hang in there, Cammy.🤗👍
Have had jess and meg too!
Hello sir, it’s great to watch your video sale at the auction…just wanted to ask what’s the average months old when you sell your lambs at auction?
Always fascinating to see the market videos, supply and demand in action. Still a good sale even with prices down. I love watching the lambs come out of the trailer, it’s practically magic how many of them fits in there!
Many sheep farmers go directly to consumers these days for a reason.
So you did well then. Good for you 👍👍
We could only wonder how he get on on a Kiwi farm. Up to 2000 lambs to the sale yard (Stock Agent) at a time. and we do keep the crouching, nothing goes to waste.
Great vid as always team. End of the day its 90 less to require more 'intensive' (read expensive) attention. Price is outwith your control. You control the controllable and keep on keeping on. Loving the use of tech! Tech question actually, can/could you integrate the flockwatch with the TP racewell thingy? Like as they go past it scans them and updates , to my mind just needs a mount on the TP? -Just an idea to make life a bit easier!
Exactly! I don’t think the tepari can send the info to my app but i could put the stick reader on the clamp and work it that way. That said some were going and some were staying so it was easier to read them after 😁
Don’t let that sheep’s wool go to waste. It can be composted and it becomes an excellent fertilizer.
I m from indonesia love
Another great video Cammy. One question: Are you required to crutch the lambs prior to sale or is that something you do on your own? Really enjoyable video, thanks.
I just do that so they are clean looking. The buyers often comment on how well presented they are and that’s the guys i’m trying to impress. 👍
live in Glasgow, do you know where i can buy a whole carcass of lamb locally?
Hello again 😎🐑
Told by a traffic cop that looping the breakaway cable over the tow ball is illegal, because should the ball break the cable would not work it should be clipped onto a solid mounting point .
But that was looped through the solid part of bracket not over the ball?
Good video lambs are making similar prices here in Ni but when they're ready to go you have to take whatever the price is ☹️
Aye especially now grass is disappearing fast! Cheers Paul.
That Betacraft clothing looks the job. Any idea where you could get it in south of Ireland? Only see one company selling the jacket
I'm hoping to be selling it here at some point this month Denny. Still waiting to hear from them
@@TheSheepGame no flies on you Cammy, and if there is you are charging them rent 😂.
Well done with everything, seriously love the channel and admire your/teams hard work
Anyone else find that they were no longer "subscribed" to The Sheep Game today??? Of course I subscribed again but wondering if a lot of subscribers were lost. What happened? YT change Cammy's channel with his new intro and "copyright" strike?
The illuminati must be after me lol. Thanks for letting me know i'll keep an eye on it!
Yes this is the first in a while thought you took the summer off
How frequently do you take lambs to market?
How long do you hold the lambs before market?
Do you buy newborns and then rear them to weight or do you breed at the farm?
I'm sure you've probably answered this in a past video, but I can't remember seeing it, have you worked out how much it costs to rear one sheep from lamb to sale at market. Is your profit margin good when they sell for 100+ pounds?
I will not be insulted if you don't have the time to answer this, lol - positive vibes!!
Much love from Nova Scota
PS Loved the truck with the message driving across the screen
Hi Kristina. We reckon to get them to this point of the year would probably be about £40 a lamb at a rough guess.
What breed of handpiece were you using on the crutching?
Rambo 👍
Neither good or bad ...but I could only understand 1 word for each 10 spoken.
Napa, CA.
Why have wholesale prices CRASHED when food has NEVER been more expensive?
Can you do any more videos on the shetlands , I have baught 40 and put them to texel so want to see what sort of lambs they get by crossing
I got 70 lambs from 50 ewes this year which was great. They are mixed with my other lambs now.
Why is crutching done? And is it only at a certain time of year?
Just when lambs start getting dirty. So it’s clean for the skinning knife.
Got a kiwi connection using the name Te Pari? New Zealand lamb will be starting to hit the Northern Hemisphere market hard from now too
Not sure how to answer the question John. No Kiwi connection for me but the machine is from New Zealand.
Don’t feel bad about prices, sheep prices were down here the states last month too. Just curious, how many head can you get in your trailer? Definitely wish we could get those trailers here. Enjoy the videos, and stay safe!
Thanks! I’d get 60 of those lambs in 👍
Good job Cammie! You’re raising some beautiful sheep. I wish mutton and lamb were more prevalent in my area. You guys are being ripped off. I priced it. Lamb chops are 45-60 US dollars per pound in my area if you can even find them. Murica…the home of end stage capitalism where the rich get richer off the back of the poor working class and farmers.
Maybe i need to ship some over there 😅
@@TheSheepGame I'm not sure of the rules for import of animals raised in the UK - we went kind of crazy after mad cow diease. In the US almost all of our sheep are from Australia, New Zealand and those raised here. Prices are crazy high at the supermarket and lamb is our favorite for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners.
Agreed. Don't see lamb sold often in stores and when it is it is very expensive. To get it at a restaurant, you usually have to go to a Middle Eastern establishment. Just like goat is found at Hispanic restaurants.
@@fprintf When mad cow was prevalent, I had to lie to the blood bank about going to the UK as they wouldn't take your blood. I didn't eat beef while there though, so minor untruth. I had no qualms about eating the British beef (my mom did) but made the omission easier for me.
Lamb is a *very* pricey meat here in the U S. 'Bout the only time the price is near reasonable is around Easter/Passover/Pesach. Also during the livestock sales at county fairs. (I splurged & bought some lamb chops *many* years ago. O-M-G were they good! Melt-in-your-mouth tender! Well worth the $10/lb!)
Does the mart give you the 70p when you do belly shearing at the mart? The thing I thought strange at our mart was that the bellies were shorn but the clags on the back end ignored. I am reminded of the crafty old farmer I noticed pushing on his stick as hard as he could on the weighing scales. You could have blown him away like a feather so I doubt if he gained an advantage. I think my anticipation on the mart vids is over the price.
Hi Wendy. The boys at Ayr get 60p a lamb. Mart needs something to cover wool disposal and staff to push sheep up.
@@TheSheepGame I just had a thought, I used to wash my sheep’s dags and belly wool to use as stuffing for soft toys, cushions etc. Perhaps some crafty ( the other use of the word) local person could use those lovely bits of waste. Not difficult to wash, and an eco friendly product.
prices have crashed here in the states also
Tail enders, always a pain in the pocket.
Definitely store lamb's
Morning Cammy. Do you's get away on one Eid tag at market? We must present with 2 ear tags in NI. 1 Eid and one plain. Prices are back maybe the time of the year . Ta Rab
Aye Rab just need one eid with flock nunber here
How many time are u doseing lamb on average before the reach there weights to go cammy ?
2-3 👍
While the prices are down a bit, it's still not awful...awful would be getting 80 per...that would be awful. Just out of curiosity, is it kind of normal that the earlier in the year you get them to market the more they fetch or is that not true, in a general sense...obviously nothing is 100% all the time when it comes to livestock sales. Also, is there such a thing as "private treaty" or contract sales where you're selling directly to the processor or is that just not a practice that is followed?
Thanks for the video, good info as usual, and hope the market makes a little rise for you all coming into the Holiday season.
Thanks. Yeah trade usually starts high, drops about now then climbs again after New Year. Some people sell direct and price is agreed before they take lambs in. They were paying £5kg deadweight this week.
The cost of 18 second class and 11 first Class tickets was £3017 .
If 163 second class tickets costs as much as 68 first class tickets ; what is the price of each ticket class ?
If you can answer in less than five minutes you are a super duper !
Lolol Every time you go to trim a lamb they squirm like what's going on with my butt!? Lolol
What does he use to crutch the sheep and where do you get it from
Rambo. Horner shearing.
Is it only in the UK
Because I'm in australia
Over 100 is still good going mate. Which of your breeds or which crosses sell the best for you? Which are the most profitable?
We’re almost all texel so hard to compare really. 👍
Howdy
If you have a chance, I'd be interested in how they weigh the lambs at the market. Cheers! -Jo Lori in West Virginia
The scales were in this vid if u watch it back. It was a big metal pen that the stand in and they are weighed 20+ at a time. 😁
@@TheSheepGame Thanks! I was wondering if that was it. :)
Interesting that the price go down when UK inflation is high (+8%). Guess people do not buy lamb anymore.
The price of lamb is not going down in the shops though, so someone is making a few quid extra.
Unfortunately here in Uruguay the price of sheep has decreased and cows too, sheep are paying at most $50 dollars for an adult ewe.
That’s not good. I got £58-£100 for my adult ewes last week. Are those merinos?
@@TheSheepGame No, I sold my sheep at 50$ dollars three weeks ago, I have Corriedale and Texel.
I will never understand why at the sale the idea seems to be how terrified we can make the animals. It just seems so stressful when it does not have to be.
Why not pen the sheep in the fank overnight if you have an early start ? Easier than rounding them up in the field. Maybe not good enough conditions for them to be overnight.
Just felt it was too many to leave shut in this time Jimmy 👍
You ever keep any for food for the family??
Yeah we’ll do a few at Xmas!
Hi have you any stickers???
Sorry Neil we don’t.
That's OK thank you for getting back to me
I think that farmers should get more 4 lambs every week not just average weights
Like your videos
Now let me tell you what happened when I sold my Kids this week?
The price never came close to cover my cost. 🤬
Well there’s always next year. 🐐❤️
Yeah not sure how u get round that. Most popular red meat in the world!!
It’s just been one of those years.