This is a well needed forum. Thank you for starting it. Keep the info coming. You provide simple, logical, useful sheep raising videos and information. No fluff please, don't stray to personal life or do long videos repeating what you do every day, and please stop asking for subscribers, if you are good, you don't need to. If you have good info, of course we subscribe, we don't want to forget who you are! :-) Recommendation: Improve you background a little, find a space to film your videos with a "better" background, not sure what that is, but it could be better. Something sheep related, but no un-useful distractions. I like the drawings, and then it really helps to see what you are talking about in the actual lambs. After watching a LOT of other sheep UA-cam videos I just recently found you and you have something new that others are not offering. Please keep them coming. I am a small homestead sheep farmer trying to keep a small flock of ewes to produce lambs for our freezer in the fall. I am in my 3rd year. There is so very much we have learned, but so very much still to learn...!
Thank you for your feedback and for watching our videos. Our channel is designed to teach and we do not have any plans on changing. We do not accept any outside funding in order to run our channel and therefore, we run on an extremely tight budget. We are not interested in "showcasing" or "pushing" products for a fee (we have been approached multiple times). We are hopeful that people will respect our desire to avoid sponsorship. We know a lot of other channels are more for entertainment and do not actually teach a lot of methods. We also understand that most average farmers cannot afford to do their own veterinary work or the equipment and structures so often showcased on other channels. You don't have to worry about us changing our format or methods. We understand your point about asking for thumbs up and subscriptions. Unfortunately, in order to stay relevant and get "exposure" on UA-cam, we need thumbs up and subscriptions in order to show up in searches. This has been a significant learning curve for us and although we don't do the UA-cam channel to make money, we also want to do as good as we can. To help put this into perspective for you, I will share some numbers with you: In the last 28 days, we have had over 17k views with less than 200 subscriptions and less than 75 likes. Unfortunately, UA-cam cares a WHOLE bunch about this and the only way to help improve this is to ask. Second, 85% of our repeat viewers are not subscribers. While we appreciate the fact you subscribe to videos you enjoy, we have literally thousands of viewers who watch repeatedly and do not subscribe. Regarding the background, we will do our best to upgrade as we move along. 100% of our income from the channel goes back to the channel so we anticipate things will improve as time goes on. We recently introduced microphones and some new video equipment as well. In regard to asking for thumbs up and asking for subscriptions at the end of the video: Unfortunately, only 10% of viewers actually watch a video to the end. For the sake of understanding, please note that the percentages and numbers I gave you in this response are actual numbers from our channel tracking tool provided by UA-cam. We don't want you to think we are just inventing statistics ! Please keep watching our videos! Tim
@@LinessaFarms Excellent reply. I understand. I wish you the very best of luck, I will keep watching. I subscribed and I will like every video I watch. As you described, our farm has very little room for financial waste and we are trying to learn everything we can so we can be self-sufficient. Thank you for helping!! (As for people not "liking" or "subscribing" I think it's YT and FB's fault. Everyone is now aware we are all being watched, so now there is a trend where people feel uncomfortable letting their likes known, at least the kind of people you are reaching out to do...) (Also, we live in an area with NO highspeed internet, so every video I watch takes time to load and it pauses and starts and pauses, so anything I need to watch over and over again, like a long farm intro, is painful. But I will do it! I want to learn from you.) Thank you for listening!!! Now back to the lambs. ;-)
Very interesting. You have to know which game you are playing because they all have different rules. We took our buck (wether bred genetics from Utah) to the royal in Toronto. The judge was from Texas and really disliked the cylindrical body shape. He wanted to see the old school deep chested Boer buck look. We have very few market goat classes here in Ontario. This particular buck gave us really meaty looking offspring. He improved our stock ten fold, in my opinion.
Hello TJ! Thank you for watching our videos and thank you for the comment. You are 100% correct about needing to know where you are showing and who will be judging. We have shown the same lamb at 2 different shows in a matter of weeks and received far different results. It is really difficult to give people advise on what makes a good show prospect and what doesn’t. To your point, I personally like a bigger framed, deeper chested goat as well. I think it suits them better and they just look better. Lambs, not so much. With this being said, having a cylindrical shape as a baby and growing that properly is crucial. Without the genetics to back up the body shape to make it grow well, you will end up with a lamb that looks more like a basset hound than a lamb. We also see cylindrical shaped lambs without good genetics break in the back and look like complete poo on the profile. Where I think we can agree, and more to the point I was trying to make for our green viewers is not to invest too much interest in the “biggest” lamb or goat kid without understanding what that size is going to turn into. I’m certain you’ve seen it as well where you have a “large” baby that you know is going to be a mess when it grows up. We see a lot of new buyers get sucked into buying the “big one” and it’s completely blown apart at the shoulders, has no neck, has a messed up gait, etc... we hope you keep watching our videos and sharing your thoughts. It helps us out a lot and brings perspective to what we do. You can also check out our Facebook group that is brand new: Linessa Farms Tack Box. We are trying to get more people from various locations to help ask and answer questions. Tim
@@LinessaFarms Thank you Tim. I will look up Linessa Farms tack Box. It is interesting to note how much the US Boer show goat has changed over the past decade. This look will slowly make it's way north. I wonder what they will look like 10 years from today?
Hello Selim and thank you for watching our videos. It will depend on what you plan on doing with them. If you are going to sell them for meat, we would feed them heavily and hope they will gain as much quality weight as possible. If they will be used for breeding, you can drop the protein percentage down to 12% and let them grow at a more natural rate. Making them grow faster won’t necessarily make them breed any earlier so don’t get the 2 confused.
Hello! Thank you for the question. We will be addressing this topic in a future video. Multiple births is a well documented genetic issue which can be tracked and estimated based on the female bloodline. With this being said, and as the other comment states, there is a significant amount of evidence to show genetics is not enough to secure multiple births and must be coupled with proper nutrition and timing of breeding.
Hi Corey. Thanks for the question. We are a little off topic from the video but I understand sometimes it’s hard to find help answering questions. In the future feel free to contact us anytime at customerservice@linessafarms.com or contact Tim directly at timothy.ventrello@linessafarms.com Without looking at your goat, it is difficult to tell what is going on. If you aren’t seeing any lice on the goat, I would assume you are looking at mange. I would give 1ml injection of dectomax per 100lbs and also pour 10ml cylence (this is for cattle) along the spine of the goat with an empty 10ml syringe like you would apply flea and tick medicine to a dog. With goat kids, use 5ml. You can order dectomax online from multiple suppliers without a prescription. You can acquire cylence from tractor supply or other big box stores in the cattle pour on department.
Great show.
This is a well needed forum. Thank you for starting it. Keep the info coming. You provide simple, logical, useful sheep raising videos and information. No fluff please, don't stray to personal life or do long videos repeating what you do every day, and please stop asking for subscribers, if you are good, you don't need to. If you have good info, of course we subscribe, we don't want to forget who you are! :-) Recommendation: Improve you background a little, find a space to film your videos with a "better" background, not sure what that is, but it could be better. Something sheep related, but no un-useful distractions. I like the drawings, and then it really helps to see what you are talking about in the actual lambs. After watching a LOT of other sheep UA-cam videos I just recently found you and you have something new that others are not offering. Please keep them coming. I am a small homestead sheep farmer trying to keep a small flock of ewes to produce lambs for our freezer in the fall. I am in my 3rd year. There is so very much we have learned, but so very much still to learn...!
Thank you for your feedback and for watching our videos. Our channel is designed to teach and we do not have any plans on changing. We do not accept any outside funding in order to run our channel and therefore, we run on an extremely tight budget. We are not interested in "showcasing" or "pushing" products for a fee (we have been approached multiple times). We are hopeful that people will respect our desire to avoid sponsorship. We know a lot of other channels are more for entertainment and do not actually teach a lot of methods. We also understand that most average farmers cannot afford to do their own veterinary work or the equipment and structures so often showcased on other channels. You don't have to worry about us changing our format or methods.
We understand your point about asking for thumbs up and subscriptions. Unfortunately, in order to stay relevant and get "exposure" on UA-cam, we need thumbs up and subscriptions in order to show up in searches. This has been a significant learning curve for us and although we don't do the UA-cam channel to make money, we also want to do as good as we can. To help put this into perspective for you, I will share some numbers with you: In the last 28 days, we have had over 17k views with less than 200 subscriptions and less than 75 likes. Unfortunately, UA-cam cares a WHOLE bunch about this and the only way to help improve this is to ask. Second, 85% of our repeat viewers are not subscribers. While we appreciate the fact you subscribe to videos you enjoy, we have literally thousands of viewers who watch repeatedly and do not subscribe. Regarding the background, we will do our best to upgrade as we move along. 100% of our income from the channel goes back to the channel so we anticipate things will improve as time goes on. We recently introduced microphones and some new video equipment as well. In regard to asking for thumbs up and asking for subscriptions at the end of the video: Unfortunately, only 10% of viewers actually watch a video to the end.
For the sake of understanding, please note that the percentages and numbers I gave you in this response are actual numbers from our channel tracking tool provided by UA-cam. We don't want you to think we are just inventing statistics !
Please keep watching our videos!
Tim
@@LinessaFarms Excellent reply. I understand. I wish you the very best of luck, I will keep watching. I subscribed and I will like every video I watch. As you described, our farm has very little room for financial waste and we are trying to learn everything we can so we can be self-sufficient. Thank you for helping!! (As for people not "liking" or "subscribing" I think it's YT and FB's fault. Everyone is now aware we are all being watched, so now there is a trend where people feel uncomfortable letting their likes known, at least the kind of people you are reaching out to do...) (Also, we live in an area with NO highspeed internet, so every video I watch takes time to load and it pauses and starts and pauses, so anything I need to watch over and over again, like a long farm intro, is painful. But I will do it! I want to learn from you.) Thank you for listening!!! Now back to the lambs. ;-)
great information, watching from Pakistan.
Thank you for watching and thank you for the kind words!
More great information . I luv your channel , Im learning so much.
Thank you very much for watching our videos and thank you for the kind words!
Very interesting. You have to know which game you are playing because they all have different rules. We took our buck (wether bred genetics from Utah) to the royal in Toronto. The judge was from Texas and really disliked the cylindrical body shape. He wanted to see the old school deep chested Boer buck look. We have very few market goat classes here in Ontario. This particular buck gave us really meaty looking offspring. He improved our stock ten fold, in my opinion.
Hello TJ! Thank you for watching our videos and thank you for the comment. You are 100% correct about needing to know where you are showing and who will be judging. We have shown the same lamb at 2 different shows in a matter of weeks and received far different results. It is really difficult to give people advise on what makes a good show prospect and what doesn’t. To your point, I personally like a bigger framed, deeper chested goat as well. I think it suits them better and they just look better. Lambs, not so much. With this being said, having a cylindrical shape as a baby and growing that properly is crucial. Without the genetics to back up the body shape to make it grow well, you will end up with a lamb that looks more like a basset hound than a lamb. We also see cylindrical shaped lambs without good genetics break in the back and look like complete poo on the profile. Where I think we can agree, and more to the point I was trying to make for our green viewers is not to invest too much interest in the “biggest” lamb or goat kid without understanding what that size is going to turn into. I’m certain you’ve seen it as well where you have a “large” baby that you know is going to be a mess when it grows up. We see a lot of new buyers get sucked into buying the “big one” and it’s completely blown apart at the shoulders, has no neck, has a messed up gait, etc... we hope you keep watching our videos and sharing your thoughts. It helps us out a lot and brings perspective to what we do. You can also check out our Facebook group that is brand new: Linessa Farms Tack Box. We are trying to get more people from various locations to help ask and answer questions.
Tim
@@LinessaFarms Thank you Tim. I will look up Linessa Farms tack Box. It is interesting to note how much the US Boer show goat has changed over the past decade. This look will slowly make it's way north. I wonder what they will look like 10 years from today?
Hard to tell. Sheep have changed so much from when I was a kid the old breeds are unrecognizable.
Thank you for the great insight.
Thanks for watching our videos and thank you for the kind words. 👍🏻
Ok, we choose lambs, registered purebred lambs, then how to feed them after early weaning? Like market lambs or what?
Hello Selim and thank you for watching our videos. It will depend on what you plan on doing with them. If you are going to sell them for meat, we would feed them heavily and hope they will gain as much quality weight as possible. If they will be used for breeding, you can drop the protein percentage down to 12% and let them grow at a more natural rate. Making them grow faster won’t necessarily make them breed any earlier so don’t get the 2 confused.
the main factor so that ewes give more than two heads, from food or genetics? Thanks for you answer..🙏
I think genetics play a larger role in that potential, however it must be coupled with the right conditioning.
Hello! Thank you for the question. We will be addressing this topic in a future video. Multiple births is a well documented genetic issue which can be tracked and estimated based on the female bloodline. With this being said, and as the other comment states, there is a significant amount of evidence to show genetics is not enough to secure multiple births and must be coupled with proper nutrition and timing of breeding.
What’s best thing for a goat that’s losing its hair and has dry skin. I don’t think it’s lice
Hi Corey. Thanks for the question. We are a little off topic from the video but I understand sometimes it’s hard to find help answering questions. In the future feel free to contact us anytime at customerservice@linessafarms.com or contact Tim directly at timothy.ventrello@linessafarms.com
Without looking at your goat, it is difficult to tell what is going on. If you aren’t seeing any lice on the goat, I would assume you are looking at mange. I would give 1ml injection of dectomax per 100lbs and also pour 10ml cylence (this is for cattle) along the spine of the goat with an empty 10ml syringe like you would apply flea and tick medicine to a dog. With goat kids, use 5ml. You can order dectomax online from multiple suppliers without a prescription. You can acquire cylence from tractor supply or other big box stores in the cattle pour on department.
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Thank you.