EXPENSIVE RAMS BEING SOLD IN A SCOTTISH LIVESTOCK AUCTION | Scotch Blackface Sheep
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- Опубліковано 7 сер 2024
- I had a great day out at the legendary Dalmally Ram sales, where I recorded lots of footage and tried to make a decent vlog out of it.
Let me know what you think in the comments.
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I’m 31 years old and I’m a sheep farmer from Ayrshire in South West Scotland, which is why I have such a strong accent! I was born and raised on a sheep farm watching my dad who was the shepherd.
At 18 I went away from farming to work in the city (something I still do) and at 23 (2013) I decided I wanted to do something for some extra money so I went on a sheep shearing course. The hardest thing I’ll ever do was learning to shear sheep. [shudders thinking about it]
I shore whilst on my holidays from work for 2 years and then in 2015 my dad died so I decided to get my own sheep so I could continue working with sheep as it was something I loved doing. From there it escalated quickly from my first 4 sheep in my mum’s garden to now running around 600 breeding ewes.
I shore over 15,000 sheep this season in UK and I also travel to Norway for shearing in March and September. (Covid messed it up this year)
A few years ago I bought myself a sheep pregnancy scanner and have been building up my run since then.
I watched a few farm vlogs on UA-cam and decided I could have a go and now here we are!
Thanks for watching my videos and please subscribe if you want to see more in future.
I have noticed and appreciate your efforts at slowly and clearing enunciating your words for those of not not familiar with your strong accent. I ❤️ your channel.
Thanks Janet! I'm trying hard. =D
Yes, cammy tries, but it's *his* CHANNEL, in *his* country, he shouldn't *have* to!
We're the guests in *his* home! Personally,I don't find his accent that difficult. Never particularly noticed it until he began apologizing for it.😘😎🙄which, being his own channel, he definitely should *not have to do!* Its rather RUDE of anyone to complain to a host that they're difficult to understand (bet they wouldn't if the host was offering cookies..er biscuits)IMO.🤷♀️🤷♂️💞Then again, I'm Canadian, perhaps I was just raised with better manners?
Beginning to seem like it lately...😘
@William Tell 😘🤷♀️😎💞👍👏👏👏👏👏
@William Tell exactly!
I do love that beautiful, lilting accent, though! It has a musical quality to it.
Great video Cammy, it takes guts and courage to stand there with a camera in front of all those people. 💪👌
Cheers Daniel. It's a brass neck i've got that helps lol
I never knew the price could go so high for sheep. It is totally understandable when your livelihood depends on strong lambs/sheep. The sheep are beautiful and the horns so interesting. Just amazing.... the little shepherd wrangler was adorable. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Donna!! That video of his at 88 million views is what I dream of lol
All I can say is wow! I am a driver for the Amish and I talk to them often about your channel and how beautiful the sheep are! I tell them about the sales, the different breeds and how much they go for. Amazing! Thank so much for sharing this with us!
Fascinating horns on those sheep! I learn something about sheep, farming and Scotland from every video. I look forward to every post you make.
Hope Lizzie and Jock are doing well😁👍
Yes, I loved this video as I never would've had the chance to see such a thing, otherwise! It's nice that you're conscientious about whether your videos and their presentation are of interest, but they most definitely are! It's almost like being there in person, which is quite a kick from all the way over in the old US! Thanks so much, Cammy! 🐏🐑
Fantastic video. Love seeing all the beautiful sheep. Love the faces and horns on those rams. Wow, I’m impressed.
Watched this with a pair of foster kittens on my lap. They gave it 5 stars, though from the way they were watching the sheep, they think sheep are a fun new variety of mouse. ;-) 🤣🤣 city kitties! Boy would they ever be surprised! ;-)
As an American Blackie breeder who has belonged to BSBA UK and looked through the pages the annual book for years I am familiar with most all the big players in the game BUT I finally heard how to pronounce Dalchirla properly! Well done excellent video as always Cammy.
Love it, keep them coming, love from Canada. Blessings to you, Lizzie and baby Jock!
What marvelous sheep. Those horns were really something. Those rams wore them like crowns. Thanks for taking us along. ❤️
Cammie, I loved the beautiful “hood ornaments” of the 2 year old tups but the finer point of why one sells for so much more than another is beyond my ken. Thanks for an entertaining video!
Wonderful watching, thanks for taking us along. Hello to Lizzie and little Joch. 💐
Thanks Liz!"
WOWZA! What a sale! I love how the owners primp their animals for the ring. SO. MANY. SHEEP! Awesome!
That was great! The US version is likely the Keeneland Yearling Sale, in Lexington Kentucky. It’s racehorses, but still the same. And the big prices come from the stud books, not the actual animal. Buyers are placing bets that an animal performs well enough to justify that huge price. It’s bloodlines inform that bet, this is how you get a £60.000 ram.
And it’s kind of a Ferrari for sheep fans or horse racing people to buy a prestige animal… Farmers is farmers. 😁
This was amazing. You know we all love learning about sheep breeds. I really appreciate all the time you take to record and edit the vlogs. They’re so informative. It’s also nice to see how much you love and enjoy being there at the sales. The best to your family.
One of your best videos there’s great job. Clearly no fear talking to the camera In front of people now.
That was great...and I'm so glad that you are encouraging the up and coming youngsters in your videos...love to Lizzy and Jock🎇🐑🐑🐑💞🎇
WOW OMG 100,000 Canadian for that one!! Never imagined but seeing some of them can understand. Gorgeous fellows some of them. Love the family sheep farmers diligence to their sheep. It is wonderful. Again Cammy a really good video! hugs
Love the sales videos ❤️ lovely to see the farming community able to get together again. If it’s anything like in Australia it’s as much a social event as business
Watching from just north of Los Angeles. I’m fascinated by the different breeds. Incredible prices, but breeding the finest examples is best for maintaining the breed. Thanks for including the little sheep wrangler. He sure knew what he was doing. Do you have plans to teach your son to do the same?
Hopefully Jock will be just as tough as that young lad one day =D
Even if jock doesnt go into sheep as an adult, i bet you he will help his dad till he gets out of the house!
What a buzz! Only ever heard about it but now you've let us see and feel it.
Cheers Jimmy!
Cammy, quite exciting to watch. If money were no object and Lizzy approved, which of the rams sold would you buy for your operation, please? Thank you!
I had a similar question. What would his dream flock look like?
I don't know enough about them Harry. I'd just buy one off one of the farms I knew! Maybe if UA-cam gets big enough i'll buy one! =D
Wow! I am a fairly new sub from Sandi’s channel and you are hilarious! I am completely hooked, these sheep are just magnificent and as I drive for many Amish farmers here in the states (Lancaster County) I have come to love all kinds of farm animals. Great videos - definately a new sheep fon!
I did the opposite started with Cammy's channel then watched Sandi's. Definitely prefer the grass raised best life for sheep over the commercially raised housed sheep.. but for Sandi's situation where she is and the fact that her husband is a grain farmer.. makes sense what she does. I personally don't like to see animals housed so close together, never getting to breathe fresh air or eat real grass. Sandi is an amazing woman though and such a hard worker. I have learned a lot of stuff from her channel as well.
I'm another one that came to Cammy through Sandi in case Cammy's counting..
Wow!! Some incredible prices! That’s awesome, I’m happy that the sheep market can bring in those numbers, good for those shepherds out keeping sheep farming around for generations to come!!!
I liked when you put the price in U.S money I'm always trying to figure out. Looked like a great sale.
Prices not in the stratosphere like the Texel sale, but still amazing. Another great, interesting video, Cammy. Thanks!
(Saw you on Landward!)
Next time you miss a high priced sheep in the ring... I'd still like to see him. Can you get us look when he gets back to his pen? 💖🌞🌵😷
Of course! I should have done that!
@@TheSheepGame, No worries, it's hard to think of everything in the moment. It's that I've never seen a $50k sheep 🐏 before. And I thought we could figure out what makes a top ram together. 😉. 💖🤔🌵😷
That was super exciting! Some of those prices are amazing and good for the farmers! All of you work so hard, it’s a well earned reward.
Nice job pumping out the videos, too!👍
Great video. Those rams are all beautiful animals. The horns with the curls are amazing. I've never seen them like that before. Your camera work is awesome. Just to be able to see the sheep so close is wonderful. The prices were more than I imagined. That little wrangler at the end is so cute. Everyone loves cute kids doing cute things.
Yeah I just don't have that cute factor so I need to get good camera shots to compensate. lol
Brilliant video cammy ah you could never over load with the market videos it’s great seeing great sheep and the owners getting unreal prices just class 👌
That’s my dad selling the tup at £48000
Alan? Some buzz!
@@TheSheepGame no he’s Peter wood
What fun! Thanks Cammie, and also for the bonus footage of the wee sheep farmer!
Thanks Liz
Love seeing the sales. Seeing all the different breeds. Those blackies had beautiful horns.
Tells you what I know about sheep. Could not see what makes one ram worth more than another from the same pen. Other than the horns they were all looking pretty much alike to me! All handsome and healthy
Why am I suddenly watching gorgeous sheep, cow feet trimming and plowing? My old farm heritage is catching up. ;-D
Watching from West Plains Missouri in. USA I love you guys and the sheep game you are so happy and positive.Congratulations on your baby too
I love your accent. I live in America the Midwest but our family originally from Scotland, here about 230 years but Scotland our origin. Even though now UK it will always be Scotland. A beautiful land. I enjoy your videos.
Another great video !! I didn’t expect the prices to be that high, but that’s great for the farmer. Thank you for considering all the background noise.
Fantastic sheep ,you cope feel the buzz ,it must be amazing to actually be there really enjoyed this 😀
Brilliant video! There were some good looking rams in there! Between you and Sandy I am almost ready to put together my own flock😉
This was an amazing video! Cheers to your 10 hours of editing!
thanks!
Wow! Beautiful rams! Great video! ❤️🤩🐏 love the little guy at the end! ❤️🥰🐏
30K pound sterling for a ram? Holy Moses! And bought on sight only? I mean for that price I'd demand one test drive at least! And the 48K one.... I am just speechless. Awesome world you live in, Cameron!
Thanks, They are all guaranteed by the sellers as working so that takes any doubt out of the equation.
@@TheSheepGame That's nice to know.. do the ones that sell AI semen have a similar guarantee?
@@TheSheepGame I know :) I was trying to be funny. Because I can’t even buy a car that price, let alone a ram haha! Thank you for your information. My schoolfriend (since 1968) Betty, who hosts sheep, calls you Garfunkel :))
Michael Cusack Smith
Head to Fort William blackie tup sale on the 5th of November cammy
Think i'll be in Norway then Colin. i got two texels from there last year
I can't really tell the difference why one is so much more expensive than the other either but they sure are cool looking.
Very fun to watch
There's nothing like Dalmally.... Bar helps with the atmosphere too.. 👍.
What handsome guys! Those horn curls are spectacular. I never even imagined that prices for rams could go so high. Thanks for sharing.
At the smaller rodeos here in Western Canada, they often have the kids riding sheep races. There is a corral full of sheep where kids have to catch one and ride them over a finishing line. They're just so cute to watch.
Tough kids there 😁
Brilliant video I love watching the sheep sales
Found thid channel recently and living it. Thankyou for it
That was interesting, nice to see farmers getting a return from the sheep.
The video was great. I had no idea sheep came in so many varieties and price. And I also want to thank you for slowing your speech.
Hugely exciting place to be! Really did a great job editing the energy into this one!
Thanks Matt!
Goodness them rams make mighty money I've crossbred lowland ewes and the most I've ever spent on a ram here in NI is £500
Crackin video of the sale Cammy, love the horns on the Blackies.
Amazing! Quite the eye opener
Brilliant footage Cammy !
Thanks Hazel!
Lovely to hear the accent again, lived in Ayrshire 30 odd years ago!
Nice vlog again Cammy. Maybe a quick comment on what you're seeing in some of these sheep from your eye as a professional. "Little short for me"..."Nice looking strong tall lamb"...doesn't have to be "Look at the sack on this one" and I wouldn't be afraid to run some of these vids longer if you have the content 18 mins goes by pretty fast...thanks again
I think it would be cool to have a "handbook" to look at for conformation etc. They have this for horses.. to know bad vs good body conformation. Maybe a good thing to come up with for sheep.. for people getting into the business. Breed standards are a guide, but the breeders and ones that run the sheep for real are the ones that really know which types perform the best or not. I think it's a years of experience thing that can't really be totally explained or written about.
All interesting guys and most societies will have a breed standards list on their websites these days. I'll try cover that in future videos.
Another great video! Love this channel!
Love the sale videos. Love em all, but I can get a hit of the excitement between trips to the salebarn
Hi bud I have just came across your channel I am not a farmer but I enjoy watching this as I visit a farm down in the borders run by the woods family I was watching to see if they got a mention maybe next time.
WOW !!A great experience, watching these sales, I just cant get over the amount of money ,being paid for ONE sheep, just shows how little I know about sheep!!!! However I can only imagine just how much work is involved.. thanks again for the video
Very interesting, I had no idea that sheep or Rams can go for such high prices, yikes. I just bought 1/2 a lamb to enjoy for dinner. I will really enjoy it more now. Thanks. BC Canada 🇨🇦
Wow. Those are expensive but such quality.
Sales are always fun and amazing. 😊
Gordon Bennet Cammy what a sale. Thanks for sharing it. Take care.
As always, LOVED IT! You could've showed so much more and I'd still watch every minute 🙂 Would love the inside scoop on your favorite pen of the day and maybe what types of things people are looking for in this breed, too. (I know you talk about it in other videos, but seeing stuff pointed out in this setting kind of sinks in more to me for some reason) Anyway it was a great video and I'm excited for the next one already 😊
yeah I should do that at each sale!
Fab video again. Thank you Cammy x
Thanks Jill!
Absolutely amazing!❤❤❤
The best sheep of the best breed from the the western isles to the borders. Grate vlog cammy
So my jaw dropped with the amounts being bid on these rams. And being the sheep novice that I am what happens if these rams are "shooting blanks?" Or is there documentation that they are stud material prior to the auction? I hope this isn't a silly question 😅!
Not silly!!...it is their genetic make up that they are bought for...now I too would like to know the answer to that one...😀
Curious here also
Here in the US, these prices are not as high, and cattle are a bigger deal that sheep. However, when one of the animal is sold at these prices you can rest assured that these boys have been tested and all are certified as fertile. This is true even with most of the large commercial operations here. Especially with cattle, you can't afford to have a dud running around.
They usually have them tested before hand, I know I wouldn’t be paying 22,000 on a ram that wasn’t tested lol
@@k75romeofive Thank you for the information. You are too kind.
Absolutely LOVE your videos. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks Stephanie!
Fantastic rams! I guess without getting you hands on the sheep in person it is very difficult to tell the difference between the higher priced animals and the lower priced ones. I’d love to go and have a look and get my hands on the sheep to see which ones I liked the most compared to which ones were actually most popular :D
Excellent video really enjoyed it, unbelievable prices
Great VIDEO those horns are amazing
I LOVED THIS!!! What Fun! Now I want to find some sales to go to. We’re the rams upset by all that turning? Seemed really well mannered. Thank you 😊
Amazing prices, wouldn't mind having a half dozen of them bucks to sell every year!!
Great video Cammy. You got it just right. Cheers
I throughly enjoyed every second!!!!!!! That was amazing 😊💙🐑
Thanks Tammy!!
A boy Cammy another good video 👍.
I absolutely love ram sales they're the best day of the year. Do you ever keep breeding hogs/ ram lambs for sale at shows. Be a great story to follow your lambs for a year up to the sale.
I don't just because of the work involved. One day when I get my own place I might!!
Amazing video, crazy prices. Teaching them young here in Northern Ireland
I love these market videos
Awesome thank you 😍😍😍
That was amazing !
Amazing to watch! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
Glad you enjoyed it!
Loved it!! This was awesome!
I like the £ to $ conversion on the screen. It's way more impressive to see $34k than £24k. Sending lots of love 💖 from sunny 🌞 Arizona 🌵😷
Thanks Cami for another great video. Those sheep make such a beautiful breed. The ewes are often painted into our children's books to entertain little children. They enter their dreams and help fly them off to faeryland!
Do you think that the wild colourings on the head and horns play a part in the prices of the shearlings? I noticed that a couple of the five figured rams were very brilliantly dappled.
Keep up the good work! It's a fascinating business, even if it is a bit scary to think of such back-breaking labour!
Just started this video and I already know it going to be great. Also Cammy if there is ever a beltex sale could you bring us along if your going
Loved it Cammy! 👍👍
Beautiful sheep!
Wow, those are beautiful sheep. I don’t understand how pricing works but they must be VERY special. 🇨🇦
When our kids were competing in 4-H, they would wash their chickens and use Woolite liquid soap in the wash water and a little softener liquid in the rinse, to make the feathers soft and fluffy. To make them fluffier, they'd dry them with a blow dryer on a low heat, so as to not kill the chicken by over heating it! I'd imagine Woolite would work great on sheep's wool to make it clean, soft and fluffy. They'd smell better too, at least for a few minutes!
I’m so jealous! Id love to go to a sheep sale!
Holy smokes...the prices! Unbelievable. It was very interesting.👍🥰
Loved this!
Great video 👍🏼 some money spent there
Great video and great prices for great stock 😀
Hi fro Bosnia!!! Thank you for videos , very informative. I own sheep Balkan breed Dubska pramenka. I love this videos because we can see how much money farmers would invest to get new rams or should I say new blood to maintain the quality of the herds!! Thank again for videos and God bless you !!