Making the tough decisions!

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  • @sandpiperca4722
    @sandpiperca4722 2 місяці тому +39

    Cami and Lizzie, taking your littles out for your chores every day will come back and bless your family in the years to come. Guaranteed! I love to see you and Sandy Brock loving to your older ewes. Makes my heart sing

  • @triciaabrams8848
    @triciaabrams8848 2 місяці тому +6

    Name the no ear sheep! Have a contest or let us give suggestions! So glad you're keeping her! She deserves a nice rest now after her years of service! ❤🐑

  • @dt8ustotten285
    @dt8ustotten285 2 місяці тому +48

    Congrats on your first retirement sheep! You should name her now. Man.. you guys are parenting at its best. Kid loses key.. parents would reprimand kid.. etc. Nope you give the feedback.. then hand the key to the kid to do the right thing.. which he did. He must have been listening? Thanks for sharing! Love from the USA!

    • @TheSheepGame
      @TheSheepGame  2 місяці тому +10

      Thank you! Yeah we’ll end up with a few favourites back at home 🤣

    • @peggyfisher-qi4wg
      @peggyfisher-qi4wg 2 місяці тому +9

      Could you put a large bright bobble on the key, make it easier to find in the grass,

    • @foxmaximas1990
      @foxmaximas1990 2 місяці тому +2

      @@peggyfisher-qi4wgalso make it more attractive for the boys to take tho

    • @bevb752
      @bevb752 Місяць тому +1

      Chain the key to the steering wheel?

  • @philomenahearn1717
    @philomenahearn1717 2 місяці тому +36

    I had a ewe and a ram that were 22 years old. They produced twins together every year up until dieing natural deaths. I didn’t have to supplement their feed but I did have plenty of excess grass and they were kept as “pets”.just love your videos. Both informative but also humerous and very real….

    • @johnpick6829
      @johnpick6829 2 місяці тому +6

      Well they ought to be in the Guinness book of records then if its true

    • @Primenumber19
      @Primenumber19 2 місяці тому

      @@johnpick682928 years was the record

    • @kevinstrachan4442
      @kevinstrachan4442 2 місяці тому

      ​@@johnpick6829I clipped 2 wedders every year as pets 1 was 19 the other 17

    • @TheSheepGame
      @TheSheepGame  2 місяці тому +5

      That’s incredible! I didn’t even know that was possible 👏🏻👏🏻

    • @gilliantovey1014
      @gilliantovey1014 2 місяці тому +3

      I had a pet ewe that lambed for the first time when she was 13 years

  • @meowjanet
    @meowjanet 2 місяці тому +19

    Love that you will keep your special girls….like a certain 🇨🇦 I know! 👏👏

    • @morganalori
      @morganalori 2 місяці тому +5

      I was thinking the same thing. Pet sheep for the win

  • @Baldevi
    @Baldevi 2 місяці тому +18

    I love animals and want them to be safe and happy. But I am also pragmatic. The Cull Ewes are older, tired, have lost teeth, are unable to eat enough to maintain condition, as Older Mamma;s start to endure, they are losing muscle mass and healthy fat... Then the health issues, and that Winter is coming and they will suffer from the cold, the wind, etc. It's kinder to them to send them off, and it allows for more room for younger Ewes who will be far happier during winter, can graze and settle to chew their cud, can have lambs to love.
    But we all are happy that you're keeping the Earless Ewe! She IS special, and she deserves a quiet retirement. Every Farmer has a few pets anyway, right? Jock and Angus, maybe even Bonnie will love her up!

    • @TheSheepGame
      @TheSheepGame  2 місяці тому +6

      Exactly that! Thank u so much😁

  • @nancybannerman1224
    @nancybannerman1224 2 місяці тому +10

    It's so great that you took the kids to work, but I couldn't stop laughing when you were crying and the great idea 🤣!!! The boys and soon Bonnie will become more useful than a hindrance.
    Love your old ewes. 🇨🇦

    • @phinneganwilliam5867
      @phinneganwilliam5867 2 місяці тому

      I agree! I laughed out loud when he did that. They are the perfect parents; the patience of Job

  • @howarddavies9677
    @howarddavies9677 2 місяці тому +15

    Great sheep content as usual Cammy and Lizzie, as you say tough decisions but cruel to be kind is the best way to say it, really old ewes will just not survive and that isn't the way a farmer wants to see happen.

  • @jldisme
    @jldisme 2 місяці тому +1

    Hope the incision has healed up completely and that you get good news on the ankle.

  • @silvershadow013
    @silvershadow013 2 місяці тому +2

    You guys are absolutely amazing. I love that the boys are experiencing all the farm work! Best way to grow up as far as I'm concerned, Have you had any maedi vizna in your flocks? Hugs to you all!

  • @MollyPlaskett
    @MollyPlaskett 2 місяці тому +27

    I'm glad you're keeping the earless ewe, . . . aka . . . Earin

    • @casperbenj
      @casperbenj 2 місяці тому +7

      Cammy can start a "golden girls" group like Sandi Brock.

    • @gregedmand9939
      @gregedmand9939 2 місяці тому +5

      "Earin" is certainly a kinder name than Lugless.

  • @WolfMimirMori
    @WolfMimirMori 2 місяці тому +7

    We have a few sheep at our farm that is 10-11 years old, and they're still kicking it as we take them to islands and move them about.
    Will be sad to see them go as they are massive for aiding with more scared sheep or those that has become a bit too wild, luckily we have a few younger 1-3 year olds that are on the road to be just as useful.
    EDIT: They're so called "Värmlandsfår", a Swedish breed. We'd have only them if it wasn't for the issue that they lamb late in the season, which is an issue for our line of work of taking them out on islands.

    • @TheSheepGame
      @TheSheepGame  2 місяці тому +1

      Really interesting thanks for that!

  • @morganalori
    @morganalori 2 місяці тому +3

    I recommend a small but hideously bright keychain. Suggest industrial orange. So if the key happens to fall out of the ignition again, twill be a tad bit easier to find. Congrats on your first retired sheep. Will there be more?

  • @marmalademomzyboop8975
    @marmalademomzyboop8975 2 місяці тому +4

    Thanks for sharing and keeping it real.

  • @AmandaTroutman
    @AmandaTroutman 2 місяці тому +6

    Thanks for another great video, Cammy!

    • @TheSheepGame
      @TheSheepGame  2 місяці тому +1

      Thank you for watching and commenting! 😁

  • @lindaarmstrongjackman9788
    @lindaarmstrongjackman9788 2 місяці тому +2

    You and Lizzy are doing great at farming and raising those three adorable children. Angus is right in there along with his big brother. 😊❤️
    Nice rugby shirt!

    • @TheSheepGame
      @TheSheepGame  2 місяці тому

      Thanks! 😁

    • @l.m.4014
      @l.m.4014 2 місяці тому

      @@TheSheepGame Haha. Yes, Angus sure is.... learning so much from his Big Brother.
      Stay turned....for up and coming videos, that could prove very entertaining. (for Us ....not them)

  • @bockersjv
    @bockersjv 2 місяці тому +17

    Get an Airtag or Tile on that key. If it goes missing again you’ll find it in seconds.

  • @Whipkick2
    @Whipkick2 2 місяці тому +8

    Your video's just keep getting better.

  • @bejaysus7388
    @bejaysus7388 2 місяці тому +2

    A boy Cammy another good video 👍.
    Those culls served you well, twins for 7 years is a very good return.
    Very lucky to find that key 😂😂

  • @VP-nz6ok
    @VP-nz6ok 2 місяці тому +2

    Love when Jock gets the camera, and love your antics

  • @stacey_h
    @stacey_h 2 місяці тому +2

    You're going to have your own flock of Golden Girls like Sandi Brock. She started out with a small flock and its grown a bit. Hers are getting up there in age and spent the last winter hunkered down in her old barn in a real nice bed of straw.

    • @jhutch1681
      @jhutch1681 2 місяці тому +1

      Yes, but she has a smaller operation and only keeps her favourite pets, and is more hands on with her indoor herd. Nice to see Cammie keep a pet or two as well :)

  • @TifJones-p8s
    @TifJones-p8s 2 місяці тому +8

    if farmer in the UK were going to do hair sheep - they really need to look at the Australian White - Aussie youtuber "Tara farms" did a great vlog in the last month about purchasing a Aussie White flock - what she was looking for and why - tups with a good gap between their hooves to prevent foot root - the Aussie White is also a grass fed sheep - why it was crossed they way it was, they call it the Wagyu of sheep - the fat does not sit on top of the meat it runs through the meat like Wagyu

    • @willieallan953
      @willieallan953 2 місяці тому +3

      I saw that episode, too.
      Another great sheperd is Sandi Brock here in Southern Ontario, Canada.
      Cammie hosted Sandi and Mark on Fed By Farmers, and Sandi did the same with Tara at her farm in Canada - all great fun!

    • @TifJones-p8s
      @TifJones-p8s 2 місяці тому

      @@willieallan953 yes they were all great vlogs - I watched them to

    • @TheSheepGame
      @TheSheepGame  2 місяці тому

      Yeah i’ve seen lots of great things about the Aussie whites. Tara is great! Lots of fun!

  • @Snowkitty1424
    @Snowkitty1424 2 місяці тому +1

    Hi Cammy, Do you still have Iris? I was watching your old videos and I was wondering what had happened to her?
    I'm so happy your going to keep the old no ear one, that makes me so happy! 🥰

  • @Ksweetpea
    @Ksweetpea 2 місяці тому +3

    7:40 Cammy, i bought a bright orange key fob sleeve off amazon and it is a game changer for finding my dropped keys. A big old keytag or lanyard too!

  • @Deborah-nw9mp
    @Deborah-nw9mp 2 місяці тому

    Great video, as always. Hope your surgery went well.

  • @lappmarksweden4582
    @lappmarksweden4582 2 місяці тому +1

    Love to see the little ones work med mummy and daddy

  • @GrannyEi
    @GrannyEi 2 місяці тому +3

    Great content Cammy x

  • @denisemarie1825
    @denisemarie1825 2 місяці тому

    Thanks!

  • @paulf4424
    @paulf4424 2 місяці тому +4

    Tip for you cammy, get a luminous key ring for that key.
    You'll thank yourself.

    • @TheSheepGame
      @TheSheepGame  2 місяці тому +1

      Defo! Or maybe even an apple tag!

  • @fionasingh565
    @fionasingh565 2 місяці тому +1

    I love Jock cam so much !!!

  • @TifJones-p8s
    @TifJones-p8s 2 місяці тому +6

    have you got a collection of No Ear's daughters? I surpose you were not recording 7 years ago - would be good to know who her daughters were and how they were going

    • @TheSheepGame
      @TheSheepGame  2 місяці тому

      Good question! They will just be mixed into the flock 🫣

  • @SarahZeeb
    @SarahZeeb 2 місяці тому +1

    I see Angus finally got to sit in the chair and Jock got the trusty red bucket. Oh Jock oh no! Keys are off limits🤣 I still remember when one of my littler brothers was around that age and threw my dad's keys to his truck in a flooded drainage ditch. Took my dad, my uncle and I a good hour to find them.

    • @TheSheepGame
      @TheSheepGame  2 місяці тому +1

      😅 its a lesson learned

    • @SarahZeeb
      @SarahZeeb 2 місяці тому

      @@TheSheepGame It's definitely something people don't think about until happens.

  • @Annie6460
    @Annie6460 2 місяці тому

    The amazing sheep farming vlog! Love it Cammy. And the old girl is going to retire. What is her name Cammy?❤️🇦🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  • @naomicoward4687
    @naomicoward4687 2 місяці тому +2

    Love a retirement village of special sheep.

  • @blackdog2994
    @blackdog2994 2 місяці тому

    Long day, thank god you had Lizzie there👍

  • @Christopher-s-Mother
    @Christopher-s-Mother 2 місяці тому

    Fantastic!!! a shepherd who is compssionate with his sheep will do well ...

  • @mels7735
    @mels7735 2 місяці тому

    If you use licks, get one with yellow sulphur, helps with fly strike, lice/mites 😊

  • @PinkPartridge-z5q
    @PinkPartridge-z5q 2 місяці тому

    Boy with a stick! Happy days

  • @DeerheartStudioArts
    @DeerheartStudioArts 2 місяці тому

    luv your vids! great seeing your family!🦌💌❤️👍

  • @OxxFreddyGlasgow.
    @OxxFreddyGlasgow. 2 місяці тому

    Another awesome video Cammy.

  • @buzzard732
    @buzzard732 2 місяці тому +3

    Old Luggless!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️🐑

  • @struancochrane753
    @struancochrane753 2 місяці тому +5

    Cammy, please can you let us know what your cull ewes fetch. It is an important, but usually a forgotten about, income stream. If you run 1200 ewes, and call them after their 6th lamb, you have in the region of 200 cull ewes for age (minus 10% of being barren or death).

    • @TheSheepGame
      @TheSheepGame  2 місяці тому +3

      Yeah I think we ended up with 120 in total this year! Be averaging about £65 so far i think. These girls would be below the ave and the mules would be above it👍

    • @struancochrane753
      @struancochrane753 2 місяці тому

      @TheSheepGame £7,800 in cull sales, not to be sniffed at. Better than a fee from the knacker man in Jan Feb when they die having put a few weeks of feed into them. Thank you for being so open about for business.

  • @AussieKool
    @AussieKool 2 місяці тому

    Did jock give you a cuddle when you were upset and crying haha

  • @jhutch1681
    @jhutch1681 2 місяці тому +2

    When you cull your sheep because they are thin, do they get sold at market?
    Lol, I spend 5 hours one evening looking for car keys when my first daughter was just a year old. We were supposed to be loading the car to depart on a camping trip first thing in the morning. At midnight, exhausted and frustrated, I went to pour myself some water from the pitcher, and something rattled inside... Toddler had dropped the keys in the water, and I NEVER would have thought to look there! Aren't they great?!!

    • @abuelitacaicedo3185
      @abuelitacaicedo3185 2 місяці тому

      We looked for the keys for so long my hubby had called a cab and then I started washing dishes … and found one of the kids had dropped them in with the dishwater😂 (40 years ago) Now I just start tidying up until I find whatever is lost😅

  • @garymadden2656
    @garymadden2656 2 місяці тому

    Great video Cammy 👌

  • @DeerheartStudioArts
    @DeerheartStudioArts 2 місяці тому +1

    put an air tag on the key so you can find it

  • @azamyahmad
    @azamyahmad 2 місяці тому

    Lovely beautiful family over there and gorgeous settings presentation looks super awesome super amazing and TQSM from Montreal QC Canada

  • @holymyrrhbearers6271
    @holymyrrhbearers6271 2 місяці тому

    hooray for lugs glad she gets to stay one more year

  • @Roosmarijn035
    @Roosmarijn035 2 місяці тому

    Aw, bless her. Practical question: could you even send her off having no ears thus no tags?

  • @meghanplamondon8639
    @meghanplamondon8639 2 місяці тому

    I guess Sandi has rubbed off on you with her Golden girls, lol. Nice idea. Ask me why I have a brightly coloured lanyard on all of my sets of keys? Works great. ❤❤

  • @amandadouthwaite1863
    @amandadouthwaite1863 2 місяці тому

    Great video Cammy & Lizzy i love the fact your keeping miss luggless bless her she has been a good ewe. I love the idea of you having your own little golden girl group like your good friend Sandy.
    The boys are growing so much you will soon have 2 free shepards well free ish 😂 sweet treats and a toy or two for wages and dont forget the wonderful modeling they are doing for your mrech 😁 wont be long before Bonnie will be helping too.
    Take care and have a good weekend 💜

  • @Pauline-hw7bx
    @Pauline-hw7bx 2 місяці тому +2

    How are Spot's paws Cammie?

    • @TheSheepGame
      @TheSheepGame  2 місяці тому +3

      Great! All bandages off now😁

  • @colingourdie1857
    @colingourdie1857 2 місяці тому +1

    Great video Cammy,how you like the rappa ,am pricing them up , also the porta yard and modulamb ,,,😵‍💫

    • @TheSheepGame
      @TheSheepGame  2 місяці тому +1

      All great to be fair. This one has low hurdles. We defo need them a bit higher which i think the newer rappa has!

  • @marianrezelman4714
    @marianrezelman4714 2 місяці тому

    You need a big red tag on that key! yikes! ❤️👏🏼❤️

  • @paddy294
    @paddy294 2 місяці тому

    Cracking video as always

  • @imwolfin
    @imwolfin 2 місяці тому +2

    🤗

  • @tikkathreebarrels
    @tikkathreebarrels 2 місяці тому

    Jock put the key back in the keyhole but DON'T TURN IT!! Cammy, Lizzy you need a better system for the truck keys

  • @Axqu7227
    @Axqu7227 2 місяці тому

    Every farmer has a pet or two! Next thing you know you'll have a little retirement flock like Sandi. It's harder to get attached with such a large commercial flock run across several fields, but you somehow managed! (Of course it'd happen with an animal you nursed back to health)

    • @TheSheepGame
      @TheSheepGame  2 місяці тому

      Yeah she’s done me well. We just need to look after her a bit more this winter 😁

  • @RICDirector
    @RICDirector 2 місяці тому

    Been wondering how she was or if you sent the old earless gal cull...
    Glad shes sticking around!

    • @TheSheepGame
      @TheSheepGame  2 місяці тому

      Yeah we’ll give her some feeding and keep her fit 😁

  • @oraneal992
    @oraneal992 2 місяці тому

    ❤❤❤

  • @jldisme
    @jldisme 2 місяці тому

    Or put the key on a lanyard and wear it. :)

  • @sporranheid
    @sporranheid 2 місяці тому

    👍

  • @ronaldlucas5360
    @ronaldlucas5360 2 місяці тому

    Enjoyed

  • @beejayem42
    @beejayem42 2 місяці тому

    🐨👍

  • @sandrarogers2759
    @sandrarogers2759 2 місяці тому +2

    Retirement village like Sandi Brock.???

  • @nitaruiz140
    @nitaruiz140 2 місяці тому

    Have you looked at the Aussie Whites?

    • @TheSheepGame
      @TheSheepGame  2 місяці тому

      None over here but i listened to an interesting podcast on them.

  • @Sandra-hk8ks
    @Sandra-hk8ks 2 місяці тому +2

    Should of taken the keys out of thr ignition. YOU know better than that. Like with animals you always have to look ahead..if they can get into it move it out of the way.

  • @Snow-n8q
    @Snow-n8q 2 місяці тому +1

    Oh 🥰😊😍💜
    👱👱💚💛🐑
    👶💛💚👌👍

  • @pamelacarbone3735
    @pamelacarbone3735 2 місяці тому

    Attach two BRIGHTLY NEON rabbits feet to your keys. They won't be lost long if at all.

  • @mels7735
    @mels7735 2 місяці тому

    Pretty sure cammy lost the keys and just blamed the kids 😂😂

  • @philomenahearn1717
    @philomenahearn1717 2 місяці тому +2

    😂

  • @KarinMayberry-w1m
    @KarinMayberry-w1m 2 місяці тому

    I was visiting my mom and dad‘s house and my son was riding his new little car and had grabbed the keys from my dad and put it in the trunk of the little car. We didn’t find the keys till the next morning.

  • @brigidconroy2111
    @brigidconroy2111 2 місяці тому

    Poor old girl glad you retired her even it isn’t very farmerish
    Dad had one pet he retired
    of course our whining to keep her played a role in his decision 😂😂

  • @carolilseanne2175
    @carolilseanne2175 2 місяці тому

    I would hide under a tree if somebody was going to cull me!

  • @fruitsalad7611
    @fruitsalad7611 2 місяці тому

    Are the sheep heading for the slaughterhouse?

  • @Mama-tea
    @Mama-tea 2 місяці тому +1

    I hate maggots. I wanna keep all the sheep 😢 I know you have to be cruel to be kind but it’s still sad. It’s clear you have a bond with them as you remember them

    • @TheSheepGame
      @TheSheepGame  2 місяці тому +1

      Yeah it’s a shame because they have been good to me. I’ve learned my lesson in the past keeping them too long and they just can’t look after themselves through a hard winter.

  • @ThomasGFarrell
    @ThomasGFarrell 2 місяці тому

    In order to half your problems go through your breeding flock with February eyes

  • @firstlight7419
    @firstlight7419 2 місяці тому

    Get a metal detector for keyfinding