Keeping Sheep For Milk And Meat (how we do it anyway).
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- We have looked at different aspects of sheep management in previous videos, but this is to bring it all together and show what happens over one year.
We have kepet sheep for more than ten years (usually 3 or 4 milking ewes) and still have plenty to learn. But one thing we are sure of - sheep are sweet friendly animals and make our lives here better.
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Absolutely brilliant video! This is what a platform like RUclips should be about. Sharing authentic experiences, good or bad.
Thanks Piotr : - )
@@WayOutWestx2 , you seem to do a great job taking care of your lambs and sheep, you really care about them getting the best food, excersise, milking. I love lambs and sheep. Just one quibble, I wish that I didn't hear you say that you're taking the lambs to the butcher. I understand that you need money though, we all do. I just feel that lambs and sheep are just too pure and innocent in their nature to have to die before they're old, that's just me talking though, because I really feel for these simple peaceful animals
So much can be appreciated from your video production, thank you for sharing the correct relationship people were meant to have with animals!
This was a huge help. We have purchased 12 ewe lambs to breed and set up a small flock on our farm. I had never thought of milking sheep but tasted some sheep cheese at a gourmet market. The lady said they used sheep milk exclusively and loved it. The sheep milk would fill the time our Jersey Katie is dry. 1.5 liters a day would be just right. Your girls are wonderful.
I absolutely love ❤️ your video and how you raise your sheep.
Hello from Canada - I was watching your video just now while drinking sheep’s milk (mixed in the food blender with maple syrup and an avocado). A sheep milk shake. It is clear from your video how much work is involved to follow your routines - respect! Thank you for the learning experience. Cheers.
thanks, Eric : - )
that was so lovely, it actually brought a tear to my eye. it reminded me of the small flock of sheep and goat my grandfater kept when i was very young, and of how much time and caring he devoted to them, just like you do with all your animals.
Thank you for explaining slowly. My 7yr daughter loved watching this informative vid with me. The love for your animals is clear to see!
We're glad you liked it : - )
Thank you very much for this video! I am very interested in owning milk sheep but had no idea where to start and no one to ask, so videos like this are invaluable for me! :) I still have much to learn before I could actually own sheep but still I look forward to the day I can.
Glad it was helpful!
This is still the best video for lamb sharing on RUclips. I keep watching it to remind myself of when to separate my lambs lol. Thank you!
And my kids love the video too!
Our 3 Friesland x Gotland ewes began lambing this weekend here on our small holding in the Brecon Beacons and we are looking forward to our first milk soon. We've read many articles but this short film showing your annual activities brought it all together in a clear and very helpful way. Thank you very much
Thank you - I'm glad it was helpful. Best of luck with yours : - )
I wish more people managed their animals the same way you do, must be a good experience for the kids that come as well, wish I'd had somewhere like that around where I lived to go to as a kid
I just watched this video with some of my kids.
This was thoroughly enjoyable! They say sheep milk has a creamy texture that's better than cows milk if one is lactose intolerant. Would love to try some, but I'll bet it's expensive
See if your area has "sheep shares" you pay for partial ownership. I live in the city but a short drive away you can pick up your ownership part of the animal. Some places require you to work in order to save money and truly have ownership. I am sure it's different around the world, but it sounds like a common enough thing. This is actually more popular in areas of strict laws where there is still a need for affordable milk people of all income levels can digest. The farms follow the laws but are still allowed to give options as long as everyone follows hygiene laws, and the milk is not sold past the group of owners.
Also called a co-op.
Yeah it’s expensive. $20 a quart in my area. But it tastes like heavy cream.
What a wonderful video! I hope this has somehow made it’s way into schools for kids to see.
I love how you pronounce "ewes", it's very similar to the way my late father and grandfathers said it.
Pronounced "yos"
I am from the Frisian province and recognized the sheep to be frisian milksheep. We've always had a few of them. They're lovely.
Wow, you two are busy folks. And, I appreciate how you love your animals and treat them with respect.
What a great video! I learned a lot! I’ve never lived on a farm and this was interesting about your annual routine with the sheep. Thanks so much! 🐑
I'm so glad I found this channel! That was intensely interesting. I love the way you gently condition the animals so they experience minimal stress.
Klaus
What We Do they are going to die anyway it is so unfair them
@@valentinag3770 That's a pretty weak argument. We're all going to die anyway. These lambs live better (and longer) lives than many in the wild would due to predation and illness. Sheep are ruminants, so they release a lot of methane which is not good for the environment (in large quantities). The land would not be able to handle year after year of sheep. It may not be pleasant, but if you want to keep farm animals this is the kindest way to keep them.
It's quite helpful learning your animals following you with a bucket of grain...
Good system you have. Beautiful sheep.
That was SO well done. Very informative to this aspiring farmer. Thank You very much.
this video has made me very happy and relaxed
Sandra smile Spirit and optimism is uplifting
Sandra and Tim, I love your videos, have learn much. Love to see how kind you treat all your animals. Many Blessings Laura M
Aw, thanks Laura!
Hey do you know how long would stay on its mothers milk if you did not intervene? Do you think there is a difference in meat quality? Or are these sheep bred to produce excess milk?
Yes these are bred to produce more milk than is needed for the lambs - and to milk for longer. We could milk them for six months, but the lambs would probably stop naturally after 3 or 4
best sheep video ive seen so far ..love the vibe ..thank you for sharing 💗
Its nice seeing your puppy get bigger too!
Just a beautiful video. Thank you for sharing how you keep sheep. I loved it.
8:00 what a sweet heart
you must have great friends to care for you animals when you are away.
It's been many years since we both went away together!
@@WayOutWestx2 is the hair of dairy sheep valuable for sale?
Wonderful wonderful video! So fun to watch!
I used to have Icelandic/Friesian mix. Your farm is a good place to be a sheep. Blessings!
Wonderful video! I enjoyed watching the full cycle.
really really lovely video! makes me miss working on a farm and with livestock animals :( very nice to see the sheeps
My aunt breeds Babydoll sheep for companion animals (she gets jokingly upset when someone eats lamb around her) and even since I can remover I’ve helped her bottle feed! I even showed up at just the right time once and got to watch a birth! My dad won’t let me get one of the sheep, but my aunt lives right next to my best friend, so we go and visit them!
Excellent! Baby lambs are the best!
Thank you, i plan to start raising sheep and this was an amasing guide!
making a small farm life look enjoyable...thanks
This was so very helpful and educational! We have our first lambs and it is very difficult to find rearing info with details for timeline!! Thank you and hope to see more.
Our pleasure!
Planning on getting a dairy sheep or two for my family in the next year or so. My young boys (ages 3 and 6) are really enjoying your videos.
Excellent plan!
Sheep milk is delicious and best A2 milk
Thanks for showing and explaining how you manage your sheep. Thinking about getting some dairy/meat sheep in the future when we have some land/facilities for them.
What a nice video! Your sheep remind me of the goats I care for, especially Harriet. While I'm cleaning the barn, the goats like to follow me around and demand scratches.
I have a few questions: If you didn't mate the ewes with the rams in August/November and kept on milking them, how much milk would you theoretically be able to get from the ewes, and for how long? Is there a reason why you prefer to mate the sheep in August/November, and how late could you mate them if you wanted to?
What an enjoyable, relaxing video! I don't live in a place with enough land to keep farm animals, but when the County Fair happens each year, I go especially to make friends with the sheep. It always surprises me how much some of them just love attention-- even from a stranger like me. I hope that when I have my own house one day I can get a small flock of sheep! Thank you for sharing your sheep! What sweet, beautiful animals!
Saving this video for my kids to watch 👍🏽
Love that you wait 4 weeks before milking
Thank you for a great video, I am thinking about getting sheep for milk and meat, in addition to my goats. You answered all my questions.
Glad it was helpful!
Very informative, Trudy is so adorable, thank you for sharing
Thank you so much for this Sandra, it was so informative. Your ewes look incredibly happy with the situation. ❤️
Until they are "taken to the butcher", of course. I can't imagine that they are too chuffed about that.
@@Nilguiri the ewes are the adult females not the lambs
@@Justinian506 Ah! I see what you mean. Does that mean they only eat the lambs, then? generally, I mean, not Sandra and Tim, specifically. Do they select certain lambs for breeding and let them live until old age? Would they kill them once they get too old to breed? Would that be made into meat? Are some lambs allowed to live into adulthood adults and then used for meat, or do they breed from all of them? That would be mutton, right? I've been a veggie for most of my life, so I don't know if that exists any more. I seem to remember it from my childhood!
So many question! As you can tell, I don't know much about it, I'm afraid.
They're so sweet. Love to see them waggle their little tails 💗 Really enjoyed this video.
Very enjoyable video, thank you for sharing!
Utterly fascinating video.
Thanks, Lloyd!
*udderly
@@WayOutWestx2, I also love your video. And you look like you really love and care about the lambs and sheep. And unlike many modern dairys, I really appreciate you saying that you make sure that you save enough milk for the lambs. Trying to do that at sheep and cow dairys is more the old fashioned way. Around 70-100 years ago, almost all dairys made sure that there was milk for the people and enough left for the lambs or calves. Things changed in more recent decades when people cared so much about making as much money as possible, that they insisted on 100% of the mother's milk going to people, and killing the lambs and calves. People stopped caring about those innocent peaceful little animals
Thank you for this video. I watched 4 other RUclips videos about milking sheep before I found this video that actually tells me how many months the ewes normally stay in milk.
Best video ever! What a lovely dream you are living! ♥️ I hope to have my sheep soon!
Hi! This was an amazing video. I learned so much in 9 minutes!
I have a question. How long after separating the lambs from their mums can you continue milking the ewes until they dry out?
I understand you start breeding them come November, but if you didn’t, how long would they continue to produce milk for?
I’m assuming 6 months to 1 year?
I thoroughly enjoyed this video! TY for sharing!---Sheperdess in the 🇺🇸
I love your videos!!! We bought sheep specifically for milking, but they are very skittish. We didn’t want to stress them for milk. We are thinking of bottle feeding some lambs next spring so they will be less fearful and one day easy to milk. You’re video makes it look so easy. :)
Sounds like a good plan with the pet lambs. You might find they become too friendly and pushy - though. Good luck!
Wow... that was very enlightening and very well presented. Thank you! ☺️😍
Thankyou great learning time, wonder if it counts if watch multi times
Thank you for taking the time during the year to put this together, so nice to get an overview of what is involved. I bought sheep's yoghurt at a local market and it was truly delicious, not at all "goaty". Everything from goats milk tastes the way a barnyard smells (to me anyway).
Goats milk has the smallest curds of the 3 common dairy animal species. So, it is more easily digestible, but also the most fragile. It needs to be chilled immediately in an ice bath. Other things may help reduce goatiness too. Sheep have a mid sized curd. I was leaning more towards small breed dairy cows, but I'm strongly considering sheep.
I think a lot has to do with specific breeds as well....a friend kept a herd of Nubians and there was never a hint of off-putting scent or flavor...you'd never be able to tell the difference between her goat milk and cow's milk...except that it was a whole lot richer.
Your Airedales a puppy in this video! Adorable!!! Little rascal darling!!!❤️❤️❤️😘
i love to see what you guys are up to. excellent video.
Thank you for sharing this great and amazing video
Wonderful, lovely, informative video. Thank you
Hello from France!
Amazing! I'll watch all your videos!
Thank you! you are a great examle (sorry for my bad English)
Merci beaucoup, Lolly lolly : - )
Great video you have a beautiful farm
I don't remember if you've talked about this before but do you drink the milk while its raw and creamy or do you do anything to it?
I'm hoping for a cheese making video soon :)
We drink it raw. It needs to be kept in the fridge of course, but will last 3 or 4 days if needed.
What do you do for milk once they stop producing? Do you buy or do without?
We freeze the excess through the summer and just take a block out of the freezer every day.
@@WayOutWestx2 , so it is safe to drink raw sheep's milk? I remember before reading about the dangers of drinking raw unpasteurized milk, but they were talking about cow's milk. Besides, I'm sure you know what you're doing, you all seem smart. I was only asking out of curiosity.
Beautiful piece of land
SOOOOOO cuteee!!!! I got a little ClunForest ramling and hope to get some Ewes later. This is so inspiring and taught me a lot. So sweet
Hi how did you get on with the Cluns? I'm interested in getting a couple for milking but they're quite unusual in Ireland.
A wonderful video, as always -- It's so wonderful to get a glimpse into such a different life. Thank you for sharing :D
Straight forward video with calmly digestible information. Away from youtube "pop".
Thank you - we try our best!
Beautiful video! Thank you 💕
Everytime I watch your vlog, it always remind me of Enid Blyton's books The Famous Five... Heehee
Bring on the ginger beer!
Thank you for the education
What a joy to watch.
I feel I could just go out and buy some sheep and start! As always, simply and clearly explained. Thank you!
I love your video - very well made & informative. Reading from the comments below, am I right in assuming you don’t treat the milk in any way prior drinking? It goes straight to the fridge or freezer and if in the fridge, you drink it for up to three days raw (untreated)?
I enjoyed that very much. Thank you.
I have never tried sheep milk, how would you describe the taste? Anything like cow or goats milk? Sheep have individual and loving characters, I miss keeping the odd few 😞 another fantastic informative video, thank you Tim, Sandra and gang 👍🏻
Never tried it? Helen, you haven't lived! Seriously it's far nicer than goat (mild and sweet) and lighter than whole cow's milk so it's our favourite.
I know i live such a sad life 😜 it sounds wonderful, now I just need to find some! Thanks x
I love all your videos. Just wondering what feed is in the silver bowl while milking?
Oats!
@@WayOutWestx2 thanks :)
Nice and instructive video.
Just curious about the swelling on the ram's lower left jaw. Was that an absces or so?
Do you have the impression that these Milksheep are sensitve to diseases in general?
Yes they are very sensitive to all sorts of diseases. And they're not best suited to our wet climate either. But they do produce a lot of milk
tim and sandra love you both
This is awsome. you treat them like your babies.I appreciate what u have do. I am also animal lover.I wish you will capture another video soon. Keep it up.
Thanks for the new video..
Great job guys loving the sheep 👍👍
They are adorable and cute 🐑🐑
I wish all farming was able to be like this, I watched “Kurzesagt-In a nutshell” channel video yesterday which was a real eye opener to some farming methods.
Me, too. They still kill them, though.
thats life, eat to survive.
You do not need to eat meat to survive. You are stronger and more healthy without meat. Nice try, though.
"Killing life"? What a ridiculous argument. What do you want me to do? Eat sand?
And eating meat is far more expensive than vegetarian food. Pathetic argument. You must try harder.
Absolute nonsense.
How wonderful the cycle of life is. Thank you for explaining it to us.
Delightful and educational video 💕
Your video inspired me so much, I gave up my original idea to keep milking goats and started out with milking sheep instead. (This is also because we don't have a very good stable yet, and sheep, unlike goats, can stay outside all winter.) Mine are purebred Frisian milking sheep (but speckled ones, which is 'officially' not allowed). I am trying to follow the same scheme as you do. However, one of my ewes didn't get pregnant (bad luck, I hope, we'll try again next year) and the other one gives way less milk than yours. I barely get 600 cc from her in the morning, after the lams have been separated for 8 hours. I'd be interested to know if you feed them concentrates and if yes, how much.
Well done for trying - you might get more milk as your technique improves. No concentrates, just whole oats twice a day. Good luck!
I loved this video thank you!
Thankyou for making it!
Great video, them there sheep are not very stressed are they, just how it should be!! Do you sell the meat or is that all for your annual consumption?
We swap some for some beef, and sell some - but every year is different and sometimes we have too much and sometimes none at all
Do you two ever argue? I can't imagine what that would sound like, kind and cuddly.... :-o I am a screamer (think it is the finnish blood), I squeel like a beaten pig. (working on it)
I often wonder that. Maybe they hit each other with big bags of duck down...
Lm@o 😂 👍🏽
Very clear, informative and entertaining.
Surprised more nutters haven't commented :-)
There have been a couple of funny humorous comments on here
Thanks for the video.
This is right on time for me! I had been interested in working towards a micro dairy business. Dexters or Jerseys were smaller cattle breeds I've been leaning towards. Now and then I'd read about Kinder goats or Alpines. I bought a book about a 10 acre permaculture homestead. They milked 2 sheep. Their level of production seemed really low. I wasn't impressed, so back to the cow idea I went. Then, for some reason last week I decided to look more at dairy sheep and milk quality. I suppose it's because I have a surplus of bermuda grass and sheep graze grass more than goats do. I also think sheep are less capricious. I'm also impressed with the types of cheese that are commonly made from sheeps milk.
there are pros and cons of all the species - you have an interesting decision to make!
Do you make cheese? Would love an autumnal garden tour and what’s going on in the garden now. Great vlog again. Your animals have a lovely life cycle. Thank you.
Yes, lots of cheese. We've been too busy to film most of the harvest but there's a big one coming up..
Awesome. I love your vlogs. Thank you
Love watching your videos so much. My husbands family come from Sligo and everytime we go I always think of you too and wonder what youre doing and if you are very far away. We live in Kent near London but i love Ireland so much we are hoping to spend time there in the future. I grow loads in our tiny urban garden all over the place in a permaculture style which i think you do too?
Ha! Thanks, Tina! Permaculture means something different here because we're not looking to retain water(!) or provide shade(!) but, yes, you could say a lot of what we do is permaculture. It's an interesting subject, isn't it?
Thank you for this! When do you think you could stop milking the sheep without them developing mastitis?
You can stop anytime - just do it gradually. It gets easier as the season goes on. By October (when we do it) it takes just three or four days.
@@WayOutWestx2 ah ok thanks!
lovely video.
how much ground you need to have for you sheep?
greeting Jeroen.
Interesting and complicated quesstion - it depends so much on the land, how much hay/oats you buy in, how long you keep the lambs. At least an acre each though.
Thank you. :)
Wait so you have a few months without any milk? Do you freeze the milk to keep it. And how do you know how much milk they should be getting and how much is left in the udders, could you just milk them in the evenings and the rest out?
Yes, we freeze milk for the winter. It's important not to leave milk behind in the udder or it could go bad. Also, if you do, they will make less the next day.