800 sheep between two part time shearers!! Can we cope? NORTHUMBERLAND PART 2 | SHEEP SHEARING 2020
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- In this video we cover two days down in Northumberland where Sean and I tackle a couple big days on nice shearing sheep.
Can we get them all done?
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ABOUT ME
I’m 30 years old and I’m a sheep farmer from Ayrshire in South West Scotland. That’s why I have such a strong accent!! I was born and raised in sheep with my dad being a shepherd on an Ayrshire farm.
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.
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 keep my hand in. From there it escalated quickly from my first 4 sheep in my mum’s garden to now running around 600 ewes.
I shear over 10,000 sheep a season in UK and I also travel to Norway for shearing in March and September.
A few years ago I bought myself a sheep scanner and have been building up my run since then so I have a good income stream in summer and winter.
I watched a few farm vlogs on RUclips and decided I could have a go and now here we are!
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I like the time lapse shearing and drone footage, Cammy, cos it gives a real flavour of what life is like for you. Don't fret about people not liking it; it's an insight into a completely different world, for lots of us 😋.
Thanks Katherine!! I’ll try keep it as interesting as possible!
I’m a vet student from west of Ireland (22) been shearing here for about 9 years now slowly building up my numbers every year, 3500 done so far this year and coming to the end of the season, absolutely love the videos 👌🏽
That’s cracking James! I didn’t even start shearing until i was 23 so u are well ahead of me!!
I live in Texas, USA. Sean's arrow just landed right next to me! Scared the crap out of me and my dog!
Haha what a laugh i got there Micah! We spent ages looking for that! 😂🤣
Wow I found another one. You guys are always happy and having fun and horsing around and getting the job done in a serious fun way. You remind me of those Shepherds up in the Himalayas that are always happy no matter what happens.
Love seeing you and your crew enjoying your work!
Shearers either have the greatest spinal cords or have access to the greatest drug supply known to man because just watching you makes my back hurt and I am lying down!!
I hope you are saving your money because you won't be doing this in your old age!
Stay well!!
Trying to earn as much as I can to buy a farm =D. Hopefully manage it in the next 8 years! Thanks Colleen!
Not boring at all! Very enjoyable from beginning to end.
Thanks MacDonalds, I'm looking forward to the summer shearing season already 😊
Anyone else loving the lilting cadence of Sean's speech?
He's a fan favorite and will be back for the shearing season!
Great piece of flying sheep catching there from the vet ...... 🍷🍺👍
Yeah he’s an able lad!!
Another great video thanks for posting 👍🇨🇦😎 I sheared my wife's 12 sheep 6 on Saturday and 6 on Sunday lol
Easy for me because i’m at it every day so well done tackling ur own!!! Much sweating going on? 😁
You may think this is boring because it is common to you, but for us city folk it is very interesting to see how shearers do it and, at least for me, it looks like a pretty good workout - no gym required for it.
Question for you mate...do you do both sheep game and police work both or take time away during lambing and sheering? Enjoyed reading about you. You are a great athlete. Have a blessed day. Karen
Hi Karen, so i always took holidays at Lambing and shearing. From 1st April i started a 2 year career break. 😁
Beautiful scenery, wonderful people, great work, heroic vets, whats not to love about The Sheep Game!
💖 summed it up great! 😂
Really enjoyed the video. Do you guys ever get back ache bending over like that all day? All I could think at the end when you were doing the archery was OMG those sheep across the field must have been feeling a bit jittery 😂
Thanks Mags. Back only really bothers me if there is a very cold wind blowing but usually it’s fine. No sheep were killed in the making of this video,😃
Great video wonderful people's.. nice view.. looking forward FOR MORE video from YOU.. Million thumbs up FOR sharing..
415 and you're calling others guns! Great job. I'm another vet who can shear (very averagely), met Kaz before, top guy! Enjoy the vids, keep them coming
I work away quietly.😁. Kaz says he knows u “top guy” ☺️
😂 I did NOT think @farmvetfilms man would catch that sheep! What a hero 😂
That was an amazing sheep leap. When you say you are shearing mules... what breeds does that mean? From an apartment dwelling granny in BC Canada who spins yarn.
Simone Varey Mules are usually a cross between the Blue Leister and the Scottish Mountain or Swaledale. The shearers love them as they have no belly wool, so they get to shear a lot faster. You are probably looking at carpet yarn.
Wendy is about right there. When we say ‘mules’ we mean ewes from a BLue faced Leicester Ram over a Blackface / Swaledale ewe.
Sean! The archery teacher is adorable.
Seat belts please. Love the drone stuff when it holds still, causes motion sickness if spinning round. Love to watch the shearing.
Looking forward to the summer and to get back shearing and some warmer weather!
How many vets does it take to shear a sheep?
One...three days.
haha Kaz is my hero!
"Just a shepherd who does a few" i think you said ! Then bangs up 415 day! Some boy you! Good to see!!
Cheers Jimmy! Just working away quietly,,
@@TheSheepGame you're getting it right mate!
You deserve a podium, guys. (Wink wink) I wonder if you could announce the shearing, build a tribunes 🏟 and have live crowds watching. Lolz. I’d come. When Sean and you perform :)
WOW....how good a shearing are these course hair jumbucks ....Not a wrinkle on them. Come down under to OZ boys I’ll show you a real sheep. Lol
Day 19...your grass is green and your sun is shining again. What better way to start a day. I live in B C. CANADA.right down at bottom of the province ,just outside the city of Vancouver, a couple of miles from the American border. We are plagued again by covid here again .especially at a lot of seniors homes. Masks worn everywhere here. Inside all stores and mostly outside too.No groups of people meeting togethr.I don't see any people in your videos wearing masks. Love the views from your drone. Amazing country you have.cwishing you all well there..
my old farm vet was also a sheep farmer, and since she'd butcher her own use chickens, I assume she did her own sheering as well.
Great video. Keep the crac going. 🤙
Cheers Gareth!!
In the usa they think they've done well at 100 per day
Different sheep Derek! A 200 day there is like a 400 here on those sheep!
It's all about the patter not the money🥰
Hell your some man at shearing! 🤙🏻 keep up the good work!
Just playing at it really but doing my best! Cheers mate!
How many vets? Boys and girls who were brought up on farms. Thank you for finding time for fitting while you are sweating your socks off.
I am glad there wasn’t a King Harold moment.
Cheers Wendy! He’s a nice vet!
Videos getting better and numbers getting bigger.ye are serious workersand a good bit of craic asweel!! Looking forward to the next one.
Cheers Donl! Working on the next one just now!
What happens to the wool on the ground I've been wondering. by the way I don't have my antenna to watch TV for a while so expect some comments from me. Lol.
Is 26 too late to apply as lambing assistant and reconsider my life choices? :D
A mate said watch the sheep game it's great a Welsh guy films it
Haha close! I’m from the other Celtic nation!!,
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@@TheSheepGame great channel great banter the best thing to come out of Wales ever
Who is the Archer that wants shooting, you do not shoot towards people, or hold the draw on a long bow, ggrrrr.
Anyone any idea when the "this farming life" is coming back
They are filming for it now so should be back in Autumn I’d think
@@TheSheepGame deadly thank you cammy
I just love you, your family and Sean, you have the best laugh ever❤️❤️❤️Texas, USA
What makes a sheep shear good? Is it purely down to breeding? Or does weather? Animal conditioning?
All those things and more! Lots of variables so not an easy question to answer!
Them two girls are absolute peelers 😍
Steady Anthony 😂
The Sheep Game hats off chap your some goer 👍🏻🐑
Has Sean started a You Tube Channel yet? 🤔
Talk about speaking english?
when i see your vids i wish I'd stuck in with shearing but then family farm took priority?! but that bow and arrow is wicked haha
Thanks John. We can’t do everything and hopefully the farming has worked out well for you!
WOW, 4,053.... thats alot of sheep.. great views and windmills too 👍
Cheers the tallys are climbing!,
My home county, I'm a proud Northumbrian lass. Lovely looking yows.
Alpha males at work!🌻
Yeah but who is the most Alpha Heidi?
I also enjoy the time-lapse shearing and the drone shots. The vet's sheep capture was cool. Although watching him shear the sheep made me wince. Carding and spinning wool is my hobby, and watching him make all of those second cuts was painful.
I love to watch you folks shearing .. and I love the scenery, both landscape & farms & folks. Don't dis the shearing shots ... it is somehow mesmerizing.
Really enjoy your videos Cammy! I love the camaraderie even though I can’t understand a lot of it!? 😆😉 The shearing is always enjoyable. Anyone can see that you love what you do. Keep up the great work.🤗😁
Isn’t that how they go shopping for food in Orkney ?
We had a lovely rabbit for dinner that night!😂
Best vid yet. Great stuff hell of a shearer 💪🏻💪🏻
Thanks mate just doing my best😀
i always enjoy the blogs and it is what is thats why i enjoy it them
Thanks Mick!
Bonny sheep the mule
Grate vid as ussual cammy there was a fare qulity of sheep you where sheering there some catch by the vet
Cheers Dave thanks for always watching!
@@TheSheepGame no bother its good content so why not watch it
Shearing is not boring at all. None of the farming is.
How many blackies/scotch ewes would you blow out in a day?some shearing doing 400+ mules👍
Would do 400 on blackies too. Most of the sheep i shear are blackies so fairly well used to them. Have u shore some?
Yes,but keep cheviot,Suffolk and lleyn crosses .only shear for myself. Great videos you put up👍👍
Stick with the hammer Thor. Good vid Cam
Not exciting? It’s 95 F with 90% humidity here, with blazing subtropical sun that’ll scorch my skin if I go out in it. Just watching y’all outside all day in nice weather is delightful! ( Central Louisiana, sugar cane farming. The crops live this awful climate)
Sounds like some heat you have over there Elizabeth, wouldn't be much fun shearing outside in those conditions!!
How much a 100 do you get over there
It covers my fuel bill.... just 😃😃😃
Are they straight out of the paddock or are they given time to empty
Straight out the paddock Len. Not ideal but very common here. A lot of places don’t have sheds or even big enough yards.
@@TheSheepGame After 100's of years farming why don't they have shearing sheds, especially the bigger farmers.
Gotta love the sheep that come through at head high
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Get. Mr nesbit in as your camra man 😂 good banter
He’s better in front of the camera😂
@@TheSheepGame Aye perhaps...what's he like at shearing...hehe
It's just fine the way it is!!!😜
I would love to come with use men 1 day hate vermon sheep but it would be some laugh 😂 😂 Great crack keep it up 👍
Cheers Mark! All about the banter!!
Absolutely beautiful scenery
Most folk get 30 grand a year for the turbines, over 25 years better than keeping sheep.
I knew I should have made Sean buy the lunches!!
Best video to date belter 💪🏻💪🏻
Cheers John i’m really pleased with it!!!
We like what you are putting on here. Also, archery is terrific!
Thanks Kathy
Awesome video.
Glad you're enjoying the channel Alice
Amazing job guys!
Great videos
Cheers Conor thanks for taking time to comment!
Wow looks like spots of snow on the grass. Do u rake up all the free fleece parts ??
Aye it does, I imagine the farmer would have raked up quite a bit of the wool just to keep it tidy, not that it would be worth anything.
How many hours for you 415
Would be under 9 that day.
The Sheep Game good effort, go you
Brilliant
Cheers Donald!
What happens to the wool.?? I know u said it isn't worth much, but where is it sent, do u know.???
It is sold to a merchant. So the farmer will take the bags to a depot where they will be weighed and then paid at a later date depending on price.
@@TheSheepGame thanks.
Have u ever did a POV of shearing?
Hi Pamela, Check out my final blast video you will see a couple sheep with headcam on. Thanks =D
Does the sheep get razor burn?
No Mel. The blade that’s on the skin is rounded so its more like getting a buzz cut at barbers than a shave
Nice catch on the way that strayed
Thanks Tanya
Money for jam
Those sheep were bouncy, vet catching that one mid bounce,what a save, wonder if he plays rugby? So gonna have to show my ignorance now, what do you mean when you say they are "peelers"? Great vid, enjoyed watching. Cheers.
The sheep shear really nice the wool just peels away from the skin
@@aaronlennoncorcoran7042 Thank you for your answer. I was wondering the same thing. Can you tell me what he means when he say they're Mules? Here a Mule is a type of horse/donkey bread together. Please help.
@@knowledgeispower2770 no problem. A mule is a cross between a bluefaced Leicester ram and mountain/hill ewe usually a swaledale there the sheep with the speckled black and white face. There a really hardy sheep and very prolific breed. There's loads of different variations like the scotch mule and Welsh mule
Knowledge IsPower a mule is a maternal breed of sheep. It is a cross of a hill breed such as the Scottish black face and a blue face leister (upland breed) so you get the Hardiness and maternal instincts of a hill breed and the larger frame and a more prolific traits from the blue face. This then allows farmers to have a more prolific ewe with hybrid vigour which a terminal (lowland) breed such as texel is then used with the mule ,with the aim to produce 2 lambs per ewe reaching a weight of 44kg in around 16 weeks compared to say 1 lamb from a hill ewe weighing 35kg in 24 weeks.
@@aaronlennoncorcoran7042 Thank you.
You worry too much !
Haha there has been a lot of wet days since !
My uncle knows a guy that sold a sheep dog for €40,000
How many wool bags did you fill ?
No idea Ryan! There was a fair few though 😃
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