Totally agree with you about the lambs, first loss is the best as my grandad used to say. I have lambs at the moment that are in a similar situation and am considering just leaving them out and let them grow naturally until January feb, cracking vid about true farming life, no bullshit 👏
So please you and your lovely sister had a great night out, well deserved Your merchandise sounds like it's going to fly out quicker than you can produce them, that shows how well you are loved and you content is drawing people in Keep up the great work Hope the kids enjoy half term Take care all Geoff
Sam, enjoyed your explanation on fattening lambs … Your children look like they are having a fun time, good for them! You are such a calm mum!!! Well done!! Thanks again!
Sam you are so humble people will desperately want to buy your merchandise because you're such a lovely lady. Glad to see you having a night out and enjoying yourself and subscribers buying you a drink. It was lovely to see you dancing away as your still a very young lady. Thank you for the educational video on costs because it is an eye opener to see how little you and Oliver make on your stock and what you put into them they have to be fed, feet dipped and body dipped, feet trimmed also worming all these cost time and money. You also have to put into consideration your time because you must get paid for your time everyone that goes out to work gets paid for that too. So you should add on a few more hundred pounds to that when you think about it. Also there inside in a shed and that has maintenance every now and then as you clean it out with machinery that needs diesel and parts. Farming everything costs you a fortune to replace and you have to think about your health it's a physically demanding job that affects your body carrying heavy bags move the wrong way and your laid up for weeks or months. You are all wonderful and not paid enough as far as I'm concerned so I hope you do very well on your merchandise and subscribers.
Hi Sam only ever commented once before but I have alot of time for you as 44 years go I was in the like you and had to pull some of the same stunts as yoarted farming on a rough broken down old farm like you. I now own it never and I have never milked a cow or keep a lamb or had a sum in 32 years. I know that things have changed since but my farm is still all down to and now it turns a profit you could only dream of and it was started by little rough lambs like yours so don't give up I started wintering little Kendal rough hoggs that could not come till November and had l had to keep till the 5thon of April and they paid me 5o pence per week that was the deal but that was the rate before you were, the measurement was Ted towers wagon they were so small he could fit approximately 500 on . But we sentthem back in spring we could not get them on is wagon and drag some went back in a. Bedford tk . The secret was improved grass land and. Clean ground no. Worms and poor little hoggs were bigger and better than the hoggs that had been kept at home round Kendal, is Raymond Robinson still alive worked as fore 12:51 man at Kendal auction he would farm somewhere near your grandmother was great friend of mine the only thing it's ever cost me is my health
Well well just been on fbook and seen a photo of two lovely ladies having a great night in a newly refurbished establishment,saw pictures of the crowds too but that just made me feel old.glad you all had a blast,you deserve itxxxx🍺🍾🌟
Sam, if you wear a lamb today and weigh that same lamb in one month time then calculate the lamb today at today’s price on the lamb and its weight in one months time at the price in one month from now you will realise it’s very good value what you’re spending on that lamb and how much more extra that lamb will cost you a month to sell
Hi Sam and family , I'm on school holiday at the moment in coventry UK . So good to see the children having fun . Thank you for sharing all you do, I addmeryou for shearing you time farming .Take care and all the best . 😊😊😊😊😊😊👍👍👍👍👍 Hope You have a happy Halloween and all the best with your much .💖💖💖
Hey good video. We had a similar situation, sold probably half the lambs fat straight off the grass/ewes averaged £130, when we weaned we fed the rest outside drawing lambs every week for about 6 weeks and all went fat apart from the last 12. The fat averaged £116 the 12 stores made £92.50. It’s questionable whether it was worth us feeding the lambs, it didn’t help with the price going down every week either. Conclusion is get as many fat off the grass as possible 🤷🏻
Great video. Having watched you on Fed by Farmers, i came across and subscribed. Succumbed today abd brought a mug. Partly so I can show my discontent with contractors. I think thrusting the coffee mug around in meetings, might just do yhe trick. Thanks for the figures, it shows the thin margins you operate under.
i think with all types of farming if you look too closely at your expenses you will find there is very little profit. i often think if we could get paid for our time we would do quite nicely........if only we could get paid an hourly equivalent to a accountant.........which reminds me i have our accountants bill to pay for doing last years accounts ..........£2,500.........why do we bother
I fatten my lambs on grass with whole oats or cake and works fine but they are mostly continental cross, I had some mule wethers once and had them in a shed fed them cereal based ration like you are and it took forever but as soon as I changed them to just cake, they was flying ! I recommend trying just cake even tho it is more expensive is does do a much better job and finish quicker so the days being fed is less. Also I’ve never fed little lambs as in my eyes they need to grow then fat not just feed and cost a fortune if that makes sense. Lambs looking well tho
@@Sam-shutt oh I’d love to see his face reading some of the comments you should make a video of him replying to some what a good man he is🤣, all I’m saying is I couldn’t afford proper cake for them mules at the start hence the cereal based but I wish I had just gone for proper from the beginning as they really changed and feeding small lightweight lambs just eats into the profit I think but everyone is different and things work on some systems and not others
Sam the thing with fat lambs is you need to start feeding them creep from about a mouth old for fatting lambs so this time of year isn't the best for fatting lambs when you have to keep them in the sheds , another great vlog again
Yoh, make some fair points ....its never easy to make the right call as in farming, you won't know what was the right choice till maybe 6 months ahead.... my nearest auction is wigton and they have store lambs sales every other week this time of yr and quite honestly there are people selling lamb's into the fat on a tuesday and selling smaller 1s into the store sale on the alternative Thursdays and their store lambs have been making more than their fat ones...!!... as you know selling stocks a bit of a lottery ....whether your first or last in ect all makes a difference. .. whatever you do decide i wish you luck👍
Sam, its a bit of a juggling act .It all depends on lamb breed and the availability of autumn grass .If you have reseeds and a dry runback id definitely consider hoppper feeding for four to six weeks , then draft out the market ready fat lambs and sell the rest as what id call "forward stores", this might suit the more white faced lambs and as for the swales id say given the price of straw they would only be an option to finish if they were on slats.But it's as much to do with were you start as to were you finish and if these lambs were only worth £60 as stores then they will leave a decent margin and let's face it their not beltex. Hey do whats best for your system and cash flow. Good luck team.
I agree. All options I could go through and of there's grass avaliable then bash on. Just we had loads lambs left and debated what to do with them. Different for everyone but in our circumstances that's the costs 🤣 we are store men but wanted to try fatten a few. Right or wrong 🤣🤣
What about the goats ? Are they eating the feed which is out for the fat lambs ? Why have you got the goats ? From what you have calculated there's no point in hanging on to the lambs to feed them then end up with no profit, or a loss. What was Oliver cussing at when in the tractor at the dung heap ?
I would work out your value based upon fat price minus the price you'd have had for these actual lambs in the store ring, then you're looking at £100 fat minus £45, in which case you've still got 4 months worth of feeding before it no longer pays (so long as they don't die)
I fatting lambs in door as grass gone scare and they were scouring this past 2 mts like you I'm feeding and fatting nut at 350 euro a ton at 1 kg per head per day equals .35 cent by 60 days equals 21 euro per lamb put 4 for silage your now at 25 nothing again labour .we re not rewarded for fatting lambs to have ready for this time till Xmas markets If processors and retailers can't see this . Everyone can't feed 9:099:09 store lambs and have them all coming fit at the same time of year.. a glut appears guess what the processors will pay then.
Surely it’s a bit soon to say that fattening lambs isn’t worth it before you have sold them. If they sell for £130 to £140 a head then surely it would be worth it. Let us know what you sell them for when you sell them.
those little lambs would need to be left about all winter and I find that Aprils grass will get them away ........got 205 euro for the last of them in late April ......
I fatten all my lambs and often think id be better off in the store mostly mules and swale tup lambs best thing to do with your swale tups is dead weight them at around 50kg they will come to a lot more money than in the auction your white faced ones will be better live id of thought
Great Sam in my mind the cost of fattening your lamb’s isn’t worth it once you calculate your time and work on top just my thoughts , glad you enjoyed your night out you deserve it x
Sweetie if you want to grow your channel, do it yourself! I know watching cammy's podcast Oliver is a miserable farmer. I have watched for a long time and I and other women don't like his attitude towards you it's so negative and sarcastic. You do not deserve that sweet lady,as I said a lot of women watch your channel and we don't like it.!🙂
Totally agree with you about the lambs, first loss is the best as my grandad used to say. I have lambs at the moment that are in a similar situation and am considering just leaving them out and let them grow naturally until January feb, cracking vid about true farming life, no bullshit 👏
Naturally grown would be great but nothing for them outside need some for tupping 🤣 it's a difficult one 🤣 yes that's the one 👌💪 real
So please you and your lovely sister had a great night out, well deserved
Your merchandise sounds like it's going to fly out quicker than you can produce them, that shows how well you are loved and you content is drawing people in
Keep up the great work
Hope the kids enjoy half term
Take care all
Geoff
Sam, enjoyed your explanation on fattening lambs …
Your children look like they are having a fun time, good for them! You are such a calm mum!!! Well done!!
Thanks again!
Sam you are so humble people will desperately want to buy your merchandise because you're such a lovely lady. Glad to see you having a night out and enjoying yourself and subscribers buying you a drink. It was lovely to see you dancing away as your still a very young lady. Thank you for the educational video on costs because it is an eye opener to see how little you and Oliver make on your stock and what you put into them they have to be fed, feet dipped and body dipped, feet trimmed also worming all these cost time and money. You also have to put into consideration your time because you must get paid for your time everyone that goes out to work gets paid for that too. So you should add on a few more hundred pounds to that when you think about it. Also there inside in a shed and that has maintenance every now and then as you clean it out with machinery that needs diesel and parts. Farming everything costs you a fortune to replace and you have to think about your health it's a physically demanding job that affects your body carrying heavy bags move the wrong way and your laid up for weeks or months. You are all wonderful and not paid enough as far as I'm concerned so I hope you do very well on your merchandise and subscribers.
Great video Sam it’s great your merchandise is selling well for you 👌you deserve it you work hard for it 🙌
Hi Sam only ever commented once before but I have alot of time for you as 44 years go I was in the like you and had to pull some of the same stunts as yoarted farming on a rough broken down old farm like you. I now own it never and I have never milked a cow or keep a lamb or had a sum in 32 years. I know that things have changed since but my farm is still all down to and now it turns a profit you could only dream of and it was started by little rough lambs like yours so don't give up I started wintering little
Kendal rough hoggs that could not come till November and had l had to keep till the 5thon of April and they paid me 5o pence per week that was the deal but that was the rate before you were, the measurement was Ted towers wagon they were so small he could fit approximately 500 on . But we sentthem back in spring we could not get them on is wagon and drag some went back in a. Bedford tk . The secret was improved grass land and. Clean ground no. Worms and poor little hoggs were bigger and better than the hoggs that had been kept at home round Kendal, is Raymond Robinson still alive worked as fore 12:51 man at Kendal auction he would farm somewhere near your grandmother was great friend of mine the only thing it's ever cost me is my health
This was very interesting! Thanks for breaking down the costs of fattening the lambs.
Another gooden Sam. Life on the hill farm. Love it!💕
Well well just been on fbook and seen a photo of two lovely ladies having a great night in a newly refurbished establishment,saw pictures of the crowds too but that just made me feel old.glad you all had a blast,you deserve itxxxx🍺🍾🌟
Great video
Sam, if you wear a lamb today and weigh that same lamb in one month time then calculate the lamb today at today’s price on the lamb and its weight in one months time at the price in one month from now you will realise it’s very good value what you’re spending on that lamb and how much more extra that lamb will cost you a month to sell
Good video sam ❤❤❤❤
Hi Sam looks like the little one are having a great time and you deserve all the best well done my girl 😊😊😊
Hi Sam and family , I'm on school holiday at the moment in coventry UK . So good to see the children having fun . Thank you for sharing all you do, I addmeryou for shearing you time farming .Take care and all the best . 😊😊😊😊😊😊👍👍👍👍👍 Hope You have a happy Halloween and all the best with your much .💖💖💖
Hey good video. We had a similar situation, sold probably half the lambs fat straight off the grass/ewes averaged £130, when we weaned we fed the rest outside drawing lambs every week for about 6 weeks and all went fat apart from the last 12. The fat averaged £116 the 12 stores made £92.50. It’s questionable whether it was worth us feeding the lambs, it didn’t help with the price going down every week either. Conclusion is get as many fat off the grass as possible 🤷🏻
Great to hear things are going well for you, Sam.
Just remember nice things happen to nice people. 👊👍
@agood1280 awh, thank you! It's a great start 😄
good one Sam young Jim cracks me up nice to see kids having fun I have been with 2 of my grandkids today 7 n 3 just great fun take care you guys R xx
@@richardormrod5758 he's hilarious 🤣 never a dull moment with him. Kids are great 😄🥰
Great video. Having watched you on Fed by Farmers, i came across and subscribed. Succumbed today abd brought a mug. Partly so I can show my discontent with contractors. I think thrusting the coffee mug around in meetings, might just do yhe trick.
Thanks for the figures, it shows the thin margins you operate under.
i think with all types of farming if you look too closely at your expenses you will find there is very little profit. i often think if we could get paid for our time we would do quite nicely........if only we could get paid an hourly equivalent to a accountant.........which reminds me i have our accountants bill to pay for doing last years accounts ..........£2,500.........why do we bother
It'd bad isn't it. That's why I hate working costs out 🤣 if we worked it out for everything we wouldn't be farming. Then again we probably would 😅🤣😆
A very interesting calculation ...store lambs most profitable for your set up there ?
Sam it’s a numbers game with lambs 50 at a tenner is £500 1000 at a tenner is £10.000 that makes it more worthwhile
Glad you enjoyed your night out
I fatten my lambs on grass with whole oats or cake and works fine but they are mostly continental cross, I had some mule wethers once and had them in a shed fed them cereal based ration like you are and it took forever but as soon as I changed them to just cake, they was flying ! I recommend trying just cake even tho it is more expensive is does do a much better job and finish quicker so the days being fed is less. Also I’ve never fed little lambs as in my eyes they need to grow then fat not just feed and cost a fortune if that makes sense. Lambs looking well tho
@Robertjarvis101 it does make sense thankyou for your advice much appreciated! Oliver will be reading these 🤣😄😄
@@Sam-shutt oh I’d love to see his face reading some of the comments you should make a video of him replying to some what a good man he is🤣, all I’m saying is I couldn’t afford proper cake for them mules at the start hence the cereal based but I wish I had just gone for proper from the beginning as they really changed and feeding small lightweight lambs just eats into the profit I think but everyone is different and things work on some systems and not others
Sam the thing with fat lambs is you need to start feeding them creep from about a mouth old for fatting lambs so this time of year isn't the best for fatting lambs when you have to keep them in the sheds , another great vlog again
True. We usually have sold them all. But he wanted to finish some. Not much option now unless sold them store for not a lot.
Great to see ur hard work paying off Sam u deserve it 😊
@@andwalker1497 thankyou 😄
When you have a bad day think about the good fun out with friends.
Yoh, make some fair points ....its never easy to make the right call as in farming, you won't know what was the right choice till maybe 6 months ahead.... my nearest auction is wigton and they have store lambs sales every other week this time of yr and quite honestly there are people selling lamb's into the fat on a tuesday and selling smaller 1s into the store sale on the alternative Thursdays and their store lambs have been making more than their fat ones...!!... as you know selling stocks a bit of a lottery ....whether your first or last in ect all makes a difference. .. whatever you do decide i wish you luck👍
😊 Hi Sam. . Great enjoyed that..... time for some big" Slow" signs either side of the approach to the farm. I think. .
I do have slow free range children but they need re-painting 🤣🤣
@@Sam-shutt 😂😂Big can of paint out of the profits then, dear....
@@petercross8871 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Sam, its a bit of a juggling act .It all depends on lamb breed and the availability of autumn grass .If you have reseeds and a dry runback id definitely consider hoppper feeding for four to six weeks , then draft out the market ready fat lambs and sell the rest as what id call "forward stores", this might suit the more white faced lambs and as for the swales id say given the price of straw they would only be an option to finish if they were on slats.But it's as much to do with were you start as to were you finish and if these lambs were only worth £60 as stores then they will leave a decent margin and let's face it their not beltex. Hey do whats best for your system and cash flow. Good luck team.
I agree. All options I could go through and of there's grass avaliable then bash on. Just we had loads lambs left and debated what to do with them. Different for everyone but in our circumstances that's the costs 🤣 we are store men but wanted to try fatten a few. Right or wrong 🤣🤣
Great to meet you please you enjoyed your night and the drinks
@johnandrewatkinson7099 thankyou made my night 😂😃
What do u intend to do with the goats. Is there much demand for them. Will they leave any profit
The goats are Peters so I will ask him 🤣 not sure what goats are worth 😬🤦♀️
What about the goats ? Are they eating the feed which is out for the fat lambs ?
Why have you got the goats ?
From what you have calculated there's no point in hanging on to the lambs to feed them then end up with no profit, or a loss.
What was Oliver cussing at when in the tractor at the dung heap ?
@jimmyjohnstone5878 goats we're included in the numbers. Fat prices are high this year so we wanted to try it. Oil pipe came out 😅🤣
I would work out your value based upon fat price minus the price you'd have had for these actual lambs in the store ring, then you're looking at £100 fat minus £45, in which case you've still got 4 months worth of feeding before it no longer pays (so long as they don't die)
Glad to see you get out and have fun ,you are a very good farmer and an even better mother ,well done .
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Why are cars passing through your farm 😮😮
@@williamokeeffe9874 holiday cottages down through the yard. It's the old road before they put the railway in.and it's a public use aswell.
You forgot to add in your wages too onto the price of lambs should let someone else fatten then straight off mother to the mart
Sam tel smiller to smile
Could be worth feeding them swales if they are only worth fourty to fifty quid when they go in.
The price of lamb is coming down. The weather isn't going to get any better now.
Price is definitely going down now. Probably untill after xmass !?
I fatting lambs in door as grass gone scare and they were scouring this past 2 mts like you I'm feeding and fatting nut at 350 euro a ton at 1 kg per head per day equals .35 cent by 60 days equals 21 euro per lamb put 4 for silage your now at 25 nothing again labour .we re not rewarded for fatting lambs to have ready for this time till Xmas markets If processors and retailers can't see this . Everyone can't feed 9:09 9:09 store lambs and have them all coming fit at the same time of
year.. a glut appears guess what the processors will pay then.
I fattened sum horned lambs a few years ago cost £21 in feed
Feed was cheaper a few years ago 🤣🤣
Surely it’s a bit soon to say that fattening lambs isn’t worth it before you have sold them. If they sell for £130 to £140 a head then surely it would be worth it. Let us know what you sell them for when you sell them.
I agree I just went off 120 minimum. But weal see what they make first. 🤙🤞
Price of fat lambs could go up you’ll be glad you kept them
those little lambs would need to be left about all winter and I find that Aprils grass will get them away ........got 205 euro for the last of them in late April ......
Omg April 🤣 want them gone before we start lambing 🤣 then again when we lamb April still no grass for us
If sell of sheep.say that way.go.
If bluetongue keeps going as shows have banned sheep n cattle your lambs should be worth more
I fatten all my lambs and often think id be better off in the store mostly mules and swale tup lambs best thing to do with your swale tups is dead weight them at around 50kg they will come to a lot more money than in the auction your white faced ones will be better live id of thought
@Mickjd82 yes your probably right with the dead weight for swales. We aren't farm assured, tho would we need to be ? It's worth a try if not
@ think dunbia will take unassured lambs 👍
Why do you say the lambs are worth nothing at the moment ?
They won't be worth much as they are now. No weight with them.Oliver wants to carry on fattening them. Who nos we how we get on 🤣
@@Sam-shutt Best of luck with them
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Great Sam in my mind the cost of fattening your lamb’s isn’t worth it once you calculate your time and work on top just my thoughts , glad you enjoyed your night out you deserve it x
Why don't you grow a field of swede turnips and a bite of 16 per cent finishing cake darling ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Our land isn't for to grow anything 🤣🤣 or we would 😍
You sooo deserve a good night.
Sweetie if you want to grow your channel, do it yourself! I know watching cammy's podcast Oliver is a miserable farmer. I have watched for a long time and I and other women don't like his attitude towards you it's so negative and sarcastic. You do not deserve that sweet lady,as I said a lot of women watch your channel and we don't like it.!🙂
Have you valued your time in your calculations
@MatthewReeday no haven't involved time or wormers/fluke dip because it would get to complicated and we wouldn't be farming if I worked it out 🤣🤣🥰