IT'S TIME FOR THESE LAMBS TO LEAVE THEIR MUM | Weaning my Cheviot ewes
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- Опубликовано: 10 окт 2021
- Filmed in August 2021. Weaning my cheviot mule ewe lambs from my cheviot ewes. Let's see how they have done.
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ABOUT ME
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 RUclips 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 love you guys. But I was just laughing about how patient Lizzie is because if my hubbie stuck a camera in my face to ask me about how awful I feel being pregnant, I'd box his ears! xD
Haha she’s a saint!
Mine would find his ears in a box!
These are such beautiful lambs - I think one of the most striking characteristics is their soft and clean looking faces. Their long ears are adorable and the ones with the black faces are cuteness overload but the face looks so clean, smooth and soft
I enjoyed the reshuffling of ewes and lambs. Fern certainly is anxious to be included! The other two are absolutely amazing as they work the group. Lizzy was incredible...38 weeks and working with the sheep. Take good care.
Thanks Donna. A good team =D
Watching Fern so desperate to work is adorable. She's so ready to join in and do some herding! Once she's learned more from running with the older dogs, I bet she'll be a superstar in the field.
Lizzy is a remarkable woman!! Your dogs are fab they are so clever and just seem to get the work done
I think Cheviots and BFL are some of the cutest sheep around with their silly faces and big ears
The half bred is a better sheep to look at.
Unreal lambs very well done to you both more so Lizzie who’s been looking after them all summer while you were
All over the place
Absolutely brilliant pen off lambs
Cheers Aidan Donegal 👍🐑🐑🇨🇮
thanks Aidan she's some lass!
Love those kind of videos. Lovely bunch of lambs. Well done to lizzy looking after them while you were away shearing and her pregnant.
Glad you enjoyed it
Cammy it is said that behind every good farmer is a "better"wife, and that is certainly true in Lizzies and Your case
@@davidbrogden7452 totally agree😁
awesome vid! Very educational and great to see you and Lizzy. Btw, It’s great to see that a pregnant woman is strong and capable of the work she does. I worked up to the day of my son’s birth. Then I worked more😌
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My two-year-old grandson and I had fun watching your video this afternoon while I was watching him. We talked about the Mommy ewes going to one pasture and the baby lambs going bye-bye. He loved, “baaing,” along with all the sheep. He was quite taken with your dogs too as he has a Border Collie, named Harlow.
Big lambs! I struggled to tell them from the ewes!
Your flock is beautiful. Well done!
That sheep that tried to escape & got its leg stuck--that was a heart-stopping moment! 😳😳😳 I'm glad you were able to rescue it in time! 😊😊😊
Thanks! My heart near stopped too! Could easy have broken it’s leg!
Love Maggie! I love that your sheep live mostly free. Sunshine and wind....nothing beats freedom. Sheds might be safer, but life is always better free.
Beautiful ewes, big healthy lambs, Cammy being Cammy and an amazing woman doing her thing farming sheep ❤️ great video! Hope your lovely little family is doing well 🐑
I love the ears on these sheep, Adorable 🧡
That’s what I came here to say! Love those ears!!
As a former kiwi sheep farmer, those are magnificent lambs,well done
Love watching the dogs work.
Loved the video! Thanks for filming for us!❤❤❤
Was at mart today made a few pound and now looking at your video what a perfect day🤣👍🏼🇮🇪
Some man!! Stores a wild trade just now!
@@TheSheepGame we at home have few Jacobs ewes and Jacob ram so hopefully I'll have a few Lambs keep up the good work
I’ve been enjoying all of your videos since recently finding your channel. Loved seeing some brief clips from your routes, but realize that isn’t easy to capture all the time when filming alone. Still makes me even more excited to return to beautiful Scotland one day. Best wishes to you both!
Oh I love to see how Fern is going .and how the dogs are trained . Love the volggy vlogs Cammy
Easy going and informative with a great choice of music to back it all up... quite the class act Cammy
Can't all be Oscar winners. lol
Well you've got to let other people have a bit of glory now and then... Don't want The Hoof GP getting upset now do we 🤣
Those sheep are so cute. They make an adorable flock. Thank you so much for showing how things happen on the farm with sheep. ❤️❤️
Those cute little ears popping up at 10:05 ! So cute. What is the wool like on those lambs? Looks lovely. And hot here in the US is about 95-100f. 29c would be a nice spring day! Ha. Thanks for the catch up videos. Your last one inspired me to find my local sales market. I am going to attend and watch the sales next week if I can. I don’t have anywhere to put a sheep so I promise not to buy any! Take care and share photos of Jock when you can.
I’m always impressed at the split second gate switching…ever make mistakes?😉
I was thinking the same thing 🙃
😂 sometimes I do. Not usually on this system as they don’t run too fast but on my system at home the run much quicker 😂
That wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be lol. Anyhow, Lizzie out there at 38 weeks!! Good job!! Best wishes and prayers for a healthy, easy delivery :) (If you haven’t already had your wee one yet!!).
I loved that:
"crisis averted" ... LOL
Cheviots are very pretty. Faces look like velvet. We get very muggy on the east coast in 🇨🇦. This past summer was mostly around 30c often with humidity in the 80’s, yuck. Fall now with our beautiful red, yellow and orange leaves 🍁 . Loved this video.
Your trailer set up is great! You can have double the count by stacking them up. They don’t seem to hesitate the steep grade. Very clever!
I have been binge watching your videos and had not come across a weaning one. Very good video.
Thanks Dawn!! About 175 videos on here now😅
I was wondering what that orange rope was. I thought you had the world’s longest extension cord! 😆
🤣🤣Long lines are really useful in training a new sheepdog. You have a way to bring them back, if they get too intense or decide not to listen. You also can keep them safe, and get them out of trouble. Allowing any dog to just run and chase sheep, can cause horrendous problems - the long line is for training and safety for all involved.
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this is october 11 th today and its 23 cel. feels like 28 cel. its still warm here its nuts thanksgiving here in Canada and in shorts and t-shirts totally nuts hugsssssss
It was 88 here in the New Orleans area today (31 c; I had to look it up). About 10 degrees F warmer than usual, but it’s what we call 3rd summer.
It was 12c here in Southern Alberta today….chilly after all of our heat waves
In Ohio, the summers can be brutal with high humidity. We use the term "muggy" too. With us it means that it is hard to breathe and it feel like you could just wring out buckets of moisture from the air and pray for a breeze. From the USA sending love to you, Lizzie and Jock!
We use muggy in New England too. I don't think they get it like the we do state side though. His heatwave is 73f... Even here in the north that's nice and mild.
@@swamp-yankee Amen to that!
Dude, I wanna live in Scotland, where 23 C (73° F) is "Very very warm". I live in Oklahoma, US, and it frequently reaches above 90° F (32 C)
I'm a Celtic mutt by ancestry
It get warm in NW Ohio, too! We had a month of 90°+ days. But in winter--snow. Sonetimes lots of it!
There's some sheep farms around here. But the county fairs are the best place to see sheep!
Love the cheviot and their bunny ears
You have two of the most amazing dogs and I’m really jealous I can’t afford a great dogs like Meg and sky
Got my The Sheep Game shirt today ! Love it ❤️
Always enjoy your videos.
Thanks Terrie!!
I am enjoying watching you work with the dogs. 👍
I took a tumble at the end there but I'm alright 😉. Great way to separate the lambs from their mothers, even though it's bittersweet. Your pup is going to be a hard worker🐾😊
Nice lambs. Love Scotland and your videos!
I really enjoyed that video. Thanks for sharing.
Your lambs are really impressive a credit to you all the best to you and your better half for the future
Thanks Paul.
I have only been watching since I saw you on the Hoof GP channel and I get a kick out of your accent. Can't always understand you and the close caption doesn't always know what you say but between reading what they think you are saying and listening to what you are actually saying I seem to understand you. LOL
I read what you wrote below the video and I think your father would be very proud of you and your sheep and your work in sheering of the sheep that you do. AS well as how your life is going.
We had cattle. I hated the few days of weaning and adjustment. Putting rings in piglets snouts was a red letter day too.
Ear plugs are DEFINITELY needed for doing nose rings!
@@samanthaclarke3422 I doubted anyone had shared that delight these days.
Have a good day.
Well done mate! I always enjoy your videos 👍I catch myself talking to the lambs as you load the.. "come on little ones In you go.. easy there.."
Just needing a good exploding hoof to catch up with your channel bro! Amazing progress and well deserved!
I’m amazed to see her doing such physical work so late in her pregnancy. I was in the Military for all three of my pregnancy and we work until the day you go into labor. The last month though is desk duty if your actual job was more physical. Good for her.
I love that you add a music track. It adds so much!
I always enjoy seeing the sheep.
The sheep are soo fluffy, love them.
Cam I can't believe 23C is a heatwave - in Australia 22C is about where you set your air-conditioning!
😂😂 we’re used to it cold here.
The lambs in the truck sounded like they were saying "Maaa Maaa!" Awwww.
(Yay! Tank top! Thanks for the gun show) 😁
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I could watch your dogs work all day, Cammy.
Nice vid as always Cammy... Hope Lizzy & the wee bairn are well...all these beautiful Scottish countryside vids and a real estate sign flash and you have me looking at local Ayrshire real estate. (another opportunity for sponsorship)
Beautiful lambs and mums too!
Wish we had trailers like that here in Canada!
Those lambs are so pretty. God bless
Love your intro always wait for that little ear wave!
WOW, this was a good time before your little one was born. LOL your catching up for sure.
Love all your videos.
Love Fern, I watch a Gold Prospecting YTer, and his Boxer puppy is named Fern. Any doggie named Fern will grow up to be a Good Dog!,
Thank you for the video. I guess the Scottish blood in me makes me late once in a while and now I know why, 1 week is equal to a month...haha...
Nice looking lambs, I'm guessing the wethers did well at market and hope the ewes do well for you as the next crop of moms.
Sandi Brock..👀 Look at her RUclips channel. She gets EWEs with 3 and 4 lambs. You might enjoy.
I watch Sandi all the time. 😁 Watch her latest vid and see if u can tell what it says on the back of her hoody 😁😁
They are beautiful lambs!
nothing quite as much fun as a bouncing border collie puppy on a string...lol. one of mine at 6.5 weeks old was racing in circles around the garbage truck (without the leash, too young to put a collar on anyhow). absolutely fearless. the lambs look wonderful. Lizzy looks uncomfortable. I am sure she can't wait to have that baby out!
I LIKE how you're doing that, easiest on both, leave the babes in their familiar spot but take mum's in their familiar group to a new spot...😁psychology 101, ewes shouldn't be able to hear lambs but get good pasture, lambs stay in familiar surroundings, with their buddies and where they know water and feed provisions come from(if you've been creep feeding, or they've been stealing from mom...
Lizzy, take heart...as much as I was told it's not just *rare* but nigh on *impossible* I gave birth ON my due date 3 times in a row!
Even my 3rd, the doctor saw me on Thursday..I was due on Saturday, he said I was good for another week, maybe two..I snorted and said I'll see you Saturday evening at the latest...😉😘. He said" not a chance." Mmhmmm...
I love watching you work your dogs. I've never been privileged enough to be near working sheep dogs. my experience has been in training obedience. mostly working with Dobermanns and lately training service dogs of a size that they can use pee pads and fulfill their exercise needs with staircases and jumping on and off beds or sofas chasing a squeeky toy. I've been using Miniature Pinschers for myself and they have served well, their independent streak getting them to double check if the command given should be followed or should they ask again, keeping their charge out of potential trouble rather than blindly proceeding (twice, I have learned that my dogs have saved me a lot of trouble). I have had one dog that learned to lie (and she was mine), indicating that we shouldn't proceed when it was fine to go ahead, the dog just didn't want to work that hard that day (perhaps, again, saving me from difficulties). She was getting older and should have been retired years earlier, but she was a rescue and I couldn't part with her so I began to work to the dog's limitations. We made a lovely team until her death last year to kidney failure in old age.
Thanks for that George! A great skill to have!
I love watching so much, far across the pond. I'm 3/4 British Scotch-Irish, 1/8 French/German, and 1/16 native American, 1/16 Eritrean/Ethiopian. My family was of the first off the boats in America where we settled in the Appalachian mountains with the other Scotts Irish Germans and free slaves where a culture was cultivated and we have our own dialect.
I can understand y'all perfectly is what I'm saying and living in the valley our climate is VERY similar. It looks like home is what I'm getting at, 😂
(I'm autistic lol and have difficulty communicating 😅)
Peace mercy and blessings of God.
After greetings.
Good day.
How are you cammy
A possible word of warning about your sheep handling system.
We left ours set up overnight behind a big hedge and went to use it the next morning and some thief had dismantled and closed it all up, put the wheels on and drove off with it. It was never seen again and a very expensive total loss.
NO danger of that with me Dan. As a police officer I try to never leave an opportunity for something to be stolen. I've seen it happen too many times.... also these systems are about £9k now I think. Wild!
I love watching a dog work sheep. Nice lambs👍🇺🇸
Lovely stock 👌🇮🇪
The definition bubles are very helpful!!
Thanks Gabrielle, good to have the feedback
Good lambs bro, bloody good lambs actually, they are a credit to ya
Churrr Chris 😁
thanks a lot for all your video... 🔥🔥🔥
you have great facilities
Thanks Vincent.
23 degrees is very warm? That is considered optimal comfort zone for us. It's usually way hotter or way colder here.
It’s a Scottish thing 😂
@@TheSheepGame :)
Love the rope routine with the dog🤭I feel bad for them, off to school🥲
How long after your teaser do you put your breeding ram in? Also those sheep are looking great! Hats off to Lizzy and all of her hard work!!
Thanks. Teaser in for 14 days then ram straight in and pull teaser out.
@@TheSheepGame thanks!
Lambs are looking well 👍
Thanks Paige!
You passed me this morning on the ayr road just before the tesco petrol station
=D
whent he babies grow up to be adults, if they see their mother again o they recognize her i wonder? anyway amazing video as ever, gorgeous sheep :))
No, they don’t. I think it’s because their smell changes
There bloody good looking lambs them Cammy
Thanks Russell
Beautiful heads on your mule lambs; their ears remind me of those on a red kangaroo. Are the cheviot crosses as crazy as a cheviot? My experience was they'd just as happily go through you as around you. Not a good choice for working with in a barn or small paddocks but such good moms, they are great on large pastures. Funny seeing Jock back inside his mom!
Maybe a wee bit calmer but still plenty spirit! 😁
Good video. Do you ever have lambs who hurt themselves by jumping over the chute?
Ewe are miles behind with the vids ,23c ,,,,,,,,normal Baltic weather has resumed on the west coast .😎🐑
😃1 a day the now Jim to catch up!
At what age and how do you casterate da ram lambs m
And are mule weathers easy to finish for the factory’s
Lovely ewe Lanmbs 👍🏼😀
do you mow a piece if it's getting bad with rushes?
In the states, we always pronounce Cheviots, SHEV- vee-its, not SHE-vee- ots, I had to think for a minute. 😆 Nice episode.
Ah, I think other places in the UK might do that as well.
How do you get rid of that reed style grass that the sheep do not eat? do you get goats to eat it, dig it out, cut it off or just leave it?
Ya know there always has to be one that does acrobats when you are moving them. Don’t know how many times moving sows out or feeder pigs out there always has to be the one that does something crazy. ❤️
Ground looks rough . What a dog “Meg” did you get her from Archie P?
Haha she’s too good for that! I show the rushy bit to make it look like they are running hard but it’s actually a pretty green bit there! 😁
My grandfather was born OCT 12, 1895…..
How old were the lambs at weaning. Great lambs
These would be mostly 16 weeks. I should have weaned them at 12-14 weeks but I was a bit busy =D
We say muggy here in the States also
When do you put your lambs into the breeding programme Cammy? Straight in or next year?
Cammy lad 👌
Judging from all the scraps of wool on the ground, this looks to be a place you set up a shearing platform?
Yeah it was!
I would kill for a trailer like that, but they don't exist in America. How tall is each level? Whats the hydraulic setup like for the bottom ramp?
Not sure of height but a mule ewe can stand up in it no problem. No hydraulic it's just a wee gas strut on either side like. Cheers
@@TheSheepGame Hey, I appreciate ya getting back to me. "some man" I think you'd say
Poor Fern, she so desperately wants to chase some sheep. 🐑
Bonjour
Quel est la race de vaux brebis ?
Salutations de France
Interesting meaty crossbreed. Shorter legs, big and beefy in the hams and the chest. No wool on lower legs, clean. Clean bums. Nice to look at and watch in the flock.
A kg or so of rolled cracked grain for the pulled lambs for several days quiets them down and they don't loose any weight by going off feed from stress. You become their ewe.
Newer breeds of sheep are such stressed fragile creatures especially the crazy lambs.
We used Australian shepherds for the sheep. Got a breeding strain that was so high strung, some of them would chase any sheep out of the fences on their own. Killed a couple from deep bite wounds on the neck. We had to start penning the dogs up.
Love the sheep dogs "Hounds"?? in your vids. that run the backs of the sheep penning and chuting the woolies. Saves so much work
My favorite way of eating lamb, kabob skewers over hot charcoal and a glass of single malt
Hope you find a way to ship and market all that outstanding black and colored wool to the USA. Knitting here is a huge craze. The natural dark wools are prized. Wife goes crazy everytime she sees a black sheep.