Could Straw Bedding Be The Difference?
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- Опубликовано: 23 дек 2023
- Welcome back to Sheep School, where every day is a school day! In this episode, join me as we dive into the highs and lows of farming life, from the sticker shenanigans to the nitty-gritty of budgeting for lamb bedding.
🐑 Sticker Shenanigans with Robbie's Van: The day kicks off with a hilarious surprise as Robbie rolls in with his work van covered in Sheep School stickers. Laughter ensues, setting the tone for the day's adventures.
🌾 Bedding Lambs in the Shed: Follow along as we bed down our lambs in the shed for fattening. But here's the twist - this year, the cost of straw bedding is a major concern. We'll delve into the financial implications and the decisions we face to balance the budget.
👨👩👧👦 Family Fun with Lambs: It's a family affair! My two girls and three nephews join the farm crew to help us with the crucial task of weighing lambs. Watch as we combine work and play in this heartwarming segment.
💼 The Factory Buyer heads off with some lambs for slaughter and we discuss the factory payment process.
💸 The Straw Bedding Dilemma: The elephant in the room - rising costs of straw bedding. Join me as I break down the numbers, discuss the financial impact, and explore strategies to navigate this challenge on the farm.
🚜 Sheep School Budget Breakdown: Unpack the realities of farming budgets and gain insights into the financial side of running a sheep farm. We'll share our experiences, tips, and the lessons learned along the way.
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Robbie is hilarious. lol Van looks good. The kids may be chaos but they're still learning.
Pure gold as always , every farmer needs a robbie he's a class act 👏 happy Christmas
Robbie is worth his weight in gold...
Same to you!
I've had good luck with deep bedding. Once the manure pack gets about a 1-1.5 feet deep, the amount of required bedding reduces considerably. Feed bunks need to be off the ground so that the sheep can still reach them once the pack gets deep.
I'm just surprised, and frankly a little disappointed, that Robbie didn't get "Sheep School" tatooed on his forehead! Well done, Boys, and Happy Christmas to you all. Looking forward to the lambing season ahead on your channel, and thanks for all the content this year.
Thank you...👍
Merry Christmas David, family and Robbie as well! 😊🎄🕯️🎁🐑🐏
Love the van ❤ love watching your videos... and Robbie ❤❤ merry Christmas all 🎉
Oh the excitement of sheep school for kids . It could only make you smile . Happy Xmas all
Merry Christmas, and a happy new year! You have a beautiful family ❤
Great addition to the van. All the best to you and your and Robbie
I😂😂 the stickers make some job of the van , and Robbie as always a great addition to the videos , happy Christmas to all at sheep school, keep up the good work
Merry Christmas David. I know absolutely nothing about sheep farming but that was a very very interesting and entertaining video. You have a great set up.
Thank you for the great videos this year. Always interesting to watch and learn from. Happy Christmas to you and your family David. Smallholder in Devon, England helping to keep some Dorset sheep.
Great video. Enjoyed watching Hope you & your family had a great Christmas. 🎄
Great video David aye Robbie is some craic the kids enjoy that Merry Christmas to you and your family enjoy 👌👍
Excellent video again great bunch of help lol Merry Christmas and a happy New year
Robbie is a gem. The van looks great! Merry Christmas to your whole family 🎄🎅🎁❤️
You don’t need Straw. Its not good for the animals and especially the lambs. If you only use trampled soil on the ground and you will never see joint ill again.
Always great video as always @sheepschool. As you said ur self probably would have been best having slats in the shed.
We were lucky to get straw this year. But definitely investing in sheep slats next year for all sheds
Great help with ALL the extra staff you have today. Happy Christmas to all of you. ❤️❤️❤️❤️🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻
Thank you so much 😊 Happy Christmas to you!
Robbie would have made a great teacher😮. Fierce patience- coming from a teacher/ mini farmer here😂..keep up the great work. Hope the ankle is recovering Happy Xmas
Well done two great characters really enjoying your videos 👍👍👍
Happy Christmas from Alberta Canada! Always interesting to see how things are done over there. Not a huge number of sheep farms here but those that are around generally use dirt floor barns and wooden panels to separate them. The hard part here is not straw bedding but feed! 3 years of drought with this year being the worst. 1” of rain from May-August, and 1” in September which is the extent of our growing season.
Hay is up to $250-300 per 1600lb bale if you can find it - many people are holding onto it like gold.
The stickers are worth more than the van 😂
The Combo had doubled in value 😜
Good helpers there , and hopefully tire them out as well 😂. Have a great Xmas with the family and all the best for 2024 ❤
Thank you 👍 You too!
Great video , Donnchadh is the boss there 😂
Totally agree with the quality of the lambs this year. Here in France (Normandy), I've had a lot of problems with Haemonchus in August/September. And then 400mm of rain since the middle of October. I am running 250 pedigree Hampshire Down ewes, only grass fed for both lambs and ewes.
The cover crops saved the growth of my lambs and the ewes are looking much better now since everybody is grazing cover crops. But it definitely was a strange year!
I hope you the best for next year, keep going with the videos, very interesting to see how you manage your flock 💪
Could u not have sent lambs over 50KGs to the mart would have earned a little more ? Great video once again
Merry Christmas! Grandpa Robbie's a gem, the kids were just having a heyday of a time and he was so patient. Everytime you let a lamb off your scales I thought "watch your fingers" especially with Oisín, he sure is a tough little guy for his age. Is it possible to pre-contract with a grain farmer for his straw so he doesn't just chop his straw when he's combining? Maybe you could trade composted straw with sheep manure for baled straw. He'd get far more benefit out of the compost than just chopped straw. Thanks for another great video.
Thank you..👌
Great idea but unfortunately there is very little grain grown in my area and haulage for straw/manure is the biggest problem due to costs!
Some factory buyer he is 😂😂😂
Merry Xmas to you and your family from Aus Love Robbie and the Combo
Thank you, same to you!
Slats would definitely have paid their way in the long run.
Happy Christmas to you all ....Great Crack for sure and I knew them bales were getting scarcer ..
I was expecting Robbie to have his Santa hat on....
Well spotted 😉
Same to you lad...
I'm glad you said "teachers earn their money". I'm one of them! They say you should never work with animals or children, and I work with children during the day, and come home and work with animals in the evening. Someone should have advised me better in life!
Yep, 13 weeks a year holiday
@@malcolmchapman3032 Are you a teacher?
Don't agree with you working with animals is.very therapeutic..perhaps working with children NOT 😊
Stickers are looking good. Almost 10k subscribers!
Almost there👌
Great video lads, that combo has done some work over the years.
Only starting to work, like the driver 😜
Stickers look great on the Van - remember Easter is a good lamb time and that Easter is 31st March 2024 so any slow growers will fit well into that and should give you a good return
I believe eid festival is early this year also 🤞
😂😂😂😂😂 mighty wagon there lads!
Them very heavy lambs would do better in the mart as butcher lambs but probably not worth the time.
I think you should think about slats for the future, I find straw bedding gets wet very quick.
Happy Christmas to yourself and Robbie and all your helpers, can't beat learning young.
Happy holidays , Thankyou for the vidio .
Thank you, same to you!
Merry Christmas to you and your family and I hope the new year is good for you ❤
Thank you so much☺. Same to you..
Sheep school has my money!!
Happy Christmas Sheep School
Thank you, happy Christmas to you!
You’ll have to give him 50% of the takings. He’s your version of the sheep shepards father 😅
I should have got him into a Santy suit 😀
Happy Xmas David to you and all your helpers😅
Thank you, same to you!
Happy Christmas and happy new year 2024
Robbie would make a great Santa 🎅👍
Definitely 😜
Fine video the firms vehicle is looking well with the new stickers i found my wee sheep enterprise a bit tight for profit mainly because our land rent went up £50 an acre this year plus i creep fed the lambs all year as i was short of grass at times but on the plus side the lambs are all away and i scanned 101 ewes yesterday with only 2 empty
Good scan, empties are the worst! I would strongly consider creeping lambs but would be afraid of the meal bill. Great to get all away early..
well done robbie. your a good bussiness man.
Merry Christmas to everyone.
Great job
I’ve only watched the first min and I’m commenting 😂😂😂 go wan Robbie boy 💪💪 she looks the part fairplay, you’ll have to look up the going rate for mobile advertising now 😉 fuel card should cover it!!
The Landcruiser would use more diesel warming up in the morning than the Combo would use in the week 😜
Merry Christmas 🎄🎁
Same to you!
Have you tried peat bedding for housing sheep? I use it and it keeps the sheep dry and clean. There is also lime in it which helps.
Looks great 🇨🇦
Great video great children.keep it lit
We will😉
Very interesting thank you!
🎄 Merry Christmas 🎄
Thank you. Same to you!
What is the weigh head attached to on the top of the scale/crate? (Looks like a small block to convert the crate to the Tru test head?) It's not normal load bars but try as i might i can't seem to find what this alternative is called ? Any help would be appreciated
Fast forward a few years you will be begging them to come in the shed if they are like my kids 😂
Good stuff
Brilliant they are
Combo on tour😂😂looks class no profit farming with that many staff on the payroll
Good job they're easy shod 😜
Keep your shorn fleece for bedding
Can I ring you some day I had a problem with my lambs this year I have no number for you
Cows where back this year coming in off grass 50-80kg on some calves where surprisingly good though over-all its funny because last year was the opposite 🤣 go figure. Never had intrest in sheep just remember the old saying. Sheep born dieing 😂 anyway great show 👏
Everything is buy scanning and computer . What did farmers do befor this , thankyou .
There is so much to all yhis .
I hope you have a nice Holiday , but I know you will be working .
Thankyou gor what you do .
Loved your adorable 🎄 Christmas post .
Thank you, taking a few days off. Just a few sheep escaped Christmas day but no major workload 😉
happy christmas.
Same to you!
Great video David. Happy new year.
What weight gain per day/week did you get or expect to get on those lambs on ~1kg meal?
On average 1.5kg per week. Some lambs more and some less. Depends on their intake at the trough.
Great video David, is the mf 135 for sale ?😁
Merry Christmas good luck for '24'
Thanks, you too!
What was the carcass weight for the 46kg live weight lamb?
Good job from US
Thank you..👌
plenty of staff!
Mischantus is suppossed to be good. My father in law puts his housed ewes on it. 2 loads for winter
🎉here in canada not to many faten lambs on grass because of worms and the heat we feed then in the barn and only ewes go on pasture
That's interesting. Almost like a failure here putting them indoors. The thinking is we should be fattening everything off grass with no grain which can be difficult at times.
Like your feed cart 👏
Cut the costs and let them go, you never know the prices are up and down.
Merry Christmas..
60 euro round bales up here big squares are 120 euro you should have a tank in that shed plastic slats
That's wild money for straw. I have an old 3 bays slatted tank, strongly considering changing to plastic slats on that!
@@sheepschool365 i had same changed it 4 years ago i put hoggs in on it for winter take them out 17 march put in ewes for lambing then great sorry i hadent done sooner
Whats cold kgs mean? After slaughter?
Yes cold weight is the weight of the carcass heading into the chiller.
€35/round bale of straw bedding… how big are the bales?
Yes, €35/bale. 4ft long, 4ft diameter.
@@sheepschool365 Merry Christmas and happy New Year!
Have heard of people baling braken or reeds to use as bedding
Not much of either grows around here. Plenty of rushes/rough hay. Straw very pricey this year....
I’m thinking she’s a beauty
When are new lambs starting ?
Lambing mid March. Hope the weather improves...🙏
Thanks for that always watch utube for first lambs / calves and early salmon !@@sheepschool365
Big Suff 🚍 👌
She's a beast😀
You have beautiful children. Maybe you can play i will give money to the children who are the quietest while they work. haha 🥰🙂🤭
We tried to play a game of who could stay quiet for the longest. There was no obvious winner 😜
Would a te pari unit not b easier for u
There over 28000 euro
Absolutely it would be easier but I wouldn't have the luck of Cammy or the Kerry men 😜
Too dangerous there for them children
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Get rid of the lambs and use the feed for the ewes keeping breeding ewes in good condition
1250 euro wont be long disappearing unfortunately
You said it. In one hand and out the other...
@@sheepschool365 expensive hobby 😭😭😭
People who are from ireland
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Robbie your grassland management is poor should practice mixed grazing
Looks good !!!!! Merry Christmas and happy new year to you and your whole family .
Thank you. Happy Christmas to you..
Merry Christmas 🎄
Same to you!