Easter Craigduckie, fresh air and good grass in Dunfemline. Great to see the young lads doing so well. Cammy, you are a fantastic advocate for the youngsters. Well done.
Dunfemline > Fife, Scotland. > While working on my Scottish line of my Family Tree > I found my (Wilson & Alexander) Family > came from Dunfermline. > My Great+ Grandfather > 'Lawrence Wilson' Owned a Linen Mill. (Midmill > Pitliver) Emigrated About 1855 with his family...... to London, Ontario, Canada. I somehow feel connected to....the green, green hills of Scotland. 🌄
@@l.m.4014 there were definitely Linen and Silk mills in Dunfermline and of course Andrew Carnegie was born here. It’s an ancient capitol of Scotland with many kings buried here.
Good video and it makes sense to creep feed lambs to get them finished in 12-16 wks with one dose.glad to see Welsh mules 🏴doing a good job in Scotland 🏴🐑👏👍
Hi Cammy on a wet day, taking sheep to market. Marketing is an interesting way they separate the various ones. Have a great rest of the day and enjoy❤️❤️👍
We fed our lambs from weaning through to market. Not massive amounts but likely 500-750 gms of oats daily. We found that it got them to market earlier while the price was higher. We also found that it would put a nice finish on them. This was with large framed Suffolk, Columbia and NCC plus various crosses of the above. All in all we found that for every dollar spent on feed it returned close to 2. Should be noted that this was in a much dryer climate where the grass is going down hill fast from late July on. On grass we would struggle to get 200 gms a day in gain after Aug 1.
@robberntson8934 good insight, are you stateside? Ayrshire grows unreal amounts of grass, nearly 10 months a year, albeit not at the same rate or quality for each of those months.
Have you got a new, brown, short-haired dog? Sandi Brock's been showing August lambing so I've been addicted to her even more than usual! (But you've got the bairns!) 💕💕
Always love the market videos Cammy, also you brought up a very valid point, your lambs were wet from being outside, some of the good lambs you showed had been kept in overnight as they were dry, makes a big difference on how they look at the sale.
I'd say that feeding the Lambs to finish them heavy makes sense, and should provide a handsome return, Cammy. Your lambs do look good, but giving them a little more flesh cannot possibly hurt. And the new tupps, finding a purebred Tupp breed that will give you nicer lambs, also a really good idea. Those Welsh Mules were gorgeous big lambs, maybe try to breed some with their tupp breed?
As you say a good finish will net you more profit. £15 a head difference, you’d probably need half that for your feed but then away earlier so less in worms, Labour, grass gets longer to rest, better dung etc. I’ve got to say watched your video going to the crystalyx factory last year and you converted me! Used to buy the farm shop own brand and a ratio of 1 bucket to 20 head of sheep the own brand one being caked lasted a week-10 days tops, for about double the price and same ratio the crystalyx is lasting 21-26 days so much better value for money long term as they can’t gnaw it like cake!
Interesting one this time. Like the lean-to over the run, nice to keep dry for a bit when weather is 💩. Like seeing what they do in the auction house. 👍🐑👏😁
Yes Cammie! These are my favorite, even above the spring lambing ones, because I hate seeing oneself and the superwoman you're married to get so worn out. I'll savor this and watch it later as a treat..
A boy Cammy another good video 👍. If you can get lambs on to feed just before weaning, they keep condition & thrive better after weaning. They won't eat as much grass so it will be easier keep grass under them too. Like you said, if you get a tenner a head extra per lamb, it will easily pay for the feeding.
always keeping up on stats gives info to make changes to improve the business but its never been fun for me and owning a business to feed a family has rewards that out weigh the less fun stuff this you know. thanks so much for your channel!🦌💌❤️🐑👍
Here in America you can dry lot lambs the same way you do beef cattle and feed strictly a grower and finisher mix. Corn,wheat,silage,cotton seed,sunflower seed, and some alfalfa. It’s worth the money buying mixed feed in bulk for the results you get at market. Dry lotting is where they only eat what you feed them same as cattle in the finishing stages they are usually fed out in 90 days before sale or slaughter
Finishing all depends on the cost per head for feed, and getting the price at the market. But it's worth it, the buyers will know who's constantly supplying quality lambs. And they'll pay for them
Yes they'll pay more but only a pound more than the factory agent which doesn't pay . I find as one that feeds alot of meal you don't get rewarded for ones labour and quantity .
Morning Cammy, instead of using bale string for holding your gate open try screwing a magnet onto the gate and it will make contact with the other hurdle. Dead easy and you don't faf on with string
Hello there and welcome back Cammy ! .. and absolutely another spectacular beautiful shooting filming footage compilation documentary countryside adventure and you are doing such an amazing job ! .. loved the beautiful filming shooting camera work looks super awesome super amazing and stunning views and thanks again and have a wonderful blessing weekend ! .. take care and stay safe my friend ! .. TQSM again ..
When Cammy said he bought a charlois tupp off a friend not long ago and then he died, it took me a minute to realize he meant the sheep and not his friend.
Weather is starting to show in stock in the west of Scotland. In west perthshire we have had 9" of rain in august, the wettest monrh this year. Everyone is crossing there fingers for this weekend as most of the silage in the district is still to bale.
Another good video.Sell as many lambs as you can Now, everything over 40kg. Fatten what you can if you have the grass, if not sell as stores and save grass for the ewes. In the future it might be worth trialling creep feed, but first make the best of what you have. Good luck
On the issue of feeding your lambs before market, to my mind feed costs are a one off; you buy feed for this lot and next market day you have to buy feed again for another lot. I’d rather improve the pastures by drilling non-bloating legumes like Sainfoin (Onobrychis viciifolia), Birdsfoot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus) and or cicer milkvetch (Astragalus cicer) into the grass pastures. Or legumes with a risk of bloat like white clover (Trifolium repens) and or lucerne / alfalfa (Medicago sativa). The added protein will increase milk yield in the ewes translating in faster growth rates of the lambs. Also, the protein builds muscle in the lambs. More muscle means more weight and more money. Plus the outlay on the pasture improvements is a one off payment with a multi year benefit. You could do it one pasture per year to see if it is beneficial and if so maybe do more than one. IMHO.
Size doesn't equal taste. The best lamb I've ever tasted was blackface lamb from the Isle of Harris in the late 1980's...probably half they size of lambs being produced today on the mainland. But I remember that flavour to this day. I can have Beltex lamb from an excellent butcher today, and have forgotten the flavour a week later. Of course, not all lambs go for meat :p
Love your videos even though I can’t understand half of what you are saying. I get it to . I live in the very southern USA and people understand me but they make fun. I love your accent and will continue to watch if I don’t understand or not. Keep up the good work
Not a shepherd, but... ;-) When figuring out whether to add feed to bring the weight of your market lambs yup, don't forget to add (to the cost of the feed itself) the value of your time feeding them.
Really interesting question Cammy, re feed. It may work if you stagger it. Feed in July your most forward 100 lambs, then August the next 200 to 300 hundred,etc. Those that wouldn't finish this side of Christmas need to go else where no feed. As would any breeding stock. If you didn't target your creep feeding the costs would spiral as you'd be feeding 800 lambs for 4 months. With store lambs at £130 plus would they not be better off grass fat or if not in the store ring? It's the eternal question!
@TheSheepGame I spoke to Billy Welsh earlier this week, he was telling me about the store market, up there. The buyers either know something we don't.....or....
Hi Cammie, I am interested in your thoughts on feeding the lambs, it sounds like a good business plan. Do you have the equipment and space to do so? Might be worth doing a comparison next season by using a couple of control groups 🤔
I think the easy care tup should go to your first time lambers and grab a Romney tup (I am sure I watched you shear a couple of years ago) - see what lamb offspring hair or wool suits your climate in Ayre - both easy lambers
Interesting video! I think “finishing “ the lambs for the last few weeks will get them to weight and out the door quicker and for bigger profit even with the cost of creep subtracted.
If you had the capital to on and be able to feed the lambs, it sounds like a good deal. You also have to factor in time, which for parents of a young family is limited. 😊. Love your vlogs as usual.
Q: What is more financial advantage, feed sheep in the paddocks enriched pelts before marke, or seed the paddocks with crops that naturally enhances the sheep for bettering the sales at the markets?
first time we have ad-lib our dairyx aa stirks, out at grass, topping the mkt, near 100 sold, same principle with lambs, cost of feed is way less than the the extra price. Also, we have fed wheat gluten, at £210 ton, cheaper than a bespoke mix.
Put him on the Shetland X Cheviot's. Easycare X Shetland is a great cross too they make shedders in the second generation but useful sheep in the first.
Agree with comments below. Perhaps doing the finish weight with some feeding? I like your system but it may not take much to up the process. Bigger mule? Wonder what kind of lambing problems that would introduce? Thanks for sharing! Love from the USA!
Yeah I reckon you start on the weighing earlier, run them through to get an idea of your daily gains and pull them out and onto the bins if they start to slow up. If you have the info/data you can manage it mate 👌👌got the kit, just need the time 🤘
It's hard to know with the feeding, probably makes sense the year we had. Feeding is also time consuming, you won't be long putting a 10 a head into them. I am only farming 10 years, everyone seems to do things differently and everyone is right :-). I,m no expert I only keep 30 ewes and buy in around 2 hundred stores.
When/how do you decide to move some of your ewes out of your flock to market and replace them with some of your ewe lambs? I assume you keep records on all your ewes to know when their productivity declines. Is this something you are doing every year? Change out 15% of the flock annually or such?
We usually check them before tupping time to see that the bags are okay all their teeth are present. We also mark any sheep at lambing time that we think won't do another year lambing. There's not a set amount, it's just sheep to sheep. I know some farmers move them on when they get to a certain age.
You should definitely be working with charollais tups more get to weight of grass no feed in quick time would go well with your llyne and white faced ewes but also good over the mule 👍🏻
Most of their growing, those lambs are going to get height and length. Giving them a little bit of feed just at the last couple weeks or so helps to put the weight on them.
Creep feeding makes such a difference here. Lambs away quicker and frees the grass up for the ewes coming up to tupping time. Charollais rams weigh great but I just don’t think they look as good as the Texel or Suffolk lambs.
There are small herd farmers with goats and cattle who strip graze goats then cattle or vice versa to decrease worm load and increase land fertility Is that feasible with sheep and cattle? Maybe should not even ask as watching YT we had dairy cows dad did limited grazing focus on crop rotation and trying different fodder occasionally
Feasible it is, every sheep farmer in New Zealand runs cattle along side the sheep, some even have deer in the mix. Goats unless milking ones are classed as feral and end up as dog tucker. Pre 1980s you could get 1 shilling or 1x.303 round of ammunition per goat tail.
@@keithroberts4559 That is interesting The veterinarian credited with bringing Kiko goats to the US talked about their resistance to parasites Of course if no one wants to eat goat it only helps the dogs :-(
Feed them when the market is up like right now but if it dips then you are going to have to sell them whatever shape they’re in otherwise you’re piling feed into a lamb that’s not going to make you anything. The fact that you are not and do not usually feed your lambs shows that you are in the land of milk and honey truly.
Comparing your sheep to fed sheep, or anybody else's sheep isn't really a good comparison. Comparing your results this year vs last is a much better comparison. The only way feeding them would work out in my mind is if you spent less than 7 per to feed, considering time, effort, fuel and whatever else you would count. As mentioned earlier, if your lambs are better this year than last is probably the best comparison...it's your results that count.
Im addicted to watching the market going's on. So interesting and informative. Cammy makes it so much fun.
Easter Craigduckie, fresh air and good grass in Dunfemline. Great to see the young lads doing so well. Cammy, you are a fantastic advocate for the youngsters. Well done.
Thanks so much!
Dunfemline > Fife, Scotland.
> While working on my Scottish line of my Family Tree > I found my (Wilson & Alexander) Family > came from Dunfermline.
> My Great+ Grandfather > 'Lawrence Wilson' Owned a Linen Mill. (Midmill > Pitliver)
Emigrated About 1855 with his family...... to London, Ontario, Canada.
I somehow feel connected to....the green, green hills of Scotland. 🌄
Hi Cammy we just feed a
res a wee bit to finish them of 👍love Ur videos
@@l.m.4014 there were definitely Linen and Silk mills in Dunfermline and of course Andrew Carnegie was born here. It’s an ancient capitol of Scotland with many kings buried here.
Good video and it makes sense to creep feed lambs to get them finished in 12-16 wks with one dose.glad to see Welsh mules 🏴doing a good job in Scotland 🏴🐑👏👍
Hi Cammy on a wet day, taking sheep to market. Marketing is an interesting way they separate the various ones. Have a great rest of the day and enjoy❤️❤️👍
We fed our lambs from weaning through to market. Not massive amounts but likely 500-750 gms of oats daily. We found that it got them to market earlier while the price was higher. We also found that it would put a nice finish on them. This was with large framed Suffolk, Columbia and NCC plus various crosses of the above. All in all we found that for every dollar spent on feed it returned close to 2. Should be noted that this was in a much dryer climate where the grass is going down hill fast from late July on. On grass we would struggle to get 200 gms a day in gain after Aug 1.
@robberntson8934 good insight, are you stateside? Ayrshire grows unreal amounts of grass, nearly 10 months a year, albeit not at the same rate or quality for each of those months.
It’s also raining over the pond. Not a fan of the climate on the island of Newfoundland. Can’t get used to the tak and fog and drizzle and cool. Nope
Have you got a new, brown, short-haired dog? Sandi Brock's been showing August lambing so I've been addicted to her even more than usual! (But you've got the bairns!) 💕💕
Always love the market videos Cammy, also you brought up a very valid point, your lambs were wet from being outside, some of the good lambs you showed had been kept in overnight as they were dry, makes a big difference on how they look at the sale.
I'd say that feeding the Lambs to finish them heavy makes sense, and should provide a handsome return, Cammy.
Your lambs do look good, but giving them a little more flesh cannot possibly hurt.
And the new tupps, finding a purebred Tupp breed that will give you nicer lambs, also a really good idea. Those Welsh Mules were gorgeous big lambs, maybe try to breed some with their tupp breed?
I was thinking the same thing. ❤
Great result! Congrats. I hope you've been able to pay off the balance you had at United Auctions. ❤
As you say a good finish will net you more profit. £15 a head difference, you’d probably need half that for your feed but then away earlier so less in worms, Labour, grass gets longer to rest, better dung etc.
I’ve got to say watched your video going to the crystalyx factory last year and you converted me! Used to buy the farm shop own brand and a ratio of 1 bucket to 20 head of sheep the own brand one being caked lasted a week-10 days tops, for about double the price and same ratio the crystalyx is lasting 21-26 days so much better value for money long term as they can’t gnaw it like cake!
Interesting one this time. Like the lean-to over the run, nice to keep dry for a bit when weather is 💩. Like seeing what they do in the auction house. 👍🐑👏😁
Blessings to you all and all those who help you.❤❤❤
Great video as always Cammy boys were chuffed you liked their lambs. You have the wee one sussed already! Think he was a bit star struck 😂
I really enjoyed you talking through the sorting process for us. (I do three comments for the algorithm.)
Class, thank you!
Really great video ,the market looks a really good place to catch up with people you don't see often ❤
Great to see good dogs at work.
Yes Cammie! These are my favorite, even above the spring lambing ones, because I hate seeing oneself and the superwoman you're married to get so worn out. I'll savor this and watch it later as a treat..
So enjoy watching your family videos. Thanks ❤
A boy Cammy another good video 👍.
If you can get lambs on to feed just before weaning, they keep condition & thrive better after weaning. They won't eat as much grass so it will be easier keep grass under them too.
Like you said, if you get a tenner a head extra per lamb, it will easily pay for the feeding.
always keeping up on stats gives info to make changes to improve the business but its never been fun for me and owning a business to feed a family has rewards that out weigh the less fun stuff
this you know. thanks so much for your channel!🦌💌❤️🐑👍
Here in America you can dry lot lambs the same way you do beef cattle and feed strictly a grower and finisher mix. Corn,wheat,silage,cotton seed,sunflower seed, and some alfalfa. It’s worth the money buying mixed feed in bulk for the results you get at market. Dry lotting is where they only eat what you feed them same as cattle in the finishing stages they are usually fed out in 90 days before sale or slaughter
Finishing all depends on the cost per head for feed, and getting the price at the market.
But it's worth it, the buyers will know who's constantly supplying quality lambs. And they'll pay for them
Yes they'll pay more but only a pound more than the factory agent which doesn't pay . I find as one that feeds alot of meal you don't get rewarded for ones labour and quantity .
Morning Cammy, instead of using bale string for holding your gate open try screwing a magnet onto the gate and it will make contact with the other hurdle. Dead easy and you don't faf on with string
Hello there and welcome back Cammy ! .. and absolutely another spectacular beautiful shooting filming footage compilation documentary countryside adventure and you are doing such an amazing job ! .. loved the beautiful filming shooting camera work looks super awesome super amazing and stunning views and thanks again and have a wonderful blessing weekend ! .. take care and stay safe my friend ! .. TQSM again ..
Finishing off with extra feed sounds like a brilliant idea. Great return on the investment. You go Cammie! Love love love your videos!❤
Thanks so much!
I'm totally with you. FEED THEM😅❤. thank you , I could watch all day
Clammier is the best !!Sooo encouraging to the kids
You can get a trailer plug that can be wired into your sensors so that they disconnect when a trailer is hooked up. Should stop the beeping.
When Cammy said he bought a charlois tupp off a friend not long ago and then he died, it took me a minute to realize he meant the sheep and not his friend.
Oops! I should have said, definitely the sheep!
@@TheSheepGamedid you get your money back?
Very interesting day at the market Cammy.❤️🇦🇺🏴
Weather is starting to show in stock in the west of Scotland. In west perthshire we have had 9" of rain in august, the wettest monrh this year. Everyone is crossing there fingers for this weekend as most of the silage in the district is still to bale.
Reminds me of TWO sayings.
1. Just like a pig pissing.
2. I had one once but the wheels fell off !!
Another good video.Sell as many lambs as you can Now, everything over 40kg. Fatten what you can if you have the grass, if not sell as stores and save grass for the ewes. In the future it might be worth trialling creep feed, but first make the best of what you have. Good luck
Thanks for the tips!
That’s a handsome sheepie fellow keep listening to that salesman Cammy
On the issue of feeding your lambs before market, to my mind feed costs are a one off; you buy feed for this lot and next market day you have to buy feed again for another lot. I’d rather improve the pastures by drilling non-bloating legumes like Sainfoin (Onobrychis viciifolia), Birdsfoot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus) and or cicer milkvetch (Astragalus cicer) into the grass pastures. Or legumes with a risk of bloat like white clover (Trifolium repens) and or lucerne / alfalfa (Medicago sativa). The added protein will increase milk yield in the ewes translating in faster growth rates of the lambs. Also, the protein builds muscle in the lambs. More muscle means more weight and more money. Plus the outlay on the pasture improvements is a one off payment with a multi year benefit. You could do it one pasture per year to see if it is beneficial and if so maybe do more than one. IMHO.
I used to take my son to the market every Thursday in Stirling . We loved it ! 😊
Size doesn't equal taste. The best lamb I've ever tasted was blackface lamb from the Isle of Harris in the late 1980's...probably half they size of lambs being produced today on the mainland. But I remember that flavour to this day. I can have Beltex lamb from an excellent butcher today, and have forgotten the flavour a week later. Of course, not all lambs go for meat :p
Another great video. I really enjoy seeing the market.
Love your videos even though I can’t understand half of what you are saying. I get it to . I live in the very southern USA and people understand me but they make fun. I love your accent and will continue to watch if I don’t understand or not. Keep up the good work
My editor is trying to add more subtitles to make it easier - hopefully that helps a bit!
I always click on CC (Closed Captions) Sometimes the translation is bizarre but it helps when Cammy speeds up & there's background noise 💕💕
Thanks!😊
Not a shepherd, but... ;-) When figuring out whether to add feed to bring the weight of your market lambs yup, don't forget to add (to the cost of the feed itself) the value of your time feeding them.
Really interesting question Cammy, re feed. It may work if you stagger it. Feed in July your most forward 100 lambs, then August the next 200 to 300 hundred,etc. Those that wouldn't finish this side of Christmas need to go else where no feed. As would any breeding stock. If you didn't target your creep feeding the costs would spiral as you'd be feeding 800 lambs for 4 months. With store lambs at £130 plus would they not be better off grass fat or if not in the store ring? It's the eternal question!
Aye we sell a few in store ring in an upcoming video! When u see the price it’s hard to argue against putting them all away store 🤣
@TheSheepGame I spoke to Billy Welsh earlier this week, he was telling me about the store market, up there. The buyers either know something we don't.....or....
Hi Cammie, I am interested in your thoughts on feeding the lambs, it sounds like a good business plan. Do you have the equipment and space to do so? Might be worth doing a comparison next season by using a couple of control groups 🤔
I think the easy care tup should go to your first time lambers and grab a Romney tup (I am sure I watched you shear a couple of years ago) - see what lamb offspring hair or wool suits your climate in Ayre - both easy lambers
Hi Cammy!! Love the sheep game!!
Interesting video! I think “finishing “ the lambs for the last few weeks will get them to weight and out the door quicker and for bigger profit even with the cost of creep subtracted.
If you had the capital to on and be able to feed the lambs, it sounds like a good deal. You also have to factor in time, which for parents of a young family is limited. 😊. Love your vlogs as usual.
Time is always the difficult one!
Great video Cammy aye think it’s a good idea to feed lambs about four or five weeks before selling it brings them on nicely 👌
Q: What is more financial advantage, feed sheep in the paddocks enriched pelts before marke, or seed the paddocks with crops that naturally enhances the sheep for bettering the sales at the markets?
first time we have ad-lib our dairyx aa stirks, out at grass, topping the mkt, near 100 sold, same principle with lambs, cost of feed is way less than the the extra price. Also, we have fed wheat gluten, at £210 ton, cheaper than a bespoke mix.
Thanks for the info!
The lambs look great Cammie 🐑🐑🐑
Put him on the Shetland X Cheviot's. Easycare X Shetland is a great cross too they make shedders in the second generation but useful sheep in the first.
Agree with comments below. Perhaps doing the finish weight with some feeding? I like your system but it may not take much to up the process. Bigger mule? Wonder what kind of lambing problems that would introduce? Thanks for sharing! Love from the USA!
It's nice to see how your sales barns work there verses here
Yeah I reckon you start on the weighing earlier, run them through to get an idea of your daily gains and pull them out and onto the bins if they start to slow up. If you have the info/data you can manage it mate 👌👌got the kit, just need the time 🤘
It's hard to know with the feeding, probably makes sense the year we had. Feeding is also time consuming, you won't be long putting a 10 a head into them. I am only farming 10 years, everyone seems to do things differently and everyone is right :-). I,m no expert I only keep 30 ewes and buy in around 2 hundred stores.
Love the new intro graphics 😊
Glad you like them! My graphic designer palAls and my editor Ashley keep the videos slick!
Love the market video's ❤
I've got hair sheep (shedding fleece). You can milk em and eat em but ya don't have to bother with sheering!!
Katadin hair sheep, a USA breed. Look into them, good worm resistance and no wool to shear.
When/how do you decide to move some of your ewes out of your flock to market and replace them with some of your ewe lambs? I assume you keep records on all your ewes to know when their productivity declines. Is this something you are doing every year? Change out 15% of the flock annually or such?
We usually check them before tupping time to see that the bags are okay all their teeth are present. We also mark any sheep at lambing time that we think won't do another year lambing. There's not a set amount, it's just sheep to sheep. I know some farmers move them on when they get to a certain age.
@@TheSheepGame Sandy Brock sends 6-year-old ewes & rams to the sales barns.💕💕
Going back through and making sure I’ve watched and commented on the videos. You need to pay for your farm and engagement helps with that.
Yep always feed lambs up about 6 weeks before market
You should definitely be working with charollais tups more get to weight of grass no feed in quick time would go well with your llyne and white faced ewes but also good over the mule 👍🏻
Question: I am going back and watching older videos. When did he move from having a sheep shed?
Thank you
We say "faither" instead of "father" because we're cool, different, independent and ken oor roots.
Toyota Hilux rear sensor switch on the side of the dash inside the passenger door, well hidden 😂
Most of their growing, those lambs are going to get height and length. Giving them a little bit of feed just at the last couple weeks or so helps to put the weight on them.
What was the lambing rate this year Cammy? did we ever find out?
Since your lambs are raised outside, how do you identify the lambs that are too cold and in danger of dying?
Creep feeding makes such a difference here. Lambs away quicker and frees the grass up for the ewes coming up to tupping time. Charollais rams weigh great but I just don’t think they look as good as the Texel or Suffolk lambs.
When you come over to the US you’ll have to have a look at Katahdin hair sheep.
There are small herd farmers with goats and cattle who strip graze goats then cattle or vice versa to decrease worm load and increase land fertility Is that feasible with sheep and cattle? Maybe should not even ask as watching YT we had dairy cows dad did limited grazing focus on crop rotation and trying different fodder occasionally
Feasible it is, every sheep farmer in New Zealand runs cattle along side the sheep, some even have deer in the mix. Goats unless milking ones are classed as feral and end up as dog tucker. Pre 1980s you could get 1 shilling or 1x.303 round of ammunition per goat tail.
@@keithroberts4559
That is interesting The veterinarian credited with bringing Kiko goats to the US talked about their resistance to parasites Of course if no one wants to eat goat it only helps the dogs :-(
Feed them when the market is up like right now but if it dips then you are going to have to sell them whatever shape they’re in otherwise you’re piling feed into a lamb that’s not going to make you anything. The fact that you are not and do not usually feed your lambs shows that you are in the land of milk and honey truly.
Makes sense to feed them to get to market earlier.
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Are grass fed not st a premium.likr grass fed beef?
No, sadly it all comes down to weight.
@@TheSheepGame oh my word! I live in South Africa and grass fed free range is hugely expensive supposed to be so much healthier than feedlot
Feed them Cammy. It always pays!!!.
Cammy what sorta commission does the mart charge for drawing the lambs ?
Not sure percentage. I think the line was at end of the video?
Cammy, I'd say your brain was already a little warped. It's part of your charm. :)
Cracking video as always
Appreciate the captions! I got bad ears.
It takes us more time time but I know it helps!
The grass fed lambs are healthier to eat, better fats profile, supposedly.
That is what I thought too. I.live in South Africa and free range meat ( grass fed) is considerably more expensive because of the health benefits
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Nothing weighs like a charollais!
Still good money Camey
Perhaps as you say some creep feed
But feed is bloody expensive
Like you I’m not a mathematician
I’d feed from weaning to market
Economies of scale. Low numbers will not see the benefit to a high input/high output system.
After listening to the podcast I'm sure he could sell snow to the eskimo's
Now that's the August in Scotland that I remember. Cold and rainy. 🌧
Selling lambs tomorrow at mart!!
Good luck!
did Cammy get that spot on his face?
Comparing your sheep to fed sheep, or anybody else's sheep isn't really a good comparison. Comparing your results this year vs last is a much better comparison. The only way feeding them would work out in my mind is if you spent less than 7 per to feed, considering time, effort, fuel and whatever else you would count. As mentioned earlier, if your lambs are better this year than last is probably the best comparison...it's your results that count.
All great points!
I’ll trade you weather… We’re 95 and humid. It’s like breathing warm water.
I like to see you feeling the sheep rumps to see how much fat they have on them. haha 🙂🙂
Get Australian white sheep no wool Shedding sheep little expensive bang for your buck
Braw. 👍
When u getting the Nissan back
Next couple weeks Bob. I was actually in at the garage seeing her today 😁
Tough business
There is a market for 100% grass fed lambs though the sale barn will not be that market.