Weather has ruined lambing for us.

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Күн бұрын

it had to be one of the worst lambing for us personally. The weather was so bad with driving wind and rain for days on end. a stressful time, luckily the weather picked up soon after.
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@benburns5995 Жыл бұрын

Wow, great video of trying to keep lambs alive in the crazy amounts of rain and sleet. Have to say that your family is sure dedicated to their work. Hope the weather breaks sure and better days to come.

@sheepshepherd Жыл бұрын

Cheers ben

@JohntyNich Жыл бұрын

For me, the UK and Ireland are behind in breeding tups with hardiness, get up and go, feed conversion in favour of tups that look good after being stuffed full of cake all year with big heads and square shoulders. That aside, it depends if the extra profit covers the lost lambs over say 5 years. Suffolks used to be good (30 years ago 😊) but I hear they are getting very dopey and slow to get going?

@sheepshepherd Жыл бұрын

Absolutely. Suffolks are definitely gone back the last while. We are changing over to texel as we are getting better results with them. The nz Suffolk is supposed to be leaps ahead of te ones here. So I might try that out aswell

@JohntyNich Жыл бұрын

@@sheepshepherd Think when the NZ farmers lost their subsidies it really concentrated their minds as to what’s important to keep costs down and profits up. I’d be tempted to go to someone who is using the genetics on a grass based system (plus scoring them) and trusting on their tups doing the business rather than looking good in the show ring. Just my thoughts.

@sheepshepherd Жыл бұрын

Exactly. They melt soon as they come home then. No good to the farmer

@jamesmccullagh8212 6 ай бұрын

Had a Suffolk a few years ago, great ram (although we were looking for the pricked earred ram) he was floppy earred but still a good framed and breeding ram but near his end with us he did go down hill quickly. So this year we bought a NZ Suffolk and definitely looks a better framed, lengthy ram, here's to hoping he was performing at tupping

@heathereagleson1098 Жыл бұрын

My grandpa (my dad’s dad) emigrated from Belfast, Ireland to America. I’ve never met my grandpa, Victor (also my dad’s name), due to his early passing from cancer. He died before I was born. I’ve never visited 🇮🇪 , but hope to eventually soon! 🐏🐑 That looks like a lot of work, but I pray it pays off.🙏🏼 I was supposed to visit Ireland in March of this year with my immediate family, but it never materialized. Greetings from Southern California. God bless!

@sheepshepherd Жыл бұрын

That's so good to hear from you and god bless you and you're grand pa. Rip If you ever visit, you are more than welcome to come visit the farm here

@heathereagleson1098 Жыл бұрын

@@sheepshepherd Thank you so much. I might take you up on that offer one day!

@yosifalwan6672 Жыл бұрын

Good morning.. The weather is difficult.. May God help you with that.. I wish you success

@sheepshepherd Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much. God bless you

@hilltop521 3 ай бұрын

Been through it all no joke it absouletly torture at times

@DLKHAY 6 ай бұрын

Here in Western Canada we don't see the moisture that you do for sure, but hardiness of lambs is important in our -40c weather. I'm having luck with Dorper ewes and Canadian Arcott rams

@sheepshepherd 6 ай бұрын

i googled them breeds, they are tough looking breeds, we could do with them here. appreciate the comment

@robertabblebaum7813 Жыл бұрын

Hope you can get some real rest soon! Mud just makes everything rougher.

@helenholmes3018 Жыл бұрын

Poor little lambs that would be so tough on them and the mums great video

@sheepshepherd Жыл бұрын

Ya it was tough for them. Over the worst of it now

@eughanl Жыл бұрын

Great video showing the hardship involved lambing in tough weather conditions.. id recommend vendeen rams for outdoor lambing

@sheepshepherd Жыл бұрын

Why is that?

@eughanl Жыл бұрын

@@sheepshepherd very quick to get up and suck and mainly good cover of wool on head and face when born keeps them warm.

@sheepshepherd Жыл бұрын

That's good to hear anyway. It's wool they need. We are very open up here

@999Giustina Жыл бұрын

Goodness, what a terrible time with the weather. Hope things get better soon.

@sheepshepherd Жыл бұрын

Things are a lot better. This was two weeks ago. I'm just behind in my videos

@CuriousEchidna Жыл бұрын

Gosh what a day. Thankful you didnt lose more than you did but can imagine it was right stressful seeing those hailstones pelt down. You've introduced your dad but who's the lady pitching in?

@sheepshepherd Жыл бұрын

Ya the weather was brutal, that is a student from ucd in Dublin that I get to help us lambing for the busiest period.

@CuriousEchidna Жыл бұрын

@@sheepshepherd thanks for the response! What a valuable experience for a uni student

@amandaburnett5551 Жыл бұрын

Holy crap thats some weather, i couldnt image living in that let a lone farning in it.

@sheepshepherd Жыл бұрын

Ya it was the worst lambing for us personally

@garymadden2656 Жыл бұрын

Great video that weather is unreal hopefully it will change soon good luck with the rest of the lambing 👌

@sheepshepherd Жыл бұрын

Ya tbf. It has been alot easier the last week. Thanks be to God. Its a tough time of the year. Its the same for everyone, I'm not alone

@ronaldlucas5360 9 ай бұрын

Enjoyed

@noelgalagher2712 Жыл бұрын

A short memory and sharp spade when sheep farmer

@sheepshepherd Жыл бұрын

By god you need a short memory 😅😅

@azamyahmad Жыл бұрын

Absolutely Loved watching your beautiful lifestyle over there, and you doing an excellent great job, gorgeous filming edition captured settings presentation, looks super awesome super amazing, keep it up Sir, wish you all the best in this new year and more blessing and subscribe to you on your way, God's willing, have a wonderful blessing day to you and your beautiful family over there, take care stay safe my friend .. best regards from MTL CDN ..

@sheepshepherd Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much. I hope you are well and bless you.

@kevincoogan3518 5 ай бұрын

Its very unfair that the wool is worth nothing. You will know all about it when you go to buy a 100% wool jumper.

@Diane24-l3n Жыл бұрын

Time to clean up the lace!!

@sheepshepherd Жыл бұрын

Ya 👍

@dykehead1 Жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure its been a hellish lambing in the uk/eire, just goes to show how weather dependent our job is.

@sheepshepherd Жыл бұрын

Ya there is a lot of stuff that goes wrong but the weather is so unpredictable the last few years. Makes it so tough

@johnthompson982 Жыл бұрын

That's really tough going how many have you lambed Hope this weather improves far to mutch rain best of luck with the rest of lambing Great video

@sheepshepherd Жыл бұрын

There is over 800 this year, I have only 38 to go so nearly done. This video was from a few weeks ago. I'm just behind in my videos. Too busy to make them atm

@johnthompson982 Жыл бұрын

@@sheepshepherd That's a lot of sheep and a lot of work glad you had time to do this video looking forward to seeing more