Such a shame about the wool prices, especially when my wool pillows & duvet costed me an absolute fortune!

Wool is also naturally fire resistant. There’s a video knocking about on KZfaq where a fireman sets light to a wool blanket, nothing happens. He then sets light to a man made fabric blanket and the thing goes up in seconds. Pretty eye opening.

have an epic stag do - id offer to farm sit but well i cant be arsed...and ive got my sheep to shear.

Kris and Zoe, Congratulations on your wedding! Wonderful!

I have more to say - what about this year at tupping time get a flock of 50 ewes of 5 different sheep breeds you have in your flocks - scotch black, millennium bleu ewes etc and put them to the hair ram you have - it will give you an idea of what each cross will turn out - it would be a quick way to see which one you like

My sheep are all hair sheep, Damara crossed to White Dorper for a Meatmaster type (in Australia). Both White Dorper and Damara sheep breeds are in the UK now, no need for white sheep when there is no wool. And you only need a ram over your existing ewes of either or both breeds. All the best for your wedding day, so good that you have each other.

I have hair sheep (American Blackbelly (barbados) - no shearing, no wormer or anything else. Mine rub the wool off on fence panels, trees or something. Good feet, no vaccinations, no wormers, nothing. They are pest resistant which makes my life much easier.

😂😂 omg, that tripod made me laugh out loud. You are not just the breaker of things… You are the mangler of things! What in gods name did you do that thing?!

Congratulations on your wedding both beautiful humans inside and out and Zoe is amazing. Also… Your editing on videos Chris is exceptional to say the leasts. I know nothing about farming but wish you all the best in your future with the costs and decisions you have to make. Can’t be an easy job atm.

Regarding fly strike. I lived down under for 10 years and fly strike is a massive problem on Marinos in particular. They carry out a procedure called mulesing which is a very contentious issue. Don’t know the answer but it has to be better than being eaten alive I suppose 🤷‍♂️.

Congratulations Kris and Zoe on pending nuptials! I hope you have a lovely wedding and a long and happy family life ❤️ I don't know much about sheep but have a gut feeling that all the genetic manipulation will bite us in the butt someday. I wish farming was easier and more respected since you're literally feeding the world!

It's totally crazy that wool is treated like a waste when it can be used for so much - from paths across bogs to insulation to water resistant clothing - and yet people waste money on other things that aren't so good. But hey, with you all the way, if folks don't want it, then there's no point producing it :( Have an awesome stag do and wedding :)

Hair sheep and shedding sheep are the future of meat sheep. It is SO much cheaper and easier. I love my Katahdins. They keep me shepherding when my health would have stopped me otherwise. Other benefits... they tend to have better feet, more parasite resistance and I feel that since they don't put the calories and energy into producing a wool coat each year that they do BETTER on less feed than a woolly sheep does.

garlic licks and you will notice a huge difference in flys. we use them here in south of france and its made a huge difference.

Black eye and a mullet….roflllll

I agree with you on the wool side. I knit, and I can't even find wool knitting yarn. It's all acrylic.

Need to hire one of the King's Riflemen..... just for candid photos at your shotgun wedding.

What gets me is a few years ago I was looking for some good wool socks and I could not find any. If wool is worthless, you'd think I could find a set of rather cheap wool socks, and anyone into textiles and clothing could make some good money by turning worthless wool into all manner of things. It would make the price go up a bit maybe, but that would mean farmers and textile industries are doing better selling wool and wool products.

Congrats on standing up and making Zoe an honest woman. I'm sure becoming a family man is going to be just as rewarding and challenging as farming sheep has ever been. But to have Zoe, and family, to come home to every night is going to be more rewarding than you can ever imagine. Congratulations on finding a partner that you can live with in contentment, cheers.

My first sheep were Wiltipers, easy to care for when at school, and later went over to Dorpers in the mid 70's. I would breed the best ewes pure for replacements, and cross the rest to a terminal ram, selling the lambs at weaning due to awn grass being a problem with any amount of wool, but a good sized lamb for sale. Have you looked into using a Wilshire Horn ram for the first cross over wooled ewes?

I hope you both have a lovely wedding. My favourites have been in decorated farm barns with minimum expense involved. You could offer your heap of worthlessness to allotment holders, they like to put it round their crops to give the slugs a hard time.I find it stupid that we don’t appreciate wool. There are many applications wool of various grades can be put to. Yes, also biodegradable.

Just came across your channel man. What a legend mate, informative funny and hard at work.

Kris look up the Australian White - a purpose breed hair sheep for the meat trade - they have crossed several breeds to come up with this great looking breed - here in NZ we are starting to have this breed as well - I was watching Cami's Fed by Farmers podcast and he worked out to do a sheep for fly strike is around 1 pound 75 pence - so more expensive to spray for fly strike than to do the shearing

Wool is the best fabric material. Superior to every other fabric. It's very sad. One day it will make a comeback.

Hi mate, I'm a new subscriber, loving the videos. I do feel for you on the cost of wool. An idea have you thought of making compost from it and selling bags of peat free wool compost. You can add manure to it, keep turning it, boom.

Congrats to you and Zoe on your upcoming wedding. Sending the best of wishes to you both for a marvellous day and future ahead of you. ❤❤

We keep Easycare ewes, the associated costs involved in keeping wool sheep, crutching,dagging,shearing, fly prevention or dealing with fly strike, concentrate costs. All of the above do not apply to Easycares. I would say the largest cost of wool sheep is the labour element, how do you value every hour spent doing the above. Also more Easycare ewes per hectare, will nullify any loss in lamb value...

Wishing you both a lovely wedding. Tough decision on keeping easycare sheep or not, can see your point ,I much prefer looking at your millennium blue type lambs ,they’re quality through and through

Congratulations Kris and Zoe!

I am the same as u dont like the look of easy care And to be honest around here in south west of Ireland with rough land and mountains it about getting i good feeling from looking at u stock as much as the money , we would have stopped farming by now if it was only the money Nice lambs like the smart looking texels In joy the stag and wedding

Wool is a good, slow release nitrogen fertiliser used on rhubarb and grapes. Probably a good mulch on apricots.

I started with Easycare and I don't like them all year until summer. My best lambs are Easycare ewe cross Berrichon bred back to a Hampshire down. The crossbred ewes mostly shed a few need tidying up. Also breed Shetland's to Easycare and they shed after 2 generations.

Polypay sheep are good meat sheep, great moms, twins and triplets, and a fairly fine grade wool, next to skin soft. I love spinning it. I have a friend who raises meat sheep and she crosses her Polypay ewes (because she says they’re better moms) with a Suffolk ram. The Suffolk is a great meat sheep and has a medium wool, not as soft as the Polypay, but most of your sheep (ewes) would have a nice fleece to sell and the lambs would just be sold at the market. You could keep a couple of Polypay rams to breed back to the ewes for female lambs for your flock. Just thinking out loud.

Always happy to see the ducks. Lovely looking calves.

I work for a local farmer. This last few weeks have been spent dagging and spraying ewes and lambs. One of the cades that I got from him is a ewe lamb from a suffork tup on an exlana ewe. I want to keep her to breed and see what she turns out like.

I have Some Barbados blackbelly sheep. They’re a hairsheep too and they lamb super easily and are mega easy keepers. I have not had to trim a hoof or worm them in years. They have a mineral lick and other than that they are 100% grass fed and hay in winter. Would be worth Perhaps to get 5 Barbados Blackbelly wees and put them with your easycare ram and see how you like the cross. I also have dorper x BB and they’re quite Nice too

Just in from evening rounds, snow on the hill today and a fly struck ewe from the top of the back down both shoulders. Was pondering the idea of shedding sheep and your all over it in todays video - love watching your blogs, do you get blackenings before getting married down with you ?? All the best to you and Zoe, hope you have a great day 🎉

Congratulations on your forthcoming wedding. Wishing you & Zoe the best that life can offer you 🍾🎊👰💐💑💒🥂

Have a brilliant time at your stag do Chris. Congratulations on your forthcoming wedding.

The lambs have done well. Hope you have lively weather for your wedding ❤️❤️

Great video kris as always enjoy your stag 🍻👌

It amazes me how calm they get, once you get them upside down between your knees. Don’t chickens do that too, when placed upside down?

Congratulations to both of you, hope you have a wonderful wedding day ❤

Hopingyour stag do and wedding go well and wishing you everything good in your marriage and upcoming family.

Good luck with the Stag night and the wedding ❤😊.

Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉.

With their coarse hair coat, Australian White sheep don't need shearing, crutching, dagging, or flystrike prevention - which currently costs around $6000 a year, Jackson says.2 Apr 2023

I'm looking at the easy care road now. Iv just spent 5 years going dwn the market lambs strong texel coz lambs are nice to look at But we sell dead. Pull out soon strong texel ewes that slip there wool and x to the easy care. Before spending big money on easy care ewes.

Where I live in the uk the man who shears the sheep this year is looking £2.50 / ewe. £10 for blue spray.

Aussie white or dorper is the way forward. That easy care isn’t much of a ram to judge shedding sheep on

Fingers crossed that all goes well for the wedding and all that!

Good video your sheep look well hope you enjoy the stag party as for easy care sheep they definitely not for me but I know what you mean about the wool

Congratulations on your wedding and new baby breaker of things 🎉❤

Got a few Wiltshire they're a dream so much less work breed them with a Suffolk ram get some big lambs

#thewelshwoolshop we aren't the only ones that are helping farmers with their wool.

Nice Millenium bleu tup.

Best of luck to u both on ur nuptials 🎉🥂🍾

you are making fun of the tail of your millennium bleu, but i think that is your thirst way to less flystrike. And no docking needed. Hair sheep is the better way for your ewes and a good texel ram for karkas.

Great video, good luck with the stag and wedding

Congrats sir! Cheers

Why can't we use it for installation

If you can’t stand looking at Easycare sheep, would Wiltshire Horned sheep be easier on the eye for you?

So you have dorpers? Great carcass. Very meaty. Better then the kathaten. Populare here in the US. Much less labor. Lamb easy most the time. Rate of gain. Mild meat due to no or less lanolin.

Nice unipod.

Get N easy care x texel ram then the lambs will look good aswell as the no wool

Stay as you are don't get married as the divorce costs a fortune

Thanks!

Migration will keep sheep and goat prices high. Wishing you & Zoe the best wedding ever!!❤️

Shedding sheep. This is the way.

Black eye, mullet and a missing tooth to complete the tooth… 😂 Wishing you AAALLLLL the best.

I"m allergic to wool. Wherever it touches me I break out in hives.

That’s not a tripod! It’s a unipod! 😂😂😂

Maybe a easycare ewe and a Terminal ram and

Where's the stag do invite?

YourBBxjersey would make good suckler cows with Lim bull on them ? Think about it

AUSTRALIAN WHITE sheep - that`s your answer to no wool - big meaty carcass - but still expensive to start up....

Double click the thumbs down... Ser you are a foot, a leg end *waits ,in Welsh, for a channel playlist for news to be able to binge watch from the start*

for a farm you dont have many or any tractors ect