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Hi BG. Tups = rams. The word tup is a slang term used in UK which means breeding rams. Likewise, you may hear UK breeders refer to the breeding season as 'tupping' time. Hope that makes things a tad clearer.

Really? This is our 2nd Blue Texel ram. We've had the other over 3 years now and have had no problems with the breed. We've found that the lambs finish at roughly the same rate as white Texels. For fast finishing lambs, we usually rely on Suffolk X Mule.

If you breed small muscular lambs to tall lengthy sheep you tend to get a good solid mix of both.

Hi Maged. Greetings from the UK. I’m toning my accent down a little in these videos. If I talked normally, and as fast as I usually do, no one would probably be able to understand a thing I was saying😊. Hope you enjoy my future videos and thankyou for the kind comment.

His name (which I couldn't remember when i filming) is Barnsey Erny. That's what came on the pedigree papers

Yeah he is stunning. His colours are much more distinct than our other Blue Texel. He won't produce many lambs this year as we're using him to finish any ewes which break at the end of tupping time. But next year he'll have his chance with many more. So it'll be 2022 when we really see what he's capable of. When it's lambing next year (2021) I plan to try and get some good footage of some of his lambs and our other Blue Texel lambs. So far the Blue Texels tend to produce more white lambs than black ones when mixed with our Mules, Suffolks, Texel ewes.

Thanks for the compliment. We've not weighed him yet as we've had no real need too, but I would say he's only slightly smaller than most our ewes. Our ewes tend to weigh around 70kg, so I'd say this fella is probably between 55-65kg. He'll be fully grown around 3 yrs. They tend to grow taller the 2nd year and go a bit round. And then really fill out in the 3rd year and start to look bulky. You can tell just looking at his frame he's going to be a big guy. I think he'll be bigger than our older blue Texel. I'll try to get some footage of him at some point so you can compare the two.

Hi Graham. Greetings from the opposite side of the world. Thanks for sigining up and thanks for the support. Hope you find something useful in my videos. Best James

Thanks for the recommendations. I plan to upload once a week at present. This is a long term project for me and I'm hoping I can keep at this over the next few years - so I'm not in a mad rush to post loads of videos. I don't want to exhaust my ideas or give myself too much of a workload - I have enough with the farm as it is :) . I plan to do some tutorial videos and will try to cover worming in the future.

Thanks for the comment and greetings from the UK;) I don’t do much in the way of engineering these days, it’s more fabrication work now. I’d love to get back into it though and set myself up with engineering shop - complete with milling machine, lathe, perhaps even a CNC miller. Maybe if this channel goes well that could be in the future😊 I’ve no experience with small hair sheep. We just keep the big commercial breeds here on our farm in the UK, so that’s namely Texel, Suffolk, and Mules. We tend to cross them too as they become a little hardier can resist the wet cold winters we have around here. I will be making a video about our flock at soon. And I will be filming them around lambing time as that’s one of the most interesting and stressful times of the year. When I was an apprentice engineer a long time ago, one of the old guys once told me: “if you aren’t making mistakes, you’re not learning”. I apply the same attitude to farming. Thanks for following me and I hope you like my future vids.

Hahaha. Is that you Cathy. I was wondering how long it'd be before any of my close friends found out about this channel. I was going to keep it to myself till it got established a bit more. Anyways, thanks for following me and the comment. I hope you and Johnny are safe. PS: Frank will definitely be on the future vids - after all he's probably the best looking out of the 3 of us. I don't think Jo will ever want to be on camera, maybe that might change if this channel goes well. Take care;)

@@kippaxfarms5261 it's a great idea, I'd love to see what you're up to, what real life is like! And especially the mischief the animals cause...

@super_padge Thanks, glad you think it's a good idea. It's taken a bit of courage to start filming things around the farm whilst I'm talking to my phone. It seems weird talking to a camera. But I just keep doing video takes until I get something which looks 70% good. But, earlier this year, Joanne was posting some farm vids during lockdown on Facebook. The response was good; people seemed to really enjoy them during these chaotic times. So, I thought I’d start a channel and go into greater depth of how, why, and what happens on our farm. They’ll also be lots of mischievous animals. Because they’re always up to something.

Thanks for you suggestion friend. And thakyou for the kind comment and for following my channel. It's very much appreciated.