HOW THEY BECAME FULL TIME SHEEP FARMERS (Touring a BRAND NEW Sheep Farm): Vlog 173
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- HOW THEY BECAME FULL TIME SHEEP FARMERS (Touring a Brand New Sheep Barn)
After months of trying to get un-busy enough to visit my friends Romy and Ryan’s brand new sheep barn, I finally got to see it!!!
So I am taking you along for the ride.
In this video, Romy and Ryan talk about their new barn, how they expanded their sheep flock (DOUBLING IN SIZE!) and how they are also doing what many large producers don’t… creating a value-added business by creating a wool business!
All in all, I was blown away with their operation.
They have 3 young kids, very little additional help (thanks mom and dad!), and they built this barn to expand to a size that both Romy and Ryan could be full time sheep farmers.
Thank you to Circle R Livestock for opening your doors, and your life to me and well… the internet.
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What is your favourite thing about this barn???
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My favorite thing about the barn itself are the windows through which the shepherd can watch the flock. As a spinner and knitter, however, I am very intrigued regarding the wool. Dorset wool is durable and elastic - great for socks!
I like the ceiling and insulation part cuz I’m sure it helps keep the auto water bowls flowing in winter for the most part. This is a big plus. Individual water shut offs are smart too. Barn plans allowing for extra lounge, wash-up, bathroom, desk, and warm viewing areas are really smart and will be well used. I’m sure Sandi wished she had planned these areas in her barn. Live and learn. (We sheep farm in western Canada). Winter is always a headache! Wish we farmed in southern Ontario. Some yrs we’re really lucky to get 2 cuts of hay.
You bet! Wish I had a loft area too!
I've been following you, Sandi for about 2 yrs. But this morning is the first time this video popped up. I really enjoyed watching how others 'do' it.🤭
Am guessing they don't do planting etc for their feed...which allows her husband to be more involved & doesn't distract her from the barn so much. Thrilling that the kids are growing up with vested interest in the process, too.
Will be repeating the watch to see what I've missed on the first go-round.👍
Wow!!! I'm loving the barn loft!!! I want one, don't you?! Imagine being able to camp out comfortably, drinking your coffee, doing your paperwork, editing and all that jazz, and be able to see your sheep with ease of access, especially during bad weather and hectic lambing days!!! This would be a great upgrade for you Sandi!!!
You all are good farmers you have a beautiful barn for your 🐑 sheep and baby lambs
What a lovely couple,so enjoyed hearing how they have progressed over time.x
Thank you for showing your friends' barn, sheep, & wool business. I enjoy your work, but I also like the fact you show and enjoy other peoples' ideas.
What an awesome video. I love to see younger farmers who are making it happen. Also the innovative ways to generate cash flow.
While all farming is similar, each farm is different in the way it's managed .
Farming is not only a business it's a lifestyle .
Great job. God Bless.
These two make it look so easy! They are such hard workers!
Sandi, what I have learned is that anyone who makes their job look easy is someone who does it well, pretty much has it figured out and enjoys what they do.
As people have told me over the years I make my job look easy and I certainly enjoy what I do. (Mostly)
I move dirt for a living for the cranberry farmers (among other things) and most of my jobs are underwater before I start. Lol
What I don’t get is how young farmers can afford to build and expand so quickly!
Thank you so much for showing us you business. It’s a year later or so, I hope you and Sandi do another video as follow up.
I’m blown away, that farm is magnificent. The wool aspect was so cool as well. Your farm and theirs as well are very inspiring.
Thanks Shawn!
Sandi Brock happy 😊 Easter 🐣
Sandi Brock I think 💭 some of that wool ruby and popcorns wool
Sandi Brock you can make pictures with the coloured wool too
We have Cows, chickens and horses but never raised sheep. Thank you for giving me a window into your life and for inspiring me to keep making videos too.
Awesome!! Thanks for watching!!
I love that she is working with her own wool to make yarn. Wool is my favorite fiber to knit with.
She is doing some amazing stuff!
I'm an avid crocheter, an unfortunately, I'm severely allergic to wool :(
Sandi, thanks for showing us this alternative. Really enlightening. And here I thought you were the only passionate sheep farmer. 🙄 😁 Nice to see another wonderful couple who support each other. Those wool colours Romy is getting are to die for. 👍
Loved doing this one!!
AMAZING COUPLE!
Well planned adventures with gorgeous results!
Loved working the looms but one must be dedicated in their craft.
What a lovely family and farm! The yarn and colors are beautiful, as is that barn set-up. Thanks for the interview, extremely interesting.
Thanks for watching!
awesome. love it how you go around showing other farms. you are encouraging fellow farmers and i hope you definitely are exchanging ideas and experiences to improve yourselves and what you do.
😍😍😍 Knitter and spinner here, I LOVE what she is doing with the fiber. Your channel is amazing, I love what you do and your personality. Thank you for sharing❤❤
Awe! thanks so much Jessica!!
I love how clean and organized it is! I also really like the yarning stuff she has made! Super cool!
Isn't it awesome??
So neat! I love the simple way they are using what they grow.
Me too!!
Favorite thing is the square footage and the custom gates/panels. Would love that much space and I like how they combined highlights of different panel systems to create their own.
Love that too!
Im not a sheep farmer or grain farmer but watching these videos are very informative and entertaining. Seeing different farms and families shows nice variations. Kids with arm full of lambs is always a treat. Hope the add on wool production idea exceeds the expectations!!
Thanks! Glad you liked it!
Beautiful big barn and beautiful baby lambs
I'd just love living there ! I'd have a sofa at that window and I'd sit watching the sheep while knitting with all that beautiful wool. Its really a pleasure to see a set up like this
Me too!!
Lovely. The wool part was interesting. Long before I met him my husband had learned to spin wool, dye wool and weave wool. He also can knit and crochet. We have a large piece that he wove hanging in our stair well much like the pink plaid that was on the show. So neat to see the pieces of the puzzle put together!
Loved this one!!! I really like that they're trying to do things a natural way. Great farm!
Thanks Candice!
Kids + baby lambs = cuteness overload
Totally!!!
Thanks for the tour Romy and Ryan & Family. Great video and I am fascinated by that water system!
So am I!! Lots of ideas for the winter!
What a wonderful set up for using the complete income from the sheep to the end user
That's what I love too! They use everything!
Yay for local wool movement I love it!
Wow! now that was an awesome tour! Gonna have to go check out some of the yarn for sure. Thanks for taking us along on this tour.
Great to see another way of doing things. Thanx Sandi for sharing and taking the time.
What a happy surprise when their story moved to the WOOL! As a self taught hand spinner processing 2-3 fleece a year now from start to finish - including some dyeing) what a joy to see the wool benefiting the farmer instead of commercial wool pool paying pennies. Good luck! (Next stop is their website ... )
I will be getting some wool for felting and some yarn for crocheting.. I'm going to share her store in all my crochet groups.. they LOVE LOVE LOVE home dyed wool..
I love how clean and bright their barn ends up with the white! yours gets the same effect with the tent, honestly. that brightness and whiteness is just so inviting.
but I'll be honest, when she said teaser, I thought sheep vibrators. and i was like :O
Loved your interview skills. You knew exactly what we’d want to know and asked explanations for things you knew we wouldn’t know about. Loved it, thank you. A beautiful barn setup for sure 👍❤️❤️❤️
I love your channel! My Grandma raised a few sheep for wool. She then cleaned, spun with her spinning wheel, and dyed the yarn using plants, bugs, etc. which we wore the hats, scarves, sweaters, etc. that she made us. I always loved when she got a new lamb and it was too cold in the barn for the baby lamb and we would come visit to find a lamb in a box in the kitchen. ♥️ 🐑
This was amazing!! I'm a yarn/textile crafter in the US & have enjoyed getting closer & closer to the sources of my crafts.
Wow!!!!!!!!!! That is so amazing. A fantastic operation. I was unaware that there was anyone in Canada that did anything with the wool from their sheep other than send it off to the UK. I know in Winnipeg there are 2 small dealers of real wool and custom wool products but to my belief they obtain their stock from either the USA or the UK.
God Bless Joe
Thanks for sharing this farm. Amazing how she uses the wool and the colors she gets. Beautiful farm!
Wow thanks for taking us to visit your friends farm. Really like all the work she has done with there wool 🎉 there farm in the barn is mich same
Nice to see a young couple and kids running in the barn. Kinda interesting how they repurposed the chicken layer that's a tremendous idea
Pretty cool!
That loft reminds me of my friends first job after college. They had a window overlooking the breeding horses that they were supposed to watch but they never looked at it!
LOL!
Oh where do I start? This vlog is just brilliant. Great to see another sheep setup in a similar locality working the same type of business model but tweaked to the interests of the grower and types of sheep. I am partial to Dorset’s as we grew them but they are solid units! Just love the barn. The white ceiling is so helpful re light quality and the little room upstairs is amazing. Able to be kept warm but with great vision. As for the value added business with the dyed wool. Such colours! Makes your fingers itch. I helped a friend dye and spin wool for a 15 m hall runner she wove. There is a lot of work involved getting the wool to this stage.
Great video Sandi promoting the industry. Those silos are massive.
Thanks Susan!
LOL using old chicken next boxes for her wool, how fun!
I think the reason people buy wool from a farmer is they get a story a provenance with buying from the same place over and over.. the CRAP they sell in CRAFT stores that are especially a chain store is okay if you are making a couple tea cozies just to have a craft to do is not the same as learning about where that Wool or even Cotton came from. Planning how to use it. Learning the pattern or making your own pattern so that you can make the best pair of hand knitted Toe-Up socks or a hat for a very loved husband or a new baby that is in the need of wool diaper covers for cloth diapers. Or to be able to hand down Grandpa's favorite winter throw that was on Nana's couch as long as you can remember. Yarn from a craft store may be loved but it does not stand the test of time. We all love what you are doing for us knitter's, crocheted, and felter's and any of those people that just buy to help our economy. I do just about every craft I can get my hand on. I was a Chef so I have an eye for color, shape, and style. One last thing I wish I could put pictures on TH-cam comments maybe some day they will fix that. So I could show what I mean. I post pictures to Facebook but it is not a wide enough audience even though it may be all your friends. Very few Strangers(if you know what I mean) come an ask about the item you posted. I love my Facebbok friends but most of them already know about my crafts and I know about theirs. I buy from them. They from me. Oh I sell Cloth Sanitary Pads made from cloth only sold in the U.S. or Canada. PolyUrethane Laminate, Bamboo soaker and Minky. The softest pad for both periods and piddles. I also sew cloth belly bands for boy dogs and holey tails for girl dogs all sizes. Last I sew custom made bras biggest size I have sewn was 38M. For true understanding that is as big as a half watermelon the long trading kind of watermelon. Love you girl you know who you are. I am a 38H equal to a 34L small/medium cantaloupe. All of that fabric comes from England.
Still,, I like ur barn and the way u engage urself with all the sheep chores.
Loved this video! Thanks for sharing their farm with us it was so interesting, especially about the fleece, yarn, and how many things they make!
Thanks so much!
What a beautiful sheep farm . They have a beautiful setup , but you know , you have a beautiful setup too Sandi .
Thanks Bill! Always cool to see how others are doing it!
What a lovely couple,so informative.
This video was so informative I really like it. Thank you all for the hard work you do. I won'teat lamb but I love yarn.
WOW! they are really into it! Their wool dying is fantastic..
So amazing!!!
Wow that farm is amazing love that she has so many option with her yard, so wonderful
I have always found "Value Added" products of farming fascinating. Great tour!
Same!!!
Thank you for thorough job explaining, your passion comes out all of your postings. Thank you
My family is from Alberta and we are currently at about 2700 sheep, we are primarily lamb producers but we also have a wool depot on the side. We started about 9 years ago. Also, in the first barn, we built we had a loft too
Very interesting, thanks Sandi
This was great! Its wonderful to watch you as your videos come out but to also see other do the same is awesome! In different ways! So cool. And I gotta say I'm digging the wool stuff too! Thanks for sharing all this.
As much as I love watching you with your sheep, this was fantastic. Love that wool. And the COLORS! Beautiful.
Hi Sandi! I am a hand spinner, weaver and knitter. Please use me as a resource if you want to have wool, dyeing, or other yarn-related questions and/!or stories. Many years ago, I visited a family’s hobby farm to teach their kids the process of scouring raw wool, picking and carding it into bats. Over several weekends we took their sheep fleeces from the backs of their animals to spinning it into yarn and then I knit the kids hats and scarves with their yarn.
The breed of sheep is very important for how the yarn will spin and the ultimate use of the item to be made. Close to skin items generally call for down breeds. Something like a Lincoln-Romney cross would be for rugs or other sturdy items.
Sheep give us a lifetime of learning, creating, friends and community gatherings like local sheep and lamb shows. Heart hugs to you Sandi! Thank you for being you. ❤-Lynne Wolters, waving to you from Vancouver, Washington.
Hola hi😊
This is such a neat video :) I love that they sell the wool and yarn and that she dyes it with plants. Thanks for this video.
Sandi, thanks so much for sharing this. As a hog and crop producer I am always interested in other types of livestock farming and found this fascinating (as well as your operation). Really enjoy following your families farming activities.
Thanks Jeff!
It's nice to see producers using their wool and maximizing profits per sheep! I'm a hand spinner and started my small Shetland flock for spinning, with the added bonus of meat in the freezer!
WOW!! Thanks, that was Terrific!! I love what they are doing with their wool.
Definitely going to check out their website!!
4/16/22
I’m loving the lack of bird noise in their barn and that they are usually able to keep temps above freezing in the winter.
Also the loft and waterers.
But I prefer your automatic nursing set up, Sandi, and your handling system / collapsible pens.
What gets me is how does such a young couple afford to expand that quickly?!
Pretty cool that they are dyeing their homegrown wool with natural substances.
I'm so super impressed with Romy and her farm. She definitely has a big operation and from start to finish I can see her success. I love the loft idea also cause Sandi you can edit and do office work while watching sheep during lambing. But I'm most impressed by Romy wool and I see why y'all collaborate cause seriously she has wool. A knitting circle and quilting circle would definitely get products out for y'all.
Very good video.. I like how farmers come together and share ,and show there operation !!!
Thanks
I love visiting my friends in this industry... I always learn so much from other people, so love it that I can share with others!
Such a beautiful story! Thank you for sharing ❤️❤️
When I first saw the nesting box with wool in it, I thought “man, those are some spoiled chickens”
Looking forward to a tour! Thank you
Great new video Sandi thanks for showing us this amazing sheep barn
Thanks Luke!
Loved seeing this farm and their innovations!
WOW, Thanks for sharing. It's is all a well oiled machine so to speak. I dye with natural plants/flowers/bark, etc. Wool dyes the best and I have worked a lot with alpaca. Nice going.
That was good folks! Interesting! (Little old Somerset, England!) Good luck to all!
I love what she is doing with the wool! And very cool barn.
So great!
My grandfather and uncle have farmed originally Dorset horn sheep, but now all poll Dorset’s for many tears now. Mostly for fat lambs to sell, but also they have a big market for ram lambs for breeding. Loving your videos and would love to visit Canada one day. Much love Jim
Very interesting! Thanks Jim!
I had the privilege of touring this farm last winter with the university of Guelph sheep and goat club. I technically wasn't a student at that time but my girlfriend snuck me on the tour. It was an excellent farm to tour. I didn't realize that the barn was brand new at the time
You got to see it before me!!! LOL
This is fantastic.
So impressed with the wool dying and the weaving.
Well done Sandi👏😀❤✔
Amazing 😉 farmers. Hard hard working couple.One of your best videos. Thanks.
Thanks Stan! They are amazing!
That is an incredible place they have there. Would love to visit someday.
At 15:00, Romy made me laugh with the comment, - He's going (hand sign for crazy)...everyone is sniffing and jumping and getting all crazy...- This still happens every Friday & Saturday night at the college bars. Rams working their way into the crowd sniffing and jumping getting all crazy for a teaser. HAHAHAHA
LOL!!!
Great.
Just love the use of the wool.
I'm with you I could sit in that loft for hours. Just needs a low window near that couch.
Yes!!
Hello Sandi, thank you for sharing this video it’s very interesting thank you 👍👍👍🇬🇧
Thanks for watching Ted!
In Chicagoland, NW Suburbs - we keep water taps on a very slow drip to keep the pipes from freezing. Beautiful setup here...
That was very informative- loved it !!
Thanks for the very interesting tour, just started following your videos .Looking forward is to more.
Very inspiring. You guys are my superstars!!
Super interesting, thanks for taking the time to show us :-)
thanks for watching!
Very interesting. Thanks.
Amazing!!
Really interesting to see all that. Seriously neat to learn about the difference between the wool.
Amazing, thanks for share the works´friend. You are a very nice person
Beautiful barn!!! so inspiring!
Great looking farm!!
That building is amazing!
Beautiful setup!
So so cool !!! Loved seeing this families cool sheep farm. I love how she's doing business with her wool and naturally dying it. Thanks Sandy I really enjoyed the tour o and the loft over looking the sheep well to me that's the icing on the cake. Wink wink
I agree Carrie! Love that loft!!!
I loved this video! Thanks for sharing it!!
Great! Thanks Kim!
So interesting!
Amazing work