ARE MY LAMBS HEAVY ENOUGH TO SELL? | First time inside Livestock Mart since lockdown!!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ต.ค. 2024
- In this video I am weighing lambs to take to the livestock mart at Lanark.
This isn't the happiest of processes but it's the reason we farm, to feed the nation, and I'm proud of the grass fed, low carbon footprint product we have in our Scotch Lamb.
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ABOUT ME
I’m 31 years old and I’m a sheep farmer from Ayrshire in South West Scotland, which is why I have such a strong accent! I was born and raised on a sheep farm watching my dad who was the shepherd.
At 18 I went away from farming to work in the city (something I still do) and at 23 (2013) I decided I wanted to do something for some extra money so I went on a sheep shearing course. The hardest thing I’ll ever do was learning to shear sheep. [shudders thinking about it]
I shore whilst on my holidays from work for 2 years and then in 2015 my dad died so I decided to get my own sheep so I could continue working with sheep as it was something I loved doing. From there it escalated quickly from my first 4 sheep in my mum’s garden to now running around 600 breeding ewes.
I shore over 15,000 sheep this season in UK and I also travel to Norway for shearing in March and September. (Covid messed it up this year)
A few years ago I bought myself a sheep pregnancy scanner and have been building up my run since then.
I watched a few farm vlogs on TH-cam and decided I could have a go and now here we are!
Thanks for watching my videos and please subscribe if you want to see more in future.
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A man, his good wife, a child, dogs n a farm. Livin' the life
Your patience with Fern even though she was being selectively deaf, makes me believe you'll be a kind and patient Dad. So nice to see you appreciating all Lizzy does and the two of you working as a team. Your Mom must be so happy you found a partner who's interested in sheep and good with dogs and most of all who had that handsome grandson, Jock.
I am VERY luck. Thanks for being so kind 🥰
You are simply glowing talking about Lizzy and the baby!!! Glad I get to leave the first message!!!
Thanks! Such a buzz!
Fern is going to be an excellent sheepdog! I absolutely love watching the dogs work. You and Lizzy are a great team.
Thanks Kristin!
I love watching the dogs work the sheep. Fern is amazing as a young dog. Congratulations again on the new baby!.
Thanks Donna!
I loved seeing everything in action and how it's done. Congratulations to you and your wife.🐑❤
Hi Cami, Lizzie and Jock,
Thank you for great vlogs, you are doing Scotland proud!!👍🏻I'm from down the road in Dumfries and Galloway so more familiar scenery in the Hoof GP!, but we see more of the country via you and your 🐑compared to Graham and the 🐄!!. Love all the films showing my background and basically life from the farming side but also the stunning country we live in and it's people who make it.!!
Oh, the red/orange "fruits" in the hedge are rosehips , used in beauty, pharmaceutical industries.
Thank you Tracey! U are very kind! And that’s another wee bit of knowledge I have to pass on to Jock some day 🥰
Those dogs are so amazing! I can't believe how just a couple can help bring the whole heard in! Little Fern will pick it up soon.
I'm glad you are finally getting a chance to upload some of your back log lol. Great video. Your nephews are adorable. I think you and Lizzy will be amazing parents. Love from Oregon USA
Pushing hard to get caught up so my videos are relevant again 😂. I’ll still be shearing sheep at Christmas if i don’t catch up 😂
I have been waiting to see this side of the business. Thanks for sharing!!!
MMMMMEEEEEEEEEGGGGGGGGGGGG!!! 😍 Looks like Fern is coming right along, but LOVE seeing Meg work. Great video! Cheers!
the way you talk about Lizzie and the baby your eyes kind of light up hugssssss
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I am just watching your vlog from New Zealand sitting on the coach with my Jock and just saying to him Cami and Lizzi are having a Jock soon as well - my Jock is a 11 year old Staffordshire Bull Terrier - Jock, Jack and John are family names from our roots when we came out of Scotland in 1840
Good Scottish names! 😁
Those were some nice looking lambs. Even and consistent. Good job and another great video!
VERY nice job backing that trailer right up!!! And so pleased with how you’re training Fern. It’s obvious y’all have some years under y’all’s belt!
Interesting to see the market, Cammy. Thanks.
Oh, and you can make a tasty (tart!) tea out of the rose hips. Just steep them in boiling water. Easy and good for you!
Thanks for sharing your family and sheep. I enjoy the videos. I’ve been to Scotland once, such a beautiful country.
You are going to a great dad just listening to you talk about the dogs and the you gone learning.🦌💌❤️🐑
Totally appreciate watching those dogs do their work and your patience in training the newbie
Rose hips Cammy , as kids you’d open them and put the seeds down the back of someone else,s tea shirt, they itch like crazy For hours !!
+1 for rose hips :-)
Definitely rose hips, you can make rose hip syrup from them, full of vitamin C
Thanks for sharing this video was really interesting, some beautiful looking sheep. Always nice to see Lizzie 😊👍👍👍
I appreciated this video today. It was a good distraction from a rogue migraine. Very interesting to see inside the market.
Your nephews are adorable, by the way.
Such a nice couple you are. How exciting expecting your first child. ❤️
I am so happy to have discovered your channel. I have watched Sheepishly Me. I live in Northern Minnesota in USA. I am close to the Canadian border. I am a retired grain farmer, 73 years old, and our two sons now farm wheat, soybeans, corn and sugar beets. I am amazed with the animal part of farming. I love ❤ watching your channel.
Thanks for the great comment and thanks for watching my vids!
Thanks for taking us along. Hope Lizzie and baby Joch are doing well.
Great video cammy I used to go to the market every Thursday as my grandfather worked in it and when I had to sell lambs I sold them there great memories 👌
Great video. Your dogs sure do love what they do & Fern will get better at her job as she gets older. Great looking lambs as well.
Lizzy, without a clearer view of the vine flower, I believe it's a Trumpet Vine. Birds, especially Hummingbirds love them. Cheers from Texas!!
Yes, I thought the same thing.
Thanks Shelia, a few people saying they are Rosehips but that could just be the UK name for them 👍
@@TheSheepGame they look like rosehips from the leaves, you ought to pick them they are tasty and good for you - very high in vit C
Love your channel. I got a great giggle when I put on the close caption. For the most part it translated well , but when you were calling Fern, it got "value fern" or "hello fern". Keep up the good work and congratulations on your baby.
love watching, watched you on the Hoof GP and started following
Thanks Karen!
Your English is fine…you’re doing well speaking clearly, plus it’s fun listening because of your upbeat attitude😀
Congratulations and perfect health wishes for your baby 🥳💖
Every time I watch your blog I gain a better understanding to your chosen profession Snd without our farmers we’d be nothing well I dude would not be worth s poop although my heart would be init not sure my body would thank you both gor your courage
Loved seeing the market sale. Memories of my childhood. Sheep or cattle sales they move huge numbers in Tetris like conditions. Amazing skills. Live feed of auction a great innovation. Sheep are much improved from last year Cammy. Did you see you used a police stop signal when directing Fern? I cracked up.
"Did you miss me?"
"No"
🤣🤣🤣🤣, yep, my kinda humour. Fab Lizzie, fab 😁... and BTW, when did she have time to miss you? 😉
You two are brilliant
Really enjoy and learn a lot from your videos. I’m sure new sheep farmers gain a lot from your videos. Learning it the first time is the hard part! You are really helping the youngsters! Spent a lot of my youth sorting feedlot cattle to go to slaughter. Getting a good, even looking load was vitally important!
Thanks Bill
Hi Cammy Rab here from Antrim. As a Pedigree Suffolk breeder I was happy to see the Suffolk was the heaviest and out preformed the Texels. As they usually do. You need more Black heads and black legged tups. Don't worry about the black arses. Texels are slower to finish. If mixed lambs Texels and Suffolk run together same age.the plian looking suffolks always surprises me while a good looking texel is not up to weight I observed that over the years. The old British traditional breeds ever time. 🤣👍🏼.I Love the videos keep it going. Rab Graham
Unreal pen off lambs well done very best off luck with your sale and weighing 👍🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑
I throughly enjoyed this vlog!!! Brilliant 😊🐑💙
Love these informative and fun videos ... not too complicated and really gives a good look at the way things are done.
Cheers Matt!
Another great informative video - thanks for sharing your dream life 👍
Love seeing the business side of it all. Hope Jock is letting you sleep. ☺️ Stay well and thanks for the videos. Please let us know how the Jacob cross lambs are doing? They were so cute.
Getting a few hours per night but that’s what we signed up for 😂😂. I sold the two girls recently to a small holder but still have the 4 boys to find a home.
Excellent show of lambs👍
That was very interesting. Loved watching Finn work and he looks like he will be another good sheep dog. ❤️❤️
Fern ...
Fantastic video. Thank you xxx
Another great video Cammy, really enjoyed it . 👍🙂
Good luck to you both.xxx
Fern is gorgeous! She knows which one of you means business, too! 😂
Good man Cam, your enthusiasm and positive attitude never ceases to amaze me. I tend to just whinge and give off about my sheep but I keep doing it all the same 😂
I have my moments too when the rain is lashing down and they’re breaking out everywhere 😂
That was fun I’d like to see more of the auction, in our area we are no longer allowed to go and watch unless we are selling or buying.
It used to be a fun outing at least for me.
Signed on with no views and then got interrupted by a camera club zoom meeting. Love watching the dogs. Instinct is strong and training does take some time. I wish I could try Scottish lamb, but it doesn’t make it to So. California. One of my favorite meals is some nice chops, medium rare.
Love chops myself! Hard to beat grass fed Scottish Lamb 🥰
Great Video Cammy very enjoyable watch for a non farmer like me. With farms and land prices so high do you aspire to leasing a farm or will you go for an outright purchase? I imagine renting fields all over the place could be quite time consuming rather than in a ring fence...your texels looked fantastic but your suffolk x earned more in the ring but I'd love to know if it earned more per kilo against the Texels. I definitely would love to see a full video on getting your lambs ready for market. Keep up the good work Cammy I always enjoy your vids 👍
Thanks Keith, I’m probably going to have to try and find a lease farm as the capital required to buy a farm is huge. Now that TH-cam is getting more popular I look at people like Tom Pemberton and Sandi and think maybe it could make enough to save for a farm! I could be the first person every to buy a farm from TH-cam if i keep working at it 😁😂
You Tube has made a huge difference in Both Sandi Brocks and Tom Pembertons operations. Made some badly needed upgrades possible. You Tube profile will help you find land too.
Rosehip, aka itching powder. Seeds are very itchy, usually placed down someone's collar......well 35 years ago at primary school.
Could the flowers on the fence be trumpet vine!? 🤷♀️ I bet it could grow in Scotland since it will survive Iowa, USA winters. Your videos make me wish the grocery stores in the area carried lamb meat. There’s a little ice cream ship in Grinnell, Iowa that sells lamb burgers and I loved them. I’d probably have to drive an hour to Des Moines, Iowa, our state capital to find it. Or some other larger town. Is it offensive to say it tasted like beef? Maybe it had some beef fat on it from cooking it on same grill as hamburgers. Very interesting video.
I think the UK name is Rosehip from some other comments i’ve had but could be the same as your trumpet vine! I’m not sure about it tasting like beef but we all taste things different and I love beef too so it’s a win win 😂
Love to see the dog working!!
Beautiful lambs. I enjoyed the video.
💕 your Channel.
I will have to give up my dream of sheep farming because I could never back up the trailers with such finesse.
Congratulations that's awesome 👌
Those are nice looking lambs. We ship at a similar weight and are getting $225 CAD (£131) We are very lucky to have just about the best market in the world for lamb here, which is partly because we have a shortage. We only supply about 45% of the demand.
Yeah I hear there is a global shortage. These prices are actually the lowest prices I have got this year and most sales average over £100. After Christmas our lambs will be back up to £140-£180 again. Due to shortages like u described.
Her chil, my child and our child😘
Congratulations better every year, can't beat that.
Such a cute little lad.
I thought you were having a hail storm but it was the sheep horns on the stones. Lizzy is looking so beautiful.
Thanks Sarah😁. Could be a new asmr sound.😂
LOL I meant sheep hooves.
When cammy tried to do the English accent that cracked me up 😂.
Love your channel. mind that woman for God's sake, best of luck to you both and the new baby when it arrives,
I find it best to train a young dog in a small paddock and gradually get them used to field work, they have to obey commands, takes some work but it's worth it.
fern looks exactly like my banjo... his sire came from scottland his name was wisp
You sound like you're not sure whose child it Is! Jock is going to have a complex when he finally sees these videos!
Nice. Thank you for the video, this is the type of stuff that is very interesting to me. How long they've been grazing, how much they weigh and what they sell for and when.
I guess now you have some cash to buy yourself some new tops.... Thanks again for the awesome and informative video, good luck with the rest of them, hope they put on some kilos and the market stays strong or gets stronger.
Brilliant video, nephews are cute.
The trade is just unreal at the moment 🔥🔥
You are a lucky man.
Fern, LOL. She’ll get there ❤️🐾
Love this vlog! ❤
Thank you!!
Good level pen of lambs!
Keep laughing. I so enjoy it.
Why do they sound 100x more Scottish when they talk to the dogs? lol. As an American, I have no clue what they're saying when they talk to the dogs but I can understand fine when they talk to the camera or each other.
😁 I try to speak very clear to the camera but the way I speak to the dogs is more like how I would speak to another Scottish person. 😁
Mostly it's "lie down fern!'" 😂😂😂😂
@@TheSheepGame In that case, your international audience thanks you for your efforts 😂😁
Remind me what the blue spray has in it. ? AWESOME VID. thanks for the inspiration. loved your isle vids From owner of a flock of 3 ewes in NZ ❤
Is it a teramycin based thing? I’m not too sure.
I couldn't do this. I word want to keep them all. I would be the crazy lamb lady.
the things you were looking at are dogrose berries ie rose hips
It's definitely my thing. And I've only seen a real sheep once.
Obviously you both understand training sheep dogs, but I don't actually know if you practice inside or not!
All Dogs Are Smart TH-cam channel has great tutorials of stock dog training that Lizzy could do inside. You said Fern was Lizzy's and doing drills inside away from stock are super helpful to proof Fern's skills! Being the superwoman that Lizzy is I bet she could do drills with baby in hand like it's nothing.
Lizzy seems to be superwoman, if I was pregnant I wouldn't be able to do half the things she did on a daily basis. It's rather intimidating if I'm being honest lol.
They are so innocent, like rabbits, only bigger🐑🐑🐑
Great video
Thanks Rodney
@@TheSheepGame just subscribed sorry something happen before. But i am joined now
Red things in the hedge are rosehips.
Thanks Gordon!
Difficult to judge, but were they rose hips?
They were rose hips on the hedge, that's shrub roses and that is the seed pod of it, you can grow your own roses from seed...oh no Scottish men should not attempt English accent🤣
Itchycoos!!🐑🐑❤️
Is the brown fleece sheep dorset,ryeland,jacob or dutch spotted sheep
Cammie, is there a price breakdown on the market lambs? for say meat vs worth of the hide or other by product? or is that too irritating to break down at the sales stage?
So that price is for the live lamb so it’s then up to the buyer where it goes so I don’t know how the other costs break down. 👍
Just want to give a shout to Laura whose youtube channel is called SheSheperds. She has brilliant dogs and currently has puppies for sale from quality registered Border Collies.
The wee one is only 17 kilos…not big enough to sell yet!
I'm curious if you and Lizie have a favourite sheep? Sandi Brock I think has Billy as a fav! lol
Lizzy’s fav is a Shetland called Abe and mine is a texel cross that I haven’t named but I will and i’ll show you her 😁
@@TheSheepGame perfect! I look forward to seeing her, but you definitely need to name her 😁
How are you keeping your camera so steady while you run??!! What are you using?
Go pro 10 has auto stabilisation 👍
😁 I had a double take seeing Lizzie pregnant again 😂
Cammy, could you put in sub titles what gimmers (sp?) and hogs are? For us 🇺🇸. And also for any new viewers too. Thanks.
Of course Terri i’ll do that in future. 😁
Gimmers - 2 year old female sheep
Hogg - 1 year old sheep
@@TheSheepGame Thanks Cammy!
Hard to see them even in 4k but I would gues those might be hips.
I think that’s the general consensus! Thanks!
Question from Illinois, USA.
Are horses okay around sheep to be used as a mode of transportation while herding them, or is it just easier on foot?
No that’s fine! I actually have a video where we used a horse to gather some sheep 😁
@@TheSheepGame Oh awesome. :D Thank you for responding! I just watch these as someone with a nodding fascination to farm life, on part of where I used to volunteer in my middle school years.
Big question for you, answer if you can…I have a small flock of sheep that I am wintering for friends in a separate barn and the sheep will absolutely NOT come into the barn to sleep at night no matter how cold. All will come in for hay and grain but one of them will not come in even to eat. She is getting thin and desperate looking and I’m out of things to try. She won’t herd in and will not follow the food. If I don’t take hay and grain out to her after a few days she will starve herself. At this point i think she has miscarried because of the lack of nutrition. Now I’m just trying to keep her alive. Any suggestions? PS. None of my sheep are having any problem figuring out what to do!
I'd say she was needing shut in for a couple days to force her to eat in the barn. If she is getting weak now and pregnant you may need to consider energy drench. If she goes down and you are a distance to your vet then a can of flat red bull can give them some energy until you get stuff from the vet
The weight of the lambs at home I didn't learn that in school just basic math. So next time you do a video at home at least I do like knowing for some reason how much they weigh at birth and when they go to the auction barn. Sometimes Sandi would let us see it but not much lately or I'm not catching all the videos. Like say a number on the scale for us to watch for. It's 10-1-21 at 2:11am. Shopping for tomorrow late morning I hope. Later.
Get the cake in to them before market 😂