I love that you talked about growing your flock through improving the flock and not just increasing numbers. This is true for so many things in our lives and many different careers. If you take the time and put out the energy to improve what you have, everything improves.
Dear friend... You are already millionaire...all the value is in your heart.passion.devotion..that you have inside of you. The money will follow automatic.
I wish more people would think ike you about expanding, too many think size matters, but it doesn't, I truly believe you are on the right way in making more out of what you have instead of putting more animals in, quality before quantity, and you need to be able to enjoy what you are doing, otherwise you loose more than you get, believe me when I say it is better for the soul and the heart if you can stand there and watch your friends running and jumping around for an hour, instead of you running and jumping to get them feed and taking care of, you have the right head on your shoulders, be happy this way, and wish Mark a safe trip for me, I bet he is comming back as a shepard from New Zealand hahaha
Sandy, I think the “sandy room” NEEDS to be done because you spend so much time there during lambing-you could get more rest, thereby giving you more man hours of work :)
Thank goodness you showed Ruby I had asked if she had a baby and someone said she had died and I cried. But was afraid to bring it up again. So proud of you guys and glad she's ok...
Ah, such a fun question to ponder! Love your ideas and can't wait to hopefully see some come to fruition. You need a Sandi room! And I really love that Bobcat (in it's current form it would fit in so well here as is 😂).
Thinking the Sandi lounge sounds like a nice idea. I also happen to believe you are right if you had that you would never go into the house. Upgrading your equipment is a smart move, but you should also every once in a while give into your wants verse's a need. It is nice to treat yourself sometimes. You work very hard to make sure your part is being done. You can see when you have a mishap you take it very hard. Thank you again for sharing you life and animals with the rest of us.
I was watching a few of your lambing videos with my daughter and she asked me what happens with the stillborn lambs or the lambs that just don't make it. I wasn't sure what to tell her... she's six so she looked at me, and said in a very mature voice, " oh, I betcha sheepy Sandi (that's what she calls you) must cry when she has to do all those lamb funerals cuz you can tell she really loves the babies." Keep doing what you do Sandi, you are reaching and teaching so many of us! 😁😁🐑🐏
Hi Sandi, I'm new to your channel and I have found it to be very interesting. I don't farm or raise anything up in years now so just enjoy watching and listening to different individuals. The best part on this video was toward the end where you said if people would concentrate on quality rather than quantity....that pretty well sums it up truthfully. So many just want to brag how much and how big their business is without thinking about what their end results are. As far as your sheep farm if you enjoy what you're doing that's all that really matters. So a big pat on the back young lady, enjoy all the videos that I've watched so far. Probably have a lot to catch up on but that's OK. So now you have a follower down here in Oklahoma. Best to you always Rusty.
I agree with you on quality rather than quantity. I watch your videos Everytime you post. Love your content and you walking us thru all that you do. You are Awesome!!
Sandi, first off, your VLOGS are wonderful and we look forward to each one! We play with a heard of about 30 goats, mostly just for fun. We are binge watching your videos but admittedly we are still watching baby videos 😃 However, at my day job, I work for the USDA in SC. We administer farm bill programs to address resource concerns by offering both technical assistance as well as financial contracts. I was curious if Canada has anything similar to what we have. In your case (if you were in my state/county at least) we could try to get funding for a waste storage shed to temporarily store your manure until (I assume?) it can be spread on crop fields. The justification (from our standpoint) for the shed is that it protects water quality. We don’t do much (if any) silage production in my county, but I suspect other states have something to address resource concerns w silage. Secondly is that if you were my producer, I would use something like a livestock health resource concern to try to add circulation fans to help w the condensation (?) in the winter and the tendency for heat stress in the summer during breeding. Our state currently only has the option to change existing fans (confined poultry operation) to more efficient fans (energy savings), but again, some of my confined animal operations in other states may have a lot more experience with this. This is getting lengthy so I will stop. I WAS curious as to what sort of programs you (And other viewers) have used in their states/countries! Please know you are a huge bright spot so many of our lives! Please start an internship for experienced livestock operators to come for an immersive month on the farm! You can build your Sandi-shed, and a tiny “bunkhouse” for your intern to live in! Cheers,sue
You are so right in your improvement philosophy. More is not always better and your thoughts about maximizing the flock size you have is good common sense. You just need the same energy drink your dog is using!
As a fellow sheep producer, I enjoy your vlog and I find it interesting to see different ways of doing things. Maybe I missed it, but one thing I haven't heard you mention, is what you do with your mortalities? Do you compost them in the manure pile? I also notice that you don't scrub up before going in to help a ewe give birth or give her anything for prevention of infection afterwards. Cheers!
I have a question! If you knew everything you do now but had the chance to start again, would you ? And if you did, what changes would you make and why?
watching this now is wonderful i have been back watching your vlogs almost a year 400-current done. now doing 200-400. you have accomplished so much and grown as a person and a farmer you have done a lot of the things on your list you mention in the video. i can say hay run is not the most fun i have 2 horses and its all done by hand when its cutting time.
Silly thought. You could set up a wedding facility, it would be a unique setting and many brides would love to have your sheep as their special guests😁.
Hi Sandi! Well, I'm with you on the three C's ... I'm lounging on the couch, drinking my second cup and tootling around the web! Good video ... thanks!
Are you still thinking of moving your rams out of the barn . And put them in the cattle shed. I think this would help you with space and make the rams more keen to work. Have you thought about putting rams into smaller groups when tupping.
I love watching those babies, not to mention all the love going on. I now get to have fun with babies, 2 of my does kidded, 1 buckling and 3 doelings. They are a gas and all my subs so far are in heaven, I have 2 more girls to go in March. Hope you have a fantastic day.
From watching Kinsey, I would say she would need training. She seems to have calmed after even you have taught her a few commands. The more she is trained with positive reinforcement the calmer and more obedient she will be. It'll be worth it! She's a clever girl!
I once heard a joke that went something like this....An old farmer hit the jackpot and won a million dollars playing the lottery. Upon being interviewed he was asked " What are you going to do with all that money?" He replied " I guess I'll just keep on farming till its all gone." 😏 I heard this when I was a kid. In today's farming economy it wouldn't take very long to get rid of a million dollars.😖.
For us the quality went up leaps and bounds with minerals designed for our herd. Hope you find the keys for your herd's health, your wealth, and welbeing!!
On a dairy farm I worked at, we just used the forage chopper to chop up hay/straw to use for bedding. It worked really well, I don't know if that would be an option or not.
You could look at A Heat exchanger Which would exhaust air from inside and bring outside air in and warm it up with your exhaust air I have seen other barns use the system and keep condensation and moisture out thank you
If you get the “ridge” fans installed and the chimneys reinstalled will that take care of the winter condensation problem too, or at least greatly reduce the condensation? Cooler rams in summer and dry sheep in the winter should equal a good investment.
Another $200 addition, add steps leading up to an observation platform next to your TMR. It would make your life so much easier when adding mineral to your mix. Plus much safer.
And here we are in May of 2021 & the telehandler has been repaired, you got a small chopper for hay, you have a couple of additions to the handling system & work is nearly completed on the office! I did think maybe that one capital improvement you might want is a separate ram barn.
Sandi you would not be a real farmer if you did not stress about making hay. With quality hay it goes a long way to ensuring a good year. Very impressed with your answers today!
BOBCAT FIX...maybe. When we were stationed overseas, had a window broken out of our vehicle. As we had an American made vehicle, and couldn't find a replacement window, we used a piece of plexi-glass in place of the window. It was difficult to cut (didn't have the proper tools) though we made it work. Maybe you could use that as a temp fix for your Bobcat machine.
Personally I'd justify the Sandi Room as a need so you can be more frequently around the ewes for big lambing groups, but I try and justify a lot of things that are probably a "want" and not a "need" lol!
Omg look at them boys go love watching your videos learn so much find everything so intresting please keep the videos coming looking forward to the next video god bless you all
@@rachelsark6148 just subscribed to your channle i love watching people just do day to day things with running their farms from feding to breeding babys etc i find this really interesting and usful
If I can suggest Sandi, you definitely need a dehumidifier machine and milking station so you can harvest milk from your less busy mamas and save money on milk powder.
When we had dairy cows we used or mixing wagon to chop straw. It chopped it only because the knives where almost touching the sides but then we threw 2 5by 6 bales in at once
Well done vlog today. Really enjoyed it. Just keep doing what your doing. Enjoy you herd. They are so sweet. Yes its a lotof work, but you are handling it well.
I used silage and haylage from bunker silos for years to feed sheep. To make it work, a lot of silage from the edges had to be fed to cattle to keep the spoiled silage away from the sheep ration. I have gone to ag bags the last couple years thanks to your videos, and so far I think it has been an improvement. I think you had a video about dealing with listeria? If you were to go to bunker silos I would bet you would have to deal with more listeria problems. Its my least favorite sheep disease, pump a bunch of expensive medicine into a ewe and then they still die.
The question and answers the last two days are really interesting. You should see if JCB would let you demo one of their new telehandlers. They look like sweet machines.
Love watching your videos while sick with fluA , missed seeing all those baby’s running and hopping around! How stressed bout your husband leaving to Australia? Hope he won’t have to stop in China with that nasty virus going around. Really enjoy your videos
Shear your rams before the heat of summer it will keep them cooler n fertile longer in the summer or fertile earlier in the fall. We also shear lambs in the summer when they reach around 80 lbs the rate of gain will more than pay for the shearing just some things we do to our flock
Oxytocin shot for retained placenta. It’s what we do with our dogs the day after welping as a just in case. Not sure if it would cost effective for you to do it that way. But maybe just for the ones you don’t see lamb or if you have your suspicions they have one. I’m not sure if it works the same for sheep but maybe something to talk to your vet about!
if you google concrete bunker blocks, they are in essence concrete legos. They can be used to make bins for the manure or whatever you like. Then if your needs change, you can reuse them for something else. They should cost somewhere in the ballpark of $100 ea plus trucking, but if you find a construction job or a concrete plant with extra they may just want to get rid of them. I was looking a few months ago to give a bunch away but the trucking to Canada from California would have been cost prohibitive.
""If I had a Million Dollars" , I would be going to a Bare Naked Ladies concert, love repairs, love the concert more, great video, 👍👌❤🇨🇦 more glorious paint smearing
First thing you'll do when you get off the plane n Queensland Australia, is who left the oven on! Holy crap its stinking hot, but then you watch the sunsets and its all worth it 💜
dear sandy. on the right of the ladder on your tmr. there is a handle for straw counter cutting. and you almost pulled it out. it has to go all the way in to cut straw
Bunker. Having grown up on dairy farms I've used Bunkers, Ag bags, and upright silos. I disliked the bags the most. I found them hard to feed out of. And the plastic was always getting in the feed wagon. The Bunker was the easiest to fill (with dump wagons/trucks) and feed out of. especially for large volume feeding. There are advantages to upright silos. But if your thinking about just hiring the crops harvested Bunkers is they way to go. They will be able to fill faster with simpler equipment. in and out quick and easy.
Last February we lost our Cross Collie/Kelpie FRODO. He was bred on a sheep farm from working sheep dogs BUT he was terrified of SHEEP & Black bin bags! Luckily we dont get many sheep in Birmingham UK. Luckily your dog likes sheep no amount of training would have got Frodo near a sheep.
I thought for sure you would have said to get a professional dog trainer for Kinsey. She has the potential to change your sheep life and she’s young enough to still train really well
Hey, can you just open either the end or side and have a side yard for your sheep to be able to get out in the real sun and have some yard to run in and be able to let them go out to eliminate waist and help you to not have so much hay for bedding. Could build a ramp to let them in and out with.
Liked your comments regarding size of operations. Cereal grains in our area, some of these operations have really gotten huge 25000, to approaching 50000 acres. Really wonder if the economy of scale is that beneficial. Operations of a more modest size seem to be doing fine, thinking there's a bit of ego involved.
Your Clostridial immunity is passed on in the colostrum so if your bottle babies get colostrum they should be fine. I do mine with Heptavac (in the UK) and do it when the youngest is 3 weeks old and then 4 weeks later as the bottle says. Then a yearly boosted 4 weeks before lambing. :)
Our County fair ground got those Big Ass Fans last year and during check in for goats I noticed the name and thought it was funny and of course I had to show it to my kids so there was a lot of giggling about it.
Hi Sandi. I'm really enjoying this series of vlogs this week as it helps us get to know you better. Regarding the automatic addition to your handling system. Whether you feel it would be a worthy investment against flocknsize or not, think of the time it could save you. Why not contact the manufacturer, tell them who you are, your situation, and see if a on-the-farm demo could be set up? If you offer to make it one of your vlogs with a product review, I bet they be willing to work something out for you if purchase cost is a concern. Just food for thought. More and more companies are looking at sponsorship options for youtubers.
"that I would never come back home"....That's why my husband took the lights off my Bobcat in my big horse barn! Rather be working in the barn and stirring the big manure compost piles than watching TV. Love, love love my Bobcat!
I have someone I follow that saves her TH-cam money and Tiktok money to build her home, she thought it would take 10 plus years but it didn't she's building it now in five years 😍
"Money wasn't an object" er, not "Money wasn't an option" .... much love from an extremely devoted fan who just happens to be a retired school teacher xxxxxxxxx !!!!!!!!!
We having a feed mixer for our dairy farm that chops the bails and it’s a patz too. Have you tried breaking the bale up with the telehandler before you put the bale in their, we tried this and it works well. But I don’t know anything about sheep so maybe you need it ground up finer than I do?
What's your process for choosing lambs/sheep to keep back and replenish your herd? What are qualities you look for outside of breed and genetics? Love your videos.
I love the Million Dollars to spend question! Ralph and I do that what if game....then we buy a lottery ticket😂😂😂 You were not extravagant at all👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Good morning Sandi... Charlotte from Oregon USA... I was just wondering if you could or would go to school maybe on line... do to your already full day... to become your own Vet... you would save a lot of money and time to be your own Vet...
I love that you talked about growing your flock through improving the flock and not just increasing numbers. This is true for so many things in our lives and many different careers. If you take the time and put out the energy to improve what you have, everything improves.
Dear friend... You are already millionaire...all the value is in your heart.passion.devotion..that you have inside of you. The money will follow automatic.
I love how you’re sheep are so comfortable with you now, especially since you used to really be able to notice the outliers that « didn’t hate you » 😁
I wish more people would think ike you about expanding, too many think size matters, but it doesn't, I truly believe you are on the right way in making more out of what you have instead of putting more animals in, quality before quantity, and you need to be able to enjoy what you are doing, otherwise you loose more than you get, believe me when I say it is better for the soul and the heart if you can stand there and watch your friends running and jumping around for an hour, instead of you running and jumping to get them feed and taking care of, you have the right head on your shoulders, be happy this way, and wish Mark a safe trip for me, I bet he is comming back as a shepard from New Zealand hahaha
Have you thought about starting a patreon? Have viewers “adopt” a ewe or something similar
I totally second this.
Awww yeah!!
Good idea !
We would all adopt billy
@@katrinkawilliamson7862 Damn straight! Hes adorable.
Sandy, I think the “sandy room” NEEDS to be done because you spend so much time there during lambing-you could get more rest, thereby giving you more man hours of work :)
A key part of that room could be a nice set of binoculars or video camera with closeup options available.
Thank goodness you showed Ruby I had asked if she had a baby and someone said she had died and I cried. But was afraid to bring it up again. So proud of you guys and glad she's ok...
Ah, such a fun question to ponder! Love your ideas and can't wait to hopefully see some come to fruition. You need a Sandi room! And I really love that Bobcat (in it's current form it would fit in so well here as is 😂).
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Thinking the Sandi lounge sounds like a nice idea. I also happen to believe you are right if you had that you would never go into the house.
Upgrading your equipment is a smart move, but you should also every once in a while give into your wants verse's a need. It is nice to treat yourself sometimes. You work very hard to make sure your part is being done. You can see when you have a mishap you take it very hard. Thank you again for sharing you life and animals with the rest of us.
I was watching a few of your lambing videos with my daughter and she asked me what happens with the stillborn lambs or the lambs that just don't make it. I wasn't sure what to tell her... she's six so she looked at me, and said in a very mature voice, " oh, I betcha sheepy Sandi (that's what she calls you) must cry when she has to do all those lamb funerals cuz you can tell she really loves the babies." Keep doing what you do Sandi, you are reaching and teaching so many of us! 😁😁🐑🐏
Hi Sandi, I'm new to your channel and I have found it to be very interesting. I don't farm or raise anything up in years now so just enjoy watching and listening to different individuals. The best part on this video was toward the end where you said if people would concentrate on quality rather than quantity....that pretty well sums it up truthfully. So many just want to brag how much and how big their business is without thinking about what their end results are. As far as your sheep farm if you enjoy what you're doing that's all that really matters. So a big pat on the back young lady, enjoy all the videos that I've watched so far. Probably have a lot to catch up on but that's OK. So now you have a follower down here in Oklahoma. Best to you always Rusty.
loved seeing the little bottle baby doing so well !! you are a great caretaker momma sheep. thanks for sharing your life.
I agree with you on quality rather than quantity. I watch your videos Everytime you post. Love your content and you walking us thru all that you do. You are Awesome!!
I am so happy you got your upstairs sheep barn office even without winning the lottery!!
Sandi, first off, your VLOGS are wonderful and we look forward to each one! We play with a heard of about 30 goats, mostly just for fun.
We are binge watching your videos but admittedly we are still watching baby videos 😃
However, at my day job, I work for the USDA in SC. We administer farm bill programs to address resource concerns by offering both technical assistance as well as financial contracts. I was curious if Canada has anything similar to what we have.
In your case (if you were in my state/county at least) we could try to get funding for a waste storage shed to temporarily store your manure until (I assume?) it can be spread on crop fields. The justification (from our standpoint) for the shed is that it protects water quality.
We don’t do much (if any) silage production in my county, but I suspect other states have something to address resource concerns w silage.
Secondly is that if you were my producer, I would use something like a livestock health resource concern to try to add circulation fans to help w the condensation (?) in the winter and the tendency for heat stress in the summer during breeding. Our state currently only has the option to change existing fans (confined poultry operation) to more efficient fans (energy savings), but again, some of my confined animal operations in other states may have a lot more experience with this.
This is getting lengthy so I will stop. I WAS curious as to what sort of programs you (And other viewers) have used in their states/countries!
Please know you are a huge bright spot so many of our lives! Please start an internship for experienced livestock operators to come for an immersive month on the farm! You can build your Sandi-shed, and a tiny “bunkhouse” for your intern to live in!
Cheers,sue
You are so right in your improvement philosophy. More is not always better and your thoughts about maximizing the flock size you have is good common sense. You just need the same energy drink your dog is using!
I’m so glad we got to see Ruby ❤️❤️❤️❤️I do love sewing popcorn all the time but I have been missing Ruby lately.
Haleigh Scott Hey. I make videos with my farm animals and I’m stuck on what video I should make next. Any recommendations?
OMG Sandi! THANK YOU for saying that!!! Its not numbers or MORE that is going to make things expand. It's quality and management. :)
I agree Not bigger. Improvement is the key. Your animals really have improved. In my opinion
As a fellow sheep producer, I enjoy your vlog and I find it interesting to see different ways of doing things.
Maybe I missed it, but one thing I haven't heard you mention, is what you do with your mortalities? Do you compost them in the manure pile?
I also notice that you don't scrub up before going in to help a ewe give birth or give her anything for prevention of infection afterwards.
Cheers!
She's never said anything about what she does with dead Lambs or even dead ewes
Yes she said she compost them
@@sharazod989 Thank you.
I have a question!
If you knew everything you do now but had the chance to start again, would you ?
And if you did, what changes would you make and why?
watching this now is wonderful i have been back watching your vlogs almost a year 400-current done. now doing 200-400. you have accomplished so much and grown as a person and a farmer you have done a lot of the things on your list you mention in the video. i can say hay run is not the most fun i have 2 horses and its all done by hand when its cutting time.
Silly thought. You could set up a wedding facility, it would be a unique setting and many brides would love to have your sheep as their special guests😁.
Hi Sandi! Well, I'm with you on the three C's ... I'm lounging on the couch, drinking my second cup and tootling around the web! Good video ... thanks!
Are you still thinking of moving your rams out of the barn . And put them in the cattle shed. I think this would help you with space and make the rams more keen to work. Have you thought about putting rams into smaller groups when tupping.
I don't get why people do the thumbs down. Seriously, what's not to like?
She playing with the babies its so cute
Bottom line why I enjoy watching your videos so much . Its whats missing in the rest of the world . QUALITY not quantity . Thank You .
I’ve seen some of these wish list items become reality. A good yearly exercise.
I would love to know more about Kinsey.
Fluffy Johnson, same
I love watching those babies, not to mention all the love going on. I now get to have fun with babies, 2 of my does kidded, 1 buckling and 3 doelings. They are a gas and all my subs so far are in heaven, I have 2 more girls to go in March. Hope you have a fantastic day.
A she shed in the sheep shed would be great!
From watching Kinsey, I would say she would need training. She seems to have calmed after even you have taught her a few commands. The more she is trained with positive reinforcement the calmer and more obedient she will be. It'll be worth it! She's a clever girl!
Investing in training for Kinsey would really pay dividends. She reallly be a big help if properly trained
How to become a millionaire as a farmer ? 🤔
Start with ten million ... 😒
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Goes for horses too 😂
kooki85 definitely 😂🙄
Exactly what I have always said about owning a trucking company
LOL Good one
I once heard a joke that went something like this....An old farmer hit the jackpot and won a million dollars playing the lottery. Upon being interviewed he was asked " What are you going to do with all that money?" He replied " I guess I'll just keep on farming till its all gone." 😏 I heard this when I was a kid. In today's farming economy it wouldn't take very long to get rid of a million dollars.😖.
Keep up the great work your an awesome person don’t let anyone drag you down 😄
For us the quality went up leaps and bounds with minerals designed for our herd. Hope you find the keys for your herd's health, your wealth, and welbeing!!
We also went from a bobcat telehandler to a jcb teleskid and it is awesome. It would probably work good for your operation
Yay! My question would have been if we could see Ruby, but we got her little cameo at the end! Yay! 💕
On a dairy farm I worked at, we just used the forage chopper to chop up hay/straw to use for bedding. It worked really well, I don't know if that would be an option or not.
You could look at A Heat exchanger Which would exhaust air from inside and bring outside air in and warm it up with your exhaust air I have seen other barns use the system and keep condensation and moisture out thank you
If you get the “ridge” fans installed and the chimneys reinstalled will that take care of the winter condensation problem too, or at least greatly reduce the condensation? Cooler rams in summer and dry sheep in the winter should equal a good investment.
Another $200 addition, add steps leading up to an observation platform next to your TMR. It would make your life so much easier when adding mineral to your mix. Plus much safer.
Have you thought about plexy glass for that broken window? It might work and is pretty cheap
The sheep would be good for a small farm, not too messy, not too big and they seem to like people.
And here we are in May of 2021 & the telehandler has been repaired, you got a small chopper for hay, you have a couple of additions to the handling system & work is nearly completed on the office! I did think maybe that one capital improvement you might want is a separate ram barn.
Sandi you would not be a real farmer if you did not stress about making hay. With quality hay it goes a long way to ensuring a good year. Very impressed with your answers today!
Hi Sandi. I love watching your videos. You are doing very good the millions will come later. But you good at what you doing.thank you for the videos
Great video, super happy to see Goat and Ruby, been a while!
BOBCAT FIX...maybe. When we were stationed overseas, had a window broken out of our vehicle. As we had an American made vehicle, and couldn't find a replacement window, we used a piece of plexi-glass in place of the window. It was difficult to cut (didn't have the proper tools) though we made it work. Maybe you could use that as a temp fix for your Bobcat machine.
Personally I'd justify the Sandi Room as a need so you can be more frequently around the ewes for big lambing groups, but I try and justify a lot of things that are probably a "want" and not a "need" lol!
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Omg look at them boys go love watching your videos learn so much find everything so intresting please keep the videos coming looking forward to the next video god bless you all
Tracy chapplow Hey. I make videos with my farm animals and I’m not sure what video to make next. Any recommendations?
@@rachelsark6148 just subscribed to your channle i love watching people just do day to day things with running their farms from feding to breeding babys etc i find this really interesting and usful
Tracy chapplow thank you so much for the ideas. And you didn’t have to do that. Thank you so much
Sandi I absolutely love watching your videos.
♥️♥️♥️
If I can suggest Sandi, you definitely need a dehumidifier machine and milking station so you can harvest milk from your less busy mamas and save money on milk powder.
When we had dairy cows we used or mixing wagon to chop straw. It chopped it only because the knives where almost touching the sides but then we threw 2 5by 6 bales in at once
Well done vlog today. Really enjoyed it. Just keep doing what your doing. Enjoy you herd. They are so sweet. Yes its a lotof work, but you are handling it well.
I used silage and haylage from bunker silos for years to feed sheep. To make it work, a lot of silage from the edges had to be fed to cattle to keep the spoiled silage away from the sheep ration. I have gone to ag bags the last couple years thanks to your videos, and so far I think it has been an improvement. I think you had a video about dealing with listeria? If you were to go to bunker silos I would bet you would have to deal with more listeria problems. Its my least favorite sheep disease, pump a bunch of expensive medicine into a ewe and then they still die.
You should get one of those oilfield stair cases to go over your chute. So youre not climbing over everything, just stepping up and over instead.
The question and answers the last two days are really interesting. You should see if JCB would let you demo one of their new telehandlers. They look like sweet machines.
Ha! That dog! Did you see him nipping at the cart handle? He’s telling you, “OK, Sandy! Pick up the handle let’s go!”
Love watching your videos while sick with fluA , missed seeing all those baby’s running and hopping around! How stressed bout your husband leaving to Australia? Hope he won’t have to stop in China with that nasty virus going around. Really enjoy your videos
Shear your rams before the heat of summer it will keep them cooler n fertile longer in the summer or fertile earlier in the fall. We also shear lambs in the summer when they reach around 80 lbs the rate of gain will more than pay for the shearing just some things we do to our flock
What happens when the sheep pass away naturally? How long do they live? (I'm totally not a farm/sheep person, but I *LOVE* watching you!)
Oxytocin shot for retained placenta. It’s what we do with our dogs the day after welping as a just in case. Not sure if it would cost effective for you to do it that way. But maybe just for the ones you don’t see lamb or if you have your suspicions they have one. I’m not sure if it works the same for sheep but maybe something to talk to your vet about!
Hi Sandi, make sure Mark has a lot of t-shirts shorts cause it is summer over in Australia
Love your videos Sandi
if you google concrete bunker blocks, they are in essence concrete legos. They can be used to make bins for the manure or whatever you like. Then if your needs change, you can reuse them for something else. They should cost somewhere in the ballpark of $100 ea plus trucking, but if you find a construction job or a concrete plant with extra they may just want to get rid of them. I was looking a few months ago to give a bunch away but the trucking to Canada from California would have been cost prohibitive.
""If I had a Million Dollars" , I would be going to a Bare Naked Ladies concert, love repairs, love the concert more, great video, 👍👌❤🇨🇦 more glorious paint smearing
First thing you'll do when you get off the plane n Queensland Australia, is who left the oven on! Holy crap its stinking hot, but then you watch the sunsets and its all worth it 💜
If I was in Close by I would Build the Sandi room for free !!!! Lol it will be so cool working next to the sheep!!!
Can’t get a better dog , training ..... they are the best dogs 🐕 Sandi ! Don’t even say a better one 🙀😉👊
Kenzie trying to pick up the handle when u load the straw hahahah
dear sandy. on the right of the ladder on your tmr. there is a handle for straw counter cutting. and you almost pulled it out. it has to go all the way in to cut straw
Bunker. Having grown up on dairy farms I've used Bunkers, Ag bags, and upright silos. I disliked the bags the most. I found them hard to feed out of. And the plastic was always getting in the feed wagon. The Bunker was the easiest to fill (with dump wagons/trucks) and feed out of. especially for large volume feeding. There are advantages to upright silos. But if your thinking about just hiring the crops harvested Bunkers is they way to go. They will be able to fill faster with simpler equipment. in and out quick and easy.
Yes, as a female farmer with older equipment (what I can afford), “hay” usually is a 4 letter word!!!! 🤔.
Add some cleats to the outside of your mixer cone to catch the bale and hold it. It won't go round and round and it will get ground up.
Last February we lost our Cross Collie/Kelpie FRODO. He was bred on a sheep farm from working sheep dogs BUT he was terrified of SHEEP & Black bin bags! Luckily we dont get many sheep in Birmingham UK. Luckily your dog likes sheep no amount of training would have got Frodo near a sheep.
I thought for sure you would have said to get a professional dog trainer for Kinsey. She has the potential to change your sheep life and she’s young enough to still train really well
Hey, can you just open either the end or side and have a side yard for your sheep to be able to get out in the real sun and have some yard to run in and be able to let them go out to eliminate waist and help you to not have so much hay for bedding. Could build a ramp to let them in and out with.
Will you be going forward with the possibility of moving the rams to the cow barn?
Liked your comments regarding size of operations. Cereal grains in our area, some of these operations have really gotten huge 25000, to approaching 50000 acres. Really wonder if the economy of scale is that beneficial. Operations of a more modest size seem to be doing fine, thinking there's a bit of ego involved.
Haha OMG Look at the dog at 6:39 !!
Hahahaha!! That's too good shes hanging out with them at 6:47
One day i hope to have sheep, and Ive definitely had it in mind that id have way less sheep than youve had, but high quality sheep for sure.
Paddles can be helpful for moving sheep. Means that you don't have to bend and reach as much.
And another thing you could look at is there is a A plastic cover that is installed on the inside of your rafters which would
Your Clostridial immunity is passed on in the colostrum so if your bottle babies get colostrum they should be fine. I do mine with Heptavac (in the UK) and do it when the youngest is 3 weeks old and then 4 weeks later as the bottle says. Then a yearly boosted 4 weeks before lambing. :)
Our County fair ground got those Big Ass Fans last year and during check in for goats I noticed the name and thought it was funny and of course I had to show it to my kids so there was a lot of giggling about it.
Krystel Hardesty Hey. I make similar videos with my farm animals and I’m not sure what video I should make next. Any recommendations?
Hi Sandi. I'm really enjoying this series of vlogs this week as it helps us get to know you better. Regarding the automatic addition to your handling system. Whether you feel it would be a worthy investment against flocknsize or not, think of the time it could save you. Why not contact the manufacturer, tell them who you are, your situation, and see if a on-the-farm demo could be set up? If you offer to make it one of your vlogs with a product review, I bet they be willing to work something out for you if purchase cost is a concern. Just food for thought. More and more companies are looking at sponsorship options for youtubers.
"that I would never come back home"....That's why my husband took the lights off my Bobcat in my big horse barn! Rather be working in the barn and stirring the big manure compost piles than watching TV. Love, love love my Bobcat!
I have someone I follow that saves her TH-cam money and Tiktok money to build her home, she thought it would take 10 plus years but it didn't she's building it now in five years 😍
"Money wasn't an object" er, not "Money wasn't an option" .... much love from an extremely devoted fan who just happens to be a retired school teacher xxxxxxxxx !!!!!!!!!
We having a feed mixer for our dairy farm that chops the bails and it’s a patz too. Have you tried breaking the bale up with the telehandler before you put the bale in their, we tried this and it works well. But I don’t know anything about sheep so maybe you need it ground up finer than I do?
Love your vids and work ethic!!! Such an inspiration to our channel!!!
"To dream the impossible dream" how can you win the lottery, when you never buy tickets. Hubby's greatest comeback.
Check to see if those fans on metal framework would cause a high frequency harmonic in the barn
What's your process for choosing lambs/sheep to keep back and replenish your herd? What are qualities you look for outside of breed and genetics? Love your videos.
Double down on another barn to double your ewes, and add a 3 or 6 way sorting weigh scale.
Fans would be awesome in the barn!
I love the Million Dollars to spend question!
Ralph and I do that what if game....then we buy a lottery ticket😂😂😂
You were not extravagant at all👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Good morning Sandi... Charlotte from Oregon USA... I was just wondering if you could or would go to school maybe on line... do to your already full day... to become your own Vet... you would save a lot of money and time to be your own Vet...
Omg my mom and I aren't the only ones of "what would we do to the farm if money was no object"