Great video! My favorite part was the smile you had when you said you had always wanted something to call your own. 😃 it was beautiful to see. Thank you for sharing.
That's an amazing set up giving me fresh ideas for expanding my sheep shed at home. Also seeing a different system is making me think out the box... enjoying watching the videos
Beautiful facility Sandi, its been great to see the modern approach to sheep farming! Whoever came up with the idea to get away with a pasture based system and go to a dairy type system was ahead of there time. My wife worked so hard to take care of 170 ewes, barns where dark, air quality was bad and i will always remember the amount of hay that was wasted! Best of luck with the March lambing group!
Thanks so much Mike! Each system designed for sheep have their merits... I agonize over the lush green pastures and hills of the UK, NZ and Australia and see how efficient their operations are. I'm sure sheep farmers came up with the term "grass is always greener" LOL
I love the light in the structure. I am not a farmer, but have been around barns in the past. Yours is beautiful and clean and looks like a great place to work :) You should be very proud, and I, though a perfect stranger, am very happy for you! The outro is hilarious, lol.
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💖🐑💖 Another great video, Sandi. I do have a question or two. 1. When you built the pad, footing and alleys why didn't you incorporate drains and in floor heating? The benefits would have been no more frozen water in the north and south alleys and a place for water to drain. Also the barn may stay a little warmer in the dead of winter or sever cold snaps. 2. Is there a reason that you didn't round off the lambing barn at 300'? You would have had space for hay and straw storage on the north side and silos for the haylage and corn silage on the south side. The benefits would have been less plastic wrap and no more bulky ag bags on the asphalt pad and more room for manure storage, and more room for heavy equipment storage that YOU use on a regular basis. ☀☀☀Something else came to mind as I was typing the above, SOLAR PANELS. You get so much great sunlight in your Spring, Summer and Autumn months, why not have panels on the rooves of the sheds and garages? It could take a heck of a bite out of your electric bill. I know you can't put them on the lambing barn, you would loose all of that wonderful light. The finishing barn and old barn would benefit from solar panels too. The initial expense would be a bit on the expensive side but it would pay for itself with saving on the electricity bills. Some areas offer discounts for installing solar panels. I'm sorry if I'm annoying you with this long comment. It's just food for thought. Respectfully Submitted, SY
I'm so happy that I ran into your video. When I was a little boy we had about 120 or so with old structure but this one is huge. Wishing you well as always and good luck my dear. How I wish to visit and see the place with my eyes but I don't even know where you located. And again good luck
Really enjoyed the video Sandie. My wife’s still loving that dog! I hope spring finds you folks early this year. 80 degrees today here on the gulf coast down in south Alabama. We really love what you do here!
if additional hot water is needed only in a few times of the year you could use a tankless water heater or just have a 2nd small electric one that you'd only turn on as needed. Great looking barn, or whatever you want to call it.
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I was waiting patiently for this video, we are about to decide, still debating (barn wise) which way to go. Probably combination of sheet metal walls with ventilation windows and clear span roof. Thanks.
I would love your barn for my horses! I'd be able to ride in winter and they would still have more than enough area to roam around. exspecaly our old girl....winter is kicking her butt this year( needs 2 heavy blankets to stay warm when she was super fuzzy one before!)
They have those tankless water heaters that run water straight on demand down here in Florida lot of the RV unit Parks have them so do people have money to homes to I've even thought about it myself but I'd rather do the second element on my tank in the garage so I can have hot water all the time and fool the system... and saying the timer doesn't always have to be tripped and keep the hot water in there and you don't have to worry about wasting energy engineer775 has that in his cashier things to learn he really good about how to set up stuff like this he's in the US so I don't know but you can actually get the part that I was telling you about that is a modulator that controls the amount of solar power that goes to your hot water heater on the second element the bottom I'm just disconnecting the two so they're not connected together on the grid... like I said you don't have no batteries to worry about cuz it's direct feed non-stop hot water green and fifty bucks you buy that part you got to put it in the Box get it set up fired up you're good to go straight from the solar panels directly to the second element.... and since you're doing the same thing with the hot water on demand...
Sandi Brock Do you have an email i can contact where i can ask questions about sheep? I would love to have a deep detail q/a, im seriousely concidering raising and breeding sheep on my future homestead, im trying to learn as much as i possibly can. If theres any way to contact you with a list of questions, you could get around to answering them whenever best suits you, if you so choose☺
We just found your channel in the it's very interesting how you've laid that out that's very good idea.. seen some things like that out in Wyoming in the Utah
@@daltm79 i sent a message thru Linkedin. I tried to find Hamazria 's phone number but it did not work.. if you could check your Linkedin i would appreciate..
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I love the design I am Frank a farmer back home from Philippines, . But planning to relocate in Iowa . I am planning to have a sheep farming in future Please give me an idea and guidance. Thanks God bless
@@SandiBrock that 110 Kilometers = 68.3508311 Miles. God Bless you. I have to deal with that sometimes here being in a mountain valley. The barn design with open ends funnels the wind, intensifying it. It can really scour out the dirt floor. My sheep are all covered as here the fleeces have value. Am glad you have a market for your lambs. It helps us small farms more than you can know! )
What do you do with the barn during the spring summer and autumn when the sheep are out on pasture? You could grown tomatoes in the sheep manure / straw compost.
Hey Jamie! Yes, Myles is right... the sheep stay inside year round... we have a significant coyote population just outside these barn walls, so until I find the management skills needed for an outdoor system, they live a pretty nice life under the shelter. However, I love the tomato idea!!! Thats thinking outside the box!!! LOVE IT!!
Hi from saudi arabia love your videos amazing 👏 job. I have been in farming and sheep raising since 2011. Never reached your level of progress, 1-wondering about your amazing rates of twins and triplets? How do I get to that level. 2- as an architect and a value engineer specialist, You have 3 service lanes for feeding etc,one in the middle and two at the ends. And I'm redesigning my area. Wouldn't be more useful to do 2 service lanes, pen/ally/pen-pen/ally/pen Wishing you all the best 👍 and success
Great video..incredible amount of work involved in your business. I can't begin to imagine. Trying to determine where you are located, general area. Also do you have a video or blog on how you market your sheep? Ultimately you have to make a profit...Can you talk about how you market your sheep?
Hey Cary! I think I have a few videos maybe showing me weighing the lambs and loading the trailer, but I could speak more about the marketing end in a future video! Great idea!!
Sandi.....can you please tell me what happens if one of the flock lose their ear tag what happens ?t Brilliant videos I love watching your days.....keeps a 64 year old nannie happy...xx
Hi Sandi, as Ryan Seppanen said tankless water heaters are an on demand system and are actually far more efficient then a tank water heater because they just heat the water as they go instead of heating a body of water and trying to maintain that temperature. Warning tho, they can be costly. Also as you said near the end of your video about a wishing you had a "lamb nanny pen" where you could have your milk nanny in permanently. Would there be any way to expand out your heated room to accommodate your milk nanny without taking up too much space and having some sort of removable pen to keep those lambs in while they are using the milk nanny?
Hey Eric! We did look at expanding that room... Unfortunately, we quite literally painted ourselves into a corner... The feed area is directly behind it, the water and hydro are on the entire other wall, and going straight out the man door drops us in front of the big overhead door. We have the nanny now well insulated and if enough lambs on it, hopefully should keep the nipple lines from freezing also. Hindsight is 20/20 for sure! LOL
Whats your thoughts on the concrete floors? I heard many sheep people argue both ways for and against concrete under lambing pens versus like a packed lime floor. The thought is moisture in the bedding is less of an issue. I use some of both but I would think the cleaning would be much easier. Just wanted your opinion, Thanks.
I love my floors for the cleanout. I do go through a lot of bedding, so perhaps having the dirt floor under the pack would help with drainage... I guess I'm pretty lucky that we grow our own straw, but there is costs associated with that. The pack builds up quickly in the winter because of it. But, if given a choice, I would still go with concrete floors.
Oh I just realized I didn't include the measurements!!! side alleys I believe are about 5ft, and the centre alley is around 11ft. Those bunks take up a bit of room, so I always forget the exact measurement.
First time watching your vid, like set up, it’s good have height a lot Air to move around. I am farmer from Victoria, Australia and we have 2000 poll merino cross Dorset sheep with small grain operation. It would be interesting to build shed like this for shelter from heat in summer and lambing in autumn n spring. Would ever consider bigger feeder wagon? Or overhead feeder auger set up? I differently have to watch more vids👍
Thanks Jamie! We do run an overhead auger system in the finishing barn, but for this one we wanted to feed TMR, so this was what we ended up going with.
hey Sandi i can understand why you need to put the sheep inside in winter but how come they are not out in the paddocks in the summer ? do you have a lot of predators that take the sheep ? great clips too by the way
I have done a video on this, but maybe worth an update! So really, I use a lot of my weaning information. I collect weaning weights, and develop reports on my Gallagher record keeping system. I have kept track of deaths, and wrote notes on ewes that have been questionable at lambing time. So I go through all that data first and decide who is an automatic cull. Then I run the ewes through my handling system and check udders. Any lumps, or questionable ones get marked with my spray paint to check again before sorting for the next breeding group. Any dry ones I go back to the list I made from the weaning info to make sure it was one of the ewes who's lambs died. Depending on when and how the lamb died, I decide whether I keep mom for a second chance. I also have been starting to cull for age... Now that I know pretty much when all my ewes were born, I can cull any that I feel are getting too old (checking teeth also a good way to test for age).
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Hi Sandi.. thank you for sharing all these details. Where do you keep your rams? Otherside of the road that you put your lambs you sell out? Do you use all 4 sections for everything during all lifecycle of ewes (i mean do you use each section for lambing as well?)
The rams are in their own pen and kept in this barn with the ewes. In the video, they are in the first 2 pens to the right of the centre feed alley. I have 2 ages of rams, so I keep them separate until they are older. I only use the 2 south side pens for lambing... I like to leave the north side available for handling sheep (they are closest to the handling system)
What is the temperature inside this housing in winter? In Europe sheep houses are not, normally, insulated but in Canada it should be quite cold. How do these structures protect against cold? Thank you.
The only time my barn leaks is when we get the huge shifts in temperature... If it was cold enough through the night after being warm through the day, a layer of frost builds up. When it gets above zero again, it drips again. Overall, its not a huge issue.
Sandi, so sorry to bother you but it's - 30 here in Northern Alberta and I had two ewes drop twins lost the first two and rescued the second. We put them in garage with wood heat but took them back today and she won't take them back.... any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Just getting in from the barn... I'm likely too late now. My ewes never take lambs back when I take them away. Its so frustrating... I know some do! But I just quit moving them unless I'm prepared to foster them. If there is any cleanings laying around from mom, you could try to wipe them all over the lambs again at least on their back ends... or maybe squirt some of her milk on them... something that she can regain the scent of her and the lambs again... Or you can try restraining the ewe for a few days while the babies drink and see if she finally accepts them... I'm so sorry. I suck at this part.
@@SandiBrock no you don't. I could not (wife and two teenage daughters included) bring myself to walk away knowing that she wasn't going to take them and it was dropping to -35* SO... every 4 hours for the next 13 weeks :) Thanks for getting back SB. If it makes you feel any better... you were the first person i thought of when the crisis hit. The power of Social Media eh? Peace Kid.
Blue Jay Farm well... I can’t walk away either... hence my milk machine... LOL. I too had to make a late night trip back to the barn to feed quads that mom couldn’t feed because she had no milk... so I totally relate!
Hello from Australia, love your set up. How do you get rid of the poo waste? How often? I cannot imagine having to farm in the snow. What's your ROI in time or $? Absolutely fascinating video - thank you so much for sharing. Love the dog - he looks like he wants to work 😊
Thank you Leanne! We clean the barn with a telehandler, and spread the manure in the late summer after wheat harvest... There are some videos here on me cleaning the barn. As for the ROI, do you mean in general or cleaning the barn?
Sandi Brock, yeah sorry in general over a season per head not just for waste. In Australia the estimate is $18.64 per head which is ha hard way to make a living.
This is a great question, but I'm embarrassed to say I'm not sure I know the ROI per head... I'll have to do some number crunching and get back to you. Our operation is a hard one to enterprise out the accounting because we share so much back and forth, but I think we have it close now. (we also grain farm) My labour is also shared between the cropping side and the sheep side, so I don't even consider myself a full time sheep farmer (although I feel like one). I really want to make a video on this, but haven't figured out how to do one yet!
Sandi Brock Thank you so much for your in depth replies. I admire you and your work. We are working 114 acres here with no barns and minimal storage sheds. No tractor. One old old ute and plenty of debt. So, I find it incredible what you guys have and manage. We are learning all the time and hoping to be full time farmers by retirement - doesn't that sound ludicrous but that's just how it is for a couple who invested from scratch later in life :) Thank you!
Its like you're a fly on our kitchen wall! Hubs and I have been talking lots about ways we could incorporate our land more in raising sheep. We do have significant snowfall (lake effect), that can start as early as mid-November. So we would still be housing them a good chunk of the year... But we are talking...
Hello thanks for send the video of plant layout. could you share the vaccination schedule from the kid birth till breeding cycle . when and right time to vaccine? when is the right time for deworming?
@@axeman6560 mate if you think that's a funny comment on a sheep producers video, you are more of a moron than I thought. I notice she didn't comment back as she obviously thinks you are a dip shit as well.
@@reidcarter2223 im not your mate, how arrogant and narrow minded do you have to be? Excuse me for having an opinion and please go right ahead and pour out the insults... really what's wrong with people? Stop being a sensitive Susan.
So I am interested in starting a sheep business like yours and I was wondering if you could give me an idea of what the cost was for you overall so I can get an idea of what the main price would be
I think I had said in this video? Maybe not... The barn was originally built to fit 500 ewes, but I try to keep it around 450 due to typically having lambs with moms...
Hello dear may I ask u a question ? I want to know that do u Breeding ur sheep insaid of the hall or do u take them out for eating or how do u Breeding them ? Please let us to w that Thanks in advance
The water bowls have heaters in the reservoir... but they can still get a bit of a layer of ice on top in ewes don't use it enough... We buy mineral, and soybean meal when needed if our hay is lacking protein. We also buy lamb creep, and the finishing ration supplement pellet. The rest is all grown on farm.
Well it depends on many things... conception rates, how many females are born and retained, and what your losses are... so some quick math... If 50 ewes lamb once per year and 50% are ewe lambs, and none die, thats 25 lambs that can add to your flock each year. 200/25=8. So thats 8 years. And your original flock will be on their way out... so the number is ever changing and evolving. So you can potentially speed up this process by lambing out your ewes more than once per year. Very rough math, but you kind of get the idea...
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Great video! My favorite part was the smile you had when you said you had always wanted something to call your own. 😃 it was beautiful to see. Thank you for sharing.
I like that there is so much light inside .
That's an amazing set up giving me fresh ideas for expanding my sheep shed at home. Also seeing a different system is making me think out the box... enjoying watching the videos
Thats great Rhys!
Beautiful facility Sandi, its been great to see the modern approach to sheep farming! Whoever came up with the idea to get away with a pasture based system and go to a dairy type system was ahead of there time. My wife worked so hard to take care of 170 ewes, barns where dark, air quality was bad and i will always remember the amount of hay that was wasted!
Best of luck with the March lambing group!
Thanks so much Mike!
Each system designed for sheep have their merits... I agonize over the lush green pastures and hills of the UK, NZ and Australia and see how efficient their operations are. I'm sure sheep farmers came up with the term "grass is always greener" LOL
I'm 100% getting a barn like this when I'm older. I already have my own cows but I'm going to get into sheep because of u🐮🐏. From Ireland
So awesome Aaron! All the best!
I love farming I'm a farmer my self in new Zealand i
love to watch your videos and see how you guys do farming.
Thank-You for the tour and Layout. Just found your page. Binge watching. LOL Blessings!
awesome! Enjoy!
IM DOING THE SAME HERE IN ALBERTA, LOL
Tina G
I think we all are!😄
I love the light in the structure. I am not a farmer, but have been around barns in the past. Yours is beautiful and clean and looks like a great place to work :) You should be very proud, and I, though a perfect stranger, am very happy for you! The outro is hilarious, lol.
I love how you've made your dream come to fruition. Thanks for sharing!
You are my goals! Love watching you. Saw one video and I can't get enough
Thats awesome! Thanks for watching!
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💖🐑💖 Another great video, Sandi. I do have a question or two. 1. When you built the pad, footing and alleys why didn't you incorporate drains and in floor heating? The benefits would have been no more frozen water in the north and south alleys and a place for water to drain. Also the barn may stay a little warmer in the dead of winter or sever cold snaps. 2. Is there a reason that you didn't round off the lambing barn at 300'? You would have had space for hay and straw storage on the north side and silos for the haylage and corn silage on the south side. The benefits would have been less plastic wrap and no more bulky ag bags on the asphalt pad and more room for manure storage, and more room for heavy equipment storage that YOU use on a regular basis.
☀☀☀Something else came to mind as I was typing the above, SOLAR PANELS. You get so much great sunlight in your Spring, Summer and Autumn months, why not have panels on the rooves of the sheds and garages? It could take a heck of a bite out of your electric bill. I know you can't put them on the lambing barn, you would loose all of that wonderful light. The finishing barn and old barn would benefit from solar panels too. The initial expense would be a bit on the expensive side but it would pay for itself with saving on the electricity bills. Some areas offer discounts for installing solar panels. I'm sorry if I'm annoying you with this long comment. It's just food for thought.
Respectfully Submitted,
SY
I'm so happy that I ran into your video. When I was a little boy we had about 120 or so with old structure but this one is huge. Wishing you well as always and good luck my dear. How I wish to visit and see the place with my eyes but I don't even know where you located. And again good luck
Thanks for the tour!
thanks for sending the video.
Really enjoyed the video Sandie. My wife’s still loving that dog! I hope spring finds you folks early this year. 80 degrees today here on the gulf coast down in south Alabama. We really love what you do here!
Oh thanks!! Yes, this dog is quite the lady... LOL. As for that weather... I need the sun SOOO bad! Sounds like heaven in Alabama!
Ron Kryder hey I go to the gulf coast each summer. I live in east central Mississippi
Mind blown glad we don't have to do this in much warmer UT.
I love your barn. Thank you for sharing all this details.
Thanks for watching!!
Thank you for sharing all these experiences. Best regards
thank you!
Thanks for sharing. It is a good place for your animal.
if additional hot water is needed only in a few times of the year you could use a tankless water heater or just have a 2nd small electric one that you'd only turn on as needed. Great looking barn, or whatever you want to call it.
This is just amazing!!! Incredible woman!!
Thank you Ryan for releasing a great product as this [ Check Details Here?> *WoodBlueprints. Com* ]. Most of the plans I have imagined in my mind are put down on your woodworking plans. This is more like a genius job. I love it!?
I was waiting patiently for this video, we are about to decide, still debating (barn wise) which way to go.
Probably combination of sheet metal walls with ventilation windows and clear span roof.
Thanks.
Oh awesome! I hope this helped!
I would love your barn for my horses! I'd be able to ride in winter and they would still have more than enough area to roam around. exspecaly our old girl....winter is kicking her butt this year( needs 2 heavy blankets to stay warm when she was super fuzzy one before!)
They make tankless water heaters they're called and it's on demand so no limit to the amount. Nice barn!
OH! may need to hear more about this!
They have those tankless water heaters that run water straight on demand down here in Florida lot of the RV unit Parks have them so do people have money to homes to I've even thought about it myself but I'd rather do the second element on my tank in the garage so I can have hot water all the time and fool the system... and saying the timer doesn't always have to be tripped and keep the hot water in there and you don't have to worry about wasting energy engineer775 has that in his cashier things to learn he really good about how to set up stuff like this he's in the US so I don't know but you can actually get the part that I was telling you about that is a modulator that controls the amount of solar power that goes to your hot water heater on the second element the bottom I'm just disconnecting the two so they're not connected together on the grid... like I said you don't have no batteries to worry about cuz it's direct feed non-stop hot water green and fifty bucks you buy that part you got to put it in the Box get it set up fired up you're good to go straight from the solar panels directly to the second element.... and since you're doing the same thing with the hot water on demand...
You R THE BEST...Huge ove from Turley. I have just began to farmimg. Love youuuuuu
Thanks!!
Sandi Brock
Do you have an email i can contact where i can ask questions about sheep? I would love to have a deep detail q/a, im seriousely concidering raising and breeding sheep on my future homestead, im trying to learn as much as i possibly can. If theres any way to contact you with a list of questions, you could get around to answering them whenever best suits you, if you so choose☺
Go on and on you are doing a great job wishing you all the best 👍👍👍
Thank you!!!
Excellent video content. So helpful.
We just found your channel in the it's very interesting how you've laid that out that's very good idea.. seen some things like that out in Wyoming in the Utah
Thanks!
Thank you for sharing Sandi
Hi Daniel.. i was trying to reach you for 2 weeks now.. would like to talk about your practice..
@@erkerk4640 hi there, where were you trying?
@@daltm79 i sent a message thru Linkedin. I tried to find Hamazria 's phone number but it did not work.. if you could check your Linkedin i would appreciate..
For sure!! Thanks Daniel!
Great deal of information, I am learning
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I love the design I am Frank a farmer back home from Philippines, . But planning to relocate in Iowa . I am planning to have a sheep farming in future Please give me an idea and guidance. Thanks God bless
Hi Sandi
Thanks for another great video.
What would be your designs for a nursery?
It would be great to see your ideas !
Hey Fred! I've seen some pretty nice ones. I would have to think about what type of system I would love to have!
Great setup.
Thanks!
Was just wondering what the cost was of your barn and a comparison to a normal barn
I really do love your barns.
Thanks so much!
Good work 👍👍
Thanks!
Thank you for sharing this.^___^
It is very helpful.!!!
Thanks for details of your barn , very useful .🙏
Greeting from Algeria 🇩🇿 you have lovely barn ❤️💛💜💚
Thank you!!!
Thanks
may want to look into a tank-less hot water heater. Great videos, keep on keeping on!!!
Thanks!
Love your barn set up. Current set up is for much less ewes, but is open and can be brutal on windy days.
Today we are supposed to hit upwards to 110km/h winds... She's gonna be a loud one out there!!
@@SandiBrock that 110 Kilometers = 68.3508311 Miles. God Bless you. I have to deal with that sometimes here being in a mountain valley. The barn design with open ends funnels the wind, intensifying it. It can really scour out the dirt floor. My sheep are all covered as here the fleeces have value. Am glad you have a market for your lambs. It helps us small farms more than you can know! )
What do you do with the barn during the spring summer and autumn when the sheep are out on pasture? You could grown tomatoes in the sheep manure / straw compost.
Hey Jamie! Yes, Myles is right... the sheep stay inside year round... we have a significant coyote population just outside these barn walls, so until I find the management skills needed for an outdoor system, they live a pretty nice life under the shelter. However, I love the tomato idea!!! Thats thinking outside the box!!! LOVE IT!!
Those fan work real good to move air we have the same building but ours is a farmers market
awesome!
Hi from saudi arabia
love your videos amazing 👏 job. I have been in farming and sheep raising since 2011. Never reached your level of progress, 1-wondering about your amazing rates of twins and triplets? How do I get to that level.
2- as an architect and a value engineer specialist,
You have 3 service lanes for feeding etc,one in the middle and two at the ends.
And I'm redesigning my area. Wouldn't be more useful to do 2 service lanes,
pen/ally/pen-pen/ally/pen
Wishing you all the best 👍 and success
Great video..incredible amount of work involved in your business. I can't begin to imagine. Trying to determine where you are located, general area. Also do you have a video or blog on how you market your sheep? Ultimately you have to make a profit...Can you talk about how you market your sheep?
Hey Cary! I think I have a few videos maybe showing me weighing the lambs and loading the trailer, but I could speak more about the marketing end in a future video! Great idea!!
I live in Ontario, Canada
Big like from Montréal
Thank you so much!!
Sandi.....can you please tell me what happens if one of the flock lose their ear tag what happens ?t
Brilliant videos I love watching your days.....keeps a 64 year old nannie happy...xx
Very informative video. Thank you. So are you saying your sheep never go outside and pasture in warmer months?
Really wonderfull.....
Thank you!
Only problem I see with it is I don’t have it lol. Love your barn and system.
LOL. That could be a problem! Thanks so much!
Semoga succes selalu usahanya beserta keluarga tercinta
Hi Sandi, as Ryan Seppanen said tankless water heaters are an on demand system and are actually far more efficient then a tank water heater because they just heat the water as they go instead of heating a body of water and trying to maintain that temperature. Warning tho, they can be costly.
Also as you said near the end of your video about a wishing you had a "lamb nanny pen" where you could have your milk nanny in permanently. Would there be any way to expand out your heated room to accommodate your milk nanny without taking up too much space and having some sort of removable pen to keep those lambs in while they are using the milk nanny?
Hey Eric! We did look at expanding that room... Unfortunately, we quite literally painted ourselves into a corner... The feed area is directly behind it, the water and hydro are on the entire other wall, and going straight out the man door drops us in front of the big overhead door. We have the nanny now well insulated and if enough lambs on it, hopefully should keep the nipple lines from freezing also. Hindsight is 20/20 for sure! LOL
@@SandiBrock Oh darn. Well i guess you win some you loose some :/
Namaste
Good sheep's
Good shed
U r also good
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Thank you
Whats your thoughts on the concrete floors? I heard many sheep people argue both ways for and against concrete under lambing pens versus like a packed lime floor. The thought is moisture in the bedding is less of an issue. I use some of both but I would think the cleaning would be much easier. Just wanted your opinion, Thanks.
I love my floors for the cleanout. I do go through a lot of bedding, so perhaps having the dirt floor under the pack would help with drainage... I guess I'm pretty lucky that we grow our own straw, but there is costs associated with that. The pack builds up quickly in the winter because of it. But, if given a choice, I would still go with concrete floors.
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Hey Sandi, how wide are the feed alleys on the sides and the one in the middle? Thank you for the detail! Much appreciated.
Oh I just realized I didn't include the measurements!!! side alleys I believe are about 5ft, and the centre alley is around 11ft. Those bunks take up a bit of room, so I always forget the exact measurement.
First time watching your vid, like set up, it’s good have height a lot Air to move around. I am farmer from Victoria, Australia and we have 2000 poll merino cross Dorset sheep with small grain operation. It would be interesting to build shed like this for shelter from heat in summer and lambing in autumn n spring. Would ever consider bigger feeder wagon? Or overhead feeder auger set up? I differently have to watch more vids👍
Thanks Jamie! We do run an overhead auger system in the finishing barn, but for this one we wanted to feed TMR, so this was what we ended up going with.
Hi Sandra, big fan from Mongolia. How cold your barn in wintertime? how outside temperature and inside temperature?
Good job... please just want know if this sheep Barn will be ok for a country with the temperature of 26 degrees
Thats really nice barn 🤘
hey Sandi
i can understand why you need to put the sheep inside in winter but how come they are not out in the paddocks in the summer ? do you have a lot of predators that take the sheep ?
great clips too by the way
That's exactly the issue... we are surrounded by a fairly large population of coyotes.
When do you decide to cull ewes from your herds and how do you control interbreeding and whatnot?
I have done a video on this, but maybe worth an update! So really, I use a lot of my weaning information. I collect weaning weights, and develop reports on my Gallagher record keeping system. I have kept track of deaths, and wrote notes on ewes that have been questionable at lambing time. So I go through all that data first and decide who is an automatic cull. Then I run the ewes through my handling system and check udders. Any lumps, or questionable ones get marked with my spray paint to check again before sorting for the next breeding group. Any dry ones I go back to the list I made from the weaning info to make sure it was one of the ewes who's lambs died. Depending on when and how the lamb died, I decide whether I keep mom for a second chance.
I also have been starting to cull for age... Now that I know pretty much when all my ewes were born, I can cull any that I feel are getting too old (checking teeth also a good way to test for age).
Miss Sandi what what the green colored device you had in your handling area next to the veno turn table that you use for hoof trimming?
Perfect...
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Hi Sandi.. thank you for sharing all these details. Where do you keep your rams? Otherside of the road that you put your lambs you sell out? Do you use all 4 sections for everything during all lifecycle of ewes (i mean do you use each section for lambing as well?)
The rams are in their own pen and kept in this barn with the ewes. In the video, they are in the first 2 pens to the right of the centre feed alley. I have 2 ages of rams, so I keep them separate until they are older. I only use the 2 south side pens for lambing... I like to leave the north side available for handling sheep (they are closest to the handling system)
That dog got some skills walking backwards like that at 13:21 hahahaha
Good morning Sandi B.
Good morning!
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Welcome in Cyprus theis time starting the summer. Your farm is fantastic
Thank you!!!
It's really big dream sandy building that... you re amazing Sandi..
Btw what s the roof made from?
sheep perfect
Hi Sandi, fan from Norway here. I wonder if you have a lot of snow and wind loads in your area?
Yes, we get quite a bit of snow in this area...
Thanks for the tour. It's pretty impressive. Like the light.
What is the temperature inside this housing in winter? In Europe sheep houses are not, normally, insulated but in Canada it should be quite cold. How do these structures protect against cold? Thank you.
Hi Sandi, great setup you have there. do you have any condensation problems during colder periods of the year with this type of structure? Thanks!
The only time my barn leaks is when we get the huge shifts in temperature... If it was cold enough through the night after being warm through the day, a layer of frost builds up. When it gets above zero again, it drips again. Overall, its not a huge issue.
I just came across your video, after you've been doing htis for a few years iS it still worht it?
Wow you must have a heap of birds in there to
Hi Sandi, How wide are your alleys? Any thing you would recommend changing?
Sandi, so sorry to bother you but it's - 30 here in Northern Alberta and I had two ewes drop twins lost the first two and rescued the second. We put them in garage with wood heat but took them back today and she won't take them back.... any advice would be greatly appreciated.
It's March 2nd 5:40 PM MST …. God I hope you get this.
Just getting in from the barn... I'm likely too late now. My ewes never take lambs back when I take them away. Its so frustrating... I know some do! But I just quit moving them unless I'm prepared to foster them. If there is any cleanings laying around from mom, you could try to wipe them all over the lambs again at least on their back ends... or maybe squirt some of her milk on them... something that she can regain the scent of her and the lambs again... Or you can try restraining the ewe for a few days while the babies drink and see if she finally accepts them... I'm so sorry. I suck at this part.
@@SandiBrock no you don't.
I could not (wife and two teenage daughters included) bring myself to walk away knowing that she wasn't going to take them and it was dropping to -35* SO... every 4 hours for the next 13 weeks :) Thanks for getting back SB. If it makes you feel any better... you were the first person i thought of when the crisis hit. The power of Social Media eh? Peace Kid.
Blue Jay Farm well... I can’t walk away either... hence my milk machine... LOL. I too had to make a late night trip back to the barn to feed quads that mom couldn’t feed because she had no milk... so I totally relate!
Hello from Australia, love your set up. How do you get rid of the poo waste? How often? I cannot imagine having to farm in the snow. What's your ROI in time or $? Absolutely fascinating video - thank you so much for sharing. Love the dog - he looks like he wants to work 😊
Thank you Leanne! We clean the barn with a telehandler, and spread the manure in the late summer after wheat harvest... There are some videos here on me cleaning the barn. As for the ROI, do you mean in general or cleaning the barn?
Sandi Brock, yeah sorry in general over a season per head not just for waste. In Australia the estimate is $18.64 per head which is ha hard way to make a living.
This is a great question, but I'm embarrassed to say I'm not sure I know the ROI per head... I'll have to do some number crunching and get back to you. Our operation is a hard one to enterprise out the accounting because we share so much back and forth, but I think we have it close now. (we also grain farm) My labour is also shared between the cropping side and the sheep side, so I don't even consider myself a full time sheep farmer (although I feel like one). I really want to make a video on this, but haven't figured out how to do one yet!
Sandi Brock Thank you so much for your in depth replies. I admire you and your work. We are working 114 acres here with no barns and minimal storage sheds. No tractor. One old old ute and plenty of debt. So, I find it incredible what you guys have and manage. We are learning all the time and hoping to be full time farmers by retirement - doesn't that sound ludicrous but that's just how it is for a couple who invested from scratch later in life :) Thank you!
Would you ever consider grazing the ewes outside during the summer and autumn months or is it unsuitable in your part of the world
Its like you're a fly on our kitchen wall! Hubs and I have been talking lots about ways we could incorporate our land more in raising sheep. We do have significant snowfall (lake effect), that can start as early as mid-November. So we would still be housing them a good chunk of the year... But we are talking...
Hello thanks for send the video of plant layout.
could you share the vaccination schedule from the kid birth till breeding cycle .
when and right time to vaccine?
when is the right time for deworming?
I can do a video on vaccinations here, but I don't deworm as they stay inside.
@@SandiBrockinternal parasite will never grow in the animals.
looks great. how do you control the internal temperature? isn't it too hot in summer?
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Looks like an Australian brothel!
What sort of dipshit comment is that, you obviously know all about brothels.
@@reidcarter2223 you must be fun at parties, where's your sense of humour?
@@axeman6560 mate if you think that's a funny comment on a sheep producers video, you are more of a moron than I thought. I notice she didn't comment back as she obviously thinks you are a dip shit as well.
@@reidcarter2223 im not your mate, how arrogant and narrow minded do you have to be? Excuse me for having an opinion and please go right ahead and pour out the insults... really what's wrong with people? Stop being a sensitive Susan.
Did you guys buy your gates or did your guys have someone make them
So I am interested in starting a sheep business like yours and I was wondering if you could give me an idea of what the cost was for you overall so I can get an idea of what the main price would be
Any ideal on the dimensions of your feed bunks please?
Hi Thanks for your explain.how many sheeps you can keep in this barn?
I think I had said in this video? Maybe not... The barn was originally built to fit 500 ewes, but I try to keep it around 450 due to typically having lambs with moms...
Why don t you put the close ewes into the pens before lagging would save a bit off time regards Helen in Tasmanian
Hello dear
may I ask u a question ?
I want to know that do u Breeding ur sheep insaid of the hall or do u take them out for eating or how do u Breeding them ?
Please let us to w that
Thanks in advance
Hi Ma’am, just want to ask if your sheep stays in baarn during non-winter?
I hope you will be fine. How you control water temperature because your weather is cold and you have buy all feed from market or your own feed?
The water bowls have heaters in the reservoir... but they can still get a bit of a layer of ice on top in ewes don't use it enough... We buy mineral, and soybean meal when needed if our hay is lacking protein. We also buy lamb creep, and the finishing ration supplement pellet. The rest is all grown on farm.
@@SandiBrock thats why. If all things buy from market than no profit in this business .it is my opinion
After how many days you have clean the shead grass which laying under sheeps
I clean the barn before each group lambs, so about every 3 months. The pens not being used for lambing can go longer.
@@SandiBrock but dueto urine of lambs it become wet or moisture, how it dry suddenly
Very good video, where is your farm, it's sheep's capicity? You invest in barn recover in much time?
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How wide are the alleys to accommodate the feed cart?
Why do you add dry fodder bed? What's the use, I'm little confused
Hi👋 i have a question, if I was to start ship farming with a herd of 50 ewes. How many years will take me to reach a herd of 200?
Well it depends on many things... conception rates, how many females are born and retained, and what your losses are... so some quick math... If 50 ewes lamb once per year and 50% are ewe lambs, and none die, thats 25 lambs that can add to your flock each year. 200/25=8. So thats 8 years. And your original flock will be on their way out... so the number is ever changing and evolving. So you can potentially speed up this process by lambing out your ewes more than once per year. Very rough math, but you kind of get the idea...
@@SandiBrock thanks for the info👍
I need more explanation on Barns Design Plan
What would you like to know? I can do another updated video!
Can You Please Do Video On Where All The Gates Are For Lambing And Putting Sheep In There.
Thank You.