I remember as a child having no egg for my breakfast because a fox killed all the hens, he only took one hen, but killed ten in total. That was over sixty years ago. No do gooders came to my uncle's house that morning with eggs for our breakfast
Hi Glynn yous are doing a great job in this weather.Some years ago I had fox problems. So I put out a couple of those flashing amber lights you see at roadworks.No more fox trouble after that.One year I moved the ewes. And lambs over beside a neighbour’s ground.At that time foxes were taking a lamb off his hoggets which lambed twins.I took over one of those amber beacons,after that he lost no more lambs.
Such a good vid Glyn & father! Glad to see some sun and a bit of dry for you. I knew that Holy water would work it's way, father❣️ Take care, good luck & thanks so much for brightening my day. You're both The Best🍀👍🍀
Great video. Sheep farming is no easy task and it can be cruel at lambing time. Its hard to be patient with people who mostly see pictures of foxes on postcards but have no idea of how merciless and destructfull they can be. To see a pen of young hens wiped out or a flock of ducks or geese killed, would open the eyes of many a do-gooder. To lose newborn lambs is heart breaking, so don’t spend too much of your time defending your right to wipe out the foxes. Few fully appreciate the inordinate hardship associated with lambing a large flock of sheep and the effects of sleep deprivation over weeks. Its not a task for the frail. Thanks for sharing - more people need to know that farming is a tough call.
Please dont bring politicians into your videos! A lot of hurt in the country from them. Love the videos lads and i think you are fantastic,strong, great work ethical men. Emily you doing fantastic work Of course you too Calum 😉 My God bless you and yours and the farm ❤
On the foxes, it's another job but I use Stockholm tar (in the tin, not the spray can) on the neck & shoulders. I've only lost 1 lamb with it, using it for years now. That means getting to the lamb before the fox does, but with ye lambing indoors that's not a problem - all outdoor lambing here. To make it a bit easier I warm the tin in a water bath and use a 60ml syringe to transfer the tar from the tin into plastic bottles with "sports caps", makes it much tidier. I was asked to shoot for a lady that lost nearly 20 lambs in one week, I shot one vixen and she lost only one lamb the following week, shot another vixen and that was the end of the problem. I'd be concerned that the dog foxes in your place may have been wanting to draw food to vixens with cubs, maybe have those lads come back for another look soon as the vixens might venture out looking for a handy buffet. There used to be a Teagasc research farm up near Leenane years ago. I remember they had a 5 strand electric fence around that field, they reckoned they never lost a lamb out of it.
@@martymartin2894 the countryside, the hills, the towns as well as your backyards are all a supermarket for the sly fox. Trust me, he doesn't go hungry when he kills lambs or chickens or whatever you have in your yard, he won't eat them, because he's not hungry. He kills them for sport.
Love your channel , you do an amazing job lads I take my hat off to you !! Thank you for everything you do , we'd be lost without our farmers and shepherds.
Well Glynn you are 💯 percent rate to short the foxes and good weather on the way for Tuesday hopefully that will be a good help for you and your father. I call to see yew week's ago....
Appreciate your another spectacular beautiful shooting filming footage compilation documentary countryside content video and you guys bonded so well and doing such an amazing job .. million thanks again
Have you ever tried fox repellent oil? We have had great success with it and we lamb 350 ewes in the fields, and catch newborn lambs when they’re dry and put a bit on them . Plenty of foxes around the area aswell
Here in Donegal,we use snares around the lambing fields,the snare placed on a well used fox trail will hunt 24 hours a day for you,but you have to find an area where no sheep or lambs will get to the snare.a vixen caught early in the year will ease the pressure on new born lambs more than 3 dog foxes( no cubs)
i thought it was very funny in a previous show John was talking about an honest fox that was getting rid of 🐇's and Glen replied ahhh sure will we bring him up some dinner
Try a few Livestock Guardian Dogs or a grumpy donkey oe two guarding those hills? Two big Kangal or Turkish shepherd built for purpose keeping watch through the night. A grumpy old donkey buck will not tolerate any fox disturbing the peace in his pasture. Geese are awesome alarm system for the surrounding
Great video Guys 👍 aww poor wee lambs😢 My son had to go out and shoot coyotes, they were killing his goats and chickens, so his eggs and milk supplies were down and the folks kids had to go short 🤷 so Mr Fox do one😡 Have a lovely weekend ❤
Not much for sheep or goats here, but if there are too many wild animals going after livestock then the wild animals have to go. We mostly have coyote issues.
Don't mind the idiots that are sending you messages to protect the foxes easy know they have no experience in lambs taken if there was money taken out of there wages they would be the first to be whining fair play to yea and great video as always
Fair play with all the work, between flatout lambing nearly a thousand ewes within a a few weeks while editing and making extra videos keep up the good work
guys get pair of livestock guardian dogs and they will take care about foxes, rabbits, birds and you can sleep like baby..we use dogs here in Balkan mountains for wolfs and bears, foxes, bobcats and they will protect your animals 24/7 365 days in year all weather..gl and stay safe.
A guard dog would be more efficient than shooting them. There will always be more foxes. It also scares them off so the chances of the foxes needing to die is lessened. Althought the way they talk about the foxes in this video as if theyre maliscious monsters out to kill for fun is ridiculous. Its an animal. Its not a disney villain. They kill more than they need to because they have a habit of saving food for later.
That was a pair of adult males. There will likely be one or more vixens with hungry cubs nearby. These mothers will be out hunting to get food for their cubs if the males from their mating are not around now to provide. The hunters need to come back over several nights in a two week period to clear a territory of all active adults. Any cubs left in dens after that will die of hunger.
@@jimmyjohnstone5878 it’s a battle for sure. Poor guys have already had a hard start trying to keep lambs alive without the foxes taking off with them. Hope they are able to clear them out of the area. Anyone who gets on them obviously hasn’t had to watch as their livestock disappears and so hard to make a living farming without losing lambs to predators.
Get the lads back Glyn them foxes will be feeding a vixen and cubs this time of year good on ya we did 150 foxes a year over here in Northern England always busy time of year for shooters
It does surprise me that farmers aren’t using livestock guardian dogs in the fields with the ewes and lambs. Here in the US, sheep farmers worry about foxes, but depending on where they are, they may be also having to deal with coyotes, bears, cougars, and other large predators. In the western US, shepherds have had very good results with Anatolian Shepherds, Kangal Shepherds, Maremma Sheepdogs, and Great Pyrenees dogs, on huge grazing ranges. It might be worth looking for livestock guardian dogs to protect your sheep outside in all weather.
afk we use dogs here in Balkan mountains for hundred years and that is the best protection u can get 24/7 365 days in year all weather, no foxes or bears or wolfs near my farm.
Nonsense foxes don't kill lambs total rubbish all foxes run around the countryside eating berries,nuts,grass ask the so called anti's and do-gooders, feel sorry for your loss but at least few 🦊less 👍👍👍
@@LTeppler while it's considerate of you to apologise for that, my feelings aren't hurt. It's just stupid to hate an animal for behaving like an animal.
Dont mind them FOOLS Glen, if the fox was taking 3 or 4 hundred euros out of THEIR wallet every night , they wouldent be long changing their tune
3 or 4 hundred euros a night ? how much are your sheep costing ?
@@trevorclarey3336 Finished lambs can make 150 Euros ,do the MATHS 🤡
I remember as a child having no egg for my breakfast because a fox killed all the hens, he only took one hen, but killed ten in total. That was over sixty years ago. No do gooders came to my uncle's house that morning with eggs for our breakfast
Thanks for pointing out the real issue with foxes
Well said Glynn if the shoe was on the other foot they wouldn’t like it happening to them. We were in the same predicament when we had sheep
I love the dad and friend speaking. I’m for lambs.
The subtitles help, too!!
That O'connor lad sum charater. Cud listen to him all day😂😂
A Shoosh A Shoosh as your brother Buff would say to the critics. I enjoyed listening to you talking to Katie Hannon on Liveline on Friday
thanks a lot. appreciate the comment
You’re doing a grand job there lads battling against the elements and predators, best of luck to yous.
Continue with the great work lads 😊
Hi Glynn yous are doing a great job in this weather.Some years ago I had fox problems. So I put out a couple of those flashing amber lights you see at roadworks.No more fox trouble after that.One year I moved the ewes. And lambs over beside a neighbour’s ground.At that time foxes were taking a lamb off his hoggets which lambed twins.I took over one of those amber beacons,after that he lost no more lambs.
Love the stories. 👍 Hello from New Jersey, USA. My Mom is from Kiskeam, Co. Cork. 🇺🇸💪🇮🇪
Such a good vid Glyn & father! Glad to see some sun and a bit of dry for you. I knew that Holy water would work it's way, father❣️ Take care, good luck & thanks so much for brightening my day. You're both The Best🍀👍🍀
Great video. Sheep farming is no easy task and it can be cruel at lambing time. Its hard to be patient with people who mostly see pictures of foxes on postcards but have no idea of how merciless and destructfull they can be. To see a pen of young hens wiped out or a flock of ducks or geese killed, would open the eyes of many a do-gooder. To lose newborn lambs is heart breaking, so don’t spend too much of your time defending your right to wipe out the foxes.
Few fully appreciate the inordinate hardship associated with lambing a large flock of sheep and the effects of sleep deprivation over weeks. Its not a task for the frail. Thanks for sharing - more people need to know that farming is a tough call.
Please dont bring politicians into your videos! A lot of hurt in the country from them. Love the videos lads and i think you are fantastic,strong, great work ethical men.
Emily you doing fantastic work
Of course you too Calum 😉
My God bless you and yours and the farm ❤
On the foxes, it's another job but I use Stockholm tar (in the tin, not the spray can) on the neck & shoulders. I've only lost 1 lamb with it, using it for years now. That means getting to the lamb before the fox does, but with ye lambing indoors that's not a problem - all outdoor lambing here. To make it a bit easier I warm the tin in a water bath and use a 60ml syringe to transfer the tar from the tin into plastic bottles with "sports caps", makes it much tidier. I was asked to shoot for a lady that lost nearly 20 lambs in one week, I shot one vixen and she lost only one lamb the following week, shot another vixen and that was the end of the problem. I'd be concerned that the dog foxes in your place may have been wanting to draw food to vixens with cubs, maybe have those lads come back for another look soon as the vixens might venture out looking for a handy buffet. There used to be a Teagasc research farm up near Leenane years ago. I remember they had a 5 strand electric fence around that field, they reckoned they never lost a lamb out of it.
If you fed the foxes well, they would still kill the lambs. They're savages to the babies
Not at all they have to eat they can't go to the supermarket.
@@martymartin2894 the countryside, the hills, the towns as well as your backyards are all a supermarket for the sly fox. Trust me, he doesn't go hungry when he kills lambs or chickens or whatever you have in your yard, he won't eat them, because he's not hungry. He kills them for sport.
@@tarran4596 live stock guardian dogs will protect animals 24/7 365 days in year in every weather
@@matelula8424 Great 👍
They are pests not pets
Great stuff lads .don't let anything interfere with yer living.😅
To those people who think it's cruel to shot foxes what about the poor lambs being savaged. 2 young to fight for their lives
Great video Glynn. Another great story from your Dad 🤣. The fox is a pest , no good, robbing lambs & hens !! Enjoyed watching.
Hard enough work Glen without the dam fox’s pay no heed to the bunny protectors
Love your channel , you do an amazing job lads I take my hat off to you !! Thank you for everything you do , we'd be lost without our farmers and shepherds.
You’ll have to give our vet jack a good mention, he’s a great vet for Kenmare
Well Glynn you are 💯 percent rate to short the foxes and good weather on the way for Tuesday hopefully that will be a good help for you and your father. I call to see yew week's ago....
Take no notice of fox lovers. Yr just protecting yr babies fair play. Xx
Well done lads.
Appreciate your another spectacular beautiful shooting filming footage compilation documentary countryside content video and you guys bonded so well and doing such an amazing job .. million thanks again
Great video Glyn as always your a happy man getting them foxes they can do a lot of damage if not taken out 👌
Have you ever tried fox repellent oil? We have had great success with it and we lamb 350 ewes in the fields, and catch newborn lambs when they’re dry and put a bit on them . Plenty of foxes around the area aswell
We put fox repellent on the lambs. Works pretty good. Bigger problem for us are roaming dogs. Control your pets, people.
The job is hard enough without the fox picking them off to , great vlog 👍
You can't beat the bit of blue blood😆. Gas man
Here in Donegal,we use snares around the lambing fields,the snare placed on a well used fox trail will hunt 24 hours a day for you,but you have to find an area where no sheep or lambs will get to the snare.a vixen caught early in the year will ease the pressure on new born lambs more than 3 dog foxes( no cubs)
Have you tried Orlden on the lambs? It works brilliantly on lambs. I started using it a gkkd few years back and have not lost a lamb to the fox since.
Stockhome tar is brilliant put it on the shoulders of the lambs it great fox Repellent. I started using it a few years back it works very well.
i thought it was very funny in a previous show John was talking about an honest fox that was getting rid of 🐇's and Glen replied ahhh sure will we bring him up some dinner
Good see ya happy lambing
Try a few Livestock Guardian Dogs or a grumpy donkey oe two guarding those hills? Two big Kangal or Turkish shepherd built for purpose keeping watch through the night. A grumpy old donkey buck will not tolerate any fox disturbing the peace in his pasture. Geese are awesome alarm system for the surrounding
Lots of people think foxes are cute .not so cute when they are killing your livestock and leaving a trail of misery .🤠👍
Great video Guys 👍 aww poor wee lambs😢 My son had to go out and shoot coyotes, they were killing his goats and chickens, so his eggs and milk supplies were down and the folks kids had to go short 🤷 so Mr Fox do one😡
Have a lovely weekend ❤
It would seem you are not alone with the problem with "Mr Fox" Love your accent.
“Release him somewhere else”😂😂😂😂
A rogue fox for sure, if you get one it will never change its ways.
Great video lads
This is a fantastic entertaining channel thank you boys
Good stuff
Ta hell with u tube . I love the show Thanks.
Try sheep farming here in South Africa,we have an array of predators Jackals,caracals and Baboons
Brilliant work 👏
Thank you! Cheers!
Chuckle brothers are alive ! 😂
Not much for sheep or goats here, but if there are too many wild animals going after livestock then the wild animals have to go. We mostly have coyote issues.
Hi I like your video
Don't mind the idiots that are sending you messages to protect the foxes easy know they have no experience in lambs taken if there was money taken out of there wages they would be the first to be whining fair play to yea and great video as always
Well said the foxes can be a menace
Fair play with all the work, between flatout lambing nearly a thousand ewes within a a few weeks while editing and making extra videos keep up the good work
Someone should do something about the badges as well
The lambs can not protect themselves from the foxes. Getting on to 16k subscribers 🎉
Hopefully you can keep the pelts.
You’ll want a fella with some ferrets for those rabbits.
Watch the movie “Zootopia” foxes are savage creatures. They are only good in animated fairytales 😊
Ye done the right thing ye have good sheep 🐑 ye are hard work with them ❤
Fair play lads👌
Glass half empty kind of bloke aren’t you ? Positive thinking produces positive results x
guys get pair of livestock guardian dogs and they will take care about foxes, rabbits, birds and you can sleep like baby..we use dogs here in Balkan mountains for wolfs and bears, foxes, bobcats and they will protect your animals 24/7 365 days in year all weather..gl and stay safe.
Passing contaminated cattle into the food chain comes second nature to some people
Some people spray archangel tar or stockham tar on the back of the lambs neck / shoulder where the fox reaches for it . they say it's good
i loved the ferret vid
A guard dog would be more efficient than shooting them. There will always be more foxes. It also scares them off so the chances of the foxes needing to die is lessened.
Althought the way they talk about the foxes in this video as if theyre maliscious monsters out to kill for fun is ridiculous. Its an animal. Its not a disney villain. They kill more than they need to because they have a habit of saving food for later.
Good man fox would lave you with nothing you have to look after you lams
Well done keep going
Plenty of foxes in dublin these days. I’ve seen ones much bigger than the one you showed.
Yeah yeah yeah everything in Dublin is much bigger
@@user-kg2hi2we4l didn’t say that you pleb. I said I’ve seen bigger than the one in the video.
Don't the Foxes kill the rabbits that are also a pest to you?
Behind in Templenoe... good man yourself. Guaranteed Irish. ☘️🇮🇪. Can you explain the "wobble" leg please?
I’m glad you got a couple of those foxes! Hopefully no more.
That was a pair of adult males. There will likely be one or more vixens with hungry cubs nearby. These mothers will be out hunting to get food for their cubs if the males from their mating are not around now to provide. The hunters need to come back over several nights in a two week period to clear a territory of all active adults. Any cubs left in dens after that will die of hunger.
@@jimmyjohnstone5878 it’s a battle for sure. Poor guys have already had a hard start trying to keep lambs alive without the foxes taking off with them. Hope they are able to clear them out of the area. Anyone who gets on them obviously hasn’t had to watch as their livestock disappears and so hard to make a living farming without losing lambs to predators.
This is the real Ireland
Get the lads back Glyn them foxes will be feeding a vixen and cubs this time of year good on ya we did 150 foxes a year over here in Northern England always busy time of year for shooters
Have ye much problems with grey crows? They do some damage up here.
Ever consider keeping a few alpacas? They are meant to keep away the foxes.
A person has to protect their livelihood
It does surprise me that farmers aren’t using livestock guardian dogs in the fields with the ewes and lambs. Here in the US, sheep farmers worry about foxes, but depending on where they are, they may be also having to deal with coyotes, bears, cougars, and other large predators. In the western US, shepherds have had very good results with Anatolian Shepherds, Kangal Shepherds, Maremma Sheepdogs, and Great Pyrenees dogs, on huge grazing ranges. It might be worth looking for livestock guardian dogs to protect your sheep outside in all weather.
afk we use dogs here in Balkan mountains for hundred years and that is the best protection u can get 24/7 365 days in year all weather, no foxes or bears or wolfs near my farm.
If there hill farming in Kerry hope the dog
Is waterproof
@@denniswoodhouse3351 afk they are all weather conditions 24/7
Poor aul foxes have to eat too they can't go to a supermarket. But i understand u can't have them taking your lambs
Very well said about the foxes
Put dirt then a rabbit fence and then dirt gain or they will use the old hole.
Dam fox's, in Australia they are our biggest problem, we saw 20 the other , we are out a few night a week
Nonsense foxes don't kill lambs total rubbish all foxes run around the countryside eating berries,nuts,grass ask the so called anti's and do-gooders, feel sorry for your loss but at least few 🦊less 👍👍👍
Your father is some character..the foxes are a curse so your well entitled to protect your lambs and don’t listen to all the do gooders
I've never seen the likes of them foxes
How are the cattle you got getting on
Awful weather for lambing I lambing here to fox is curse that Cavan man is a good shot more power a friend of mine knows him well Kieran smith
And showing of what you did, proud of it.
I could not fry sausages?
I will keep guessing 😂
How much money would a sheep farmer make in a year
Jesus lads that’s some dose to put up with 😢
😊
More ways for a lamb to die than to live same go's for adult sheep
How did your Mule ewe lambs do
Why don't you all have LGD's?
Fingers crossed no more trouble from those thieving devils!
Imagine being this hateful towards a literal animal
aww. I'm sorry I hurt your feelings.
@@LTeppler while it's considerate of you to apologise for that, my feelings aren't hurt. It's just stupid to hate an animal for behaving like an animal.
Next time call SAF
It’s a good channel
At least you are not hunting them down with horses. You are shooting them.
Orl den fox repellent keeps the fox away