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Family farm Livestock
United States
Registrace 23. 04. 2019
Welcome, glad you stopped in!
I want to help you know more about where your food comes from! Whether you want to get started raising animals yourself, expand what you are currently raising or just want to be more informed when making buying decisions, you need the basics.
We, Jason and Kathy, are a husband and wife team that own and run a grass based farm in Ohio. We've been "in the trenches" raising livestock for over 20 years now! Our main livestock is sheep, but we have numerous other animals including pigs, goats, a variety pack of poultry and a Jersey family cow, Aleene!
We show you videos of our stock and how we do things around here. Not claiming to be perfect, of course! We love livestock and have tons of experience that we want to share with you so you can feel confident in raising your own animals.
I want to help you know more about where your food comes from! Whether you want to get started raising animals yourself, expand what you are currently raising or just want to be more informed when making buying decisions, you need the basics.
We, Jason and Kathy, are a husband and wife team that own and run a grass based farm in Ohio. We've been "in the trenches" raising livestock for over 20 years now! Our main livestock is sheep, but we have numerous other animals including pigs, goats, a variety pack of poultry and a Jersey family cow, Aleene!
We show you videos of our stock and how we do things around here. Not claiming to be perfect, of course! We love livestock and have tons of experience that we want to share with you so you can feel confident in raising your own animals.
Video
New lambs
zhlédnutí 182Před rokem
Here are just a few of our lambs so far this year. I get a kick out of the colored lambs, so far we have 3, each of which is twin to a white one!
Checking water for the ewes
zhlédnutí 95Před rokem
Making sure flock has enough water leftover since it's starting to warm up for the day.
Freshly shorn ewes to new grass
zhlédnutí 142Před rokem
We're moving fence now, gearing up for warmer weather and more grass!
Spring Grass And Lambs
zhlédnutí 157Před 2 lety
This is what our flock move for this morning (May 17th) looked like, the ewes make it to the new grass and the lambs cry for a bit then the ewes go back and get them! Thanks for watching! Email us with questions at FamilyFarmLivestock@gmail.com
Feeding Sheep In Snow
zhlédnutí 290Před 2 lety
Hang out with us and the sheep! This is just a nice, quiet watch the sheep eat kind of video, normal sheep stuff for January in Ohio! Thanks for watching! Email us at FamilyFarmLivestock@gmail.com, we'd love to hear from you!
Ewe Lambs In Their Own Pasture
zhlédnutí 134Před 2 lety
We pulled the ewe lambs out of the main flock to reduce the haylage needed for the bigger group. Thanks for watching!
Sheep Breeding Season (So Far)
zhlédnutí 335Před 2 lety
We show you how the bale unroller works on the bigger tractor, go over breeding season happenings, so far and get a nice long look at the flock. Thanks for watching! Email us at FamilyFarmLivestock@gmail.com
Feeding Sheep On Pasture
zhlédnutí 396Před 2 lety
Here's how we feed our main flock of sheep throughout the non growing season, which is from mid November until early April in our area. This is also the week before breeding season, not too much longer to wait until December 1st! Thanks for watching! Email us at FamilyFarmLivestock@gmail.com
Planting Garlic & Choosing Specific Cloves To Use
zhlédnutí 189Před 2 lety
I show you how to pick the best cloves out of each garlic bulb and why it's important to only plant your best! We also go over our numbers, how much we planted, etc. Thanks for watching! Email us at FamilyFarmLivestock.com
Sheep In The Turnips
zhlédnutí 1,8KPřed 2 lety
Here's our sheep eating the turnips we planted in August. The turnips are Barkant Forage Turnip, in the past we have used Purple Top. While I could never catch much of the flock in the turnips, the ewes clearly ate the turnips down pretty well. Thanks for watching! Email us at FamilyFarmLivestock@gmail.com
Stockpile Ready For Sheep
zhlédnutí 206Před 2 lety
Here's a field we have let grow all summer, since it was the winter pasture. No grazing has been done on it this summer and sheep have been out since late March. Email us at FamilyFarmLivestock@gmail.com Thanks for watching! Support our channel: buymeacoffee.com/grazelivestock
Pigs On Pasture
zhlédnutí 622Před 2 lety
I just put my two market gilts on pasture for some fall grazing. I'll show you my set up, including the fencer, which is a Speedrite 3000 that is battery powered. Email us at FamilyFarmLivestock@gmail.com! Thanks for watching! Support our channel: buymeacoffee.com/grazelivestock
Newborn Piglets, Two Litters!
zhlédnutí 197Před 2 lety
My sows, Whitney and Marta both had their piglets this week! The litters are less than a day apart in age and both sired by the same boar, so the color differences you see are from the sows. Thanks for watching! Email us at FamilyFarmLivestock@gmail.com
I order to assist many people from the info u provide us esp. from Africa use ratio in terms of Kgs and not in terms of percentage (%)
Hello. Thanks for info provided to us. Inspired and I am watching from East Africa TANZANIA. Please provide a ratio for one pig according to the age and material used to have complete food
Cool design, much also like rolling o farm. I was hoping to see more about the backup gate? Thanks
As an aspiring goose/duck farmer its wild to me that they arent more popular. They taste so good and have fairly simple upkeep.
dis they die from that mold
Been so wet this year I’m doing it all like this.
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Hi. Working on building our system now. This was very helpful! Where did you find your back up gates or did you make them? TY
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Your 2 rooster start mating with hens ?
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So lovely
Please am from Ghana but now in. Togo please if I won't to buy how can I get it
Where do you have their water for the farrowing pen?
Wonderful flock! Are those all Cotswold sheep, or a commercial flock?
Hello it's me chandan singh from India. and I want to know for how many days a sows remain on heat and right time to give AI
The taste😂
I got one I am bottle feeding after she had triplets. One died at birth, 2 lived, she stomped one to death, and I saved the other one. She wanted nothing to do with anything pertaining to being a mom.
Thanks for posting this, it was real helpful.
For a new, natural/ non-AI breeder, this was very helpful!!
Thanks for this informative video
Are this roosters fit for fighting?
Thanks for the details info❤
Shouldve just extracted the milk and bottle fed them instead of forcing her to do something she clearly doesn't want to she could end up resenting them more for that
❤I love it so much😊❤❤
Do you have animals in that barn? I keep thinking about drying in my barn but I worry about keeping livestock in the same building.
Yes, some lambs, so way too short to reach any and tons of airflow
May I have an update? Did your ewe accept her lamb?
Yes, she did. Doesn't always work, but we try!
They are communicating I wonder what they saying to each other
Went to some websites and the cheapest pigs were $350!!!!
Prices change quite a bit throughout the year, could you look a further away from home?
When do roosters "Orpington" stop breeding? When to retire them?
As long as rooster is moving well, he's probably fine. It's more likely that you'll improve your next generation and want to use a different one
This is not accurate. If you follow this you will have a pig weighing 50lbs cause you are confused
where did you sell them at?
Kidron auction, Kidron ohio
The blower just blows loose trash out of the machine. Blowers are a common feature on corn pickers, but it's equally common for them to not be operational, lol.
😮ooh two baby goats and mommy goat
What variety of sunflower is this? Did you see more honey bees on them?
Not sure, they were birdseed black oil sunflowers. Bees were there as long as there was pollen
So what meat creates tin mutton
Older sheep, at least over 1 year old
Always good to watch your videos over and over hope you and family are good and have a blessed day.
Thank you!
We want six months one pair
a deer video brought me searching up lamb vs sheep
How did you wrap have you tried that with rounds
Wrapping this was heavy and awkward, we did it by hand. Small rounds, no, we haven't tried it, full size rounds yes we hire a neighbor to bale and wrap
Sir ,for haylage making how many "dray fodder grass please tell me sir
They "bury" their eggs to keep them warm when they leave the nest 😊
I visited a sheep farm yesterday, which occasioned my coming across this video. The farmer with whom I spoke markets the meat. What he told me is that he doesn't market sheep meat (mutton) but only lamb meat. According to his standard, the difference between sheep and lamb is puberty. When they slaughter the Lambs, at about 8 months, there's a double joint in the hoof. Once the animal has been slaughtered, that area is broken (called "breaking lamb"). If that double joint has calcified, that is a sign that the lamb transitioned to a sheep, and cannot be considered, from a culinary standpoint, as lamb. Could you speak to that?
In our area, age is determined by teeth that come in at around 12 months, maybe more for the sake of buyers vs folks that raise and market their own meat (since teeth are easy to see on the live animal). I see what the farmer you spoke with was talking about (as far as puberty being before a year old), that's just different than how lambs vs sheep are determined around here.
Thank you so much for the video! Where did you get your back up gates?
D&S livestock equipment, from a local feed store that carries their stuff
It'd be nice if it had coulters to cut between rows so the garlic released more easily. And surely you don't have to hand trench each bed as long as the angle of the blade is adjusted properly via the top link. That'd be a major drag across acres. Beautiful garlic.
You're right, many times the blade does dig in itself. You only need the trech sometimes and that happened to be what we showed this time. You'll know pretty quickly once you give it a shot, it mainly depends on field conditions.
If you wouldn't mind saying, about how much money do you get for 220 bulbs? I am trying to understand price point--I know we are in different areas, but I would like to understand if this is a viable farming opportunity for me or not to grow more to sell.
We sell them sorted by size in peck baskets of 50 to 80, always full baskets but small bulbs mean more bulbs per peck. Since we sell at an auction price varies by day, anywhere from 30 cents each to over $1 each. Sort hard, all imperfects go to 2nds and be sure to keep same size bulbs in box only, mixed sizes seem to lower the price.
Everyone looks happy and busy in their new pasture. Nice to get them dewormed. I ended up not breeding last year and wish I had, this fall will see if I can find a ram. Glad to see summer is off and running!
Glad you popped in with a video, that's a nice 1st day of summer. Lots of food, water and entertainment(mineral feeder:) for your sheep and lambs, they will be kept busy chowing down all that lovely grass. I'm just home from a short trip and have to check our pasture as it finally rained a good amount, I hope it's grown a lot as we are seriously lacking rain again. We finally started deworming because of nose bots, need to do it again soon as they are bad here. Anyway, nice to see the sheep and pasture, everyone's looking great!
We were short on rain this spring as well but thankfully it has rained lately to get us greened up!
Where do you buy bulk feeds in Jamaica
Not sure. Search it and see what you come up with or could you buy ingredients and make your own?
Good to see your videos again 👍