Sheep Farming: Let's Meet The Sheep!
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- čas přidán 28. 03. 2023
- Today at Ewetopia Farms, it was supposed to be shearing day, but it got canceled until this coming Thursday. So instead of showing you a video of sheep shearing as originally planned, we are going to spend our time today taking you around the farm and getting up close and personal with a lot of the various sheep on the farm.
Sheep and sheep farming is our passion and we hope that the love we have for what we do is obvious to you the viewers. Our operation is a large scale, registered Suffolk and Poll Dorset sheep farm combining the best of pasture and confinement to manage the flock for maximum comfort, minimal stress, and producing a consistent, very high quality product. Our focus is on providing breeding stock for sale to other sheep producers. All our sheep are treated with the utmost compassion which I think will become evident as you join us on our daily rounds on our working sheep farm in eastern Ontario, Canada.
I hope you enjoy this video. If you would like to follow along with us and experience life on a real live sheep farm on a daily basis, please subscribe so that you don't miss a single episode!
Thank you for taking the time to watch! We love to hear from you so be sure to leave a comment as well.
Thank you!
Lynn & Arnie
Contact Information:
Website: Https://www.ewetopia.ca/
Lynn McKay and Arnie Droogh
3606 6th Concession Road
Kingston, Ontario
Canada
K0H 1Y0
ewetopiafarms@gmail.com
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Great to see Glad, he's so handsome! Gimli is also a big boy, i love the wrinkles on his nose!🥰🥰🥰😍
I just love seeing all the lambs with their mums and interacting with you and Arne having fun.
Love watching all the sheep and lambs💜💜💜
Lynn, love seeing all your lamby friends.
Morning! Quincy has a darn chunky bumm. No wonder he throws “meaty” lambs.
I would totally volunteer for sheep/lamb petting if I were anywhere nearby. What a great hobby!!
Good morning! 🌹🌹🌹
Watching you everyday is the highlight of my day! I like the way you love on all your furry friends. Have a wonderful day
You too!🙂
Hi Lynn, Well I watched most of the video this morning. But in the last 10 minute I fell asleep. LoL, It wasn't boring I just couldn't sleep last night! I zonked out and had to come back this evening cause I needed my sheep fix!! I really love when the lambs and their mom come and seek you out for a good petting. That's what I love about my furry children, when they seek us & not the other way around. Can you imagine lying in bed with 5 kittens hopping on you & the bed while you slept. It's not annoying at all. Well not for me!❣🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🌴
Yes, it is very rewarding when they seek you out. And yes, I can imagine kittens crawling all over the bed - been there LOL! Hope you caught up on your sleep. I have been having a tough time sleeping lately too!
This is the perfect length for a vlog. I really like the lambs runs outside. So relaxing to watch. God Bless you and Arnie.
You can go over time as long as you want. I enjoy every minute of it.. ❤
Good morning Arnie and Lynn. Yay an unexpected play day on the farm. The little guy in the jug starting to get with the program. He is your little Pokey of the season. He is aiming for the top now. Thelma and Louise are such good mascots for the barn. They are always on secret missions and they have mastered cuteness. The big boys are looking regal. And I am so glad you are keeping Monty he was really a star as a lamb. Now look at him. He is going to be a daddy. It will be funny if there is another son that sounds like his father. It is so relaxing to sit with the big boys. I can see why you like it. Such sweethearts. What a great day. Work got done with time left for sitting with the sheep. Luni is so perfect and you can’t beat her disposition. She will have some special lambies herself. Arnie and the sheep with white hair try have earned. 😂😂 Arnie seemed to enjoy this day as well. He is a softy with the sheep as well. Enjoy your day. You guys have earned it. Big hugs. 🥰🥰🥰
I was so looking forward to seeing the shearing, hopefully tomorrow.
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Never worry about the video being too long! I enjoy your commentary and all the interesting content! The Suffolk lambs that ventured outside will sleep well after all the races. It's so much fun to watch them exploring and their personalities shine.😂
Thanks for a great video. Best wishes with tomorrow's shearing!!🐑✂
Stay safe guys!!!
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I really like the big white woolly ram legs and all hes a big boy . Looks great.
everything was so low key and relaxing. Nothing negative. Loved it.
Thanks!
I personally love when you go over on the “time” ! You can talk as much as you want Lynn! 🤍🤍🤍
Agree!!
Agreed.
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Agree!
Luni just make me melt .. what a sweetheart (could her face be as fluffy as Jezzy's?!?) And I really have learned to appreciate those Dorset traits you're targeting, such beautiful sheep
Luni is certainly special! The Dorsets are so cute with those fluffy faces!
oh so much fun to watch the lambs frolicking in the new hay but watching them explore outside says it all. curious little fuzz balls thanks again well done.
Glad you enjoyed your time with us!🙂
Lynn I sold some lambs they weigh 91 Pound but don't tell Ernie... LoL 🤣🤣🤣
Great video, I really enjoyed the visits with all the sheep, very relaxing! Loonie is looking like she had orange Gatorade dumped on her 😊 She is a sweetheart for sure!!
It's amazing how fast the lambs grow, they are looking really nice. Good luck tomorrow with the shearing!
Thank you!🙂
Lol I struggle every year with the special cross ewe lambs that you just have to keep lol I get ya
CZcams just recommended this channel and I'm glad to find it.
Regarding the dummy lamb.. If it happens again, look up the Madigan Squeeze Technique. This has been used for dummy foals, calves, kids and lambs.
Thanks for joining us and I hope you continue to visit us on a daily basis. I will check out the technique. Luckily, as you will see in tomorrow's video, everything looks to have resolved itself with the slow lamb.
monster looks great! 🤩😍
Love all your videos ❤
Thank you very much. I appreciate that! :)
Lovely video. I'm very much looking forward to the shearing.
My ewes are starting to widen significantly, not sure if its the wool or impending babies, but I'm thinking that if you can see that they're a "wide load" from the rear, it's probably lambs.
This morning my father declared that he's not - probably not - going to sell the house and kick out the five people who live here with him. As he's got dementia, that might not last, but we're coping as best we can.
I'm definitely looking forward to the shearing video. It's satisfying to see the animal emerge, and to see the gorgeous fleece inside out, with the creamy white inner surface.
When you evaluate the boys, to choose which two rams you'll use, will you record that? Might make a separate video on that, but I think it would be cool to sort of have some of the before-and-after of the boys prior to shearing, you might point out some of the features that you like, and after shearing, especially if you rule one boy out, or another one, what are the features that you can see on a shorn sheep that wasn't obvious on the fluffy ones.
Just some food for thought. Thanks again for being a part of my mornings.
We're having wave upon wave of bad weather. The good news is that it's likely we'll go from Extreme Drought to not-a-drought, and so hopefully our fields will recuperate from the destitution of the last few years of extreme drought. Yesterday hubby went to drive me to my doctor that I see every three months... he's 92 miles from our house. Frustratingly we got 82 miles on the journey before the weather got so bad we had to turn around and drive home again. We only use about a 4 mile stretch of the interstate and had a couple miles before reaching it, when the snow and freezing fog all got so bad that we had zero visibility and the plows couldn't keep up with the roads, then the power went out, and they had something like 6 crashes on that 4 mile stretch of the interstate so they had to close it, and you needed chains for the back roads. It was just insane. After we turned around (a couple of semis had run ins with regular traffic so we looped around the wrecks to return home).... the snow and fog got so bad that we probably couldn't have seen a hood ornament if our car had one. We dropped to only a couple miles an hour speed, and when the gust of snow & fog passed, we were on the left side of the road fully in oncoming traffic. Luckily nobody was coming our way, but it was scary. Turns out my doctor's office was dysfunctional anyway due to the power being out, the roads being impassible, so they just did a tele-visit with me. Anyway.... yet another long comment. :) Thanks for listening.
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Of all the rams you've ever had, my guess is that Gladiator has to be in your top 3 all-time favorites.
That's a tough one as there have been so many favorite rams. But yes, I would have to agree that Gladiator and Woody are my top two 😍
So funny watching those tough rams lining up to be petted 😊. Do the ones you keep for a couple of years ever learn their names?
Also have you or Arnie ever been bitten by one of your sheep?
I believe some sheep do learn their names. No, we have never been "bitten" as sheep don't really bite. They have nibbled on us though🙂
Lynn if you have pet sheep do you make a area for the retired older ones to stay on the farm ??
No, they just live with the group and don't get bred
Do you expect to sell/place 10 young rams? Is that normal?
Love the beautiful lamb faces and furry ears.
For sure. Usually more
Very cool!
Dont you just hate getting every thing ready and then hes not going to make it .darn it .
It is frustrating because it is several day's work for us but things happen
R they as soft to the touch as they look?
Unbelievably soft!!
Would un rolling bad hay over the mud cut down the muck ?
Also , are shearers like farriers and fairly unreliable ?
Unreliable not. Just need to be flexible. Lots of things happen on a farm and sometimes the sheerers are are also farmers and/or shepherds. Lots of clogs.
It would help in the short term but make things worse long term as we'd have a hard time cleaning it up afterwards.
@@EwetopiaFarms oh good to know! I have sand and no mud so wasn't sure. Is there a way I could email you a video of a lamb I'm taking care of? She is a registered katahdin ewe . Owner said her sibling was born backwards and deceased and she is partially blind. But after bringing her home and watching her she doesn't seem so blind but quite clumsy. I am curious your thoughts since you have so much experience.
@@sunsetstella8917 Or, you could speak with a qualified vet that can actually assess the poor thing, instead of trying to diagnose via CZcams clips, just saying 🤦🏼♂️
@@jessehachey2732 I've reached out to 3 vets locally. None deal with sheep. I think someone with years of experience dealing with sheep has more knowledge then the vets that specialize in spaying dogs and cats. Just my opinion though.
Nice, Collection of Ram's styles...!!! 💕🐑🖤🤍 They are truly beautiful animals you got there on your awesome amazing farm house
Thanks!🙂