Is the sheep feed ruined? (Evaluating corn silage & cleaning the Grober lamb feeder) Vlog 285
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- čas přidán 30. 04. 2020
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Well, not just me... my entire family! I'm back for another month of daily vlogging.
There will be sheep, planting (both the crops, and the GARDEN), my kids, and whatever else gets thrown in the mix.
The thing about farming, is there is no pre-planning.
I mean, there is... but you have to be ready to change those plans.
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Today is all about feed.
Looking at my corn silage, I have to decide if I should open my last bag. This time of year I'm always scared I will run out of feed...
We are a month away from first cut hay.
I also took the time to show you how I clean out my Grober Eco2 Lamb Feeder.
And the kids helped me fill some dry corn bins.
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The look the mom sheep give you when you pour the grain into the baby's area is priceless. I could watch this channel all day.
I am learning so much from you Sandy. You explain things so well! I have no experience with anything related to agriculture so most of this is new to me. I am an RN in California. I have always been drawn to medical videos and vet videos... but ever since I found your channel I have branched into Ag channels. Yours is my most favorite channel. It started with the lambing but you have other jobs so you have led me into Ag! I love it. It almost makes me wish I had a do-over in life so I could have gone into Ag instead of medicine. Thank you for teaching and showing us the ups and downs of life. I look forward to your videos every day and when there is no new video I go back and watch older videos. I just cant get enough! Your smiling face keeps me smiling especially during this lockdown from the Covid-19 pandemic! I cannot tell you how much you mean to me... especially during this time!
You are killing it Sandy! You should be so proud of yourself. Thanks for keeping us a part of your lives ❤❤❤
My pleasure!!
You need to be sure to take care of your health and sleep. Your operation and family depend on you. There is no replacement for a mom or farmer, even for a short period.
Thank you for taking the time to share. I know it involves extra time and work, a tough combination for a very busy farmer. God bless you and all the farmers out there. A situation like we are experiencing now shows us how much we depend on you to keep the food supply rolling. We have shut down a huge packing plant here and it still has not opened back up.
Your videos closed a small portion of the social isolation gap... especially for this NY’er! Thank you so much 🐑 💜🐑💚🐑💜
I personally love how you think of us. Thank you!
I have used your vlogs as an outlet for companionship during this self isolation. So I really appreciate your comments. Your vlogs are interesting and I empathize with you over good and bad. It’s amazing what all you do!! My uncles were cattle farmers (crops as well as cattle), but I knew NOTHING about sheep! Thank you for sharing!
Your kids seem like such well rounded, respectable, hard working young people. The fact they they are willing to help you at a moments notice is awesome. It’s so good to see that you have raised them to work and to appreciate everything they have. They truly seem to be great kids/young adults!!!
I can’t believe you only have two ewes left. Seems like it went so fast this year!!! I so enjoy watching lambing season!!! So nice to see those kids growing so fast as well!!! Thanks for sharing your life with us!!!
I love that you talk to your baby plants the same way you talk to your lambs! It definitely shows how invested you are to your farm.
I look forward to getting on here with you every day. You make my confinement bearable. You don't know how much you help all of us, too. Thank you for the look we get into your life. We all love your sheep and baby lambs. Hugs, Keep safe my friend.
All that spoiled silage you can use on your garden this year, rototill in directly. Or mix it with manure for next year, stir it a couple of times over summer, then lay it out to over winter in the garden. You'll have a great start for next year's garden.
I love the genuine happiness on your face when you show your flock. You’re definitely doing what you should be. You exemplify following your dreams and how if you love something it doesn’t seem like a job!
Thanks for sharing everything with us Sandi. The editing is a lot of work so I really appreciate the time. ✌️
Great to hear you count your blessings. It always works for me. Be well and safe family brock.
I get excited every time you post a video. I love your videos. Thanks for all the work you do to post the videos I know this just adds more work to your already exhausting daily grind.
I think Kinsey is happy when the kids are home. She gets lots of hugs.
Mmmmmmmm, freshly cut alfalfa. The best scent!
Sure is!
I love being part of your world. Thank you.
Use the old silage on the new veg beds.
👍👍👍 that sound like a great it would be cool to see how it works corn stocks make good compost so corn silage should do the same
I think she said something about mixing it with other stuff she had and putting it in a field later.
I have been watching your daily updates I honestly don't know where you get your energy from Sandi. I'm locked down just outside London doing a few exercises everyday, practicing my piano and doing a few jobs around the house. Your family spend all day working on your farm and then spend the rest of your time editing for CZcams , I take my hat off to you.
Look how big the lambs are!!! Awww!!! Love watching them grow. It would be even better if I could smell that barn smell. Love it! Soothes my soul.
OMG I grew up in the midwest US and I never knew that alfalfa is just a type of clover! I am learning so much from you.
Alfalfa and clover ARE both legumes, but they are also totally different plants
@@terryst9835 Thanks, It just looked like clover. I still have a lot to learn.
Sandi, you have the most wonderful smile!!! Makes me feel happy!! 😊
thanks Jerry!
I agree. And beautiful teeth.
Compose the corn silage if you can and use it in your garden once it's finished - it's a loss on animal feed, but not on plant feed!
It's really interesting to me to see the details on the chores (such as cleaning the "nanny").
I watch for every episode and you are so caring about your animals, your family and everything that is really important. Thank you for sharing your lives with us.
I feel blessed watching you each day in your work !
Thank you Sandi... I very much appreciate you and your video.’s ❤️ Keep safe ❤️
Love seeing all the happy lambs, jumping and running around
3:34 she has your smile
You do a lot of things for the day. Nobody can say your lazy and I love seeing all the farm things. I'm 73 and no longer farm, but it is fun to watch. Makes my day )
I give you all the praises keeping your sheep barn so clean. Enjoy watching your vlogs.
You have really got some pretty baby lambs !! Some with really unique markings . Love them !!
You could always compost the spoiled haylage/silage and use in your up coming veg plot. Mix with some of your ordinary barn waste - you’ll get fabulous veg.
I just had the best time. My husband and I went to a farm in Iowa to pick up a lamb and I saw a baby be born. Sandy I must say I am completely jealous of your life I was only at the farm for about an hour and I fell in love with it. There were so many babies. And of course we talked about you and I said I am probably one of your biggest fans I told the gal that I literally check my phone probably 10 times every day to make sure I haven’t missed when you upload your new videos. God bless you and your family and I can’t wait until your next video.
I am SOO VERY GLAD you vlog every day. It’s something I look forward to.
We love watching your videos about your life and farming and lambs and your children. It's very rewarding to see all of it.
I though I was the only Canadian that is running out of feed for my cows
Nope!
We found it was worth trying a crop of yellow sweet clover just to get the jump on a new crop of timothy/alfalfa started. Yellow clover is biennial but tough as any professional boxer so gives that added protection for any new crop attempting to break through for its first years, even when harvested in its 1st, immature year. Roots and stubble still serve the necessary purpose for the wanted crop!😘🤗🤗🤗😁😎
Its Canada! With Canadian weather! Never have too much hay, nor is there such a thing as anyone being "the only one" to be running short on hay...!
Thx to your podcast I ordered meat from a local farmer. Home delivery in 2 weeks. Time to think and act differently.
I laughed at the lambs crying and trying to get milk from the feeder while you worked on it.
I like seeing your blog everyday, just a relaxing thing to see and hear the lambs and you talking to the ewes♥️🐑🐏
Yes Sandi , you make us feel like part of the sheep family , thank you ! Stay safe ! Bob
It’s lovely to see you so happy, Sandi 👌😀
9:35 oh Sandi who is that spotted lamb!!! Please tell me it’s a ewe lamb because wow It’s just beautiful!!!
I agree!
I'll have to look!
It is so cute!
That's the lamb I love too!! ❤
Elise Golladay yes the sheep are good girls cute sheep
I'm glad that you think of us as company for you. We feel the same way. I'm getting pretty friendly with my Amazon Alexa as well. She knows all my favorite songs and what I need before I do!
You are such a blessing to me. My heart is farming but I am no longer able to do much. Your sheep are my absolute favorite on CZcams, although sheep are the one farm animal I’ve never had. I also love the field work.
My husband and I are starting a homestead in middle tenneessee (us) I never knew how much is to be done but we love it. With that i have no time for CZcams bc im also in my last year of school as well. Anyhow. No matter how busy I am I always find time to watch your channel. Yes I'm subscribed to others but I watch everyone of yours vs everyone else. Ooops. 😋 i love your channel and what you do keep up the great work.
As always another great Vlog! You really have to be a “jack of all trades” to be a farmer! Blessings from Texas. That spotted lamb....how cute!
We 💜💜💜 feeling like we are part of your world/daily life! This is all so new to me (currently live in coastal California) but it is so fascinating and I’ve learned so much. Thank you for your generosity in sharing so much with us!
You have the most admirable attitude. You have some bad days but you've also got a hard job. For the most part you're so positive. We all probably have a lot to be thankful for but your reminder about being blessed is needed from time to time. I'm thankful for your commitment to sharing your days. My day isn't complete until I see the latest blog you've posted. I'm very happy about all your good news. Many blessings to you and your family.
I am glad you do videos!! I love them!!
I am a young man in Palestine, and I love animals a lot and love them a lot. I raise sheep, but only a little, because my condition does not allow me and raise them in a normal way, not in a modern way. I encourage you to continue, and this is a great thing from the princes to do this work.👍❤️🇵🇸
A high point in Sandi's day: doing donuts with the feed cart!! Ha!
Thanks for being my friend
Sandi
That view from the top of the bin over the whole barn floor is great.
I have sheep and you have taught and helped me so much. Thank you!!!
Your channel is great Sandi!!❤️😊😁
Thank your videos. I live alone and am high-risk so the past two months have been really hard. So I rotate you-tube videos, reading, and 1000 piece puzzles. I love your videos and have watched all of them!
Take care of yourself and stay safe!
Sandi, I’m so great full to have found your channel... You have gotten me though respiratory failure, colds and this pandemic... I look forward to your videos to take my mind away from everything that’s happening in this world and I appreciate you, so I make it a point to watch all the commercials and hit the LIKE BUTTON, I really hope everyone else does the same, because we want these videos to keep on coming... Blessings to you and your beautiful family... Sending love from Pennsylvania USA 🇺🇸
That Grober is nice. I haven't looked at it enough to realize it's a powder. That makes a lot more sense than what I was thinking.
I am always anxious to see what the new day brings! Whether it's in the sheep barn or working with Mark...LOL...it's always a great video! THANK YOU!
I look forward to you videos EVERY day :)
I love the daily vlogs, I look forward to seeing what is going on up there in Canada, you do an excellent job!
I check every day to see if you post. Your posts make quarantine so much easier. I understand when you can’t bust just want you to know how much I look forward to checking your progress! ❤️
Sandi talk to Romey about how she cleans out her milk machine and hoses because she has the same one that you have. Her’s came with an attachment that looks like a sprayer you find on a kitchen sink and faucet. It helps with cleaning the tubes because it is similar to a power washer and the nozzle fits into the tubing. She also has these Pom Pom like things that you put in the end of a tube and combined with the pressure washer it scrubs out the inside of the tubes. It would really help you with keeping everything on the milk machine clean. Like you said adding a bit of white vinegar to the water when you clean out the milk machine, coffee maker, teapot or kettle not only helps to clean it, it also acts like a disinfectant that kills bacteria and anything else that might affect whoever is using the machines. I use it in our coffee maker, dishwasher and washing machine because it will also kill any mold and mildew. I have severe allergies which means I have to be extra careful to clean and disinfect many things I use daily. You are amazing and I have learned so much since I discovered your channel and I appreciate everything you do and share with us in your videos. My respect for farmers has definitely grown multiple times since I found you through Vlogmas 2020. If you can it would be amazing if did a video on each of your special sheep, telling their stories and what makes you keep them. No pressure, just thought it would help those of us newbies catch up and understand how and why they’re special sheep or lambs.❤️🐑🐏👍🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻💚💚
I've never seen you in a hat thought you were Jess lol I had to wear a hat for seven years when I worked in the deli cut alot of lunch meat I'll tell ya glad I'm retired now my hair was thining bad still hasn't grown back I'm so glad you had a video today those babies are getting so big holy cow or should I say holy sheep lol it's nice your all together I'm here by myself my son comes and checks on me my daughter lives so far from me plus she's a nurse so she doesn't come near me cause I'm old. Lol my granddaughter is at her house until if ever school starts up again so nice to see your videos love them
I was just watching the video from November where the roof came off your barn and watching this video and I just wanted to tell you your sheep trust you and I love you I watched your face when you walked in that barn as you were so heartbroken and looking at your sheet with worry and concern and I don’t know if you noticed but when you’re there the second time putting the gates back up your sheep were no longer huddled in the back of the barn but had come to forward to where you were because they feltCared for and safe. And that’s what you do for them.
9:26 WOW...the speckled lamb!!...oh I do so love it...SANDI...PLEASE...KEEP....HIM...PLEASE...
Tubes...use vinegar and hot water. Smush the tubes between finger and thumb for the yucky sticky bits!
You should paint your ‘Grober Box’, like the TARDIS!!!!
So much fun!!!!
In which Sandi has engineered the world’s biggest chip clip
yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa roof people. Good cleaning job. You mark really did a great job designing sheep facilities’. Good looking lambs
Hey Jess was smiling, ok she can go back in the field , Jack has to stay in barn
God bless you Sandi and your family. You are terrific!
I once plowed rotten clover hay into the garden in the spring and got the best garden crop ever. Maybe rotten silage would do the same????
Glenn ....Great comment..! Heck,...there are foreign countries that use human waste as fertilizer and this nation buys those vegetables from them,...so,...your suggestion is pure organic to organic...!
harmon1286 actually some states in the USA spread human waste on fields.🤢
@@harmon1286 We used pump our septic out and put it in our fields.
Glenn ....wow,...that’s interesting that Dept of Agriculture would sign off on that,...but,...! Thanks for update. I remember when the circus came to town, that the local residents would pay cash for elephant manure.! Good stuff..! Thanks, again, Glenn.
Salmon Hunter ...now that’s being efficient...!
Sandi.
Thank You very much for sharing the day to day of your farm life. Again A Big Thank You for the videos they are great even Kelly boo boo on the barn floor. You are one great farm Lady. Please Take Care of your self Plus Be Very Care Full around all Farm Equipment.
Hi again SANDI
Never fear! As long as it works for you I'm quite sure your people here will be here too!
Must say that milk machine is so worth it! What a great invention!
Yes you truly are blessed! But you work very hard and are being true to what you really wanted to do. That's why you have a loyal following here because you are real/genuine!
Happy you're finally able to get some sleep and plz don't feel guilty about that. Stay healthy and safe. See you next time...
We used to be able to buy strip plastic that was like a split hose and it had a piece that clipped inside it. You would put the top and bottom sheets of plastic in the "u" plastic and then snap in the round filler piece. Made joins so tight we would use a vacuum pump and suck out the air from our bags when making silage.
Thanks for sharing your lives with us. 💗🥰💜
Thank you so much for wanting to share all this with us! And it is so great to see you happy that your machine is fixed!!
Two more set of twins to go 👀 seeing all the twins are amazing. Hope you get your curtains fixed before to long. Sandi Happy May Day 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹❤😇
More lambs yay
Ps I live Ruby's babies
I love them too!!
Sandi Brock I watch your videos because of the babies, so I like each video and share. That’s it.
Thanks for sharing . I feel less isolated and I’m learning about lamb farming.
I'm so excited for daily !!
So glad you guys started CZcams Love both Channel's!!!! Keep them coming!!!! Be Safe!!!!
Have been watching for a while enjoy your sheep.God bless from Michigan.
Bailed me out on hay... ha ha ha 😆🧡
That spotted lamb at 9:32 is a good looking lamb, nice and wide in the rear.
Thanks for sharing a great video! You and your family are doing a great job! Hope your daughter is feeling better 😊💕
Great job Sandi.....you make it look so easy and relaxing
Sandi hi I love watching yours and marks vlog but your well better vlogger and I would love to see daily vlog as you make my day when I see your vlogs so please please vlog daily please xx
I love your videos. I am glad you make them. Thank you.
Just found your channel recently and have been binge watching videos. Saw a few recent ones, then started back at the beginning. Love it!! You are honest and hard working.. reminds me of helping my grandparents w their herd of angora goats, complete with their amazing border collies :-) .
I have an idea why you get spoilage at the end and maybe a better way to fix it. You take 2 boards and screw through the boards but you roll up and over which gives a chance for any water to run down the plastic between the boards and into the hay or corn silage how about rolling the boards down and under instead of up and over. I worked the flea market and tables never get wet that have the boards rolled under the tarp.
I look forward to seeing you and the lambs everyday x
They grow up so fast !! Long time viewer and subscriber 1st time commenter from the states great to see you care so much everyday congrats on everything you do!!
Kinsey said, "if the sheep can poop in the barn, so can I". 😂
LOL!
@@SandiBrock He was just so proud
Sandi Brock I want the virus to go away
They’re figuring out its more of a vascular virus vs respiratory. People have been getting transfusions and being put on ECMO and it seems to be helping....but the vent patients are so sick, and that’s why it’s taking forever to get off the vent. There definitely needs to be some sort of vaccine to maybe help prevent new infections but I don’t think we are actually going to be rid of this for a long time. 😢
@@conniepayne931 you don't know anything about vaccines, period.
Thank you for the new growth tour. Yes silage can smell bad.
I can't wait for the daily vlogs to start again!
Happy Mayday Sandi & flock !! 😎👍☘️🍺
The ways sheep find to die are just mindblowing. I read this sheep related quote on another shepherd channel I follow the other day, pretty much to that effect, sheep always try to find a way to die. Crazy woolly creatures. Let's hope it's all fine. I can't believe what a small thing can cause such devastating consequences. Nuts
Thank you for sharing, I do look forward to your friendship