A WEEKEND IN THE LIFE OF A SHEEP & GRAIN FARMER (A bad ram, a limping ewe & planting corn!) VLOG 283
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- čas přidán 27. 04. 2020
- A WEEKEND IN THE LIFE OF A SHEEP & GRAIN FARMER.
Well... its that time of year. When my full time job of sheep farming is blended with field work.
This weekend had me observing the latest join up, which left me wondering if I have a dud ram...
I spent quite a few hours on the cultivator prepping the ground for corn planting, which we actually began Saturday!!
Also,
Thanks to editing, and the power of my audience, I noticed in my last video I had a ewe limping... So, I went on a hunt. But couldn't find her!
So hoping she was just stiff, but will keep an eye out!
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Who else is a city gal/guy but loves Sandy’s videos, like me?!??
Me!
Me!
not a city girl, but i love Sandy's vids! i actually ran across her vid looking for chicken videos, and liked her and her ewes so much, i subbed!
RDM _Bk not city but definitely not a farmer either. As a fellow Ontarian who reaps the benefits of the work of our farmers, I am in awe of what Sandy and family do everyday to keep us fed. Thank you for all that you do just doesn’t seem to express my true level of gratitude for the work of all farmers. Being in an area where so many family farms have been and continue to be gobbled up by residential developers I find peace in this channel and the running of the lambs 😊
City slicker here; I’m learning so much!!! Thank you Sandy & fam.
I can't go to school and we are cancelled for the rest of the year. Seeing the lambs and your sense of humor really brightens my day. Thank you so much.
For the completely clueless (that'd be me before looking it up), tiling a field means putting several plastic drain pipes with small holes into the ground about 3-4 feet deep and 20+/- feet apart. The lines meet up to a main line that moves the water out. Kind of a French drain upside down - collecting versus dispersing water. Check out the AgPHD. Love ya Sandy! 💖🐑🐏
When moms are at the feeders, lambs get a straight shot to open it up and see how fast they can go. Love it!
Mega MindyLou_ I know it’s so cute!😂❤️
I chuckle at the lambs who are trying to snooze while it’s going on around them. The sensible ones go into the creep pen.
Love how the lambs race back and forth. You keep a very clean place. Im impressed how everything is so organized.
Sandi, I’m a regular sub to a dozen and a half assorted channels on CZcams, and yours
is the one that I look forward to the most. I don’t know whether it’s the playful lambs
or your lovely smile that brings me back every day, but I thank you for putting a guaranteed grin
on this 80 year old face.❤️🐑
Same❤❤❤
I'm a city girl, never raised on a farm or intentions to live on one now. But I love watching the sheep and watching you on the land. It definitely gives me a greater appreciation for farmers and how hard they work every day.
Sandi - Another great video showing all that you and Mark do there on the farm. Planting until 10:30 at night - that is a loooong day. Love the frisky lambs. Praying for a good mating in the blue group. Blessings to you, Mark, and your family, and others helping. Stay safe, and stay strong.
So funny when you were shaming Dudley 🐏 ram, he turned his head away like he was embarrassed! Kind of like when you come in to find a dog chewing something she shouldn’t be chewing up and you fuss at them, then they turn away like they’re trying to deny it was them... lol
I’m sorry but every time you say “ram power” I giggle...🤭🤣
LOL
Same lol but love it
Sandi Brock popcorn is a clever sheep
Only one of those blue rams seems to be slacking off on his duties, which would make him dodgin' ram power.
Mira Lea Tardiff popcorn is a clever girl
Sandy: “You’ve done nothing”
Rams: We’re not in love yet.
Sandy will have to make a plate of spaghetti and play the guitar
🤣🤣🤣
I wanna come hang out in the lamb lounge. Those babies are so precious. Also, I just wanted to thank you for teaching us a little something about the fields. I've often wondered why those lines were in the fields and now I know. 😊
Thank you for the cab tour and the farm terminology explanations. I do love the lambs but am interested in the rest of farm life too.😁
the lamb whirlpool🤣🤣 made my day!!
Thanks for the explanation about tiling and cover crop. I finally understand the whole process now. I really enjoyed Jeds and Mark as the laid the pipe down. I did not expect it to be as deep as it was. I am surprised about the amount and size of the rocks in the fields given how long the area has been settled and under cultivation but I guess the harsh winters limit the time you can work the fields. Thank you for expanding my knowledge. Have to say I am a total fan of the modern tractors with computerised GPS. What a change from days of old.
I love these kind of vlogs! I get my lamb fix for the day AND my "Sandi explains" fix too! You're able to talk longer and explain more when you're in the fields and I LOVE that! Also just want to say that i think this group's lambs have the most beautiful colors! I would want to keep all the beautiful speckled babies! Glad you'll be holding lots of the ewes back to be replacement ewes. Girl, be thankful you live farther North and can get away with wearing your toque for a while longer.... I'm looking pretty ridiculous walking around in my toque right now, in 75 degree weather... GO AWAY COVID! Mama needs some color!!💙 Megan in North Carolina 💙
I love how everytime the moms are all lined to eat the babies are like "party time!" and take advantage of having all the space to run and jump from one end to the other. Lol
Grew up on a family farm, but there is still a big difference between a small little family farm and "farming" on the scale y'all are farming Sandi. Absolutely appreciate the info both sheep related and not. Good luck on the corn!
You mentioned you wish we were able to walk alongside you in the barn. That would be awesome! I studied animal agriculture in college and then proceeded to work in human medicine for the next 15 years. It wasn’t until my husband lost his job and we moved out of state that I got the chance to use my actual degree. We started a small family farm raising meat chickens(200 at a time), pigs(3 sows and a boar), some lambs and turkeys 🦃 here and there as well as rabbits. We also raised plant starts and vegetables for Farmers Market. It’s incredibly hard work. We used to say that farmers either love what they do or they’re crazy. You clearly love what you do. It would be great fun to spend the day shadowing you. Keep up the good work. And don’t listen to the nasties. Your animals are well loved and well taken care of. I worked on or around farms enough to know the difference.
24:10 i think it's that one walking away that was limping, you can see she bobs her head down and up louder than the others, maybe she got better.
Izi de Oliveira I agree. It looks like the number might end in an 8?
I can see what you mean at 24:10. Looks like she's lame on the back end? I took a screenshot and ewe may be #38?? Ends in an 8 but hard to make out first number
@@ksmyth5994 I think so too.
Yes I 100 percent agree!
The lambs are so cute when they just run/hop back and forth, back and forth.
There was a lamb tornado for a moment lol
Beware the lambnado
My first thought was "Lambnado" too. This type of `nado would so sweet, fluffly and cuddly 🐑
@@2sea4beachcomber That's why you need to beware... once you go in... you'll never want to come out
2 Sea 4 Beachcomber popcorn is a good girl
I love watching the little lambs doing their stampede it’s so cute
Those little buggers look like they are getting ready for a marathon. LOL. I love to see them so active.
I think most occupations have their own vernacular. I know as a horticulturist, when I listen to youtube videos about plants, gardening, etc., I can tell who has been in the industry and who hasn't. Loved watching the babies running back and forth! Thanks for the tour of the cab. Amazing how technology has advanced farming and how sophisticated tractors have become!
I like to watch the farming and sheep. I’m a banker and it’s a break from my normal. Plus I like watching hard working people.
So glad you've posted today! Just lost one of my bottle babies this morning and I'm so upset. Need a Sandi sheep video to cheer me up. 🥰
I'm not a farmer but I love watching your station because you are so educational and make things very clear for us 'city slickers'. lol
As a kid we picked rocks and the stone sled was the hood of some 60's monster car attached with a chain to the tractor. Dad sat and pointed at stones we missed and my siblings and i scurried to and fro in the hot sun so i had to laugh when you took your glasses off and you were all dusty. Oh the memories... I liked the lamb "tornado" too !
Ohh the sweet sheep and lambs..omg that big field.you and mark are heros for what you do
Yes they are sweet they’re good girls cute sheep
I just love when the babies lambs run back and forth their so adorable 😁♥️
Field tile used to be short sections of round pipe made of baked hardened clay. But modern field tile is plastic pipe that comes on rolls that has holes in the side to allow water to pass through it and drain. It is buried a few feet underground.
I live in the city but grew up on family farms. Loved to go hang out with the animals or watch my grandfather work on his tractor
Thank you for explaining what tiling a field means because I had no idea! That makes so much sense.
And he was sleeping like a log! Lol
I see / hear what you were doing there. 🐑😁
Not a farmer, but I still wanted to learn about it more. Thanks for letting me tag along and learn. You’re a great teacher.
Hi Sandi, It was great to have the text up on the screen as you were going through the breeding pens, so we could know which breed was painted which colour :-) Thanks heaps!! And the leapin' lambs were jumping soooooo high - they're adorable!! Yours in Gratitude
Think this is good for just a little change from the lambs to see the other side of it all. And it all a good change from all the crap going on in the world thanks Sandi 👍🙏.
Thanks Sandi for the video. The Lambs are so cute and frisky. Nice to see you in the field, dirty face and all. God Bless you and yours.
Hi my name is Jodi Stewart I'm from Emmetsburg Iowa. I've been watching several of your vlogs. I'd like to send you a compliment to you. I admire your dedication, with your sheep journey ♥ you're very talented lady. And both your Husband & daughter and son are remarkably talented in helping you out
Thanks for the non-farmer education, I asked Mark to explain winter crops and he said, "crops we plant in the fall". your explanations are better.
I just started watching your videos and I absolutely love all your videos, so thank you! Also, I love watching you harvest/ working in the field. Cause I ask my boyfriend about some of your machines and it gives us a lot to talk about. But also PLEASE tell your husband or if you would like to put it on your channel but I REALLY WANT TO SEE AND KNOW/ LEARN HOW YOUR PLANT CORN 🌽 AND ESPECIALLY HOW ITS DONE WITH THAT HUGE MACHINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN SANDI.......ALSO I LOVE SEEING YOUR CHILDREN AND HUSBAND IN YOUR VLOGS! P.S. I also think that kids these days should learn from your children what’s its like to work hard snd also to help your parents out!! YOUR KIDS ARE GREAT
I went to college in Regina, graduated in 1977, and I haven't heard the word toque since then! I loved seeing the inside of the cabs of your cultivator, etc. Very interesting. Not what my uncle used to have on his combine. Love watch the lambs do their wind sprints and playing merry-do-round.
Thank Sandi videos are amazing..everyday I check ..I farm through you ...you and your family are my superhero’s..so thank you
Love the lambs running up and down can watch that all day
Great videos. 🤩
Drain tiling is a deceiving title. I watched a video on what it is and how it is implemented (very informative). Drain tubes, what a great idea.
I watch for whatever Sandi is doing.
Much love from West Virginia.
I love watching your videos.
This is a very entertaining video. Definitely made with passion. Makes us keep working to provide good quality videos.
Love watching these little lambs just run 😏👏👏👏
I relax to the "running of the lambs" 😊👍
Have you ever thought about building a little `race track` for the lambs, painting them different colours and then racing them? Your viewers could bet on the winner! It would also get tons of views.
I love the baby’s running.
they were fun!
Sandi Brock would like to watch ⌚️ my videos
Number 75s stretch was so fancy. Also adorable.
Could it be that the blue paint smears less easily? What colour was the paint last time when you were disappointed but then turned out to have a good scan? I mean I know nothing about sheep farming so if that's a silly suggestion sorry ahahah
Was thinking the same thing.
What are you vaccinating for that you hold off creep feeding for?
High standards I assume ur comment wasn’t meant to be in a reply to my comment, but I think she may have said before that it’s to avoid grain overload ? Wouldn’t take my word for it tho ahaha, as I said earlier I’m don’t have a clue really
Have you considered going VERY old school and seeding with earthworms?
Just looking at the TREES in the background! A LITTLE WINDY??! BOY ARE YOU THE MASTER OF UNDERSTATEMENT!
Hi Sandi thank you for making great videos. Am an ex-farmer and your videos gives me my shot of nostalgia but also a umm I do want to go back and bugger my age lol Anyway as am sure lots of mentioned to you!! If you go to 24.05 in the video you can see the ewe with twin (suffolk?) black faced lambs in front of her then she walks away on your north north west. Have a lovely day :D
We raise goats, sheep, rabbits, chickens, and turkeys here. Small scale, we are able to provide all the meat for our family.
Hi Sandi- loved your video again from start to finish. Thanks for explaining about tiling the fields again... I was so lost on that one too, now I’ve learned how farmers can be out in the dark of night working their fields-GPS! How great is that! I love how you leave an organic cover crop to feed the soil! It’s all about the soil., feed it right and you’re off to a good start. Picking rocks out of fields , OMG ! It never ends and around our region it seems that the rocks push up bigger and better every year... walls and walls surround fields in our regions with rocks. I’m also one of your non farming fans... but I do garden so I can appreciate the struggles any farming can have to some degree. I can’t wait to see how the crops come up ... and who will be the last ewe to lamb... are we placing any bets? 👍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🐑🚜
I love all aspects of your farm/ranch life. I get a very good education!
Mark needs to smile!!! Is he grumpy on his channel because now is the time for the chats in the tractor cab!
I feel bad because I am so addicted to your channel that I never go over and see Mark’s channel. After this one I am heading over to do some binging.
I love your videos❤❤, I'm a preschool teacher from Barranquilla Colombia, and you take my mind out of quarantine stress. Thank you
I’m the granddaughter of a farmer. I grew up spending the vast majority of my time at my grandparents farm. My uncles and grandpa wouldn’t let me use the heavy machinery because I’m a girl, but I used to sit at the dinner table and listen to them talk about the fields. It’s nice to watch you and remember the good times with my grandpa and uncles. My least favorite part was picking rock by hand. I hated it. Also, it’s nice to learn about livestock that I have never worked with. My grandpa raised black angus. Your lambs are soooo cute.
I love watching the lambs run and jump
Those babies are toooo cute jumping and running amuck. They need little race tracks around the barn to get all that energy out. :)
I love getting little glimpses of the lamb I have named Raisin (ette). He or She is a black faced, grayish, lamb with darker grey spots all over! Adorable and full of beans (jumping beans)! I also love farm equipment the more automated the more fascinating. Not like our equipment from the dark ages on the farm of my youth!!
Hiiii same ole binge-watching viewer here that has no clue about farms….thank you so much for explaining this for me! I said this before but I’ll say it again…I randomly got to your page randomly a few months ago & I’ve been here ever sense! I know nothing about sheep or farms & don’t plan on doing it but I just enjoy your content.
Love the lambs running and playing
Sandy I have been enjoying your videos I am not a farmer but my husband had grown up on a farm. We use to go for rides when he was alive to check out how the farms were doing.
I could watch the lambs all day long! 🐑🐑🐑
I have sheep
Sandi , In driving the side by side , Rock on ? Enjoy ! Have fun ! Bob
I love watching the baby’s play
At the 20:14 mark. There is an all white lamb with a black spot on her shoulder. So cute!!
Dairy farms use a collar on their cows that can track how long the cow is on their feet, how long they lay down, temp, B.P., it's described as a "We Fit" for cows. I'm thinking that you could use it on your rams. The ram's head is always at a normal height from the floor when it's standing and laying down. But when they mount the ewe, their head is 75% higher and the sensor could tell you that. Then across reference the time stamp of when their head is at that height with your cameras, and see if they were mounting a ewe. I know there's some things that will need to done, like recording the video so that you have something to compare it to. I just don't think it would be a big investment for you, and it's not difficult to set up and use. Compared to the potential of information you could get from it. You could find out that one of your rams isn't doing his job and needs to be retired. I understand you have their seamen screened, but if he's not planting it, what good is he?
Every industry uses their specific jargon that often confuses those not in the industry.
Nice to see that you are doing cover crops.
Totally not wise to hunker down for a nap in the center of the aisle. Those lambs!🥰
I am fascinated by everything you do! I love the way you teach what and why your doing what your doing ☺️
WE lay Aggi Pipe here in Australia, plastic perforated pipe, Tiling had me confused for awhile !! I think the term tiling came from when they use to lay terracotta pipes just butted up to each other !!
Or ag drain.
The Baby Lamb Races! 👍 The Babies are always Adorable. 👍
I admire so much all the hard work you do, while Im retired and the most I do most days are dinner, dishes, laundry and cleaning the cat box. I can't help it, the sheep are so calming and the babies are so stinking cute! I love it when they start running and jumping, even on top of some other ewe mom.
I have another topic for you. I'd like to learn more about the rams.
1. How old do they have to be in order to breed?
2. How many lambs do rams contribute life to, in a normal lifespan?
3. Do the rams always stay in the other barn, until breeding time or do they ever go out in the fields?
4. What does it cost to keep a ram for a year?
5. What does an adult ram weigh? And if underweight at breeding time, does he still get some girl time?
6. Do the rams try to push you around when you go to take them back to the other barn?
7. You said recently that you are eating more lamb at home right now, do you cull rams, ewes, or take from the selling group?
8. Are there any illnesses that affect the rams only?
That's about what I wonder.... I'm sure there are a lot more things to know. Have a great day!
Just FYI - not sure if it was the same one you were looking for but 24:10 is a limping ewe, walking behind the ewes eating to the left.
TIM from Ontario Canada to help everyone else (. perforated tile. )(It is like a giant straw. That you would put in your drink. With a thin layer sock over it. ). If this helps you out because I know a lot of people will not know of this unless you’re a farmer or in construction
Episode title today. “ a day in the life as a sheep Madam “
LOL
Sandi Brock do you give popcorn a cuddle
Sandi Brock dose your daughter not even like popcorn
Madame?? Lol She is a shepherdess not a gentlemen’s lady...I’m trying to be funny because this isolation is driving me stir crazy....ha ha
@@canadianlady777 the Madam is hooking up ladies with gentlemen... Guess this is what she is is doing..hooking up the bucks with the ewes.
Watching from North Carolina! And I wanted to thank you for your videos. During this crazy time of stay-at-home I found them and went back and viewed all of them.
Personally, I love seeing the farm work too!
Those lamb are so funny when they run and play.
The things you call tiles in the field we call French Drains in Texas. Had to have them put under my yard because of the water.
I have ben following along on Youre chanal for about a year now and have ben loving so much, keep op the good work Youre amazing human (FROM DENMARK) ❤️🇩🇰
Greetings Lukas from an expat Dane in Alaska.
Love your Vlog. The Lambs like feeding time. They have a clear shoot at running up and down the area lol. Too Cute. Stay Safe and Peace Be With You All ☮️
Yes they are cute sheep they’re good girls
Don't think I've taken the time to tell you yet, but I super appreciate your continued daily vlogs, especially right now. 😁 Watching your videos during my "lunch breaks" is the only thing that stayed consistent in my life, and I love it to bits! 💕Thank you
It's so cool learning all about the nuts and bolts of this stuff
Ahhhh The sweet videos of Sheep and Sandi, there's nothing better to make my days complete!! A fresh cup of coffee and my headphones on to catch every chirp of the birds, every whisper of wind, every momma ewe calling and every lamb replying and playing, and taking in every word you say. These are my moments to cherish, my Sandi moments, my sheep moments.... my solace! I can be having the worst day ever and turn on some of your videos and every seems to disappear, your farm and it's wonders are so magical to my life.
My days are complete with Sandi and her Sheep!!
Sandi loves her sheep
@@shepherdewan so do we and it’s a joy to watch them all. Makes my dad.
Makes my day. I love auto correct.
Norma Scammell would like to watch videos clever suki and Rachel have had all their wool cut off and Ewan shearing Samantha 2 of my videos on CZcams
Norma Scammell popcorn is a good girl
Are you talking to ME, LOL?
I'm not a farmer. Somewhat urban, in the Coachella Valley of southern California USA. I have Chihuahuas. But....I have 2 5x7 raised bed gardens.
Love the sheep. The babies playing together make a quarantine day better.
"All the rams that chase the ewe sheep/ Are determined there'll be new sheep/ And the ewe sheep aren't even keeping score." From "June is bustin' out all over", from Broadway musical "Carousel" by Rogers & Hammerstein. LOL
That high flying lamb at 3:27 is my favorite
Sandi you amaze me so love what you do. Seriously feel like I missed my calling. When I grow up I want to be just like you. Lol I am 59. Thank You for the VLOG
More than happy to see the field stuff.
Really appreciate you explaining in-depth more! =)
I see the little bottle babies watching the other lambs having races, and looking like they want to joint too!
Most funny thing Im enjoying the way lambs are running its reminds me of human kids also run around like that. It's funny really made me laugh