Sheep Farming: Winter Life On A Sheep Farm
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- čas přidán 28. 02. 2023
- Today at Ewetopia Farms, we show you what winter life on a sheep farm in Ontario, Canada looks like. We started the day off with beautiful fat snowflakes falling gently from the sky as twin lambs were being born in the barn. We had a visitor to the farm who brought with him a surprise package. Then when we opened the back door to get some straw, barn cat, Buddy, entertained us as he frolicked in the snow. Next we went to complete our chores in the Coveralls and put down more bedding for everyone and had a little lesson on Canadian snow and our military or lack thereof. As the day ended, the winds and cold temperatures picked up as another blizzard headed our way.
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.
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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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🥰Buddy❄ Thank you for sharing again today. xx
1👍🤲🙏🇹🇷🙋I like lamb❤️ I like sheep ❤️ I like animals♥️ Thank you very much for sharing 👏☕☕☕🍫🍫🍫turkish cofee for you and for your loved ones
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@Dinlendirici dr tv masha allah... may Allah swt, bless you for this kind words... 🙏
Thanks! Especially for the Turkish coffee!!🙂
@@annnoyez what did he say?
Thank you Lynn and Arnie so much for sharing your farm with us. I hardly ever comment but just want you to know I still watch most videos each day. I always learn from you and just enjoy the happenings of the day.
Thank you. I appreciate you taking the time to watch every day! That is dedication 😁! Seriously, thank you for watching and taking the time to comment!❤️
Love your beautiful silly animals. I enjoy my coffee with you in the morning. Today coffee came out my nose silly kitty got me lol! Dogs going after giant snow ball you all most got me again. Thank you for always starting my day off with a smile
Glad to be of service!!😆😆
Enjoy your gift... it is really kind of her... 🧡🧡🧡
It really was!🥰
I look forward to your videos every single day. I am a disabled woman who fell in love with your channel and your sheep, and with you too! I cannot thank you enough for sharing your farm with the world. your videos are comfort to me, and they take me out of my pain. Thank you so much, Lynn and Arnie!
I am happy to be able to help in whatever small way I can. Thank you for watching!🥰🥰
Buddy was too funny, great clip!! Have a great day!!
Buddy sure had fun in the snow
Good morning Arnie and Lynn. Wow. Another wintery day of snow which was the perfect consistency for snow balls for the army. 🥲🥲Hilarious. The bottle babies are really clever little things greeting you in the morning and even smarter when they stay for one on one time with Lynn. Hope one of the snappy rams becomes a stunner like Snappy. That would be so wonderful. Buddy was the star today with his joyous playing in the snow. Can animals get any cuter than playing in the snow or the lambs having a race. That was such a wonderful gift and perfect timing as well. We all love your videos because they raise our spirits each day. Stay warm. Big hugs to you both b🥰🥰🥰
Thanks Patricia! I think watching creatures enjoying life is just pure joy - it is not staged or rehearsed or faked ... it is just happiness. It can't help but make you smile no matter how bad your day! Glad someone was enjoying the snow anyway!😆🥰🥰🥰
Thanks to Tammy for keeping you warm! Send out kindness into the world and it comes back to you multiplied. I’m sure the less kind CZcamsrs accumulate the unkind people. I’ll fess up to the gloves just so you don’t have a mystery. I was worried they were not good quality but I figured they were better than nothing. 😊 I play your videos for my puppy and the sheep sounds put him to sleep now. 😂 Take care.
Omg 12:26 ! That cat had me laughing out loud!
Thanks for fessing up and for sending them! They were great quality and as you picked up in our conversations probably, we had just run out of gloves. I really appreciate your gift and for thinking of us! I'm glad we can help your puppy relax too!!🥰🥰 Thanks again!❤️
@@claymonsterpottery wasn't he silly?!😆
Very kind gesture of you!
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Bottle babies❤️❤️❤️
Good morning!🌹🌹🌹
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I just love those bottle babies that come running to you. ❤️❤️❤️ Stay encourage you guys work so hard, we can till you love your flock even when it gets overwhelming. Thank you for always sharing with us. ❤️❤️❤️
Thanks Lisa!🥰
Hi Lynn, Those lambs were having so much fun, they all want to be "King of the Hill". They had me laughing so much watching them slip & slide off the top. I understand head pain makes us supersensitive to any sounds. And the joy you got from Tammy's gift was what lifted your spirit. GOD bless Tammy❣That was very nice of her. I knew you were gonna throw that snowball at Arnie, so funny. Everybody is looking so good & that's a blessing. If there is ever anything you all need don't hesitate to ask. Giving is a blessing to those of us who can!!
Thanks Maria! The lambs are such fun to watch!🙂
Oh wow Tammi how nice! Keeping Lynn and Arnie warm in this winter weather so important! Though it may slow the videos down more, they will be slow to crawl out of their toasty bed to do chores 😂. So neat seeing Buddy so happy and playful.
Lol! True!
That was a very sweet gift and the perfect day to put it to use!! I love watching the lambs and ewes, but today Buddy was the star!!!😂😆 That was so funny watching him chasing flakes and having fun!! Thanks for sharing your day and stay safe!!!
Yes, I liked the Buddy part best too!😆😆
Watching Buddy after those snow flakes was really funny.Not much to smile about these days,but that was so cute.Needed that.💝💝💝🐱🐱(Terry if KY,USA)
I agree!🙂
How fun that you made a snowball for your viewers that live in warm climates! When you show those blizzard days with snow and the wind blowing it reminds me of the 65 years I lived in Minnesota. Winter temps -20 to -40 F were not unheard of (before windchill.) So I can totally vouch that when you say it hurts to breathe you are not exaggerating at all. Your face hurts. Your eyelids freeze shut. Even with layers of clothing, your skin is red and cold for an hour after you come in. (your new electric blanket will feel good then) One thing that was even worse for me than the cold was driving kids to hockey practice when you can hardly tell the road from the ditch. Now I'm retired and in MN only in the summer and I spent winters in Southern Florida. 🌴🌴 We appreciate you braving the cold to bring us your vlog. You always keep it fun and entertaining yet educational and interesting.
You described winter perfectly. I don't blame you for heading south for the winters. Must be so nice!🙂
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Thank you for posting daily vlogs. Love to see the lambs! Keep warm. How is the lamb with the broken leg? I hope that one is doing better.
I still haven't had an update about him but he is in great hands🙂
Yeap, sometimes even with human babies poop in their sacs under stress... or when they stay too long in the belly... it can cause pneumonia... mostly not. But it is sometimes tricky...
Tommy is trying to catch that one specific snowflake... 😂
Don't you find that Dorsetts always seems to smile??? Sufolks are more serieus... 😂
I think they both have smiley faces but it's harder to see on the Suffolks!😁
In Belgium straw is cheaper than hay. But both aren't that expensive... not like in these very warm countries. But there they don't need that much bedding. I know with my goats, in winter we stacked it up. Every day a new bed of straw. In spring when we cleaned the "jocks" sometimes it was half a meter high... layer after layer... the higher it came the warmer it got... and their fluids went true it and so the first layer always stayed dry and warm. I even slept in there when it was lambing season as I had only 6 ewes 5 of them wanted me with them... they stopped labor when I went. So I made myself cozy in their jocks and helped them out with lambing. The other 1 ewe she preferred privacy... I went for 5 minutes in the house and as I return there they were 2 lambs... 😂. Ad especially goat lambs are almost crying like babies. So when I was nurturing my children, I come in the barn and my milk arrived cause of hearing the lambs... always very annoying 😂😂😂
Great story! I used to sleep in the barn during lambing way back when I first started and it is cozy sleeping in the straw. Lamb's crying making your milk drop is hilarious! Only a mother can understand that one!🤣🤣🥰
I meant goats!
I’m so happy my gift gave you joy! I thought you needed a pick me up about now 😂. You do so much for us it really was just a little way of letting you know how much you matter! 🤍🤍🤍
It was extremely kind and thoughtful of you. We has it on watching Netflix last night!🙂 Thanks again!❤️
Just fascinating to watch Arnie deliver lambs, I have to ask, how long has Arnie been doing this? It is my strong desire to go in sheep farming, but I always ask myself IF I’d be able to do that! He is such a pro at this, Arnie give me some words of encouragement!
I will have him address this in a video. However, he started with cows and has basically been working with livestock his whole life. But you can do it too. The more you do it the more skilled you become. I used to do all the lambing myself because Arnie wasn't used to it but now he does most of it because he has longer arms and is stronger than me for those really difficult pulls. I will have him talk about this though.
@@EwetopiaFarms thanks Lynn for the words of encouragement, looking forward to getting some tutorials, on a different subject, there is a restaurant near you, I’ll order some food for you guys, does Arnie eat “all dressed” pizza or does he have his preference. And you, spaghetti and meat balls for Milano restaurant?
@Abuskeleke really? You seriously don't have to do that lol! He actually like mushrooms, green peppers and pepperoni. You would think he's a big meat eater, but he's not 😁. Next time he delivers a lamb and we're both there for it, we will try to describe what we are doing step by step.
More questions…
Is a grass-fed operation feasible in Canada? In cold weather the caloric needs of a pregnant ewe or of a lamb are so high that everyone understands the need to supplement with grain. And yet… bighorn sheep manage.
I am sure plenty of people would say yes it is feasible. However, we personally feel they need supplementing during breeding, pregnancy and lactation especially if you are wanting good quality lambs.
Wild animals manage but tend to have singles and have and extremely high mortality rate and short lifespan. Domestic animals have it much easier 🙂