Sheep, why do we have them?
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Some days are bad, some days are good but you just have to keep going.
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My heart goes out to all farmers at this time tiredness loss and constant battle to save live stock must be so so hard . I think being able to share your thoughts problems and wisdom is a great benefit from being alone and no communication 🙏🏻🐑
Hi Nicola, we have all hit the wall like this. I was there myself 2 weeks ago. Focus on the little wins, the stuff that wouldn't get done without your amazing experience, the help your dad and Davy provides. In 3 weeks lambs will be jumping around on a sunny evening and you'll be looking back thinking how well lambing went! You're all amazing and have a great set-up.
By the looks of all those healthy lambs out in that feild with the sunshine and green grass you know you are an exemplary farmer. Don't be hard on yourselves, you ca😢 be everywhere all the time and if you get hurt or get sick it will be so much harder. Please look after yourselves and each other.
Your only experience what we’re all experiencing it’s been a very difficult few years,weather plays a massive part of our lambing calnder you’re doing a great job we’re all in the one boat keep up what you’re doing,you most definitely have it down to a tee ,👍👍👍 P
Hi Nicola, its a busy time and working hard with the lack of sleep can make you feel a bit down. Your family is doing a great job with lambing and calving at the same time. There is always setbacks with farming and deaths occur. Its just a matter to just lift up your chin and keep going. The ewes and lambs are given every chance with all the supplements you feed them plus good rations. You only need to look at the lambs in the field with their mums to see what a terrific job your family is doing. The lack of sun and continuing rain puts a big dampener on your feelings, but just remind yourself things will change for the better. Chris from Australia 🇦🇺.
Hello Nicole just found your channel , loving it , lambing here also , suffering the same hiccups here with my sheep , very of putting and disheartening , but when the sun is out and lambs are out , it'll be all forgotten about , Until NEXT year , I don't know how you've time to video and edit , but your doing a fantastic job , keep up the good work , and look after yourself.
Greeting from Ireland Nicola very wet here too ye are doing great work the ups and downs are the same for us all really enjoy the video be sure to eat well and rest when you can even if it’s on a hay bale for 10 mins 😂👍
Your doing a fine job no one whoever kept stock gets it right all the time but for the numbers Your working with it's amazing you are able to keep it going aswell as you are hopefully it's just a little blip and it will all come good again
Nicola, hang in there, you are doing a fantastic job every day! Your sheep need you!! This too, shall pass!
Hi from Australia... I just watched Sandi Brock's video, and she had one sheep down with preg tox and an early lamber that lost 2 out of 3 of her lambs. Several of the other sheep channels have had sheep sleeping on their lambs too... Farming is tough.... it definitely tugs at the heartstrings. You are doing great. Don't be too determined to get tough and not be upset. That comes with age. I always had a good cry in the shower when things got difficult and let the water wash away the tears. Thanks for being brave and sharing your hard times along with the good times. Congratulations to your sister for her new book... I've gone carnivore, so I don't need a copy, but it looks very interesting. I hope it sells well.
I just watched the same episode on Sandi's channel. It is a tough game. 🇦🇺
Your doing a top job Nicola don't forget that you get stages where no matter how good you are or how hard you work it just seems to go against you. But you'll all get there keep strong
Thank you Nicola, for finding the time to take us along on your life journey. Find some time for yourself if poss. and have some Easter chocolate it's soothing and good for the brain... 😘
Chin up. Your doing great. God knows you've been through the mill the last few. Every little thing will get to you. I've had the same problem with the ewes when i brought in the ewes and changed the diet. Calcium under the skin seemed to sort it out. This year I've been feeding crystal licks and had no problems so far. Take care of yourself. Chin up 🫂 from Ireland
Great job trailer
poorly ewe looks like calcium deficiency, we give minerals (calciject) under the skin.
Best thing we ever did was put a few buckets of Rumenco Sugarmaxx when the ewes came inside. No issues since then.
Think everyone feeling the same right now, I was past yours last nite the lambs out side looking well, but god it’s wet
hi Nicole..you can get a place that has lorry covers to make doors for them as we got them made and they roll up to the top in the summer
Enjoy the content keep it coming…Need longer video
Great video Nicola! Keep your chin up, you are clearly doing a very good but challenging job in a profession that keeps testing you and all.! Onwards and upwards 👍💪
Great video as always you can miss videos out you know it's a busy time of year I know what it's like did it for 30 years but I would do it all over again if I could but all my farming friends say I'm nuts lol 😆😀😉
Hi Nicola. We all have days like this. Good things are happening so just focus on those. Your doing can great job.
Thank you Nicola for always keeping your REAL in your REEL! I'm very grateful that you bring your Mum along while conversing with your Fans in here! Most times memories help us cope, but there are times when I'm thinking of my Parents and siblings who have since left to go save me a seat in Heaven, and after all these years the fresh sting of them being suddenly gone does ease up a bit, but the sadness never really goes away. We adapt as you are well aware and we find a way as out loved ones did when they had to endue loss as well in the younger self. Stay strong and Keep Strutting AND smiling! I will be getting your sister's cook book! Cheers From Across The Pond In COW-lumbus, Ohio MOO 👋
Is it just me or is the first bag of milk replacer of the year the best smell. And the last is the worst 😂
I think you are doing a great job.all sheep farmers are finding it tough going this year.hang in there things will get better. From jp farmer ireland
That little trailer with the lamb boxes is great! I wonder if they sell them in the US…
You’re doing a great job . Great looking cattle and sheep.lm farming in Southern Ireland it’s a rough spring.
Hang in there gal. You're doing a great job. It's only hard to take a loss if you care. So from where I sit It's good to see.👍👍👍
Great setup, Problems always come in bunches, Every year before lambing i just set my mind to whatever will be , will be, most issues are outside of your control anyway despite what the experts who sit in offices telling us what should be done say, Hate when animals lay on there young, most likely they will do it again, Great video and best of luck,
A great video as normal,always good content,I always look forward to seeing them
Oh I love your trailer. What a great idea!
Typical weather. Its the same here in Ireland, raining one day, sunny the next and raining the next again
All things considered, you are doing very well. The experience will stand you well in future. Some things are out of your control such as the weather. But it would be worth sitting down after lambing with all involved what went well, what didn’t and realistically should things be changed or to give it another lambing before making big changes. Also deciding if you need additional help in future and then learning to delegate and oversee. There was a very interesting point about cake and I remember my dad having similar issues 30 years ago due to the cake. We left the farm when I was 18 so no idea if this is a common problem now.
Good girl 👧 Nicola. I lamb my sheep outside and take them in for a couple Very little Sickness if any. The wet ground and the Fox is my biggest problem. I always Nicola if i had to put Sheep into a shed before lambing i would sell them. They were never made for a house 🏠. I admire you and the work you do. I find tiredness a problem. I'm only 57 but it beginning to show. Mind yourself. You're a smashing girl 👧 xxx
Its tough but please keep your head up. Your doing all you can to help the sheep. Chin up lass
Let's be honest Nicola you we dote ffs you've had it hard of late especially wit you're mummy passing, your hearts hurting your heads sore and your tired obviously understandable enough like. Be rest assured there's hundreds of us out here got your back and admire you we honey. Xx
chin up flower things will get better we all need some dryer weather every one I talk to is feeling the same take care you guys Rx
Great video again hope things improve for you and look after yourself
When those lambs start bouncing around, you'll forget a lot of the troubles.
When you find one with twin lamb give calcium turn out into paddock I had great success when I bought ewes in of turnips
Take care of yourself. Been a tough couple months.
Great video ull need a holiday when lambing over
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All u can do is your best for the animal
Keep fighting!
We had a few with twin lamb i gave them calcium under the skin and ketol down the throat but still lost 2 am also clean off buying mules as they're giving me far more bother than the Suffolk's and texel crosses mind you think the wet winter hasn't helped the sheep either 🤔
Aye lass, when it's a bit shit, talk to your mum: she's there and she's proud of you.
Get a tub of high protein powder that athletes use. I’ve been using it for years on any pregnant ewe that won’t eat especially for twin lamb disease, it’s an excellent way of getting nutrition into them. They’re usually better in no time. You can calculate exactly how much protein and energy to give them. I add a pinch of baking soda to prevent acidosis.
What kind of protein? Whey?
I use whey protein and I give about 70-80g of protein in a feed.
I’m sorry. It’s so hard losing them.
Sheep might be fatter in condition so keeping them going forward on mollases is right not going in with nuts too soon before lambing due we have all had it
Give them chalk (lime stone ) in Norway we name it milkfever ?? 🤔🇳🇴
Great videos keep them coming ,we all ask why we have sheep at some point 😂.I’d imagine your twin lambs issue with ewes is change of diet and environment,ideally ewes would need to be housed 1 month before ,this may not be possible?Also have the ewes access to molasses in the fields beef they come in ?
'Dunno F while I had sheep (450 Suffolk pedigrees) I had neither time (quality of life) Money nor a neighbour. Got red of the lot and keeping all cattle to near slaughter age (to mart) Best move ever 🤔 💰 👍
Chin up though. You're doing fine. You look to be doing all you can for them. I think that's just sheep for you .
are you using harbro cake by chance? Had the same problems as you had a few years ago and it was harbro cake. Get it tested independently I’ll put money on it’s the cake.
I know how you feel. It will pass
Damn you need to sleep, eat and get a day of. Or you are soon over the line if you are so hard on your self. Try to go in to machine mood the time left. Don’t think just work, when you are getting sad worried work some more and eat and sleep evry extra second you can until the lambing is over. And soon you will have learned to power nap standing 🙂 keep up the god work you are stronger then you think!
Get a 1000cc Can Am or Honda 1000cc those 2 are by far the best. I like the Honda a bit better over our Can Am because it doesn't have a belt.
You need to get students in to give you a break ❤
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Outside easer lamb sheep but have good weather less work you leave a lot them to lamb after 1 april outside long day bring in any one gives trouble easyer on you loose health at that your at now
Somebody might have idea why sheep goin down
60 ml calcium under the skin she will b up and away for ye but I'm sure you know that
Our government has no idea how much people are suffering these days. I feel sorry for disabled people who don't get the help they deserve. Thank you Ms. Trina Davis, imagine investing $1000 and receiving
Share away. I had a real shit time in the early March lambers, and things did get to me. I'm pretty sure this relentless rain isn't helping
Are you feeding blocks and rolls