Great I found your chanel. Looking forward to seeing more from you. Definitely subscribed. ❤

Enjoyed the video 👌

Hi i like your video

I am lucky to come accidentally across your KZread channel and after getting subscribed to your channel, I was never disappointed. You always make me feel happy and gave me insight about NZ farming n farm life with your lovely videos. I love to see a video about you being self sufficient on your farm through your vegetable or fruit garden, chickens etc etc

@kiwifarmernz

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Ram. Glad you get some enjoyment out of our videos. We are not very self sufficient in regards to veges.

@thenewaquarist6318

Жыл бұрын

@@kiwifarmernz what about chickens, fruits , and leafy vegetables brother

@kiwifarmernz

Жыл бұрын

@@thenewaquarist6318 Yea we have chickens and a small orchard. Most of our meat comes off the farm , either wild or farmed. Our veg garden is in need of some TLC.

that ewe is so chill doesnt look scared at all

I love their clothes

Shed set up is working a treat mate well done

Brilliant Keep up the good work

@kiwifarmernz

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Mate

Great video I love your videos

Think those lambs are great time wasters,haha.You are a great team

@kiwifarmernz

Жыл бұрын

They sure are. Thanks Paul.

Nice story guys (&gal) really entertaining

@kiwifarmernz

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

Really enjoy watching your video's so thanks for sharing!

@kiwifarmernz

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Great vid team....man newborn lambs are cute 👍

Shed looking sweet. Your wife's a crack up bro.

@kiwifarmernz

Жыл бұрын

Thanks mate. Yep she's a gem.

Great effort lifting that ewe into the ute.👍

Nice work, I raise a few lambs. I hate it when I lose any. Seems you still go the extra mile even though you are dealing in big numbers.

@kiwifarmernz

Жыл бұрын

Thanks mate. We certainly try our best.

Great video Alastair hi you can’t beat the Irish when it comes to rugby 😜🇮🇪👌

@kiwifarmernz

Жыл бұрын

Thanks mate. That's sadly true.

❤️💕😊

Love watching sheep videos. Have you seen Sandi Brock from Canada on KZread. She has a similar bottle feeding system.

@kiwifarmernz

Жыл бұрын

Yep I have seen some of Sandys videos. Thanks for watching.

cool video best one you have done very informative great stuff🙃

@kiwifarmernz

Жыл бұрын

I appreciate that!

What I find interesting about height and feeders is, their mums height never changes, the lambs height does, so why the need to make it easy for the lambs? Or, is that all you are doing, making it easier for them? Love seeing the lambs at the milk bar. Must get me a block holder, never had one. Love the independent woman. So could one flush the tubes each night and not put them back on till morning, or is that a hassle job? Sneechers on beaches, crack up.

@gennabird107

Жыл бұрын

Do you mean the milk feeder or the meal feeder? The issue with the meal feeder is more about them standing in it and pooing in it! They love jumping on stuff :-)

@kiwifarmernz

Жыл бұрын

Just eayser for the lambs I think as the teats come straight out of the board not angled down. The block holders are so good.

Looks like a good setup. What's the approx baseline setup cost and what do you think the eventual cost might be per lamb to raise them until weaning? Great vids, cheers Mike.

@kiwifarmernz

Жыл бұрын

Being our first year the aim is just to break even. I will try to do a video on the economics of it when we get a bit more through the season.

Have gotten a heatwave for lambing this year (due to start 3rd September) is the milkbar teat divider worth it? Enjoy the videos, we farm up the island a bit inland from Nelson and is always interesting to see how other people do things. Always something to learn.

@kiwifarmernz

Жыл бұрын

Nice. Yep highly recommended the milk bar devider board. Hope this rain hasn't effected you too much.

@jbnz1495

Жыл бұрын

@@kiwifarmernz We are lucky here, far enough inland had about 100mm which is not much fun but no where as bad as the poor buggers closer to the coast who are lambing

Genna did you say that non mother raised or lamb bar raised lambs can't become dairy ewes in the sheep dairy system about 28 mins in - why is that?

@deedawson6074

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like the market for milking ewe lambs doesn’t want anything that has had antibiotics.

@gennabird107

Жыл бұрын

Ah,no, when I said the 'lambs that can't be used in the dairy system' that was a really long way of saying male lambs!! Hand raised lambs s absolutely can be milked as ewes.... if they are girls 😆

@gennabird107

Жыл бұрын

@@deedawson6074 Sorry, the market we were referring to there was the meat market for antibiotic free, grass fed sheep meat.

@deedawson6074

Жыл бұрын

@@gennabird107 Thanks for the clarification Genna, great to see you.

@inglis7086

Жыл бұрын

@@gennabird107 that makes sense - my thought was cattle dairy's only grow their calves on milk feeder very weird that the sheep industry is not the same - but saying the boys can't be used then yes they won't give milk only meat

Nice setup! Did you make te lambs jacket by yourself? Normally I buy ‘dogs jackets’ for my lambs, but they are awful expensive…

@kiwifarmernz

Жыл бұрын

Used a template from a brought lamb jacket. Then my daughter made them up.

Do you have to monitor them so they don't over feed themselves on the milk as it is in constant supply or will they self regulate and not get bloat etc?

@kiwifarmernz

Жыл бұрын

Its just like on the ewes, they will have a small feed then, play, sleep ect and come back for another feed. So its little and often.

You said any questions ie ewe you picked up did doctor green (grass)work or not and more rain on the way?

@kiwifarmernz

Жыл бұрын

Poor old girl didn't make it. Gave her the bag of Glucaphos but she didn't respond. Probably an internal infection.

Has that shed seen a bit of fire before

@kiwifarmernz

2 ай бұрын

Yea before we got here

pretty new to your video's do you milk sheep to feed the lambs ? i see you putting ewe milk in the heatwave. interested in how you are getting that milk, thanks

@kiwifarmernz

Жыл бұрын

Hi Brent, we dont but Gennas family does so they did have some left over early on which we used. The Delavel Milk power mixing machine is a better system in my opinion, but its more expensive too.

just wondering what kind of heat lambs u use, where you got them from and what strength, thanks from the Manawatu

@kiwifarmernz

Жыл бұрын

The ones I got are from farmlands. The sockets are available from say mitre 10.

Hi, you are feeding 50 lambs. What is your ratio of orphans to lambs that are mothered? Is it like 1 orphan for every 10 mothered? Google didn't give me anything about the expected ratio. Do you think your ratio is about normal? Any thoughts on the mothering skills of different breeds? I have a few of mixed beeding for home meat and this year has been a bumper for twins and triplets and only 1 of a triplet that was rejected. My small flock of 24 has suddenly become over 60.

@kiwifarmernz

Жыл бұрын

That's a big jump. We'll done. I would say about 1 in 50 of ours miss mother but maybe 1 in 25 for the milking ewes. The ewes we have are better mothers in my opinion. Definitely a correlation between breed and mothering ability.

What was the Rugby game Alistair. Are you going to Puma’s v All Blacks ?

@kiwifarmernz

Жыл бұрын

It was NPC Canterbury vs Wellington. Na not at this stage.

The white panel with pink head divider, where did you get that from

@kiwifarmernz

Жыл бұрын

They are made by milk bar in NZ. If you Google that and find the brochure it's in the lamb and kid section.

Tiggity boo

The title of the video is to much 😂