Absolutely brilliant video! This is what a platform like KZread should be about. Sharing authentic experiences, good or bad.

@WayOutWestx2

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Piotr : - )

@alvexok5523

5 жыл бұрын

@@WayOutWestx2 , you seem to do a great job taking care of your lambs and sheep, you really care about them getting the best food, excersise, milking. I love lambs and sheep. Just one quibble, I wish that I didn't hear you say that you're taking the lambs to the butcher. I understand that you need money though, we all do. I just feel that lambs and sheep are just too pure and innocent in their nature to have to die before they're old, that's just me talking though, because I really feel for these simple peaceful animals

So much can be appreciated from your video production, thank you for sharing the correct relationship people were meant to have with animals!

This was a huge help. We have purchased 12 ewe lambs to breed and set up a small flock on our farm. I had never thought of milking sheep but tasted some sheep cheese at a gourmet market. The lady said they used sheep milk exclusively and loved it. The sheep milk would fill the time our Jersey Katie is dry. 1.5 liters a day would be just right. Your girls are wonderful.

This was thoroughly enjoyable! They say sheep milk has a creamy texture that's better than cows milk if one is lactose intolerant. Would love to try some, but I'll bet it's expensive

@SRose-vp6ew

2 жыл бұрын

See if your area has "sheep shares" you pay for partial ownership. I live in the city but a short drive away you can pick up your ownership part of the animal. Some places require you to work in order to save money and truly have ownership. I am sure it's different around the world, but it sounds like a common enough thing. This is actually more popular in areas of strict laws where there is still a need for affordable milk people of all income levels can digest. The farms follow the laws but are still allowed to give options as long as everyone follows hygiene laws, and the milk is not sold past the group of owners.

@SRose-vp6ew

2 жыл бұрын

Also called a co-op.

Hello from Canada - I was watching your video just now while drinking sheep’s milk (mixed in the food blender with maple syrup and an avocado). A sheep milk shake. It is clear from your video how much work is involved to follow your routines - respect! Thank you for the learning experience. Cheers.

@WayOutWestx2

5 жыл бұрын

thanks, Eric : - )

that was so lovely, it actually brought a tear to my eye. it reminded me of the small flock of sheep and goat my grandfater kept when i was very young, and of how much time and caring he devoted to them, just like you do with all your animals.

8:00 what a sweet heart

Thank you very much for this video! I am very interested in owning milk sheep but had no idea where to start and no one to ask, so videos like this are invaluable for me! :) I still have much to learn before I could actually own sheep but still I look forward to the day I can.

@WayOutWestx2

4 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Wow, you two are busy folks. And, I appreciate how you love your animals and treat them with respect.

I love how you pronounce "ewes", it's very similar to the way my late father and grandfathers said it.

@alvexok5523

5 жыл бұрын

Pronounced "yos"

What a great video! I learned a lot! I’ve never lived on a farm and this was interesting about your annual routine with the sheep. Thanks so much! 🐑

Our 3 Friesland x Gotland ewes began lambing this weekend here on our small holding in the Brecon Beacons and we are looking forward to our first milk soon. We've read many articles but this short film showing your annual activities brought it all together in a clear and very helpful way. Thank you very much

@WayOutWestx2

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you - I'm glad it was helpful. Best of luck with yours : - )

I'm so glad I found this channel! That was intensely interesting. I love the way you gently condition the animals so they experience minimal stress. Klaus

@valentinag3770

5 жыл бұрын

What We Do they are going to die anyway it is so unfair them

@lianellablackwood-darlingt2326

5 жыл бұрын

@@valentinag3770 That's a pretty weak argument. We're all going to die anyway. These lambs live better (and longer) lives than many in the wild would due to predation and illness. Sheep are ruminants, so they release a lot of methane which is not good for the environment (in large quantities). The land would not be able to handle year after year of sheep. It may not be pleasant, but if you want to keep farm animals this is the kindest way to keep them.

I wish more people managed their animals the same way you do, must be a good experience for the kids that come as well, wish I'd had somewhere like that around where I lived to go to as a kid

@SRose-vp6ew

2 жыл бұрын

I just watched this video with some of my kids.

They're so sweet. Love to see them waggle their little tails 💗 Really enjoyed this video.

Best video ever! What a lovely dream you are living! ♥️ I hope to have my sheep soon!

you must have great friends to care for you animals when you are away.

@WayOutWestx2

5 жыл бұрын

It's been many years since we both went away together!

@incorectulpolitic

3 жыл бұрын

@@WayOutWestx2 is the hair of dairy sheep valuable for sale?

Very informative, Trudy is so adorable, thank you for sharing

Wonderful video! I enjoyed watching the full cycle.

Thank you for explaining slowly. My 7yr daughter loved watching this informative vid with me. The love for your animals is clear to see!

@WayOutWestx2

3 жыл бұрын

We're glad you liked it : - )

Sandra and Tim, I love your videos, have learn much. Love to see how kind you treat all your animals. Many Blessings Laura M

@WayOutWestx2

5 жыл бұрын

Aw, thanks Laura!

Just a beautiful video. Thank you for sharing how you keep sheep. I loved it.

What a wonderful video! I hope this has somehow made it’s way into schools for kids to see.

Saving this video for my kids to watch 👍🏽

Wow... that was very enlightening and very well presented. Thank you! ☺️😍

Utterly fascinating video.

@WayOutWestx2

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Lloyd!

@gramursowanfaborden5820

5 жыл бұрын

*udderly

@alvexok5523

5 жыл бұрын

@@WayOutWestx2, I also love your video. And you look like you really love and care about the lambs and sheep. And unlike many modern dairys, I really appreciate you saying that you make sure that you save enough milk for the lambs. Trying to do that at sheep and cow dairys is more the old fashioned way. Around 70-100 years ago, almost all dairys made sure that there was milk for the people and enough left for the lambs or calves. Things changed in more recent decades when people cared so much about making as much money as possible, that they insisted on 100% of the mother's milk going to people, and killing the lambs and calves. People stopped caring about those innocent peaceful little animals

Its nice seeing your puppy get bigger too!

Wonderful wonderful video! So fun to watch!

really really lovely video! makes me miss working on a farm and with livestock animals :( very nice to see the sheeps

Wonderful, lovely, informative video. Thank you

I used to have Icelandic/Friesian mix. Your farm is a good place to be a sheep. Blessings!

best sheep video ive seen so far ..love the vibe ..thank you for sharing 💗

this video has made me very happy and relaxed

What a nice video! Your sheep remind me of the goats I care for, especially Harriet. While I'm cleaning the barn, the goats like to follow me around and demand scratches.

Thanks for showing and explaining how you manage your sheep. Thinking about getting some dairy/meat sheep in the future when we have some land/facilities for them.

i love to see what you guys are up to. excellent video.

I am from the Frisian province and recognized the sheep to be frisian milksheep. We've always had a few of them. They're lovely.

Good system you have. Beautiful sheep.

That was SO well done. Very informative to this aspiring farmer. Thank You very much.

Thank you for sharing this great and amazing video

It's quite helpful learning your animals following you with a bucket of grain...

I absolutely love ❤️ your video and how you raise your sheep.

Great job guys loving the sheep 👍👍

I enjoyed that very much. Thank you.

SOOOOOO cuteee!!!! I got a little ClunForest ramling and hope to get some Ewes later. This is so inspiring and taught me a lot. So sweet

@sydneywood4511

4 жыл бұрын

Hi how did you get on with the Cluns? I'm interested in getting a couple for milking but they're quite unusual in Ireland.

Very enjoyable video, thank you for sharing!

Sandra smile Spirit and optimism is uplifting

Thankyou for making it!

Thanks for the new video..

Beautiful video! Thank you 💕

Thank you, i plan to start raising sheep and this was an amasing guide!

Your Airedales a puppy in this video! Adorable!!! Little rascal darling!!!❤️❤️❤️😘

This was so very helpful and educational! We have our first lambs and it is very difficult to find rearing info with details for timeline!! Thank you and hope to see more.

@WayOutWestx2

2 жыл бұрын

Our pleasure!

Everytime I watch your vlog, it always remind me of Enid Blyton's books The Famous Five... Heehee

@WayOutWestx2

5 жыл бұрын

Bring on the ginger beer!

What a joy to watch.

This was great.

Planning on getting a dairy sheep or two for my family in the next year or so. My young boys (ages 3 and 6) are really enjoying your videos.

@WayOutWestx2

4 жыл бұрын

Excellent plan!

@krayziejerry

2 жыл бұрын

Sheep milk is delicious and best A2 milk

Hello from France! Amazing! I'll watch all your videos! Thank you! you are a great examle (sorry for my bad English)

@WayOutWestx2

5 жыл бұрын

Merci beaucoup, Lolly lolly : - )

I loved this video thank you!

lovely videos, thank you.

I love your videos!!! We bought sheep specifically for milking, but they are very skittish. We didn’t want to stress them for milk. We are thinking of bottle feeding some lambs next spring so they will be less fearful and one day easy to milk. You’re video makes it look so easy. :)

@WayOutWestx2

5 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a good plan with the pet lambs. You might find they become too friendly and pushy - though. Good luck!

My aunt breeds Babydoll sheep for companion animals (she gets jokingly upset when someone eats lamb around her) and even since I can remover I’ve helped her bottle feed! I even showed up at just the right time once and got to watch a birth! My dad won’t let me get one of the sheep, but my aunt lives right next to my best friend, so we go and visit them!

@WayOutWestx2

5 жыл бұрын

Excellent! Baby lambs are the best!

Thanks for the video.

Thank you for the education

I thoroughly enjoyed this video! TY for sharing!---Sheperdess in the 🇺🇸

Thank you for a great video, I am thinking about getting sheep for milk and meat, in addition to my goats. You answered all my questions.

@WayOutWestx2

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Great video you have a beautiful farm

Very clear, informative and entertaining. Surprised more nutters haven't commented :-)

@alvexok5523

5 жыл бұрын

There have been a couple of funny humorous comments on here

Straight forward video with calmly digestible information. Away from youtube "pop".

@WayOutWestx2

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you - we try our best!

They are adorable and cute 🐑🐑

Do you two ever argue? I can't imagine what that would sound like, kind and cuddly.... :-o I am a screamer (think it is the finnish blood), I squeel like a beaten pig. (working on it)

@mandylavida

5 жыл бұрын

I often wonder that. Maybe they hit each other with big bags of duck down...

@DS-kn4bs

5 жыл бұрын

Lm@o 😂 👍🏽

Thank you so much for this Sandra, it was so informative. Your ewes look incredibly happy with the situation. ❤️

@Nilguiri

5 жыл бұрын

Until they are "taken to the butcher", of course. I can't imagine that they are too chuffed about that.

@Justinian506

5 жыл бұрын

@@Nilguiri the ewes are the adult females not the lambs

@Nilguiri

5 жыл бұрын

@@Justinian506 Ah! I see what you mean. Does that mean they only eat the lambs, then? generally, I mean, not Sandra and Tim, specifically. Do they select certain lambs for breeding and let them live until old age? Would they kill them once they get too old to breed? Would that be made into meat? Are some lambs allowed to live into adulthood adults and then used for meat, or do they breed from all of them? That would be mutton, right? I've been a veggie for most of my life, so I don't know if that exists any more. I seem to remember it from my childhood! So many question! As you can tell, I don't know much about it, I'm afraid.

Love that you wait 4 weeks before milking

making a small farm life look enjoyable...thanks

Delightful and educational video 💕

A wonderful video, as always -- It's so wonderful to get a glimpse into such a different life. Thank you for sharing :D

As a vegetarian, so sad to hear the lambs go to the butcher though I do appreciate how good you are to your animals. I wish the dairy industry was so kind with their animals.

@Jax2533

5 жыл бұрын

I see a walking lamb chop and lamb shank..Yummy Yummy..Cant wait to slaughter them or slaughter the baby sheep for nice meat..yummy

@flowerfairy1950

5 жыл бұрын

@@Jax2533 virus by name virus by nature

@Jax2533

5 жыл бұрын

@@flowerfairy1950 lol what u vegan want🖕🏻 treat all animal as pet?

@Jax2533

5 жыл бұрын

@@flowerfairy1950 oh and my family do own dairy and calf cow operation...guess what...we have built a big artificial pit with 6 crocodile in it.. Everyday we have around 30-40 calf born in the farm, and half of them is bull calf....i am the one who rip those bull calf and throw them to the pit.. To be fed to the hungry crocodile... The sound of moo the calf made while being eaten alive is very very amusing.. Hahahaha

@Justinian506

5 жыл бұрын

@@Jax2533 I am a Omnivore but you still gotta have some respect for the animals and stop trolling people stop acting 4

tim and sandra love you both

Beautiful piece of land

I love this channel

I don't remember if you've talked about this before but do you drink the milk while its raw and creamy or do you do anything to it?

@Gremlins422

5 жыл бұрын

I'm hoping for a cheese making video soon :)

@WayOutWestx2

5 жыл бұрын

We drink it raw. It needs to be kept in the fridge of course, but will last 3 or 4 days if needed.

@knkbigelow

5 жыл бұрын

What do you do for milk once they stop producing? Do you buy or do without?

@WayOutWestx2

5 жыл бұрын

We freeze the excess through the summer and just take a block out of the freezer every day.

@alvexok5523

5 жыл бұрын

@@WayOutWestx2 , so it is safe to drink raw sheep's milk? I remember before reading about the dangers of drinking raw unpasteurized milk, but they were talking about cow's milk. Besides, I'm sure you know what you're doing, you all seem smart. I was only asking out of curiosity.

hi really interesting has always a good video bob

Do you make cheese? Would love an autumnal garden tour and what’s going on in the garden now. Great vlog again. Your animals have a lovely life cycle. Thank you.

@WayOutWestx2

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, lots of cheese. We've been too busy to film most of the harvest but there's a big one coming up..

@deirdrecollins3987

5 жыл бұрын

Awesome. I love your vlogs. Thank you

Thank you for this video. I watched 4 other KZread videos about milking sheep before I found this video that actually tells me how many months the ewes normally stay in milk.

Thankyou great learning time, wonder if it counts if watch multi times

They are sooo cute! 🤗😙😘😍

Love watching your videos so much. My husbands family come from Sligo and everytime we go I always think of you too and wonder what youre doing and if you are very far away. We live in Kent near London but i love Ireland so much we are hoping to spend time there in the future. I grow loads in our tiny urban garden all over the place in a permaculture style which i think you do too?

@WayOutWestx2

5 жыл бұрын

Ha! Thanks, Tina! Permaculture means something different here because we're not looking to retain water(!) or provide shade(!) but, yes, you could say a lot of what we do is permaculture. It's an interesting subject, isn't it?

I feel I could just go out and buy some sheep and start! As always, simply and clearly explained. Thank you!

Oh my goodness!!! i would love to do that!! there so darling! :D ♥♥

Hey do you know how long would stay on its mothers milk if you did not intervene? Do you think there is a difference in meat quality? Or are these sheep bred to produce excess milk?

@WayOutWestx2

5 жыл бұрын

Yes these are bred to produce more milk than is needed for the lambs - and to milk for longer. We could milk them for six months, but the lambs would probably stop naturally after 3 or 4

Lovely little video, it's making me think about the land I have and if it would accommodate some little sheep's... I mean little sheep. 😂🐑

Awesome.

I love your video - very well made & informative. Reading from the comments below, am I right in assuming you don’t treat the milk in any way prior drinking? It goes straight to the fridge or freezer and if in the fridge, you drink it for up to three days raw (untreated)?

So sweet brilliant video awe 💕😘

Thank you for taking the time during the year to put this together, so nice to get an overview of what is involved. I bought sheep's yoghurt at a local market and it was truly delicious, not at all "goaty". Everything from goats milk tastes the way a barnyard smells (to me anyway).

@aNaturalist

5 жыл бұрын

Goats milk has the smallest curds of the 3 common dairy animal species. So, it is more easily digestible, but also the most fragile. It needs to be chilled immediately in an ice bath. Other things may help reduce goatiness too. Sheep have a mid sized curd. I was leaning more towards small breed dairy cows, but I'm strongly considering sheep.

@intuit5767

5 жыл бұрын

I think a lot has to do with specific breeds as well....a friend kept a herd of Nubians and there was never a hint of off-putting scent or flavor...you'd never be able to tell the difference between her goat milk and cow's milk...except that it was a whole lot richer.

Beautiful

Sheep's milk for human consumption? I've never tried it, a coupla years ago we were able to buy some powdered goat's milk imported from the States, it was good, I've seen goat cheese in the supermarket and its not that much more expensive as regular cheese, but never ever have I seen sheep cheese on sale here. Love how ya treat your sheep Sandra and it shows they love ya back as well, lol.....even to the point of foggin' up the camera lens! ;)

I wish all farming was able to be like this, I watched “Kurzesagt-In a nutshell” channel video yesterday which was a real eye opener to some farming methods.

@Nilguiri

5 жыл бұрын

Me, too. They still kill them, though.

@Nilguiri

5 жыл бұрын

You do not need to eat meat to survive. You are stronger and more healthy without meat. Nice try, though.

@Nilguiri

5 жыл бұрын

"Killing life"? What a ridiculous argument. What do you want me to do? Eat sand? And eating meat is far more expensive than vegetarian food. Pathetic argument. You must try harder.

@Nilguiri

5 жыл бұрын

Absolute nonsense.

@locouk

5 жыл бұрын

I can go to my local discount supermarket and buy a days food ready meal for 1 £-€or $ but it all contains meat, no way can I buy a vegetarian of vegan ready meal for the same price. Personally, I don’t think such a thing exists. The manufacturers don’t want to give us the option, to eat and live within a budget, meat is the only option.

I think it is a Spanish sheep cheese. Quite tasty! I'm sure your soft cheese is great too.

love to see that