Sheep Farming: Feeding Sheep & Lambs - Keep It Simple!
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Today at Ewetopia Farms, we focus on feeding sheep and lambs. It doesn't have to be difficult or complicated. We believe in keeping feeding, as all parts of farming, simple. We first show you how and what we feed our lambs in their creep feed. Next we talk about feeding hay to lambs. As we move to the next barn, we discuss feeding hay to adult sheep. We show you what we feed and how we do it. We even time how long it takes to feed hay to a barn of one hundred sheep. But we don't stop at talking about feeding. We also talk about cast sheep and high capacity sheep and what we want our sheep to look like. And of course, you will get to see lots of lambs. Sit back and enjoy! Please hit the like button if you had a good experience virtually on our farm!
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
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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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Good morning Arnie and Lynn. A great video. I feel like I learn something new with each one. Seeing those lambs grow is amazing. They all have their own personalities. Arnie is quite humorous and I enjoy his stories. He makes for laughs in the day and that is good for the soul. The pregnant ladies are starting to look heavy with lambs. New life getting ready to make an entrance. Hope your day is a good one. Have some laughs and stay dry. Big hugs. 🥰🥰🥰
@EwetopiaFarms
Жыл бұрын
Good morning and glad you like the sometimes silliness that goes alongside the educational aspects!😄Hugs!
@justinanovak8040
Жыл бұрын
Totally agree 😊 with you Patricia!
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Oh man Arnie, that may be the best line I've heard all year. "I'm a man, I can learn" Lol I'm going to use that next time I'm in the doghouse.
@EwetopiaFarms
Жыл бұрын
Don't encourage him!😆😆
I was looking at the winners of the Irish Suffolk National vs Suffolks that win awards in the US. The difference is almost comical. US “Suffolks” look like gazelles with the sloping back and spindly legs, skinny neck and tiny head. And NO tails. And then the British brutes, half the leg length and double the thickness and wide like a table. I’m now very jaded. I like yours, right in the middle. Geronimo all the way. 🥰
@EwetopiaFarms
Жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣 Geronimo is a handsome boy for sure! But we do have breeders from all over the world on here and what people look for in their sheep varies as much as the people. I, of course, prefer Canadian Suffolks but we wouldn't have them if it weren't for both the British and American contributions!😊
I love your channel. I am learning so much. Your husband has some awesome stories. Thank you
@EwetopiaFarms
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
Good morning. Having coffee and shredded wheat I feel like a sheep lol.
@EwetopiaFarms
Жыл бұрын
Baaa haa haa!
Glad you got all your chores done before the rain storm. We still don’t have any snow in MA.
@EwetopiaFarms
Жыл бұрын
Ours is practically gone now. Yeah!
I agree with your thoughts on the lamb feeders. Taking out every other bar might just be too much of a gap making the feeders unsafe, especially when the lambs are smaller and just starting at the feeders. I also agree with you on mixing your own feed on the farm, to send your product off the farm and bring someone else's feed back happens too often. The same goes for processing meat for the freezer. In this case you really need to work with a processor that you can trust. Thanks for another great video and stay safe!!
@EwetopiaFarms
Жыл бұрын
Yes, I forgot to mention that it happens with meat too. You can never take your eyes off your product!🙂
Do you ever find the runts catchup and surpass their peers as an adult? I like also your way of feeding because it reduces the exhaust in the barn everyday…for you and the sheep-especially in the winter when the curtains and doors could be closed.
@EwetopiaFarms
Жыл бұрын
The runs don't surpass the big ones but given proper care, they can catch up and do really well as long as they have good conformation. I have lots of misfits I have held back such as Peanut who went on to be a beautiful ewe with a humdinger lamb. It depends on what caused the runtiness. Those little ones in our barn right now are built perfect so I am thinking that given extra time, they will eventually catch up.
Hey Guys, I decided to go back a couple of months just to watch, because there wasn't a video this morning for Monday Jan 23rd. Are you guys ok?? Kinda worried because I didn't see ya'll this morning Tuesday when it usually appears. I pray you are well. Ok I'll keep waiting.
@EwetopiaFarms
Жыл бұрын
All is well except with my internet. My video from yesterday is STILL uploading and it is presently 5:30 pm here and I uploaded it at 9:30 pm last night! It is only at 25% uploaded as we speak! So, unfortunately it looks like no video for today because of technology glitch!
@mariacambre8971
Жыл бұрын
@@EwetopiaFarms Stuff happens, I completely understand. With all the craziness in this world right now I just wanted to make sure you we ok.
@EwetopiaFarms
Жыл бұрын
@@mariacambre8971 thanks for your concern 🥰
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Toady is my first time watching you on my new tv you are know bigger screen. Before I was watching you on a small screen hard to see your video.
@EwetopiaFarms
Жыл бұрын
Does it look okay on big screen? We are about to purchase a smart TV so I can watch KZread on TV. Right now, I only see my videos on my smartphone so I always wonder how they look on a large screen - blury? Text too large?
@justinanovak8040
Жыл бұрын
I watch your channel on my iPad and the videos look fine. Not sure if I’ve ever tried watching your channel on our TV.
@ellencarver5575
Жыл бұрын
Yesterday I watched you for the first time on my T.V. And it was awesome great pictures I will be using this method to watch my U Tube friends in future
Does Casting cause issues with unborn lambs? I would think so, if it affects digestion and their ability to breathe properly, ie, bloat etc
@EwetopiaFarms
Жыл бұрын
It definitely could if they are over long enough!
How much land do you guys farm in order to feed your sheep?
@EwetopiaFarms
Жыл бұрын
We own 300 acres and rent another 120 but a lot of the crops get sold. Probably 200 fertile acres would look after all our sheep
Why not crack the barley ? I thought that cracking the barley is useful and digested more.
@EwetopiaFarms
Жыл бұрын
No, barley is small enough but we do crack the corn for the lambs. It all goes through our grinder/mixer so some barley could get cracked but most just goes through the screen
What grain do you use for creep feed
@EwetopiaFarms
Жыл бұрын
Cracked corn, barley and roasted soybeans
Hey, I’m a sheep farmer from Ohio have about 300 commercial Dorset advantage ewes. Looking to change my creep feed ration can you break down how much of what exactly is in that mix?
@EwetopiaFarms
4 ай бұрын
If you search us for feeding sheep or creep feed, we have quite a few videos on it. This is one: kzread.info/dash/bejne/aWeqpq-wms2ZiLw.htmlsi=ONQ2jwcnxrY9CljE
amazingly your sheep is very fat and healthy. May I know what ingredients do you give to feed your sheep? What materials are used to make the concentrate? Thank you 🙏😁
@EwetopiaFarms
Жыл бұрын
Please go to our playlists on our channel and look under feeding sheep. We have so many videos explaining our feeding process, grains used, and why. But we use a grinder/mixer to make our creep feed. Our ewe ration is just 50% corn and 50% barley.
@HariSuseno-kl1nh
Жыл бұрын
@@EwetopiaFarms Thank you for replying to my message 🙏🙏👍😁
@EwetopiaFarms
Жыл бұрын
@@HariSuseno-kl1nh you're welcome!🙂