Moving Sheep

All right we're uh finished on this field here pasturing so we're basically got to move them I'll show you basically uh along that field along the forest there all the way down the trail to another field and right after we move them out of here Isaac will be taking the tractor here and mowing it all down to let the basically it's uh I think it's alfalfa and cover and a bunch of other stuff in there so we're gonna take these 180 or 190 ewes out of here and chase them all the way to another field so right now we're just trying to funnel them through the trail that goes through the forest to the sheep barn and uh it's kind of working we got this make sure they stay in that field looks like they went the wrong way and didn't go straight in the field here there they come they went all the way out there okay let's go get them okay all right trying to get them out of the barn here now Kurt and a few more stragglers that managed to escape on us Kurt go to the right go to the right Kurt number one okay so my dad and I are cleaning up some fences around here over there we're just done helping me this barn so uh I just finished bringing in a bale that'll pretty much end up and chores we got the sheep moved dad collected fences Kurtis finished mowing and I believe dad is finishing up the pigs and that after that that'll probably do it for today hi hazel you're wet you're a wet dog look at you call you a thumper yeah close to half an inch really been getting a lot of rain lately just uh getting very muddy and messy as you can see from the quad all right guys it's Thursday morning here just checking on these ewes that we moved to this pasture last night that was a bit of an interesting task bringing them here just gonna climb in here it's incredible yesterday when we moved them in here we could hardly find the sheep because it was so tall so much grass in here but they've basically eaten it down to half of what it was already thought I'd given them a huge pasture here but I think within a matter of three days this will all be gone so so I'm just showing you here some replacement ewe lambs that we're trying to get bred here's Albert this is our ram as you can see he's got this harness on him and I'll try to show you between his legs on the front here if you'll let me show you anyway there's a like a wax crayon that's between his legs there that marks the ewes when he breeds them as you can see a whole bunch here are likely bred because he's been mounting them and uh so we're excited to see so many getting bred for the first time here and uh it's gonna be busy next March looks like these are all first time ewes that we've kept back from our own flock here this is Blackie he's one of our actually most tame sheep there is come here Blackie hey okay maybe not tame right now what you see here is about 30 ewes that have lambed I don't know I'd say a month ago most of them and all their lambs are just running around but they know where to find their mother if they just fed them corn I just gotta feed them some hay now raining it's one of those wet miserable days leaves on till next spring this uh winter doesn't do much for batteries anyway so Kurt's gonna go mow some lawn and uh we're probably gonna set up some more sheep fencing here so we can move those sheep we're gonna start there so we're gonna start setting up right here as you can see by the shed and we're basically gonna go all the way along the driveway here all the way to the road there all the way across down to the cornfield over there along the cornfield and then back up over here back to the shed again all right so we're uh we've got 11 fences set up now and we have to go and bring the sheep here so that should be a bit of an adventure but maybe we'll round up a few of the other kids and see what we can do now we're just checking to see if uh the field is ready or dry enough to plant some fall rye in it we uh otherwise we won't move the sheep till tomorrow because they still have a bit of feed left so dad's just checking that right now and yeah what you doing cleaning out the hooves here she was limping for some reason i think she just had a dried piece of oh actually needs a bit of a rough trip too but i see is it ready to plant yet so since it's ready we're just gonna go do some chores we're gonna open up another section for them so that they can finish off what our other sheep didn't finish and then uh we're probably gonna move them tomorrow and yeah we'll see how that goes so all the sheep are fed dad's finishing up the uh creep feed for the lambs and uh we got ready for this storm coming you let uh we gave an open space for the ones on pasture so they have somewhat of a shelter um these ewe lambs here we just fed these some dry hay these lambs here also ewe lambs got them dry hay and you can see right here the older ones are in the barn and then they have this you can see the storm coming all those clouds moving in it's supposed to get like uh 70k winds and lots of rain so it could be really miserable and cold and grossed out for them which is why we just put this here so all right looks like we have a little bit of an issue here it's late saturday afternoon we're about to uh move these sheep here behind me we've got this pasture all cleaned up but first we got a bit of a problem here i'll show you right here Curtis got the lawnmower stuck it doesn't take much gonna try to pull him out here at the quad looks like all he's got to do though is the baler point so we'll see if that actually works maybe we can just push him out and we'll give that a shot they said they already tried that but what could i say this here is sandy hey sandy how are you girl this is blackie's mother she's also very tame so it's great having a couple tame ones on the farm i think dad is just gonna go get kurt he just went and dropped off the lawnmower that got stuck a minute ago and then i guess we'll start moving the sheep i'm gonna buck it around the barn so they don't go between the shed and the barn okay with the quad all right here we go wow that would be a bad day you