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[@toviahcrowell6360]

Your Dad and the lamb on the quad together ,what a sight . Your right at least the weather is very nice for this round up job. I hope he heals well and quickly. 😊😊

[@sheepshepherd]

Thanks Toviah, it's great weather to be out in the sunshine. Hope all is well

[@benburns5995]

The Landscape there is so hilly and rocky but it looks really beautiful on video. Thanks for giving an explanation of your words to direct your Sheep dog. I couldn't understand the process but now it makes more sense. Can tell your dad has been working with sheep for years and nothing seems to phase or discourage him. Hope he can rest some and heal that sprained Ankle.

[@sheepshepherd]

Cheers ben. Ya he takes no notice of anything. Tough as nails

[@hotred7342]

🙏💜. Thank you so much.

[@sheepshepherd]

Thank u

[@ellenmoore6841]

Sally looks completely focused on you! God bless your dad for healing

[@sheepshepherd]

Thanks Ellen. She is a Great dog. Ya he takes no notice of pain

[@johnthompson982]

You're dad is as tough as old boots and wearing wellies with a bad ankle not good Hope he gets better soon Sally is doing great time and patients Awesome video enjoyed watching

[@sheepshepherd]

Cheers john. Ya I'll give her good time.👍👍

[@teresabrewer2661]

Sally is an amazing sheep dog as shes not had years of experience. God bless your dad, hes an accident waiting to happen 💙💙

[@sheepshepherd]

Ya she's a good dog. His like this all his life so fear of him I'd say 🫣😂

[@jaytree6378]

Sally looks like a great dog. So keen to do what you want from her!

[@sheepshepherd]

Ya she's super keen and wants to work

[@andyfitzsimmons2704]

What a great team, dad , dogs and all 👍 everyone wanting to get involved. Great content as always

[@sheepshepherd]

Cheers Andy. Glad you are enjoying them

[@tadhgpheaitwillie]

Outshtanding Sally!

[@sheepshepherd]

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[@irishdancer2753]

Great job to the pair of you! Love watching your videos. Your father is truly from ‘old school.’ Good on him!!!! I’m not a farmer but have cousins in Donegal who are. Here in “not so sunny” Coronado California! Keep them coming!

[@sheepshepherd]

Donegal is very similar to here. Great to hear you are enjoying the videos

[@SDB944]

Great videos really enjoy watching them

[@sheepshepherd]

Cheers Simon. Great to hear. Where are you from

[@wendyrowland7787]

Charlie is an excellent drover. Great to see a fit Labrador. The lamb and dad good company. When we came to our small hill farm the hedges were gappy and ugly. We stock fenced on both sides and soon the hedge filled the gaps itself. We cut in an ‘A’ shape as high as the hedge cutter will go and now our farm almost looks like a country park and the stock get shelter. We also planted some tree shelter belts of mixed woodland. Hawthorn, field maple, holly,sweet chestnut, oak, beech and hazel. It wasn’t instant but seven years later quite impressive. Also getting a few nuts to pick. We did get some government grant aid for the tree planting. Oh and another grant scheme involved fencing stream side corridors and planting trees. They look really beautiful with lots of tree varieties benefitting wildlife. But we do have water troughs so stream access not needed.

[@sheepshepherd]

Thanks so much Wendy for all that detail. Really appreciate it and so helpful. Ya I must go to the tree shop now in a few days and see.👍👍

[@wendyrowland7787]

@@sheepshepherd the bare root tree slips we planted in the winter were inexpensive. A bit of winter activity when things are fairly quiet.

[@Hillfarmlamb]

Great video Dog only as good as the handler she has a lovely wide out run not cutting in tight on sheep👍👍

[@sheepshepherd]

Thanks Massey. Hopefully she'll turn into a super dog and have great days ahead

[@sheepdogman1]

What a beautiful place you live in . We have no grass here in the north isles but got fertiliser on today an now its light rain. Oh for a bit of warm weather to get the grass growing

[@sheepshepherd]

Please God ye will get some grass, what fertilizer did you speead

[@BEB1958]

Hilarious part when the lamb caught a ride with your pop. 😂😂😂

[@sheepshepherd]

Thanks Barbara, delighted you enjoy them

[@2strokemadness905]

Charlie is some boy and sally is coming along well. Fair play

[@sheepshepherd]

Ya they both are 👍👍

[@meltarin5203]

What a goooood sally love seeing this ❤

[@sheepshepherd]

Ya mel. She very keen and wants to work

[@bluethru808]

Keep them coming 👍 really enjoy them!! Hope fathers ankle eases, had a similar thing a few years back and kept going over on it until it built a bit of strength back up!! I’d say take it easy but 😂😂😂

[@sheepshepherd]

Ya no Chance of him taking it easy. 😂🙈

[@FeirmAnCnonGlas]

I planted Norway Spruce, also called Mountain Spruce (Picea abies) common in Europe. They are fast growers, 2 to 3 feet a year once roots are established. They spread broadly and my sheep prefer being under them compared to the small sheep shelter I built. I have a line of them planted along the field edge decades ago. Sheep will nip at the lower branches in winter and they do nip the new growth in spring if no grass is left. Deer leave them alone. I plan to plant a cluster in the field like an island and they'd need protecting from sheep nipping new growth. I also have apple trees the sheep love scratching on and eating lower leaves and apples that hit the ground. Those def need protection as they scratch on saplings and the ram kills them scratching his head. The ram lambs learned they can lift the wire protection cage and eat apple leaves so I had to get metal camping tent ground pins to hold the cage down.

[@FeirmAnCnonGlas]

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picea_abies

[@sheepshepherd]

Thanks so much for that information. So helpful 👍👍👍👍

[@michaelbradley280]

She's outstanding if you ever breed her I'll buy a puppy off you and the way she looks just to see if you're still there that's the sign of a very clever dog keep up the good work and best wishes to your father's recovery

[@sheepshepherd]

Cheers Michael. I'll probably breed her in a few years alright. She has good potential

[@adolynch]

Goodman Charlie he took no crap off that ewe😅

[@sheepshepherd]

No then. Charlie is no walk over

[@helenholmes3018]

I understand your father I don't go to the doctor unless I cut my leg off or something I do feel sorry for your dad wanting to do some jobs and he can't do it thank you for another great video

[@sheepshepherd]

Ya he's tough out. Very old school

[@jamesdoyle8588]

A lovely country side. It looks like parts of Wales

[@sheepshepherd]

Ya I was in Wales before, it's very similar 👍👍

[@kevincoogan3518]

Charlie is learning how to be a sheepdog.

[@garymadden2656]

Great video aye you’re dad is old school alright tough as nails 💪👌

[@sheepshepherd]

Ya he's tough out

[@jamesmoss8767]

Great video's I would plant a whine hedge will give you good shelter no need to spend money and time fencing, will look after its self

[@sheepshepherd]

That's good to hear James thanks

[@mj3026]

The dog is doing brilliant bless her & dad needs to be banned from the quad 😂 & rest his legs bless him 😊

[@sheepshepherd]

Well said M J. He needs to be banned 😂😂

[@steyrman2]

You would need some trees that will stay green all year round leylandii would be a great shelter belt on lower fields the grow about 18” a year sowing a meter apart the fill in very quick offer great wind break of ewes and lambs some people don’t like them but if you want shelter there hard to beat imo other options fencing with the green wind breaker netting would offer a good protection at short notice

[@sheepshepherd]

Thanks a lot for the advice, I will look into them and a great idea about the windbreaker

[@steyrman2]

@@sheepshepherd A neighbour of ours put the wind breakers in 50 meter strips stakes and baling twine holding it up cable tie it top and bottom in the first field that the new born lambs and ewes go into once the get hardy he shifts them on to more open fields but if you let them back in that field the would be all lying up under it

[@janegrieve]

Fab video 😊 yer dad is some guy lol 😂 can’t keep him down. Braw weather too

[@sheepshepherd]

Jane, he's hard as nails😂 takes no notice of anything

[@janegrieve]

@@sheepshepherd Some guy 😂

[@ourfarminglife9849]

Are you using your hands to give Sally direction, only asking as she keeps turning off the sheep looking back at you, this can cause confusion for her as the right/left command become reversed when she is facing the wrong way. Better to wait until she looks back in the direction of the sheep before giving a command. Keep up the good work and best of luck with the training

[@sheepshepherd]

That's a very good point, ya hand movements for her, will have to get her going on commands better 👍👍 thanks for the super advice

[@ivandavidson5599]

Hi, I was told many years ago only plant tree's in a month with an r in it. Too dry to plant this time of year. Plant native tree's or hedges that's good for wildlife as well as shelter.

[@sheepshepherd]

Ya Ivan, some native trees I'll probably go with

[@markoconnor1291]

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[@sheepshepherd]

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[@Jp12987]

Sally doing really well. Plenty work over the Summer and she will be a mighty dog. Go easy on the treats cos she will end up with health problems when she is older. I think if you put in hedges they would work well for you and you would be able to get them cut with the hedge trimmer. You would need to fence them off to keep sheep out from them.

[@sheepshepherd]

Thanks j.p I probably won't do hedging. Too expensive. I've a massive area to do. It more trees I'm after

[@kerrysupporter]

Hope the ankle is better now

[@sheepshepherd]

Ya he is fine now, he did the exercises for it so he's fine. Thanks for the comment

[@mdcontractors1415]

White thorn hedges or hawthorns

[@sheepshepherd]

How long do they take to grow.

[@mdcontractors1415]

Between 3 and 6 years

[@ronaldlucas5360]

Interesting

[@sheepshepherd]

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[@999Giustina]

As the trees won't be grown for a while, consider building a few 3 sided shelter with a roof? I'm not sure if that's a good temporary solution with your wind, but if they are moveable at least you could locate where they are needed. I'm surprised Father went to the doctor at all! Must have been a near amputation! He's an accident waiting to happen most days, but then it was a not so dramatic issue that got him. Good luck?

[@sheepshepherd]

Won't be able to do that as I have about 30 fields😂 cost a fortune, I'll probably go with trees as the cheapest option. Ya he takes no notice of pain.. he is tough as nails

[@williecosgrove]

2,22 does he put soot on his mustache , trying impress the young ones on utube 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂👍

[@sheepshepherd]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@ciaranconeely8579]

Comment for the algorithm to help the channel 👍.

[@sheepshepherd]

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[@patrickhiggins3582]

you dad finds a change when he cant work with cruches he must find it hard the tress to set is black thorn, and ash trees, siliver berch. it will shelter sheep in bad weather.

[@morganbrennan9090]

another classic and Miscanthus for shelter

[@sheepshepherd]

Thanks morgan

[@morganbrennan9090]

@@sheepshepherd yes ill be telling people i was watchin them lads when they only had 1000 subscribers and now they have 250,000 ,ye will be overrun with free quads and sheep handling systems etc this time next year

[@leandalynch975]

old farmers tough keep on going. look after yourself though do you have wife john? love see distance between your two homes love your videos here in nz

[@OUTTHEGAP]

Hawthorn hedging for the shelter. Hard to beat it. The only issue is you have to fence it off.

[@sheepshepherd]

Ya that's the thing, I'm not really looking for fencing, too expensive. Alot of fields to do

[@ktm594]

Go for alder trees They grow about a meter a year and they look nice.

[@sheepshepherd]

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[@michaelfeeney7288]

Will you do a full sheep dog training video

[@sheepshepherd]

I will in a few weeks, but I'm not a trainer, I will try my best to show her the ropes. 👍👍 But I will do a video

[@johnlee3734]

White thorn might be the best for you with the thorns on them to stop them eating them. you are to late for planting them now you will get them cheaper from October onwards bear rooted .Tell Hitler to stay off the leg 😂

[@sheepshepherd]

Hitler,, 😂😂😂😂 you're not the 1st to say that

[@gerrybrown]

How old is your old fellow and tough out and they are all like that but ye too stubborn for their own good at times.

[@sheepshepherd]

Ya exactly.. he's 74, lived here all his life , I'm the 8th generation here

[@adrianbiggar9724]

Evergreen trees would grow the fastest I would say

[@sheepshepherd]

Ya I think you're right Adrian

[@maddog160678]

A fast growing tree would be sika spruce or silver birch

[@dane5896]

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[@stuartrobertson4714]

Yip just got out ewes sheared lambs wormed

[@paddyowens4080]

Get u dad the cure , I have a number, same happen to me a week ago , much better now, cheers

[@sheepshepherd]

What's the cure?

[@paddyowens4080]

Sent me ur email,I send u pH number ,

[@robertbirkett6652]

Slow down on the commands you give and make sure she does follow the command even if you have to repeat it before you give her another , that will do should only be used when you need her to stop and come back to you not when you mean lay down or stand before a new command , you are confusing her so she's looking at you for conformation when she should be looking at the sheep

[@tangofoxtrot4603]

Leylandii trees, hardy fast growing dense evergreen, will grow in windy site, provide excellent shelter, can be trimmed to size. Mix dark and light coloured trees to give a great look.

[@sheepshepherd]

Thanks.im going to the tree shop in a few days and will enquire about these

[@raymondwarrington9950]

Sally is going to be a dinger of a dog

[@sheepshepherd]

Hi Raymond, hopefully she is very keen anyway

[@noelgalagher2712]

I tell how put up a shelter quick get a machine in turn over best of that ground and it level it for quad and have stone ditches for shelter then keep your father of that quad

[@sheepshepherd]

You're probably right noel

[@noelgallagher3507]

@@sheepshepherd I know I right done a lot of that in my time just take on a few acres every year have stone walls then get a good four wheel drive tractor for picking and power box and good dump trailer it bring stones together for you hire in a machine man I know that deer work pay for it self in long run .

[@sheepshepherd]

@@noelgallagher3507 that's true, over time it would be a great idea

[@lancefriel1076]

U must get a lot of sika coming out of the forest

[@sheepshepherd]

Ya there is a lot of deer there. Eating all our grass

[@lancefriel1076]

@@sheepshepherd do u need a man to look after them for you i am in Donegal right enough but be up that way hunting a few times a year i can call and talk some out for u

[@sheepshepherd]

​@@lancefriel1076 not really no one comes and shoots them. If you are ever down here, more than welcome to take care of them

[@kevinstrachan4442]

Whats that your putting on the lambs neck/shoulder? Fox repellant?

[@sheepshepherd]

No a mark. Our own mark to know the lamb has been dosed

[@stuartrobertson4714]

Trees get flys and flys attack sheep and cattle we had to take our cattle away from al place that had trees cattle was going daft because oh the flys

[@mullaneygang1514]

What age are the lambs

[@sheepshepherd]

5 weeks maybe

[@noelgalagher2712]

Get a few hoggs for that dog that wait togther ewe and lambs are confusing her put in charlie out her way out in field

[@sheepshepherd]

Ya you're bang on, I need to bring a few of them down into a small Field?? Or big

[@noelgallagher3507]

@@sheepshepherd smaller 2 or3 acres easygoing that way

[@TheGrannyNut]

Hawthorn, blackthorn will provide a wind break if you lay them in their second or third year and are pretty fast growing. Not sure whether you have a tradition of hedge laying over there, but there are plenty of tutorials on KZbin to give you the general idea. The advantage of the thorns is that it's easy to grow more as and when needed.

[@sheepshepherd]

Thanks so much for that helpful comment

[@juankeith7597]

✔️ 'Promosm'

[@sheepshepherd]

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[@chrisoconnor5880]

She should be watching the sheep, not you cobber

[@sheepshepherd]

Still learning, 3rd day out training so plenty time for improvement

[@johnpick6829]

Leylandi but it looks bloody awful

[@Sew-web24]

your father is gas.

[@sheepshepherd]

He's gas man alright

[@paddysyron]

Cedar