5 April feed silo arrives, Lac-Tec lamb feeder demo and Mayo mattresses go down (big mistake)

Feed tower arrives it’s HUGE wow I didn’t expect that!!! When it arrived I thought it looked small lac-tec feeder demo and the pros and cons I’ve found by using it this time. Injecting the eyelid of a lamb with unturned lids.
in 2009 i had no experience of farming or the realities that came with it. That soon changed when I met my other half Roy, I had a job as a carer and in every spare moment threw myself into farming. I had only ever driven a Nissan Micra and had experience with horses, I learnt the hard way as nobody had the time to show me and soon after arriving I found myself mothering on calves to three quarter bred limmy cows. We spent every available moment on the farm between our day jobs. Fast forward to 2016 two children later we moved into our very own farm overlooking the northern Pennines, Laitha.
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[@jeremiahkearney5191]

Charlotte, I just spotted your power extension lead to supply electricity to your Las-tec lamb feeder. You might consider unwinding the power lead fully as when it is coiled up it will heat up and is a fire risk. This happens because there is heat produced by electricity when flowing through the cable and it is consented when in a coil. Keep up the good work.

[@charlotteashleyfarm]

lol would you believe I didn’t even consider that at all and I knowwwwwww already I shouldn’t have done it, I’ll get it sorted tomorrow

[@brendanwhite9799]

I saw another KZbinr with the same problem as your lambs and he just pinched the eye lids hard I didn't see inject it was farmer P I think he would be able to tell you exactly what he done 😊

[@ianlawrence846]

I spotted exactly the the same, and they do catch light, I speak from experience, fortunately on a concrete workshop floor, ps have you considered adding coffee powder in machine, it might make a great on demand coffeemaker.Love the vids can’t wait to the channel island milk flowing.

[@paulluke3283]

Who cares , hell you know what you mean whichever way around you write it ! (2) Loving it !! 😅

[@YaseenKhan-en2kl]

Nice working

[@peterwilson-qj2ds]

Another great video Charlotte , its great to see how you care for your lambs.

[@richardcanning7351]

The injections weren’t that bad just a little blood but then I love watching operations on tv 😂. Thanks Charlotte for taking the time to explain things around the farm. I’m one of the none farmers who enjoys your learning from you. I told you before you should be going around schools teaching 😂😂

[@AdaMcEwanWilson]

You're an amazing woman, Charlotte ❤. You did an amazing job.

[@Rhydianthefarmer]

Im 19 years old and work with my dad on our beef and sheep farm here in south west Wales and absolutely love it despite the weather being absolutely atrocious this spring. Love your videos keep it up x

[@Beautifully_Flawed_Helen]

You'd make a fair vet nurse hun x seen my fair share of entropians in dogs. Loving te lambing content x shed is looking bangging. You def need your logo on the black roofing part now😉😋 keep up the aming work you and Roy do xxx

[@jamesgriffiths7579]

does that trick work for dogs as well? I have only seen surgery done on dogs

[@AdaMcEwanWilson]

​@@jamesgriffiths7579 my grandfather did injections like Charlotte does. In an injury we've had to do injections of various meds in the eye depending on animal. Bison horned? Direct injection in the eye over a course of weeks. Usually steroids and antibiotics. Forgive me, it's been a few decades. He would do every course of treatment first before surgery. We're in the States in the Midwest and its important to try and save the eye for their own safety.

[@lesstewart2823]

We had 100 triplets one year and got a mikk machine, we screwed bucket lids on pallets and put the teats in the middle of the lid, worked well. We also had trouble with texl lambs eyes.

[@user-eg8pv2om7j]

Hope you have had the chance to read the Temple Grandin book I've sent you ? Enrichment is important for animals. Give the cows an automated brush/ scratcher ? Even a football is fun as cows will kick it about.

[@charlotteashleyfarm]

We have some wonderful brushes ready to go up :) freedom is the aim of the game with these cows the freedom to choose what they want to do :)

[@peterireland2122]

Hate to admit it but i skipped the bit injecting the lambs eyes. Even though i'm diabetic and have 4 jabs a day, something about eyes..... great video all the same. Shed looks mega.

[@raygreene73]

Your cat has a great life 😂people who whine at the way you carry lambs they would hate how have carried kids in the pass all whille laden down with shopping etc 😂 great video chaz

[@deniscousley6905]

Injected loads of texel lambs eyes over the years and didn't have to revisit one of them, very effective method of saving irritation and blindness.

[@williamwright8286]

Good care and Good work.

[@charleshart6992]

Great video, and great job Charlotte!

[@charlotteashleyfarm]

Glad you liked it!!

[@Grangeservicesag]

Hi. Sorry for my delayed reply it’s a bit busy at min and had no time to sit down and catch up. We used to breed and show purebred Lincoln Longwool but we now cross them with whatever tup I can get hold of either Charolais or belted usually. We used to have same problem with eyelids, we generally used to just pull eyelid out and squirt a small amount of pen and strep straight into eyeball from syringe with no needle on. Not quite so gruesome but used to do the trick. That milk machine is awesome I like it a lot!! Least I not the only one with a phone full of sheep scribblings!!!😂😂

[@johnhyde8892]

A great video Charlotte, I have just taken to some time out to catch up on your video family here with kids 😮😔😳🙄

[@marilynchadwick1500]

Wow, I must admit that I watch the injection bit through my fingers, Well I am from London, great video as ever, Do agree with the others about the extenstion cord. Loved the close up of the puss, all looking great. See you next time. Witchy.

[@user-tq8cx7dy1q]

Very well done for injecting in lower eye lid.

[@charlotteashleyfarm]

Glad you liked it!

[@JonParkes-bi2jt]

Charlotte, the previous comment beat me to it re the extension lead, I have heard of various fires occuring due to the heating up, okay for a short time, but as you have "power" going thru all day!! Get in uncoiled! Having had a house fire two years ago (electrical) we are still fighting the insurance company to pay out!

[@charlotteashleyfarm]

This has been addressed, can’t believe I didn’t see this, it’s lambing brain, thank you x

[@WendyGerrard]

Hi Charlotte came to you via the pod cast that you did with Cammy and Iona. Thought you were brilliant. Came to Cammy and sheep game via Sandi brock and Sheepishly me. I am also in to Tara Farms and Sheep school. Keep up the good work and I hope that your Jersey cow work out well for you.

[@charlotteashleyfarm]

Hi Wendy how are you I’m so pleased you came this way all of those guys are an inspiration to me 😍 where about are you from? X x

[@WendyGerrard]

@@charlotteashleyfarm I live on a narrow boat in England, so I am everywhere. At the moment I am moored near a friends farm and I am currently babysitting her ewes in a field near the canal. Yesterday I alerted her to a in lamb ewe who was in labour. I was able to watch the birth which I always consider a privilege. I am very impressed that shepherds all over the world are so professional.

[@nicklane1234567]

Another good video Charlotte Luckily I never had to do a interned interned eyelid but have been told u can pinch the eye lid to make it swell up

[@paddy294]

Good evening Charlotte

[@charlotteashleyfarm]

Good morning! X x

[@eddyverbraeken2019]

good job with the lamb-nanny 🙂

[@charlotteashleyfarm]

It’s cool isn’t it

[@leemiller199]

Good vid lass i like that feeder .look you know on farms you have to do some vetting your self if it makes them better in the end thats the main thing iv had eye lashes in my owen eyes and welding flashes as we and its not very comffey so if it fixes them up good ok be safe youz lot

[@kenmonk8262]

you never stop learning in life

[@charlotteashleyfarm]

I agree you don’t I love that as well

[@gilliantovey1014]

Sandi Brock (Sheepishly me) uses an automatic pet lamb feeder similar to the one you have, but much bigger - she calls it the Nanny, as she lambs a lot more sheep and has a lot of multiples She says that lambs chew on the teats and pull at them so that the lines come off and she ends up with milk floods. Being in Canada she often comes into the shed to find the lines have frozen overnight and need to sit in hot water for a while to thaw out.

[@fayappleyard9831]

Charlotte watching your latest upload please uncoil the extension cable on the LAC-TEC machine. When it's coiled up it acts like a fuse and can set on fire 🙏

[@jamesgriffiths7579]

good observation, but it acts more like a coil than a fuse. they are meant to be unrolled all the way or the cord can't dissipate the heat that can build up from the current running through the cord. I would definitely recommend unrolling the cord for the safety of the pets😊

[@patrickosullivan4021]

Ur Irish milk tank all the way from co. Cork Ireland 😊😊😊

[@ianparker3486]

Great video you amazing Lady

[@gailchoate9698]

The cake bin could have the color of jersy cows or use you talent and paint some jersy cows on it.

[@charlotteashleyfarm]

We had this after Lamma when i was blinded by the black and white bin that was in the Wiseman Dairies of old days livery!x

[@stephenwebbbowen7862]

Charlotte having a cable drum not fully unwound means the cable gets hot and can cause a fire

[@rogerbond7811]

Some breeds of dogs suffer from the same eye problem.

[@markyoull6744]

great video

[@henrymichaelwilson8107]

Hello there. That's what you get when you are in the Spotlight. Has far as I'm concerned grab hold were you can. Has they get older they also get faster.

[@antonyfarming]

I think farmer p years ago did have eye on lamb problem he did vid on how to sort it

[@richardshirtcliffe3261]

One of your lambs when sucking on one of the cable ties - green one. It may be safer to snip the surplus off the tie. 👍

[@ikweby9169]

I was much like you. But I saw a video from farmer P (Iain) where he had the same from his sheep. He found if you pinch the eyelid it sorts them out. I’d assume a little pain but it does work.

[@charlotteashleyfarm]

What a star is Mr Pullan, love his style x

[@ronaldlucas5360]

Extra time for the farm and farmer.

[@Tod_1050]

Pull the eyelid out then pinch the bottom eyelid with your nails hard to crease it, quite often stops it from going back in

[@jonathangriggs9123]

Farmer P used that technique when he had lambs

[@andrewwebb2691]

You will have tp go 2 Tom ps and show him how 2 do it lol

[@claretbuck1882]

Awesome 😎

[@PK_Blinder]

Im a bit disappointed with the bin.... i was expecting a Jersey cow coloured one... 😉

[@user-tv8px3nw2s]

The lamb looked like he was in a 15 round fight

[@ianwright7056]

greetings ❤

[@charlotteashleyfarm]

Alright Ian what’s crack

[@ianwright7056]

@@charlotteashleyfarm well i’ve limited education but i’ve heard on the grape vine its a class A substance

[@ianwright7056]

@@charlotteashleyfarm ive been de wrap a tractor today and a valet ready for selling

[@user-tv8px3nw2s]

The most popular colors for farm buildings in the Colonies are red,with white trim.

[@charlotteashleyfarm]

I’m going to google it now 😂😂

[@geraldbeard856]

that lamb milk feeder looks a good bit of kit........could you use it for rearing calves .....i don't see why not... do you have to flush it out with water and cleaner the same as you would do with a milking parlour .......surely the milk would go sour and clog up the pipes if it wasn't flushed out regular

[@charlotteashleyfarm]

Yes there is a button for rinse

[@Andy-ix2ox]

Yup I don’t like doing it either but it’s a case of having to, cruel to be kind is my take on it. Some years are worse than others for it. You all set for Kathleen? The wind is blowing bad here already but it’s not raining yet in fact we have had a dry day. We sell our pets in the local livestock market ( we just call it mart or sales depending on where you live but I know that it’s not that in GB) go with a Hank of them most weeks got between €35 and €50 each for 7 of them on Tuesday and by the 1 st of may we will have none ( truthfully we give away a good few as well to friends and neighbours who need a lamb for a ewe, but we get lambs back occasionally too when needed) with the price of powdered milk and lamb creep it’s not exactly a great proposition to rear pets anyway ( very appropriate song). We don’t count lambs till we tail them ! Then we just count the tails basically when they are lambed out far too many especially the singles are untouched by anyone till we get them in for a dose and branding ( or at least that’s how we hope it will be) regards from Ireland, the small very wet island next door!

[@charlotteashleyfarm]

Ha ha ha I really need an Irish road trip when the cows are settled in I bloody love hearing about it all!! Yes I know in previous years I’ve tried to keep them down as much as possible and really mothered everything on but we had a pile already and thought the more the merrier 😂😂😂

[@user-tv8px3nw2s]

With all of the health problems that Sheep have,its a wonder that they have survived this long

[@jamesgriffiths7579]

if it wasn't for all the great farmers like Charlotte caring for them they would probably be extinct.😂

[@user-xh2vk1bx2i]

botox on sheep your a master of all trades

[@tracybacon]

Can you raise the feeder off the ground so the teats can be higher up

[@simonscott4887]

Hi Charlotte, how do you manage to get hold of pen-strep? I can't it anymore 😢

[@charlotteashleyfarm]

I had a stock of it in the fridge :)

[@shieldmaidenlovesoli9387]

That's a big one 😂❤

[@charlotteashleyfarm]

ISNT IT HUGE

[@shieldmaidenlovesoli9387]

😳🤣

[@shatterline28]

Botox ??, what next tanning salon for the lambs 🤭

[@girlindigo8]

I feel such a wuss, I hate having injections and your lambs are being so brave having injections into their eyelids, would really freak me out.

[@jefrotull6099]

Does Roy hate sheep or is he squeamish that he didn't help you inject the lamb. I don't know that I would have tried to do that on my own, if the lamb had moved that could have been catastrophic.

[@charlotteashleyfarm]

I had very very tight hold and Roy doesn’t touch the sheep 😂😂

[@user-tv8px3nw2s]

The first rule of entertainment? Know your audience

[@dawndalgleish3951]

1st🎉

[@charlotteashleyfarm]

Second my love x x

[@dawndalgleish3951]

Well done with your pet lambs amazing 👏 🤩 xx

[@jtcorey9498]

Botox for the sheeps!

[@charlotteashleyfarm]

Don’t think the girls worry about vanity!

[@CurvyFarmer]

second

[@charlotteashleyfarm]

Wheyyyyyyyyyyyy nearly those guys are on it like a car bonnet tonight

[@kitheywood4016]

Fifth

[@Mark_Something-Ermm-Yeah]

But but but the silo isn't black 😢 and amazing work sorring those lambs eyelids out. I think I'm going to come and visit you when I need an injection love ❤️

[@charlotteashleyfarm]

DONT STOP IT YOU!!!!! I knowwwwww they didn’t do black 😖😟

[@Mark_Something-Ermm-Yeah]

First❤

[@charlotteashleyfarm]

Mark that was FAST I hadn’t even pressed the title yet 😂😂😂

[@Mark_Something-Ermm-Yeah]

​@@charlotteashleyfarmI have no life love, I just sit watching KZbin waiting for you to post lol ❤