Farming Profits - More Money Per Lamb

[@sheepdogman1]

Sheep shepherd and sheep school are the best sheep related you tubers. Keep them coming and thank you

[@sheepschool365]

Thank you 👌

[@k.mihalic8945]

I’m a new fan and wanted you to know I love the learning and mostly love how you and Robby joke back and forth. Actually, to be 100% honest, I love your accent most! Thanks for the education and entertainment. Best wishes,

[@sheepschool365]

Welcome aboard! Thank you so much, good to know you find them useful 👍

[@lindaarmstrongjackman9788]

Great video! Glad you got a decent price for the lambs. The girls are precious. 👍😊👍

[@sheepschool365]

Thank you so much 🤗

[@patrickhiggins3582]

delighted you did well with the lamb prices David/ well done David.

[@sheepschool365]

Thanks Patrick, nice to get paid for a change 👌

[@sunshine3049]

Hi..we have subscribed to your channel,throughly enjoy it, your family are lovely, keep up the great work, best wishes to you all Sue & Ben (Woodhall Spa) x

[@sheepschool365]

Thank you so much 😊

[@AidanBreen-j5o]

High quality, great watch, well worth feeding I would have thought David.

[@sheepschool365]

Waste of time feeding last year but glad I fed this year!

[@tadhgpheaitwillie]

You've some lovely sheep and a pair of great young ladies thee helping you. They are a credit to you and you should be proud.

[@sheepschool365]

Thank you. 2 great girls that enjoy the craic 😀

[@davidokeeffe2474]

Bought 1 of them head lock Brillant job, great videos man learning so much thanks

[@sheepschool365]

Good man, thank you. Glad you are finding videos useful and great you like the headlock 😀

[@johncullen9177]

Another super video. Always nice to be sorting dry sheep in the shed. Seems to be plenty of coughing in the sheep. Might be worth understanding who is doing the coughing?

[@sheepschool365]

Thank you. Had serious problems with lung worm in the backend probably some lung damage..

[@patrickhiggins3582]

DAVID YOU VERY LUCKY LAMBS THERE. YOU MAKE GOOD MONEY ON THEM.

[@paulthompson8467]

Good video David your lambs did well as my late grandad would say meal is never wasted 👍

[@sheepschool365]

Thank you. Wise words...👍

[@garymadden2656]

Great video David and well done on your lambs good job 👌

[@sheepschool365]

Thanks Gary 👍

[@BillyJones-p1p]

Good video nice lambs good price.always good this time of year

[@sheepschool365]

Thanks for that 👌

[@stevepalmer8285]

Great content 👌 as always Thanks.

[@sheepschool365]

Glad you liked it!

[@BreandánOSullivan]

Hello David just wondering when will the my order come I ordered today 2/2/24 from Cork

[@sheepschool365]

Will be with you by middle of next week 👌

[@markcoyne6540]

The lamb with scald, I clean the foot and dip it in a a strong solution of blue stone and warm water for 60 seconds to allow it soak in well once a day for 1-2 days depending on how bad the foot is. Cheap and effective every time. No need to inject or spray especially for a factory lamb near finishing. Hope that helps.

[@sheepschool365]

Good man. Thanks for that 👍 Long withdrawal is the problem with injecting..

[@terrynoland487]

Excellent video again thanks for sharing descent prices and great little helpers

[@sheepschool365]

Thank you 👌

[@thegiantyeti1367]

Would you ever keep back any of those ram lambs for breeding like that over 50kg weoght woth 310g/day gain? You have a lot of data there to select good conformations and weight gain and vigour if you were trying a closed farm system.

[@davidsmith6624]

Hi when are you putting the drench rucksacks for sale on your shop ?

[@sheepschool365]

Coming soon 👌

[@williamburns9731]

Beautiful daughters you have and very polite ❤ Love ya work ol mate 👍

[@sheepschool365]

Thank you 😊

[@gerrymulligan2602]

Looking good lads.good.sheep.men.keep busy

[@sheepschool365]

Thanks 👍

[@pash47]

Great video as usual. Fair price at the factory gate. Well done!

[@sheepschool365]

Thanks! 👍

[@daveThompson-w2j]

Hey david, recently got onto your videos and really enjoy how you bring the good, the bad and the ugly of real sheep farming. Have a question: I am in upstate New York, looks just like where you live but tougher winters. I have a flock of about 250 Katahdin ewes, pasture and shed kept. I do appreciate the easy keepers that they are but have not been happy with the lamb growth/feed conversion. Would anyone have a suggestion? Have been breeding with purebred katahdin rams. Cant see myself selling these ewes and buying a wool breed but its possible. Could possibly trade up 1 for 1 but finding that many good ewes is very difficult. More likely consider crossbreeding with a wool breed. Any suggestions? Bottom line is i need growthier lambs without issues.

[@sheepschool365]

Thank you and glad you are enjoying the videos. Slower growth rate is the biggest downside to my breed but I'm experimenting with a muscled breed (texel) this year to see how that improves the lambs. Could you cross some of your ewes with a similar breed and keep some ewes purebred with the katahdin rams to continue to breed your own replacements. Good luck with whatever you decide.

[@Hillfarmlamb]

Top quality video as always David lambs did well on the meal what brand were you feeding

[@shanereaney3631]

Synolox for the lambs foot very good...what feed did u give them they done very well..

[@davidgilliland2658]

I see your lambs done well. Are you Quality Assured. R and U is the normal for good lambs..The mart trade is very strong also.

[@sheepschool365]

Not quality assured as over half goes for breeding. Would the mart be the place for those lighter lambs?

[@ronaldlucas5360]

Enjoyed the video 👌

[@sheepschool365]

Glad you enjoyed 👍

[@LyndonWard-rz1fg]

Great video

[@sheepschool365]

Thanks!

[@jamesjohnston5071]

Great video David, have weather llyen lambs on adlib in the shed here at the minute doing around 350 grams a day

[@sheepschool365]

Great growth rates 👍 Are they purebreds or crosses?

[@jamesjohnston5071]

@@sheepschool365 some would be alright

[@emmett1739]

That's the weights you will need now as kill out will be a bit less that summer grazed lambs .Given these are a maternal breed you have great loins and lenght of these ram lambs. While they would not out kill a continental on kill out% or daily live weight gain your feeding has paid off and the soft ware fed back gives you a great insight into the performance of the meal your feeding. Good stuff

[@emmett1739]

Aye true should have added that's summer grazed lambs that are creep fed , to be honest we don't creep feed our Beltex lambs and they kill out as high as 58% , we believe "an ounce if breeding is worth a ton of feeding".

[@sheepschool365]

I think age has good bit to do with it. Those lambs killed out at 42%-46%. Slaughtered single eam lambs in August just off grass that killed out 50%. Meal definitely helps this time of year...

[@emmett1739]

It pays to feed them David and gave a good return compared to the store trade in the back end plus its good to have a bit of money coming in at this time .Well deserved and good luck with the rest of the batch.

[@georgemorrison6689]

With those Lamb's had such a bad run you must be delighted with the recover, they lassies are better chasing sheep than 2 good dogs the future looks good, good price, enjoyed the video stay lucky

[@sheepschool365]

Thank you. Yes, the lambs have done very well 👌

[@paulogorman5802]

David are the Lleyn sheep good milkers? I’m thinking of buying one to put on my Xbreds to breed replacement ewes, Xbreds are mostly Charollais cross ewes

[@sheepschool365]

Hi Paul, I sell over half of my breeding rams for that job. A lot of farmers prefer to breed their own replacements and a Lleyn ram will produce hardy, milky crosses that have a good lamb crop too. Definitely try one and see how it goes 👌

[@paulogorman5802]

@@sheepschool365 lovely thanks David , I might purchase one so 👍🏻

[@tc6573]

A good lleyn breeder near me told me once to aim for 47, 48 kg for finishing lambs. He said ideally R3 grade and up.

[@sheepschool365]

Just discovered that 8 of those 15 lambs were over the 23kg cut off weight. Will send the next batch lighter. Everyday's a school day 😉

[@padraigking5185]

Good stuff

[@sheepschool365]

Glad you enjoyed

[@jordyscott7298]

David do you feed any silage or hay when you have them in or just meal ?

[@sheepschool365]

They are on middling hay for bit of roughage. Keeps the stomach right..

[@jordyscott7298]

Very good results . Would make me think of putting last few in myself this year and finishing .

[@michellebarbour5777]

Amazing bloke - can make a head lock, sort the technology, include fabulous Robby and say 'I love you' to his girls whilst dropping them off at nursery or sending them off to school. Imagine how life would be if politicians could do all this!!??

[@sheepschool365]

Thank you so much 🤗

[@stephenfitzpatrick8809]

Would you not sow your own crop for meal? Or cut ur own silage cut enough for 2 year save money in long run

[@sheepschool365]

I grew a forage crop few years back when reseeding. It was rocket fuel for finishing lambs but reseed turned out very dirty with weed. Hope to make silage this year 👌

[@finbarreburn5112]

Btw What's Robbie's cut, A Week on Croagh Patrick/ Sliabh Mish 🙏 😅

[@sheepschool365]

I'm busy telling Robbie he makes more on the pension than I'll make with 300 ewes...😜

[@finbarreburn5112]

'Fourtrak coming his way' #Swampmaster 👢 🤣

[@Geoffontheleft]

Is Robbie a school lever and your training and if so do you think you do any good

[@sheepschool365]

Robbie is a graduate of the University of Life.... some man 👌

[@padraicmcgu]

Did the lamb with the sore foot do 0.08kg or 0.8kg per day live weight gain ?

[@sheepschool365]

0.08kg. 80grams. Way down on the average of 250 grams per day.

[@ciarabeattie4205]

Great 👍

[@sheepschool365]

Thank you 👍

[@maolfold_arran]

How’s it going? What Eid reader are you using?? Looks handy. Cheers

[@sheepschool365]

Agrident APR600 👌

[@ShapeAndCattle]

Great video man. QQ what’s my cheapest drop pins? Is it screed?

[@sheepschool365]

Thank you.. what do you mean drop pins?

[@ShapeAndCattle]

@@sheepschool365 em the metal pins that you drop down between 5ft lambing hurdles to attach them.

[@sheepschool365]

I mostly use 10mm mild steel round bar. The gates that came with the mobile race has 16mm aluminium pins..

[@ShapeAndCattle]

@@sheepschool365 gent thank you. I’m going to buy one of your headlocks for lambing. Just to howld the hoggets to get the lambs on if issues. Keep at it !

[@sheepschool365]

Great tool for that job. Especially an over anxious first timer that won't settle to let lambs suck 👌

[@gerrymulligan2602]

Good see ya happy sheep

[@sheepschool365]

When they're skipping about you'd know they're thriving..

[@paulflynn6228]

At nite when all the lights are off in the shed get a good long fishing net and a strong light and then you can catch them pisky pigeons😁

[@sheepschool365]

Those pesky pigeons are a dirty mess...

[@sheepdogman1]

Excellent lambs i am sure your happy with them

[@sheepschool365]

Very happy and great prices too 👌

[@wendyrowland7787]

You could save money on using less marker spray. All these costs add up in the long run.

[@sheepschool365]

Thank you for the feedback.

[@LyndonWard-rz1fg]

Robey you are a fine man

[@johnpeppard7423]

Make sure and disinfect shed before ewes go in, if the lambs had footrot I’ll fly through the shed with damp moist bedding underfoot

[@sheepschool365]

I will have to clean it out, bedding is up very high

[@Johnnycambell]

U should cross a few to a Suffolk best sheep out of any

[@sheepschool365]

Would like to try a few next year... 👍

[@finbarreburn5112]

'Lambs are very very good very strong atm' Where is 'The Purchasing Contract' 'Beef Taskforce Talks Agreement, Backweston '19 ' 'Commitment Uncommitted' 🤔 😠

[@sheepschool365]

Just as well prices are strong or there would be plenty of cull ewes

[@finbarreburn5112]

Price Trice (3) Sell Once 👍

[@LyndonWard-rz1fg]

How much is robey worth

[@sheepschool365]

Worth his weight in gold!

[@steinerwelding4191]

Nothing wrong with them lams IMO

[@steinerwelding4191]

How old are they?

[@sheepschool365]

They were 9 months old..

[@LyndonWard-rz1fg]

Where is daddy