How I Select Our Sheep (REPLACEMENT EWE LAMB SELECTION PROCESS): Vlog 144

How I Select Our Sheep.
This video shows the first step in the replacement ewe lamb selection process I've developed.
Today we will get weights and data off these lambs, and vaccinate the ewe lambs with a new-to-me vaccine called Glanvac.
I will do a final selection of these lambs in another 4-6 weeks with a follow up booster vaccine of Glanvac.
I also go through the process of generating reports on my Gallagher Tsi system, and how I export it to Excel for further data analysis.
How do YOU select your ewe lambs?
What traits do you select for?
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[@buynsell365]

I love your videos. I am a software developer, not a farmer but for some reason I love watching you sheep farm...lol... I think some custom software would really help with keeping things organized. I would be happy to do it for free if you are interested. Sounds like a fun side project. Thanks

[@daniel-jb2xz]

I love that there’s no censored stuff in this Chanel 🙏

[@rachaelmacri4894]

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[@richardvernick4280]

Sandi. Very interesting data collection good sound base with excell on the new lamb selection. Sandi you do great with the walk along side videos Thank You, ThankYou very much. Please Take Care and as Alway's be Care Full around all Farm Equipment, it can put a very bad hurt on a farm person.

[@SHAZZZZZA]

Your barns and sheep are always so clean!

[@cindyshipp4124]

You are such a workhorse. I love the way you think and you so remind me of myself 15-20 years ago. Record keeping is important. I too always acknowledged when an animal looks my way, talking calms them I believe. I sing high praises to you. Stick to your guns, change when you feel it is needed. I have never seen such a great data system.

[@lynxacres1293]

When you’re resizing columns in excel, if you double-click on the column width, it will automatically adjust to fit the data. If you select all the columns you have, and double click on the column width, it will auto-resize all of them. Hope this is a useful quick-tip for excel :) Thanks for the video, great info!

[@SandiBrock]

What?!!!! You are my hero tonite!!! How do I not know this!!!??? LOL . Thanks so much!

[@lynxacres1293]

Sandi Brock you’re welcome! Here’s another idea. Have you played around with tables and sorting in excel? Once you’re in excel, try selecting all your data. Then right-click, format as table (I like to make it into light/medium blue With coloured gridlines - the gridlines are important). Tell it yes you have headers. Once you have your table made, then you start your sorting - so if you’re doing replacement lamb selecting...the adg column, sort descending. Select all from the top to the lowest number acceptable (I think you had said 0.5 ), highlight them as green. Go over to your litter size, sort ascending, select the twins and triplets, highlight green. Sort the breed of sire or dam, highlight green (or whatever color) the ones you want. Once you’ve highlighted the wanted stuff for each column, go back to the ID column and sort. Then as you look through it, you can see, which ewes have green in every/most column. You can do this kind of thing for all your different groups when making decisions and analyzing data. If the Gallagher system doesn’t already do stuff like this for you, this could be pretty useful. Does that make sense? Hope this helps I’m no sheep expert but I love excel. 😁

[@pendlera2959]

@@lynxacres1293 Any suggestions of where to learn Excel? I'm currently borrowing a Excel instructional book and I have watched a few basic tutorials here on youtube, but if you have any suggestions for other learning opportunities, I'd love to know about them.

[@lynxacres1293]

Pendlera it’s hard to say. There’s so much you can do with excel, but a lot of times the issue is you didn’t know you can do something with it. I would recommend checking with your local library. Often they offer courses for free or cheap. Once you have a bit of knowledge, then you can go on various excel forums and ask “I want to do this, how do I do it?” Or if you have set of data like Sandi has, you can ask “what can I do with this data? How can I use excel to analyze it better?” I’m happy to help with questions. Feel free to ask! But it’s hard to tell you or show you what you need to learn or know, especially if you don’t have much experience with excel or you don’t have something you want to do, or data to analyze. I’ll see if I can find a decent KZbin or website course to go through though 🙂.

[@lynxacres1293]

Pendlera I think one of the things in excel that get underutilized the most is tables, especially for large sets of data. With Tables you can sort each column, you can use apply formulas for the whole table very quickly, you can filter. Tables are Awesome. Also, just having a set of data with a lot of columns, and headers, and data, something that looks like a table, doesn’t make it a table. You need to format it as a table. And then you can start having fun with it 😁

[@EnglishGeekWahoo]

I got two majors so far and did not find my way to what I love to do yet, I thought it might be something not relevant to computers and economics, so I checked your channel since I love to do farming stuff, I like your dedication and love to what you do, thank you Sandi for sharing your enthusiasm!

[@KC2DZB]

Hi Sandi, I'm a new-comer to your channel and am enjoying your videos. I wanted to pass along an Excel tip: instead of dragging the column width, just double click the boarder and it will auto-size to the data. It works for row height also. Cheers!

[@jomama5186]

Still playing catch up and learning the whole time. Love your videos !!!🙏❤

[@jneubauer76]

If you want to make it faster to widen your columns in excel for viewing just click the arrow in the upper left corner of the spreadsheet and it will highlight everything and then just double click on a column header separator that your manually dragging to widen the column (IE:line between A1 & B1) at the top and it will open them all to the widest they need to be for the most data in the column and wont change the empty columns. You can do the same thing for rows if data is cutting off visually.

[@crazypazygirlygills]

I'd love to learn more about how you chose rams to become breeders or go to market! Great video, hope you guys get lots of dry weather to plant! Weve finally had enough days dry down here to get started on planting today.

[@rachelpotter2045]

I just love your channel so much I could sit and watch a series of u sandi.. your so inspirational with your work and stuff. Just amazing...

[@SandiBrock]

Thanks so much Rachel!

[@meganrenee6138]

Love getting notifications of a new vid from you!! Housework is on pause: it's sheep time!!

[@SandiBrock]

LOL! Love it!!

[@crissymurray6176]

Hi Sandi, I am new and I am from Australia and I wanna say "GO CARISSA'S"!!! As U can see I am also Carissa.. ok keep up great work! Keep 🐑 -ishly.. peace and Merry Christmas all. Peace and Love too All!! Christmas

[@happyhappy3972]

THANK YOU FOR SHOWING YOUR EWES AND LAMBS...IT WAS A VERY INTERESTING TOPIC!

[@macyrichards9412]

I wait all week for your vids love this channel!

[@SandiBrock]

Yayyy! Thanks Macy!

[@louann4992]

I just about chocked when I saw the price of the Gallagher❗It would worry me to death to carry it around or let dust get on and in it. Wow that's crazy❗

[@tomtubman]

Love your farm set up !!!! Your videos are great

[@richardvernick4280]

Sandi That is great to see some of that we studied. This material was in 4-H class room study nights at the 4-H leader home. We had a great time working to apply what we had learned and seeing the sheep body structure and weight build. We checked the back straps fill out aboue the spin bone ridge. We would go to the fair and groom our sheep for the group section judgment won second place in our group. Great times in memory.

[@ThisFarmWife_]

20000 subs...shut the front door! Ha. So proud of you! Here's to the next 20. 👊🏼xx

[@SandiBrock]

Thanks my girl!!! Back at ya!!!

[@dougprovence3624]

Sandy, congrats in the subscribers. You/mark good hard working people. Its alittle early getting into the sheep business. Learned alot.

[@SandiBrock]

Thanks so much Doug!

[@MaddiesMamaRN]

I'm excited and anxiously awaiting you June babies! I love your lambing vlogs. I think I've watched your week long daily lambing vlogs 100 times! I catch something new every time....i just skip the part in the Friday vlog where one of the quads drowns in the water bucket. But life goes on and there are so many others that need your attention. It still sucks when something like that happens, cause it just doesn't make sense! 💙 Megan

[@justinfrederick3648]

Another interesting video! Keep em coming!

[@SandiBrock]

Thanks Justin!

[@itsharam1228]

Hi !!!! Congratulations on 20k subz, ✌✌ Things that wonder me 1. ur mangament 2. less staff 3. ur commitment.. Keep it up.

[@Benelli-ex7oq]

Love those videos never gets boring keep them coming and congratulations on 20k🥂

[@Lololo99200]

Congratulations on 20k subscribers SANDI😁😁😁!!!!!! Great video😁👌👌👌👍👍

[@SandiBrock]

Thanks so much Myles!!

[@shawndobson5713]

Great video Sandi! When you expand you columns in Excel just double click the bar you drug over. It will auto size for the information in that column. Thanks for all the guidance.

[@SandiBrock]

Thanks to KZbin and these discussions, I now use this function all the time! LOL!!! Thank you so much!

[@deniseespeut1474]

Love the vlog thanks for sharing yr process it's Awesome to See 😇🤝

[@SandiBrock]

Thanks!

[@dejavuchicka]

This is my new favorite channel on youtube!!! I get so excited when i see you uploaded. I want sheeeeeeeeeeeep!

[@SandiBrock]

YAYYY!!

[@doireannbyrne838]

Great video sandi congratulations on 20k subscriber's you definitely deserve it 😊😊👍💟

[@SandiBrock]

Thanks so much Mick!

[@doireannbyrne838]

Your welcome 😊

[@drewk5929]

It’s the last day of May here in nw Ohio and not a tractor wheel turning yet with 0 seeds planted still yet. Farmers here are in uncharted territory and we’re still saturated. Hope things are getting better for you guys. Another good video thanks

[@SandiBrock]

Oh Drew. Its a nightmare this spring everywhere it seems. We've got most of the corn in (less than ideal conditions) and even started some beans... but SO behind. Sending good thoughts down south to you guys... just cant catch a break this year.

[@ztwench]

If you click the upper left corner of your sheet and double click on any column Excel will automatically spread all your columns out to the right size

[@lutherhitt7430]

Ear Protection? That constant balling would drive me nuts. Great job. Hope you can pull out a ++ with crop production. Consumer food costs this year are going to sky rocket with all the floods and weather delays this year. ANIMAL THEFTS COULD SHOW A RISE THIS YEAR ! Great job Sandy !

[@SandiBrock]

YES to all this!

[@rcfarmer5289]

hey Sandi love your work we use a catheter or [ slapshot as its known in some circles] as a extension to your vaccine gun allows the sheep to wriggle with the needle still in 100% easier pack them in a race way and inject away hope this helps

[@SandiBrock]

Thank you so much!!!

[@kevinlesch9656]

Don't get too discouraged in the planting season I think all north America is in the same boat. At least markets are starting to reflect it, corn is up a lot this week. Good for corn growers but bad for livestock producers. Gotta look at the good side though. Thanks for the video.

[@SandiBrock]

You're right... thanks so much Kevin.

[@safaabdullah3698]

Hi, Sandi, I'm The Twelfth Viewer & the fourth liker. good luck

[@SandiBrock]

Thanks so much Safa!

[@rajbeekie7124]

If I had driven by your place I would have guessed the bins, dryer, hopper, etc. were part of a coop or one very successful farmer. That was a chunk of change.

[@SandiBrock]

It was... and a big goal of ours for about 15 years... so very stressful thinking we may not fill them... have to keep the faith!

[@rajbeekie7124]

@@SandiBrock Was the goal to form a coop or to be a really successful farmer? Either one, I wish you well. I wanted to be a farmer/rancher, but after I looked at the numbers I decided the burden was too much to bear. Now, if I had inherited land and some equipment it would have been a lot more doable. I could have also married into a rich family. Neither happened, so I became a teacher. The only growing I try to do is related to the minds of my students. I now live vicariously through people like you. Thanks

[@SweetPeaFarmNY]

Your place is shepherd goals! I manage a much smaller flock but would love to work a bigger flock like yours someday! Thank you for sharing

[@SandiBrock]

So awesome! Thanks!

[@dustitice6399]

This Christmas we are deciding wether we want to raise sheep or goats... SUCH A HARD DESCISION

[@addxi2953]

dusti tice Goat milk is delicious if you ask me.

[@kevinaus6731]

Hi Sandi Great Videos and Hello from Australia

[@BluCharmander]

From your newest video ❤ thanks for the search suggestion! I was curious how you select your ewe lambs

[@NiallJacob]

The weather was unusual here too, very little rain, which is strange for Ireland. Nearly of my lambs were male this year, so I will buy ewe lambs. They will be belclare, hopefully. I don't think there are any belclare in Canada

[@rebeccajoensson]

Very dry in Sweden as well, we are not even recovered from last years drought.

[@TheJfevra]

Your way of explaining catches me

[@TR_Marmarisli_48]

From turkey ,,,watching u from london ...great work u do..what u do is my dream

[@Naeemkhan-tr1uv]

I like your video

[@hannahquinn3227]

I raise sheep too❤️🐑. U are so so cool and I learn a lot from u.

[@SandiBrock]

Awesome Hannah!!

[@tarektahayaakoub8063]

Good morning sandi and good luck I love sheep and work in the farm

[@SandiBrock]

Thanks so much!

[@tarektahayaakoub8063]

@@SandiBrock good sandi

[@alilove4082]

I know! We havent even been able to TOUCH the fields they’re all still under water and it just keeps raining.

[@MuhammadAli-cn6ps]

Beautiful system

[@mikebonge7206]

very smart woman

[@paulfairbrass4424]

Luckily i don't have that problem this year, got some crossbreed lamb's,so they'll be heading for the market only the pedigrees will be staying. The rams well the balls in there court if there good sold for breeding otherwise market.

[@azagro4008]

Love that scanner

[@IvyWhiskeyDram]

I love watching the selection process, its really interesting to me. How do you select you breeding rams? do you rent rams or do you buy? Any videos on this process too?

[@SandiBrock]

great question! I actually don't keep back my rams... its the only thing I buy into the flock. To keep genetic lines clean, and get high quality purebred stock from a reliable source.

[@kb-vj6vn]

Great videos ,I used to watch like your videos ,I am a vet/small ruminants

[@SandiBrock]

Great! Thanks so much!

[@daniel-jb2xz]

I love this channel I would add healthy teeth,feet ,history of illness and how many lambs were born with them

[@breannabown2711]

Is there a video on here of Sandi explaining what exactly she has sheep for? Does she raise them for meat?

[@julietamagnetto7357]

I'm pretty sure she sells them to the market, she doesn't produce the meat herself but they do go into that market I think

[@valleyviewacres9120]

I feel your pain concerning crop haven’t put any corn in I start tomorrow if Murphy and his law can stay out of my business. I grow a pretty short variety for my cows to graze it but it’s been so bloody cold here that it’s put a real krinkle into things. 9 above this morning when I stepped out side Yesterday it was 33........., Mother Nature needs to calm down. LOL

[@SandiBrock]

Feel your pain!!! Its been awful here... Think its been awful everywhere this spring! Good Luck!!

[@valleyviewacres9120]

Sandi Brock Well the corns in......., but now I can’t seem to get the bloody stuff sprayed 30 mph wind today and tomorrow so I’m gonna be officially behind by than Course haven’t even thought about nitrogen with next to no rain I’m not even sure how I’m gonna get this done. Guess if it was easy everyone would be doing it LOL

[@lynkpaul2171]

What kind of idiot one has to be to thumbs down this video, and so far there have been 4. Great job Sandi.

[@SandiBrock]

OH thanks! Yes, I get some for sure... thats ok. I'm not everyone's cup of tea. LOL

[@stepevepen]

Nice video, well presented. If you have enough data (I guess you will after some cycles) , you should go for a kind of breeding value estimation or build an index combining littersize and adg. However, selection to increase prolificacy, based on the observed litter size, might be blurred with the hormonal treatment of the ewes.

[@SandiBrock]

very true... I guess a good data set would be my naturally bred ewes of the fall group...

[@yathrebalshaya1552]

Hiii I love you am watch you from iraq Baghdad you are do good gobs so iwant to say god bless you

[@georgegoertzen4723]

Just rewatched this one. This is where the Suffolk ewe lambs came from that didn't conceive on your last breeding group? Just a question on the report you built that you could answer in your next replacement ewe lamb selection - you selected the dam and only her ear tag number shows on the report. You might know by the numbers where she originated - where you purchased her from or if she is home bred but we don't and I'm sure I'm not the only one who would like to know and I would have also thought her sire would be important - Rideau? and if not Rideau, why not?

[@kloaner94]

Very good information, what breed are the white lambs? They almost look like German Merino meat sheep, or crossings of Merino meat sheep with Texel sheep. These animals with such good and valuable meat parts are very profitable for lamb meat production !!! But what are the white lambs for a breed?

[@matthewlinford310]

You should get a te pari hd3 for sorting sheep we got one last year it’s brilliant save so much time and sweat

[@doireannbyrne838]

👍💟

[@SandiBrock]

I should do some research!

[@HalitCinar]

Strange that you didnt care about twin births for selecting replacement ewe lambs. Love your videos by the way. Greetings from Turkey.

[@charlesbaker8543]

We are the same shape in Iowa.But the good side is the price of crops we have to sell are coming up because of the late planting

[@user-tl7pc7kr7q]

Hi sandy ....from Greece

[@Juleru]

Does the breed also matter? How many generations have to be between a ewe and the ram you want to breed it to (to not cause any problems)?

[@leighannewarren2736]

Oh I just realized that there’s two pups

[@johnturner2175]

What about wool do you do anything with that

[@paulgore7020]

Hi Sandi, What breeds are you using and do your sheep stay indoors or only when lambing. Great to watch your videos. Keep them coming. Approximately what does it cost per 200 ewes operations. And return on investment if your ok answering this.

[@SandiBrock]

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[@rainbowunicorn9017]

I love watching your videos are any of the baby seats for sale

[@SandiBrock]

Thank you!

[@andersonmartins7530]

😍😍

[@rmack48]

Do your kids get involved with the sheep or other aspects of your farm?

[@SandiBrock]

Our son is in college, but helps us in the summer, my daughter works at a neighbour dairy farm milking cows... she's like her mom... loves dairy cows. LOL

[@raminahmadzadeh719]

Hi sandi im from iran . Wahts strips of yours sheeps? I enjoy to seeing your video,s

[@timothyball7502]

2-3-2023. Sheep smell worse than pigs. I went pass dozens of sheep some place Indiana. The odor was in my nose for a mile, minimum. And this was not in a closed area.

[@stevesargent5920]

Mrs. Brock, That milk replacement machine that you have for the bottle babies, what is the brand of the machine? And having that machine and knowing what you know now, would you purchase a different one or done anything different. Thanks for you Vlog

[@ismailzarouali7132]

Hi how are you? thank you for the videos I m from morocco post can you tell me what's the name of your sheeps

[@HaseebAhmad-nz3it]

Hi Sandi! Which software do you use to manage your farm?

[@aaqibtak3748]

Do you feed them indoor only if so what are main components of feed

[@Cruzshowpigs]

How much emphasis do you place on keeping ewe lambs out of ewes that you had to assist during lambing?

[@SandiBrock]

I should be keeping more info on this... but I haven't selected on that trait yet...

[@andersonmartins7530]

Omg u r só beautiful. Im from brasil and Love tô watch your vídeo

[@benburty4658]

Do you find a major difference in how your part Suffolk ewes are prolific compared to the Rideau and ile de France

[@SandiBrock]

great question... I don't have much data on the Suffolk yet as I try not to keep many of them back as replacements, I try to breed them all Rideau. But this last group of lambs I have kept some, so I should start to collect data soon.

[@s.s.gorchhias.s.gorchhia9148]

hi sandi very good system vaccination but breed knowledge and whos breed best in Stoll feeding

[@trevormcbane9341]

20,000!!!’ 👌🏼🔥

[@mackenziecunningham5457]

We raise lambs as well!! What is your electronic tag system?

[@SandiBrock]

I use a Gallagher management system, and the tags are the Canadian RFID tags that are mandatory before shipping off the farm.

[@justinhigginbotham5125]

Hey Sandi I’m getting a show lamb in a couple of weeks what should I look for in a ewe

[@SandiBrock]

Maybe someone else can help here?? I'm terrible at knowing... Feet and legs are the one thing I look at...

[@justinhigginbotham5125]

Ok thanks anyways I’m always looking for tips on how to be the best owner I can be

[@shawnshukur6776]

We had a lamb that was born in March, how should we vaccinate it and what kind? Thanks

[@rebeccajoensson]

Talk to your vet, it might vary depending on where you are.

[@SandiBrock]

Hey Shawn, Rebecca is right. My vaccination schedule is very custom made for my flock... I would talk to a vet, even just a phone call to get an idea of what to do, when.

[@321karli]

Do I sheep farm nope but I sheep farm through Sandi lol so thanks ladybird

[@bcpfarmandtrucking6560]

How old are the lambs at breeding time?

[@keithweedt7236]

Is that program a downloadable or purchase?

[@smh4960]

I see ewe and I think od uwu but its squinting Ik its not that but now im actually curious to what it means

[@Naeemkhan-tr1uv]

my from is Pakistan

[@user-mv5ot8qh1e]

Hello, How are you? My name is Abdullah I am from Algeria. I am married. I have a child. I am looking for work. I have experience in the field of raising sheep and cows. I can work in all conditions. At any time I am committed and disciplined. I am from Algeria. I hope to find work in your beautiful farm. Consciousness, thank you

[@brook4987]

Do ur sheep ever go on pasture

[@ahmetfakll2350]

Hello Sandy I am Aziz in Turkey.Can you emryo transfering?

[@SandiBrock]

I don't know too much on the logistics of shipping embryos, but yes ET can be done on sheep I believe...

[@ahmetfakll2350]

@@SandiBrock thank you Sandi.See you

[@ahmetfakll2350]

for rideau

[@robertbuck4284]

In the 1960's I selected twins 1st choice.

[@SandiBrock]

Definitely agree!

[@lorablair3863]

What is a replacement lamb?

[@DellaClever]

Keeping babies to raise to use as future breeding stock

[@countrylife392]

Do your sheep ever go out to pasture ?

[@JudyHart1]

Allison Dunn she’s got coyotes on their property, so entirely indoor operation.

[@countrylife392]

@@JudyHart1 I've got coyotes too along with mt lions, wolves and my sheep are out during the day when the snow melts off. I was more wondering about vit D and the other from sun and grass.

[@usmancheema4557]

I u use a stick I would be a lot easier for u to push them

[@Naeemkhan-tr1uv]

you are from