Moving, catching, and handling sheep and goats

[@DJTT-d9h]

Thank you very much for the tips. I need to catch 3 large sheep to transport to another farm - on my own as a 77-year old woman. I need all the tips I can get!

[@rollingofarm]

Best of luck!

[@530eman]

I am a beginner and yes, this was very helpful, thank you 🙏🏻

[@rollingofarm]

Glad it was helpful!

[@nabeelrehan9836]

Thanks for the important tips man . I truly appreciate that. Like from Pakistan 🇵🇰

[@tyrroo]

Great info, thank you

[@rollingofarm]

Glad it was helpful!

[@LibertyOperation]

Super helpful

[@rollingofarm]

Glad you think so!

[@PaulLadendorf]

Excellent! Thanks. Newbie here in northeast AL who needs all the help he can get.

[@rollingofarm]

Glad to help

[@kristianditlev]

Great tips for handling. I am a newbie with sheep, so I appreciate the altruistic help. Greetings from Denmark, Europe.

[@rollingofarm]

Thanks

[@ModernPrairieHomestead]

Just the information I was looking for! Great video, Thank You!

[@brianrotach3153]

Your videos are always spot on. Thank you so much for all the information you consistently provide.

[@bradjon7231]

Nice informative video.

[@returnedfrompanama]

Great video! I wouldn’t know what to do with all those animals. Lol😂

[@sibusisodyosih309]

Happy farming to you too 🎉

[@rollingofarm]

Thanks 😁

[@denisewildfortune4058]

Thanks for demonstrating the techniques that I've mostly read about. I'll have an opportunity soon to try them out.

[@spoolsandbobbins]

Love these videos!! Thank you, from Nova Scotia

[@rollingofarm]

Thanks

[@raffiquehillocks7501]

I use those techniques before watching the video but it's good I am doing what an experienced person is doing I am new to sheep so learning as I go along.

[@Kanoshe]

excellent video. ive never seen anyone use the hook as good on KZbin. make a more in depth video on the hook please?

[@HomemakingwithRebekah]

Thanks so much! We are having to check the leg of one of our sheep and this is very helpful

[@trav-meags9778]

Its nice to see videos from people with bigger numbers of animals. Keep up the good work! Thank you from Minnesota

[@thomasevans3620]

Thanks mate your videos have helped me alot I'm building a flip table like yours too.

[@warntopia]

Thanks again....very helpful information 👍🏼

[@NorthnSouthHomestead]

Just found your channel. I’m looking to get into sheep this year . Just a few . Nice video.

[@Kai_The_Kai]

I would recommend not getting a lamb under 1 month, the chance of death is high in the first 2 weeks and lambs just die for seemingly no reason

[@OldesouthFarm]

I had used the double crook. But the metal snapped one cold morning. Happen to two of them. I use a wooden crook now.

[@TheRealLutando]

Hello, Thank you for your videos, I love them. When you made the sheep to see on its rump it made me think of something, how difficult would it be to modify your flip table to flip front-side rather than sideways? This would mean so support at the back

[@rollingofarm]

Not sure, but the that could work.

[@justinkaub5038]

Awesome video. I am just over a year with my small flock. Any handling tips for the rams. Mine isn’t mean, but he is wild and nervous. He actually jumped a cattle panel on us. So far my only success is getting him back with the ewes. Then we got him in our pallet diy chute. He was packed in with some ewes. So we were able to do some things. Couldn’t trim his hooves just because no way to get to them. Next plan is to do the same thing but put a rope around him. Once out of the chute maybe control him with the rope until I can get him flipped over. Or just have someone hold him until I can pull a leg up. He is a wild boy for sure. Never aggressive, just wants the heck out of there.

[@rollingofarm]

If he is a young ram, he may mellow a little as he ages, however they are flock animals and rarely do well by themselves.

[@Gloria101960]

We have one like this. His first hour here after delivery, he jumped the outer fence with barb wire on top. We were able to retrieve him the next day at a neighbors house when their six dogs pinned him into bushes next to a building. He had a lot of minor injuries , but recovered well. Named him Mr Jumpy. He has not tried to jump a fence since that episode. He is calmer but does NOT like hoof care. We put him in a small area and threw a large quilt over his head. He stood still and we were able to grab him and lay him back . Kept his eyes covered but pulled it back so he could breathe. Worked well. Talked softly and whispered to him. WE just did a wild ewe today. She is a jumper. We threw a black T shirt over her head and pulled so her nose was out of the arm hole. She calmed down. If they can not see, They seem to calm down.

[@drakthorzodin-son3643]

dont be afraid to flip it. show it dominance.

[@mamadoubalde487]

You are doing great job. Thank you.

[@cindylillemo7839]

Thank you!

[@AhmadiyyaRevolution]

Great work

[@rollingofarm]

Thank you so much 😀

[@mattallen9546]

Great stuff. As always.

[@biofarmakolin]

You show it very nicely, best regards;)

[@pegtop5455]

Thank you.

[@rollingofarm]

You're welcome!

[@SammyTheSituation]

Top content here. Im liking it.

[@ChrisPerez-fb2kj]

My sheep go crazy as soon as I get close, start crashing into the fence and jumping everywhere

[@rollingofarm]

You may be able to calm them down by daily feeding a little grain. They may get use to seeing you and equating it with a treat. It may take a few weeks, but they may help.

[@robertgao8866]

Great videos! I am learning every time watching them! BTW how you dehorn your goats? Do you have a video for that? Thanks…

[@rollingofarm]

Thanks. I don’t have personal experience dehorning, but I think most disbud the kids when they are young with a disbudding hot iron.

[@alboggs7561]

I like to see the doctor place

[@snipe757]

Some very good points there. I like your chute and yard setup. Trying to figure out how to set up something similar on my property. Hills make things very tricky. Also, cute Lamancha. She seems a personable little goat.

[@theannihilator1707]

Do a video on how to handle a Spanish fighting bull

[@rollingofarm]

😂

[@quailjailss]

I wish you’d do a video on pasture in the southeast. My extension agent basically told me to switch to cattle. Said sheep don’t really do well on Bermuda or Bahia. I’m hoping they can graze those just fine!!! Planning on establishing a few stands of sericea lespedeza as well for grazing… what do you have in your fields?

[@rollingofarm]

They will eat Bermuda (I’ve never had Bahia, but have tried to feed Bahia grass -they didn’t love it). My pastures are mostly fescue, orchard, Bermuda, and mixed grass.

[@quailjailss]

@@rollingofarm oh crap that is discouraging! Bahia is such a low input forage. I was hoping it would work. Do you mind if I ask what county you’re in? I wonder If I can get orchard grass established here… central AL, not sure if it will grow here

[@ejsaab4484]

But my dorper sheeps a bit more aggressive...the guy who sheared my sheeps call them Mike Tyson. Do I have to use a bit more muscle on them?

[@danharris2007]

Do you keep your ram with your ewes or do you keep them seprate. Thank you and God bless

[@rollingofarm]

I keep my rams in with my ewes year-round

[@danharris2007]

@@rollingofarm ok thank you brother. What about the ram breading his daughters. Im new with sheep ive got 18 of them for meat. I have black belly barbadosthey are skidish but very good sheep

[@johnhunter1362]

​@danharris2007 his sheep are inbred is probably the answer. Don't keep your ram with your ewes until the right time and you've already removed his daughters from the flock. You probably already figured that out.

[@iericnierman]

👍

[@knightwolf2708]

👍👍👍👍

[@Kai_The_Kai]

I have to pick up my sheep off the ground because he’s having a stroke and I don’t know if I’m strong enough to do that ;-;

[@jakeh9366]

Is that a store bought crook? I'm deff gonna put a smaller crook on mine!

[@rollingofarm]

Yes it is a store bought crook.

[@frankvoisin3844]

@@rollingofarm where did you get it? It looks like a great one and I can’t find one that looks like that.

[@craignell4451]

How do you transport without a truck?

[@rollingofarm]

I don’t think I deal with that directly, but you can check out my video on transporting goats and sheep and maybe it will give some ideas.

[@gracewells1670]

do you know how to pick up a sheep over your shoulders like in pictures?

[@rollingofarm]

They have to be pretty young (and light) for me to pick one up on my shoulder.

[@drakthorzodin-son3643]

You are not wrong. However when its time to get and about this time... to thin the males out for meat. you might be stuck doing things to get them to fatten instead of the whole herd.

[@matthewbartsh9167]

Why do the sheep not get used to you, and stop running away, or even start to follow you around hoping for a treat?

[@rollingofarm]

Everyone probably has their own preferences for management. I prefer them not to be overly tame so that they are under my feet, but I do want them to come if I shake a feed bucket. In my experience this is the best balance for easy handling. I can get them to follow, or I can push them, and they’re not in the way.

[@matthewbartsh9167]

@@rollingofarm How would you get them to be extremely tame?

[@DiemenDesign]

It is possible to kill a Sheep or Goat by using their horns as handles. I know someone that had this happen to two of their goats, though I suspect they were overly rough with them, but still good to be cautious. Some good tips here, thanks for sharing.

[@rollingofarm]

I've never killed one by grabbing it's horns. I have broke off a horn on some that have been malnourished and had very weak brittle horns.

[@DiemenDesign]

Still not something pleasant for them or us.

[@Kai_The_Kai]

If they are swinging their head back and forth trying to get away it’s probably best to let go flat out

[@Camorockers.]

Never grab a goats horns, ,, don’t listen to this guy’s advice if you want to have tame animals, he’s teaching you how to have her animals that are not tame and don’t want nothing to do with you unless you have feed But they only want to feed. They don’t want you to pet them at all guaranteed.

[@Camorockers.]

Nope