Last Lambing of 2018 (A CHRISTMAS SPECIAL): Vlog 112

[@jamestatham9950]

Your sheep look very healthy and as a fellow sheep farm in England I think you do a fantastic job!

[@SandiBrock]

Thanks so much James!!!

[@jdmunro9831]

Merry Christmas Just admiring the fantastic condition of your breeding ewes and new born lambs and also the cleanliness of the housing pens and most of all the dedication from the producer top job well done keep up the excellent work ! Regards from Scotland

[@SandiBrock]

Awe! Thanks so much!! Merry Christmas!!

[@jjcactusandsucculents-open2156]

Your videos get me going in the mornings! Thanks, Joyce

[@abdulahmadi4512]

wow. Great respect from Denmark. I would like to quit my study as radiographer and start goat farming in Denmark. You are inspiring me. I have heard that sheep farming is hard to start with... Very nice hat and you look great too.

[@LimeKilnFarmNY]

my lambs are fed, good time for some paperwork and sheepishlyme viewing.... such a sweet vid with the Christmas music and speedy filming. Keep us smiling1

[@SandiBrock]

Enjoy!

[@alwborys346]

Merry Christmas Brock family! Always look forward to your vids and your Christmas one made me smile :) Keep up the good work. Your operation is truly inspiring. Here in western Canada we lamb a group of ewes in mid November to mid December outside in a corral with enclosed shelters. We spread out the lambing period because it helps to avoid mismothering if only one or two ewes lamb at a time. The lambs are tough and do well if they are singles or twins. For this reason we select the winter lambing group from really good mothers that can keep track of their lambs in a group setting. Anyone that has triplets are moved into the limited space we have in the barn, or we bottle feed the smallest lamb. The rest of the ewes lamb out on pasture in April or May. I like your barn system better. Hope to have a lambing barn one day. Guess I’ll have to ask Santa for one lol

[@SandiBrock]

Love this system! I think at the end of the day, we design our management systems around our environment and what we have to work with... You know what your limitations are during those months and you've found a way to make it work. I guess in my system, time seems to be my limiting factor with the overlap of crop work, so lambing them in a tight period of time is a solution, but creates more work during that period. Thanks for sharing!!

[@abbyrice4985]

Merry Christmas Sandi! Thanks for another great video ❤️🎄

[@SandiBrock]

Thank you! Merry Christmas!

[@beccadotelpy]

The lambs with casts are the cutest sad little things. OMG. 😍

[@georgegoertzen4723]

Hah, the ear tag is electronic! What a great move forward. Tag readers on gates, barn doors.... no counting black sheep anymore! And they need to know about this over in Britain! Cows too!

[@SandiBrock]

You bet!

[@RuralCoast2024]

Merry Christmas Sandi! Thanks for sharing! The Lambs are soo cute! Been a few early Lambs down here too. Best wishes!

[@SandiBrock]

Merry Christmas Pam!

[@mindivanhouten310]

We had one that never bagged up either but was incredibly big...so waited and waited and she never lambed. Was happy to just hang out and be a jungle gym for the lambs to climb on and jump off of. We ended up selling her at 280 lbs. We have a whopping 10 ewes to lamb out this year (the most for us so far) due in 3 months or so. It's a lot of work, but very exciting! Hope you're able to relax and enjoy the holidays! Hope you had a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

[@SandiBrock]

Thanks Mindi! Merry Christmas!!

[@daltm79]

Sandi, Merry Christmas and a Happy new year to you, Marc and your whole family. We are also going to be lambing in a couple of days. Great Idea for a splint. Thank you for sharing.

[@SandiBrock]

THanks Daniel! Merry Christmas and happy lambing!

[@calumanderson5617]

Merry Christmas to you and your family Sandi👍and Kinsey😁 ,👍🎄🎁🎈🎅🤶🐑🐏🐕 a

[@SandiBrock]

Merry Christmas Calum!!

[@johncritch6812]

Such gentle creatures.

[@mnikcd123]

Little Lamb saying: Hey we both have pink on! Mama! 💓💓💓🎄🎄

[@josephballato2634]

Merry Christmas! I normally breed Nubian goats and I just acquired 2 Katahdin ewes. 1 I know is preg due in May. I decided to get into sheep after watching your channel... I know 2 is a small start but you have to start somewhere. Merry Christmas to you and your family!

[@SandiBrock]

Merry Christmas!! Good luck and all the best in your journey!!

[@omarabdel2007]

Merry Christmas Sandi..to you and your family... Happy new year from Palestine.

[@SandiBrock]

Thank you so much! Merry Christmas!!

[@harrisfarms5753]

Merry Christmas from Tennessee!!!

[@SandiBrock]

Merry Christmas!!!

[@smartbarn]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Keep up the great work!

[@abdoulayecoulibaly7935]

Merry Christmas Sandi..

[@SandiBrock]

Merry Christmas!!!

[@nagginwitch]

Your hat... Is it a person with their hand up the cow's whoohaa? 🤔

[@SandiBrock]

LOL. Its a fellow KZbinr's merch product! Cody Creelman-Cow Vet.

[@estellar8186]

love cody! He is how I found you!!! I really miss his vetting videos and hope he finds his "home" but I LOVE your videos. Merry Christmas 2019! Tomorrow is Christmas Eve

[@gerinevicencio9603]

This reminds me of “Little Bo-Peep” & “Mary Had a Little Lamb” from Nursery Rhymes (1983)

[@pamelacarroll6045]

Would love a detailed chart of your marking system pretty please! Thank you!

[@karynsztabaluk1479]

A bunch of Tiny Tim lambs for Christmas. God bless us everyone. Lol

[@HHMRBS]

Hello Sandi, how to get a plaster cast when there are problems with the feet of the lambs. I would have loved to watch a video that you did. Thanks. Happy New Year. Note: I do not speak English, I could write this text with foole translate. I'm sorry for that.

[@SandiBrock]

Next time I get another lamb that I have to cast, I will do a better video on that! Thank you!

[@muzammalabbas4206]

Greart job sandi , im so inspired from u

[@SandiBrock]

Thank you!

[@geraldinerice5371]

But they get lovely pink shoes.! I could not see a man saying to a little baby lamb " where is ur mommy" , so sweet, caring and loving.

[@barbarawilder2956]

Dumb question: You are so tender hearted. Is it hard to send lambs to slaughter?

[@SB-ll1tt]

Damn!! That hat is brilliant!

[@SandiBrock]

That must be my Cody Creelman hat? He has an amazing KZbin channel!!

[@SB-ll1tt]

Sandi Brock I’ll look!

[@michaelgilmore7741]

Happy Christmas sandi just started 86 ewes lambing hopefully no lambs tomorrow

[@SandiBrock]

Good luck Michael!! All the best with your lambing group!

[@michaelgilmore7741]

Sandi Brock thanks we only have 1 group we get joint I’ll a lot exercise the legs as often as possible no more than 1s a day

[@shepherdewan]

Cute sheep

[@ТимаДжимми]

Greeting from Kazakhstan. I am really into your videos, but sometimes I don't get some parts due to language barrier. Is it possible for you to turn on the subtitle options in Russian? Would be really glad! Thank you!

[@SandiBrock]

Thank you for this comment! I've wondered about a subtitle option... I will investigate and try to do that!

[@trystangaynor325]

Put up a video of you putting out lambs to the field

[@mohammedfayed6469]

Merry Christmas

[@edcarver390]

I noticed a lot of the lambs you had to cast had black markings. Do you have data that could show the leg issues as a congenital issue from the ram?

[@zoenewton6365]

Thanks for all your awesome videos! Just wondering what temperature your barn is during lambing? Do you ever have to intervene with heat when it gets too cold? Thanks so much!

[@SandiBrock]

The barn is COLD in the winter... so I have quit lambing in January and February. But in the day, I have tried adding some heat lamps but quickly pulled them back out when the lambs preferred to stay there and not get up and find mom for food. Honestly, what I've found is if those lambs get licked off and fed, thats there greatest chance of survival. Once they are through that first 24 hours, the cold actually helps with their health and growth.

[@melissagerold152]

Merry Christmas! What's the air temperature in your barn? I noticed there's no heat lamps hanging. I use em sparingly down here near Chicago, when it gets below freezing, am I being too cautious? Thanks for the vids and info!

[@SandiBrock]

Hey Tim! Merry Christmas! I don't use heat lamps here... The barn gets cold... especially at night. In the day however, if there is sun, that barn can typically get about 5-10 degrees C higher than outdoor temps. I tried heat lamps in little huts my first year when temps were really bad in January and Feb... but I pulled them out when lambs decided they didn't want to leave that space to go get a drink from mom. I lost so many lambs that year. The cold barn doesn't hurt them... in fact, as soon as those lambs are dry and have a belly full of colostrum, I find they do better in the cooler temps. Less respiratory problems, they eat more, so they grow well. BUT, I don't lamb in January and February anymore. LOL.

[@rodneyswales6538]

Dorset or crosses .or shots to breed

[@waseemahmadkundji6950]

Very nice

[@sharneehogan6828]

merry Christmas

[@SandiBrock]

Merry Christmas!!

[@sharneehogan6828]

+Sandi Brock love watching the lambs being born

[@visionforwardacademy8596]

Love ur job

[@SandiBrock]

Thanks!

[@visionforwardacademy8596]

@@SandiBrock And also love too you really.

[@sbergman6766]

Hi new subscriber here. Sorry if someone already asked in previous comments but how many days do you keep mom and lambs in the jug?

[@SandiBrock]

Usually around 24 hrs.

[@carolobie2539]

How many times have you been stepped on????

[@jacksugden8190]

You’ll know where to go for a roast 🐑 dinner 🍽.

[@sabyrjanjurabekov9641]

Sandi super

[@dianewhissell-wv6hd]

I love watching your videos but I have to watch other like white house on the hill

[@nattaswahn]

Why do you cut their tails? :)

[@erkerk4640]

Hi Sandi.. why do you think birth rates are lower this time? You mentioned 1.8 , i believe it was over 2.0. Thank you and wishing you a merry Christmas.. happy new year..

[@SandiBrock]

I think it could be a seasonality thing here... They were bred in July, so out of season. Wondering if that was a factor... These same ewes averaged 2.3 lambs per ewe when they last lambed in March...

[@erkerk4640]

@@SandiBrock thank you Sandi.. dont know if you will see my next question: how do you calculate birth rate? I see different numbers used as base. Some are using the total number of ewes that were bred, but some are using only the number of ewes that give birth.

[@k.a.fblitz4997]

süss Froch weinachten

[@SandiBrock]

Merry Christmas!

[@fusionbird]

how long do you seperate mom and lamb before you let them to the flok ? question from a new sheep owner :)

[@SandiBrock]

Do you mean how long do I keep the ewe lambs in my finishing barn before I bring them back over to the main barn? Usually after they are 16 weeks old... So about 2 months after they are weaned...

[@rocdalocs4eva22]

Lol I just noticed your hat

[@SandiBrock]

My KZbin idol, Cody Creelman Cow Vet... Its his merch...

[@stanhensley3082]

Those little devils are lucky to you!!

[@SandiBrock]

Awe, thanks!

[@rodneyswales6538]

double joints been a problem before or tied to certain ram

[@SandiBrock]

Very rarely... but did notice they were all Suffolk decent. So that thought crossed my mind. But I've had numerous groups from these rams and haven't seen it before.

[@jorgemaita5153]

Hola, muy lindo, pero faltaría los subtítulos al español , soy de Argentina.

[@Ellier215]

How does one dispose a dead lamp?

[@بلالعبابنه-د1غ]

فيديو رائع

[@violettevicencio363]

2:18 Is Twin Lambs, a boy or girl⁉️

[@keithbrettell2058]

Merry Christmas Brock family! Here's an idea for a video, could you do a video explaining the terms 'market lambs' and 'replacement lambs'. I kinda know what they are, I'm just havin' a brain fart about how they fit into your program. Thanks!

[@SandiBrock]

Great idea Keith! Thank you and Merry Christmas!

[@violettevicencio363]

4:45 Is Lamb, a boy or girl⁉️

[@gerinevicencio9603]

Family Home Entertainment presents Nursery Rhymes (1983)

[@emmanueldejesus5397]

La traducción al español sería genial , por favor MÉXICO lo agradecería....

[@alekm804]

I still dont know if i prefer indoor or outdoor lambing xd as right now im helping with outdoor

[@louann4992]

I don't understand? Your the one who controls it there. Well all but the stillborns ect. Don't have so many then that would lighten up your work load.

[@louann4992]

OMG THATS HORRIBLE❗& she thinks it's great. What is wrong with her? She loves Christmas time & was hoping she was going to get to be in the barn and with her animals. She had no business having kids or really even married. What does Mark get as far as a wife. He spent over half a mil so she wouldn't miss being in a barn. She hates her house, don't like and rarely do work in the house she doesn't like. She prefers to be away from the husband and children with her sheep. She rarely cooks oh I could go on & on. My point is what do the husband & kids get in return. A BIG FAT " O". She's so selfish and cold also she is a " TAKER" Mark and the kids probably prefer not to be around her much anyway. Oh how I could go on and on but will stop here cuz all of you people that thinks she can all but walk on water are probably about to have a cow about now lol.

[@lilbatz]

What the ever loving hell. And here I was going to ask if she ever found out the reason for so many mispositioned lambs. Go out and touch some grass.

[@danielthomas8670]

why do you cut that tail off God made it

[@mrcool1boss10]

What did she do with the babys tail?

[@violettevicencio363]

5:21 Is Lamb, a boy or girl⁉️