SEE HOW THIS FAMILY GET THEIR SHEEP THROUGH THE ORKNEY WINTER

Sean, the viking, got his first big break on the sheep game. Now he's made it onto BBC This farming Life! Here's a behind the scenes look at his farm.
Great scenery, hardy sheep and a bit of fun along the way.
Hope you enjoy and feel free to ask any questions,
Cammy
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ABOUT ME
I’m 31 years old and I’m a sheep farmer from Ayrshire in South West Scotland, which is why I have such a strong accent! I was born and raised on a sheep farm watching my dad who was the shepherd.
At 18 I went away from farming to work in the city (something I still do) and at 23 (2013) I decided I wanted to do something for some extra money so I went on a sheep shearing course. The hardest thing I’ll ever do was learning to shear sheep. [shudders thinking about it]
I shore whilst on my holidays from work for 2 years and then in 2015 my dad died so I decided to get my own sheep so I could continue working with sheep as it was something I loved doing. From there it escalated quickly from my first 4 sheep in my mum’s garden to now running around 850 breeding ewes.
I shore over 19,000 sheep this season in the UK and have my own shearing run which lets you see many different farms in the summer months.
A few years ago I bought myself a sheep pregnancy scanner and have been building up my run since then.
I watched a few farm vlogs on KZbin and decided I could have a go and now here we are!
Thanks for watching my videos and please subscribe if you want to see more in future.

[@kristinefrink5726]

Hi Cammy, I couldn't help but notice the handicap showing in Sean's pup.... his sweet little front-right leg seems "misaligned" from the rest of his limbs. Poor baby, I've no doubt he's well looked after, yet feel badly for him: please extend LOTS of TLC on my behalf, 'n hugs/kisses!! Many thanks!

[@tammykaltreider]

Cammy thank you for taking us places that some of us would never be able to experience otherwise. Sean is such a sweet boy and I really enjoyed him explaining his set up and the reasoning behind it all. You my friend never disappoint…😊🐏🐑💙 #makingfarmingcoolagain

[@loisblais3431]

I really enjoyed this visit Cam! Watching you two together made me smile and enjoy the comradeship. Great sheep barns and healthy stock. It’s refreshing to see the younger generation taking responsibility and ownership of the family heritage . Delightful thank you.

[@MeanBadger89]

Wow!! Those are some Quiet seep. Sean is like a sheep whisperer! 😂 Love the videos Cammy! The content has been amazing!❤️ Much love from Washington State.✌️

[@TheSheepGame]

Thank you!!

[@juliemoses1909]

Sean must be a nice guy. His sheep are so mellow.

[@ryanlennox684]

Fantastic. Sean appears to be a hard worker and great fella. Hope he is successful with his new farm and doll. Really hope if there is another series of this Farming Life that they can get him back

[@joanlittle4235]

The Viking man is like a polished Sword . I was so happy to see him and see how hard he works. Thanks Cammie.. Granny.90

[@natashamalpusthamesartnail1228]

Love the Orkney accent! And Shetland yarn 🧶

[@elizabeththomson2579]

I really enjoy seeing the different farms. The Viking is fabulous, although I did have a lot of trouble understanding what he was saying!! Great scenery too.

[@petulasingleton1446]

Sean needs to vlog his new farm , great video, well done guys

[@cher1894]

This video was a delight to watch - informative & entertsining. Orkney is truly breathtakingly beautiful. Lizzie & you will get you're dream farm set-up & hopefully soon. 🙏 Wishing Sean & Emma all the very best of luck together & on their new farm. Hopefully we will see future updates of their new farm & the improvements to Laga Farm's sheep shed. All of you are truly living the dream & its fantastic to see. 👍❤👏

[@boba9253]

What a delightful video! Really enjoy seeing the farming process...always a good time going along on the day's chores.

[@TheSheepGame]

Thanks Bob!

[@jamesbryan9073]

Great content Cany, keep it up, better than anything else on telly 👍

[@Devin3Anthologie]

To see y'all working so hard to make the lives of your sheep more comfortable is wonderful. I'm going to be honest even though Sean spoke slower than you Cammy I couldn't quite catch some of his words. But I had to look at his mouth quite a bit. I'm getting better though,👍🏾 BTW Does Sean know he is a pretty boy? 😏

[@TheSheepGame]

Hahaha he is well aware

[@tomgregory7039]

Love the video cammy Sean should definitely start his own KZbin channel great video as always

[@rossholmes178]

Excellent! Great to see what happens on the other side of the world...we Aussies can be a bit set in our ways! Lots to share and learn...thanks mate.

[@kalgaramerinos7085]

I agree. Even though we are not dealing with quite those climate extremes there are some really good pointers in Cammy's vids.

[@jacklikesrugger]

Awh man! I was asleep!…. Morning!

[@jessealexander4329]

I enjoy watching these videos. 30+ years ago an Australian moved into our area and started a large sheep operation. I got to be good friends with him and watched the innovative ideas he brought in. After a few years he decided that the Australian model doesn't work so well in northern NY State. He told me to study what was happening in the UK instead. At the time our shearer was Billy Kinghorn from The Isle Of Arran who also wintered in Dorset. He was shearing in the US on a visitors visa and had to return to the UK every 4 months to renew his visa. I went with him on one of his trips to tag up and spent two weeks visiting sheep operations in England and Scotland as well as every pub between them. I learned a lot and implemented a lot of UK management ideas. Billy later got caught, arrested, and deported so it was good that I went while I could. That was a long time ago now so it is good to get an update on what is being done there now to copy.

[@akoilady9097]

I wish I could understand you better, but I love the lyrical language! I also love how you have so much laughter in your videos! I enjoyed this very much. Thanks Cammy!

[@KarenCashatt51]

I LOVE listening to you guys! He has a nice barn for his lambs. ♥️ Loads of love… give Jake a kiss from the old granny from Florida.

[@jimmyjohnstone5878]

Jock. The baby is called Jock.

[@KarenCashatt51]

@@jimmyjohnstone5878 awwwe nuts! Sorry Cammie didn’t mean to get little Jock’s name wrong. Thanks for the correction Jimmy.

[@graemejjh]

2 legends at work. Great video as usual Cammy, and a great Co Host.

[@billpotmesil]

That’s awesome! What a great friendship between you two. Sean is an impressive shepherd! He is moving forward and always learning from his experience. So cool!

[@tiffanykrause2529]

Love Vikings farm! Lovely sheds

[@petermcsporran240]

Really enjoyable. Thanks as a retired farmer it brings back happy memories

[@lizhrubik3936]

Love seeing the Viking and he’s doing so well great lambing sheds. The sheep look healthy and happy.

[@karenjohnson8945]

Thank you Cammy for sharing Sean's farm. Those slats are a great concept.

[@paddy294]

Cracking video as always. Some setup Sean has. The sheep look very happy and contented.

[@bejaysus7388]

A boy Cammy another good video 👍. The viking has a great setup. He makes it look easy.

[@anndavies4265]

Loved the video, the viking did a very good job in explaining his set up and how it works for him. He lives in a beautiful place.

[@janetwhitten3945]

What an amazing farm, with beautiful scenery.

[@nz-nz]

Certainly a different set up to our farm where our sheep are on grass 24/7. The only time they come inside is when they empty out pre shearing. 👍

[@kellybishop6451]

Such a beautiful place! Thanks for taking us for an adventure! Such hard work, and it pays off in the long run. Not many people are willing to put in the time, and money for sheep farming.

[@nanalesa24]

Informative and nice farm. He certainly speaks fast. so many different types of sheep barns.

[@donnaparrish7638]

I so enjoy these kinds of videos. Thanks Cammy!

[@ranger553]

Great video guys. greetings from a poor sheep farmer in west Ireland

[@farmvetfilms]

Great walkthrough of Laga’s setup. Hopefully Sean gets to the bottom of any possible resistance issues 🙏

[@annadeacon842]

Thank you for the tour, it's great to see different set ups and the different challenges other farms face. And I love hearing the difference in accent too!

[@janissarywalker6312]

I look forward to your videos and enjoy all the laughter shared with your friends.

[@christinegibbins6105]

Many thanks Cammy, very interesting. You take care.

[@hillfarm7044]

Farming is incredibly capital intensive. It is also an impossible addiction to break, once you start down the path you just keep convincing yourself the next purchase/improvement will make things easier. 🤣 I admit I might need subtitles with Sean.

[@Annie6460]

Amazing farming on such a remote area of the world! ❤️🇦🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@PeggyStentzCasey]

I love the brogue although I don't get everything, it helps that we know basically what he is talking about. lol Great video. I love seeing all the different types of farms and set ups.

[@adventureswithmawmawtina4879]

Great ideas and information. Beautiful country

[@danbeale4153]

Awesome farm set up and enjoyed all the barn layout, feed, etc....well done Sean. Cammy really enjoy your videos. My Aunt raised North Country Cheviots here in Maine-USA.

[@habslover2306]

Thoroughly enjoyed this look at another set up. Slats were interesting. Orkney views are spectacular. I found I understood almost everything which surprised me. What I didn't was more technical (not knowing what the terms meant) than not understanding the word.

[@TheSheepGame]

Brilliant! Well done you because Sean’s accent isn’t easy for the non Scot! 😆

[@kasie680]

@@TheSheepGame he’s easy to understand! I’ve never had an issue

[@379milly]

Excellent video, good to see what works and what would change

[@Dannsandiego]

Great vlog today, Cammy and Sean. What spectacular countryside!

[@struancochrane753]

Without reading all the comments I don't know if this has been said....But housing your ewes for 3 months helps break the liver fluke cycle and you can dose your ewes with a non triclobendazol [sic] fluke dose. Hopefully this allows the fluke not to build up a resistance to it. Great to see.

[@gingerbaker4579]

ROFL. You do know this is Orkney right? If he let his sheep out for three months in the winter they'd starve long before fluke causes any harm.

[@struancochrane753]

@@gingerbaker4579 I was meaning as a general management strategy, getting the sheep off the ground for 3 months to break the fluke cycle, not geographically specific to the northern Isles.

[@gingerbaker4579]

@@struancochrane753 Fluke is a **chance** event. Not every cattle or sheep herd is going to get it. You need the right conditions, as any disease. So you're saying house one farmer's herd of sheep for 3 months & because their neighbors didn't house their own herds... fluke would just continue on year after year after year.

[@struancochrane753]

@@gingerbaker4579 Having farmed in SW Scotland I can assure you fluke isn't a chance event. The point I am trying to make, clearly badly, is that by having the sheep off grass for 6 weeks plus allows you to assume any flukicide you choose to use needs only to target mature fluke. Therefore you can steer clear of triclabendazole based products which targets early immature fluke as well. Studies have shown fluke can build up a resistance to triclabenazole, therefore being able to treat your flock using other products will help in the long run. This isn't a reason to put up an expensive shed, but if you house your sheep anyhow it has this added, albeit small, advantage in fluke prone areas, which tend to be areas of high rainfall and mild winters, like most of the west coast of Britain.

[@gingerbaker4579]

@@struancochrane753 You're missing the point, quite clearly. It's cheaper and more intelligent to limit the exposure to fluke - which is possible through proper field management - than it is to house sheep for 3 months. Which when to eliminate the fluke successfully with little chance of reinvestigation you need upwards of 5 to 6 months not 3. 3 months is a basic cycle under great conditions. Never mind as said given the way in which fluke and the snail host reproduce - in massive numbers - housing your own sheep is a pointless venture when next year the fluke and the snails will be in your backyard again due to neighbors.

[@michaelgriffiths6395]

I love the blogs you 2 do together it's like watching a comedy duo. 😂😂😉

[@lisaward7969]

Love a bit of Sean and Orkney Fasinating about the slats

[@VideoJocky1]

Excellent video Cammy! I really enjoy the variety of subject matter you show in your videos. It's nice you give center stage to the other farmers and let them tell their stories. 👍

[@eileenbass952]

"Do the Lamb Sheep in here?" Brilliant. The Viking sounds like mix of Irish and Scottish.

[@saragayle2217]

Very interesting, such beautiful quiet sheep , love seeing the different ways sheep are kept and the characters you meet

[@rodmackinnon8497]

Fabulous content . . . have to be a hearty person on that landscape . . .

[@firstlight7419]

This was very interesting. I love seeing set-ups and evaluating how the changes are working. Well done!

[@lizhrubik3936]

What a beautiful place, thanks for sharing with us.

[@rgober60]

Wonderful video Cammie!! Thank you for sharing. I didn't understand half of what was said ...😂..but I enjoyed it none the less. Blessings to you and the family 🙏💜🕊✝️

[@TheSheepGame]

Thanks Gail! Just when u get used to my accent I bring in Sean 🤣

[@christineroerty2534]

What a fun video. I love Orkney, I have been there three times. Gorgeous place and beautiful people. Really enjoyed this. Thanks Cammie and Sean.

[@andrewspedding]

What a fantastic sheep set up

[@leestewart9558]

Great video, the viking seams like a real gent. Really enjoyed this.

[@wendyrowland7787]

Sean’s farm is a credit to all his family. The plastic slats may be be a big initial outlay but I am sure they will quickly pay for themselves. The one good thing about the outdoor trough having to be filled daily is that the sheep enjoy it fresh before it oxidises. I look forward to seeing them on This Farming Life. Sorry Cammy, you are handsome lad, but I can see why the young girls swoon over big Sean.

[@TheSheepGame]

🤣🤣🤣 he’s got a wee bit of dark Spanish in him. Helps with the looks 🤣

[@wendyrowland7787]

@@TheSheepGame Cammy did you know that the Vikings were not all the blond Germanic people we thought they were. In fact quite a mixture. There is also a fjord in Norway, cut off by the terrain where they are dark fiery, with a dialect difficult to understand and were known for settling scores with knives. Could have been from the crew of one of the Spanish Armada’s fleeing vessels. So Sean could have two sources of Spanish blood. We also have the so called ‘black Irishmen’ thought to be descended from shipwrecked Spaniards. I expect somebody who knows a lot more will manage to fill in the details.

[@ellencarver5575]

Excellent video I really enjoyed seeing around Sean’s family farm they are a lovely family very hard working. I wish him and his girlfriend good luck on their new farm.

[@ditryn1382]

Love listening to your accents I’m finally able to understand everything. Thank you so much for the tour.

[@jilljunkala8132]

Nice video and good to see Sean and his set up.

[@kmpage333]

I want about 30 if those slat panels! I see so many possibilities! Great video. Thanks so much for covering this. Way more than I can afford, but extremely valuable I'm sure!

[@JimLaddie]

On the subject of slatted floors, check out Shambani Farm and see how it's done with Boer Goats in far off places. By the way, Sean looks a lot like Leon Draisitl, one of my favourite hockey players. I always think of that when I see him. Boer goats is what I raise for a hobby.

[@drob517]

Although I don’t understand most of what’s being said I just enjoy listening. I’ll get it with time. Love this channel

[@arnljot9030]

I love the banter lol ;)

[@anneclarke7293]

Great video- thanks Cammy and Sean 👍👍👍👍👍

[@cree878]

Thanks for upload 😃

[@melissagoetz8847]

Farming on an island! Could be love or madness. Or both. Great video❤️

[@sjmmom0147]

Hello from West Tennessee , USA . Loving your channel love hearing ya'll talk tho I can't understand every word. Wow what hard work you do I respect that ! Have you ever played football ? Lol ! Keep them camera's rolling.😊

[@donnafink6262]

Thank you. What an interesting video and different view of sheep farming.

[@tonyroberts779]

Great farm have always been a laga farm fan great to see it on this video cracking farmers and great farms.

[@rodneywroten2994]

A beautiful place Cammy

[@jhmiller35]

Wow such awesome information. Much love from Iowa, USA.

[@barbaralavoie1045]

Hi Cammy! Nice to check out your vlog, always. Have fun.

[@someonerandom6379]

Another great video cammy. It’s good to hear about farming in various conditions, really interesting.

[@magsprettejohn2160]

Really enjoyed having a nosey round Sean's farm.

[@jmurray236]

Brilliant video Cammy. You and Sean are very entertaining 👍👍

[@denisepalmer7624]

Hard Workers! Best Wishes for a Great Lambing Season!🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑

[@carolinefullerton7347]

Brilliant loved seeing yhis

[@LiamFlett-ng4kb]

7:23 just classic Orkney people

[@garymadden2656]

Brilliant video cammy I’ve watched Sean on this farming life great program too 👌👌

[@Bootneck-RMC]

Great video Cammy, it's good to see the way that different areas have to farm depending on the climate and the area that they are based in. Sorry I couldn't do any translating this time around, as the comment would have ended up as long as War and Peace. 🤔🤣 (I daresay the majority of people would have got the gist of what you were all saying anyway) 👍

[@edjeezantos7159]

Despite i dont understand well I am enjoying this video It is such a great vídeos about farms in the UK, and about life in the countryside.

[@user-iv1og1gm7m]

Great video, like seeing other setups and getting ideas 👍

[@kristinacleveland1805]

Say that 5 times fast, "Slatted Sheep Sheds"! hahaha This was a super video!

[@BuckEboo]

Never disappoints

[@kalgaramerinos7085]

Another fascinating video Cammy , really enjoyed it. We were a little uncertain about the plastic grating for our new shed but so far we are impressed, it works well, very quiet, doesn't balk the sheep and much easier to install than wooden grating. But I wish I'd known about slurrying the waste 12 months ago - we could have incorporated that into the shed design.....

[@TheSheepGame]

I’d never heard of that idea either until sean told me about it! Very clever!

[@heatherreckzin2183]

No money in farming but lots of hard work. What a magic place

[@jerilynrobertson646]

I must confess! I set speed at 75% so I could understand the accent. 😂 Hey, it worked! 😉 🇨🇦

[@astra1653]

That's a great idea!

[@laightnightknits4358]

😂

[@benwilliams8261]

Brilliant video. Well done both of you. You're right Cammy...there's no money in farming...we keep having to spend it on new gear🤦‍♂️ Great to see videos of other farms and pick up little ideas👌

[@raymondtapatu6869]

❤awesome set up brilliant to see other farming techniques ❤🤙👍👊

[@danivinson]

Another cracking video, amazing accent Sean has got.

[@karendemorrow]

Great show!! I Loved it!! I do not have any sheep or sheep farm. Although, I used to have chickens and pigs. I just love the show!! I have some physical problems and so I am limited in my activities. So, you give me quite a laugh as I am watching ya!! Hehehe!!!

[@geekbabe100]

Sean isn’t hard on the eyes! Congrats to Emma

[@Chloe_Stella]

Adorable

[@barbalbers8920]

"Slated sheep sheds" say that 3 times fast! Watched once with cc, then 2x without, think I got most of it now 😉 That's a fantastic set up. Really has to be your preferred way of life, hard work.

[@eddieglasgow6055]

An excellent video, I also like to see other farms set ups !!