THE NORTHUMBERLAND ADVENTURE - Part 1... Ever shorn a Beulah?? - ROAD TO 10K - SHEEP SHEARING 2020

In this video I am back in Northumberland shearing and I am joined by big Sean from Orkney again. This is day 1 of 10 days we spent down there where we shore A LOT of sheep.
They are a hill breed and are small but very VERY lively. They take a bit of holding onto when shearing and they all have woolly bellies to negotiate. They are a hard working ewe that produce a good number of lambs for a hill breed.
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ABOUT ME
I’m 30 years old and I’m a sheep farmer from Ayrshire in South West Scotland. That’s why I have such a strong accent!! I was born and raised in sheep with my dad being a shepherd on an Ayrshire farm.
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.
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 keep my hand in. From there it escalated quickly from my first 4 sheep in my mum’s garden to now running around 600 ewes.
I shear over 10,000 sheep a season in UK and I also travel to Norway for shearing in March and September.
A few years ago I bought myself a sheep scanner and have been building up my run since then so I have a good income stream in summer and winter.
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.
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[@Brad-jq9od]

Great video 👍 Bfl x Beulah = welsh mule ( speckled faced ) Bfl x welsh mountain = welsh mule ( white faced ) Border Leicester x Welsh mountain = welsh halfbred Hope this helps mate, really enjoying the channel!

[@TheSheepGame]

That’s class Brad thanks!!

[@mariephenix7168]

Yes thanks from Canada, i speaker french lol

[@TheFamilyFarm1]

I cant believe you give that cool wee box away 😂 always a use for something

[@TheSheepGame]

I’ve got a couple at home doing nothing already 😂

[@aidanelliott6228]

Great video brilliant shearing. Good luck 😉👍👍🐑

[@tyrelmiller8260]

Your awesome mate! From the Southland New Zealand 🇳🇿 and from a comrade shearer I’d hope to shear with you one day! 👌🏼

[@TheSheepGame]

Legend mate thanks,,

[@magsprettejohn2160]

Great vid, Hope Sean had a good time down in Devon, lovely people down here, lol.

[@TheSheepGame]

Yeah he’s been going for years so the people must be good😁

[@carolilseanne2175]

He's not fat, he's Just Right!

[@johnjones3848]

Great 👍 video with quality welsh Beulah sheep.Welsh mules is result of crossing Beulahs and crossing b.f.l. producing best mule ewe for quality butchers lambs🐑.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👍

[@TheSheepGame]

Cracking ewes!

[@caradoctow]

Yeah Beulahs are a breed in their own right! No cross required. Beulahs are no relation to Welsh Mountain! Beulah x BFL = Welsh mule Beulah x Beulah = Beulah

[@ronaldlucas5360]

Enjoyed

[@michaelbradley280]

I'm supposed to be working but I'm watching your videos top job

[@TheSheepGame]

Quite right! 😂

[@markdonnelly7225]

Hi I like your video

[@patrickmccumiskey3630]

Great vid

[@TheSheepGame]

Thanks Patrick, the season is not far away now 😊

[@aidanelliott6228]

Good man Sean 🐑🐑👍

[@joanlittle4235]

I am happy to see the vivking.well i see him as.. granny90 USA

[@donlcannon7602]

Serious days work well done.

[@TheSheepGame]

That’s nothing Donl wait till u see the next few vlogs!😁😁

[@donlcannon7602]

@@TheSheepGame ye are no joke!!!which type of combs do you prefer to use in general wider ones or not or what difference is in them?

[@TheSheepGame]

I like quantums although i have a few warriors i’ve been using last few days! Wide combs are good here. Most ewes are easy shearing.

[@janegrieve]

I like that wee box

[@TheSheepGame]

What u going to use it for Jane? 😁

[@janegrieve]

The Sheep Game I would find a use for it 😁

[@paulhorning3837]

Nice bunch to shear,

[@TheSheepGame]

Aye they were hard work Paul but nice and light so easy on the body

[@paulhorning3837]

The Sheep Game I can see how you can get those numbers in a day. Keep rolling

[@donnaspear8494]

Great video! The big man does fast work with the clippers, and supper looks delicious. What were you saying about the Welsh ones?

[@TheSheepGame]

Thanks Donna. I was just explaining that the ewes we were shearing we’re a welsh breed and very hardy.

[@tarianetownsend8881]

🥰🐑

[@HOLMESSL1]

Clipping any Ryelands on your travels? We’re based in Northumberland and had to clip our own this year. Hard work, especially the woolly faces😂 All the best, Phil

[@TheSheepGame]

I’ve done a few this year! Lots of work in them,,,

[@james5327]

Love it mate, some sheep belays are, I've got my Welsh mountains to do today ! Not doing 270 days though! 🤣

[@TheSheepGame]

Aye I’d never even heard of them before but they are good hardy ewes! Well done if you got dry sheep today we’ve been rained off for 2 days!

[@james5327]

We finished our season today ! Yeah mine are the white face with ginger speckles bought broken mouthed going as culls this year had texels over them so the lambs look well... I'd be interested in buying some blackie ewe lambs off you next year if you sell like that ? Loving your videos mate!

[@TheSheepGame]

Cheers Jimmy. All my blackies go to the Blue for mule so no blackie ewe lambs.

[@james5327]

@@TheSheepGame ah yeah, well if you wanted to I'd be game to buy some next year

[@geomaxa]

aww was hoping for a simon update

[@TheSheepGame]

He's away to live as a pet now Sam =D

[@GR-hq8mt]

Great video and channel! Looking at getting a handpiece but between the lister scorpion and the icon fx? How do you find the fx? How does it run when its lighter than other hand pieces?

[@TheSheepGame]

Icon FX is the best handpiece on the market. I stuck with my old Icon for a year after the FX came out and once I got onto the FX I wished i'd just got onto it straight away. They run great and there's a reason every top shearer (that isn't sponsored by Lister) is using them! =D

[@GR-hq8mt]

Thanks a million. Now that you say it, makes perfect sense. Cheers!

[@GR-hq8mt]

@@TheSheepGame I picked up the FX since, took it for a burn and tried it out on ewe lambs we have housed inside and crutching ewes ahead of the ram to help them along lol Nice and nimble handpiece, lovely bit of kit 👍 I won't be going back in any rush to the older handpiece's we have at home 😅🤣

[@davidnicolson6443]

Grate vidio as always i had never herd of those sheep ether out of interest wheir where they sending the wool the bags did not look like wool board ones

[@TheSheepGame]

Cheers Dave. Those are the bags they give u for Organic wool. Not many places are organic with sheep!

[@davidnicolson6443]

@@TheSheepGame oh right that makes sence. Organic sheep is somthing i dont think i have ever seen

[@TheSheepGame]

It’s not an easy thing to do!!

[@johnpattinson9025]

When yer get to 10000 get yer Marra to take the shears to yer wolly bonnet 😂

[@TheSheepGame]

It’s getting wild now John! Plan was to whip it off with the sheep shears when I did the 10k but we’ve lost so many days to rain I might not last that long!😂

[@johnpattinson9025]

The Sheep Game I know what you mean the ones we’ve sheared are wanting their jackets back

[@theubergoober]

Which breed makes for the best peelers Cammy? Love your channel. Watched all your vids. Cheers

[@TheSheepGame]

I love good going blackie hoggs. Charrolais out the blackie were some of the fastest sheep i’ve shorn. Small with nice skins! 😁

[@theubergoober]

@@TheSheepGame I've got around 400 breeders but they are tight and sticky. Would like to breed it out of them, but can nae afford a blackie tup. Some buzz! This is the year you'll put 30 around Archie. No doubt.

[@danielleschnoberger4670]

I saw his video of I think Simon one of the little lambs of his something was wrong with him maybe eyes. Do you know the update about him Cammy? The young Scot's have some deep voices. Lol.

[@TheBeastCR]

Wish id known Sean was in Cornwall - would have dropped him off a crate of beer! Some of the ewe's down this way are stupid huge, chap i lamb for and do some shepherding for has Suffolk x Border Leicester ewes on a Texel ram, and some ruddy large Oxfords as well (total arses to work with). If either of you are down this way drop us a message and i will bring you all beer xD

[@TheSheepGame]

Legend! If he goes down next year i’ll let u know!😁

[@claymonsterpottery]

Love Sean! Can he start a channel too? Why is his accent different to yours?

[@jldisme]

Sean is from way up north on the Orkney Islands. Cammy is from the southwest of Scotland.

[@chrisoconnor5880]

Where in NZ is old mate from

[@annahkurtin5345]

The person who closes the captions is on drugs. Other than that, great show.

[@TheSheepGame]

Scottish is not easy for the computer to keep up with lol

[@chrisoconnor5880]

Jesus never got a box or a feral in my day , had to buy that seperatly, $650, NZ dollars in the early 1990s, for a sunbeam handpiece

[@TheSheepGame]

We’ve got it east now Chris😃. Bigger profits 😂

[@chrisoconnor5880]

Where did you get the SPEIGHTS shirt from, that’s Kiwi piss

[@TheSheepGame]

A boy who shore over in Scotland from Queenstown. Was a gift. It’s his local club!

[@meghanplamondon8639]

Sean was amazing! In general, not if racing, not on a difficult lamb, how long does it take to sheer one lamb usually? You all seem to go very fast. Amazing. 👍👍🐑🐑🐑

[@TheSheepGame]

Thanks Meghan. We'll do around 40-50 per hour usually

[@caragray7010]

Nice wool bags, better than the Scottish wool board ones.

[@TheSheepGame]

Those are the bags u get for organic wool which is why they are green. Might get an extra penny per kilo this year😊

[@dionneller5441]

I'm an Aussie and when the good Kiwi girls came they brought their paddles to replace the straw broom 😀

[@alisonkerr3818]

Is it a 3 stand trailer

[@TheSheepGame]

It’s actually a 4 stand but it’s the farmer’s trailer not mine 😁

[@farmerskip9039]

you don't need to order a new handpiece because you said you had one of the cases rattling around in the back of your pickup

[@TheSheepGame]

Haha like to have a spare!

[@TheSheepGame]

Haha like to have a spare!

[@frazesfarm2351]

Canny sheep

[@TheSheepGame]

Aye good hard working ewes. That chap has around 6000 sheep with majority being Beulahs!

[@carolilseanne2175]

Squeegee

[@michaelgriffiths6395]

Simon's sister call her Simone

[@TheSheepGame]

Simon and Simone has a good ring to it!

[@ryandodd133]

Did you say you where in Northumberland.? Where abouts

[@TheSheepGame]

North Charlton and bits near there. I used to lamb at Alwinton.

[@ryandodd133]

Near me

[@maxmorris8305]

R u selling your old Mocs

[@TheSheepGame]

Nah Max I’ll still be using them the farmer there just wanted us to use new mocks on his sheep. He had 6000 so we used his trailer and all fresh gear for bio security reasons.

[@maxmorris8305]

The Sheep Game no worries mon good luck on 10,000

[@TheSheepGame]

Cheers Max!

[@liampeers7529]

Les farming Liam bos raj's Rosie sheep 🐑 ko

[@liampeers7529]

Northwich that's Farm Liam and Rosie with sheep Power Rangers

[@liampeers7529]

Winsford

[@kasie680]

Such pretty sheep Who calls Sean fat? Lol he isn’t anywhere near fat 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@TheSheepGame]

Haha he's a healthy boy