Hi everyone this is Jack at Mainsgill so a few of you will already know me from doing the facebook
videos on the Mainsgill facebook page but this is the new youtube channel so a few people have told
me to make one so here we go this one's just going to show you a bit about who I am and what we do
on the farm so first of all we are a farm but we are also a farm shop so if you look behind me here
that is the farm shop there so we've just finished another extension and extended it
all there so it's quite big now the farm shop there's all sorts in there so what we do is we
rear all our own meat so it's all our own cattle sheep and pigs which then go through the farm shop
and uh that's how we use them so i'll show you a few cattle here to start with so these ones are
here at Mainsgill so there's a few in here so these come the other day there's a hundred in here
so what we do is we have suckler cows which i'll show you at the other farm when we get there
but we also buy in some local heifers from up the road as well so he's a suckler farm up the
road as well and we get all his heifers so there we go that's a look at them ones
so we have just shy of 600 cattle on at the minute and then we have 450 ewes I'll show
you them as well so they're all texels and we lamb them down as well but then the farm shops
also a bit different so we've got the donkeys and all those sort of things couple of ponies
but i'll also show you we've got something special which not many people have
i'll show you that when i get there but we're also a farm shop with a difference because we
have a few different things as well such as camels so you don't see these every
day do you so what we've got here is we've got Doris over there behind Delilah here in front
and at the back behind we've got Granville so there they are Doris, Delilah and Granville
and these are just for everyone that comes to farm shop customers they might not know us as
Mainsgill but they know there's the farm shop with the camels so that's what they're here for
but they're part of the family good pets then right Granville there you go
so yeah like i said we do the uh beef sheep pigs so we do all the livestock but then we
also have the arable so I'm just on drilling this field here I've just been in got a bag of seed
filled myself and Ian's on plowing in the field next to me he's plowing up a bit wet
so he's just a field or two ahead of me keep letting it dry out of it there you go
yeah so as I said we have the sheep as well the breeding ewes
this here is a few of our ewes so these are all shearlings these so these will be first time
lambers and they're all uh replacements into the flock this time so we got all these at a carlisle
auction mart actually I went and got these so there's about 200 here in this field with the tups
so here they all are they're all looking happy they seem to be doing quite well at the minute
they've all been tupped they've all got colours on the backside so you put a colour onto the tup so you
put a harness on him and then you put a colour on and you change it every 17 days so we start
with yellow go to green then we go to red and then finally we finish on blue so that's how
we do so you can see that there's a tup there he's just messing about he's following one so
she might still be to tup but he's got the blue crayon on there so that's what they do
and as you can see they all look happy so yeah as i said we use texel cross ewes the
texel cross ewes they give a good carcass off the lamb and they give a good strong lamb
that's what we like and then when they go through the farm shop through our own butchery
the carcass is a real good quality that's what we like to see so we have about 450 ewes altogether
and we'll be lambing come middle of february march it'll be game on and we'll be on lambing so i'll
be able to show you some videos of that as well so there's plenty to come don't worry about that
and there we go that's a look at the first group of sheep good job
so everyone i've shown you the cattle shed at Mainsgill so i've shown you the cattle
in there the ones that i said we'd bought in so they were some of the young ones well then these
are at the other farm so this is the shed here as you can see it's a good shed down here
and what we have down this side of the shed this whole side of the shed is we have heifers in there
which are so heifers are the ones that have gone to the bull who haven't calved before so
their first time as them so they're in that pen and then all these down this side here
are suckler cows so these are all cows so these have all had calves before and what these are these are
what we use for breeding and then the calves off these get reared on and they grow big and then
that is when we use them for beef so these are the mothers of the beef animals as you can see
there's quite a few of them in here so we scanned 140 and out of 140 130 were in calf which was good
so as you can see here they are and they'll do the job so that's the cows in the shed here
and then we also have down the other side is we have some store beast and some fat beasts
so we're pulling out these some of these for the farm shop at the minute all these heifers
and then we are also feeding some of these on to grow into some bigger ones so that's what store
beast are store beast the ones that are growing on to be fattened and then the finished beast are the
ones that you use for the beef they're the ones that go to the abattoir so as you can see these
are all heifers in this side of the shed so what we do is when they breed we obviously get the boys
and the girls so we call them steers and heifers and what we do is the heifers all go through the
farm shop so we like the heifer meat it's a good quality meat it gives you a good marbling
and a good covering of fat and we don't use the bulls or the steers and the farm shop so what we
do is we fatten them up and we sell them through the auction because we just don't like the bulls
the same for in the farm shop you know the time you can get a lean one or a bit tough so we like
to have the heifers in the shop so that's what we do so that's a bit of a look in this shed
so everyone i'm just going to give you a quick tour of the farm shop here so we're going to go
for a quick route round and i'll show you what it looks like so here we go we're just going up now
so first of all you come to the meat counters up here this is the butchery
so it's all their own meat here this is all our cattle sheep and pigs they'll
go into the meat counter here so this is part of our food hall here at Mainsgill farm
so we're coming around you can see there's all sorts in here we have a bit of everything
all sorts of local produce anything you could want fruit and veg and as you see
if you look out the window that is the view of the homedale valley that's where we're located
so this bit here that we built here this was built in 2014
so this is the start of the downstairs there's the lift all your cheeses you could possibly want
and all you ready meals that we make on site all the pies
the likes of your pork pies your quiches your sausage rolls everything's made on site
and then we'll go upstairs to the gift
shop so this is still the bit that was built in 2014 this bit
and up here we have all the different clothing and gift ware as you can see
so ideal for any presents you need any 21st presents
any wedding presents we have everything here
and now here when we cross this line here we are stepping into the new extension so
this is just opened before christmas and this is all new now so this hasn't been open long
at the minute it's half christmas
half giftware we've got lots of new ranges coming to take over so don't worry about that
as you can see we've got all sorts of
everything
so as you seen down the other side we've gone for the old-fashioned look with the oak beams
which are all made on site and then you come down to this end and this is the new industrial look
so all the steel frame building with all the lights on the tracking
it looks smart there's the horse cart so it looks very smart this new building we're happy
with how it's turned out there's obviously still finishing touches to do here and there
well that's a look around the first bit of the new shop i'm going to go back downstairs now
and i'll show you the extension downstairs so a little more to show you yet don't worry so that's
a look at the food hall behind me that i've already shown you and i've shown you upstairs so i've come
back down now and we're going through so this here that was the food hall this here is normally
the tea room that's normally full of tables and chairs through there
but at the minute it's all closed but you can only fit 150 people in there but unfortunately because
the job going on a minute it's not open so if we come through here though
this is the new extension here downstairs so as you can see this is the industrial bit
it's here it's got a nice edison light bulbs my few brother made the frame for them to sit
on so it looks good up there let's come through here you can see all your gins
that seems to be a big favorite minute got all your different alcohols down that side
and then we built a bit of a high street down here so we had the green grocers a bookstore at the end
another shop here what we got on this side the sweet shop is it so there you go
that's just a bit more look at the shop so as you can see
it's as you can see it's a big area there's lots of all sorts here there's anything you could
possibly need in the shop and that's what we do so as well as the working farm this is the farm shop
and this keeps us very busy this is the busy bit so there you go and that's it that's the way out
so that was the first look through my youtube videos so that is the first one
i've done i hope you've all enjoyed it that is a bit of a look at what
we do at Mainsgill and what you can expect to see more of in the future
so i hope you liked it and if you did make sure you hit that subscribe button
because i'm gonna be here to make some more so it'll tell you when they're coming okay thank you