hey guys welcome to the homestead well it is time for our October sheep
maintenance which is checking for worms and trimming their hooves we have a new
deck chair to try this time which hopefully will make it better
welcome to homestead guys well your turn welcome to the homestead I have a here a
deck chair from premier one for sheep we've not got to use it yet obviously so
we're going to try to use it for the first time today
so here's the deck chair put together it was fairly easy it took some muscle from
the Sam to be able to pull the net tight but I'm anxious to put it to use will
you do that with the lean against the gate okay try that I know how to get
inside it you got all the tools you need we're just doing trimming and checking
their eyes today so that should be it all right well here do this and then you
kind of pick them up and set your foot down right there
there take a break oh yeah it was a lot easier as long as you don't flip out but
yeah their feet move done take a load off Yui or abandoned was here when you
are Huey Mayer Eliza come on here just put your
hand here I'll pull him down everybody look at me say sheep poop zboob good job
Roger thank you it's time then they'll borrow my shirt you got him I'll move
the camera if you got him you're not to push down real hard just enough to tour
he doesn't think he can just hop out can you like pick him up two legs so we can
try which way you'll roll that way hold
up you go scare him back up I'm able to do their feet much better this way
well good is well worth the investment these Clippers were well worth the
investment
much easier on your back in
so here we have a famas scorecard hamachi is used to show if their sheep
are anemic or not and can kind of guide you on whether you need to worm them or
not so this needs to be done periodically to make sure that your
sheep are doing well and don't need worms and it's time for our sheep to get
done all right we're done with him
bandit ran out so we had to go chase and him around the other pasture and get
them in and so what we end up doing Angela end up doing and it's just
getting a scoop of feed and just let them all back in the barn again so it's
a full house again we got a two left to do
smokey and bandit this would be fun
where's bandit okay he's the one that likes to kick alright he's the one that
kicked me several times little help would be nice trying to identify more
you'll get another 50 of these that's all my cliff decals mmm hey that or if
we get more sheep we gotta have a shoot system at head gate all that all that
stuff ring on these and gravels don't this is easier than what we did before
though mm-hmm the deck chair is worth it don't you
think Oh most definitely at first we looked at building one out
of conduit or
one two three sounds like I only oh you got me yep print so I know we've looked
at building stuff like you get from Lowe's we can't get anything this sturdy
and then ain't going nowhere loose you're happy now because you know you're
done right tester off
at home yeah cuz he has a kicker kick I'm gonna take it to the face
they're like my legs asleep on outlook look that was rough I'm glad I had Sam
to help me this time truthfully the deck chair did a big made a big difference it
helped a lot and kept them in place they still kicked alight so I still feel
like it's a two-man person to me in person do me an job but one to hold them
down and the other to cut but overall I'm very pleased with it
all the sheep have been clipped and checked for worms so now we're going to
load up the hayloft with all the hay that we picked up in Tennessee yesterday
get up there
that's by the crappiest thing ever how you real farmers do this
probably not my hand Bobby Bob eternity yep
I mean working up there
we think Oh Jim don't want to talk don't want to breathe what i doing is spitting
out your spit because it's full hey my beard is now twice as thick hey it's
time for shower number two anybody wants to do this for finer living we got to be
crazy why do we do this because it's better than sitting in an apartment in
the city for us all right I don't know that air conditioned
apartment sounds real nice don't get some thoughts to the camera share your
feelings and your heinous over there do I look heinous oh wait I know I know
I got it what's that painting American Gothic or
whatever the man and the woman in front of the farmhouse and they look just mad
it's not now we know why they just finished loading a morning that's what
they did without the little elevator thing yeah
now we understand we should get a copy that remind us we'll put it in hay barn
hayloft whatever this is I think gardening's starting to look a lot
better I don't mind tilling in the dirt no well
guys hope you enjoyed a little look into what it's like to be a sheep farmer and
we are just small-scale six head of sheep so we got to definitely see why
any kind of larger operation is invests in the proper handling sorting equipment
for the Sheep so you just bring it up to you rotate him around Spillman done
we're getting the larger we're gonna go that route if anybody's wondering the
male sheep that we have the four bigger ones are about 200
and the small girls we have are about 150 yep which would also bring up
another question of none of our male sheep or Rams they're all snipped so
they're called weathers we have two girls that we haven't yet bred they're
still a little young north they know they could have been done this year Yeah
right could've been on this year we just don't
have the space for it right here do my chain leave some for the sheep now at
this point I don't know if we'll breed them okay here you can do that here for
sure so what else if you're thinking about
sheep hit rewind watch this video again and when you finish it hit rewind and
watch it again and make sure you really want to have
sheep now last year we went and got a realm bill for those of you haven't
watched and the Sheep didn't eat it quick enough and it molded yeah so we
ended up having to get rid of it and we went with square bills we would just
literally go and buy two square bills at a time every week from the localized
feed and seed store which is high-priced yeah compared to what you can get
sometimes the double the price yeah so that's why we decided this year to go to
a local farm and buy the hey this is 16 bills which should last eight weeks gosh
we get to have more fun in eight weeks only eight weeks away well thanks for
watching guys stay tuned you might see something new with the Sheep take care
guys
you