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WHAT DO WE WISH WE KNEW BEFORE GETTING PEDIGREE SHEEP?

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🎙️ This week on The FarmHer Files: WHAT DO WE WISH WE KNEW BEFORE GETTING PEDIGREE SHEEP? 🐑

Pedigree sheep can be incredibly rewarding… but they definitely come with a learning curve. In this episode, we’re talking honestly about the things we wish someone had told us before we got into pedigree sheep.

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SPEAKER_01

Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Pharmafiles with your hosts, Abby and Maria.

SPEAKER_00

Well, this is attempt number four. If anything could have gone wrong today, it's gone wrong, to be honest. You've come up early.

SPEAKER_01

A little earlier than usual, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

We've actually started later than we ever have before. We got way late, we had to do the sheep quickly, we then got lunch, we got roped into getting goats out of hedges and out of wire, and then we've got here, had technical problems.

SPEAKER_01

I've almost had a mental breakdown, probably almost the biggest mental breakdown Abby has ever seen from me. So I asked Maria if she was okay. My response was um No, I said you let's replay the conversation. Go on.

SPEAKER_00

Cut forward to I'm gonna clip the clip it in. I'm gonna clip it in. You shouldn't ask if I'm okay then. I was just asking you in general, I wasn't actually asking you honestly. Anyway, I am now officially never asking Maria if she's okay again because we obviously don't want to know about it because it makes her cry.

SPEAKER_01

You know, when you feel emotionally understood and then all of a sudden you're like, okay, now I'm done.

SPEAKER_00

It's one of those like because we know each other so well now, it's like a proper are you okay? Because we know you're not okay.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. And that's like it felt like a deeper level, she was asking me. Abby didn't actually want the deeper level answer.

SPEAKER_00

Well, that makes me look like a right kick. We'd already had a conversation before and we were like, right, we're gonna squish this, we're gonna film a podcast, we're not gonna talk about it.

SPEAKER_01

Okay, are you okay? No, I'm not okay. Don't ask if you don't want to know if I'm not okay. That was my answer, wasn't it? Something along those lines. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

So anyway, we're not asking Marie if she's okay.

SPEAKER_01

Because she's not okay right now.

SPEAKER_00

So we also had three weeks to catch up on. So obviously, since January, between me and you, we've been laming, and it's just made sense to plod through and go with the three-weekly podcast. Um, I'd like to clarify for the next three episodes, we only have two cameras. I have sat there for about three hours trying to work these cameras out. I cannot, for the life of me, work it out. I don't know what's going on with the third camera, it will not register. So we're gonna have to make shift with two cameras this week.

SPEAKER_01

Well, because we might notice if you're watching on YouTube that the clips are a lot higher in resolution this week. Maybe. Hopefully. Who knows? And that is the reason why the third one's not connecting. And to be fair, we were these maybe work. How magic half of us?

SPEAKER_00

I don't even know if it's working. The thing is, all three cameras were working before. I tried to fix it, being like, there is definitely a better quality to these cameras. Tried to fix it, one then wouldn't register, so went back to the old quality and still the old one wouldn't register. So we're back to just two cameras to try and just get on and film the podcast, otherwise, we're not gonna get any podcast filmed at all today. So, how's your three weeks been?

SPEAKER_01

What have you been up to? Really interesting, a lot going on. Um, so Vera had lambed, hadn't she no Vera hadn't lambed yet?

SPEAKER_00

No, she hadn't. No, can I just say Well shitty shepherdess over here?

SPEAKER_01

No, I am not taking any brunts. So if you've listened to two episodes before this one, you'll know that at this point in the story, the vet was on the way. The vet had to be cancelled last minute because I heard back from Vera's original owner that she was not as far on in her pregnancy as what I was originally told. So, was she caught on her first cycle? She was caught on her first cycle. So I don't know which one I got lied to, but one of them.

SPEAKER_00

So I find this really funny because obviously I've been watching Maria's socials. So I was like, oh, well, that's funny. Vera's lamb. You didn't think she was gonna lamb for a while. No. I was adamant she was on first cycle, wasn't I? Because I was like, no. I only changed my opinion because I was like, she cannot like why she stopped bagging up. Yeah, but I was adamant, wasn't I? And then we went back to the farm after we filmed the episodes last time, and you said to the you that I had left between Abby's farm, by the way. Yeah, um, between 24 hours and 48 hours, my last you would lamb. She was acting some peculiar though. She was another like two, three weeks. Unless that is how your you always acts. Is she that she was a little bit off? But to be fair, everyone else had lambed, so she was the only one in that.

SPEAKER_01

She was acting really, really peculiar, like hiding in the corner and just being a little bit grouchy, really. I'd be quite grouchy.

SPEAKER_00

So it was really funny because like Maria's always dead on. You are dead on with your pregnancies, but then again, this maybe her lamb was bigger.

SPEAKER_01

Do you think her lamb was bigger? What my yeah. Well, yes, you've seen it. Well, I didn't want to ruin the news for you.

SPEAKER_00

The news is already out there.

SPEAKER_01

She's got the biggest lamb valet she is a half a lump and a half. I've not seen a obviously yours are the only valet lambs I've seen. None of them have been that big.

SPEAKER_00

No. So I called him notorious because he was notoriously big. That's so good. I love that. I thought it was quite cute. That looks really good. That had to be an N.

SPEAKER_01

Anyway, should we get back to the Vera story?

SPEAKER_00

Well, I'm gonna quickly cut you off again. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Getting a bit selfish here.

SPEAKER_00

I know. Because we're gonna go into the sponsor because this links in so well with what we've got on today, like just catching up on cheap stuff. Um, so we have got an incredible sponsor today. I am gonna let Maria take this one away because she actually uses this on her own farm.

SPEAKER_01

I do, and this is half the reason. Why is it need to panic about Vera at any point? This is the first time you've had cameras, isn't it? Yes, never had cameras before in on the farm at all. Never seen a lambing camera, never done a thing that sounds so 1920. Down on my farm, we don't have those lambing cameras. Like, yeah, well, anyway.

SPEAKER_00

Where you learned that one from we don't for 2.0.

SPEAKER_01

The grumble was just about right, wasn't it? Um, so we've got RuralView, the 360 Wi-Fi camera. 360 Wi-Fi zoom camera, I've got, and I've got two of them now. I've just bought another one. So just like to clarify, I did buy the second one because I liked the first one so much. Um and it's really good. The zoom quality is great. Um it's got tracking, so like it tracks a person.

SPEAKER_00

I was gonna say I've been on your phone and it did AI notifications.

SPEAKER_01

Yes, it does do AI notifications. So if it sees I've got it set to about 50% of the minute, which is quite sensitive for maybe a lambing shed, let's say. Yeah. Um but if I had like one you in the corner and I knew she wasn't gonna get up, and then there was the AI tracking came up, I'd be like, okay, maybe something's starting to happen now. So what it senses when I when something moves slightly, more than usual. Oh. So say if you were using this camera, because it's not just a lambing camera, I know behind me, right here, like on the screen, if you are viewing, you can see a sheep on it and you can see a lamb in the corner. This camera can be used for obviously things like calving or in the horse stable or to watch your goats or pigs, or even your dog in a kennel for security if people come in out. Which is great because that is where the AI tracking comes in really good.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

So it sends me a notification when it's tracked to someone on the camera, and I can view it immediately and jot down what time it is, and then replay it back from the last six hours. You can try, but Vera will have something to say about it. Is she a bit protective? Um, she's I won't say she's protective, she's more vocal.

SPEAKER_00

Okay.

SPEAKER_01

Like everyone's gonna know if you touch her on the lamb still doesn't have a name. What? But anyway, my listeners the listeners right now don't know we've got a lamb. Vera's lamb, by the way. Vera's lamb to the biggest lamb.

SPEAKER_00

Everyone's seen on your social, surely.

SPEAKER_01

Maybe. Who knows? Surprise! Surprise! Um yes, but anyway, use for rural view cameras, and twice now it has Detected. Been a godsend. Yeah, so actually three times. I once left the gate open, didn't realise the pin was out, saw on the camera that the pin was on the side. The gate was still shut there, and I thought, oh my god, that could have been like bad, because where my sheep are, they can walk up to the busiest road near me as soon as they want to. Not good.

SPEAKER_00

So the only reason I don't have these on my farm is because we already have cameras.

SPEAKER_01

They've been up since you've got a full security system though, haven't you?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, that like they're all linked together, they go all round the farm. That is genuinely the only reason I don't have them.

SPEAKER_01

You can get more than I think it's I think, don't quote me, up to four cameras on your phone with rural view. So I've got a friend that has used my code to buy four lots of cameras and or three, I think it is, and they're buying another one and they're all linked on her phone.

SPEAKER_00

That's quite handy, especially if you are lambing.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. And they're getting a fourth one, which says a lot, doesn't it?

SPEAKER_00

Goes for the quality.

SPEAKER_01

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SPEAKER_00

Capital F, capital H. I don't know whether that makes a difference.

SPEAKER_01

I think it does, maybe.

SPEAKER_00

I don't think it does when it comes to discount codes. Maybe. I don't know. I think it will someone needs to try it. Anyway, that is the discount code. If you want to get some, obviously, we we've slightly missed some of the lambing, but perfect for horses all year round. It's got night vision, day vision. I've still got some lambing to do in seven weeks' time. Yeah. Um, yeah. So come on.

SPEAKER_01

I'll be happy with them.

SPEAKER_00

Tell me about Vera. Okay, right, so I'm sat, I'm listening.

SPEAKER_01

I post a video about how Vera's not lamb yet, and I've spoken to the old owner, and the vet was on the way, and I explained the whole story, and posted it online, and said it on the podcast, and the next blooming day, I look on the I look on the camera that night, literally the night I posted the video onto my socials. And to be fair, that night was the night in between both cycles, so no one really we don't really know which cycle she was caught on. Was it the first one or was it the second? Um what size lamb was it? Massive, but short cycle. I think, yeah, I would agree. Um, and I checked the camera, and there was this massive lamb just lying on the floor behind her. Vera's obviously exhausted from pushing the lamb out. I would like to say, I noticed she was lambing when it came to yard work time about six o'clock. And I went, I'm gonna leave her go for a bit. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Because you want her to do it on her own.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, like she doesn't need me here stressing over her. I'm gonna hold her hand. Yeah, she'll be going for her. I'll do all for you. Um, so I go back down to the bottom yard, straw up the rest of our sheep we've got, um, and then I wash myself up, ready to go see Vera, because I've got envy, so I've got to wash myself every time I go near my commercials to go back. Not like a full wash, but like a change of waterproofs and wash hands or whatever else. Um and I get way laid with something, and I thought it was fine because it was literally maybe 10 minutes ago since I last saw her. And then maybe I get waylaid for another 10 minutes. So it's about 20 minutes at this point, which again shouldn't make too much of a difference. She's only got a slime trail.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Um, so it could be three, four hours, yeah. Who knows? I look on the camera as I sit down and I go, Matthew, there's a lamb, there's a lamb. There is a lamb at the back of her just laying there. Vera's looking around, absolutely exhausted. Oh bless. Like not wanting to stand up. Like she is just, I have never friggin' seen a lamb that big before. Did you weigh it? I didn't know. I really should have. You should have done it. I really should have. The lamb now is as big as your two-month-old valet's. Yeah. And this lamb's only two weeks old. That's quite good. It is it's almost frightening. Um lamb or you lamb? Ram lamb.

SPEAKER_02

Oh.

SPEAKER_01

Anyway, it's fine though. You wouldn't send me loose on. Vera's only But good for a ram lamb, because you want it to be big. Well, if it is a really good ram lamb, I may keep it myself for the other four sheep.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Not a bad idea.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

So can I say?

SPEAKER_01

So you went on Hold on a minute. Oh. Hold on, stand back. This lamb still hasn't moved and hasn't been licked. I look on the cameras, the lamb's been born for ten minutes. It took her ten minutes of labour, start to finish. She was over, done. Obviously, she was exhausted because that was quick. That was a lot. And the lamb still hasn't moved.

SPEAKER_00

So I do apologize. We actually got cut off. The cameras died. And we were midway through a story. We were talking about Vera and how Vera hadn't licked her lamb or anything. And you guys just got cut off. You were left hanging. So I do apologise. Take it away, Maria. No, I'm joking. So I felt like we left him hanging.

SPEAKER_01

I've noticed Seara's lamb. I realise that the lamb has been on the ground for maybe like 15 minutes on his own. And it hasn't moved once. I go through the camera, it's not moved. Are you watching it? It's dead. I'm thinking sugar, like if it's still alive, I've got seconds. It is breathing so shallow shallowly that it had the stuff over its nose still, and I could see it on the camera. The ram comes over and licks it off the lamb's nose. Wow. And with that, it starts breathing. And I would have shared this video. But this is where I realised you can only save your videos from six hours before. Really? And I went to bed and I didn't think of it. Um but I know that for I know that for next time. Um so yeah, the Ram to the Rescue. Well that's good. Yeah. Although I did go in and I did give it some of my thermovite that I like using from Python, that stuff. Um, and then yeah, was away after that.

SPEAKER_00

It was quite jolly. So I saw a little somebody comment on your um TikTok and you got your letter of the year wrong.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I put up a video a few weeks ago, uh, maybe a week ago, asking everyone for their recommendations on the letter Y. No, it's X and it is Y. I asked for recommendations on the letter X. I don't even know what year it is now. No, the problem here is I don't know the alphabet without going through the alphabet.

SPEAKER_00

So please.

SPEAKER_01

I've got a cute name. I've just thought of one. Okay, that begins with a Y.

SPEAKER_00

Yogi. Yogi Bear. That is good. I like that. Do we find that could be a Ram name? It could.

SPEAKER_01

Yogi Bear. So I've got two Rams. Two Rams.

SPEAKER_00

Yes.

SPEAKER_01

One was born Monday. Tuesday. Tuesday, sorry, Tuesday.

SPEAKER_00

So yeah, I had my last one on Sunday. Well, Saturday night, Sunday morning. It was like Sunday at half past one in the morning. So whatever you want to call that. Oh look at that. Amazing. And then by the time you're done, I'll be back lambing in six seven weeks. Yes.

SPEAKER_01

That's winter, isn't it? So it's just as a rollover and rollover. Aren't you guys lucky? You get so more lambing.

SPEAKER_00

I worked out if so I've got two sheep lambing April, end of April, 25th of April, if it's 152 days. All being well, one of them was definitely on heat when the ram went in. Actually, definitely very excited. Hopefully he caught her. I'll be honest, I didn't rattle him. It was kind of like one of those where it's just like they were a bit of a last minute decision, bought them, put them straight in with the ram. It was just like not gonna rattle him. They'll just be whatever they are. It's just gonna be whatever. So if she catches first time, that'll be a lamb on the 25th of April. Now, should it catch on the next cycle, that will be May. Now, if one happens to come in May, that will mean I've had a lamb every month for five months, right? Which is fine. People can elongate lambing as much as they like, but not when you have 15 fucking sheep. Fifte sheep over five months.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Who does that? Um Abby? Anyone without any common sense? Anyone that really likes lambing. To be fair, I don't mind it. It's just like keeping an eye on the cameras and what have you. So yeah. A lot on. Yeah. No.

SPEAKER_01

Absolutely not. No, but I also now realise what you mean about pedigrees being stressful. Because that's no longer a now I thought we really, really, really cared for a commercial herd. A flock, sorry.

SPEAKER_00

No, nothing compares to a pedigree.

SPEAKER_01

A pedigree flock. Oh my word, the stress that goes with it. And if if you're listening to this and you've not had pedigrees before, I don't know how to explain it.

SPEAKER_00

So how would you yeah? I came up with the theme of this episode being what was the things you wish you knew before getting pedigree sheep. Now there's a couple things I would have changed. I'm sure.

SPEAKER_01

I don't know where you are in your I'm in the absorbing era.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, you haven't done the go to a show, see what else there is sort of phase. So there's a couple things I definitely have noticed. Obviously, there's definitely a difference in value. It's definitely keeping up with bloodlines. Like I definitely I definitely look forward to certain news lambing because I've paired it with certain characteristics of one ram to another, and it's just like waiting to see what that mixture brings. Whereas when you're having a commercial sheep, it's just like okay, there's a lamb.

SPEAKER_01

Yes, I agree, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00

And like I can remember like last year when I was lambing and Nigel quickly rang me to say something had lambed, and I was like, is it a you or a ram? And he was like, Does it matter? It's healthy. I was like, Yeah, it does, Nigel. It matters quite a lot, actually. It's quite a big difference in the overall scheme of it.

SPEAKER_01

But I suppose it it always depends as well what you want from your her uh flock. I'm on about cows at the minute. Um, it's because we started calvin as well. Um, so when you oh my gosh, what am I saying?

SPEAKER_00

Okay.

SPEAKER_01

Having a brain blank. Don't ask that question, Abby. Sorry, I don't know. I'm not meant to ask. No one cares if I'm okay. No one does. Everyone's gonna messaging you being like, are you actually okay in a minute? If you message me asking if I'm okay, you'll just get a middle finger back to the episode. Yes, I can't do that. I wonder if you're gonna do that. No, you're not if I've done that to someone. Unless they knew them on a sarcastic level.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, by the way, she is okay.

SPEAKER_01

Okay, just I'm I am going to ignore anyone that asks if I'm okay.

SPEAKER_00

But I'm asking her, is she okay to wind her up, basically?

SPEAKER_01

Because of this episode, not as like a general. If you're asking if I'm okay as a general, that's fine. That's fine. But right now, if it's a follow-on from this, go away.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Um, right, so there's a really big difference on whether you want lambs for Rams or Ewes, isn't there? Yeah. So if you want to make your money that year, you probably want to go into Rams because you can part with them a bit easier.

SPEAKER_00

See, we're quite the opposite.

SPEAKER_01

Really? I I'm starting up, so I'm looking at expanding my flock rather than profit at the moment.

SPEAKER_00

So if we're talking numbers, I think I'm quite happy to talk about my numbers. Someone else's valets might be different. It all slightly varies. It also depends on where they place in shows, grading, everything like that. So it can the number can vary quite drastically. So for me, I don't really put a price on a RAM until I know where it's grown or what have you. So that I'm just gonna leave as a blank. There are some Rams out there, I believe the top one was sold for like nearly 20,000 guineas or something. But overall, you have to sort of get your max points and what have you, and they're much more rare to get those sorts of numbers. Um's would I would say roughly well marked ones with good pedigrees, sort of 2,000 mark for ewes, and then your castrated males, weathers I sell for 250 quid. I know there's people out there that probably sell them for 150. I know there's people out there that sell them for 450.

SPEAKER_01

There was someone earlier, whilst we were out and about, that asked you for a quote for one of your ram lambs, yeah, weathers. And she was shocked at how cheap they were. Yes.

SPEAKER_00

So So was I to be fair. Because when you look at it, it is a sheep. You can't do anything with that sheep. It's a pet. Take that as you want. You're not gonna sell it on for meat, it is gonna have no monetary value. If you send that off to slaughter, there's no meat on it. Um, so you're not you you're not using these sheep for meat. Well, I'm not anyway, but you can do. And there is that now the question of should we be culling the sheep that don't meet the standard? Which is quite hard in this pedigree because they're not seen as meat sheep. And yes, as lovely as they are, should we be cutting out what is not good? No good mouths, not good for confirmation, anything that we don't want to be breeding from, where do we draw the line? That's quite a new thing that I luckily haven't had to fall into. Um so I had one badly marked U, which actually I sold on somebody locally that didn't want anything perfectly marked. She wanted something that was more to do with the fleece and what have you. She wanted something that was on the cheaper side. Um, I've only ever had one badly marked you, so I didn't keep her. And luckily with the rams, unless they meet at a certain point, then you castrate them. So would there be any reason that you would castrate a ram if I didn't like how it looked?

SPEAKER_01

You would know straight away. Not immediately. I think I would give it a few days.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

And then go from there.

SPEAKER_00

It's really hard to tell when they're firstborn.

SPEAKER_01

Mind you, I wouldn't castrate a lamb when it's first born anyway.

SPEAKER_00

No, but obviously there is a timeline on that.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Seven days?

SPEAKER_01

That's when I do it. I don't know what the legal is. We've always treated it as seven days.

SPEAKER_00

I'm gonna check that before we get ourselves into some trouble. When should you castrate male within the first week, zero to seven days? Between seven days and three months, uh, rubber rings can no longer be used. Um over three months old. Uh the lamb must be three months older for castration to be born, um, performed by a veterinary surgeon.

SPEAKER_01

So we've always treated it as seven days, so that's right. I've kept Vera's lamb entire because of how big it was. Yeah, that's a good sign. It was it already had like neck confirmation when it was born. So for anyone that's maybe listening and doesn't know about sheep too much, Abby's sheep fleece is what you're looking for.

SPEAKER_00

Not just fleece. So although you can't see all their fleece, you can get a good vibe. You can't really tell, but you can get a vibe, and also you can see sort of from their parents, but you also have to have the perfect markings, which I would argue is fleece again. Yet again, we've had another battery die. We start again, and I don't know whether I would class a marking as part of the fleece. I can see where you're coming from, but in the same way, you can have shit markings, but a great fleece. Okay, and you can have a shit fleece and great markings. So there's also there's things that you wouldn't want to breed from. A ram having bad markings, that should be the telltale of it's not up to breed standards, therefore you shouldn't keep it entire. People do. We won't go into that. I don't necessarily approve of something that's really badly marked continuing to breed, but it's 50% of your flock. I don't know. I don't know how I feel about that. There's a reason that people invest in very good Rams. Let that be a sign. It's 50% of your flock.

SPEAKER_01

Yes.

SPEAKER_00

Um, but with Notorious, as soon as he stood up, I knew. I knew he was like a showstopper, like in the way that he stood. Admittedly, I'm gonna say all this stuff, being like, oh my god, he's amazing. He's like a show sheep. And he's gonna do shit showing. But the way he stood, no one none of our listeners are mean enough to hold you to it. They're all not better not be. They'll be watching me at like Devon County being like, I thought that was one was meant to be good.

SPEAKER_01

That's Reg is listening. Sit back down.

SPEAKER_00

Reg?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, he'll message you and tell you.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, yeah. Um, so that's why I kept Notorious entire because he had the markings, he had the fleece, he had good bloodlines. When he stood, he stood well. But obviously, there's certain things you can't tell until that lamb gets older. Yeah. Like you're not gonna know how well it's gonna grow, what it's gonna be like in three months, what it's gonna be like in three years. You also don't know how well its sperm produces. It could be firing blanks. Why are you looking at me so long after that?

SPEAKER_02

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00

I'm not a man, I don't fire blanks, leave me alone. I don't know. I just didn't know what to say after that. Anyway, did you feel awkward because you mentioned willies?

unknown

I know.

SPEAKER_00

Iconic, isn't it? Really? I know. I see willies all day, but I can't talk about them.

SPEAKER_01

No, that lets me bad. I'm so sorry. This is Abby Coombs, the lady that trades her nudes and cannot say the word firing blanks without blushing.

SPEAKER_00

Certain things are just I don't know. I don't know, I don't know. Firing blanks is such a weird term though.

SPEAKER_01

It's widely understood, isn't it?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, anyway. That's where we're going. That's that's yeah, I don't know. I don't know. So what else do you wish you knew before getting your borderless?

SPEAKER_01

Is there anything that conversation went so far askew? I know. I was just gonna say the main point in a valley you look for, now I'm only talking about main, is you've always said fleece, like the main, if you had to pick one point. With a border lester, obviously you've got ears and you've got neck. Yeah. If those two things What about their back? Yeah, but I wouldn't say I would say if their neck is big and long, you've pretty much already got the back there. What are you doing? If they got claws, rah. Juicy bottom. Have they got a nice juicy bottom or not? Um I would say they're more of the Hereford of the machine world. Like a Charolet, I'd say is a Tex or a Hereford I'd say is a border.

SPEAKER_00

Spotted they're quite.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, I would love a Dutch spotted, I would. Want a Suffolk? You want a su I've got Suffolk rams. Well, that's no good. Mummet has pedigree as Suffolk's he does. What does he? Where does he come from? He comes from next door to me. So not up north. No, not up north.

SPEAKER_00

Oh yeah, north. Yeah, I don't know where that came from.

SPEAKER_01

Well mate, down road year. That's better.

SPEAKER_00

That's a bit better.

SPEAKER_01

We prefer that. What we prefer roadman to up north.

SPEAKER_00

No, he sounded more west country though. Did I?

SPEAKER_01

Well, me, me neighbour down road. Yeah, he's got two little Suffolk Rams if you want some.

SPEAKER_00

Have you ever tried to do a gram for impression?

SPEAKER_01

No.

SPEAKER_00

I would love to see that.

SPEAKER_01

Five pounds so you can see it. Okay. I need to see the money in front of me.

SPEAKER_00

I don't have any cash on me. Whoa. I can show you my tits. That's worth more than a fiver. No, I don't want to see them. Everyone just probably thinks I'm a pervert, don't they?

SPEAKER_01

You've literally just offered to show me your tits rather than giving me a fiver. Everyone knows that's not going to be done well.

SPEAKER_00

You asked me to touch yours the other day.

SPEAKER_01

At least I've I'm not trading you a fiver in return for touching my tits. I'm doing that for free. Wait, you should have paid me.

SPEAKER_00

That's quite a statement. I should have paid you for touching my boobs. Harry Coombs for touching your tits, yeah. This has gone so off track. I am so sorry.

unknown

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01

I would just like to clarify that the only reason she touched my boob is because I was like, is that a lump though? There wasn't.

SPEAKER_00

No, and you are breastfeeding. So yeah.

SPEAKER_01

It was not in a weird way. That's just so randomly.

SPEAKER_00

I feel so bad for all of you sponsoring this. I'm sure they didn't sponsor it. We're all about cheap teeth, honestly. Honestly. Just a bit of mastitis. We're fully fledged on that one.

SPEAKER_01

I do not have mastitis. Can I just clarify?

SPEAKER_00

No. There's a lot of clarification.

unknown

Shut up.

SPEAKER_00

I don't know. This is going to say what's right. Anyway, so my back to the it's not recording. What is wrong with you? Get on your seat and stick out. Basically, today has not gone to plan, and I just feel winding Maria around would be best.

SPEAKER_01

Um, she's noticed I'm a sensitive soul stain, she's going for it. I'm not anymore. I took a breather, I'm fine.

SPEAKER_00

Honestly, we've had the camera die twice, had a phone call, had a technical error, all in one sitting. And you know what's really funny? I've also realised our episodes are about 45 minutes long. I couldn't tell you how long our sections have been.

SPEAKER_01

So if this is really long or really short, you're welcome. Either way, you won't.

SPEAKER_00

Welcome or sorry. I'm sorry. I don't know which way.

SPEAKER_01

You're welcome. If you say sorry, you're emitting to negligence.

SPEAKER_00

Okay.

SPEAKER_01

You're emitting to negligence. Enjoy.

SPEAKER_00

Enjoy.

SPEAKER_01

You're welcome. Um appetite. Should we talk about my little sheet this week? Well not this week. If you have a bloody let me finish about my story, then yeah, maybe. What's your fucking story? I was just talking about how the neck was big. Yeah. And it just makes him stand really proud. So I'm very proud of this first lamb that has come out of my sheep. And now it's huge. And that's the end of the story. Good night.

SPEAKER_00

I'm gonna talk the honest truth about what happened to one of my sheep. I had my first death this year. I'm gonna be honest. Why not? You lot, you probably think it's all hunky dory, cute sheep. I actually haven't posted anything about this lamb. Um one of those things. He was just off. Um I didn't ring you about it because I just knew it was beyond that. That point of ringing anyone for advice. No point in ringing the vet.

SPEAKER_01

Probably would have blocked you anyway.

SPEAKER_00

Probably. Um, so I don't know whether somebody laid on him. I have a feeling that he might have got laid on. So he was walking around with his head leaning to one side. It was like curved round.

SPEAKER_01

And it was never born like that.

SPEAKER_00

Never born like that. It was a couple weeks old, six weeks old, maybe. And it was just like it was walking, it was stumbling to one side. It was unless it was something in his brain or something.

unknown

Sheep have brains.

SPEAKER_00

You well, do sheep have brains? No. Um, anyway, something wasn't right. So went to give him some antibiotics, but before that happened, Scott said, give him some of your lamb, oh what's it called? Uh lamb, I don't know, it was a pump to give them like a lamb boost sort of thing, a liquid. So when the lamb's born, I give them a squirt of that and I give them some colostrum paste. So he said, give them some of that, like you would when a lamb's born, just to give him that extra bit of energy.

SPEAKER_01

The only time that will help is if there's electrolytes in it, which I'd hope there would be for a lamb to start. Unfortunately, he inhaled it and had a seizure.

SPEAKER_00

Oh. Where there's livestock, there's dead stock. Yeah, and honestly, we were all it was a horrible seizure. Like the worst I've ever seen. Um see many seizures. One kept having seizures. I thought I could get it better, but it was beyond that point. Um fortunately in my line of work, like you probably saw it. Yeah, there's stuff, but he was going for it, and there was no controlling that. Um so I allowed him to see if he came back round after seizure because he did stop after he like got it through, sort of moved it. He did come round a bit. And um I was on the phone to Courtney, and we actually decided to give it a little bit of Red Bull, syringe it's some red bull caffeine. He boosted for about 20 minutes and then he just went downhill. Oh that's really unfortunate. Yeah, so I reckon he must have got laid on.

SPEAKER_01

Maybe.

SPEAKER_00

I reckon he survived, but he had been laid on. Yeah. And that's probably why his neck was bent one way. Sorry, that's a really sad, sad story for this week, but it happens.

SPEAKER_01

I d I did you can't overthink these things either. Like, yeah, you can go and get an autopsy, waste your money on something that's not gonna change the consequences. There was nothing wrong with any other lamb. If you've got maybe two or three or four dying with the same symptoms, very much a different story, yeah, because there's something there you can't do to prevent any other outcome.

SPEAKER_00

But he could have been born with something that never accumulated to anything until he was older. Yeah, I had vitamin drenched him, he had high-energy lick, he had a salt block, he was already on Course Mix, he had hay and silage, he had water. That boy could not have had more if I tried. So I felt I did all I could, and I think it's just the reality of something's happened, yeah. I'd agree, and I thought I'd just make sure everyone knows that I'm not smoothing over the sadness of pedigree lambing. I will be honest, the only thing I would say with pedigree lambing. I looked at that and was like, okay, it was castrated male, yeah. It wasn't going back into breeding, so there was part of me that was like, okay, that's not part of the show team, that wasn't one that was marked well, it wasn't my favourite. I looked at it like that. With pedigrees, you are more likely to have favourites than commercials.

SPEAKER_01

So I guess the lesson in that one would be if you could tell yourself before you got these pedigrees, you win some, you lose some, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

And it doesn't it's not the end of the world when you do lose some, don't think of the money. Because it makes you want to cry. Just don't think of the money.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Because in reality, if anyone's listening to this and thinking that's an animal, why are you thinking of the money? It is a livelihood.

SPEAKER_00

Unfortunately, that is the feed for the next herva along for the other sheep.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, you cannot afford to keep these animals if it wasn't them bringing in some income as well.

SPEAKER_00

So I'm pretty lucky in the fact that I'm using my weather money to then pay for my use and what have you. Now I think it's time to give up seeing as the camera has now officially died four times, and I feel like we've given our update on what's going on with lambing, things we change within our pedigree systems. Um, but with that being said, if you are lambing pedigree sheep, if you're lambing commercial sheep, if you have horses, if you have cattle, if you have any outside area or any outside animal that you want to keep an eye on and make sure it's safe and happy, or whatever else, rural view is the camera to go for.

SPEAKER_01

Now, these guys have so many different settings on their camera. They've got things like you can zoom in, zoom out, um, really close you can get to the point where I can see way too much detail than what I want to see. Um, I can also speak down the camera. So the other night I was that's quite clever, but scary. The other night I was getting the kids to sleep, and Matthew went and looked at the cheat for me, and I said to him, I was like, please could you check W3? Um, she's just been lying down for a while, and I was able to keep an eye on her, and Matthew replied back, um, which is great. So it's like two-way hearing. You can hear both of you, not all the time, only when you press the button to be heard.

SPEAKER_00

That's quite good though.

SPEAKER_01

Yes.

SPEAKER_00

So we have actually been sent a list of all the good things about these cameras. Now, we don't like to read off a script, as you probably know, because we just want to talk about the products that we love, but we have got a list here of all the stuff it does do, which I am just gonna list out. Um, so it monitors use during lambing, spots any problems, uh, save time and sleep, obviously, and peace of mind. So, as for the 4G, um, so it works without Wi-Fi, so that is ideal for raw farms, um, and uses a 4G sim. Um, as for the 36x, 36x, I don't know what you want to call it, optimal zoom. Um, it's got the Rural View 360 camera, um, so you can zoom in on everyone, like you said, um, and ideal for bigger lambing barns when stuff is further away. It's also got night vision, which we all need. Um, simple phone app to use, pan, tilt, and zoom remotely, designed to be straightforward. So, this is a UK based company, and the big benefit of getting these cameras are to transform lambing season by reducing the cuts and checks, um, much the shed from the comfort of your own home and Only go out when you really need to.

SPEAKER_01

Which is a win-win for everyone. And this camera, quite literally, pays for itself if it saves just one lamb. And it pays for more than one if you've got a pedigree sheep.

SPEAKER_00

Exactly. Christ, you get your money back. So if you do want to get one of these cameras, then you can use the code which is 10% off using FarmHead10.

SPEAKER_01

And we're not sure whether that's a capital F and a capital H. Use it just in case.

SPEAKER_00

Yes. If you if it doesn't work, put the capitals in. Um but I will leave all the links and what have you down below. So on that note, we're going to sign off. You're going to be back next week with a poor quality episode because that way the cameras won't die.

SPEAKER_01

For the people listening, you're not going to notice the difference.

SPEAKER_00

No, you're not going to know a difference. And actually, you're probably going to be better off though, because you're not going to have the bleeps and the restarting and everything. So actually, hopefully, next week is more enjoyable for everyone, including us. So on that note, we will see you next week. Bye for now. Bye.