Farming Youtubers

A couple things I used always skip through on YouTube videos were drone shots showing machinery working and time lapse stuff like dosing cattle/sheep or pouring concrete but recently I find myself more often having to skip through YouTubers bringing their kids into the videos for no good reason.

The girl from lucky day competition has a YouTube channel. Kinda behind the scenes. Wouldn't be my cup of tea. Has to be hard to be that giddy all the time. I entered 2 draws id say. Iv heard stories about things not being as they seem but I suppose if you win its cheap. They showed a couple of things not working correctly that were getting ready for auction. Didn't think it looked the part. Seemed to be plenty of people working there so fair play to them for setting up a business.

I've seen Sandi Brock from Sheepishly Me saying the same. She puts lambs into a box warmer to increase their temperature and most suck on their own after getting to temp.

In 2018 when we had the "Beast from the East" we lost seven young calves 14 to 19 days old. We had 120 bought in calves at the time. The older calves 25+ day old were fine but you could see the younger ones going downhill. We bedded both lorries, the drag trailer (OH rolled over the covers on his lorry & drag) and the jeep trailer deep with straw, parked them behind the sheds, out of the wind/snow and put heat lamps into them. It was a struggle at the time to feed them cmr but we let them out in batches in the feed passage of the slatted unit. Thankfully we had a few spare gates and plenty of pallets.

Yes it is a bit of work but that is what you have to do to keep your calves/livestock as safe as possible otherwise……..☹️

I'm only a farmer but be very careful with stomach feeding calves. You can get away with new borns stomach feeding colostrum but imo you're better off bottle feeding/dosing after. Bottle feeding/dosing allows them to drink so the fluids enter their abomasum where it is digested properly.

Delighted for Adrian and his family, well deserved.

@Siamsa Sessions Great video this evening Kieran and it's good to see you back on the airwaves!

How many cows is FarmTheory lad milking does anyone know, he says he's making 180 acres of 1st cut silage, seems very big average?

Does he mean two cuts of 90 acres so 180 acres? He's very interesting to follow. Found the tech he made, in particular the GPS system, very impressive.

different system up north, much for focused on yeild, ground type wouldn’t be as dry as early up there either so cows could be in for 6 months typically. Think his cows are in by night for most of the year aswell which drives silage requirements

Multicut system aswell so you need more acres

Yes I’d imagine I’ll get bored of his videos soon too. He’s a more of the style of the thesuperseriousfarmer where all the problems he has makes the videos interesting at first but ultimately most of the problems are caused by themselves and their standards of farming.

Unlike Sheep School or Cowley Hill Farm where if there are some problems then there’s a chance everybody can learn something from it.

I can understand how Cowley Hill mightn’t appeal to everyone, sometimes the Scottish can be easier to listen to than the English.

https://www.youtube.com/%40LivestockfarmHER2 seems to do things very well.

His father is a top Cheviot breeder and a good farmer, the son has tried his hand at different types of farming and has not stopped long at anything, wants to be a big time contractor. The cattle are in a yard about 7 miles from the farm in a big estate. A cousin lives near him. Would always a very bad area for TB.

Sheep shepherd on rte radio 1 Joe Duffy at the moment

It took me a bit but got past that, to be fair to that lad he is doing well and I find the video's very good, Also the other part of the farm is interesting as well