Farming Youtubers

Odelay

seen one video with two children sitting on the front of the quad, while it was driven at a reasonable speed, with an unbraked trailer of beet behind it, and another adult standing on the draw bar. Fuckin nuts. No need for it, they could have walked to the field.

Kevhog1988

Jesus that's madness

spark_tank

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121990202#Comment_121990202

That's a great show. Even better to see one of my Youtube favourites as the host family.

Well done Adrian, Sinéad and girls. An invaluable experience for Sophia.

kk.man

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121992477#Comment_121992477

I don't understand why that's not pulled. He also slapped a new born lamb on the ground in the lastest one. I really pity that poor woman she's a great worker and doing her best for the family. It takes great courage to set up and run a utube channel and the ignorance of her fella is sickening. The kids are a credit to her.

IFarmWeFarm7615

Thanks very much , must admit we were all very nervous leading up to last nights episode. Didn't know how the whole thing would come across but the reception has been unreal. Sophia was a really nice young lady, tough as nails too. She never missed a milking from day one, kept checking to make sure i wouldn’t start without her. That’s surprised everyone, would go out and just sit with the cows in the field each evening afterwards. It’s a great opportunity for any young person to try something different like this, hopefully it will stand to them later in life 🤞. It certainly warmed our hearts to see the smile on her face.
Shes hopefully coming to visit us for a few days in the summer.

Tileman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121994460#Comment_121994460

Great episode and programme. Adrian is it only a week. If it was a month would u have taken her ?. U could see the transformation in a week. Just wonder how much it had a chance to actually change her or will she go back to her old habits after another week at home. Your own kids are a credit to you both with a great work ethic.

IFarmWeFarm7615

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121994939#Comment_121994939

The filming crew landed on a Thursday morning, Sophia came around lunch time. They all left together the following Tuesday evening. A chaperone ( young girl in her 20’s ) also stayed with Sophia full time as she was a minor. There were 6-7 crew members that stayed in a local hotel overnight and were here most mornings around 7am. Unreal amount of filming done, what was shown on tv was about 20% of what we actually did.
On the final day we were all shattered, as much as we enjoyed it we were glad to get the house back to some sort of normality and just get some rest.
I think she genuinely did get her eyes opened when she was here but these mobile phones nowadays are hard to put down, my own girls are at it too. We try to replace it with something, few chores a bit of sport or something like that. Avoiding an idle mind. It’s hard to know what’s the right approach as each child is different too.

spark_tank

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121994939#Comment_121994939

I think there's a lot to be gained following such an experience, such as confidence. But a lot of it is about planting seeds too. Seeds such as work ethic, responsibility, resilience, teamwork, discipline, gratitude and so on. It could be a few years down the road until some of those seeds sprout.

We're all moulded into shape by our experiences as young people.

IFarmWeFarm7615

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121995179#Comment_121995179

Well put 👍

Kevhog1988

Really enjoying the sheep game lambing videos at the moment. Shows warts and all and is training up a new dog also. He's a serious grafter, started out with 4 ewes and is running over a thousand now.

Base price

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121997495#Comment_121997495

And he doesn't own a acre - it's all rented.

farawaygrass

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121997495#Comment_121997495

dunno how he has the energy to do the videos during lambing. I met him at a show in the uk last summer, stood for a quick chat. He was constantly being approached and took it all in his stride.

josephsoap

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121997890#Comment_121997890

I wonder what kind of £ per acre would he be giving over there -perhaps they have very long leases too ?

Kevhog1988

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121998105#Comment_121998105

Majority are seasonal lets i think but his missus has a long lease on a new place now

Odelay

I don’t know how land ownership works over there? Do they all have very long leases to the prince of wales or titled landlords?

josephsoap

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121998121#Comment_121998121

yeah I was thinking you could hardly build up a flock of that size if relying on conacre

Kevhog1988

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121998145#Comment_121998145

Some yes, some only a 5 or 10 year farm business tenancy and some just an annual grazing license

farmerphil135

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121998145#Comment_121998145

it’s a funny system over there. Friend of ours over there couldn’t get the generational tenancy renewed on the farm his father and grandfather had worked. So he went from having a herd of cows, flock of sheep and a full tillage outfit to having to sell the lot and leave the farmhouse

charlesanto

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121997495#Comment_121997495

This is worth a watch ….

https://youtu.be/pdSf4MvghW4?si=Xu7py3UWNhZQmEwI

Kevhog1988

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121999462#Comment_121999462

listened to that one lately. Fair play to him for the few quid he makes from youtube. I genuinely have learned a lot from his lambing videos etc

pg141

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121997495#Comment_121997495

Did you see Day 3 started the day losing 3 set of triplets, Christ if that happened to me I would just walk into the sea!

That lambing outside craic is mental, suppose mild springs you look like a genius but weather we are at the moment, they look like they off there heads!

Kevhog1988

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122000530#Comment_122000530

I have a similar system as him albeit on a lot smaller scale with outdoor lambing but lamb real late. Lambing end of april/ start of may this year and hope to buy very little hard feed. Try to take advantage of the hopefully better prices in back end of the year and some winter grazing but like us all I'm completely at risk of poor prices. Lambing indoors is high input/cost.

Kevhog1988

This sums it up

pg141

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122000673#Comment_122000673

yeah but Running them into the shed and say they are in for a month, sure if you got those 3 triplets to selling stage it would pay for that, the comfort level would be increase for you and you could handle more sheep, turn them out a few days after they are born on to grass close to the yard, just my view you lads are more exp it at this

Sheep breeder

lambing triplets is a luck game with a high percentage of losses, due to the lambs become very tight inside the ewe and a certain % are still born because of this, also the ewe can take longer to lamb all 3 lambs and lambs get under stress, hate to see triples at scanning time, can end up on different years with 50 - 70% born alive, same as cows with twins.

Kevhog1988

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122000838#Comment_122000838

I think the 3rd is no addition unless you can wet Foster onto a single. Hate to see them myself also.

funkey_monkey

@IFarmWeFarm7615

Looks like you have an imitation account on tiktok:

vincenzolorenzo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121948339#Comment_121948339

For the channels that last, the likes of you and Adrian, for me anyway the attraction isn't watching grass being mowed, or slurry spread, or feeding cattle. Its the projects, see what ye're up to, the talking to camera, etc. Other channels that sprouted up over the last couple of years that just have long sequences of footage but no craic to the camera are the ones I see fizzling out.

3 videos a week is some commitment, I don't know how ye've kept it going this long!

IFarmWeFarm7615

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122010725#Comment_122010725

I seen that last night, don’t think i can do much only to report it. If you could do the same that would be great. Just hope they don’t start added links for stuff and catch people out.
Thanks for letting me know 👍

funkey_monkey

Good video today from farm theory. I'll have to watch it a couple of times for it to sink in.

https://youtu.be/S4cDO-63l_w?si=XXZN613zwQOa7lXw

Box09

This guy is excellent, really insightful and you can see a lot of planning goes into his videos, which unfortunately is not the case with the more frequent posting youtubers. Less is better.

straight

James Geoghegan talks about the future of Irish farming and rural Ireland

https://youtu.be/yYg0dEFvVlg?si=JbMZO2g-j5mUZnz5

somofagun

I had 11 sets of triplets in a flock of 32 ewes this year, out of the 11 I got:

2 lambs fostered

2 sets were born dead on the one day and lost one of the ewe a couple of days after, all good sized lambs

1 lamb born deformed & dead 2 others alive

3 pet lambs

Have been keeping the last 3 set of triplets in a shed but they can run in and out to a wee field, was giving them a bit of meal and went out one evening and here one of the lambs was lying dead, good tight lamb. OK **** happens so I put this ewe out with the rest of the other sheep wither her 2 lambs and a week later while do the evening check here another of her lams lying dead. Again a good strong lamb, so she is left with just one. Ewe has plenty of milk so they were getting fed.

Sheep would break your heart.

Ralph_GM

Not a fan of that raised by the village program. The kids are used to make entertaining programming.

'let's record a clip of a city kid wearing wellies and standing in shite looking uncomfortable'

If I had troubles as a child, last thing I'd want is for it to be broadcast on national tv.

Realistically, the child will not have any long term positive impacts from it imo.

tanko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122025651#Comment_122025651

Sure it’s just more of the usual shyte RTE come up with, how anyone can sit down and spend half an hour watching that dung beggars belief.

roosterman71

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122025651#Comment_122025651

Or the kids find it great to get away from the city and whatever shite they deal with there on a daily basis.

May also help other kids in a similar situation who see the programme and realise it's not all tar and concrete and there's life outside of the city

893bet

how many acres is Karen farming?

Did I see her saying 6 cows calving this year?
and also 1.5 tonne of urea being spread. Now I have never spread even a bag of urea so have no idea; we were always miserly with fert and organic now but that seems like a massive amount per head?

Mehaffey1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122054962#Comment_122054962

Don't know about the acres but Urea would be one of the fertilizers that go on the heaviest amount per acre.

Mr..

She keeps her calves till there at least yearlings so stocking rate would be more than just 6 adult calves.

Jimbo789

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.

Lime Tree Farm

This is worth a watch, how important is it to get temp to normal before stomach tubing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQli5Si0_Gg

visatorro

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.

leoch

She's trying to be one of the lads and only she's half easy on the eye they wouldn't bother about her and god does she know iit

Base price

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122059469#Comment_122059469

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.

Tileman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122067957#Comment_122067957

jeez that sounds like some hardship

Base price

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122068329#Comment_122068329

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……..☹️

Lime Tree Farm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122067957#Comment_122067957

I was trying to figure out what happened the newborn that died here a few weeks ago and came across the video. Her calf had temp of 34 and weighed 29 kg at 8 days. Our one was born during the night and was stomach tubed. The following morning couldn't get it drink either, temp 36, cold inside mouth and body. Put under lamp, stomach tubed again. It reacted after feeding, seemed in obvious pain, stretched out and died within a 20 minutes of tubing.. It was one of the heaviest calves I've seen here. The post mortem revealed nothing obvious. The only thing I could think was, it should have been warmed up to normal temp before feeding.

Base price

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122068638#Comment_122068638

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.

Base price

@IFarmWeFarm7615 Congratulations Adrian on 100k subscribers. It's great that your Dad got a good lift with the news.

mayota

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122074358#Comment_122074358

Delighted for Adrian and his family, well deserved.