Farming Youtubers

Jesus that's madness

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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.