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Sheep Farming: Treating Common Sheep Infections

at Ewetopia Farms, as we go through our daily routines, we stop to see how the Dorset sheep with pinkeye are doing and we talk about pinkeye, what it is and how we dealt with it. We also do the same thing for scald and foot rot as we check on how our ram Gladiator is doing. As with all treatm... More ›

Sheep Farming: Troubles With Rams!

at Ewetopia Farms, we focus on troubles you can run into with rams. We talk about testicle size, breeding, special feed requirements, aggression, urinary calculi and more. And as always, all our discussions use our sheep and experiences as living examples of the problems we have encountered, ... More ›

Sheep Farming: Checking The Sheep

at Ewetopia Farms, we check up on how all our new breeding groups we setup yesterday with clean-up rams are doing. We talk about why we are using clean-up rams in some breeding groups. We release more lambs from jugs. We spend time visiting lambs, rams and replacement ewes. We also get to see ... More ›

Sheep Farming: Moving Bottle Lambs

at Ewetopia Farms, we decided that it was time to move our bottle lambs from the main barn over to the Coveralls to join their peers. It was also time to move the new lamb and her mom out of the lambing jug. So there was some lamb movement going on today plus we started using the offset disc to... More ›

Sheep Farming: Thanksgiving On The Farm

At Ewetopia Farms, despite it being Canadian Thanksgiving, it is business as usual on the farm! We see how the bottle lambs are progressing with learning how to drink from the bottle holder; we move ewes and lambs to the Coveralls and then open up the remaining watch pen so that they now have ... More ›

Sheep Farming: Another Day On The Farm!

At Ewetopia Farms, it is another day on the farm. In other words, we go through our daily routines of feeding the sheep. And feeding time when lambs are around, also means lamb races! While watching the lambs play, we decided that they need more bedding in their pen. We cracked open our first ... More ›

Sheep Farming: Training Bottle Lambs

at Ewetopia Farms, we decide that it is time to stop feeding the bottle lambs by hand and start training them to drink their bottles from a holder. You would think this would be a seamless transition but the babies love to be handled while taking a bottle so there is some training involved. W... More ›

Sheep Farming: Ewes Rejecting Lambs!

At Ewetopia Farms, we prepared a bunch more ewes and lambs to leave the lambing jugs and head into the group pens. After tagging and marking lambs, one ewe reacted negatively to the process and started to reject her lamb. I had never experienced this before so spent the day trying to get her to... More ›

Sheep Farming: Mayhem On The Farm! /October 2, 2022

At Ewetopia Farms it was total mayhem from the time we walked into the barn this morning until we left the barn tonight. We knew it was going to be a busy day because we were shipping our Suffolk breeding group today and we had people coming to look at rams and we had to bale all the hay we had ... More ›

Sheep Farming: Lamb Updates / September 27, 2022

At Ewetopia Farms, we go through all the lambs to update you on what's been happening in the lambing barn over the last few days. We also sell a few more rams and load them up to go to their new home. Plus we get to move another group of lambs over to the Coveralls. Come see all the new lambs ... More ›

Sheep Farming: Leaving The Farm, Even For Just A Day, Requires A Lot Of Preparations/Sept. 24, 2022

At Ewetopia Farms, we spent the day getting prepared for leaving the farm to go to another sheep show tomorrow. We need to leave very early in the morning so we wanted to make sure most of our jobs got done today instead. When you have a farm and animals, you can't just randomly leave for a d... More ›

We did an ULTRASOUND on our SHEEP... and got some unexpected results!! | Vlog 622

I always sweat a bit when it comes to scan day. Especially on ewes that were serviced out-of season...... More ›

Sheep Farming: Relocating Sheep / September 21, 2022

At Ewetopia Farms, we were relocating sheep again. With lambing in full swing, we needed to get our first family groups of sheep over to the Coveralls. This meant moving a Suffolk breeding group from one barn to the other. To do this, we also had to reconfigure a few sheep pens to accommodate ... More ›

Sheep Farming: Back To The Farm! / September 19, 2022

At Ewetopia Farms, we wanted to catch up on the things we missed doing while we were away showing sheep yesterday. Luckily, the ewes waited until we got back to start lambing. So this morning we were able to show you our first lambing of the season that needed assistance. We deliver a breech... More ›

Sheep Farming: Solving Problems! / September 17, 2022

at Ewetopia Farms, there were a few problems that had to be dealt with as we went through our day. First we discovered a ewe with an uneven udder that we had to milk out. Unfortunately we discovered that there was blood in the milk so we show you that and how we dealt with it. Then our first sh... More ›

this is the end, my friends. | Vlog 620

WE MADE IT!! Officially the end of fall lambing 2022!!... More ›

Sheep Farming: Feeding, Moving & Training Sheep / September 15, 2022

At Ewetopia Farms, we had a lot to do to to make room for the new lambs. Feeding always comes first though so we show you how and what we feed our sheep. Then in order to get more ewes and lambs out of jugs, we had to move sheep around and setup new pens. We show you what we did and why we do i... More ›

MAMA... ewwwww. | WHAT IS ALL OVER YOUR LAMB?? ?? | Vlog 61

Although today's lambing seemed much calmer than yesterday... we still had our fair share of babies.... More ›

Sheep Farming: Night Checks - What Happens On A Sheep Farm At Night / September 13, 2022

Should I say tonight, we take you to the barn at 3 am so that you can see what happens on a sheep farm at night during lambing season. During night checks, ewes are checked to make sure no one needs assistance lambing. Lambs are checked. And if there are lambs - and there is this time - all th... More ›

Sheep Farming: Preparing The Lambs For Show/ September 9, 2022

It was the ram lambs' turn as we continue to prepare our lambs for show. We got all the boys on halters and hauled them outside to be tied up, washed, and walked. One also needed extra shearing so we took this opportunity to take out our new trimming stand and give it a try. And while we were tr... More ›

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