Sitting up at lambing time

[bravheart]

Below is a link to a fly on the wall documentary shot by German TV of my uncle and family at lambing time. It was filmed way back in the 70s and has just recently come to light and on youtube. He spent his farming life looking after blackies in the Angus glens in the foothills of the Cairngorms.
The background commentary is in German and can go on a bit but he speaks English, bear in mind it was a long time ago, the girl doing the ironing is now retired, not so exciting as today's documentaries aka lambing live or @Fergieman from a couple of years ago but as a bloke the scene with the gimmer lambing even had me crossing my legs.Give it a chance if you've got a spare 1/2 half hour.

There should be others the only one I've found is of the clipping and market, should be in the boxes on the side of youtube

 

[Skintagain]

Christ that should have been left a while longer

 

[bravheart]

On que for camera?

 

[Woolless]

Cheers, will have a look at that. If anyone wants something to watch, try searching up the documentary about the Serbian Highland cattle fold on iPlayer. I could do with the 79 year old wifey giving me a hand at lambing. She's different class

 

[defender]

Alistair Skene .?

 

[Moors Lad]

Interesting to see the Blackie sheep then compared to now. Hadn`t realised stomach tubes were around as long ago as that....
Very interesting.....

 

[Skintagain]

Interesting to see the Blackie sheep then compared to now. Hadn`t realised stomach tubes were around as long ago as that....
Very interesting.....

They look more like a lonk than a blackie. Look a good little sheep.

 

[Razor8]

Look a lot like the ones that around Kerry over this side of water

 

[Agrivator]

They look more like a lonk than a blackie. Look a good little sheep.

There was, and still is. a big variation among Blackfaces. Those in the Angus Glens can be significantly different from the Lanark or Newton Stewart or Northumberland types. But in all types, face colour has been modified by the influence of the Swaledale.

What was interesting is that when he skinned a lamb, he slit open the dead lamb and smeared its liver over the lamb being adopted on. It's a trick I've heard a number of old shepherds recommend.

And it's a salutary fact that since the video was made, scanning is the only significant advance in sheep husbandry.

 

[Agrivator]

Interesting to see the Blackie sheep then compared to now. Hadn`t realised stomach tubes were around as long ago as that....
Very interesting.....

That was when Andrew Eales at the Moredun Research Institute was developing all sorts of methods of treating hypothermic lambs, including the benefits of adequate colostrum, by stomach tube where necessary. The trouble is that we use it too often, and forget that most newly born lambs will suck colostrum from a bottle and gain more benefit form sucking.

Everybody rearing lambs and calves should know about the esophageal groove, and how it is affected by the sucking process.

 

[David.]

Thank you. Very interesting insight.

 

[bravheart]

There was, and still is. a big variation among Blackfaces. Those in the Angus Glens can be significantly different from the Lanark or Newton Stewart or Northumberland types. But in all types, face colour has been modified by the influence of the Swaledale.

What was interesting is that when he skinned a lamb, he slit open the dead lamb and smeared its liver over the lamb being adopted on. It's a trick I've heard a number of old shepherds recommend.

And it's a salutary fact that since the video was made, scanning is the only significant advance in sheep husbandry.

Often heard him speak about the lanark type blackie, he felt they were a bit soft for his heather hills rising to 2000 feet.

 

[bravheart]

That was when Andrew Eales at the Moredun Research Institute was developing all sorts of methods of treating hypothermic lambs, including the benefits of adequate colostrum, by stomach tube where necessary. The trouble is that we use it too often, and forget that most newly born lambs will suck colostrum from a bottle and gain more benefit form sucking.

Everybody rearing lambs and calves should know about the esophageal groove, and how it is affected by the sucking process.

Believe he did a bit of work with the Moredun.