Sheep Farming: Easter On The Farm



Today at Ewetopia Farms, it is Easter on the farm, so instead of focusing on work, we have a leisurely day watching the lambs as they go outside to play in their new boy/girl groups. Hope you all had a happy holiday.

Sheep and sheep farming is our passion and we hope that the love we have for what we do is obvious to you the viewers. Our operation is a large scale, registered Suffolk and Poll Dorset sheep farm combining the best of pasture and confinement to manage the flock for maximum comfort, minimal stress, and producing a consistent, very high quality product. Our focus is on providing breeding stock for sale to other sheep producers. All our sheep are treated with the utmost compassion which I think will become evident as you join us on our daily rounds on our working sheep farm in eastern Ontario, Canada.

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Thank you!

Lynn & Arnie

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Lynn McKay and Arnie Droogh
3606 6th Concession Road
Kingston, Ontario
Canada
K0H 1Y0
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33 thoughts on “Sheep Farming: Easter On The Farm”

  1. Yay, no wind, wet and cold. Cold will come back but this week will be sunny. Looks like it might be Orf time? I wonder if it happens after weaning because the milk and its antibodies ward it off.
    A name for the box for your keeper ram, Ludlow?

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  2. I love the slow-mo ga-boinga ga-boinga running of the lambs…. my favorite gait for the sheep, as it just translates to sheer joy (in my mind). Whenever we have fawns born to the ubiquitous deer that live in the nature preserve across the street from my little farm, when the little ones get startled they just ga-boinga through the forest as if they have springs in their legs.

    Lynn, I have to say that I admire your skills with bottle babies. I had a bottle baby for almost 24 hours, and I knew within six hours that I'd rather find a home for her than try to cope with her and raise her. My second ewe lambed out twins. One was an almost exact duplicate of her ram lamb from last year (only with 4 horns instead of 8 horns), and the other was a ewe lamb. She was fine with them for the first 6 hours, and then she started to beat up the ewe lamb. Which is bad when the ewe has four horns and catches the lamb in the horns and flings her three feet in the air. I pulled the baby, and mom is happy with her son, and I found a teenager to take the baby and maybe make it a 4H lamb or something. So she's gone, I just have the happy memory of feeling like an inept mommy. Luckily I thought ahead and had milk replacer.

    The ewe who rejected one of her babies will probably be sold along with the rest (I have more luck selling larger quantities at once) since of her three babies so far, one was a gargoyle with 8 horns, one was rejected, and the third… at the moment, is the most perfect baby I've seen. Anyway, I admire your skill with the bottle babies so much more now that I have experienced it myself.

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  3. I just wanna say how absolutely touch'n it is that u allow 4 the sheep/lambs 2 get outside, play, & be free!! I get SOO sad 4 the Sheep that r constantly pregnant & coop'd up in a barn!! Thank u SOO much 4 think'n bout their mental health.. u 2 r AMAZING shepherds!!

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  4. Good morning Arnie and Lynn. A great Easter on the farm. Short sleeve shirts and sunshine. Yay!!! The cats ring in the day with a protest on food. Cats are funny and they show displeasure on their faces. 😂🤣. Leonard and Thelma put enthusiasm back in the day. The lambs were having such a great time out. Watching them run was fun. I really like when they do that hopping run. They look like it is oh so fun. I can’t believe that the ewe wiggled in between the bales and then turned around. A Houdini that couldn’t remember how to finish the trick. Then finding the mamas got all the girls up to look. I think they hopped back there to say Happy Easter mom. 🥹. They pooped themselves out playing outside and all those boys that tucked under the feeders was funny. Just like babies. A great relaxing day on the farm. Thank you. Big hugs to you both. 🥰🥰🥰

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  5. Thank you you two, and Happy Easter to you 🐣🐇 It was lovely to see the lambs having lots of fun running and playing I'm the king of the castle! I'm so impressed little Kinky is managing on her little leg 💗Have a lovely week ahead and hope the sun keeps shining now.🌞
    💕💞💕

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  6. Hi Lynn, I just love the Slo Mo!! Seeing the sheep running & bounding over everything is kinda comical. They look so good outside and they love exploring. That ewe lamb who got stuck between the bales was funny, wonder how she jammed herself in that tiny spot? When breeding time come around the fun times will be over. Thank you for the new video. ❣🌴

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  7. At every Second of your Video I see and feel your Love at the Sheep and this make me so happy. You do so much Work to them that they do feeling happy too. For me you are one of the best Farmers and Youtuber, cause Money is not all but work with heartblood and wonderfull Mind ist the greatest. Sorry for my bad English, I hope you can understand what I mean. 😍

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  8. Happy Easter Lynn and Arnie! Looks like you had a gorgeous day! I try to feed my cats as healthy of food as possible. None of it Purina. Solid Gold is one they all love. It’s not that expensive if you want your animals to thrive. I’d return the Friskies.

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  9. Two things. First, I must commend you on the quality of this video's footage, the angles, and the slow motion effects. VERY COOL, Lynn. Second, I am so glad you saw that lamb get stuck between the two round bales. That could have EASILY turned into a routine trip to the barn several days later where you ask yourself, "Good grief. What's that smell?" Seriously, if there's a trap to be had, lambs will find it. For newborns, all it takes is a gate and a water bucket.

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  10. oh my gosh thank you Lynn, I nearly cried laughing with the lamb stuck in the bales…. and oh the comments on segregating….you have had a horribly long winter, and I was thinking you deserved a beautiful easter day. Then I said I too had a long winter and I deserve to laugh……thank you, thank you. Happy easter to you and Arnie🐑🐑🐑🐑✝

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  11. Try mixing the 2 kinds of cat food together and see if that helps. Yup, those lambs are practicing for the rodeo. Is the Calgary stampede in their future? 😂

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