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He has little things that isn't right. He isn't wide enough there. | 0:00:34 | 0:00:36 | |
His head should be a bit wider. | 0:00:36 | 0:00:39 | |
And he has a slight discolouration there, which isn't a good thing. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:44 | |
And where his hair's thinned, | 0:00:44 | 0:00:46 | |
where it's just a bit baldy there, that shouldn't be. | 0:00:46 | 0:00:48 | |
It should be full. He should keep it. | 0:00:48 | 0:00:50 | |
And it should be a bit wider there. And it should be a bit shorter hair. | 0:00:50 | 0:00:54 | |
And these horns are a bit wide. | 0:00:55 | 0:00:57 | |
Some people like them with a lot of colour round their eyes | 0:00:58 | 0:01:02 | |
and a big bump of white on the nose. | 0:01:02 | 0:01:05 | |
And other people like them like this one, | 0:01:05 | 0:01:06 | |
where there's just a little bit, and the colour's well down. | 0:01:06 | 0:01:10 | |
It's supposed to be nice and round there, and full. | 0:01:10 | 0:01:13 | |
The idea is to make him look like he's got a longer leg, so that when | 0:01:15 | 0:01:18 | |
he goes to a sale, he looks like he's going to grow into a big... | 0:01:18 | 0:01:22 | |
a great big stretchy tup that somebody might want to have | 0:01:22 | 0:01:26 | |
progeny off. | 0:01:26 | 0:01:27 | |
It's just to enhance his bits so that he looks | 0:01:29 | 0:01:31 | |
the best he possibly can. | 0:01:31 | 0:01:33 | |
Same as a woman putting make-up on in the morning. | 0:01:33 | 0:01:36 | |
She doesn't do it because she thinks it's going to make her look worse. | 0:01:36 | 0:01:39 | |
She's going to look better. That's the theory, anyway. | 0:01:39 | 0:01:41 | |
Some of them aren't very successful. | 0:01:41 | 0:01:44 | |
Same with the tups. | 0:01:46 | 0:01:47 | |
Sometimes you aren't very successful at making them look more attractive. | 0:01:47 | 0:01:50 | |
They just look worse. | 0:01:50 | 0:01:52 | |
We were just discussing in the pub the other day that | 0:01:58 | 0:02:00 | |
Swaledale sheep are one of the worst addictions known to man. | 0:02:00 | 0:02:04 | |
You just keep coming back and you keep having a go | 0:02:04 | 0:02:06 | |
and you keep getting a right kick in the nuts! | 0:02:06 | 0:02:09 | |
But then, next day, you stand up and you have a look at next year's | 0:02:09 | 0:02:12 | |
sheep and you think, "Oh, well, this may be one of next year's." | 0:02:12 | 0:02:15 | |
Never wanted to do anything else, really. | 0:02:57 | 0:03:00 | |
His parents weren't farmers, but his grandfather was a farmer | 0:03:01 | 0:03:04 | |
and that's where he kind of spent most of his holidays and that. | 0:03:04 | 0:03:08 | |
-All spare time. -Yeah. -So it became a nasty addiction, a nasty habit. | 0:03:08 | 0:03:14 | |
MOOING | 0:03:14 | 0:03:16 | |
-He loves every minute, really! -Yes. -He just... | 0:03:16 | 0:03:19 | |
MOOING | 0:03:19 | 0:03:20 | |
-He's a typical grumpy old farmer. -Yeah. | 0:03:20 | 0:03:23 | |
Which was an ambition in life, obviously, from day one! | 0:03:23 | 0:03:26 | |
-Which he's fulfilling quite well! -Yeah. Yeah. | 0:03:26 | 0:03:30 | |
Yeah, well, it was always an ambition to get | 0:03:30 | 0:03:32 | |
-a gnarly old farmer's wife! -You've got that. | 0:03:32 | 0:03:35 | |
HE CHUCKLES | 0:03:35 | 0:03:36 | |
Are you ready? | 0:03:51 | 0:03:52 | |
HE WHISTLES | 0:03:55 | 0:03:57 | |
Get down! Get down! Get down! | 0:03:59 | 0:04:02 | |
HE WHISTLES | 0:04:03 | 0:04:04 | |
HE WHISTLES | 0:04:07 | 0:04:08 | |
HE WHISTLES | 0:04:11 | 0:04:15 | |
HE WHISTLES | 0:04:17 | 0:04:22 | |
Lie down. | 0:04:22 | 0:04:23 | |
This way. | 0:04:34 | 0:04:35 | |
Going to Cocklake, a barn of ours, | 0:04:55 | 0:04:58 | |
over the field - a few fields. | 0:04:58 | 0:05:02 | |
And we're going to get some hay, | 0:05:02 | 0:05:04 | |
or a silage. | 0:05:04 | 0:05:05 | |
LAMBS BLEAT | 0:05:33 | 0:05:35 | |
SPEECH DROWNED BY ENGINE | 0:05:43 | 0:05:46 | |
These are our tups, | 0:06:23 | 0:06:25 | |
and the tups are like boys. | 0:06:25 | 0:06:29 | |
They...um, | 0:06:29 | 0:06:31 | |
they mate the girls | 0:06:31 | 0:06:34 | |
and make them have lambs. | 0:06:34 | 0:06:36 | |
And you keep them to breed your own | 0:06:38 | 0:06:42 | |
lambs. Some more tups, | 0:06:42 | 0:06:43 | |
or...and girl - yows. | 0:06:43 | 0:06:46 | |
Or some of them you put in a fat. | 0:06:46 | 0:06:49 | |
For people to eat. | 0:06:50 | 0:06:52 | |
You identify your yows and tups | 0:06:54 | 0:06:58 | |
by the tag. | 0:06:58 | 0:07:00 | |
Normally. | 0:07:00 | 0:07:01 | |
And sometimes, sometimes you can remember who they are, | 0:07:01 | 0:07:06 | |
what they're from, who sired them and who damned them | 0:07:06 | 0:07:10 | |
by how they look. | 0:07:10 | 0:07:12 | |
But I can't. | 0:07:14 | 0:07:16 | |
And you've got certain yows that you want to put to a certain tup, | 0:07:18 | 0:07:22 | |
so you put them in the same field without another tup in, | 0:07:22 | 0:07:26 | |
or else the tup that you want to tup some, it'll tup the ones | 0:07:26 | 0:07:29 | |
that you want to tup the other - the other tup to tup. | 0:07:29 | 0:07:35 | |
And it will make a bad mixture. | 0:07:35 | 0:07:37 | |
So, they'll have wide horns or something like that. | 0:07:39 | 0:07:42 | |
Or black feet. | 0:07:42 | 0:07:44 | |
My father always... He left farming and became a policeman, | 0:07:53 | 0:07:56 | |
but he always used to buy a young male, | 0:07:56 | 0:08:00 | |
a lamb...of this type, | 0:08:00 | 0:08:02 | |
keep it for a year and then try to sell it on as a profit. | 0:08:02 | 0:08:06 | |
So, I've always had that, we've always done that, | 0:08:06 | 0:08:08 | |
so that just kept the enthusiasm there. | 0:08:08 | 0:08:11 | |
Then, when we got chance, we bought ten yows and, then, when we got | 0:08:11 | 0:08:14 | |
chance for a few more yows, we bought more yows, | 0:08:14 | 0:08:17 | |
and just, generally, it's kept going. | 0:08:17 | 0:08:19 | |
I like this farm. I like living here. | 0:09:02 | 0:09:05 | |
It's nice when it snows, | 0:09:06 | 0:09:09 | |
because you see all the little, like... | 0:09:09 | 0:09:12 | |
snowflakes coming down really fast, twirling around. | 0:09:12 | 0:09:16 | |
I might not be a farmer when I'm older. | 0:09:18 | 0:09:21 | |
I might just keep, like, horses | 0:09:21 | 0:09:24 | |
and do artwork and stuff. | 0:09:24 | 0:09:26 | |
Because I'm into art. | 0:09:27 | 0:09:29 | |
I sometimes go in the house and play, | 0:10:03 | 0:10:06 | |
because the...kind of, you get in the way sometimes, | 0:10:06 | 0:10:09 | |
with cows, because they kick. | 0:10:09 | 0:10:12 | |
And yeah. So, you get in the way a bit. | 0:10:12 | 0:10:17 | |
You get in the way a bit. But not a lot. | 0:10:17 | 0:10:19 | |
We just get shouted at a little bit, but it's not much. | 0:10:22 | 0:10:25 | |
I don't really want to be a farmer because... | 0:10:59 | 0:11:03 | |
you have to pay staff, | 0:11:03 | 0:11:06 | |
you have to work on the farm, | 0:11:06 | 0:11:09 | |
muck up the sloppy, sloppy poo. | 0:11:09 | 0:11:13 | |
Not nice. | 0:11:13 | 0:11:14 | |
I think they should, um, | 0:11:17 | 0:11:19 | |
pick it up theirselves instead of us. | 0:11:19 | 0:11:22 | |
SHE WHISPERS TO HORSE | 0:11:45 | 0:11:47 | |
-Horrible, isn't it? -What? | 0:11:49 | 0:11:51 | |
Weather. | 0:11:51 | 0:11:53 | |
Yep. | 0:11:53 | 0:11:58 | |
Right. Come on, then, Mummy will go and have a sledge. | 0:11:58 | 0:12:01 | |
-Good! -Yay! | 0:12:01 | 0:12:02 | |
Woohoo! Woo! Woohoo! | 0:12:02 | 0:12:05 | |
Right. | 0:12:09 | 0:12:11 | |
Go! | 0:12:22 | 0:12:23 | |
THEY SQUEAL | 0:12:23 | 0:12:26 | |
THEY LAUGH AND CHEER | 0:12:35 | 0:12:38 | |
-DOG BARKS -Maggie! | 0:12:50 | 0:12:53 | |
MUTTERED CONVERSATION | 0:12:57 | 0:13:00 | |
No, because this is mine. It was sharper. | 0:13:00 | 0:13:02 | |
TELEVISION IN BACKGROUND | 0:13:11 | 0:13:13 | |
So, we take the feet off. | 0:13:17 | 0:13:19 | |
There's the legs gone. | 0:13:48 | 0:13:51 | |
-Hmm? -There's the legs gone. | 0:13:51 | 0:13:53 | |
-The feet. -The feet. | 0:13:53 | 0:13:54 | |
We eat most of our own meat. | 0:14:14 | 0:14:17 | |
It's even better when you know what sort of life it's had, | 0:14:17 | 0:14:20 | |
it's had a very nice life. | 0:14:20 | 0:14:22 | |
You know what you've fed it, you know everything about its history. | 0:14:22 | 0:14:26 | |
Now you can pull. | 0:14:40 | 0:14:42 | |
-The... -Feed bag out. | 0:14:42 | 0:14:45 | |
The windpipe and the feed sack out. | 0:14:45 | 0:14:47 | |
-OK? All done. -It's Thursday tomorrow. | 0:14:53 | 0:14:57 | |
THEY SHOUT | 0:15:32 | 0:15:33 | |
-Hey! Come here! -Oi, get off! | 0:15:33 | 0:15:37 | |
-Ow, you stood on me foot! -Right, nice straight line. Shoulders. | 0:15:37 | 0:15:42 | |
All I want to see is a line of shoulders. | 0:15:42 | 0:15:44 | |
And in we go. | 0:15:46 | 0:15:47 | |
# There is a green hill far away | 0:15:54 | 0:15:59 | |
# Outside a city wall | 0:15:59 | 0:16:05 | |
# Where Christ our Lord was crucified | 0:16:05 | 0:16:09 | |
# Who died to save us all... # | 0:16:09 | 0:16:14 | |
-Morning. -Morning. | 0:16:18 | 0:16:20 | |
Yeah, well. I'm going to ask you a few questions. | 0:16:21 | 0:16:24 | |
I think I know the answer to this, | 0:16:24 | 0:16:26 | |
but put your hands up if your parents are farmers. | 0:16:26 | 0:16:30 | |
Right. Good. | 0:16:32 | 0:16:34 | |
How many of you like living where you live, | 0:16:34 | 0:16:38 | |
and like living on a farm? | 0:16:38 | 0:16:41 | |
Right. Tom. | 0:16:41 | 0:16:43 | |
You can, like, go and...like, | 0:16:43 | 0:16:46 | |
see if any, like, sheep have staggers or something. | 0:16:46 | 0:16:50 | |
Just on your quad bike. | 0:16:50 | 0:16:53 | |
-Luke? -Nature. | 0:16:53 | 0:16:55 | |
-The nature is brilliant around here. -Right. | 0:16:55 | 0:16:58 | |
And then you get to... | 0:16:58 | 0:17:00 | |
have animals for money. | 0:17:00 | 0:17:03 | |
-You mean you sell them? -Yeah. -Once you've reared them? -Yeah. | 0:17:04 | 0:17:08 | |
When I get back from school, I always put...get in my wellies | 0:17:08 | 0:17:12 | |
and go and check the hens, see how many eggs we've got and feed them. | 0:17:12 | 0:17:16 | |
-You've got a free life. -Mm-hmm. -You don't have any neighbours, what you, | 0:17:18 | 0:17:22 | |
what you have to be quiet and you have to annoy them. | 0:17:22 | 0:17:25 | |
You can just scream your house down or anything, because you're | 0:17:25 | 0:17:28 | |
not, like, next door to them and you can just run about and be a maniac. | 0:17:28 | 0:17:32 | |
And is there anything you don't like about living where you live? | 0:17:32 | 0:17:35 | |
No. | 0:17:35 | 0:17:36 | |
Two. | 0:17:49 | 0:17:50 | |
-Right. -That's the lamb there, the body. | 0:17:55 | 0:17:59 | |
That's its head. The white circle. | 0:17:59 | 0:18:01 | |
And another body there and another head there. | 0:18:01 | 0:18:04 | |
Two in her. | 0:18:05 | 0:18:07 | |
SPEECH DROWNED BY NOISE | 0:18:09 | 0:18:12 | |
-Yeah. No, fine. Don't see very much of them. -No? | 0:18:12 | 0:18:16 | |
Well, we didn't sleep last night, John. | 0:18:23 | 0:18:26 | |
-I don't want to know, Kay. -No, not like that! | 0:18:26 | 0:18:29 | |
THEY LAUGH | 0:18:29 | 0:18:31 | |
Worrying about today. | 0:18:31 | 0:18:33 | |
-Three. -Trust you! | 0:18:33 | 0:18:35 | |
It's hard work, mentally, you know, | 0:18:35 | 0:18:37 | |
if you're scanning 2,000 sheep every day. | 0:18:37 | 0:18:40 | |
Um...you need... | 0:18:40 | 0:18:42 | |
good concentration levels. | 0:18:42 | 0:18:44 | |
So, today, I'm doing eight jobs, I think, today. | 0:18:47 | 0:18:51 | |
Seven in Teesdale and one over in Weardale, this afternoon. | 0:18:52 | 0:18:57 | |
So, yeah. | 0:18:57 | 0:19:00 | |
Three quarters of the way through this season now, | 0:19:00 | 0:19:03 | |
so looking forward to the end. | 0:19:03 | 0:19:05 | |
Then I go back to lamb my own sheep. | 0:19:05 | 0:19:06 | |
'Main income. Yeah.' | 0:19:09 | 0:19:11 | |
-Two. Two. -Two and seven. | 0:19:11 | 0:19:14 | |
'So, it's meant we can do what we want on the farm.' | 0:19:14 | 0:19:17 | |
Also give three kids a good education. | 0:19:20 | 0:19:22 | |
And keep my wife in a manner to which she's become accustomed. | 0:19:24 | 0:19:28 | |
-OK? -Yep. | 0:19:31 | 0:19:33 | |
-It's done, just purely and simply to give John some money. -Two. | 0:19:36 | 0:19:40 | |
-It's the upland farmer looking after the lowland farmer. -Yeah! | 0:19:40 | 0:19:44 | |
-No, no, no. -No? -Who said two? | 0:19:49 | 0:19:52 | |
-Nobody? -No. -THEY LAUGH | 0:19:52 | 0:19:55 | |
Sorry, John! | 0:19:55 | 0:19:57 | |
-You wouldn't want your percentage to be wrong. -No. | 0:20:00 | 0:20:04 | |
-Right? -Yeah, that's the job lot done. | 0:20:04 | 0:20:07 | |
-There you go. -Thank you. | 0:20:07 | 0:20:08 | |
Two so far. | 0:20:32 | 0:20:34 | |
I better go and pick up the kids from school. | 0:20:36 | 0:20:39 | |
-I've got some very exciting news. -What? -We've been scanning today. | 0:20:42 | 0:20:48 | |
-And your two yows... -Yeah? | 0:20:48 | 0:20:50 | |
-They're both having twins! -Aww! | 0:20:50 | 0:20:53 | |
-So you're going to have four lambs this year! -Yay! | 0:20:53 | 0:20:57 | |
-Well, I've already got... -Two gimmer lambs, haven't you? | 0:20:57 | 0:21:00 | |
-Wow! -And two yows. | 0:21:00 | 0:21:02 | |
Tenancy was the only way, really, that Tom | 0:21:05 | 0:21:07 | |
and I could get into farming. | 0:21:07 | 0:21:10 | |
Obviously, we can't afford to buy our own farm, | 0:21:10 | 0:21:12 | |
so tenancy is the only way we can go into it, | 0:21:12 | 0:21:16 | |
so you get your farm for a certain length of time and, for that | 0:21:16 | 0:21:20 | |
length of time, you invest and make the best job that you can do. | 0:21:20 | 0:21:25 | |
From a day-to-day point of view, | 0:21:26 | 0:21:29 | |
it really is the same as owning the farm. | 0:21:29 | 0:21:31 | |
You know, you do things which you think's going to work | 0:21:31 | 0:21:34 | |
the best for your own farm. We're on a very good estate, | 0:21:34 | 0:21:37 | |
who do leave you alone to a greater or lesser extent | 0:21:37 | 0:21:40 | |
and don't stipulate too many things. As long as you're | 0:21:40 | 0:21:43 | |
paying your rent, they're sort of happy to leave you to it. | 0:21:43 | 0:21:46 | |
As far as we know. | 0:21:46 | 0:21:48 | |
Scott! Scott! | 0:22:04 | 0:22:06 | |
SHE CALLS DOG | 0:22:15 | 0:22:16 | |
SHE BAAS LIKE A SHEEP | 0:22:19 | 0:22:22 | |
Scott! | 0:22:25 | 0:22:27 | |
Away! Lie down! | 0:22:27 | 0:22:29 | |
Come by! Come by! | 0:22:31 | 0:22:33 | |
Get up! Get up! | 0:22:39 | 0:22:42 | |
Get up! | 0:22:42 | 0:22:43 | |
Come by! | 0:22:44 | 0:22:46 | |
Get up! | 0:22:46 | 0:22:48 | |
Get up! | 0:22:48 | 0:22:50 | |
Get up! Come by! | 0:22:50 | 0:22:52 | |
Lie down. | 0:22:54 | 0:22:56 | |
SHE BAAS LIKE A SHEEP | 0:22:56 | 0:22:57 | |
-No. -SHE MUMBLES | 0:23:08 | 0:23:10 | |
SHEEP SQUEALS | 0:23:32 | 0:23:35 | |
HE STRUGGLES | 0:23:40 | 0:23:43 | |
HE GROANS | 0:23:43 | 0:23:45 | |
It's just the water. Did you want a bit of Fairy liquid in it? | 0:23:58 | 0:24:01 | |
I sent Hetty to get it. | 0:24:01 | 0:24:02 | |
Hetty! | 0:24:06 | 0:24:07 | |
Come on! | 0:24:08 | 0:24:10 | |
Right, stand back, now. | 0:24:20 | 0:24:21 | |
-Do you want her down or...? -Yeah, just... | 0:24:32 | 0:24:34 | |
Ah, you! | 0:24:53 | 0:24:55 | |
Just too much of a struggle for him. | 0:24:59 | 0:25:01 | |
The other one's dead, and we've got pet lambs, | 0:25:16 | 0:25:20 | |
and then they can be, um, they can be with another mum and dad. | 0:25:20 | 0:25:25 | |
If one sheep has a baby but it doesn't survive, the journey, | 0:25:34 | 0:25:38 | |
so they get a pet lamb and they can put it to the mother. | 0:25:38 | 0:25:43 | |
-You cover the babies... -'Look. Lie down.' | 0:25:45 | 0:25:48 | |
..the babies in the gooey stuff, | 0:25:48 | 0:25:50 | |
and the baby's body, what's dead, | 0:25:50 | 0:25:53 | |
onto the other one, so it doesn't smell like a different one. | 0:25:53 | 0:25:58 | |
It smells like hers. | 0:25:58 | 0:26:00 | |
Her one. | 0:26:00 | 0:26:02 | |
Just one on his own. | 0:26:09 | 0:26:12 | |
It's just a new way of, um, they can get started again. | 0:26:12 | 0:26:15 | |
Just stand back, Jack. | 0:26:27 | 0:26:28 | |
Unfortunately, I think the yow has a strong possibility of dying as well. | 0:27:33 | 0:27:37 | |
She's just had too much of a pull there. | 0:27:37 | 0:27:39 | |
We'll see in the next hour or two. | 0:27:39 | 0:27:41 | |
-Come on, breakfast time, kiddy-winkles. -OK. | 0:27:50 | 0:27:52 | |
-..If you haven't had it. -Kiddy-winkles! | 0:27:52 | 0:27:55 | |
MUTTERED CONVERSATION | 0:27:59 | 0:28:01 | |
What could you think is not so good about being on a farm? | 0:28:07 | 0:28:12 | |
-Winter. -Winter. What's wrong with the winter here? | 0:28:12 | 0:28:16 | |
It freezes up all your pipes and everything, | 0:28:16 | 0:28:19 | |
-and it makes the roads slippery. -Mm. | 0:28:19 | 0:28:23 | |
So you can't get any feed up. | 0:28:23 | 0:28:25 | |
You don't get out and see many people. | 0:28:25 | 0:28:27 | |
-It can be lonely, isn't it? -Yeah. -You've got to make a special effort. | 0:28:27 | 0:28:31 | |
And say you're going somewhere | 0:28:31 | 0:28:33 | |
and then something goes completely wrong on your farm, | 0:28:33 | 0:28:36 | |
you're like, "I thought we were going to grandma and grandad's." | 0:28:36 | 0:28:39 | |
We had a pet calf, and I fed it at night, | 0:28:39 | 0:28:43 | |
and it was drinking away happily, | 0:28:43 | 0:28:45 | |
nowt wrong with it. | 0:28:45 | 0:28:48 | |
When I went outside in the morning, | 0:28:48 | 0:28:50 | |
laid down dead. | 0:28:50 | 0:28:52 | |
-That is horrifying, isn't it? -Like... -It's the worst thing. | 0:28:52 | 0:28:56 | |
Legs stiff, you can't move it. | 0:28:56 | 0:29:00 | |
I don't like it when you have your own yow | 0:29:00 | 0:29:04 | |
and she dies or her lamb dies. | 0:29:04 | 0:29:06 | |
-That isn't very good. -Yeah. | 0:29:06 | 0:29:08 | |
Because that's like the start of your flock. | 0:29:08 | 0:29:11 | |
This is the yow that had the bad lambing yesterday morning. | 0:29:15 | 0:29:18 | |
We've tried to mother that lamb on, | 0:29:18 | 0:29:20 | |
but because she'd had so much stress, | 0:29:20 | 0:29:22 | |
we decided it wasn't fair that... | 0:29:22 | 0:29:25 | |
on her or the lamb. | 0:29:25 | 0:29:27 | |
She's still alive, at the minute. | 0:29:28 | 0:29:31 | |
She's drinking and she's eating. | 0:29:31 | 0:29:33 | |
Still not sure about her. | 0:29:33 | 0:29:35 | |
If she does survive, we'll just fitten her up | 0:29:35 | 0:29:38 | |
and she'll go in the fat. She won't stay on this farm. | 0:29:38 | 0:29:41 | |
There's no point keeping her. She's had a bad lambing. | 0:29:41 | 0:29:45 | |
She was geld last year, | 0:29:45 | 0:29:48 | |
so we just cut our losses and she goes in the fat. | 0:29:48 | 0:29:51 | |
Hopefully, if she lives. | 0:29:52 | 0:29:53 | |
It's a battle to succeed at being any sort of farmer, | 0:29:58 | 0:30:01 | |
because when you're farming livestock, | 0:30:01 | 0:30:05 | |
you get this horrible thing that's called deadstock, | 0:30:05 | 0:30:09 | |
when things die for no apparent reason. | 0:30:09 | 0:30:11 | |
And you get the ones that die for a reason and you get the ones | 0:30:11 | 0:30:14 | |
that die because you've put them down because they've been ill. | 0:30:14 | 0:30:18 | |
But every now and again, you come across ones | 0:30:18 | 0:30:20 | |
that just lie down and die, and you can't think why. | 0:30:20 | 0:30:24 | |
I mean, most sheep farmers will tell you | 0:30:24 | 0:30:27 | |
that the main ambition of a sheep, | 0:30:27 | 0:30:30 | |
virtually from day one, is to die. | 0:30:30 | 0:30:33 | |
-As soon as... -Just to lie down and put all four legs up. -Yeah. | 0:30:33 | 0:30:36 | |
The quicker it does it, the happier it seems to be. | 0:30:36 | 0:30:39 | |
And you can throw money at the creatures | 0:30:39 | 0:30:42 | |
and still have no success at all. | 0:30:42 | 0:30:44 | |
So being a success at it is as much down to luck as anything else. | 0:30:44 | 0:30:49 | |
But you do need to have a little bit of, little bit of skill. | 0:30:49 | 0:30:53 | |
An idea about things. | 0:30:53 | 0:30:55 | |
-If it were running wild, this one would have died. -A year or two ago. | 0:31:33 | 0:31:37 | |
The horns would've grown into its face and it would've killed it. | 0:31:37 | 0:31:40 | |
It would've died of starvation or the maggots would've | 0:31:40 | 0:31:43 | |
got out the flies. | 0:31:43 | 0:31:45 | |
And it's because people have been breeding them | 0:31:45 | 0:31:47 | |
for years and looking after them that... | 0:31:47 | 0:31:49 | |
..they allow this to develop. | 0:31:51 | 0:31:53 | |
It's a bit of moss. It's just to soak the blood up. | 0:32:03 | 0:32:06 | |
So it congeals actually in place on the horn. | 0:32:07 | 0:32:10 | |
If we were at home, we would gather up some cobwebs | 0:32:10 | 0:32:13 | |
and stick that on. | 0:32:13 | 0:32:15 | |
It sort of does the same thing. | 0:32:15 | 0:32:16 | |
THEY SNORT | 0:32:28 | 0:32:32 | |
One of the kids' gimmer hogs is in here. | 0:32:38 | 0:32:42 | |
QUIET MUTTERING No, he's looking at you there. | 0:32:42 | 0:32:45 | |
-No, you wish. No, that one. -That one there, OK? | 0:32:46 | 0:32:48 | |
So, Jack picked the yow when he bought it. | 0:32:48 | 0:32:51 | |
-He bought it himself at Kirkby Stephen. -Three years ago? | 0:32:51 | 0:32:54 | |
Yeah, be three years ago. | 0:32:54 | 0:32:56 | |
And he had a tup, sheared him last year at Hawes, was £300 out of it. | 0:32:56 | 0:33:00 | |
INDISTINCT CHATTER | 0:33:04 | 0:33:07 | |
We've got a new classroom today. | 0:33:07 | 0:33:09 | |
So, 9th and 16th? Right. Right. | 0:33:09 | 0:33:13 | |
-See you! See you tomorrow night! -Mummy! | 0:33:13 | 0:33:16 | |
Mum-m-m-y! | 0:33:16 | 0:33:19 | |
-There's six eggs in there. -Where? -In there. | 0:33:22 | 0:33:26 | |
-Oh, lovely. -Not for you, though. -Six rotten eggs. | 0:33:26 | 0:33:29 | |
No, they're not. No! | 0:33:29 | 0:33:32 | |
Ooh, is it chocolate? | 0:33:32 | 0:33:35 | |
-Yes! -Caramel! -Oh-ho-ho! For Mummy! | 0:33:35 | 0:33:38 | |
-Yes. -You're just such a thoughtful child. | 0:33:38 | 0:33:42 | |
Whoa! | 0:33:42 | 0:33:46 | |
Cheater! | 0:33:46 | 0:33:48 | |
We've just castrated that one because he's not a good enough, | 0:34:33 | 0:34:36 | |
not good enough to keep as a breeding ram. | 0:34:36 | 0:34:39 | |
Yellow, brown, 103. Lie down. | 0:34:39 | 0:34:42 | |
Behind you. | 0:34:52 | 0:34:54 | |
It's not his, it's not hers. Lie down. | 0:34:54 | 0:34:58 | |
I'll do you a swap. | 0:34:58 | 0:34:59 | |
It's a nice lamb because of where its legs are marked. | 0:35:11 | 0:35:15 | |
Having it white down the front and black down the back is a very... | 0:35:15 | 0:35:18 | |
is ideal for the swale. | 0:35:18 | 0:35:20 | |
Nice black shank there. | 0:35:20 | 0:35:22 | |
Yeah. And the black underneath is ideal. | 0:35:22 | 0:35:24 | |
And the type of hair it's got, it's got quite a short, wiry hair. | 0:35:24 | 0:35:28 | |
And it's... There's no horrible mucky marks, | 0:35:31 | 0:35:33 | |
black marks on its body. | 0:35:33 | 0:35:35 | |
I'll just go and take it back to its mum. | 0:35:35 | 0:35:37 | |
We try to breed the best stock that we can, so that | 0:35:42 | 0:35:46 | |
when we come to sell our stock, it's maybe of a slightly higher | 0:35:46 | 0:35:51 | |
quality or a slightly better type, so that people want to buy off us. | 0:35:51 | 0:35:55 | |
That's the hope. | 0:35:55 | 0:35:56 | |
We're not trying to compete with the industrial fast finishers | 0:35:56 | 0:36:01 | |
and things, just because we know we couldn't. | 0:36:01 | 0:36:04 | |
We have small numbers which add value to everything that we sell. | 0:36:04 | 0:36:08 | |
Lie down. | 0:36:16 | 0:36:18 | |
So, would you recommend to other children | 0:36:18 | 0:36:22 | |
that they could have a good life | 0:36:22 | 0:36:24 | |
up here, or would you say it's not for everybody? | 0:36:24 | 0:36:28 | |
What would you say to that? Luke? | 0:36:28 | 0:36:31 | |
It's not for everybody, because... | 0:36:31 | 0:36:33 | |
people don't have as much experience as us, | 0:36:33 | 0:36:38 | |
and let's say they went up to the fell now, | 0:36:38 | 0:36:43 | |
and they wouldn't know where anything is. | 0:36:43 | 0:36:46 | |
Sometimes it's not for everyone, but someone might find | 0:36:46 | 0:36:49 | |
their, like, their potential to be a farmer when they don't know... | 0:36:49 | 0:36:54 | |
Like, when I went to rugby, | 0:36:54 | 0:36:56 | |
I didn't know anything and then Toddy said that I've got potential. | 0:36:56 | 0:37:01 | |
So they might be a townie child, | 0:37:01 | 0:37:05 | |
and they might come up here and then they might have really good | 0:37:05 | 0:37:08 | |
potential to be a farmer. | 0:37:08 | 0:37:10 | |
The sheep know where they have to go on the fell because they've | 0:37:10 | 0:37:14 | |
got little bits and they don't wander very far away from our... | 0:37:14 | 0:37:20 | |
-Heft. -Yeah. -Yes. | 0:37:20 | 0:37:22 | |
And...my dad says that | 0:37:22 | 0:37:24 | |
the only way to learn is that you watch. | 0:37:24 | 0:37:29 | |
Yes. | 0:37:29 | 0:37:30 | |
HE CALLS TO THE SHEEP | 0:38:18 | 0:38:21 | |
HE WHISTLES | 0:38:24 | 0:38:26 | |
We'll come back in beginning of July, | 0:39:42 | 0:39:45 | |
and they'll all get gathered up and will get clipped, get shorn. | 0:39:45 | 0:39:48 | |
And then that's sort of them up here | 0:39:48 | 0:39:50 | |
until November for some of the yows. | 0:39:50 | 0:39:53 | |
So, no, that'll be, uh... | 0:39:53 | 0:39:55 | |
Yes, that should be it, hopefully. | 0:39:55 | 0:39:57 | |
When we came to this farm, one of the main things that really | 0:40:03 | 0:40:07 | |
attracted us was the sheep on the fell. | 0:40:07 | 0:40:09 | |
The fact that there was fell sheep, | 0:40:09 | 0:40:10 | |
proper Swaledale sheep that were surviving up there. | 0:40:10 | 0:40:13 | |
And, hopefully, we were just nicely getting them improved when somebody | 0:40:13 | 0:40:16 | |
came and said, "Look, we want to reduce the sheep on the fell. | 0:40:16 | 0:40:19 | |
"He's got to take a third of the sheep off because it's overgrazed." | 0:40:19 | 0:40:23 | |
And, frankly, they came with very little information | 0:40:23 | 0:40:27 | |
and very little proof of what they were saying, | 0:40:27 | 0:40:29 | |
and we just had to take their word for it. | 0:40:29 | 0:40:31 | |
It means that these fields get a lot harder grazed | 0:40:34 | 0:40:36 | |
and have to work a lot harder, so it just adds to the workload. | 0:40:36 | 0:40:41 | |
And they just presume that you're | 0:40:41 | 0:40:43 | |
going to do it for very little money, | 0:40:43 | 0:40:45 | |
which...which they wouldn't. | 0:40:45 | 0:40:48 | |
If you told them how much money we didn't make on here, | 0:40:48 | 0:40:52 | |
and asked them to live on the same, they just wouldn't do it. | 0:40:52 | 0:40:56 | |
They would be in tears on telly somewhere, | 0:40:56 | 0:41:00 | |
begging for money. | 0:41:00 | 0:41:01 | |
You've got all the purple | 0:41:28 | 0:41:31 | |
and different kinds of green, | 0:41:31 | 0:41:33 | |
and there's a, like a lightish colour. | 0:41:33 | 0:41:37 | |
There's a pinky and then there's dark, | 0:41:37 | 0:41:41 | |
and then you have the church which has red windows. | 0:41:41 | 0:41:44 | |
I think I'm going to have my own, like, gallery when I grow up, | 0:41:46 | 0:41:50 | |
because I think I might have a bit of talent. | 0:41:50 | 0:41:54 | |
When I'm not on the farm. | 0:41:56 | 0:41:57 | |
We're quite lucky in the fact that we've got a 15-year farm | 0:42:09 | 0:42:13 | |
business tenancy, which gives us a bit of a secure future. | 0:42:13 | 0:42:16 | |
At the minute, I mean, we're comfortable. | 0:42:17 | 0:42:21 | |
And, really, that's all that we ask for, | 0:42:21 | 0:42:23 | |
as long as we can feed the kids and that sort of thing | 0:42:23 | 0:42:27 | |
and reinvest in the farm. I mean, | 0:42:27 | 0:42:29 | |
we're certainly not saving for retirement or anything like that. | 0:42:29 | 0:42:33 | |
I don't know how we'll get off | 0:42:33 | 0:42:37 | |
later in life, | 0:42:37 | 0:42:40 | |
because, at the minute, there isn't the resources there to | 0:42:40 | 0:42:43 | |
kind of secure our future or our retirement. | 0:42:43 | 0:42:48 | |
It's nice when Tom's about and he's there to give us a hand | 0:42:50 | 0:42:53 | |
and that sort of thing, but, on the other hand, it's also nice to just | 0:42:53 | 0:42:56 | |
work on your own and just get on by yourself and have that freedom of | 0:42:56 | 0:42:59 | |
you only being the one out in the field | 0:42:59 | 0:43:02 | |
and just taking in the scenery and that sort of thing. | 0:43:02 | 0:43:05 | |
So, no, it's nice to work together, but there's also time | 0:43:05 | 0:43:08 | |
just to have by yourself as well. | 0:43:08 | 0:43:10 | |
I was never going to clip sheep. When I was working for other people, | 0:43:33 | 0:43:36 | |
I always said I was never going to do it because it was hard work. | 0:43:36 | 0:43:40 | |
You don't earn enough money on the farm to be able to pay the bills, | 0:43:44 | 0:43:48 | |
so if you can do specific jobs... | 0:43:48 | 0:43:52 | |
for other people who don't want to do it, | 0:43:52 | 0:43:56 | |
it provides us with an extra income, | 0:43:56 | 0:43:59 | |
so that we don't starve to death. | 0:43:59 | 0:44:01 | |
I've been cribbing with Tom for 11 years. | 0:44:09 | 0:44:13 | |
11 seasons. | 0:44:13 | 0:44:14 | |
I did have a full head of hair before he started cribbing with us, | 0:44:16 | 0:44:19 | |
but it's all gone now! | 0:44:19 | 0:44:21 | |
Dad! I've got some bad news for you. | 0:44:50 | 0:44:53 | |
She hasn't been very well. She was on the fell | 0:45:14 | 0:45:17 | |
and, uh, she wasn't very well, so we kept her in. | 0:45:17 | 0:45:20 | |
Then we clipped her, beginning of July, | 0:45:20 | 0:45:23 | |
just so that she could die at home rather than outside. | 0:45:23 | 0:45:26 | |
It cost us £17 to get rid of her. | 0:45:26 | 0:45:28 | |
But, uh, yeah, it was a bit expected. She's about a... | 0:45:29 | 0:45:33 | |
She'll be a four crop yow, so...she's had four lots of lambs. | 0:45:33 | 0:45:37 | |
For living on the fell, it's sort of getting old enough, | 0:45:37 | 0:45:40 | |
but because she was born and bred up there, | 0:45:40 | 0:45:42 | |
I thought she would survive quite happily with the lambs up there, | 0:45:42 | 0:45:45 | |
but she obviously decided she didn't want to. | 0:45:45 | 0:45:48 | |
She's succeeded in her ambitions | 0:45:48 | 0:45:51 | |
of dying. | 0:45:51 | 0:45:53 | |
SHE SHOUTS TO THE SHEEP | 0:46:37 | 0:46:40 | |
We started the first week in June, and half of July we've clipped, | 0:47:05 | 0:47:09 | |
and the other half we've spent in the house because it's been wet. | 0:47:09 | 0:47:13 | |
-We've clipped about... -Nearly 14,000. -Yeah. | 0:47:13 | 0:47:17 | |
Nearly 14,000 between the two of us. | 0:47:17 | 0:47:20 | |
That's with our own sheep as well included. We've got sick now. | 0:47:20 | 0:47:25 | |
We were ready to finish about three weeks ago. | 0:47:25 | 0:47:28 | |
There's no other jobs in agriculture that pays us | 0:47:28 | 0:47:31 | |
like this for the same length of time a day. | 0:47:31 | 0:47:33 | |
It's hard work, but the money is quite good. | 0:47:34 | 0:47:37 | |
More recent years, the price has gone up quite a lot because | 0:47:39 | 0:47:42 | |
there's a lot less people doing it. | 0:47:42 | 0:47:44 | |
People have realised that you're doing more damage to your body | 0:47:44 | 0:47:47 | |
than it's worth, so... | 0:47:47 | 0:47:50 | |
it's become a lot more expensive. | 0:47:50 | 0:47:54 | |
£1.15 a sheep. | 0:47:55 | 0:47:56 | |
With...tups are double. | 0:47:57 | 0:47:59 | |
These sheep here probably won't pay for the clipping. | 0:48:01 | 0:48:05 | |
It's just something that has to be done. | 0:48:05 | 0:48:08 | |
Woohoo! | 0:48:13 | 0:48:15 | |
Very funny! | 0:48:36 | 0:48:38 | |
THEY LAUGH | 0:48:38 | 0:48:40 | |
Everything that we do is for ourselves. | 0:49:14 | 0:49:16 | |
Everything that we improve is our own and it improves ourselves, | 0:49:16 | 0:49:22 | |
whereas, if you work for somebody else, everything that you do, | 0:49:22 | 0:49:25 | |
unless you got a very, very, very good boss, | 0:49:25 | 0:49:28 | |
everything you do is theirs. | 0:49:28 | 0:49:30 | |
And, at the end of the day, if you upset the boss, it's theirs | 0:49:30 | 0:49:35 | |
and you've got to move on. And you've ended up... | 0:49:35 | 0:49:37 | |
You work very hard and improve things for nothing, | 0:49:37 | 0:49:40 | |
because somebody else gets to come in and take over. | 0:49:40 | 0:49:43 | |
Thankfully, Raby Estate still offer some small farms like this. | 0:49:45 | 0:49:50 | |
A lot of other estates, especially more nowadays, including | 0:49:50 | 0:49:53 | |
the councils, would've amalgamated into other farms and maybe | 0:49:53 | 0:49:57 | |
got more money from renting the house out as a holiday cottage. | 0:49:57 | 0:50:01 | |
The local landlord, Lord Barnard, wants to keep the dale alive | 0:50:01 | 0:50:06 | |
with people and keep some of the amenities going, like the school | 0:50:06 | 0:50:09 | |
and things, so when he comes to let farms, | 0:50:09 | 0:50:12 | |
he looks favourably on young people. | 0:50:12 | 0:50:14 | |
Can you put your desk lid down, please? | 0:50:15 | 0:50:18 | |
And, Ryan, get your lids down. | 0:50:18 | 0:50:20 | |
And Luke. | 0:50:20 | 0:50:22 | |
Would any of you like to be a farmer? | 0:50:25 | 0:50:28 | |
And you don't have to be a farmer, you know, | 0:50:29 | 0:50:32 | |
there are other things to do. | 0:50:32 | 0:50:34 | |
You might consider it, | 0:50:34 | 0:50:37 | |
but be aware there are other things to do. | 0:50:37 | 0:50:41 | |
I definitely want to be a farmer because it's a good experience. | 0:50:41 | 0:50:44 | |
You mean you want to be one at the moment? | 0:50:46 | 0:50:49 | |
Yeah, I think I will when I'm older as well. | 0:50:49 | 0:50:51 | |
Having a Suffolk sheep farm, | 0:50:51 | 0:50:54 | |
-but not in Suffolk! -Right. | 0:50:54 | 0:50:58 | |
Because I like Suffolks, and I think they're very nice. | 0:50:58 | 0:51:01 | |
What attracts you to the Suffolk sheep, then? | 0:51:01 | 0:51:04 | |
I don't know, just my dad has them and I like their ears | 0:51:04 | 0:51:07 | |
and they're quiet. | 0:51:07 | 0:51:10 | |
I might want to be a rare breed farmer. | 0:51:10 | 0:51:14 | |
Like, I've got all rare breed sheep and cows and that. | 0:51:14 | 0:51:17 | |
What else might you do? What else might you consider? | 0:51:17 | 0:51:22 | |
-Auctioneer. -Why would you want to be an auctioneer? | 0:51:22 | 0:51:27 | |
I've had lots of generations being an auctioneer, | 0:51:27 | 0:51:30 | |
so I'm hopefully going to be another one. | 0:51:30 | 0:51:33 | |
I can see you doing that. | 0:51:33 | 0:51:34 | |
QUIET CONVERSATION | 0:52:04 | 0:52:06 | |
-It's supposed to stay dry. -It's meant to stay dry | 0:52:06 | 0:52:08 | |
tomorrow and then be wet on Friday. | 0:52:08 | 0:52:12 | |
We've finished our own, finished this for Thomas. | 0:52:12 | 0:52:15 | |
We have one more to bail tomorrow, | 0:52:15 | 0:52:16 | |
a field to bail tomorrow and then, that's it. Finished. | 0:52:16 | 0:52:19 | |
TV IN BACKGROUND | 0:52:43 | 0:52:46 | |
VOICE OF AUCTIONEER | 0:52:54 | 0:52:56 | |
At 260, 260, 260, 260. | 0:53:08 | 0:53:12 | |
AUCTION CONTINUES | 0:53:12 | 0:53:13 | |
No, I love sale days. You get to meet folk and have a bit of chat. | 0:53:16 | 0:53:21 | |
No, it's good. Skiving, it's called, really. | 0:53:21 | 0:53:24 | |
-REPEATS: -102, 102, 102, 102. | 0:53:24 | 0:53:26 | |
105, 105, 105. | 0:53:30 | 0:53:33 | |
108, 110. | 0:53:33 | 0:53:35 | |
110, 112, 114, 116. | 0:53:35 | 0:53:38 | |
116, 118, 120. | 0:53:38 | 0:53:41 | |
120, 120, 120. | 0:53:41 | 0:53:44 | |
AUCTION CONTINUES | 0:53:44 | 0:53:47 | |
It's done. | 0:53:52 | 0:53:53 | |
HE WHISTLES AND CALLS | 0:53:59 | 0:54:01 | |
Threes and four crop. | 0:54:05 | 0:54:06 | |
Three and four crop now. Three and four crop. | 0:54:11 | 0:54:13 | |
VOICE OF AUCTIONEER | 0:54:15 | 0:54:17 | |
AUCTION CONTINUES | 0:54:29 | 0:54:31 | |
Hold up, you're pinching a bit there now, Stuart. | 0:54:46 | 0:54:48 | |
There'll be dearer shearings than that. | 0:54:48 | 0:54:50 | |
This is double, isn't it? Yes, it's doubled. | 0:54:52 | 0:54:55 | |
-Thank you, Stuart. -Thank you. | 0:54:55 | 0:54:58 | |
We're very happy with that, yes. | 0:54:58 | 0:55:00 | |
We're smiling. | 0:55:00 | 0:55:02 | |
It doesn't happen very often. | 0:55:02 | 0:55:04 | |
No. It's good. | 0:55:04 | 0:55:06 | |
AUCTION CONTINUES | 0:55:06 | 0:55:08 | |
BRASS BAND PLAYS | 0:55:20 | 0:55:21 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:56:17 | 0:56:19 | |
Right, ladies and gentlemen, we're going to start presenting the cups. | 0:56:44 | 0:56:47 | |
For the hay, which was a very strong class, | 0:56:47 | 0:56:49 | |
the Trevor Hutchinson Hay Shields, AM Walton. | 0:56:49 | 0:56:52 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:56:52 | 0:56:54 | |
Three stems of any flower, of any annual flower, | 0:56:55 | 0:56:58 | |
Michael Hedley. | 0:56:58 | 0:57:00 | |
Local classes. Aged Tup. | 0:57:02 | 0:57:04 | |
The Farmers Finance Tankard, donated by JS Thomson, | 0:57:04 | 0:57:07 | |
TW Hutchinson. | 0:57:07 | 0:57:09 | |
Local Gimmer Shearling, | 0:57:10 | 0:57:12 | |
the Rough Rigg Cup, donated by Martin and Milly Hill, | 0:57:12 | 0:57:16 | |
TW Hutchinson. | 0:57:16 | 0:57:17 | |
Local Gimmer Lamb, the RI Scott and Sons Cup, | 0:57:20 | 0:57:23 | |
TW Hutchinson. | 0:57:23 | 0:57:25 | |
LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE | 0:57:25 | 0:57:27 | |
Local Pair Of Tup Lambs, the Brumwell Cup, | 0:57:27 | 0:57:30 | |
donated D Orton, | 0:57:30 | 0:57:31 | |
TW Hutchinson. | 0:57:31 | 0:57:33 | |
The Westernhope Rose Bowl, | 0:57:33 | 0:57:35 | |
TW Hutchinson. | 0:57:35 | 0:57:36 | |
Local Champion Female, | 0:57:37 | 0:57:39 | |
the Middleton Auction Mart Female Cup, | 0:57:39 | 0:57:41 | |
TW Hutchinson. | 0:57:41 | 0:57:44 | |
Local Champion Sheep, | 0:57:44 | 0:57:46 | |
TW Hutchinson. | 0:57:46 | 0:57:47 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:57:50 | 0:57:52 | |
-We've got 14 sheep and we've got ten trophies. -Ten trophies. | 0:57:53 | 0:57:57 | |
Yow was Reserve Supreme Champion and she was District Champion, | 0:58:02 | 0:58:06 | |
and we got Male District Champion as well. | 0:58:06 | 0:58:09 | |
We won the tup lambs, the old tups, gimmer shearlings, gimmer lamb. | 0:58:09 | 0:58:13 | |
For our little few sheep, we've done very, very well. | 0:58:16 | 0:58:18 | |
It's just the being involved, you know, and competing. | 0:58:21 | 0:58:24 | |
We don't expect to win anything, | 0:58:24 | 0:58:27 | |
and it's all very nice when you do win something. | 0:58:27 | 0:58:30 | |
We're just in desperate, desperate need of a lot of money, | 0:58:30 | 0:58:33 | |
and that would solve a lot of problems. | 0:58:33 | 0:58:35 | |
We might be able to sort all sorts of things out | 0:58:35 | 0:58:38 | |
if we were just millionaires, but... | 0:58:38 | 0:58:40 | |
That's so we can buy a nice swale tup. | 0:58:40 | 0:58:43 | |
-Yeah. -Nothing else. -Yeah. | 0:58:44 | 0:58:47 | |
HE CONDUCTS AUCTION | 0:58:47 | 0:58:49 |