0:00:02 > 0:00:03GATE OPENS
0:00:34 > 0:00:36He has little things that isn't right. He isn't wide enough there.
0:00:36 > 0:00:39His head should be a bit wider.
0:00:39 > 0:00:44And he has a slight discolouration there, which isn't a good thing.
0:00:44 > 0:00:46And where his hair's thinned,
0:00:46 > 0:00:48where it's just a bit baldy there, that shouldn't be.
0:00:48 > 0:00:50It should be full. He should keep it.
0:00:50 > 0:00:54And it should be a bit wider there. And it should be a bit shorter hair.
0:00:55 > 0:00:57And these horns are a bit wide.
0:00:58 > 0:01:02Some people like them with a lot of colour round their eyes
0:01:02 > 0:01:05and a big bump of white on the nose.
0:01:05 > 0:01:06And other people like them like this one,
0:01:06 > 0:01:10where there's just a little bit, and the colour's well down.
0:01:10 > 0:01:13It's supposed to be nice and round there, and full.
0:01:15 > 0:01:18The idea is to make him look like he's got a longer leg, so that when
0:01:18 > 0:01:22he goes to a sale, he looks like he's going to grow into a big...
0:01:22 > 0:01:26a great big stretchy tup that somebody might want to have
0:01:26 > 0:01:27progeny off.
0:01:29 > 0:01:31It's just to enhance his bits so that he looks
0:01:31 > 0:01:33the best he possibly can.
0:01:33 > 0:01:36Same as a woman putting make-up on in the morning.
0:01:36 > 0:01:39She doesn't do it because she thinks it's going to make her look worse.
0:01:39 > 0:01:41She's going to look better. That's the theory, anyway.
0:01:41 > 0:01:44Some of them aren't very successful.
0:01:46 > 0:01:47Same with the tups.
0:01:47 > 0:01:50Sometimes you aren't very successful at making them look more attractive.
0:01:50 > 0:01:52They just look worse.
0:01:58 > 0:02:00We were just discussing in the pub the other day that
0:02:00 > 0:02:04Swaledale sheep are one of the worst addictions known to man.
0:02:04 > 0:02:06You just keep coming back and you keep having a go
0:02:06 > 0:02:09and you keep getting a right kick in the nuts!
0:02:09 > 0:02:12But then, next day, you stand up and you have a look at next year's
0:02:12 > 0:02:15sheep and you think, "Oh, well, this may be one of next year's."
0:02:57 > 0:03:00Never wanted to do anything else, really.
0:03:01 > 0:03:04His parents weren't farmers, but his grandfather was a farmer
0:03:04 > 0:03:08and that's where he kind of spent most of his holidays and that.
0:03:08 > 0:03:14- All spare time.- Yeah.- So it became a nasty addiction, a nasty habit.
0:03:14 > 0:03:16MOOING
0:03:16 > 0:03:19- He loves every minute, really! - Yes.- He just...
0:03:19 > 0:03:20MOOING
0:03:20 > 0:03:23- He's a typical grumpy old farmer. - Yeah.
0:03:23 > 0:03:26Which was an ambition in life, obviously, from day one!
0:03:26 > 0:03:30- Which he's fulfilling quite well! - Yeah. Yeah.
0:03:30 > 0:03:32Yeah, well, it was always an ambition to get
0:03:32 > 0:03:35- a gnarly old farmer's wife! - You've got that.
0:03:35 > 0:03:36HE CHUCKLES
0:03:51 > 0:03:52Are you ready?
0:03:55 > 0:03:57HE WHISTLES
0:03:59 > 0:04:02Get down! Get down! Get down!
0:04:03 > 0:04:04HE WHISTLES
0:04:07 > 0:04:08HE WHISTLES
0:04:11 > 0:04:15HE WHISTLES
0:04:17 > 0:04:22HE WHISTLES
0:04:22 > 0:04:23Lie down.
0:04:34 > 0:04:35This way.
0:04:55 > 0:04:58Going to Cocklake, a barn of ours,
0:04:58 > 0:05:02over the field - a few fields.
0:05:02 > 0:05:04And we're going to get some hay,
0:05:04 > 0:05:05or a silage.
0:05:33 > 0:05:35LAMBS BLEAT
0:05:43 > 0:05:46SPEECH DROWNED BY ENGINE
0:06:23 > 0:06:25These are our tups,
0:06:25 > 0:06:29and the tups are like boys.
0:06:29 > 0:06:31They...um,
0:06:31 > 0:06:34they mate the girls
0:06:34 > 0:06:36and make them have lambs.
0:06:38 > 0:06:42And you keep them to breed your own
0:06:42 > 0:06:43lambs. Some more tups,
0:06:43 > 0:06:46or...and girl - yows.
0:06:46 > 0:06:49Or some of them you put in a fat.
0:06:50 > 0:06:52For people to eat.
0:06:54 > 0:06:58You identify your yows and tups
0:06:58 > 0:07:00by the tag.
0:07:00 > 0:07:01Normally.
0:07:01 > 0:07:06And sometimes, sometimes you can remember who they are,
0:07:06 > 0:07:10what they're from, who sired them and who damned them
0:07:10 > 0:07:12by how they look.
0:07:14 > 0:07:16But I can't.
0:07:18 > 0:07:22And you've got certain yows that you want to put to a certain tup,
0:07:22 > 0:07:26so you put them in the same field without another tup in,
0:07:26 > 0:07:29or else the tup that you want to tup some, it'll tup the ones
0:07:29 > 0:07:35that you want to tup the other - the other tup to tup.
0:07:35 > 0:07:37And it will make a bad mixture.
0:07:39 > 0:07:42So, they'll have wide horns or something like that.
0:07:42 > 0:07:44Or black feet.
0:07:53 > 0:07:56My father always... He left farming and became a policeman,
0:07:56 > 0:08:00but he always used to buy a young male,
0:08:00 > 0:08:02a lamb...of this type,
0:08:02 > 0:08:06keep it for a year and then try to sell it on as a profit.
0:08:06 > 0:08:08So, I've always had that, we've always done that,
0:08:08 > 0:08:11so that just kept the enthusiasm there.
0:08:11 > 0:08:14Then, when we got chance, we bought ten yows and, then, when we got
0:08:14 > 0:08:17chance for a few more yows, we bought more yows,
0:08:17 > 0:08:19and just, generally, it's kept going.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05I like this farm. I like living here.
0:09:06 > 0:09:09It's nice when it snows,
0:09:09 > 0:09:12because you see all the little, like...
0:09:12 > 0:09:16snowflakes coming down really fast, twirling around.
0:09:18 > 0:09:21I might not be a farmer when I'm older.
0:09:21 > 0:09:24I might just keep, like, horses
0:09:24 > 0:09:26and do artwork and stuff.
0:09:27 > 0:09:29Because I'm into art.
0:10:03 > 0:10:06I sometimes go in the house and play,
0:10:06 > 0:10:09because the...kind of, you get in the way sometimes,
0:10:09 > 0:10:12with cows, because they kick.
0:10:12 > 0:10:17And yeah. So, you get in the way a bit.
0:10:17 > 0:10:19You get in the way a bit. But not a lot.
0:10:22 > 0:10:25We just get shouted at a little bit, but it's not much.
0:10:59 > 0:11:03I don't really want to be a farmer because...
0:11:03 > 0:11:06you have to pay staff,
0:11:06 > 0:11:09you have to work on the farm,
0:11:09 > 0:11:13muck up the sloppy, sloppy poo.
0:11:13 > 0:11:14Not nice.
0:11:17 > 0:11:19I think they should, um,
0:11:19 > 0:11:22pick it up theirselves instead of us.
0:11:45 > 0:11:47SHE WHISPERS TO HORSE
0:11:49 > 0:11:51- Horrible, isn't it?- What?
0:11:51 > 0:11:53Weather.
0:11:53 > 0:11:58Yep.
0:11:58 > 0:12:01Right. Come on, then, Mummy will go and have a sledge.
0:12:01 > 0:12:02- Good!- Yay!
0:12:02 > 0:12:05Woohoo! Woo! Woohoo!
0:12:09 > 0:12:11Right.
0:12:22 > 0:12:23Go!
0:12:23 > 0:12:26THEY SQUEAL
0:12:35 > 0:12:38THEY LAUGH AND CHEER
0:12:50 > 0:12:53- DOG BARKS - Maggie!
0:12:57 > 0:13:00MUTTERED CONVERSATION
0:13:00 > 0:13:02No, because this is mine. It was sharper.
0:13:11 > 0:13:13TELEVISION IN BACKGROUND
0:13:17 > 0:13:19So, we take the feet off.
0:13:48 > 0:13:51There's the legs gone.
0:13:51 > 0:13:53- Hmm?- There's the legs gone.
0:13:53 > 0:13:54- The feet.- The feet.
0:14:14 > 0:14:17We eat most of our own meat.
0:14:17 > 0:14:20It's even better when you know what sort of life it's had,
0:14:20 > 0:14:22it's had a very nice life.
0:14:22 > 0:14:26You know what you've fed it, you know everything about its history.
0:14:40 > 0:14:42Now you can pull.
0:14:42 > 0:14:45- The...- Feed bag out.
0:14:45 > 0:14:47The windpipe and the feed sack out.
0:14:53 > 0:14:57- OK? All done.- It's Thursday tomorrow.
0:15:32 > 0:15:33THEY SHOUT
0:15:33 > 0:15:37- Hey! Come here!- Oi, get off!
0:15:37 > 0:15:42- Ow, you stood on me foot!- Right, nice straight line. Shoulders.
0:15:42 > 0:15:44All I want to see is a line of shoulders.
0:15:46 > 0:15:47And in we go.
0:15:54 > 0:15:59# There is a green hill far away
0:15:59 > 0:16:05# Outside a city wall
0:16:05 > 0:16:09# Where Christ our Lord was crucified
0:16:09 > 0:16:14# Who died to save us all... #
0:16:18 > 0:16:20- Morning.- Morning.
0:16:21 > 0:16:24Yeah, well. I'm going to ask you a few questions.
0:16:24 > 0:16:26I think I know the answer to this,
0:16:26 > 0:16:30but put your hands up if your parents are farmers.
0:16:32 > 0:16:34Right. Good.
0:16:34 > 0:16:38How many of you like living where you live,
0:16:38 > 0:16:41and like living on a farm?
0:16:41 > 0:16:43Right. Tom.
0:16:43 > 0:16:46You can, like, go and...like,
0:16:46 > 0:16:50see if any, like, sheep have staggers or something.
0:16:50 > 0:16:53Just on your quad bike.
0:16:53 > 0:16:55- Luke?- Nature.
0:16:55 > 0:16:58- The nature is brilliant around here. - Right.
0:16:58 > 0:17:00And then you get to...
0:17:00 > 0:17:03have animals for money.
0:17:04 > 0:17:08- You mean you sell them?- Yeah. - Once you've reared them?- Yeah.
0:17:08 > 0:17:12When I get back from school, I always put...get in my wellies
0:17:12 > 0:17:16and go and check the hens, see how many eggs we've got and feed them.
0:17:18 > 0:17:22- You've got a free life.- Mm-hmm.- You don't have any neighbours, what you,
0:17:22 > 0:17:25what you have to be quiet and you have to annoy them.
0:17:25 > 0:17:28You can just scream your house down or anything, because you're
0:17:28 > 0:17:32not, like, next door to them and you can just run about and be a maniac.
0:17:32 > 0:17:35And is there anything you don't like about living where you live?
0:17:35 > 0:17:36No.
0:17:49 > 0:17:50Two.
0:17:55 > 0:17:59- Right.- That's the lamb there, the body.
0:17:59 > 0:18:01That's its head. The white circle.
0:18:01 > 0:18:04And another body there and another head there.
0:18:05 > 0:18:07Two in her.
0:18:09 > 0:18:12SPEECH DROWNED BY NOISE
0:18:12 > 0:18:16- Yeah. No, fine. Don't see very much of them.- No?
0:18:23 > 0:18:26Well, we didn't sleep last night, John.
0:18:26 > 0:18:29- I don't want to know, Kay. - No, not like that!
0:18:29 > 0:18:31THEY LAUGH
0:18:31 > 0:18:33Worrying about today.
0:18:33 > 0:18:35- Three.- Trust you!
0:18:35 > 0:18:37It's hard work, mentally, you know,
0:18:37 > 0:18:40if you're scanning 2,000 sheep every day.
0:18:40 > 0:18:42Um...you need...
0:18:42 > 0:18:44good concentration levels.
0:18:47 > 0:18:51So, today, I'm doing eight jobs, I think, today.
0:18:52 > 0:18:57Seven in Teesdale and one over in Weardale, this afternoon.
0:18:57 > 0:19:00So, yeah.
0:19:00 > 0:19:03Three quarters of the way through this season now,
0:19:03 > 0:19:05so looking forward to the end.
0:19:05 > 0:19:06Then I go back to lamb my own sheep.
0:19:09 > 0:19:11'Main income. Yeah.'
0:19:11 > 0:19:14- Two. Two.- Two and seven.
0:19:14 > 0:19:17'So, it's meant we can do what we want on the farm.'
0:19:20 > 0:19:22Also give three kids a good education.
0:19:24 > 0:19:28And keep my wife in a manner to which she's become accustomed.
0:19:31 > 0:19:33- OK?- Yep.
0:19:36 > 0:19:40- It's done, just purely and simply to give John some money.- Two.
0:19:40 > 0:19:44- It's the upland farmer looking after the lowland farmer.- Yeah!
0:19:49 > 0:19:52- No, no, no.- No?- Who said two?
0:19:52 > 0:19:55- Nobody?- No. - THEY LAUGH
0:19:55 > 0:19:57Sorry, John!
0:20:00 > 0:20:04- You wouldn't want your percentage to be wrong.- No.
0:20:04 > 0:20:07- Right?- Yeah, that's the job lot done.
0:20:07 > 0:20:08- There you go.- Thank you.
0:20:32 > 0:20:34Two so far.
0:20:36 > 0:20:39I better go and pick up the kids from school.
0:20:42 > 0:20:48- I've got some very exciting news. - What?- We've been scanning today.
0:20:48 > 0:20:50- And your two yows...- Yeah?
0:20:50 > 0:20:53- They're both having twins!- Aww!
0:20:53 > 0:20:57- So you're going to have four lambs this year!- Yay!
0:20:57 > 0:21:00- Well, I've already got...- Two gimmer lambs, haven't you?
0:21:00 > 0:21:02- Wow!- And two yows.
0:21:05 > 0:21:07Tenancy was the only way, really, that Tom
0:21:07 > 0:21:10and I could get into farming.
0:21:10 > 0:21:12Obviously, we can't afford to buy our own farm,
0:21:12 > 0:21:16so tenancy is the only way we can go into it,
0:21:16 > 0:21:20so you get your farm for a certain length of time and, for that
0:21:20 > 0:21:25length of time, you invest and make the best job that you can do.
0:21:26 > 0:21:29From a day-to-day point of view,
0:21:29 > 0:21:31it really is the same as owning the farm.
0:21:31 > 0:21:34You know, you do things which you think's going to work
0:21:34 > 0:21:37the best for your own farm. We're on a very good estate,
0:21:37 > 0:21:40who do leave you alone to a greater or lesser extent
0:21:40 > 0:21:43and don't stipulate too many things. As long as you're
0:21:43 > 0:21:46paying your rent, they're sort of happy to leave you to it.
0:21:46 > 0:21:48As far as we know.
0:22:04 > 0:22:06Scott! Scott!
0:22:15 > 0:22:16SHE CALLS DOG
0:22:19 > 0:22:22SHE BAAS LIKE A SHEEP
0:22:25 > 0:22:27Scott!
0:22:27 > 0:22:29Away! Lie down!
0:22:31 > 0:22:33Come by! Come by!
0:22:39 > 0:22:42Get up! Get up!
0:22:42 > 0:22:43Get up!
0:22:44 > 0:22:46Come by!
0:22:46 > 0:22:48Get up!
0:22:48 > 0:22:50Get up!
0:22:50 > 0:22:52Get up! Come by!
0:22:54 > 0:22:56Lie down.
0:22:56 > 0:22:57SHE BAAS LIKE A SHEEP
0:23:08 > 0:23:10- No. - SHE MUMBLES
0:23:32 > 0:23:35SHEEP SQUEALS
0:23:40 > 0:23:43HE STRUGGLES
0:23:43 > 0:23:45HE GROANS
0:23:58 > 0:24:01It's just the water. Did you want a bit of Fairy liquid in it?
0:24:01 > 0:24:02I sent Hetty to get it.
0:24:06 > 0:24:07Hetty!
0:24:08 > 0:24:10Come on!
0:24:20 > 0:24:21Right, stand back, now.
0:24:32 > 0:24:34- Do you want her down or...?- Yeah, just...
0:24:53 > 0:24:55Ah, you!
0:24:59 > 0:25:01Just too much of a struggle for him.
0:25:16 > 0:25:20The other one's dead, and we've got pet lambs,
0:25:20 > 0:25:25and then they can be, um, they can be with another mum and dad.
0:25:34 > 0:25:38If one sheep has a baby but it doesn't survive, the journey,
0:25:38 > 0:25:43so they get a pet lamb and they can put it to the mother.
0:25:45 > 0:25:48- You cover the babies... - 'Look. Lie down.'
0:25:48 > 0:25:50..the babies in the gooey stuff,
0:25:50 > 0:25:53and the baby's body, what's dead,
0:25:53 > 0:25:58onto the other one, so it doesn't smell like a different one.
0:25:58 > 0:26:00It smells like hers.
0:26:00 > 0:26:02Her one.
0:26:09 > 0:26:12Just one on his own.
0:26:12 > 0:26:15It's just a new way of, um, they can get started again.
0:26:27 > 0:26:28Just stand back, Jack.
0:27:33 > 0:27:37Unfortunately, I think the yow has a strong possibility of dying as well.
0:27:37 > 0:27:39She's just had too much of a pull there.
0:27:39 > 0:27:41We'll see in the next hour or two.
0:27:50 > 0:27:52- Come on, breakfast time, kiddy-winkles.- OK.
0:27:52 > 0:27:55- ..If you haven't had it. - Kiddy-winkles!
0:27:59 > 0:28:01MUTTERED CONVERSATION
0:28:07 > 0:28:12What could you think is not so good about being on a farm?
0:28:12 > 0:28:16- Winter.- Winter. What's wrong with the winter here?
0:28:16 > 0:28:19It freezes up all your pipes and everything,
0:28:19 > 0:28:23- and it makes the roads slippery.- Mm.
0:28:23 > 0:28:25So you can't get any feed up.
0:28:25 > 0:28:27You don't get out and see many people.
0:28:27 > 0:28:31- It can be lonely, isn't it?- Yeah. - You've got to make a special effort.
0:28:31 > 0:28:33And say you're going somewhere
0:28:33 > 0:28:36and then something goes completely wrong on your farm,
0:28:36 > 0:28:39you're like, "I thought we were going to grandma and grandad's."
0:28:39 > 0:28:43We had a pet calf, and I fed it at night,
0:28:43 > 0:28:45and it was drinking away happily,
0:28:45 > 0:28:48nowt wrong with it.
0:28:48 > 0:28:50When I went outside in the morning,
0:28:50 > 0:28:52laid down dead.
0:28:52 > 0:28:56- That is horrifying, isn't it? - Like...- It's the worst thing.
0:28:56 > 0:29:00Legs stiff, you can't move it.
0:29:00 > 0:29:04I don't like it when you have your own yow
0:29:04 > 0:29:06and she dies or her lamb dies.
0:29:06 > 0:29:08- That isn't very good.- Yeah.
0:29:08 > 0:29:11Because that's like the start of your flock.
0:29:15 > 0:29:18This is the yow that had the bad lambing yesterday morning.
0:29:18 > 0:29:20We've tried to mother that lamb on,
0:29:20 > 0:29:22but because she'd had so much stress,
0:29:22 > 0:29:25we decided it wasn't fair that...
0:29:25 > 0:29:27on her or the lamb.
0:29:28 > 0:29:31She's still alive, at the minute.
0:29:31 > 0:29:33She's drinking and she's eating.
0:29:33 > 0:29:35Still not sure about her.
0:29:35 > 0:29:38If she does survive, we'll just fitten her up
0:29:38 > 0:29:41and she'll go in the fat. She won't stay on this farm.
0:29:41 > 0:29:45There's no point keeping her. She's had a bad lambing.
0:29:45 > 0:29:48She was geld last year,
0:29:48 > 0:29:51so we just cut our losses and she goes in the fat.
0:29:52 > 0:29:53Hopefully, if she lives.
0:29:58 > 0:30:01It's a battle to succeed at being any sort of farmer,
0:30:01 > 0:30:05because when you're farming livestock,
0:30:05 > 0:30:09you get this horrible thing that's called deadstock,
0:30:09 > 0:30:11when things die for no apparent reason.
0:30:11 > 0:30:14And you get the ones that die for a reason and you get the ones
0:30:14 > 0:30:18that die because you've put them down because they've been ill.
0:30:18 > 0:30:20But every now and again, you come across ones
0:30:20 > 0:30:24that just lie down and die, and you can't think why.
0:30:24 > 0:30:27I mean, most sheep farmers will tell you
0:30:27 > 0:30:30that the main ambition of a sheep,
0:30:30 > 0:30:33virtually from day one, is to die.
0:30:33 > 0:30:36- As soon as...- Just to lie down and put all four legs up.- Yeah.
0:30:36 > 0:30:39The quicker it does it, the happier it seems to be.
0:30:39 > 0:30:42And you can throw money at the creatures
0:30:42 > 0:30:44and still have no success at all.
0:30:44 > 0:30:49So being a success at it is as much down to luck as anything else.
0:30:49 > 0:30:53But you do need to have a little bit of, little bit of skill.
0:30:53 > 0:30:55An idea about things.
0:31:33 > 0:31:37- If it were running wild, this one would have died.- A year or two ago.
0:31:37 > 0:31:40The horns would've grown into its face and it would've killed it.
0:31:40 > 0:31:43It would've died of starvation or the maggots would've
0:31:43 > 0:31:45got out the flies.
0:31:45 > 0:31:47And it's because people have been breeding them
0:31:47 > 0:31:49for years and looking after them that...
0:31:51 > 0:31:53..they allow this to develop.
0:32:03 > 0:32:06It's a bit of moss. It's just to soak the blood up.
0:32:07 > 0:32:10So it congeals actually in place on the horn.
0:32:10 > 0:32:13If we were at home, we would gather up some cobwebs
0:32:13 > 0:32:15and stick that on.
0:32:15 > 0:32:16It sort of does the same thing.
0:32:28 > 0:32:32THEY SNORT
0:32:38 > 0:32:42One of the kids' gimmer hogs is in here.
0:32:42 > 0:32:45QUIET MUTTERING No, he's looking at you there.
0:32:46 > 0:32:48- No, you wish. No, that one. - That one there, OK?
0:32:48 > 0:32:51So, Jack picked the yow when he bought it.
0:32:51 > 0:32:54- He bought it himself at Kirkby Stephen.- Three years ago?
0:32:54 > 0:32:56Yeah, be three years ago.
0:32:56 > 0:33:00And he had a tup, sheared him last year at Hawes, was £300 out of it.
0:33:04 > 0:33:07INDISTINCT CHATTER
0:33:07 > 0:33:09We've got a new classroom today.
0:33:09 > 0:33:13So, 9th and 16th? Right. Right.
0:33:13 > 0:33:16- See you! See you tomorrow night! - Mummy!
0:33:16 > 0:33:19Mum-m-m-y!
0:33:22 > 0:33:26- There's six eggs in there.- Where? - In there.
0:33:26 > 0:33:29- Oh, lovely.- Not for you, though. - Six rotten eggs.
0:33:29 > 0:33:32No, they're not. No!
0:33:32 > 0:33:35Ooh, is it chocolate?
0:33:35 > 0:33:38- Yes!- Caramel!- Oh-ho-ho! For Mummy!
0:33:38 > 0:33:42- Yes.- You're just such a thoughtful child.
0:33:42 > 0:33:46Whoa!
0:33:46 > 0:33:48Cheater!
0:34:33 > 0:34:36We've just castrated that one because he's not a good enough,
0:34:36 > 0:34:39not good enough to keep as a breeding ram.
0:34:39 > 0:34:42Yellow, brown, 103. Lie down.
0:34:52 > 0:34:54Behind you.
0:34:54 > 0:34:58It's not his, it's not hers. Lie down.
0:34:58 > 0:34:59I'll do you a swap.
0:35:11 > 0:35:15It's a nice lamb because of where its legs are marked.
0:35:15 > 0:35:18Having it white down the front and black down the back is a very...
0:35:18 > 0:35:20is ideal for the swale.
0:35:20 > 0:35:22Nice black shank there.
0:35:22 > 0:35:24Yeah. And the black underneath is ideal.
0:35:24 > 0:35:28And the type of hair it's got, it's got quite a short, wiry hair.
0:35:31 > 0:35:33And it's... There's no horrible mucky marks,
0:35:33 > 0:35:35black marks on its body.
0:35:35 > 0:35:37I'll just go and take it back to its mum.
0:35:42 > 0:35:46We try to breed the best stock that we can, so that
0:35:46 > 0:35:51when we come to sell our stock, it's maybe of a slightly higher
0:35:51 > 0:35:55quality or a slightly better type, so that people want to buy off us.
0:35:55 > 0:35:56That's the hope.
0:35:56 > 0:36:01We're not trying to compete with the industrial fast finishers
0:36:01 > 0:36:04and things, just because we know we couldn't.
0:36:04 > 0:36:08We have small numbers which add value to everything that we sell.
0:36:16 > 0:36:18Lie down.
0:36:18 > 0:36:22So, would you recommend to other children
0:36:22 > 0:36:24that they could have a good life
0:36:24 > 0:36:28up here, or would you say it's not for everybody?
0:36:28 > 0:36:31What would you say to that? Luke?
0:36:31 > 0:36:33It's not for everybody, because...
0:36:33 > 0:36:38people don't have as much experience as us,
0:36:38 > 0:36:43and let's say they went up to the fell now,
0:36:43 > 0:36:46and they wouldn't know where anything is.
0:36:46 > 0:36:49Sometimes it's not for everyone, but someone might find
0:36:49 > 0:36:54their, like, their potential to be a farmer when they don't know...
0:36:54 > 0:36:56Like, when I went to rugby,
0:36:56 > 0:37:01I didn't know anything and then Toddy said that I've got potential.
0:37:01 > 0:37:05So they might be a townie child,
0:37:05 > 0:37:08and they might come up here and then they might have really good
0:37:08 > 0:37:10potential to be a farmer.
0:37:10 > 0:37:14The sheep know where they have to go on the fell because they've
0:37:14 > 0:37:20got little bits and they don't wander very far away from our...
0:37:20 > 0:37:22- Heft.- Yeah.- Yes.
0:37:22 > 0:37:24And...my dad says that
0:37:24 > 0:37:29the only way to learn is that you watch.
0:37:29 > 0:37:30Yes.
0:38:18 > 0:38:21HE CALLS TO THE SHEEP
0:38:24 > 0:38:26HE WHISTLES
0:39:42 > 0:39:45We'll come back in beginning of July,
0:39:45 > 0:39:48and they'll all get gathered up and will get clipped, get shorn.
0:39:48 > 0:39:50And then that's sort of them up here
0:39:50 > 0:39:53until November for some of the yows.
0:39:53 > 0:39:55So, no, that'll be, uh...
0:39:55 > 0:39:57Yes, that should be it, hopefully.
0:40:03 > 0:40:07When we came to this farm, one of the main things that really
0:40:07 > 0:40:09attracted us was the sheep on the fell.
0:40:09 > 0:40:10The fact that there was fell sheep,
0:40:10 > 0:40:13proper Swaledale sheep that were surviving up there.
0:40:13 > 0:40:16And, hopefully, we were just nicely getting them improved when somebody
0:40:16 > 0:40:19came and said, "Look, we want to reduce the sheep on the fell.
0:40:19 > 0:40:23"He's got to take a third of the sheep off because it's overgrazed."
0:40:23 > 0:40:27And, frankly, they came with very little information
0:40:27 > 0:40:29and very little proof of what they were saying,
0:40:29 > 0:40:31and we just had to take their word for it.
0:40:34 > 0:40:36It means that these fields get a lot harder grazed
0:40:36 > 0:40:41and have to work a lot harder, so it just adds to the workload.
0:40:41 > 0:40:43And they just presume that you're
0:40:43 > 0:40:45going to do it for very little money,
0:40:45 > 0:40:48which...which they wouldn't.
0:40:48 > 0:40:52If you told them how much money we didn't make on here,
0:40:52 > 0:40:56and asked them to live on the same, they just wouldn't do it.
0:40:56 > 0:41:00They would be in tears on telly somewhere,
0:41:00 > 0:41:01begging for money.
0:41:28 > 0:41:31You've got all the purple
0:41:31 > 0:41:33and different kinds of green,
0:41:33 > 0:41:37and there's a, like a lightish colour.
0:41:37 > 0:41:41There's a pinky and then there's dark,
0:41:41 > 0:41:44and then you have the church which has red windows.
0:41:46 > 0:41:50I think I'm going to have my own, like, gallery when I grow up,
0:41:50 > 0:41:54because I think I might have a bit of talent.
0:41:56 > 0:41:57When I'm not on the farm.
0:42:09 > 0:42:13We're quite lucky in the fact that we've got a 15-year farm
0:42:13 > 0:42:16business tenancy, which gives us a bit of a secure future.
0:42:17 > 0:42:21At the minute, I mean, we're comfortable.
0:42:21 > 0:42:23And, really, that's all that we ask for,
0:42:23 > 0:42:27as long as we can feed the kids and that sort of thing
0:42:27 > 0:42:29and reinvest in the farm. I mean,
0:42:29 > 0:42:33we're certainly not saving for retirement or anything like that.
0:42:33 > 0:42:37I don't know how we'll get off
0:42:37 > 0:42:40later in life,
0:42:40 > 0:42:43because, at the minute, there isn't the resources there to
0:42:43 > 0:42:48kind of secure our future or our retirement.
0:42:50 > 0:42:53It's nice when Tom's about and he's there to give us a hand
0:42:53 > 0:42:56and that sort of thing, but, on the other hand, it's also nice to just
0:42:56 > 0:42:59work on your own and just get on by yourself and have that freedom of
0:42:59 > 0:43:02you only being the one out in the field
0:43:02 > 0:43:05and just taking in the scenery and that sort of thing.
0:43:05 > 0:43:08So, no, it's nice to work together, but there's also time
0:43:08 > 0:43:10just to have by yourself as well.
0:43:33 > 0:43:36I was never going to clip sheep. When I was working for other people,
0:43:36 > 0:43:40I always said I was never going to do it because it was hard work.
0:43:44 > 0:43:48You don't earn enough money on the farm to be able to pay the bills,
0:43:48 > 0:43:52so if you can do specific jobs...
0:43:52 > 0:43:56for other people who don't want to do it,
0:43:56 > 0:43:59it provides us with an extra income,
0:43:59 > 0:44:01so that we don't starve to death.
0:44:09 > 0:44:13I've been cribbing with Tom for 11 years.
0:44:13 > 0:44:1411 seasons.
0:44:16 > 0:44:19I did have a full head of hair before he started cribbing with us,
0:44:19 > 0:44:21but it's all gone now!
0:44:50 > 0:44:53Dad! I've got some bad news for you.
0:45:14 > 0:45:17She hasn't been very well. She was on the fell
0:45:17 > 0:45:20and, uh, she wasn't very well, so we kept her in.
0:45:20 > 0:45:23Then we clipped her, beginning of July,
0:45:23 > 0:45:26just so that she could die at home rather than outside.
0:45:26 > 0:45:28It cost us £17 to get rid of her.
0:45:29 > 0:45:33But, uh, yeah, it was a bit expected. She's about a...
0:45:33 > 0:45:37She'll be a four crop yow, so...she's had four lots of lambs.
0:45:37 > 0:45:40For living on the fell, it's sort of getting old enough,
0:45:40 > 0:45:42but because she was born and bred up there,
0:45:42 > 0:45:45I thought she would survive quite happily with the lambs up there,
0:45:45 > 0:45:48but she obviously decided she didn't want to.
0:45:48 > 0:45:51She's succeeded in her ambitions
0:45:51 > 0:45:53of dying.
0:46:37 > 0:46:40SHE SHOUTS TO THE SHEEP
0:47:05 > 0:47:09We started the first week in June, and half of July we've clipped,
0:47:09 > 0:47:13and the other half we've spent in the house because it's been wet.
0:47:13 > 0:47:17- We've clipped about... - Nearly 14,000.- Yeah.
0:47:17 > 0:47:20Nearly 14,000 between the two of us.
0:47:20 > 0:47:25That's with our own sheep as well included. We've got sick now.
0:47:25 > 0:47:28We were ready to finish about three weeks ago.
0:47:28 > 0:47:31There's no other jobs in agriculture that pays us
0:47:31 > 0:47:33like this for the same length of time a day.
0:47:34 > 0:47:37It's hard work, but the money is quite good.
0:47:39 > 0:47:42More recent years, the price has gone up quite a lot because
0:47:42 > 0:47:44there's a lot less people doing it.
0:47:44 > 0:47:47People have realised that you're doing more damage to your body
0:47:47 > 0:47:50than it's worth, so...
0:47:50 > 0:47:54it's become a lot more expensive.
0:47:55 > 0:47:56£1.15 a sheep.
0:47:57 > 0:47:59With...tups are double.
0:48:01 > 0:48:05These sheep here probably won't pay for the clipping.
0:48:05 > 0:48:08It's just something that has to be done.
0:48:13 > 0:48:15Woohoo!
0:48:36 > 0:48:38Very funny!
0:48:38 > 0:48:40THEY LAUGH
0:49:14 > 0:49:16Everything that we do is for ourselves.
0:49:16 > 0:49:22Everything that we improve is our own and it improves ourselves,
0:49:22 > 0:49:25whereas, if you work for somebody else, everything that you do,
0:49:25 > 0:49:28unless you got a very, very, very good boss,
0:49:28 > 0:49:30everything you do is theirs.
0:49:30 > 0:49:35And, at the end of the day, if you upset the boss, it's theirs
0:49:35 > 0:49:37and you've got to move on. And you've ended up...
0:49:37 > 0:49:40You work very hard and improve things for nothing,
0:49:40 > 0:49:43because somebody else gets to come in and take over.
0:49:45 > 0:49:50Thankfully, Raby Estate still offer some small farms like this.
0:49:50 > 0:49:53A lot of other estates, especially more nowadays, including
0:49:53 > 0:49:57the councils, would've amalgamated into other farms and maybe
0:49:57 > 0:50:01got more money from renting the house out as a holiday cottage.
0:50:01 > 0:50:06The local landlord, Lord Barnard, wants to keep the dale alive
0:50:06 > 0:50:09with people and keep some of the amenities going, like the school
0:50:09 > 0:50:12and things, so when he comes to let farms,
0:50:12 > 0:50:14he looks favourably on young people.
0:50:15 > 0:50:18Can you put your desk lid down, please?
0:50:18 > 0:50:20And, Ryan, get your lids down.
0:50:20 > 0:50:22And Luke.
0:50:25 > 0:50:28Would any of you like to be a farmer?
0:50:29 > 0:50:32And you don't have to be a farmer, you know,
0:50:32 > 0:50:34there are other things to do.
0:50:34 > 0:50:37You might consider it,
0:50:37 > 0:50:41but be aware there are other things to do.
0:50:41 > 0:50:44I definitely want to be a farmer because it's a good experience.
0:50:46 > 0:50:49You mean you want to be one at the moment?
0:50:49 > 0:50:51Yeah, I think I will when I'm older as well.
0:50:51 > 0:50:54Having a Suffolk sheep farm,
0:50:54 > 0:50:58- but not in Suffolk!- Right.
0:50:58 > 0:51:01Because I like Suffolks, and I think they're very nice.
0:51:01 > 0:51:04What attracts you to the Suffolk sheep, then?
0:51:04 > 0:51:07I don't know, just my dad has them and I like their ears
0:51:07 > 0:51:10and they're quiet.
0:51:10 > 0:51:14I might want to be a rare breed farmer.
0:51:14 > 0:51:17Like, I've got all rare breed sheep and cows and that.
0:51:17 > 0:51:22What else might you do? What else might you consider?
0:51:22 > 0:51:27- Auctioneer.- Why would you want to be an auctioneer?
0:51:27 > 0:51:30I've had lots of generations being an auctioneer,
0:51:30 > 0:51:33so I'm hopefully going to be another one.
0:51:33 > 0:51:34I can see you doing that.
0:52:04 > 0:52:06QUIET CONVERSATION
0:52:06 > 0:52:08- It's supposed to stay dry. - It's meant to stay dry
0:52:08 > 0:52:12tomorrow and then be wet on Friday.
0:52:12 > 0:52:15We've finished our own, finished this for Thomas.
0:52:15 > 0:52:16We have one more to bail tomorrow,
0:52:16 > 0:52:19a field to bail tomorrow and then, that's it. Finished.
0:52:43 > 0:52:46TV IN BACKGROUND
0:52:54 > 0:52:56VOICE OF AUCTIONEER
0:53:08 > 0:53:12At 260, 260, 260, 260.
0:53:12 > 0:53:13AUCTION CONTINUES
0:53:16 > 0:53:21No, I love sale days. You get to meet folk and have a bit of chat.
0:53:21 > 0:53:24No, it's good. Skiving, it's called, really.
0:53:24 > 0:53:26- REPEATS:- 102, 102, 102, 102.
0:53:30 > 0:53:33105, 105, 105.
0:53:33 > 0:53:35108, 110.
0:53:35 > 0:53:38110, 112, 114, 116.
0:53:38 > 0:53:41116, 118, 120.
0:53:41 > 0:53:44120, 120, 120.
0:53:44 > 0:53:47AUCTION CONTINUES
0:53:52 > 0:53:53It's done.
0:53:59 > 0:54:01HE WHISTLES AND CALLS
0:54:05 > 0:54:06Threes and four crop.
0:54:11 > 0:54:13Three and four crop now. Three and four crop.
0:54:15 > 0:54:17VOICE OF AUCTIONEER
0:54:29 > 0:54:31AUCTION CONTINUES
0:54:46 > 0:54:48Hold up, you're pinching a bit there now, Stuart.
0:54:48 > 0:54:50There'll be dearer shearings than that.
0:54:52 > 0:54:55This is double, isn't it? Yes, it's doubled.
0:54:55 > 0:54:58- Thank you, Stuart.- Thank you.
0:54:58 > 0:55:00We're very happy with that, yes.
0:55:00 > 0:55:02We're smiling.
0:55:02 > 0:55:04It doesn't happen very often.
0:55:04 > 0:55:06No. It's good.
0:55:06 > 0:55:08AUCTION CONTINUES
0:55:20 > 0:55:21BRASS BAND PLAYS
0:56:17 > 0:56:19APPLAUSE
0:56:44 > 0:56:47Right, ladies and gentlemen, we're going to start presenting the cups.
0:56:47 > 0:56:49For the hay, which was a very strong class,
0:56:49 > 0:56:52the Trevor Hutchinson Hay Shields, AM Walton.
0:56:52 > 0:56:54APPLAUSE
0:56:55 > 0:56:58Three stems of any flower, of any annual flower,
0:56:58 > 0:57:00Michael Hedley.
0:57:02 > 0:57:04Local classes. Aged Tup.
0:57:04 > 0:57:07The Farmers Finance Tankard, donated by JS Thomson,
0:57:07 > 0:57:09TW Hutchinson.
0:57:10 > 0:57:12Local Gimmer Shearling,
0:57:12 > 0:57:16the Rough Rigg Cup, donated by Martin and Milly Hill,
0:57:16 > 0:57:17TW Hutchinson.
0:57:20 > 0:57:23Local Gimmer Lamb, the RI Scott and Sons Cup,
0:57:23 > 0:57:25TW Hutchinson.
0:57:25 > 0:57:27LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
0:57:27 > 0:57:30Local Pair Of Tup Lambs, the Brumwell Cup,
0:57:30 > 0:57:31donated D Orton,
0:57:31 > 0:57:33TW Hutchinson.
0:57:33 > 0:57:35The Westernhope Rose Bowl,
0:57:35 > 0:57:36TW Hutchinson.
0:57:37 > 0:57:39Local Champion Female,
0:57:39 > 0:57:41the Middleton Auction Mart Female Cup,
0:57:41 > 0:57:44TW Hutchinson.
0:57:44 > 0:57:46Local Champion Sheep,
0:57:46 > 0:57:47TW Hutchinson.
0:57:50 > 0:57:52APPLAUSE
0:57:53 > 0:57:57- We've got 14 sheep and we've got ten trophies.- Ten trophies.
0:58:02 > 0:58:06Yow was Reserve Supreme Champion and she was District Champion,
0:58:06 > 0:58:09and we got Male District Champion as well.
0:58:09 > 0:58:13We won the tup lambs, the old tups, gimmer shearlings, gimmer lamb.
0:58:16 > 0:58:18For our little few sheep, we've done very, very well.
0:58:21 > 0:58:24It's just the being involved, you know, and competing.
0:58:24 > 0:58:27We don't expect to win anything,
0:58:27 > 0:58:30and it's all very nice when you do win something.
0:58:30 > 0:58:33We're just in desperate, desperate need of a lot of money,
0:58:33 > 0:58:35and that would solve a lot of problems.
0:58:35 > 0:58:38We might be able to sort all sorts of things out
0:58:38 > 0:58:40if we were just millionaires, but...
0:58:40 > 0:58:43That's so we can buy a nice swale tup.
0:58:44 > 0:58:47- Yeah.- Nothing else.- Yeah.
0:58:47 > 0:58:49HE CONDUCTS AUCTION