Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! Who actually let the dogs out? Managing wild dog predation with Greg Mifsud from the Wild Dog Action Plan - www.wilddogplan.org.au In this episode we explore: How to identify if you have wild dogs in your area and what you can do about them as well as general resources that your organisation provides and where the audience can go for help. Tell us about the Wild Dog Plan and who are what and what you do? What are the current statistics...
Jan 30, 2023•54 min•Season 4Ep. 8
Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! No accountant speak here this is the 101 basic stuff you need to think about and then go to your accountant and get specific advice from the experts!! This will help you set things up with a business mindset from the start though! Happy farm financing! Support the show Want more! Want to show us some sheep love? Sign up for extra content via our sheep supporters tab ! https://www.buzzsprout.com/954910/supporters/new...
Oct 04, 2022•36 min•Season 4Ep. 7
Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! Meet Stacey Bush a White Suffolk sheep farmer from WA and a Sheep Show podcast listener to boot! Join us as we explore some top tips from Stacey. In this episode we explore: How do you lamb? Talk us through your lambing approach – paddocks, moving ewes and lambs, feeding regime, How do you decide what sheep to cull after lambing? What advice would you have for someone who was buying sheep and wants to start breeding ewes – older experi...
Sep 27, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Season 4Ep. 6
Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! So what does a year in sheeping looking like. In this pod I take you through the typical schedule of my sheep enterprise. We explore the crucial stages and the decisions that need to be made as well as the things I can going to do differently next year! It's all learning! Enjoy this episode! Support the show Want more! Want to show us some sheep love? Sign up for extra content via our sheep supporters tab ! https://www.buzzsprout.com/9...
Sep 19, 2022•29 min•Season 4Ep. 5
Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! Who knew that sheep can get ringworm! It is a thing! Learn more in this episode. Here are some other online resources which might be helpful for you on this topic: https://u.osu.edu/sheep/2021/04/20/club-lamb-fungus-ringworm/ https://flextraninc.com/blog/2017/ringworm-in-sheep/ Support the show Want more! Want to show us some sheep love? Sign up for extra content via our sheep supporters tab ! https://www.buzzsprout.com/954910/supporte...
Sep 12, 2022•19 min•Season 4Ep. 4
Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! Sheep are one of the most studied farm species in terms of their ability to process information from faces. In this episode we explore the ways in which sheep process information, how cognitively switched they are and how we can use this information to help us be better shepherds. Here is a link to the core piece of research cited in this episode. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fvets.2017.00188/full Support the show Want ...
Sep 05, 2022•22 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! So what did we learn from lambing 2022 - well lots! Mistakes there's been a few but also lots of good things have occurred too. Have a listen and share your top lambing tip from 2022 on socials! #HVF #thesheepshowpodcast Support the show Want more! Want to show us some sheep love? Sign up for extra content via our sheep supporters tab ! https://www.buzzsprout.com/954910/supporters/new...
Aug 29, 2022•35 min•Season 4Ep. 2
Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! Meet this wonderful shepherd and my nephew Bryan in this volume 3.1 of The Lambing diaries. Sheep are a big thing in our family and they always have been and Bryan is carrying on our sheep legacy in his expert tips which he shares with us in episode. Bryan has recently finished high school in Ireland and has been over in Australia for a few weeks. It's been a great experience for us both spending time doing sheep stuff together especia...
Aug 01, 2022•37 min•Season 4Ep. 1
Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! Possibly one of the most famous butchers in the country Lochie Waters from Uniplaza Meats is very passionate about his work and helps us get a clearer picture of what butchers are looking for in a lamb carcase. A career as a butcher and an impressive recent win at Meatstock Lochie started his career in the meat industry in 2013 in country Qld as a wash up boy at the age of 14. Starting the very afternoon his Grandma had been in the sho...
Jun 08, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 3Ep. 29
Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! So I love a good sheep shopping splurge and I thought you might like to join me on a shopping trip! So here is what I have bought recently to prepare for the lambing, lactating and weaning season ahead - Happy shopping! Support the show Want more! Want to show us some sheep love? Sign up for extra content via our sheep supporters tab ! https://www.buzzsprout.com/954910/supporters/new...
May 11, 2022•23 min•Season 3Ep. 29
Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! What is all this short day breeding, estrus, heat stuff all about? What to know how long your ewes cycle for and how different their cycles are from a human's cycle? In this episode we explore what happens when we work with nature to aid in sheep reproduction. Support the show Want more! Want to show us some sheep love? Sign up for extra content via our sheep supporters tab ! https://www.buzzsprout.com/954910/supporters/new...
May 06, 2022•19 min•Season 3Ep. 28
Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! So what mistakes do you need to be aware of when it comes to introducing your sheep to new feed like grain or pellets? We can end up killing our sheep with kindness by introducing too much too soon. In this episode we explore how to start your sheep on a new feeding regime and even if you need to do this at all. How much to give each type of sheep and what can you do to ensure they transition to a new feed well. What are the signs of a...
Apr 26, 2022•23 min•Season 3Ep. 27
Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! Sheep Infrastructure design tips Sheep yards are the main sheep handling complex on a farm and need to be designed and built to provide efficient sheep handling. Sheep need to move well in the yards and we all want to handle our sheep safely. Good sheep yards confine and control the movement of sheep. Good yard set up helps us to achieve a high quality work rate with a minimum of physical effort. This should be done in a pleasant and s...
Apr 11, 2022•34 min•Season 3Ep. 26
Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! Technology and good biosecurity practices can protect you from big losses when it comes to Ovine Brucellosis. Colin Chapman, Professor and Dorset Downs stud breeder leads us through the best ways to tackle and prevent this mostly hidden from view infection. What is Ovine Brucellosis? It’s caused by a bacteria called Brucella Ovus, which is one of several different types of Brucella. “It lives only in sheep, it doesn’t live on the groun...
Apr 05, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 3Ep. 25
Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! What are the issues with overweight sheep? Can it cause animal welfare issues, reproduction issues and health issues? In this episode we explore what happens when sheep get fat, what is the impact for ewes and wethers and what to do about this. Sheep well! Support the show Want more! Want to show us some sheep love? Sign up for extra content via our sheep supporters tab ! https://www.buzzsprout.com/954910/supporters/new...
Mar 28, 2022•24 min•Season 2Ep. 23
Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! Meet Jon Hickford a Professor at Lincoln Uni and learn about gene testing in sheep and what benefits it can offer us as sheep breeders. Smart Shepherding with Science How technology can help sheep breeders reduce and even almost eradicate devastating diseases in their flock. In this article we talk with Jon Hickford, a Professor at Lincoln University in New Zealand, about gene testing to breed better animals that are naturally resistan...
Mar 14, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 3Ep. 22
Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! Meet a sheep legend with a passion for legs! Gavin Vale is a veteran with decades of knowledge about sheep. In this episode we get up close and personal with the legs of sheep! So what are the basics with sheep and their legs? Why are good, structurally correct legs so important in sheep? With legs are we talking about all four or just the back legs and the front are shoulders? Let’s explore some language – what is hocky, sickle hock, ...
Feb 28, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Season 3Ep. 21
Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! So what stops your lambs for growing, simply it is one of three things: 1- Genetics 2- Nutrition and feed 3- Environmental conditions including parasites, weather,stress How are your lambs growing this season? Support the show Want more! Want to show us some sheep love? Sign up for extra content via our sheep supporters tab ! https://www.buzzsprout.com/954910/supporters/new...
Feb 21, 2022•23 min•Season 3Ep. 20
Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! This is a challenging one and most of the research on this comes from Australia where they refer to this as a Dry Sheep Equivalent or DSE. This is how many sheep can have have per hectare on your property. In measuring the energy requirements of livestock, we use a 50 kg wether as the standard. Other areas use a 45 kg wether. A 50 kg wether maintained at constant weight has a dry sheep equivalent (DSE) rating of 1. There are lots of va...
Feb 07, 2022•32 min•Season 3Ep. 19
Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! The carnivore diet is not only an incredibly healing way of eating, but also a whole lifestyle that nourishes you, ensuring you maintain that optimal physical health and mental wellness. Eating a biologically appropriate diet adequately fuels both your body and your mind, enabling your body to restore its nutrient capacity. Your body then heals by natural design. Yes, that’s right, it HEALS itself! It just needs YOU to support it. What...
Jan 21, 2022•42 min•Season 3Ep. 18
Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! Wet weather this spring and summer has certainly created ideal conditions for foot problems in sheep. Nearly continuous exposure to moisture softens the hoof’s horny tissues and makes it more vulnerable to irritation, injury, and infection. Those flocks that are affected by classic virulent foot rot (sometimes called contagious foot rot) have likely seen a surge in the number and severity of cases if they have not been attempting to co...
Dec 13, 2021•30 min•Season 3Ep. 17
Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! Here are some resources for this episode: https://www.wormx.info/tapeworms What about tapeworms in sheep? (wormboss.com.au) Support the show Want more! Want to show us some sheep love? Sign up for extra content via our sheep supporters tab ! https://www.buzzsprout.com/954910/supporters/new...
Nov 22, 2021•22 min•Season 3Ep. 16
Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! Who knew we could influence our lamb taste so much! Research for this podcast includes: Foods | Free Full-Text | Odd- and Branched-Chain Fatty Acids in Lamb Meat as Potential Indicators of Fattening Diet Characteristics (mdpi.com) What does lamb taste like? - Chef's Pencil (chefspencil.com) This episode was inspired by this great article written by Bill Williams. His original article is below: Six factors that influence the flavour of ...
Nov 15, 2021•26 min•Season 3Ep. 15
Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! Setting your breed objectives – Simon Thomas To set your breeding objectives ask yourself the following question and write down your answers: Question 1: Why breed sheep? Apart from the usual answers like “I enjoy the challenge” or “sheep chose me” you need some underpinning factors. My career as a former stock agent and being an experienced breeder has taught me that there are two key driving factors behind breeding livestock ' profit...
Nov 08, 2021•1 hr 33 min•Season 3Ep. 14
Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! Have you heard of mob breeding? If not this will blow your mind! Join Bjorn Johansson from Norway as he shares the concept, strategy and benefits behind mob breeding in sheep!! In this episode we explore: What is mob breeding? Why does it work? What does it achieve? What can do wrong when you mob breed? What are the challenges with mob breeding? How do you practically select your rams to mate? What do you do to set up breeding? How com...
Oct 25, 2021•1 hr 50 min•Season 3Ep. 13
Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! Confused about your twist, barrel or tail set? In this episode we explore the basics of what a structurally sound sheep should look like and why these thing are important in a sheep with sheep breeder and enthusiast Ash Trebilco. Support the show Want more! Want to show us some sheep love? Sign up for extra content via our sheep supporters tab ! https://www.buzzsprout.com/954910/supporters/new...
Oct 18, 2021•53 min•Season 3Ep. 12
Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! Vaccination Why vaccinate? Vaccination is the key to preventing some of the most serious sheep diseases. Vaccination stimulates the body’s defence system to build immunity to a particular disease, by exposing sheep to either the live organism presented in a safe form (e.g. Scabby Mouth vaccine) or to a killed organism (e.g. Blackleg vaccine) or to an inactivated organism (e.g. Johne’s disease vaccine) or to part of an organism (e.g. fo...
Oct 11, 2021•32 min•Season 3Ep. 11
Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! What is mastitis? Mastitis, an inflammation of the mammary gland (udder), is one of the most common reasons for culling ewes in sheep flocks. Mastitis is usually due to a bacterial infection but can also have non-infectious causes such as injury. It can occur any time in the production cycle of the ewe but is most common two to four weeks post-lambing. It can prove costly for breeders. In general, it usually occurs in animals raising m...
Oct 03, 2021•23 min•Season 3Ep. 10
Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! So what is fly strike, what causes it and how can it be prevented and what do we do to treat it? Join Vet Dr Tim Gole from For Flock Sake (www.forflocksake.,com.au), a sheep consulting business as we explore the parasite paradise that fly strike is. Contact Tim: @for flock sake www.forflocksake.com.au Transcript: Parasite Paradise for flies It's perfect. Welcome, everyone. In this episode of the sheep show podcast, I bring you someone ...
Sep 20, 2021•50 min•Season 3Ep. 9
Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! What to know why we tag, when to tag and when not to tag sheep - tune in to this episode to get all the info you need on tagging sheep! Support the show Want more! Want to show us some sheep love? Sign up for extra content via our sheep supporters tab ! https://www.buzzsprout.com/954910/supporters/new...
Sep 13, 2021•28 min•Season 3Ep. 8
