Big Tom Perkins and Camren Maierle

The Grazing Sheep Podcast

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A podcast with Big Tom Perkins and Dr. Camren Maierle. We are just two guys who raise Katahdin sheep and love to talk about anything that has to do with raising sheep. We hope that you will find this educational, informative and bit fun.

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Big Tom Perkins and Camren Maierle

Episodes

Ep 54 Celebrating Our First Year 20.02.2024 37:08

Today Cam and Tom talk about their first year of bringing you the podcast.

Ep 53 Record Keeping 13.02.2024 38:37

Today Cam and Tom talk a bit about record keeping and what they like to keep track of.

Ep 52 Recap of the Ohio Grazing Conference 06.02.2024 35:02

Today Cam and Tom talk about the Ohio Grazing Conference and some of what Tom learned while attending.

Ep 51 Feeding Hay For Late Gestation Ewes 30.01.2024 35:27

Today Cam and Tom talk about the challenges of feeding hay during late gestation to meet the nutritional requirements of the ewe.

Ep 50 More From The ASI Convention 23.01.2024 34:43

Today Cam and Tom are joined again by Dr Andrew Weaver to continue the discussion about last weeks ASI convention.

Ep 49 An Update From The ASI Convention 16.01.2024 33:13

Today Cam and Tom are joined by Dr. Andrew Weaver to discuss what they learned this year at ASI.

Ep 48 Let's Talk Frost Seeding 09.01.2024 33:38

Today Cam and Tom talk about the benefits of frost seeding clovers and others seeds as well.

Ep 47 Soil Disturbance, Context and Animal Impact 02.01.2024 33:12

Today Cam and Tom talk about the remaining soil health principles and they interact with soil health on our farms.

Ep 46 Soil Health, Diversity and a Living Root 26.12.2023 36:14

Today Cam and Tom talk about more about soil health and the importance of diversity and keeping a living root in the soil.

Ep 45 Soil Health, Soil Armor, Keep That Ground Covered 19.12.2023 36:45

Today Cam and Tom talk about the first of the 5 soil health principles, soil armor and how beneficial keeping that ground covered really is.

Ep 44 Winter Grazing 12.12.2023 38:24

Today Cam and Tom talk about winter grazing and how this can impact next years grazing.

Ep 43 Discussing the Upcoming Lambing Season 05.12.2023 34:21

Today Cam and Tom continue the discussion about prepping for the upcoming lambing season.

Ep 42 Lambing Season Prep and Using Pasture Map 28.11.2023 34:31

Today Cam and Tom talk about prepping for the upcoming lambing season and how Tom uses the Pasture Map app to get his ewes close to the barn before they lamb.

Ep 41 Listener Questions From Season 2 21.11.2023 37:24

Today Cam and Tom wrap up season two with some questions from our listeners.

Ep 40 How We Preg Check Our Ewes 14.11.2023 33:42

Today Cam and Tom talk about the different methods they use to preg check their ewes and how they use that info.

Ep 39 What a year looks like on our farms 07.11.2023 33:31

Today Cam and Tom talk about what their own schedules look like on their own farms and why they use those schedules.

Ep 38 The Fence is Done!!! 31.10.2023 36:02

Today Cam and Tom talk about Tom's new fence and discuss the build, the building supplies and the cost to do build it.

Ep 37 Rations for Winter Feeding 24.10.2023 35:52

Today Cam and Tom talking about winter feeding and what that might look like.

Ep 36 Should She Stay or Should She Go 17.10.2023 36:41

Today Cam and Tom talk about retaining ewes and what we look for in our future ewes.

Ep 35 A Review of Advantage Feeders 10.10.2023 35:51

Today Cam and Tom talk about the Advantage feeders that they both use in their operations. The good, the bad and the ugly.

Ep 34 Winter Stockpile and the Breeding Season So Far. 03.10.2023 32:53

Today Cam and Tom catch up a bit and talk about winter stockpiles and how they intend to feed them. They also talk a little about how breeding is going.

Ep 33 Discussing the index EBVs 26.09.2023 34:37

Today Cam and Tom are again joined by Rusty Burgett of the National Sheep Improvement Program to go over a few of the indexes that are available in NSIP.

Ep 32 MWWT, NLB and NLW EBV's 19.09.2023 32:51

Today Cam and Tom are joined by Rusty Burgett of the National Sheep Improvement Program to discuss the MWWT, NLB and the NLW breeding values and how you can use these in your flocks.

Ep 31 Are Parasite Resistant Sheep Healthier Sheep....Yes! 12.09.2023 35:08

Today Cam and Tom are again joined by Dr. Scott Bowdridge as they continue to discuss the exciting possibilities coming from the research being done on the immune response in parasite resistant sheep.

Ep 30 How Does Parasite Resistance Work 05.09.2023 34:57

Today Cam and Tom talk with Dr Scott Bowdridge and discuss the research that he and his team have done on what makes certain sheep resistant to the barber pole worm.