The Sheep Show Podcast with Jill & Andrew Noble

Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! How do you know a ewe needs your help? What can we do if we see a ewe in labour? How long to wait before we glove up!? and What actually causes difficult lambing issues anyway- all is revealed in this episode!  Designer Mini Goldendoodle puppies Designer Golden Doodles offers the best quality mini and micro mini goldendoodle puppies. Sup...

Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! Explore the 7 things to look for when you are buying a farm to run sheep on or if you are wanting to upgrade your farm or develop a plan for your farm for the future.  Designer Mini Goldendoodle puppies Designer Golden Doodles offers the best quality mini and micro mini goldendoodle puppies. Support the show Thank you for supporting our...

Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! What do we need to know about sheep's conformation and style? What exactly do we mean when we say that a sheep has style? In this episode we explore what you need to know! Conformation is the anatomy and skeletal function of a sheep. It impacts the sheep’s health, adaptability, longevity, and productivity. Conformation or structural...

Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! So you have jobs you need doing on your farm and you need to recruit an army with youth on their side. This episode will help you find, attract, select and keep young blood to your farm and sheep enterprise. Of course there are lots of other benefits  when we attract youth, especially for those young people who don't have a farm in...

Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! Meet Tash Pollard from Blackpond Hampshire Down Stud as we explore the happiest sheep around! https://www.facebook.com/blackpondhampshiredowns  The Hampshire Down or Hampshire is a British breed of sheep. It originated in about 1829 from cross-breeding of Southdowns with the Old Hampshire breed, the Wiltshire Horn and the Berkshire Nott,...

Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! How old is old when it comes to a sheep? Are they similar to other animals when it comes to aging them in human years? Is there a formula for calculating sheep years in human years? For the answer to these questions and more have a listen here!  Support the show Thank you for supporting our pod! Sign up via our sheep supporters tab ! htt...

Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! Selenium is essential for life.  Selenium is needed for thyroid function and the removal of toxins from the body.  Even humans with low selenium struggle with joint problems – most often arthritis in the knees.  In livestock selenium also presents problems with movement.  Your sheep are going to have lambing issues and your babies are go...

Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! Non, je ne regrette rien! No, I do not regret anything! Ok that is a bit of a stretch to say there are not things we regret doing but there are six things we definitely do not  regret doing. on our farm and with our sheep.  In this episode I share six key things that we don't regret doing since we bought our farm in 2015.   What are...

Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! Cud spilling or broken cud is a colloquial term for an abnormality in sheep. We typically notice dark staining around the bottom lip and jaw when the sheep is eating or chewing their cud. Affected sheep are usually culled and definitely not breed with as they usually do not grow or thrive well. But what causes cud spilling and how come i...

Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! How can we encourage the sort of sheep behaviour that is good for us and makes our life easier and the sort of behaviour that is nature and easy for our sheep too? In this episode we explore sheep behavioural traits, how sheep react, how sheep see and hear and how sheep move.  This episode will get you thinking like a sheep!!  Specific B...

Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! We all know the wonders of sheep but did you know they can spark creativity in artists! I do hope you enjoy meeting Ryder, Liz and Hazel, (their sheep spirit animal) from the Dust Bowl Faeries in this rather creative episode of The Sheep Show Podcast! Both Ryder and Liz are passionate about music and animals and in this episode we learn...

Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! We have tried a number of agri-ventures on our farm - not all have worked! But the ones that have worked have now tripled our farm income! In this episode, interfaced on YouTube we explore what is agriventuring, what might work for you and how to choose which agri-venture works for you!  Watch this session on YourTube via @hallstonvalley...

Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! What is hybrid vigour in sheep? Pros and cons What should I do with my sheep - cross or pure/straight breed? This pod will help you make your decision! Support the show Thank you for supporting our pod! Sign up via our sheep supporters tab ! https://www.buzzsprout.com/954910/supporters/new

Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! Worried about having rams fighting when you introduce them to each other? In this episode we explore some rather novel ways to help rams adjust to having each other around without it resulting in blood and guts all over the place.  Have you tied any of these strategies - what worked for you?? Get in touch at jill@hallstonvalleyfarm.com.a...

Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! Learn about the Babydoll breed in this episode with Sheep Show Podcast listener Elaine Hausser from Five Bears Farm  in Queensland and Sue Curliss from Sugargum Farm in Victoria.  This is the first episode looking at different breeds of sheep. What is your breed of sheep? Get in touch with me at jill@hallstonvalleyfarm.com.au and let&apo...

Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! So can sheep help you manage weeds on your farm? In this episode we look at three weeds that impact us on our farm and how we manage them and where sheep have been useful for us?  Designer Mini Goldendoodle puppies Designer Golden Doodles offers the best quality mini and micro mini goldendoodle puppies. Support the show Thank you for sup...

Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! What are the reason why ewes fail to get pregnant? Who is to blame? How would you know it is your ewe or your ram?? In this episode we explore the reasons ewes fail to pregnant, what you look for and how to manage things so you have a better joining rate. Support the show Thank you for supporting our pod! Sign up via our sheep supporters...

Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! A very popular and topical questions can you use electric fencing, poly wire or electric netting with sheep? Well we have tried them all and before you go out and buy a new fencing system learn from our experiences and trials by tuning in to this episode! Here is the charger system which I mention in the pod: https://thunderbird.net.au/...

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 hel...

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!  Designer Mini Goldendoodle puppies Designer Golden Doodles offers the best quality m...

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...

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!  Designer Mini Goldendoodle puppies Desig...

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 Thank you for supporting our pod! Sign up...

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 th...

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 Designer Mini Goldendoodle puppies Designer Golden Doodles offers the best quality mini and micro mini goldendoo...