The Sheep Show Podcast with Jill & Andrew Noble

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...

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 co...

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 Thank you for supporting our pod! Sign up via our sheep supporters tab ! https://www.buzzsprout.com/9...

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

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 t...

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 achiev...

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, w...

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! Designer Mini Goldendoodle puppies Designer Golden Doodles offers the best qual...

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 a...

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 t...

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?  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! 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...

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 t...

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)...

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 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! 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 ar...

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 exper...

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...

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

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 va...

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 week...

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 f...

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! 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 pod! Sign up via our sheep suppo...

Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! Do you breed sheep that shed their wool or hair? Want to get better shedability in your flock?  In this episode we shed light on shedding sheep and help you make better choices for your easy care flock of shedders!  Designer Mini Goldendoodle puppies Designer Golden Doodles offers the best quality mini and micro mini goldendoodle puppies...

Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime! They've done the hard work up until now so what can we shepherds to to help keep our ewes in optimum health post-lambing.  Support the show Thank you for supporting our pod! Sign up via our sheep supporters tab ! https://www.buzzsprout.com/954910/supporters/new