Interested in technology & sheep breeding (yes together). On committees for Sheep Genetics TC & NLGC task force with MLA.
Tullamore, New South Wales
Joined October 2017
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First test run on the new 5 way drafter setup (homemade).
Drafting into lambing paddocks.
Ignore the wire, duct tape & cables; it’s just how us farmers roll.😁
Mark Mortimer retweeted
🐑 WHO’S DOING THE HEAVY LIFTING IN YOUR BREEDING FLOCK? 🏋️♂️
There’s a big difference between the performers and the passengers in your ewe flock!
📊 AWI’s Picking Performer Ewes workshop highlights the difference. Over four lambing attempts:
🐑 Passenger ewes rear an average of 1.2 lambs.
🐑 Performer ewes rear an average of 5.6 lambs.
And passengers cut just 0.15 kg more clean fleece wool per year!
📝 At your next 'staff' (sheep) performance review, make sure you are holding your breeding ewes accountable!
Are they bringing lambs to the marking cradle, every year?
📍 Want to learn more? Join us at our upcoming event in Armidale! 👉awiextensionnsw.com/events/
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Finally have my Auto drafter running on WiFi🥳
Mr 17 thinks that the Telsa bot we get to replace him in the yards will be able to directly control it.
Now, he's wondering how often he'll have to grease it.
Now, very concerned where they'll place the grease nipples🤔
Start weaning my commercial lambs tomorrow. Collected a sample for worm testing, fingers crossed I can leave the drench gun in the cupboard.
Last day of lamb marking tomorrow.
Marked 123% in my commercial ewes last week (7% down on last year)
Stud ewes did it tough over summer & had a lower scanning. Expecting lower marking results.
Bring single sire groups into the yards for tagging.
1 old girl needed a lift in the trailer (foot abscess)
Not bad wool for a 9 year old.
This is worth a read if you are a sheep producer. Some really solid concepts put together by Andrew.
What the Australian sheep industry is for, and what the next ten years have to do linkedin.com/pulse/future-fl… via @LinkedIn
Mothering up ewes & lambs. (Matching each lamb to its mum for pedigree recording)
This merino ewe has 4 working teats for her twin lambs.
Sorting young ewes by sire group for display at out Open Day, Friday 4th Sep.
Centre Plus Merinos.
centreplus.com.au/
Bringing the good rams into the yards today.
1 of the rams had a brown stick stuck on its side🤔 Then my brain made sense of what I was seeing.
This brown snake was hanging of the side of 1 of best rams! Hasn't dropped dead yet, hopefully saved by 4 inches of wool.
This ewe went down pre-lambing & the crow's found her first. She's now missing 1 eye & partially blind in the other. Managed to get her back on her feet.
Now leaving a bread crumb trail of wool every where she has been.
Early morning checking lambing ewes.
38 ewes lambed with 58 lambs.
Will match them to there Dams & tag at 5 days of age.
Our annual open day (Centre Plus Merino’s)
Note: change of date to the 1st Friday in Sep. 4th
Gordon @GordonRefshauge from @SheepMetriX speaking on Optiweigh data. What can the data tell us & how can we use it?
Current Sires and progeny groups on display. Morning tea & Lunch.
Another lick feed with automatic doors leaving the sheed. Closes each night to keep the wild pigs out.
Moving ewes into lambing paddocks.
These ewes were all joined to the same sire & will lambing down in the same paddock to record lamb sire.
After marking they'll go into a Pedigree Matchmaker system to find the lambs Dam.
