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It’s a natural instinct for them, you do have to teach them to ‘use their noise’ - hold off the sheep and let their bark move the sheep.

Thank you for the answer I am only used to Border collies 🇳🇴

Fair enough, they both have their place! If you want to get work done on the hills you get the huntaways out!

Yeah I like to be critical, mine get the jobs done and I guess that’s what it’s all about! Cheers

Cheers Gary!

True! Who needs a diary or tally book, just have to go through a lot of video!

Haha, thanks for the support!

Awesome, thanks for viewing! We’re in the central North Island, Rangitikei ‘Gumboot Country’.

Cheers for the support! Awesome, I hope you’re enjoying being back on the land!

It is a good point, I’ll avoid planting them. Those ones are on the fringes of small paddocks so it’s easy to work around them.

That’s true! I guess where you need shelter belts there aren’t many cows. Cheers!

Thanks, it looked happy to be saved!

6 working dogs

I’d be very fit! 😅.

Oh okay that’s interesting, good to find a more natural and cheaper way of dealing with the problem! Yeah right, that Triton seemed to be very good on fuel compared to my 2018 Hilux. All the new utes are pretty comfortable but yeah as you say there are a lot of small things that some manufacturers have done better than others! Thanks for the comment and cheers for watching!

Thanks! I have the Hoggets in two mobs currently in a bit of rotation (the Inlamb Hgts will be set stocked shortly) then the 97 R2 steers will be taken off crop and spread out with Ewes. Cows will be tightened up as I have done in other paddocks to hold down feed. But yes I could do a full video of all of this but makes it a lot of video and harder to show. I will struggle to hold feed with the current stock I have so I might have to let a couple of paddocks go to hold the rest of the farm. The current store stock prices are too high and propped up by meat companies and big finishes competing for procurement and obligations to fill contracts.

Thanks!

Cheers Robert!

Cheers Gary!

We stay set stocked until weaning, which will be late December or early January.

Thanks I try to keep them as interesting as I can

Thanks, glad it was interesting!

Thanks mate!

I plan to Luke, I’ve been meaning todo one for months now. Hopefully soon. Cheers, Will

Yip amazing how some things haven’t changed, you guys were onto something 👍. Cheers!

That’s true, I guess I just take the surveyed size or even on any online map shows you the same ha size as the maps drawn up when my Grandfather was running the place. Often things like those details are overlooked and you only realise it after getting good results in paddocks for consecutive years so you end up adjusting accordingly. I don’t generally account for the lambs and probably need to look into the different amount of intake between a twin and single it’s all info that’s accessible but easily forgotten but good to get these questions so I look into it. Cheers

I’m a hobby farmer, so really good to get all these little bits of information. Keep up the great work.

Glad it was helpful! Cheers

Too many haha. No only 6 working dogs.

Cheers Gary, couple around now!

I would say looking at them most like a Romney, or Romney cross.

Our scanning was down. 160%. I was a bit disappointed. I used a Teaser (17days) and had the Ram out for two cycles (34days). Some were bought in only 19 days from when the Ram went out so that might have had an effect. The majority of these ewes are Kelso (Texel, Perendale, Romney cross) and the ram used was a Suffolk and a terminal cross. Yes they have good fecundity and growth, most of them are older girls so have good sized lambs.

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That Ewe actually ended up dying, she must have had a problem with her. I find it hard to mother on any lambs a full day later. I’d rather not waste time if it’s only a 50/50 chance. Although I do a lambing beat I try not to make it too intensive.

Probably a good idea, I guess I could try that out. It would be interesting to see if that helps him. A lot of that is due to things that I can control like feed intake and set stocking timing in regard to their gestation. If I feed them too well at the wrong time or set stock them on good feed and they are a late lamber then the lamb might be too big to come out. So I don’t know if that’d help as much as getting my management fine tuned. Also bigger lambs in terminals is something we’re trying to get, bigger lamb at birth = bigger lamb at weaning but I guess there is a balance. 2 lambs at 38 kg is better than one at 48 I guess. I think DeepSouthSheepBeef has been doing it a while and has sorted the detail. Maybe one day I’ll get to that point but I’m only doing a lambing beat with 1/5th of my ewes.

@@HillCountryFarmer grreat video marvellous to see your ewes with so much milk, your argument stands up,strong lambs that may need assistance with plenty milk will get away quicker at a good weight,spot on!

Cheers Chris, so many variables and things that influence your production. I’m glad you agree, sometimes I can be quite confident on an idea but forget to consider something else. But yeah I know in years past we’ve had a hard lambing but have amazing lambs at weaning and the wastage is quickly forgotten.

Not a single predator to worry about here, we’re really lucky. The worst I’ve heard of is Pigs eating lambs but we’re too far from any pigs. No foxes or any type of wild hound in New Zealand.

Great vlog thanks! What’s the survival rate of the triplets please and is there a big difference between twins and triplet rates? Just curious!

Good question, I’ve never really measured survival in triplets. I’d say it wouldn’t be much lower than twins in good lambing conditions but if the weather packs in and they’re short of feed the chance than one will be miss mothered or die due to exposure is surely higher in triplets!

Thanks!

Hard to say. It’s costs 2k/ha to put this land into trees (that’s pines) so it’s a large capital investment. And no return for 4 years! Sheep and Beef at the moment isn’t very profitable either. Putting this land into trees limits your options and if people wake up to the fact that offsetting carbon isn’t sustainable and makes no sense we could find that the carbon price tanks. Then trees won’t be worth anything other than the value of a low quality commodity (Pine timber). In the past sheep and beef country can make 500-800 ebitr and pines at the peak of the carbon price north of 2k. But it’s politically driven in my opinion so it’s like investing in crypto currency (there is real value but mostly rests on public opinion and political views).

Thanks 👍

Haha yeah the 9 wire keeps most things in and out but maybe not Porina! Oh okay that’s a long time, makes it easier management if you spray full stop. Fingers crossed we get away with limited damage. Cheers Malcolm!

For us it's good insurance. It can be a nightmare digging trying to decide what you do. Hopefully you mightn't get it too bad.. Set stocking and nitrogen was a good decision.

I can definitely notice a bit of difference even with short covers and stock all over the farm. It has actually been 20 days now 😬. Bit slower than you on uploads! Oh yeah, Porina has become a common thing here. Thanks Hamish!

Yes we will. I’d like 12-1250. But realistically most years it’s around 1000-1100. We will see what happens this year we’ve got the Fert on and I’ve tidied up well so there is more green feed area in each paddock. So hopefully we might get to 12-1300. And then I’m going to have to battle to keep it from going any higher than 1350-1450.

I think you would need a-lot of propellant! Not a bad idea

@@HillCountryFarmer no propellant required. A gas torch, and strategy. Autumn is a good time,, if the surrounding area is short green grass, moist soil and no wind. If too dry, and unsafe in Autumn, look for a dry period in winter. Say after a period of dry weather, combined with a drying wind. Light it in the evening, before the dew sets in, using the catabatic wind to your advantage. Start with some dead rush bushes in an area where there is no other fuel. Get a feel for things. It's a small controlled flame that creeps along, not faned by wind. The flame is down stream of the draught. If the wind fans it, it turns into an inferno. Burns it quickly, but could scare the animals. Avoid this approach. If the grass is dry and soil is moist, there is very little smoke. It's common in Australia and Africa.

​@@PaulEglinton we do it in Scotland aswell

That is Mt Ruapehu. Central North Island. Cheers!

A mixture of Ammonia Sulphate, Di Ammonia Phosphate and Sulphur 90. We also add Selenium. I guess we’re using that instead of urea because it’s available to the plant straight away and we shouldn’t get any loss other than leaching if it gets too wet.

Thanks it’s granular

Cheers!

Thanks mate! Oh awesome, something I’ve never done but keep thinking I should have a crack at so I can keep better dogs. Yeah nice, it is enjoyable!

Thanks! I like the Aussie way. Put an ‘o’ at the end of any noun to shorten it 😅, and you can’t beat an Akubra, unfortunately the wife and I had to go on weeks holiday to the GC to buy ours! Cheers for watching!