The Sheep Show Podcast with Jill & Andrew Noble

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Two countries, two seasons and plenty of leanings. In this episode we reflect on the wins, the challenges and the decisions we'd change when it comes to lambing and joining. An honest unfiltered debrief with some hard truths and improvements for next year. We hope this helps you too!
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What would selling direct do for your sheep enterprise? What would it do for your local community and economy? How can we keep things local in these challenging times? Well selling meat direct might be a genuine win,win,win - literally everyone benefits from this model of selling direct from a farm. 
In this episode we explore what this looks like both in Australia and Ireland and how you can get closer to your customer and share your love of lamb directly with the people who matter most! 
Enjoy and eat more meat!
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We know things are tough and sheep farming can have the smallest of margins for most of us so what are the leavers we have and what sucks the profit out of sheep farming? In this episode we explore the five main things that impact your profit when it comes to sheep farming.
Here are some of the formulas mentioned in the pod.
Lambs weaned divided by ewes joined x 100
150% excellent
120-130% good
under 110% needs focus/tweaking 
And some others things to measure

$ per ewe 
Cost of production per kg
DSE or units
Lambs as currency 
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So how do you make selections for self replacing ewes and rams, can you do this at the moment of birth and if so how can you track it so at weaning the selection decisions are simple, easy and quick. In this episode as we support Andrew who is thick into lambing and running on very little sleep and very little food (a bit like fuel reserves in Australia right now!), we discuss some options on how to make selection decisions early in your flock.
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Bottle fed lambs are cute but often not productive and a huge time suck so how can you get your ewes to do more of the heavy lifting. In this episode we explore the ways to foster and the tools that can be used to foster lambs into ewes. We chat about maiden ewes/hoggets in particular and why they are the often the secret sauce in your fostering tool kit - Enjoy!
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