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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 flies

It's perfect. Welcome, everyone. In this episode of the sheep show podcast, I bring you someone very special. And you know, very funny too, I think because this is Tim and his businesses called For Flock Sake. I mean, how funny can that be? Hi, Tim, welcome to the Sheep show podcast.. So, Tim, you're a vet, you're a sheep vet that you really specialize in our topic as well. And you're running a sheep consulting services business, you just told me just turn once Happy Birthday to For Flock Sake, thank you. Just give them give the listeners a little bit of an idea about you your background and how you come to set up a business like this.

00:48

A great deal. So my background, I've been vet for about 14 years, worked in so Central West New South Wales, and then did did the stint in the UK, which I really, really loved came back and I just love being a vet. So bought a practice with a friend. And then it just kind of went a bit crazy, we bought one and then we built another one up the road. And then we got involved in the northern cattle industry. And we did a bit of fly in fly out bet stuff out to the you know, the real big kind of wild west stuff. And it's really interesting. So we had this really awesome team and I was looking around going, I'm in a massive shape area, but I actually wasn't adding a lot of value to my shaped clients. And that's when we started providing a pregnancy Testing Service. And then it was just the start, there's so many things you can do with shape that maybe you can't do with catalog, there's not, you know, 100 pregnant cows, you can't get any more than 100 calves, but cheaper, so much different you can, there's so many more little levers you can pull to get, you know, get better, we'll get better lamps. So that's how I started and then so I got an opportunity to sell my business. And some shape work. And I thought this is this is my time. And so I thought it was funny calling up for flux. And that was part of really because we'd come out of a three horrific three year drought. And it kind of felt it was a bit locked for flux, like, you know, you know, winds, the winds are gonna rain, but also, I just thought, I suppose, you know, trying to be a little bit funny, you know, you get a positive reaction and get it. And when we got positive mindsets, we were much more open to different ideas and different ways of doing things. So that's that lead in with flux sake. It's been a great, great journey one year. So it's been great.

Jill Noble 02:38

I really love that. And I think I think you you're aware of the numbnuts product as well, I can guess, are you using it? And again, it's sort of, you know, being kind of on that sort of funny journalistic, I think it's something we need to have in our industry lighten things up a little bit, you know, and be a bit more real and a bit more vulnerable. And I think that's really, really good. I love it. I really love it. Great job. Really? And um, I mean, when you were studying 14 years ago, and you're studying veterinary medicine, did you? Did you sort of think, did you start to do like sheep, then did you think that you

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We've never advertised our sheep for sale. Why not? Because smart selling is about building a reputation and creating a market for your sheep. In this episode we explore the pros and cons for each selling option that we have for sheep, including lambs, ewes and rams.
Let me know what option works for you and why!

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What an honour to interview David Smith, the world's first scientist to develop a vaccine for a worm in any host! David is a qualified Vet, who grew up in South Africa and lives in Scotland. He has a PHD on sheep immunology and since 1975 has studied worms in sheep and how sheep have become immune to worm infections.
This research has been done at the Moredun Institute, a farmer owned and led research institution. https://www.moredun.org.uk/
You can purchase or find out more about Barbervax from Ben Foster at
https://www.grazag.com.au/
Learn more about worms online including some of the scientific terms that are used in this podcast, by your vet and more broadly in the sheep industry - go to:
http://www.wormboss.com.au/sheep-goats/
http://www.wormboss.com.au/sheep-goats/worms.php
In this fascinating episode we explore the challenges we all have with internal parasites in sheep, particularly worms. We answer questions and explore issues like drench use and drench resistance.
Listen and learn about the following:

• Why do sheep get worms/internal parasites?
• What worms impact sheep?
• What do worms do to sheep?
• How do you know if your sheep have worms? What are the symptoms to look for?
• What about scours? Is this a sign of worms?
• How or where can you do a fecal worm egg count in sheep? How to read and understand the results of this egg count?
• How can I prevent my sheep from getting internal parasites?
• What animals on our farm are most vulnerable to worms and why?
• How to reduce drench resistance?
• What about Barber’s pole worm? How is this different to the other worms?
• What are the symptoms of Barber’s pole worm?
• What the benefits are of using Barbervax to manage Barber's Pole worm.
• How does it all work? – learn the process for using Barbervax

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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 Behaviour Traits
Sheep are created with specific behaviour traits. Knowing
what these traits are can make handling them much easier.
 Sheep are social animals, so try and prevent seclusion.
 Sheep by nature are followers; let them follow - you or each other
 Sheep are docile animals by nature.
 Sheep have good memories; these memories need to be
positive ones as much as possible.
Sight and Hearing
Sheep and other farm animals have a well developed sense
of hearing. They capture a wider frequency of sound than is
audible to our ears. So talk to them in a calm,
reassuring voice. When they sense that you mean no harm,
they will turn to their usual business of eating, drinking and
feeding their young.
Humans have binocular vision, focusing both eyes
simultaneously to achieve good depth perception and
clarity for objects directly in front of them. However humans
peripheral vision is very limited. Sheep see the world through
a different set of eyes than ours. Sheep have their eyes set
on the side of the head. They have a narrow field of
binocular vision in front of their head and wide peripheral
fields of monocular vision.
The area in the back of the sheep's head is a blind spot
when their head is raised. If a sheep is approached from the
rear, a handler can remain undetected visually and have a
better chance at catching the animal. With its head down in
a grazing position the sheep can see in all directions; a good
defensive adaptation whereby the sheep can see predators'
from all sides while grazing.

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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 their family or don't attend a school with a agriculture program. Let's spread the sheep love to all ages and socioeconomic backgrounds I say!
In this episode you will meet Brooklyn Collocott from Young Farmers Australia on Instagram. Brooklyn has been working here at HVF for four years now. She is a year 10 student who is also studying Agriculture at Mary MacKillop College in Leongatha.
And Tash Pollard is back! You might remember her from the Happy Hampies podcast. Tash is an Animal Science student from Federation University in Churchill, Victoria, Australia. She runs Blackpond Hampshire Down Stud based in Langwarrin Victoria and has completed her 12 day placement here with us on here farm.
This was a very organic chat with the girls on how farmers and sheep breeders in particular can tap into the resource and energy that is youth. By doing so we give back as well as pave a positive future for sheep and agriculture in our communities.

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