Thanks

Gidday, cheers for watching!

My Dog commands are fairly simple. Sit down is the main one. “E noho” is sit down in Māori. And then for my young heading dog I don’t have many whistles on her yet so a common thing is to give them a simple “Gar” as a run. My main mustering hunterway I also have a sit down stay there command “Lay”. The rest are all whistle commands. And the key to counting sheep is practice and it’s always easiest to count them before they get past you, not after if you’re counting them on their way out it can be tricky and less accurate. That’s the main point my father and grandfather told me.

Few different ways of counting. 2,4,6,8 ect ect all the way to 100. Or count 2 sheep as 1 then another 2 sheep as 2 ect ect all the way to 100, then double your count to the actual number. Some count 3 sheep as 1 then when you get to 33 you let one more go past and that is 100. I prefer counting 2 as 1 method, as it lets ya count 1000 sheep on one hand, folding out or in a finger to keep track of each 100, which is actually 200sheep.

Thanks Philip! I try to keep it interesting, cheers for the feedback!

They’re a crossbred with Texel, Romney and Perendale. We’ve put a straight Romney over them for the last 3 years to try and get better conformation. The crossbreeds are good for growth but are a bit of a mixed bag. Hard to pick an even line. Cheers, Will.

Central North Island - Rangitikei

He’s would have been 4 in Feb-March.

Cheers!

Thanks Gary! I’m sure he will go well

That’s how we identify the Teasers (vasectomised Rams). Makes it pretty easy to see in the paddock.

Cheers

Yip he was great but it’s intimidating when you don’t know them. They usually get handled similarly to our weaners. Probably yard weaned, shifted weekly and handled in the yards 6 or so times in the first year.

It’s a Garmin dog Collar. Pretty handy training device and great for dogs with no ears. It can make a beep-tone noise, shock and has lights on it so you can see where they are when you’re mustering in the dark. Thanks!

@@HillCountryFarmer thank you for the answer 👍🇳🇴

I didn’t start this channel until after lambing, yip our ewes are just fed pasture.

Hi Aga, Nice, unsure if there is a way for you to get into this over here. It’s a great lifestyle and I always appreciate being on the land. All the best.

@@HillCountryFarmerYes will, I’m on research to the job who can bring me to NZ. I got the information from NZ immi website about halal slaughterer, can give me a special visa from NZ gov. Hopefully one day I can move to NZ 🙏🏻

I’d like to, I will at some stage mate. Hopefully with someone who has even more of an idea than me. I’m a bit of a battler. Cheers for the comment!

Okay, there you go! Cheers

I guess we have plenty of different fences. Our best fences have a post around every 3.5-4 metres have 9 wires and 4 Battons between the posts. But we also have 3 wire electrics which are 4-6metres apart using batons. These keep stock in in good conditions but you can’t trust them holding up with the same stock type on either side( like lambs and ewes or ewes and ewes). The 3 wire electric costs half of the “conventional” fence. Some of our conventional fences are also not battened which is fine until I drive mobs past them with lambs, the lambs can easily push through them when not battened.

Not too bad looking are they!

Cheers!

Yip that’s right, hope to have two new bulls turn up in the next month. He was a solid boy!

Solid

Thanks Hamish!

I appreciate that mate!

Rising 5year old - 5 in September / October

I relate to that too. He has lived the dream and gets a quick end.

Haha, yes that’s basically what I was saying. I could see the dry, but the twin was hard to see 🤦.

Cheers! 👍

Thanks mate! I’m trying to keep it interesting

Thanks Jan, hopefully learning good things 😅

Wow that’s impressive, just had a Quick Look. Our thistles are half decomposing, those thorns aren’t. Cheers!

Haha fair enough, yip once you’re out in the weather you don’t mind too much. Cheers, thanks for watching!

This year we’re getting $5 / week. That’s not bad! If I was weight gaining them I’d expect $10-15/week.

Yip sometimes it’s easier than trying to hold back tame or hungry cattle! But maybe I’m lazy!

Oh you’re lucky! Yes spot on, Taihape! Thanks very much, cheers for watching!

It was we’ve had some great weather since luckily! Yes I actually managed to go up on Thursday it was pretty cool to see all the exhibits! Right I hear that it was slightly smaller this year compared.

Thanks mate, I’d looking into growing future farmers or the cadet programmes that are offered like Otiwhiti in Hunterville or Smedley in Hawkesbay. You don’t necessarily have to know your stuff, you just have to be keen. Otherwise I would be looking at Lincoln or Massey diplomas or degrees. I did the diploma in agriculture and diploma in farm Management and these give you a lot to fall back on when you’re actually out there doing the work. Hope that helps, cheers Will.

Thanks! Yip still working on them but not too shabby I hope.

Gidday, cheers!

Great to have you! They are awesome looking beast, and great to work with! Thanks for the message!