Painting a picture of the sheep of the future with Johan Greef.

Head Shepherd

English - March 13, 2022 18:00 - 56 minutes - 38.7 MB
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Previous Episode: A Scottish shearer, shepherd and scanner, with Ryan Maclean.

Next Episode: Protecting sheep from Campylobacter with Allflex and MSD Animal Health

This week on the podcast we have an hour long special for you! Mark caught up with Dr Johan Greef, an expert in production and disease traits in Merino Sheep.

Johans career is an exceptional one. From worm resistance and resilience, to breech and dag correlation, high fertility composites, identifying odours from wool; Johan has worked on just about anything important when it comes to breeding productive and healthy sheep.

One particularly fascinating conversation involves using dogs to scent detect sheep are susceptible to fly strike with up to 82% accuracy.

Mark and Johan discuss the work done in South Africa showing that a clean face and a bare breech on a sheep results in more lambs per ewe joined.

This conversation paints a picture of what seemingly will be the perfect sheep in the future, and this is one, thanks to genomics and people like Johan, that we can actually work towards with a calculated breeding plan.

Full of facts, figures and trial results, this is a podcast for any sheep enthusiast.

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Designer Genes
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