September 2, 2025 • 7 mins
Andrew Welsh gives an update from the woolshed as the lambing beat gets busy.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Thanks for joining us as is the muster.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Just coincidentally as well from Kelly Buckingham at Darien zed
a late note that she forgot to put in their
dairy training dot co dot in z is what you
need to go and look at. Regarding those causes that
Kelly was talking about. Away to the way Mere Valley,
now we hear a lot of baying in the background
or bleating.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Or whatever you call it. Little sheep just on the go.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
So we're talking to Andrew Walsh out of twin Farm Genetics,
a home of teff from and sponsors of the five
day Forecast here on Haka. He snow good afternoon, Yeah, Andy,
not too bad. You're at the cold face at the
at the wall shed.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
It's been all go. How things been lately?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Yeah, pretty good, dip. We're just having to catch up
full the staff and yeah, see how everyone's getting. We're
into a bit of lemming now. We aid one hundred
and forty yu's that were due to start yesterday and you,
to be fair, they've sort of been trickling on for
about three days now, so yeah, well into it and
just a week taste of what spring was like last year.
(01:09):
The last couple of days to be fair.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Yeah, how did you fare over the last couple of days?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Really good? Yep, the early stages of the lemming is
pretty good. You can utilize your shelder really good. And yeah,
like they're getting them pretty tough now that we're going,
so it's yeah, it's as good as it can be.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Really, so our ground conditions went out there because they're
hearing figures of almost likes of an excess of four
or five inches of rain in certain parts of the region.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Yeah, it is a bit soft around you look back,
but nobody good to be fair, pretty dry winter, so
the ground slakes up a week, but we certainly don't
want a lot more now though we will be back
to similar those last year.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
So when does the main flock cranking to gear?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
About the eighth, So not a few days. We're actually
just all set stocking at the moment. We've we've done
all the flats and we're got most of the use
bread around the hill now and just got to sprint
cows out through the blocks with them.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Now, you say there's a few of them on the
hill there. What routine do you stick to.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
On the flats? We try and get around twice a
day what we can and just go around and yeah,
and do what we can as we go, but on
the hill we leave them to it. So get set
stop now and we won't go back through them until
about middle of October we'll go back and start open gates.
Ready for tailor.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
You're fee toll be looking all right, though you've had
a weave of growth over the last four weeks, I'd
imagine we have.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
It's been really good. Actually, partial covers are looking good.
But yeah, certainly the more you have at this time
of year, the better they use, are more settled in
the paddocks. So yeah, we've just got to watch we
don't get cold snaps come through and they take the
top off. But that's a key that this time of
year is just get your set stocking, watch paddock and
be a bit flexible with what you need in certain places.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
How do you go with flecks of bearings in there?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Any dramas touch wood, we don't have very many us.
You get sort of ten to twelve for a year,
but we're probably up to about fifteen already. This just
I think us being better conditioned coming through the winter
that we've just had a few more.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
As far as your window crops for the kettle and everything.
Though they're padding out. It's pretty much just on auto
mode for the next three or four weeks.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Yep. We are on the flats down here. We've got
one break of kale left for the late lammer use
and on the hill the deer on their last break.
Now they've probably only got about four days left and
then they'll be coming off and all on grass. So
it's worked out really good this year, to be fair.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
What about your hoggets, how are they fearing?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
They're looking all right. I've got to run them over
the conveyor and give them their pre lam vaccine and
ear tags. We're going to individually tag all the stud
ones and line them up with what number of matches
in their ear just for visually recording them at leaming Pine.
But they're looking pretty good. The twin hoggits have had
some sort of a weir abortion going through them and
been getting one or two slips a day in those,
(03:52):
which is a bit frustrating. But somehow the single ones
seem to have missed it.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Well, if there's only a couple of slips, that's okay.
I hate you think it was anything of a big.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Four it is, but when you when you add it up,
you get one or two for sort of yeah, twenty
odd days that it certainly adds up to be quite
a few ideas. Hard to think of it that way.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Absolutely, what do you reckons caused that?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
I don't know. It looks similar to sort of a
campy going through them, like the lambs are sort of yeah,
full term, got a bit of wool on them, just yeah,
just not quite cooked.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
No, that's a bugger, but it's just it's just in
that crop on that flock alone, nothing.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Else it is. Yep, it just seems to be in
that one mob. We few or the youth said something
go through them, but that was sort of different. More
tops are we going through?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Then?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
The odd one sort of got a are we Rottney
lamb coming out with them? But yeah, you always get
something each year just to take the edge off things.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Now, as far as going around the studio is, how
intensive are you around doing that?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
I'll go around twice a day and pretty much all
we're doing is tagging and recording, So we try and
I've got to try and get around twice a day
otherwise get too fast for me. To catch them to
be there.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Yeah, you're a pretty number on your feet. You're pretty
good on the wing. Gave wonders, aren't you.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Oh and I had one single this morning. It was
born that gave me if you run across the paddock. Yeah,
I know. It's pretty good electronic tag in the rear.
When they're born and you match them up with their mum,
we've already got the mating for who the dead is
at mating time, so I quite liked leaving a look
and just seeing how the sires are chally going. I
can look up and see each lamb that's born, who
(05:27):
they're side by for, what the survival looks like, and
if there's any foulks I don't like with the lambs
as they go, So it's a really good chance to
have a look and get that accurate survival. It's it's
amazing how what a difference that makes with the sire
a lines.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Do you have a sick cried terrier when you're going
through as seizing each lamb in that way.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Pretty much you try to do the same with all
them as you go. We're also judging all the mums
on their temperament, so we want the mum to be
a stand and defend, not a not a run and
flee around the paddock. So judging that, and we're also
judging the others to make sure we've got perfect other
confirmation coming through.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
There is nothing more grumpy than spending five to ten
minutes lading me a you you think you've got it
all sort of, You drive away and the silly tart
just runs up to the other end of the paddock
and that's where she stays.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Yep, that's right. They're never is easy caught the second time.
I always like to do the two second tests, especially
with the Hobbits. If your lamb it you put it
round the front, put a foot or tail in its mouth,
it starts lifting it in two seconds. You can walk away.
Yeah not Yeah, you put it on the trailer and
take it to a wee hat somewhere.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
What about feeding lambs? How many lambs would you feed
in the height of the season on a bottle you reckon.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
We'll probably get up to the US seem to create
a few spears, so we might get up to sort
of thirty to forty spears the Hobbits. The Hobbits all
use them up lading them after the US are finished,
so we end up with taking nothing through at the
end of the season, which is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Absolutely, Hey, we'll leave it there snow. It sounds like
it's all go at your place. Always appreciate your time.
And Twin Farms and Nix the home of Teffron Spun.
This is the five day forecast on a Muster as
well as Hockenui Radio. Always good to catch up mate,
all the best over the next month.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Yeah, good to go there, he and near. Good luck
everyone with the lending out there. I hope the weather
co operates.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
And you will shouted.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Twin Farm Genetics the home of teff from before we
wrap up for the afternoon.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Morgan Mitchell prop for the South and Stags. We'll have
a catch up next
Thanks for joining us as is the muster.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Just coincidentally as well from Kelly Buckingham at Darien zed
a late note that she forgot to put in their
dairy training dot co dot in z is what you
need to go and look at. Regarding those causes that
Kelly was talking about. Away to the way Mere Valley,
now we hear a lot of baying in the background
or bleating.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Or whatever you call it. Little sheep just on the go.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
So we're talking to Andrew Walsh out of twin Farm Genetics,
a home of teff from and sponsors of the five
day Forecast here on Haka. He snow good afternoon, Yeah, Andy,
not too bad. You're at the cold face at the
at the wall shed.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
It's been all go. How things been lately?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Yeah, pretty good, dip. We're just having to catch up
full the staff and yeah, see how everyone's getting. We're
into a bit of lemming now. We aid one hundred
and forty yu's that were due to start yesterday and you,
to be fair, they've sort of been trickling on for
about three days now, so yeah, well into it and
just a week taste of what spring was like last year.
(01:09):
The last couple of days to be fair.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Yeah, how did you fare over the last couple of days?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Really good? Yep, the early stages of the lemming is
pretty good. You can utilize your shelder really good. And yeah,
like they're getting them pretty tough now that we're going,
so it's yeah, it's as good as it can be.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Really, so our ground conditions went out there because they're
hearing figures of almost likes of an excess of four
or five inches of rain in certain parts of the region.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Yeah, it is a bit soft around you look back,
but nobody good to be fair, pretty dry winter, so
the ground slakes up a week, but we certainly don't
want a lot more now though we will be back
to similar those last year.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
So when does the main flock cranking to gear?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
About the eighth, So not a few days. We're actually
just all set stocking at the moment. We've we've done
all the flats and we're got most of the use
bread around the hill now and just got to sprint
cows out through the blocks with them.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Now, you say there's a few of them on the
hill there. What routine do you stick to.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
On the flats? We try and get around twice a
day what we can and just go around and yeah,
and do what we can as we go, but on
the hill we leave them to it. So get set
stop now and we won't go back through them until
about middle of October we'll go back and start open gates.
Ready for tailor.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
You're fee toll be looking all right, though you've had
a weave of growth over the last four weeks, I'd
imagine we have.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
It's been really good. Actually, partial covers are looking good.
But yeah, certainly the more you have at this time
of year, the better they use, are more settled in
the paddocks. So yeah, we've just got to watch we
don't get cold snaps come through and they take the
top off. But that's a key that this time of
year is just get your set stocking, watch paddock and
be a bit flexible with what you need in certain places.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
How do you go with flecks of bearings in there?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Any dramas touch wood, we don't have very many us.
You get sort of ten to twelve for a year,
but we're probably up to about fifteen already. This just
I think us being better conditioned coming through the winter
that we've just had a few more.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
As far as your window crops for the kettle and everything.
Though they're padding out. It's pretty much just on auto
mode for the next three or four weeks.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Yep. We are on the flats down here. We've got
one break of kale left for the late lammer use
and on the hill the deer on their last break.
Now they've probably only got about four days left and
then they'll be coming off and all on grass. So
it's worked out really good this year, to be fair.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
What about your hoggets, how are they fearing?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
They're looking all right. I've got to run them over
the conveyor and give them their pre lam vaccine and
ear tags. We're going to individually tag all the stud
ones and line them up with what number of matches
in their ear just for visually recording them at leaming Pine.
But they're looking pretty good. The twin hoggits have had
some sort of a weir abortion going through them and
been getting one or two slips a day in those,
(03:52):
which is a bit frustrating. But somehow the single ones
seem to have missed it.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Well, if there's only a couple of slips, that's okay.
I hate you think it was anything of a big.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Four it is, but when you when you add it up,
you get one or two for sort of yeah, twenty
odd days that it certainly adds up to be quite
a few ideas. Hard to think of it that way.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Absolutely, what do you reckons caused that?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
I don't know. It looks similar to sort of a
campy going through them, like the lambs are sort of yeah,
full term, got a bit of wool on them, just yeah,
just not quite cooked.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
No, that's a bugger, but it's just it's just in
that crop on that flock alone, nothing.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Else it is. Yep, it just seems to be in
that one mob. We few or the youth said something
go through them, but that was sort of different. More
tops are we going through?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Then?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
The odd one sort of got a are we Rottney
lamb coming out with them? But yeah, you always get
something each year just to take the edge off things.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Now, as far as going around the studio is, how
intensive are you around doing that?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
I'll go around twice a day and pretty much all
we're doing is tagging and recording, So we try and
I've got to try and get around twice a day
otherwise get too fast for me. To catch them to
be there.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Yeah, you're a pretty number on your feet. You're pretty
good on the wing. Gave wonders, aren't you.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Oh and I had one single this morning. It was
born that gave me if you run across the paddock. Yeah,
I know. It's pretty good electronic tag in the rear.
When they're born and you match them up with their mum,
we've already got the mating for who the dead is
at mating time, so I quite liked leaving a look
and just seeing how the sires are chally going. I
can look up and see each lamb that's born, who
(05:27):
they're side by for, what the survival looks like, and
if there's any foulks I don't like with the lambs
as they go, So it's a really good chance to
have a look and get that accurate survival. It's it's
amazing how what a difference that makes with the sire
a lines.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Do you have a sick cried terrier when you're going
through as seizing each lamb in that way.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Pretty much you try to do the same with all
them as you go. We're also judging all the mums
on their temperament, so we want the mum to be
a stand and defend, not a not a run and
flee around the paddock. So judging that, and we're also
judging the others to make sure we've got perfect other
confirmation coming through.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
There is nothing more grumpy than spending five to ten
minutes lading me a you you think you've got it
all sort of, You drive away and the silly tart
just runs up to the other end of the paddock
and that's where she stays.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Yep, that's right. They're never is easy caught the second time.
I always like to do the two second tests, especially
with the Hobbits. If your lamb it you put it
round the front, put a foot or tail in its mouth,
it starts lifting it in two seconds. You can walk away.
Yeah not Yeah, you put it on the trailer and
take it to a wee hat somewhere.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
What about feeding lambs? How many lambs would you feed
in the height of the season on a bottle you reckon.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
We'll probably get up to the US seem to create
a few spears, so we might get up to sort
of thirty to forty spears the Hobbits. The Hobbits all
use them up lading them after the US are finished,
so we end up with taking nothing through at the
end of the season, which is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Absolutely, Hey, we'll leave it there snow. It sounds like
it's all go at your place. Always appreciate your time.
And Twin Farms and Nix the home of Teffron Spun.
This is the five day forecast on a Muster as
well as Hockenui Radio. Always good to catch up mate,
all the best over the next month.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Yeah, good to go there, he and near. Good luck
everyone with the lending out there. I hope the weather
co operates.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
And you will shouted.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Twin Farm Genetics the home of teff from before we
wrap up for the afternoon.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Morgan Mitchell prop for the South and Stags. We'll have
a catch up next
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