July 19, 2026 • 8 mins
Ben Dooley says why triplets are nothing but a nuisance!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
The muster on the farm with Southland District Council working
together for a beta Southland.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Oh wait to Wondo to catch up with the Ben
Dooley sheep Beef and YouTube farmer dolls.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Hell things, Yeah, not too.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Bad and he card to complaining right now. There's blue
score in the sunshine. So she's a bit weak, but
it does wondering it's supposed to be, so yeah, not
a lot to complain about.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Yeah, you're actually based at Minna.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
How about oh five minutes ten minutes or so from Wyndham,
is that correct?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
That's correct?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Yeah, Wait for a drive through your neck of the
woods yesterday and a couple of observations. You got a
big cemetery, big crops and big roads.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
You were on the one good gravel road in the
whole district. I think the one down this way is
a bit narrow or it's only a bit three and a
bit meter's wife. But yeah, no, we won't tell too
many people. But she's not a bad we spot.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Oh it's a beautiful drive through there as well. It's
a link to the Catlands.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yeah, yeah, no, it's I mean you think you covered
mocker Reader and Glenham as well. Like I say, we
shouldn't be exposing too many secrets here, but yeah, it
can be cold and wet, but it is our own
little sauce. A pair of us.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
How's it all going?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I mean, jeeus some good looking paddocks around that neck
of the woods, you know, a bit of grass about.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Yeah. No, we've done pretty well. I think most people
in the district are pretty similar. Crops just did exceptionally
well this year. We put a bit more end of
airs as well, which means they're even better. So I've
currently got two hundred and fifteen earlies and about being
on three hundred triplets, way too many bloody triplets again
out on grass. Everything else is still on crop and
(01:31):
I was just doing some numbers. Materials will probably come
off about the fifth of August, the lighter end of
the mixt age us about the tenth, and the fattery
end about the twentieth, and Hoggs should hopefully be on
until about the first of September. And that's with everything
but the hogit's going on on the twenty third of
May because we knew we had a bit much. So yeah,
the paddocks has certainly had a good spell and we
(01:53):
didn't carry reasonably good covers in and of course that
first but a June was still quite growthy. So yeah,
nowhere where we're looking pretty good at the moment.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
A bit of average weather at the end of the week.
But I suppose for towards either of July a bit
of snow. It's going to happen, sooner or later.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I'd imagine, Oh, absolutely, you've got to expect a heaven
you And as we've always said, with much rather it
now than September. Not to say that if it happens
now it won't haave it in September, but yeah, there's
nothing worse to having a nice cruisy Wonder the whole
way through, and they're having September just destroy us. So no,
it's good to have wonder in winter. And we haven't
had a decent amount of snow in winter for quite
(02:30):
a week while, to be fair, it's been a few years.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Hopefully it's all over and done before carving gets into
full swing as well, doals Now.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Crystal is on the show tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Of course, South con Federated Farmer's President Local Government Reforms
is a meeting happening, well, a couple of meetings in
the South on Wednesday around this and Joseph Mooney touched
on it before.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
But there's a lot here for eight payers to understand.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah, there is. Look, we've got an opportunity here to
get things right. I guess right is very dependent on
your own speed. But the government have put out this
thing where they're saying that that councils to have to
take out some form of amalgamation. Obviously, we have four
councils in South and we have the in the Cargo
the district and then the Gore District as well as
(03:14):
the regional council. And we're a province of for one
hundred thousand people I think less than fifty thousand rate payers,
so there's definitely savings to be made, but at the
same time we do want to protect their voice and
keep the money from rates going back to where it
came from, so to speak. So all we're doing with
FED is just holding a couple of meetings, a couple
(03:36):
of events. I guess you'd say. We've got some good
speakers coming down that are really scored up on the stuff,
and it's just trying to actually get people to understand
what's happening so that instead of the councils making a
decision for us and choosing what they want. Is three
of them want one thing and one want another, and
we would possibly err on the side of the one
council's one being a better option. But like I say,
(03:57):
not for us to decide, it's for the people to decide.
But you're just getting people in formed so they can
actually make that decision instead of we just wind up
with what the councils find easier for them, because it's
not actually about them, it's about us.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Are you a bit confused by the process?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
The process itself is way over my head. A few
of the other guys and feeds that they're they're all
over it. I just I just have a fear understanding
of the options that we have. Of guess you'd say, so, yeah,
it'd be good just to get that out there now.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
The main things are happening on in the Cargo twenty
second this Wednesday one thirty at the Fed's building on
Fourth Street, and in Gore that evening on seven pm
at the Lodge. We're just you're just encouraging people to
get along there and get a so they can get
an understanding. I suppose because there's a lot going on
in the political landscape, let alone all this.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yeah, absolutely, and it's just unbiased information that's going to
be going out as all it is. It's just here
are the facts. This is what will happen if we
go this way. This is what will happen if we
go this way. It's just a matter or whatever way
we wind up going. It's it's just just yeah, getting
the information out there. Anyone's everyone's welcome, come along, have
(05:12):
a listen, and either might be a little bit of
time of the end for questions and answers.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yeah, the policy experts and feeds are going to be
there as far as your YouTube channel seat, Deep Health,
Sheep and beef.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Get it right. How's that been?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, no good.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
I haven't really been doing a huge amount on it lately,
but it still SEMs to be gone pretty well. Had
a new post drama turn up a week while ago,
so that's that was on one of the videos. And yeah,
the other one was just the aftermath of scanning. I
didn't actually getny recording done during scanning, but yeah, bigger
result there. One hundred and ninety four percent across the board,
which is just too high. Too many triplets. But yeah,
(05:45):
we go into that in a bit of detail on
the video. So if you want to see them opinions
on triplets, yeah, I have a look.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
What are your opinions on triplets?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I would rather we had none. I would almost rather
they were all singles. Almost. Look, there's opportunity there. We
hauled one off every set that had three live last
year and we hand read them. There's money in that
at the moment the year before, they wouldn't have been
It would have been a would have cost less money
to do it, just with the prices of where they
were last year at work, but it is a huge
(06:15):
amount of work. You always have more U losses and
your triplets. You obviously have far more VAM losses and
your triplets. We have tried many, many things to get
our triplet numbers down, and all we seem to do
is wind up getting them higher and higher, or staying
the same at the very least. So No, at fifteen
and a half percent triplets, it's far too many, and
I would love to have any ideas on what I
(06:36):
could do that don't involve starving my sheep at mating
to get those triplet numbers down Because they're just a pain.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
As ironic as this sounds, do you start calling your
triplet sheep?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Well, we don't. But what we do do is we
we do not keep replacement lambs from triplet use. So
if they as a two deoth we don't get many,
I should probably be taking them out. I don't necessarily
identify yous that have head triplets, but no lamb. We
just don't have the time and resource at the moment
to do that. But no, you that no lamb that
(07:11):
was read from or born as a triplet will ever
make it to the U lamb flock. So we've been
doing that for fifteen years now and that's made no difference.
Maybe we do need to get deeper, but none of
the rams that come here are either triplet born are
not allowed to be. You sort of can sort of
almost remove the genetic component. But what else Am I
just feed them too much? I don't know, but I'm
(07:31):
pretty hesitant to feed them less. I don't flush. It's just,
you know, we just feed them well the whole way
through autumn, if again, because I like to have fat
use going in the winter. But yeah, like I say,
if anyone's got any ideas that don't involve feeding less.
I'd love to hear.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Good on your mate. We'll leave it there. Catching a
couple of.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Weeks that cheers Ammy.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Ben Dooley, sheep Beef and YouTube farmer and influencer for
that better as well. It's not ironic too many lambs
that lambing time, undressing the way that the circle evolves.
I suppose Tom Sanson's up next. This is the master
The muster on the farm with Southland District Council working
together for a beta Southland.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Oh wait to Wondo to catch up with the Ben
Dooley sheep Beef and YouTube farmer dolls.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Hell things, Yeah, not too.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Bad and he card to complaining right now. There's blue
score in the sunshine. So she's a bit weak, but
it does wondering it's supposed to be, so yeah, not
a lot to complain about.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Yeah, you're actually based at Minna.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
How about oh five minutes ten minutes or so from Wyndham,
is that correct?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
That's correct?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Yeah, Wait for a drive through your neck of the
woods yesterday and a couple of observations. You got a
big cemetery, big crops and big roads.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
You were on the one good gravel road in the
whole district. I think the one down this way is
a bit narrow or it's only a bit three and a
bit meter's wife. But yeah, no, we won't tell too
many people. But she's not a bad we spot.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Oh it's a beautiful drive through there as well. It's
a link to the Catlands.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yeah, yeah, no, it's I mean you think you covered
mocker Reader and Glenham as well. Like I say, we
shouldn't be exposing too many secrets here, but yeah, it
can be cold and wet, but it is our own
little sauce. A pair of us.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
How's it all going?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I mean, jeeus some good looking paddocks around that neck
of the woods, you know, a bit of grass about.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Yeah. No, we've done pretty well. I think most people
in the district are pretty similar. Crops just did exceptionally
well this year. We put a bit more end of
airs as well, which means they're even better. So I've
currently got two hundred and fifteen earlies and about being
on three hundred triplets, way too many bloody triplets again
out on grass. Everything else is still on crop and
(01:31):
I was just doing some numbers. Materials will probably come
off about the fifth of August, the lighter end of
the mixt age us about the tenth, and the fattery
end about the twentieth, and Hoggs should hopefully be on
until about the first of September. And that's with everything
but the hogit's going on on the twenty third of
May because we knew we had a bit much. So yeah,
the paddocks has certainly had a good spell and we
(01:53):
didn't carry reasonably good covers in and of course that
first but a June was still quite growthy. So yeah,
nowhere where we're looking pretty good at the moment.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
A bit of average weather at the end of the week.
But I suppose for towards either of July a bit
of snow. It's going to happen, sooner or later.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I'd imagine, Oh, absolutely, you've got to expect a heaven
you And as we've always said, with much rather it
now than September. Not to say that if it happens
now it won't haave it in September, but yeah, there's
nothing worse to having a nice cruisy Wonder the whole
way through, and they're having September just destroy us. So no,
it's good to have wonder in winter. And we haven't
had a decent amount of snow in winter for quite
(02:30):
a week while, to be fair, it's been a few years.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Hopefully it's all over and done before carving gets into
full swing as well, doals Now.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Crystal is on the show tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Of course, South con Federated Farmer's President Local Government Reforms
is a meeting happening, well, a couple of meetings in
the South on Wednesday around this and Joseph Mooney touched
on it before.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
But there's a lot here for eight payers to understand.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah, there is. Look, we've got an opportunity here to
get things right. I guess right is very dependent on
your own speed. But the government have put out this
thing where they're saying that that councils to have to
take out some form of amalgamation. Obviously, we have four
councils in South and we have the in the Cargo
the district and then the Gore District as well as
(03:14):
the regional council. And we're a province of for one
hundred thousand people I think less than fifty thousand rate payers,
so there's definitely savings to be made, but at the
same time we do want to protect their voice and
keep the money from rates going back to where it
came from, so to speak. So all we're doing with
FED is just holding a couple of meetings, a couple
(03:36):
of events. I guess you'd say. We've got some good
speakers coming down that are really scored up on the stuff,
and it's just trying to actually get people to understand
what's happening so that instead of the councils making a
decision for us and choosing what they want. Is three
of them want one thing and one want another, and
we would possibly err on the side of the one
council's one being a better option. But like I say,
(03:57):
not for us to decide, it's for the people to decide.
But you're just getting people in formed so they can
actually make that decision instead of we just wind up
with what the councils find easier for them, because it's
not actually about them, it's about us.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Are you a bit confused by the process?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
The process itself is way over my head. A few
of the other guys and feeds that they're they're all
over it. I just I just have a fear understanding
of the options that we have. Of guess you'd say, so, yeah,
it'd be good just to get that out there now.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
The main things are happening on in the Cargo twenty
second this Wednesday one thirty at the Fed's building on
Fourth Street, and in Gore that evening on seven pm
at the Lodge. We're just you're just encouraging people to
get along there and get a so they can get
an understanding. I suppose because there's a lot going on
in the political landscape, let alone all this.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yeah, absolutely, and it's just unbiased information that's going to
be going out as all it is. It's just here
are the facts. This is what will happen if we
go this way. This is what will happen if we
go this way. It's just a matter or whatever way
we wind up going. It's it's just just yeah, getting
the information out there. Anyone's everyone's welcome, come along, have
(05:12):
a listen, and either might be a little bit of
time of the end for questions and answers.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yeah, the policy experts and feeds are going to be
there as far as your YouTube channel seat, Deep Health,
Sheep and beef.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Get it right. How's that been?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, no good.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
I haven't really been doing a huge amount on it lately,
but it still SEMs to be gone pretty well. Had
a new post drama turn up a week while ago,
so that's that was on one of the videos. And yeah,
the other one was just the aftermath of scanning. I
didn't actually getny recording done during scanning, but yeah, bigger
result there. One hundred and ninety four percent across the board,
which is just too high. Too many triplets. But yeah,
(05:45):
we go into that in a bit of detail on
the video. So if you want to see them opinions
on triplets, yeah, I have a look.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
What are your opinions on triplets?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I would rather we had none. I would almost rather
they were all singles. Almost. Look, there's opportunity there. We
hauled one off every set that had three live last
year and we hand read them. There's money in that
at the moment the year before, they wouldn't have been
It would have been a would have cost less money
to do it, just with the prices of where they
were last year at work, but it is a huge
(06:15):
amount of work. You always have more U losses and
your triplets. You obviously have far more VAM losses and
your triplets. We have tried many, many things to get
our triplet numbers down, and all we seem to do
is wind up getting them higher and higher, or staying
the same at the very least. So No, at fifteen
and a half percent triplets, it's far too many, and
I would love to have any ideas on what I
(06:36):
could do that don't involve starving my sheep at mating
to get those triplet numbers down Because they're just a pain.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
As ironic as this sounds, do you start calling your
triplet sheep?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Well, we don't. But what we do do is we
we do not keep replacement lambs from triplet use. So
if they as a two deoth we don't get many,
I should probably be taking them out. I don't necessarily
identify yous that have head triplets, but no lamb. We
just don't have the time and resource at the moment
to do that. But no, you that no lamb that
(07:11):
was read from or born as a triplet will ever
make it to the U lamb flock. So we've been
doing that for fifteen years now and that's made no difference.
Maybe we do need to get deeper, but none of
the rams that come here are either triplet born are
not allowed to be. You sort of can sort of
almost remove the genetic component. But what else Am I
just feed them too much? I don't know, but I'm
(07:31):
pretty hesitant to feed them less. I don't flush. It's just,
you know, we just feed them well the whole way
through autumn, if again, because I like to have fat
use going in the winter. But yeah, like I say,
if anyone's got any ideas that don't involve feeding less.
I'd love to hear.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Good on your mate. We'll leave it there. Catching a
couple of.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Weeks that cheers Ammy.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Ben Dooley, sheep Beef and YouTube farmer and influencer for
that better as well. It's not ironic too many lambs
that lambing time, undressing the way that the circle evolves.
I suppose Tom Sanson's up next. This is the master
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