January 19, 2026 • 8 mins
Disaster looks at the frustration that fly strike brings when found.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Grand Disaster McMaster Farms on the edge of Lake Walk
A type at closer In Station and joins us at
association with Batman under Team at Abbey Rural Disaster. Good afternoon, good.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Afternoon, any, good afternoon everybody.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Well though it was not so much as a good afternoon.
I mean you've found the dridded f on the lambs.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I have the dreaded fly strike on the on our
rising over over at the Hills block. So yeah, I
haven't come. I haven't seen much at Kloster in thank goodness.
And although you know it's probably it's been a reasonable
season for it with the rain. But on this rising
over the Hills block though, they were shorn late November,
(00:45):
so there's not very much well on them at all.
But we're we're shifting them yesterday and also shifting us
and us with single lambs to go back for weaning
on on Friday morning. And I had to shift these
hoggits out of the way and I saw one for
fly strikes. So we got the ues and lambs into
the into the yard and the cattle yards and went
(01:08):
back and for these two dasm behind to come back
today with a bit of the magic Mago and but
there's about five that have got it now and as
I say, not a scareca, but dag near them then
he dagnelm's Brian when he gets the muster of them.
So no, so that's the mago out today and probably
have to look at i'd say, running and see the
(01:28):
dip somewhere along the line. So we're just speaking of there.
The logistics of when you're farming another property that hasn't
got a lot of hasn't got a lot of you know,
permanent yards and wallshead and things like that, you sort
of take for granted and prinsic example over here yesterday
these one hundred and thirty US and one hundred and
twenty eight lambs. So it's a bit of alay, actually
(01:50):
one hundred and twenty but we you know the crackers
the transports, how he said, but you better draft them off.
And I thought we might have been able to do
it in the in the the caddle yards come their yards,
but not for those paranels in the open house. So
in the end we've ended up taking them drafting them
as they went up onto the line. There's only a
truck loads. So and if we didn't get them to separate.
(02:12):
It was going to be two trips in this truck,
and you know that's about that's about two airs a truck,
just the way the traffic is. So I was just
thinking to myself, you know, you take for granted all
the everything you've got in your own place, and you
know you would have just whip them through the yards,
taken them off and likes these seat today that have
a fly struck just in and threw them up in
the grating and you're pulling them over and dirt outside
(02:34):
and you could have given them a bit of a
bloody crutch or a share and what have you. So it's, yeah,
it's all very well having these places, but those the
little things that you think we'll just do that, they
become the big things. And not that it's a massive issue,
but it's you know, we'll obvious you have to have
to get someone in to dip them and set the
prattlee's up and what have you, which is right at
(02:56):
the time when we're weaning and mustering at the moment.
So doesn't rain as we know it does rain and
a pause, but just one of those things without appeal
with isn't it.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Having a set of pratt leaves as well, especially for
drenching and the likes works. Would they work perhaps if
you took them over there and try to do it
that way or is it a matter of being there
and then at the moment.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Like what's the what's the keddle yards we have that
are off the off a great off the deer shed
which is an old hay barn that's inverted and it's
got the race up the side and the crush, so
you can we can do it drenching there with the
with the animals, but you can't drop because you've just
got the crush at the end. So and you get
about thirty thirty in at a time, but you know,
that's fine to the drenching. And obviously when we tail
(03:39):
over here it's you know, we have the prattleys and
but it's just the little things like little fly strike
or things like that that makes it a bit more difficult.
So but we'll, yeah, we'll get by.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
We're saying off ear as well. Nothing like flying down
cam Street with a dozen lambs on the back of
the trailer that you've got to go home and fix up.
When you're going through the middle of a tourist result.
It's probably a bit different to a back road towards
White Guya.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah, exactly, especially if put some of the old mago
and I'll be jumping out like bloody fried rice as
we went past the Thurgburger. So it might fall a
few people. There'll be one country they wouldn't so but no,
it's just it's one of those things. And then and
then the other thing is John, my grandson, who has
been helping me, said I, we'll have to get some
mago from the vet. I said, well, they don't stop
(04:24):
mago at the vet clubs up around and around Queenstown,
So things like that you've got to get, you know,
from Cromwell. And there's always the defenses coming over. If
someone comes over, you can get it. But it's you know,
and we've had it on stop, thank goodness. But it
might be more than the mago's need. And I think
it's going to have to be, you know, be the
we have to get the dipping done a bit quicker.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Well, it just that's where you're farming in central Like
you say, when you've got those shops that aren't available
nice and handy, you've almost got a plan to hit.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I suppose, yeah you do, and and we you know,
we have done. But I've used the whole bloody tin
of it this morning, so no you do. And that's
just that's just one of those things that you've got
to do. And I guess that in fairness of the
vets up here, they're not you know, they don't have
a lot of infantry out and that you're not getting
paid for. And the number of tons of maga that
(05:13):
chews would be probably zero. But I'll have to get
a bit of penicillin for a couple of these Jews too,
and and see how it goes. But you know, a
couple of them aren't good. The rest will be all right.
But it's it's it's this.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
You know.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
It's quite hot now, very very hot yesterday and it
certainly hasn't been humid, hasn't been humid at all. It's
been quite In fact, the other morning, yesterday morning, there
was just on the on the verge of a frost.
So but a beautiful day, yes they and a good
one today. So yeah, things things are drying up a
little bit, not nothing, you know, not not be worried
(05:47):
about this, meaning natural in the in the atmosphere, so
to speak. So you know, just having a good look
to one of those blocks today. And I said before,
you know, I've never seen too much clove, and I
can just read that with blocksmen in this morning getting
using lambs out of its incredible. So yet it's you've
got to you know, you get you get the clove,
(06:08):
and you get the draft and get your vailage made,
and you've got to deal with that little straight in
green fry fly. It's just part of it's part of
what's made the season so good. I guess, you know,
it's hard. You know, years ago and and we may
explain about this before, but you know, years ago, if
there were DAGs on you, that's that was. That might
have been fly blind or if a U was cast
and you but late, well you know, you got to it.
(06:30):
But it was it was never heard of sort of
getting blown in the back of it, you know, blowing
them right in the back of the back along the
back was it. And it was not a scare dag
or anything on of it.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
So yeah, little buggers, yeah, especially when they've only been
short a couple of months exactly.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
So that's you know, I was I was pretty village
vigilant this morning when you're getting close to some of
these years that you know, you they've been all spread
out of hell blocks and as they were going through,
I haven't seen any of their use at home home
with it. And so but as I say, we will,
wean on Thursday and straight out dog claws on the
at my TANGI weekend. We'll be sharing them and they
(07:08):
you know, they got six months all on, but you know,
these these buddy Hoggins have only got two months, so
there'll be some out there. We'll Tony Pride will get
that that magic ivers on the race tomorrow on not Thursday,
and get those out and we'll get those tidied up.
And yeah, we might have to get town up.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Earlier to do the do the deb Yeah meins means
master's just what you got to do in this game, disaster.
We'll let you carry on. Good luck with that flybeddle
this afternoonkay.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Thanks Andy, and a lovely day by by you know,
by all means and say it so it was yet
that I said you off here. It was the first
time i'd sort of got on for the summer and
had needed a couple of studies, so straight after work,
so that was a good part of the day. But yeah,
they're to take the god with the man, haven't you exactly?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Granted? Next week? Appreciate it, Okay, look forward to it.
Grand is Ast McMaster thanks to Abby Rural fly strike.
Just one of those things. Unfortunately, Leon blecks up next
to tell us about a pretty cool initiative that he's
come up with as part of his local Lions and
really cool prizes regarding red meat carcasses.
Grand Disaster McMaster Farms on the edge of Lake Walk
A type at closer In Station and joins us at
association with Batman under Team at Abbey Rural Disaster. Good afternoon, good.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Afternoon, any, good afternoon everybody.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Well though it was not so much as a good afternoon.
I mean you've found the dridded f on the lambs.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I have the dreaded fly strike on the on our
rising over over at the Hills block. So yeah, I
haven't come. I haven't seen much at Kloster in thank goodness.
And although you know it's probably it's been a reasonable
season for it with the rain. But on this rising
over the Hills block though, they were shorn late November,
(00:45):
so there's not very much well on them at all.
But we're we're shifting them yesterday and also shifting us
and us with single lambs to go back for weaning
on on Friday morning. And I had to shift these
hoggits out of the way and I saw one for
fly strikes. So we got the ues and lambs into
the into the yard and the cattle yards and went
(01:08):
back and for these two dasm behind to come back
today with a bit of the magic Mago and but
there's about five that have got it now and as
I say, not a scareca, but dag near them then
he dagnelm's Brian when he gets the muster of them.
So no, so that's the mago out today and probably
have to look at i'd say, running and see the
(01:28):
dip somewhere along the line. So we're just speaking of there.
The logistics of when you're farming another property that hasn't
got a lot of hasn't got a lot of you know,
permanent yards and wallshead and things like that, you sort
of take for granted and prinsic example over here yesterday
these one hundred and thirty US and one hundred and
twenty eight lambs. So it's a bit of alay, actually
(01:50):
one hundred and twenty but we you know the crackers
the transports, how he said, but you better draft them off.
And I thought we might have been able to do
it in the in the the caddle yards come their yards,
but not for those paranels in the open house. So
in the end we've ended up taking them drafting them
as they went up onto the line. There's only a
truck loads. So and if we didn't get them to separate.
(02:12):
It was going to be two trips in this truck,
and you know that's about that's about two airs a truck,
just the way the traffic is. So I was just
thinking to myself, you know, you take for granted all
the everything you've got in your own place, and you
know you would have just whip them through the yards,
taken them off and likes these seat today that have
a fly struck just in and threw them up in
the grating and you're pulling them over and dirt outside
(02:34):
and you could have given them a bit of a
bloody crutch or a share and what have you. So it's, yeah,
it's all very well having these places, but those the
little things that you think we'll just do that, they
become the big things. And not that it's a massive issue,
but it's you know, we'll obvious you have to have
to get someone in to dip them and set the
prattlee's up and what have you, which is right at
(02:56):
the time when we're weaning and mustering at the moment.
So doesn't rain as we know it does rain and
a pause, but just one of those things without appeal
with isn't it.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Having a set of pratt leaves as well, especially for
drenching and the likes works. Would they work perhaps if
you took them over there and try to do it
that way or is it a matter of being there
and then at the moment.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Like what's the what's the keddle yards we have that
are off the off a great off the deer shed
which is an old hay barn that's inverted and it's
got the race up the side and the crush, so
you can we can do it drenching there with the
with the animals, but you can't drop because you've just
got the crush at the end. So and you get
about thirty thirty in at a time, but you know,
that's fine to the drenching. And obviously when we tail
(03:39):
over here it's you know, we have the prattleys and
but it's just the little things like little fly strike
or things like that that makes it a bit more difficult.
So but we'll, yeah, we'll get by.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
We're saying off ear as well. Nothing like flying down
cam Street with a dozen lambs on the back of
the trailer that you've got to go home and fix up.
When you're going through the middle of a tourist result.
It's probably a bit different to a back road towards
White Guya.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah, exactly, especially if put some of the old mago
and I'll be jumping out like bloody fried rice as
we went past the Thurgburger. So it might fall a
few people. There'll be one country they wouldn't so but no,
it's just it's one of those things. And then and
then the other thing is John, my grandson, who has
been helping me, said I, we'll have to get some
mago from the vet. I said, well, they don't stop
(04:24):
mago at the vet clubs up around and around Queenstown,
So things like that you've got to get, you know,
from Cromwell. And there's always the defenses coming over. If
someone comes over, you can get it. But it's you know,
and we've had it on stop, thank goodness. But it
might be more than the mago's need. And I think
it's going to have to be, you know, be the
we have to get the dipping done a bit quicker.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Well, it just that's where you're farming in central Like
you say, when you've got those shops that aren't available
nice and handy, you've almost got a plan to hit.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I suppose, yeah you do, and and we you know,
we have done. But I've used the whole bloody tin
of it this morning, so no you do. And that's
just that's just one of those things that you've got
to do. And I guess that in fairness of the
vets up here, they're not you know, they don't have
a lot of infantry out and that you're not getting
paid for. And the number of tons of maga that
(05:13):
chews would be probably zero. But I'll have to get
a bit of penicillin for a couple of these Jews too,
and and see how it goes. But you know, a
couple of them aren't good. The rest will be all right.
But it's it's it's this.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
You know.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
It's quite hot now, very very hot yesterday and it
certainly hasn't been humid, hasn't been humid at all. It's
been quite In fact, the other morning, yesterday morning, there
was just on the on the verge of a frost.
So but a beautiful day, yes they and a good
one today. So yeah, things things are drying up a
little bit, not nothing, you know, not not be worried
(05:47):
about this, meaning natural in the in the atmosphere, so
to speak. So you know, just having a good look
to one of those blocks today. And I said before,
you know, I've never seen too much clove, and I
can just read that with blocksmen in this morning getting
using lambs out of its incredible. So yet it's you've
got to you know, you get you get the clove,
(06:08):
and you get the draft and get your vailage made,
and you've got to deal with that little straight in
green fry fly. It's just part of it's part of
what's made the season so good. I guess, you know,
it's hard. You know, years ago and and we may
explain about this before, but you know, years ago, if
there were DAGs on you, that's that was. That might
have been fly blind or if a U was cast
and you but late, well you know, you got to it.
(06:30):
But it was it was never heard of sort of
getting blown in the back of it, you know, blowing
them right in the back of the back along the
back was it. And it was not a scare dag
or anything on of it.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
So yeah, little buggers, yeah, especially when they've only been
short a couple of months exactly.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
So that's you know, I was I was pretty village
vigilant this morning when you're getting close to some of
these years that you know, you they've been all spread
out of hell blocks and as they were going through,
I haven't seen any of their use at home home
with it. And so but as I say, we will,
wean on Thursday and straight out dog claws on the
at my TANGI weekend. We'll be sharing them and they
(07:08):
you know, they got six months all on, but you know,
these these buddy Hoggins have only got two months, so
there'll be some out there. We'll Tony Pride will get
that that magic ivers on the race tomorrow on not Thursday,
and get those out and we'll get those tidied up.
And yeah, we might have to get town up.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Earlier to do the do the deb Yeah meins means
master's just what you got to do in this game, disaster.
We'll let you carry on. Good luck with that flybeddle
this afternoonkay.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Thanks Andy, and a lovely day by by you know,
by all means and say it so it was yet
that I said you off here. It was the first
time i'd sort of got on for the summer and
had needed a couple of studies, so straight after work,
so that was a good part of the day. But yeah,
they're to take the god with the man, haven't you exactly?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Granted? Next week? Appreciate it, Okay, look forward to it.
Grand is Ast McMaster thanks to Abby Rural fly strike.
Just one of those things. Unfortunately, Leon blecks up next
to tell us about a pretty cool initiative that he's
come up with as part of his local Lions and
really cool prizes regarding red meat carcasses.
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