Tame v Wild - Mob breeding in sheep with Bjorn Johansson

Get in touch to share sheeping stories or questions anytime!Have you heard of mob breeding? If not this will blow your mind! Join Bjorn Johansson from Norway as he shares the concept, strategy and benefits behind mob breeding in sheep!!In this episode we explore: What is mob breeding?Why does it work? What does it achieve?What can do wrong when you mob breed? What are the challenges with mob breeding?How do you practically select your rams to mate? What do you do to set up breeding?How come more people don’t breed using mob breeding?How come we find it so confronting? Are the results different if you mob breed than if you breed in a more conventional way? What about things like predators? Should we intervene with nature? What other interventions do you use in mob breeding – any vaccines or drenches?What about animal welfare issues if we are mob breeding?Can you get a balance between mob breeding and breeding seed stock in a stud situation? Is there a hybrid method or approach to mob breeding? How do you know if mob breeding is working – are there signals or indicators? What do you monitor and what do you measure?How long does it take for mob breeding to pay off? Especially as your cull rate might be very high initially and the challenge with getting rid of these animals and not have this negatively impacting your bottom line. What are the arguments that people give you against mob breeding? Where can someone start with mob breeding?Get in touch with Bjorn or learn more via his Facebook page - Mob breeding for Holistic breeding of livestockSupport the showThank you for supporting our pod! Sign up via our sheep supporters tab !https://www.buzzsprout.com/954910/supporters/new