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The Grazing Sheep Podcast
by Big Tom Perkins and Camren Maierle
A podcast with Big Tom Perkins and Dr. Camren Maierle. We are just two guys who raise Katahdin sheep and love to talk about anything that has to do with raising sheep. We hope that you will find this educational, informative and bit fun.
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Ep 170 The Georgia Trip
Today Cam and Tom talk about their recent trip to Georgia.
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Ep 169 Shearing Sheep
Today Cam and Tom discuss sheep shearing.
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Ep 168 Using Some New Technologies In Breeding
Today Cam and Tom are joined by Dr Andrew Weaver to discuss some newer breeding technologies that North Carolina State and Dr Weaver are using in the university flock.
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Ep 167 Sheep Are Out Grazing
Today Cam and Tom finally have sheep back out on grass!
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Ep 166 New Construction
Today Cam and Tom talk about a new building that Tom will be building this summer.
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Ep 165 Spring Cleaning
Today Cam and Tom discuss some possibilities for spring plantings.
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Ep 164 Weaning and Marketing Lambs
Today Cam and Tom talk about weaning lambs and how Tom might market these lambs.
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Ep 163 Managing Yearlings At Lambing
Today Cam and Tom discuss some of the challenges associated with lambing our yearlings.
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Ep 162 This Past Week's Conferences
Today Cam and Tom talk about this past week's conferences that they both attended and spoke at and of course complain about the weather.
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Ep 161 Spring Breeding/ Fall Lambing
Today Cam and Tom discuss how Tom is getting ready to breed some ewes out of season for some fall lambs,
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Ep 160 How Soon Can I Start Grazing
Today Cam and Tom discuss how soon we can start to put sheep out on grass.
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Ep 159 How To Start A Sheep Flock
Today Cam and Tom talk about how you might start a sheep flock of your own.
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Ep 158 Out Of Season Breeding and Frost Seeding
Today Cam and Tom talk about Tom's upcoming breeding strategies and a little bit about frost seeding.
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Ep 157 Update To Lambing
Today Cam and Tom discuss the brutal cold weather struggles and some of Tom's lambing.
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Ep 156 Recap Of The ASI Convention
Today Cam and Tom are joined by Dr. Andrew Weaver to discuss their recent trip to ASI.
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Ep 155 The Ohio Grazing Conference
Today Cam and Tom talk about the Ohio Grazing Conference and of course the weather.
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Ep 154 Grazing Conference
Today Cam and Tom talk about recent and upcoming grazing conferences and how useful they can be.
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Ep 153 Results From The Preg Checks
Today Cam and Tom discuss the results from the preg scanning Cam did at Tom's farm.
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Ep 152 New Year's Resolutions
Today Cam and Tom talk about some new year's resolutions that they each have made for their operations this year.
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Ep 151 Get Ready For Lambing
Today Tom and Cam talk about getting ready for the upcoming lambing season.
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Ep 150 The 2025 Buckeye Shepherds Symposium
Today Cam and Tom recap the 2025 Buckeye Shepherds Symposium.
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Ep 149 Dr. Page And His Students
Today Cam and Tom discuss an interview with Dr. Page that they recorded during the National Ram Sale.
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Ep 148 Winter Woes
Today Cam and Tom complain about the weather.
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Ep 147 An Interview With Allison Borcher
Today Cam and Tom share an interview they recorded at the National Ram Sale with Allison Borcher.
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Ep 146 Ross Blattner From The NRS
Today Cam and Tom listen to an interview with Ross Blattner of Blattner Suffolks from The National Ram Sale in Utah.
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Ep 145 Taking Inventory
Today Cam and Tom discuss how important knowing your inventory can be. Knowing your inventory helps you to plan ahead.
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Ep 144 NRS With Alan Culham
Today Cam and Tom listen to the interview recorded at the National Ram Sale with Alan Culham.
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Ep 143 NRS Interview with David Scales
Today Cam and Tom listen to an interview that they recorded at the National Ram Sale this past October with David Scales.
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Ep 142 Catching Up
Today Cam and Tom spend some time just catching with each other.
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Ep 141 Breeding Decisions
Today Cam and Tom discuss their breeding decisions and why they made those decisions.
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Ep 140 Drought Stressed Pasture Management
Today Cam and Tom talk about how they are each handling there pastures after the drought they both went through.
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Ep 139 National Ram Sale
Today Cam and Tom are joined by Dr. Andrew Weaver to discuss the National Ram sale held in Heber City, Utah.
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Ep 138 Ram Sale and Warm Season Cover Crops
Today Cam and Tom are joined by Dr. Weaver to discuss the recent South West Va. ram sale and also to discuss how the warm season covers did at the N.C. State farm.
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Ep 137 The National Ram Sale
Today Cam and Tom are joined by Gavin Blonquist and Tom Boyer to discuss the upcoming National Ram Sale held in Heber City Utah.
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Ep 136 Ram Sales
Today Cam and Tom are joined by Dr Andrew Weaver to discuss 2 ram sales that are coming up.
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Ep 135 Winter Stockpile and Drought Stratagies
Today Cam and Tom talk about stock piled forages and what to do if the stock pile doesn't add up.
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Ep 134 Drought And The Ram Test
Today Cam and Tom talk about the drought, Cam's ram sale and the rams that they both have on the Va. ram test.
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Ep 133 An In-depth Discussion On EBVs
Today Tom and Cam dive deeper into the explanation of a few EBVs.
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Ep 132 Weaning Weights
Today Cam and Tom discuss weaning weights and what they look for in their flocks.
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Ep 131 Catching Up With Cam
Today Cam and Tom spend some time catching up and discuss some of what they hope to cover in future episodes.
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Ep 130 How Important Is Parasite Resistance To You?
Today Cam and Tom discuss the importance of parasite resistance in their sheep flocks and why they breed for it.
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Ep 129 News From The Lamb Summit
Today Cam and Tom discuss Cam's recent trip to the Lamb Summit and what Cam learned while there.
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Ep128 Flushing Ewes
Today Cam and Tom talk about two different types of flushing that can be done with sheep.
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Ep 127 Recap EAPK 2025
Today Cam and Tom are joined by Daniel Ulry from White Gate Fencing Supplies to discuss the 5th annual Eastern Alliance for Production Katahdins symposium and sale.
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Ep 126 Teaser Rams
Today Cam and Tom are joined by Dr.Andrew Weaver to discuss the use of teaser rams.
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Ep 125 How Do You Handle Parasites
Today Cam and Tom talk about how they handle parasites in their own flocks.
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Ep 124 Complaining About The Weather
Today Cam and Tom discuss the weather related issues they both are facing on there own farms.
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Ep 123 Cross Breeding
Today Cam and Tom are joined by Dr. Andrew Weaver to discuss how cross breeding may help your commercial flock.
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Ep 122 Ram Sales And New Data
Today Cam and Tom talk about upcoming sales and the EAPK symposium along with some new data info that just arrived for Tom's flock.
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Ep 121 Selecting Rams
Today Cam and Tom talk about traveling to Glade Springs Va. to deliver rams to the ram test and how they select rams for both the test and for their own breeding.
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A podcast with Big Tom Perkins and Dr. Camren Maierle. We are just two guys who raise Katahdin sheep and love to talk about anything that has to do with raising sheep. We hope that you will find this educational, informative and bit fun.
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