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[Tim W]

Do shedding sheep need less fly strike protection products?

Yes --- but that doesn't mean zero use
Its all risk dependent

 

[Tim W]

I’m pretty sure @yellow belly won’t be too arsed about wool...
@yellowbelly on the other hand...

Opps ---corrected

 

[Frodo]

Good question and I must admit i haven't done a COP for wool for a long time (but i bet there aren't many wool farmers that could tell you their COP?)
Last time i did this was 2012...using figures from AHDB , i reckoned then that:
Costs of harvesting and protecting the fleece was £3.90/ewe
Value of wool that year was £1.19/ewe
Then you have to try to sort ;
1) the costs involved in growing excess wool (this requires energy/food just like meat production does)
I don’t know quite how to do this practically as there are few estimates for energy conversion of grass to wool
2) adding in the extra management associated with wool and the figure goes up

I

Even more complicated by fact woolly sheep must use less energy on a cold night.

 

[neilo]

Even more complicated by fact woolly sheep must use less energy on a cold night.

I wouldn't be too sure. They still have a thick coat (which clearly takes energy & protein to grow too).

 

[Tim W]

I wouldn't be too sure. They still have a thick coat (which clearly takes energy & protein to grow too).

It is complicated & largely undocumented but remember that sheep naturally have a short fleece that they shed gradually over a season
Man has bred excess wool onto them because it paid (once upon a time)
Shedders self regulate their temperature according to what they need not what we think they need
There are commercial shedders in a variety of climates from Inverness to Romney marsh and all points in between
From high in the Alps & on the Canadian prairie to Barbados they cope with a variety of conditions

 

[ollie989898]

Even more complicated by fact woolly sheep must use less energy on a cold night.

Ruminants that have plenty to eat generate a lot of excess heat because of the heat created from the ship-load of metabolism going on in the rumen. That is how they are able to stick cold temperatures. Being too hot is the bigger issue.

 

[Sid]

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