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The Sheep Geeks
Liz Genever and Nerys Wright
Frequency: 1 episode/30d. Total Eps: 19
Nerys Wright is an independent sheep consultant who loves talking about parasites and body condition score.
Liz Genever is an independent sheep consultant who loves talking about grass, forage and soil, and body condition score.
Together they are the sheep geeks. This podcast series launched October 2024. Liz and Nerys will be interviewing a range of sheep farmers, consultants, vets and academics from the UK and any other countries who have sheep.
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Episode 19: Tom Bird talking about his high input, high output system and being FW Sheep Farmer of the Year
mercredi 22 avril 2026 • Duration 58:45
Tom Bird farms with his dad in south Derbyshire. They run sheep and also have combinable crops. He is the current Farmers Weekly Sheep Farmer of the Year and also involved in the OptiEwe programme with Liz and Nerys.
He talks through his system of indoor lambing mule ewes and the use of creep to get the lambs away as soon as possible to balance labour requirements on the mixed farm.
Links mentioned:
To enter or nominate people for the award, go to https://www.fwi.co.uk/sp/events/farmers-weekly-awards
Dr Liz Genever is a farmer, consultant and co-founder of Carbon Calling CIC.
Dr Nerys Wright is a sheep consultant and technical lead for SCOPS.
Podcast Disclaimer:
The views and information shared in this podcast are for general guidance only and do not constitute professional advice. The Sheep Geeks make no guarantees about the accuracy or completeness of the content. Always consult your own vet or advisor before making changes to your animal health or farm management practices. Any reliance on the information is at your own risk. The views expressed by guests are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of The Sheep Geeks.
Episode 18: PROFESSOR Jennifer Duncan talking about joint ill and its prevention and treatment
lundi 9 mars 2026 • Duration 53:54
Jennifer Duncan is a Professor of Sheep Health and Welfare at University of Liverpool. She has been involved with a recent project exploring joint ill in young lambs in more details, and this podcast covers the main findings of that project. We also touch on her interests on Schmallenberg virus and contagious ovine digital dermatitis.
She teaches vet students animal welfare and sheep veterinary medicine. Her research focuses on sheep lameness, neonatal lamb diseases and sheep welfare. She co-ordinates post-graduate veterinary modules in sheep medicine as part of the Certificate in Advanced Veterinary Practice courses at Liverpool https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/vets/cpd/certavp/production-animal/sheep/
Links mentioned:
Paper link - https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3189525/
AHDB link - https://ahdb.org.uk/knowledge-library/joint-ill-in-lambs
Liverpool's work on CODD - https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/infection-veterinary-and-ecological-sciences/research/groups/codd/
Dr Liz Genever is a farmer, consultant and co-founder of Carbon Calling CIC.
Dr Nerys Wright is a sheep consultant and technical lead for SCOPS.
Podcast Disclaimer:
The views and information shared in this podcast are for general guidance only and do not constitute professional advice. The Sheep Geeks make no guarantees about the accuracy or completeness of the content. Always consult your own vet or advisor before making changes to your animal health or farm management practices. Any reliance on the information is at your own risk. The views expressed by guests are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of The Sheep Geeks.
Episode 9: Talking to Kevin Harrison about getting ready for change, saxophones and sheep
dimanche 13 juillet 2025 • Duration 01:03:37
Kevin Harrison is a farm manager on a sheep and arable farm near Bath. He spends time representing the UK sheep industry through the positions of Policy and Technical Chairman for the National Sheep Association (NSA), and Chairman of SCOPS - Sustainable Control of Parasite in Sheep. He is also a member of the Register of Sheep Advisers, and has been seen helping Jeremy on Clarkson's Farm! He is not a bad sax player either, and plays with the Harlem Rhythm Cats.
We talk about how he has been changing the flock from an intensive mule based system to a outdoor lambing system with Exlanas.
Links mentioned:
-https://www.scops.org.uk/
- https://www.facebook.com/harlemrhythmcats/?locale=en_GB
- https://www.eastofengland.org.uk/scholars/
Dr Liz Genever is a farmer, consultant and co-founder of Carbon Calling CIC.
Dr Nerys Wright is a sheep consultant and technical lead for SCOPS.
Podcast Disclaimer:
The views and information shared in this podcast are for general guidance only and do not constitute professional advice. The Sheep Geeks make no guarantees about the accuracy or completeness of the content. Always consult your own vet or advisor before making changes to your animal health or farm management practices. Any reliance on the information is at your own risk. The views expressed by guests are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of The Sheep Geeks.
Episode 8: Talking to Awal Fuselini about halal, education and meat consumption
jeudi 19 juin 2025 • Duration 50:27
Dr Awal Fuselini is AHDB's Halal sector senior manager and also a 2025 Nuffield Scholar. He shares his knowledge about the Halal market in the UK and in other countries. We discuss stun and non-stun options for Halal slaughterings, and also the importance of people understanding more about the production systems. Maybe not one to listen to if you, or someone who is listening with you, is of a sensitive disposition.
Plus the first time we use our new standard question - "what is your first memory of sheep?"
Links mentioned:
- Awal’s podcast link from apple https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-halal-food-podcast/id1611924158
- Opportunities in halal | AHDB
- Carbon Calling | Regenerative farming conference
Dr Liz Genever is a farmer, consultant and co-founder of Carbon Calling CIC.
Dr Nerys Wright is a sheep consultant and technical lead for SCOPS.
Podcast Disclaimer:
The views and information shared in this podcast are for general guidance only and do not constitute professional advice. The Sheep Geeks make no guarantees about the accuracy or completeness of the content. Always consult your own vet or advisor before making changes to your animal health or farm management practices. Any reliance on the information is at your own risk. The views expressed by guests are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of The Sheep Geeks.
Episode 7: Talking to David and Cora Cooper about sheep and nature recovery
dimanche 25 mai 2025 • Duration 01:12:19
David and Cora Cooper are sheep farmers from Ayrshire. They have made significant changes to their system over the last few years to reduce costs and inputs. They are using mob grazing to drive nature recovery on their farm.
In this podcast we talk about the changes they had made, the focus on low input sheep and their passion for regenerating their land.
Dr Liz Genever is a farmer, consultant and co-founder of Carbon Calling CIC.
Dr Nerys Wright is a sheep consultant and technical lead for SCOPS.
Episode 6: Talking to Dave Cross about his farming system in Norfolk and a bit about chickens
dimanche 20 avril 2025 • Duration 53:32
Dave Cross is a mixed farmer in Norfolk with sheep, beef, arable and layers. He farms within a family partnership. He has been very strategic with the use of sustainable farming incentive (SFI) to transform their arable fields into lanes of herbal leys. He has been an AHDB monitor farm for the last four years.
In this podcast we talk about the changes he has made to his farming systems in the last few years and his plans for the future. Nerys asks a question about beef, which is very rare.
Links
Select tickets – Carbon Calling 2025 – Sleastonhow, Kirkby Thore, Penrith
SCOPS | Sustainable Control of Parasites in Sheep
Dr Liz Genever is a farmer, consultant and co-founder of Carbon Calling CIC.
Dr Nerys Wright is a sheep consultant and technical lead for SCOPS.
Episode 5: Talking to Dr Suzanne Rowe about breeding for reduced methane production
mercredi 19 mars 2025 • Duration 51:20
Dr Suzanne Rowe is a geneticist at AgResearch in New Zealand, and is passionate about improving profitability and sustainability of global livestock systems using genomic technology. She presented at Sheep Breeders Round Table in November 2024 on breeding for methane reduction in sheep.
In this podcast she talks about the work that is being done on collecting phenotypes for methane production in the New Zealand, plus work being done in Ireland and the UK.
Links
Presentation from SBRT - PowerPoint Presentation
Elanco link Are you a farmer wanting to become a star in the sheep world
Bluetongue Virus - Ruminant Health & Welfare
Dr Liz Genever is a farmer, consultant and co-founder of Carbon Calling CIC.
Dr Nerys Wright is a sheep consultant and technical lead for SCOPS.
Episode 4: Talking to Dr Fiona Lovatt about protecting young lambs from watery mouth
mercredi 19 février 2025 • Duration 51:47
Dr Fiona Lovatt is a vet and consultant, and founder of Flock Health Limited. She has been heavily involved in reducing antibiotic use in the sheep sector. She is passionate about improving the relationship between farmers and their vets.
In this podcast she talks about a project she did with NoBacz Navel - a non-antibiotic barrier. It was compared against iodine for treating navels in young lambs. They also compared dipping versus spraying, and looked at mortality and growth rates.
Links
Dr Liz Genever is a farmer, consultant and co-founder of Carbon Calling CIC.
Dr Nerys Wright is a sheep consultant and technical lead for SCOPS.
Episode 3: Talking to Michael Blanche about lean management, sheep and lots of random things
lundi 20 janvier 2025 • Duration 01:19:18
Michael Blanche is a sheep and cattle farmer from Perth in Scotland. He is also the genius behind the Pasture Pod podcast.
We talk about how he is trying to build lean management techniques into his daily habits to target his weaker areas - organisation and order!!
He is passionate about low input systems and he talks us through the areas he focuses on and how he selects functional sheep.
We also cover covert filming in Travelodges, grazing groups, regenerative ag, anti-farmer agenda, grazing systems and body condition scores.
Links:
Episode 2: Talking to Katie Evans about sheep and other things from her trip to Oz
mardi 26 novembre 2024 • Duration 40:39
Katie Evans is a sheep and beef farmer from Norfolk. She was sponsored to attended the Global Sheep Forum's Next Gen programme and has recently returned from a trip to Australia.
We talked through the best bits of the trip and also a bit about her system at home.
Bear with us, we are still warming up to this podcast life.
Links:
https://www.globalsheepforum.com/2024nextgencohort
https://nationalsheep.org.uk/
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