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Hello, my name is Darryl Brown. I work on a family-owned beef and sheep farm

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near Newton-Stuet

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in Dunfries and Galloway. I'm originally from Berkshire as the accent gives

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that away,

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but my family are up in the Far North of Scotland. I've been working here on

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the farm

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for five years. This is my fifth lamb in. So this is the farm, it's 500 acres,

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half of

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which is tidal salt marsh, which comes with its unique challenges. We can't gra

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ze it

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for a good part of the year, but it's fantastic for the sheep. We can produce a

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really unique

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product, salt marsh lamb from that. On the farm we've got just over 500

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commercial

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use, mix of Texan meals and Scotch meals. We've also got a large flock of Dutch

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spotted,

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pedigree Dutch spotted, which are the in breed at the minute. As I was saying,

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this is my

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fifth year lambing. We've just finished lambing in 2023. We've only got three h

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ogs left.

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This year we've been using Aqualam from Natural Stock Care. A little bit of

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background, we've

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always had a bit of a problem with watery mouth, particularly in the shed, just

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because

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of the numbers of sheep coming through and you haven't got as many people as

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you'd

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like to be mucking out pens. We've always tried to manage the sheep with good

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hygiene

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in mind, mucking out and using lime, but because of the sheer numbers of sheep

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coming

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through the shed and it's also been a really wet year this year, we would

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normally have

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a problem with watery mouth. We used to use specked ham to manage that, but

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obviously

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that's gone off the market. So this year we've replaced specked ham with Aqual

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am and that's

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definitely helped prevent watery mouth this year. We've actually had a hand on

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heart,

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no cases of watery mouth at all this year, so that's remarkable for us and we

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've definitely

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saved lambs because of it. This year we've also been using keto energy, which

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is obviously

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a twin lamb drench. In the past we've always had problems getting used that

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have gone down

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with twin lamb back on their feet and eating, which is the key thing. We used

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to just use

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calcium, subcutaneous calcium and a bit of propylene glycol, but it would very

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rarely

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work. So I was keen to see how the keto energy would work and it's done the job

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this year.

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Two doses, 24 hours apart and they're back off on their feet and they're eating

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, which

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is the most important thing. And yeah, we had six years go down with it this

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year and

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they managed to get five back on their feet and they've gone out and they've

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gone on to lamb

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and they've got lambs at foot. So yeah, that's worked really well for us and it

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's definitely

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reduced to you losses. Obviously with sheep farming, margins are really tight

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and we want to try and

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minimise our losses both on the use side and on the lamb side. So using the two

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products,

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the keto energy and the Aqualam, we've definitely saved using lambs this year

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and that's fantastic

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for our margins and it's great for the farm. I mean between the two products,

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between the keto

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energy and the Aqualam, we've definitely saved, you know, use and lambs. So I'd

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highly recommend

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both of them and we'll definitely be using them for next year and years to come

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