Sheep processor Roger Fletcher talks animal welfare | December 15, 2023 | Farmonline - video Dailymotion

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Dubbo based processor Roger Fletcher talks about how animal welfare is part and parcel of the sheep industry.

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00:00 [Music plays]

00:06 I'm Roger Fletcher from Fletcher International.

00:08 We run from farms to the transport to overseas through the abattoirs

00:16 and we follow the full chain right through

00:19 and we're proud of our achievements.

00:23 Animal welfare is part of a journey of all what we do

00:28 from our pharmaceuticals through to better yards, better sheds on farms,

00:35 looking at better things to manage our livestock in.

00:40 The transport industry has done a phenomenal job of improving theirs,

00:44 better trucks, better handling.

00:49 Abattoirs, we've got to the major, now it's more larger abattoirs

00:54 and part of the animal welfare, you know, if you're bigger

00:59 you can do a better job of looking after animals.

01:02 In animal welfare, I think we're above most countries in the world

01:05 and I'm proud of what we've done.

01:08 I think, you know, we're fortunate enough to see everyone else in the world

01:12 and, you know, we debate to try and help them too

01:15 and people come out here looking at our procedures

01:18 to try and improve their side

01:21 and that's one thing Australian farmers and us as processors, we do.

01:25 Animal welfare and pain relief, I think it's just a no-brainer of it.

01:30 I was in Sydney when I first seen Trisolvent

01:33 and it was out at someone's place and I looked and they had some movies

01:38 where they'd done it and a few lambs and things

01:41 and I just said, "This is a no-brainer."

01:44 And we were milking sheep and a couple of weeks after

01:47 and I said, "Look, where can I get it?"

01:49 And we'd done it because I was convinced there

01:53 and I don't think I've ever been to one of those sorts of things in Sydney

01:57 that would have been able to convince me so easily

02:00 because there was nothing to talk about.

02:02 It was just common sense.

02:05 Trisolvent works straight away and, you know, the animals,

02:08 when they were mules, they went out and started eating grass

02:12 and they were contented.

02:15 And it was healed up in a few days

02:18 and I think it was one of the greater vengeance, you know,

02:21 of animal welfare we've done.

02:24 Trisolvent's now been around long enough

02:27 where virtually every neighbour or everyone next door has used it.

02:31 And the best one, it's like our customers with meat.

02:35 The best people to promote my product is my customers

02:39 and when they see someone next door that's done it

02:42 and what returns showed on their livestock,

02:46 that's all you've got to do.

02:49 Self-promotion, very simple.

02:51 And it's the best promotion.

Sheep processor Roger Fletcher talks animal welfare | December 15, 2023 | Farmonline

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