Douglas Roberts shares how the relentless drought has forced him to feed sheep for 18 months straight and cut stock numbers in half.
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00:00I think everyone's sick of feeding sheep, yeah, because it's been a non-stop, normally it's five or six or seven months a year, whereas it's been non-stop for nearly 18 months. There just hasn't been that great from feeding and it's just the time commitment has taken away from getting all the other jobs done too, so we're behind on everything else. And everything else costs a lot of money as well as the feeding costs a lot of money.
00:23Rain was almost mirroring, and I could see in spring that it was just going to be a dust bowl and no feed, so the numbers go over hard.