This week Mark chats with Daniel Wheeler, sheep scanner and sheep fanatic.
Daniel has scanned over 6.5 million sheep in his time as a scanner, a career path Daniel was never intending on taking. After getting off at the wrong tube stop on his OE in London, Daniel decided to take up a position of sheep scanning assistant up in Scotland. The rest is history.

Scanning so many sheep across the world has given Daniel a chance to see many different farming systems and notice patterns in success. "Doing the simple stuff right", seems to be key according to Dan.  It's allowed him to remove the mental glass ceiling because he's seen what can be done on farms first hand.

Daniel also breeds his own sheep which are a range of shedders and high fertility breeds. He owned his first stud Merinos at the age of 15 and developed an interest in genetics, a passion that came before scanning was on his radar. He now breeds Finnsheep, Meatmaster, Texel  and Luings with a current breeding focus being low-input, high output. Daniel is also experimenting with a small flock of shedding sheep.

Daniel is also on the committee of the Low Input CPT, and discusses the recent work they're doing and some of the interesting findings that have come up, like naturally docked tails in a Coopworth.


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