Sheep certainly are hard work if you're not
set up in the right way
there's a lot of equipment out there  to make
sheep handling a lot easier and more efficient.
My name’s Andrew Slade and we
farm in Mount Barker.
We run five and a half thousand breeding ewes
and 700 breeding cattle in a mixed livestock and cropping enterprise.
Previously we were jetting with a fire unit
and getting limited control maximum control period was
around six weeks, the only other option was
to use click which was considerably more expensive.
We purchase the Electro Dip six years ago
we saw the Electro Dip as a more cost effective
and productive solution we were able to get up
to12 weeks control and not have to treat the ewes as
often and at a lot more cost effective rate.
Having that 12 week protection period we've gone
from treating at a minimum 2 to 3 times a year
back to once.
Probably halved the amount of
labour needed to treat our ewes.
We apply two Litres of water per ewe the mix is a
two litres of Vetrazin per thousand litres of water.
We can put through upwards of 1500 ewes an hour
and get effective control.
The key element of the Electro Dip is the
high pressure pump which delivers constant pressure
about 120 psi or whatever rate you set it at.
And you get the penetration down to the skin.
The sheep run through and trip out the
seeing eye, which is behind this little bit of glass here
and that triggers jets that come from underneath
and jets from the top and also jets on the side.
There are a number of people that hire Electric
Dips or similar systems so that maybe an option
but the effectiveness is vastly greater than
what you'd get using the fire unit to jet.
I'm Peter Rowe I'm an agricultural economist
with over 20 years experience and I was approached
by the Department of agriculture and food
to look into the economics
of the Slades Electro Dip Jetting Machine.
It was costing the Slades about $13,000 a
year for fly control.
They've managed to reduce that down
to $5000 a year a saving of about $8000 a year.
The system cost $14,000 to buy and across 10 years
will save them about $4.10
for each dollar  they've invested.
The payback period is just over two years.
The Electro Dip is an invaluable piece of
equipment on our sheep operation
so we wouldn't trade it
for any other system that's out there at the moment.
The Department of agriculture and food WA,
through its Sheep Industry Business Innovation
project, made possible by Royalties for Regions
is supporting and sharing new technologies
in the sheep industry.
This is improving labour efficiency
in the sector and making it easier all round,
to run sheep.
