David Lindner was looking for a product such as Thermoskin and was asked: Are you happy with Thermoskin, would you use it again?

"Yes. We were really impressed after using Thermoskin for the first time. My brother was watching the stock as we were going past and a couple of observations of what we believe normally happens quite often in these cold mornings. One morning we had -7 and another one -5 and his observations were that we just didn’t see the sheep huddled behind bushes like we usually do, trying to get on one side of the bush to get out of the breeze. A couple of mornings we had a light shower of rain, maybe a mil or two if we are lucky, but the sheep were out grazing and that was a few days off shears which is really good because they just weren’t huddled behind a bush again. They would usually be huddled behind a bush first thing in the morning, you would see them there huddled up and tucked up for hours and we didn’t see as much of that and even with those few showers during the day they didn’t go back and hide in the scrub they actually came out and tried to go grazing. And the one that really got us – I think it was that morning of -7, my brother went out and his dogs were absolutely frozen, one of them was struggling to walk and they were shivering. We had a little mob of wethers which were about 4 days off shears in a small holding paddock next to his house and when he drove past them on his way out they stood up from behind the bush and looked at him. They were quite happy. He said it was just astounding to see that they weren’t suffering. We were really impressed." 

Listen to David talking about it here

We had a chat with David to find out more about his experience and asked him to give us an understanding of his sheep, conditions and shearing:

We also asked him if he had experienced losses or challenges in the past from shearing in the cold. ”Yes, with ewes going over the board 4-6 weeks before lambing we get them in quick and get them out quick so we walk all our sheep into the shearing shed and everything gets trucked out that day to their paddocks to try and reduce the amount of stress. You get a really cold night 3-4 degrees and even minus within those first few days off shears, it really knocks them around. They sit behind a bush and huddle and don’t get going especially when they are that little bit lighter, they haven’t got that bit of fat coverage to keep them going. We have experienced losing a few overnight but the worst occasion was back in the early ‘90s when we had a change come in, cold driving rain and we lost 2 and a half thousand overnight. Something that no-one could have managed as sheep 6 weeks and more off shears perished, but it puts that fear in the back of your mind of what can I do better? In these days and now with the value of livestock we’ve got to try and do something to try and minimize those sorts of losses.”