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Ontario Assembly

43rd Parl. 1st Sess.
February 20, 2024 10:15AM
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Specializes—that’s the word I’m looking for. I’m using up so much of my own air in here that—no, anyway.

Okay. They specialize in—they have a unique flock of sheep: a pathogen-free flock of sheep. And that’s really important, because the sheep—okay. We already talked about the horses.

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Anyway, I’m going to quote him. He has got a beautiful farm. I think his son runs most of it now, but it’s a very well-run farm, very progressive. He also has sheep. We were touring through the barns—and I know nothing about sheep. I know a lot about cows; I know nothing about sheep. There was one sheep in the corner away from the rest of the flock, and I said, “Craig, I think you’ve got a sick sheep.” He said, “No, there’s no such thing as a sick sheep. There’s either a healthy sheep or a dead sheep. There’s no such thing.”

With cattle, if you get cattle that are big enough, substantial enough, if they get something and if you help them, they can work their way through it; sheep, not so much. Sheep are small. That’s why it’s really important to have a pathogen-free flock: because if a sheep disease hits, you need to be able to test what the sick sheep have that the clean sheep don’t. It’s much more scientific than this, but that’s why it’s important to have a pathogen-free flock of sheep.

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