Sheeps

[RETIRED]

...well, guess the answer to the original question is going to go unanswered, but as an outsider, I've gotten a pretty good education on the logistics of tending sheep and cattle by the use of traditional and not so traditional methods. Horses, bikes, dogs, graziers seem to be the most important pieces to the puzzle depending on which part of the country your in.
Personally I would opt for a helicopter to get the job done.

They do on the bigger stations. Just another bit for the equation.

[Howdya do that]

They also use small planes Ed but the dogs cant hear you very well

[Cliff Rogers]

Helicopters are good for spotting sheep but a bit of a waste of time for mustering... sheep are just too bloody stupid.

Helicopters work well for cattle.

My brother had a gyrocopter for a while, he would go up with a handheld 2 way & call the blokes on the ground to let them know where the mobs were.

He was a bit like me with my tractor, he rolled it on takeoff, stacked it into a turkey bush & parked it on the whirly bit.

[Lignin]

Ed,
If you are asking which race of people, Aussie, or Paddy, make the best shepherds, you are asking us to compare two completely different management regimes, and ,in most cases, two destinctly different sheep types.
Australian sheep, mostly the Merino, are grown for their wool, generally have only one lamb at a time, and ,apart from routine shearing, crutching and drenching, are pretty much left to their own devices.
Irish (or British) bred sheep are either dual purpose breeds, i.e bred for meat and fibre, or are meat sheep.They frequently have twins or triplets, and one breed, the Finnish Landrace, almost has a litter-up to five lambs (and, as ewes have only two teats, there often is "No tit for Tatt)
Because Northern hemisphere flocks are small c.f. Antipodean ones, and the areas of farms are minute, it is easy for a shepherd to see his flock on an almost daily basis, whereas an Aussie, on either a motor-bike or a horse, frequently only sees his sheep a few times a year.
I worked as a vet in UK, and was frequently callede upon to do caesarians, or pull lambs, but was never asked to do the same at home.Most shepherds in UK house their lambing ewes and watch over them like precious daughters.
Pommie mum sheep are much more prone to metabolic disorders because of their larger broods, but with the increasing popularity of exotic breeds on boutique farm, I predict that some of the newer vet graduates will have to bone up on sheep diseases a bit more.
To put things a bit more in perspective for you, when I began jackerooing in the 1960s, I workrd on a prop[erty with 25 THOUSAND breeding ewes, and we had a good year if we marked 70% lambs.When i worked in UK, a large flock of sheep in the south of England, was 2 HUNDRED ewes.A BAD season was if they marled LESS THAN 150% lambs.A figure closer to 200% was desirable.
So, in answer to your original question, it's horses (Yes, or bloody bikes) for courses, but I suggest that it is "Each to his own".

For our foreign friends, a jackeroo (or jillaroo, depending on gender) was a trainee station, sorry, farm, manager.The breed is now largely extinct.

Hope that helps.

[Ed Reiss]

They also use small planes Ed but the dogs cant hear you very well

...get 'em walkie-talkies

Thanks, Lignin....I learned something today