Mother and daughter team, Carolyn and Dallas Davidson, can tell you the name of almost everyone of their 400 head of sheep.
If it wasn't obvious enough, it's because, well, they love their sheep.
Originally from Longreach, Carolyn and her husband Lynn started to produce sheep cheese as a "retirement hobby" in 2005, today the Towri Sheep Cheeses dairy is a full time job for both her and her daughter.
And business could not be better, selling every ounce of cheese they make, while venturing into new products like their cleverly branded yoghurt, "Eweghurt".
Dallas said that a the been the beneficiary of a silver-lining amid the pandemic, with sheep cheese offering a plethora of health benefits.
"Consumers seem much more health conscious, we're hearing them tell us about the benefits from sheep cheese," Dallas said.
Sheep milk boasts calcium levels two times the amount found in cow milk and can contain three times more protein.
Carolyn said that the health benefits comes at a cost for production, with ten litres of sheep milk required to create one kilo of cheese.
"You only get a litre of a sheep per milking, where as you'd get a 30 out of a cow," she said.
"In an ideal world, we would charge three times as much as cow cheese but we can't do that, so we make a good product that we know will be purchased."
When they first established their dairy, Carolyn said cow dairy was "never an option".
"I love sheep, it was always going to be sheep," she said.
"It gave us a point of difference and the health benefits were something I wanted to advocate."
"Plenty of people milk cows and goats, doing something niche has allowed us to be very lucky compared to other dairy producers, we sell as much as we make despite the cost."
The thing that irks Carolyn and Dallas more than anything else, is if someone suggests sheep might be "dumb".
"That is as far away from the truth as possible," Carolyn exclaimed.
"They're like mini MacGyver's," echoed Dallas.
Towri exclusively breed Awassi sheep, a breed that goes back to 1500bc and is more likely to be found in the desert's of the Middle East.
"We had trialled a few different sheep, and they just don't have the right temperament," Carolyn said.
"The Awassi love humans, and we love them."
"They've were the partners of nomads and Bedouins for thousands of years and they've generationally created relationships with humans."
Aside from being friendly, the Awassi have natural parasite and disease resistance and can endure extreme heat and drought.
"When we were facing drought conditions, we needed to choose what to destock between our cattle and sheep, and it was always going to be cattle," Carolyn said.
"The Awassi store fat in their tails and are an animal you can rely on during drought conditions."
Adding to their business, Towri Sheep Cheeses credit the Scenic Rim's Eat Local Week.
Eat Local Week celebrates all producers in the region and encourages them to work together and advocate good food.
Towri Sheep Cheeses shop carries everything from goat milk soap, to organic coffee beans, all made by local producers.
"Eat Local has been great, it's really encouraged local producers to work together and it has put the Scenic Rim on the map for local foodies," Dallas said.
"We've built on our relationships with other producers and continue to collaborate with each other and help where we can.
