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Sheep
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Woolly jumpers - blast from past
Thursday, 15 December 2011
Arapawa sheep are an interesting reminder of our wild – and woolly – past; of a time when overseas travel was more than just a matter of hopping aboard a plane to wherever you fancy.
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Care of sheep - shear hard work
Thursday, 15 December 2011
After years in the doldrums, suddenly sheep are flavour du jour again. Although not currently a large proportion of a sheep’s worth, wool does keep growing, and removing it is a necessary evil, as Rebecca Glover found out.
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WILD, WOOLY, WONDERFUL
Monday, 18 October 2010
Sue Scott fully acknowledges that sheep need care, and unless looked after diligently can be a lot of trouble.
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Suffolks are canny buying
Monday, 23 November 2009
Debbie Holmes and her husband Brian have been breeding Suffolk sheep for 35 years.
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Wonderful woolly Wiltshires
Monday, 23 November 2009
Recently Bev Trowbridge took some of her stud flock of Wiltshire horn sheep to a local show.
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Choosing the right fleece
Friday, 14 August 2009
What do you look for when you are considering sheep? Rural Living recently asked this question of Lisa Clapperton, who in addition to running a native nursery has been breeding coloured sheep for several years.
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Spinning true yarns on coloured sheep
Friday, 14 August 2009
One of the most familiar items in large tracts of the NZ country is that of flocks of sheep.
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The English Leicester
Monday, 16 February 2009
The Leicester Longwool is perhaps the most historically significant of all sheep breeds in its British homeland, and it is certainly the most famous of the longwools.
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Definitely different Damara
Monday, 16 February 2009
Damara sheep are typically alert, lively, long-legged animals with large deep bodies, short hair varying from black, brown, white or a combinations of these. A wedge shaped tail extends below the hock. Damaras store body fat utilised in hard times with minimal body fat distribution.
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Sheep with 'Finnesse'
Monday, 16 February 2009
The Finnsheep is an ancient breed, native to Finland, also known by the names of Finnish Landrace or Finn. It is one of several North European short-tailed Landrace breeds.
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Choosing cute cheviots
Monday, 16 February 2009
The first Cheviots imported from Scotland arrived in New Zealand in 1845 but it wasn’t until later in the century that any significant quantity was imported.
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Seeing black and white
Wednesday, 20 August 2008
Most sheep breeds carry a coloured gene which shows up occassionally. In New Zealand, high-quality coloured sheep are generally kept for their wool, which has both commercial and handcraft uses.
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Baa Baa Black Sheep
Wednesday, 20 August 2008
Basic characteristics of breeds that are commonly available among coloured sheep in New Zealand.
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Crazy about colour
Wednesday, 20 August 2008
As the country was being battered by the flurry of July storms, Karen Barr of Heatherfield Polwarths, just out of Waiuku, was also coping with a flurry of lambs. Coloured lambs.
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Shedding their problems
Wednesday, 20 February 2008
Dorpers originated from a crossing of the Blackheaded Persian and the Dorset Horn. The Dorper (blackhead) is a direct descendent of that original cross while the White Dorper was stabilized with the infusion of the African Van Rooy breed.
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