Sheep Heaven
The Small Block Holders Guide to Sheep Farming
Instead of just talking to the experts, the Country Life team is getting its hands dirty and is off buying sheep.
Sheep get a bad rap these days - they're lots of work and the wool's worth nothing. Viewing it from a highly technical view point Susan Murray wants to know if they'll make her scruffy rough paddock around the house look like a nicely mown lawn and will she have lamb to eat for Christmas.
With this in mind, she bought 10, five year old romney/finn ewes from a hill country station near Whatawhata in Waikato and is running them on her large lifestyle block near Hamilton.
Latest Episode
- Shearing Arahi
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Dr Clive Dalton hand clips Arahi the ewe hogget. How many beanies will her two and a half kilo fleece make? The lovely looking wool is off to Kane Carding in Wairarapa and will be spun and knitted by two classic crafty women in Waikato. (6′15″)
See a gallery of images showing a blow by blow account of of hand shearing a ewe.
Shearing Arahi
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Episodes
- 1. Meat the Sheep
- 2. Baaad Medicine
- 3. Science of the Lambs
- 4. Makin' Woolly
- 5. New Yards
- 6. How Many of Ewes?
- 7. Baaabies
- 8. Shorn
- 9. Sell the Wool
- 10. Baa Baa Baa
- 11. How Are Ewes?
- 12. Autopsy
- 13. Lamb of the Rings
- 14. Offspring Sale
- 15. Naming the Flock
- 16. Netball Competition
- 17. Off with the wool
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