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Shrek’s pad - "Sheep Station NZ" taster 08
www.oldpond.com prices ofDVD £19.95 in the UK ..... 22.95 euros ..... $ 34.95 US dollars ...... $27.95 Aus dollars.... from here www.herding-dog-training-border-collie-sheepdog-dvd.com Amazon will also be selling it Sheep Station NZ Two-disk DVD PAL format Dylan Winter Released 2009 Running time approx 3 hours plus extras DVD £19.95 inc VAT ISBN 978-1-906853-10-5 Dylan spent three months in New Zealand recording a wide range of sheep farms and the background to them. Most of New Zealand gets plenty of rain its a good place to grow grass. Where you can grow grass you can grow sheep, and on one station in this DVD they run 40000 ewes, not to mention 1500 cows and 4000 deer hinds. The breed names will be familiar to British viewers Romneys, Merinos and the Romney x Cheviots known as Perendales. Some of the sheep management will be less familiar, with mustering by huntaways or helicopter, fast-moving tailing crews and a complete lack of lambing sheds. Dylan digs under the colourful surface of a variety of sheep enterprises from all parts of New Zealand. He explores the change in the meat/wool price, the part cattle play on sheep farms, the continuing importance of the UK Christmas lamb market and how the Kiwis have coped with the ending of their special relationship. Dylan sets the farming scene in its context with some of the most wonderful scenery you will ever see, and includes features on livestock markets and transport, threats to indigenous flora and wildlife, how to ...
Video Length: 189
Date Found: June 27, 2011
Date Produced: October 15, 2009
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