Sheep
Sheep farming has always been a core industry in New
Zealand. From 1856 to 1987, sheep farming was the most
important agricultural industry in New Zealand - in fact, wool was
the country's single most valuable export for 89 of the 112 years
between 1856 and 1967. The combined income from wool and sheep meat
dominated New Zealand's agricultural earnings from the mid-1880s
until the late 1980s.
Currently there are 34.2m sheep in New Zealand, the lowest
population in over 60 years, the reduction is the result of
increased land used for dairying. There are approximately 19
different sheep breeds farmed in New Zealand, made up of:
Borderdale, Border Leicester, Corriedale, Dorper, Dorset Down,
Drysdale, East Friesian, English Leicester, Finnsheep, Hampshire,
Lincoln, Oxford, Poll Dorset, Polwarth, Ryeland, Shropshire, South
Suffolk, Suffolk and Texel.
Find out more:
Flystrike
Lice
Vaccine
Metabolics
Vitamins & Trace
Elements
Worms
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Zapp Encore
Zapp Encore is the new combination pour-on for sheep that provides fast knockdown and long-term control of lice and flystrike.
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