THE RYELAND SHEEP
A brochure issued by the Ryeland Sheep Society of New Zealand shows that the breed was first introduced into New Zealand during 1901 when two rams for Dal gety and Company, Ltd., and two rams and five ewes for Mr W. P. Kellock were fanported into Canterbury. “So well was this breed adapted to the special requirements of sheep farming
in New Zealand that if the Government had not restricted all livestock imports from overseas the Ryeland sheep might now have been the most popular breed in the Dominion,” observes the brochure.
The pamphlet quotes a killing sheet, for what it desecribes as an average farm in Canterbury, showing the results that can be obtained
using Ryeland rams as sires for fat lambs. Out of 651 lambs available for sale, 83 per cent or 544 were drafted as fat when only a little more than 10 weeks old at an average of 29.311 b, with only 21 per cent grading as seconds’. The Ryeland, it is recorded, is one of the oldest breeds of British sheep being known in Hertfordshire in England for at least 800 years.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30793, 3 July 1965, Page 10
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190THE RYELAND SHEEP Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30793, 3 July 1965, Page 10
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