BRANDING SHEEP

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21183, 2 November 1938, Page 3

BRANDING SHEEP

COMPLIANCE WITH STOCK ACT DEALING WITH STRAGGLERS With the shearing season now on, some owners, who are not acquainted with the Stock Act, inadvertently mark or brand sheep in such a way that they are liable to a penalty if proceeded against in a court of law. The registered brand of the farmer possessing the sheep is the only brand authorised to be used. In connection with the branding of sheep the Stock Act of 1908 states:— All sheep forthwith after shearing and all lambs before April 30 in each year, shall be distinctly and legibly branded with the registered brand of the owner; and for every such sheep not so branded the owner thereof shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 10/-. Stragglers The Act further states in regard to stragglers:—Also in the case of stragglers or stray sheep not the property of the occupier, notwithstanding anything in this Act to the contrary, every owner in whose shed or on whose land any stragglers or stray sheep have been shorn shall forthwith distinctly and legibly brand such sheep on the head with his registered brand, or, if he has no registered wool-brand, with a distinguishing mark of paint or tar.