SShheeep Power In Action!

This is what 2000 sheep can do to 10 acres in 24 hours. This is called animal impact. We let this lot dry off – the first shot taken in December.
Then we let them in mid March to eat what they can find and stomp the rest in to the ground, along with their poop and piddle. It is a natural tilling and fertilising effect.
Long periods of rest followed by high intensity grazing and disturbance is the white man’s way of encourag-ing the perennial pastures.
The Aboriginal inhabitants used fire because they had no herding animals.
They were very astute with fire, burning in cools seasons, burning and beating the fire out with their bare feet to restrain its spread. They also used fire as a weapon of attack against inturders.