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Kōrero: Sheep farming

Crutching time

This Footrot Flats cartoon by Murray Ball shows ewes being crutched before mating. Clearing away dags and stained wool from around the ewes’ tail-end makes mating easier.

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Diogenes Designs Ltd

by Murray Ball

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Hugh Stringleman rāua ko Robert Peden, Sheep farming – The seasonal round, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/interactive/16680/crutching-time (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Hugh Stringleman rāua ko Robert Peden, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009, updated 1 March 2015.