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Hill-country Romneys

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Hill-country Romneys

This flock of Romney sheep is being mustered on a North Island hill-country farm. The dog in the foreground is a huntaway, bred in New Zealand for this sort of country. Huntaways drive sheep by barking.

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Hugh Stringleman and Robert Peden, Sheep farming – Environment and sheep farming, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/16673/hill-country-romneys (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Hugh Stringleman and Robert Peden, published 1 March 2009, updated 1 March 2015.