We’ve Changed our Name…
We’ve gone back to our original name… Sometimes you can’t push water uphill!About eight years ago, when we opened up our museums, we changed our name to “Bullswool Heritage Farm”, to reflect and celebrate our new developments. Which was fine, but absolutely no one ever used that name but us!It doesn’t match our brown sign […]
The Inbuilt Training in our Sheep of NZ Platform
Our new Sheep of NZ Platform is a little bit more than meets the eye… it’s also a cunning sheep tamer. The platform’s “insets” help visitors to get extra close to the sheep, but are also designed to help train our sheep to be more friendly. All four legged prey animals have what is called […]
Junior Management’s Koi Carp Crusade
We’re pretty proud of Junior Management’s conservation efforts. Our local awa, the Ohinemuri River, is being overrun with Koi Carp. These introduced bottom feeders feed like vacuum cleaners, stirring up sediment, and destroying established habitats as they go. Koi don’t take bait like usual fish, and the most effective way of catching them is with […]
Fodder Trees
Morning muesli for the minis! The occasional offering of fodder trees are extremely beneficial as a supplementary feed to most stock, but especially those that are “browsers”, and whose natural diet is mostly leaves, shrubs and tree bark. Goats and donkeys are browsers, whereas horses are mostly “grazers” (grass eaters) who occasionally browse. The girls […]
The Beautiful, Versatile Tōtara
Quite Possibly our Most Favourite Tree… We love Tōtara. They’re a beautiful, hardy tree. They provide great shelter and shade for animals (we’re lucky to have several lovely specimens in our paddocks), and their seeds provide food for Kereru, Tui and Bellbirds. They also hedge well, making them useful in larger suburban sections. Held in […]
