Counting sheep

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A five hour bus ride from Christchurch to Twizel allows one to contemplate all sorts of things. What is different about the countryside is the number of livestock. Every field or pasture is full of sheep and their lambs or cattle and their calves. Occasionally a field is full of deer. I start to wonder how many sheep there are in New Zealand. A quick search on google reveals that there are 30 million sheep in NZ. That’s 6 sheep per person. Although that seems high, the number of sheep has decreased by a whopping 44% from a high of 22 sheep per person a few years ago. The missing sheep have been replaced by an increase in cattle.

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Photos

Baa Baa
Sheep on the hill behind

Sheep are everywhere
A few of the 30 million sheep