17-515: Wooramel Station is a pastoral lease and sheep station located 78 kilometres (48 mi) east of Denham and 113 kilometres (70 mi) south east of Carnarvon in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia . The property occupies an area of 1,430 square kilometres (552 sq mi) and is situated along the North West Coastal Highway , with 60 kilometres (37 mi) frontage to
34-583: A Royal Navy sailor John Grazier (born 1945), an American painter Kevin Grazier , an American planetary physicist Publications [ edit ] The Riverine Grazier (1873–), an Australian agricultural newspaper The Western Grazier (1880–1951), an Australian agricultural newspaper See also [ edit ] Grazer (disambiguation) Glazier , a glass installation worker Pastoral (disambiguation) Pastoralists and Graziers Association of Western Australia Topics referred to by
51-543: A flock of approximately 21,000 sheep including 5,000 lambs in 1910. During shearing of the same year 325 bales of wool were produced. In 1923 Ernest A. Hall sold Sherlock Station to Edward Meares and acquired Wooramel Station from Dalgety and Co. Hall immediately set to drilling bores to find permanent water sources for the flock. Three bores were sunk during 1924 to a depth of 1,222 feet (372 m) and were producing flows of millions of gallons per day. The station suffered from extensive damage from flooding following
68-579: A mix of cattle, sheep, cropping and even goats which makes the owner less vulnerable to changes in wool or beef prices. Management practices vary according to the location of the station and the season being experienced. For instance, drought necessitates decisions concerning the sale of stock or provision of supplementary feeding. Routine procedures include supervising crutching , mating, shearing , treating for ticks , lice and maggots (if necessary), lambing and lamb marking. Lambs are weaned at about five months of age. Drenching for internal parasites
85-403: A problem. The term "sheep run" was commonly used during the early settlement period to describe an unfenced tract of land operated by squatters, later used of a large station property, fenced or unfenced. For administrative purposes, many stations exist on pastoral leases , but in state government jurisdictions they are increasingly known as stations. The term " playing for sheep stations "
102-435: A road from Wooramel to the site. The area was struck by years of drought until large scale flooding occurred in late 2010 following heavy rains from a tropical low. 227 millimetres (9 in) of rain fell in 24 hours and once the waters ebbed away locusts became a problem. 25°44′13″S 114°17′06″E / 25.737°S 114.285°E / -25.737; 114.285 Sheep station A sheep station
119-653: Is a large property ( station , the equivalent of a ranch ) in Australia or New Zealand , whose main activity is the raising of sheep for their wool and/or meat . In Australia, sheep stations are usually in the south-east or south-west of the country. In New Zealand the Merinos are usually in the high country of the South Island . These properties may be thousands of square kilometres in size and run low stocking rates to be able to sustainably provide enough feed and water for
136-622: Is 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) across Lake Wakatipu from Queenstown , 40 minutes steaming time on the historic TSS Earnslaw steamship. Two well-known nineteenth-century authors have written about life on a sheep station: grazier [REDACTED] Look up grazier in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Grazier may refer to: A person engaged in pastoral farming People [ edit ] Margaret Hayes Grazier (1916–1999), an American librarian and educator Colin Grazier (1920–1942),
153-519: Is an important routine on a sheep station. Other activities include ram buying and classing the sheep in order to determine the inferior types that are to be culled. Crops and pastures are often also grown to provide additional feed for the sheep, especially those that will be raised and sold as prime lambs. Fences require regular inspections to locate and repair any damage that has been found. Sheep breeders may also need to undertake predatory animal control if crows , dingos or foxes are likely to be
170-524: Is used to denote a large or serious game, usually in the expression "we're not playing for sheep stations". Rawlinna Station in Western Australia is the largest sheep station in Australia, covering about 10,117 square kilometres (3,906 sq mi) or 2.5 million acres. Walter Peak is a notable old sheep station that was founded in 1860 on the south shore of Lake Wakatipu , South Island, New Zealand . It
187-479: The shearing shed and shearers' quarters are an important part of the station. A station usually also includes a homestead , adjacent sheds , windmills , dams, silos and in many cases a landing strip available for use by the Royal Flying Doctor Service and other light aircraft. Historically, an outstation was a subsidiary homestead or other dwelling on Australian sheep or cattle stations that
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#1733086117174204-405: The passing of the remnants over a cyclone over the area in 1945. Father O'Sullivan, the flying padre , was forced to land his Tiger Moth airplane on a claypan at Wooramel in 1956 after experiencing engine trouble and poor visibility. He was sighted later by the pilot of a MacRobertson Miller DC3 that had been diverted to search. O'Sullivan was later rescued by a search party that had to cut
221-482: The property with wanyu and Acacia bushland making up the remaining 40% . The station was established in the early 1880s when artesian water was drilled so large volumes were available to water stock. The position of shepherd for the station was advertised in 1882, and the owner of Wooramel in 1883 was John Winthrop Hackett . The unstocked station was put on the market in 1885, at which time it occupied an area of 200,000 acres (80,937 ha). The property had
238-510: The road providing 10-month-a-year access to most parts of the station. Wooramel also has 60 kilometres (37 mi) of coastline frontage to the Indian Ocean and backs onto the Shark Bay world heritage area. The Wooramel River cuts through the property providing well grassed flood plains; the coastal plain also provides good grazing land. Saltbush and bluebush pastures make up about 40% of
255-465: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Grazier . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grazier&oldid=1041559932 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description
272-563: The stock. In Australia, the owner of a sheep station may be called a pastoralist , a grazier , or formerly a squatter (as in " Waltzing Matilda "), when their sheep grazing land was referred to as a sheep run . Sheep stations and sheep husbandry began in Australia when the British colonisers started raising sheep in 1788 at Sydney Cove . In the Australian and New Zealand context, shearing involves an annual muster of sheep to be shorn, and
289-530: Was more than a day’s return travel from the main homestead. Although the term later came to be more commonly used to describe a specific type of Aboriginal settlement, also known as a homeland community , it is still used on large cattle and sheep stations today, for example Rawlinna sheep station . Where the climate and vegetation allow, especially north of the dog fence , cattle stations are similar but run beef cattle rather than sheep. Some properties are not exclusively sheep or cattle stations but may have
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