December 8, 2016 -- Feilding Sale Yard (c. 1880) is the one of the largest sale yards in New Zealand. It is located on the lower North Island. The yards cover 3.7 ha (a little over 9 acres) with 350 sheep pens and 140 cattle pens. Approximately 50,000 cattle and 450,000 sheep are sold there annually, not as many as there used to be, as livestock numbers have declined. We were fortunate to be in the area on sale day.
Welcome to Feilding Sale Yard
Feilding Sale Yard
A lot of lambs
The cattle were run through the sale ring in the pavilion, whereas the lambs were sold from their pens. Not all the lambs in a pen were weighed. A representative sample was weighed using scales that were moved from pen to pen. Many of the lambs had been crutched. Crutching is a regular management practice in New Zealand.
Sales agent
Pen 67
Busy place
Blackface lambs
Weighing the lambs
Cattle, too
True workforce
Of course, we ate at the Sale Yards Cafe.
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