Sheila the runaway sheep could rival Tasmanian record with its 30kg fleece
The animal, which had been glimpsed recently by locals in a eucalypt plantation, was rescued after it was found stuck in a culvert by a passerby
A Tasmanian sheep farmer has rescued a very woolly beast, estimated to be carrying about 30kg of wool, that had been trapped by the roadside.
Derek Turvey, a Buckland farmer, received a call from a neighbour last Saturday to tell him a passerby had found the sheep stuck in a culvert.
The locals had seen the runaway sheep,carrying a substantial amount of wool on its back, over the past two months in a eucalypt plantation.
“We knew it was there somewhere but we just couldn’t find it in the plantation,” Turvey said.
“We just couldn’t find it. We’d see it in the distance but it would disappear into the plantation and that was it.”
Turvey, who runs about 2,000 sheep on his property, thinks it might be one of his that wandered off a number of years ago. His farm borders the plantation in the bushland of south-eastern Tasmania and he says it is easy to lose track of the odd lost animal.