“Even though we’re a rural community, there’s still a lot of people that live in town or there are tourists from out of town that have never been that close to sheep.
“It’s all good fun and people often watch the running of the sheep and then go the shears as well to see the sheep being shorn as well as the handling and pressing competitions.”
Bird couldn’t say how many sheep would be running because there is a $1000 prize for the person who correctly guesses how many there are.
All he would say was that hundreds would be trucked from well-known shearing champion Neil Fagan’s farm.
“Basically, we truck the sheep into town, unload them at one end of the main street, they run halfway down where there’s a bit of a demonstration and then they carry on down the rest of the street before being trucked home again.”
The Running of the Sheep starts at 2pm tomorrow.
- RNZ
