CANBERRA: Some 1,400 Australian Suffolk sheep have been shipped to China to help and improve the genetics of China’s sheep flock, ABC Australia has reported. China’s sheep flock stands at around 250m head and the sheep will be used for meat production.
Wellard Group is the export company tasked with exporting the sheep and Sheep Manager at the group, Harold Sealy, told ABC that it has taken a lot of work to prepare the sheep for export.
“It’s very exciting, we’re always glad to see the sheep on the plane it means we’ve done the work. “It’s been six months of a lot of work by a lot of staff to pull it together. A lot of support from our farming groups, our farmers as well so it’s been fantastic.” Sealy said that the group taking the sheep in China will distribute them to a group of farmers in the Shangxi province, they’ve all applied for certain numbers and they’ll get between five and 10.
