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december 2010

Issue 39

Ag Days: Silverdale School Stays Rural pg 3 The Art of Judging pg 6

Deadly news for possums, stoats and ferrets pg10 A Christmas past pg12 Wandering stock: A three-fold increase pg14

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editorial It’s called the Silly Season for good reason, as we try and shove a whole month’s work and then some into just 3 weeks. I have to say I’m hanging out for the holidays already. This month’s madness has included hard disk failure. How to avoid losing your cherished photos of people and events dear to you? Fortunately, I found a small business who specialise in this area of data recovery and are realistic about pricing their recovery services, not holding out for a small ransom as some others do. I feel a story brewing in that department. Chuck me an email if you’ve ever had similar experiences or are in need of data recovery experts who don’t charge like wounded bulls. In the meantime, take it from me, back-up your data! Our holiday plans are well advanced with our dog Bella dog booked in to stay with friends and with Dipsy, Laa Laa, Tinky Winky and Po (our 5-year-old daughter’s chosen names) aka The Chooks, in training with a Chooketeria. This means we don’t have to worry about sparrows and rats eating their way through a week’s worth of chook food in two days, a very fine idea for this time of year (see advert on P17). We’ll be doing a story on Ron’s invention in the New Year (yes, he did happen to invent the Chooketeria by chance and with a little trial and error, along very similar

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design principles to another well known chook feeder… but that’s another story). Our camping spot overlooks the beach at the DOC campsite at Puriri Bay, Northland. Aaahhh, bliss! Once we’ve survived this month we’ll be pushing our toes through sand and you’ll be ensconced with the January edition. Merry Christmas to all our readers and have a very happy and safe New Year.

Neville Walker – Editor & Publisher

Letters or enquiries to Rodney’s Rural Lifestyle, RD Marketing Ltd, RD1, Kaukapakapa. Phone 09 947 3580. Email: neville@rurallifestyle.co.nz Advertising enquiries: Marlene Brown 021-854-946 Rodney’s Rural Lifestyle ©2010. All rights reserved. Reproduction in any form without permission of the publisher is prohibited. No responsibility accepted for any direct or indirect consequences arising from reliance on any content within Rodney’s Rural Lifestyle. Editor: Neville Walker. Sub Editor: Helen Martin. Writers this issue: Lynnette Third, Helen Martin, Carolyn Howden. Image credits: Cover Image: Madeline of The Broch, owned by Julie & Andrew Boyd. Photo kindly supplied by Julie Boyd. P10: “Henry” Possum trap courtesy Dave Hansford. P12: Pohutukawa Jandals courtesy Iconic Designs – for details of stockists www.iconicdesignsltd.co.nz or phone 09 410 5232. P13: Image courtesy www.commons. wikimedia.org/Daniel Schwen/Christmas_lights_2. P14-16: Images courtesy Carolyn Howden. Designer: Dan Stenhouse, Bgraphix. Printing: Alliance Print.

WARKWORTH SHOWGROUND Rodeo The fun starts at 10.00am By Lynnette Third

JAN 1ST, 2011 WARKWORTH SHOWGROUNDS JANUARY 1st 2011 Just 1km north of the town.

Silverdale School Bareback Riding Bronc Riding Barrel Racing Despite Silverdale fast becoming a suburb, Silverdale School is steadfastly clinging to its rural heritage as it Rope and Tie showcases its annual Country Show Day. Steerwrestling Fewer pupils come from rural blocks particular seeds were other challenges these days, but the enthusiasm for this year. Heats are run in the weeks Bull Riding farming activities is being kept alive. prior to show day and all the kids can try their hand before the final. It is a Team Roping To involve the older children, guaranteed entertainer, loads of fun

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Deputy Principal Gareth Jones has developed the Annual Young Farmer Competition. This challenges participants to a range of feats which this year included lifting a hay-bale into a wheelbarrow then manoeuvring the wheelbarrow around obstacles at high speed. A model cow enables pupils to try out their milking skills, with the results of their efforts measured. Matching tools to their function, cutting wood accurately and identifying the plants that grow from

and a great judge of the speed, accuracy and strength needed by all budding farmers. Though not a lot of calves and lambs

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The school has a strong desire to Gates | Balustrade | Awnings | Showers | Wardrobes retain the show as a day to experience a taste of things rural and to prevent this important facet of school life from disappearing into local history books. In many ways it is a nod to the past – the dried pressed flowers presented by one class were beautiful and I was told the children really enjoyed learning this somewhat forgotten art. The rural photo competition called for shots of animals, tractors or anything rustic to be printed and framed with wool, feathers, bark, leaves - anything to give it a bucolic flavour. I confess I What a lamb having a tantrum looks like! was impressed – some were worthy of Gates | Balustrade | Awnings | Showers | Wardrobes With summer here there is no better time Gates | Balustrade | Awnings | Showers | Wardrobes being in an art gallery. jandals. Lookout there were a With here there is noTrelise, better time to sortsummer those sun traps, HomePlus has Awnings number I was tempted to slip my toes sort The kids had also workeditto on flax- those sun traps, HomePlus has covered. into and strut off. covered. weaving projects, chicken it sculptures and the usual garden and sand-saucer Time for a break - Geena Van Reenen gives All the other show day fun was there Fudge a quick top up between events. creations. The radish-growing contest too. Clutching my box of home baking called for kids to grow their mystery I spent my last gold coin on a stick of The “guess the weight of the sheep” seeds (no chance of doing a sneaky candyfloss, convinced my kids there competition was a good one to listen in swap there) and present their efforts really was no more money for another on. Punters lifted a very stoical looking for the judge to uproot and inspect on ride and wandered off home, very lamb and by comparing its weight to show day. content with my day out. whatever they were familiar with - be My favourite, referencing the nearby Well done Silverdale School, thanks for it their x-box or surfboard – they made With summer here there is no better time beach culture, were the decorated treasuring our rural ways! an educated guess. to sort those sun traps, HomePlus has

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By Helen Martin

Ag Days

The art of

Judging

Duncan McNab judges the calves at the Coatesville School Ag Day.

Helen Martin talks to Duncan McNab about Ag Day judging. Duncan McNab is a past President of the Auckland Agriculture and Pastoral Association and his CV includes many years’ experience selecting and judging cattle, including for the Easter Show and the Kumeu show. He’s a regular judge at local school Ag Day/Calf Club competitions, traditional community events where kids, their families, their friends and their teachers showcase their commitment to healthy, well looked after animals. What’s the value in kids bringing their animals to Ag Day? If you decide to show an animal at Ag Day you have to work towards it, starting with deciding after the 1st of July which animal you’re going to groom up for it. There’s something about being committed to the needs of a baby animal that teaches a child compassion and empathy. They learn about

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Lockwood Smith judges the calves at the South Kaipara Group Day.

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shape, muscle development and low fat component. In the wool section they’re judged on lustre (cleanliness), crimping (fineness), length and bulk. There were goats at the South Kaipara Group Day. Are the criteria the same for them? Pretty much. They also have prizes for ‘high jumping’, where the goats walk up a plank and jump off the end, and for Most Obvious Pet. How do people respond to the judging? The main things are to try and keep it exciting for the kids and to spend time talking to them, and anyone else watching the judging, about the reasons for your decisions. They need to know how you judge the animals according to the different criteria so they can learn what they’ve done well and what they can do better next time. In the June 2011 issue of RRL we will talk to Duncan about how to prepare your animals for Ag Day.

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Be Very Afraid... Traditional methods for trapping pests that destroy our native plants and animals have been useful only on small areas where traps can be checked regularly (daily for live traps) and the animals despatched before the traps are reset. Amid the furore about poisoning, the search has been on for a new weapon. Enter the Henry trap, invented by 3 Wellington engineers and developed by Goodnature, a Wellington company which received a $250,00 innovation grant from the government to solve our $100 million pest problem. Named after early NZ bird conservationist Richard Henry, the Henry trap is exciting and innovative. As soon as the animal puts its head in the trap to check out the long-life bait, a bolt shoots into the back of its head, causing a rapid and humane end. A compressed carbon dioxide gas canister powers the shooting and resetting, with twelve resets possible before servicing is required.

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The government has given the Department of Conservation (D.O.C.) $4 million to evaluate 10,000 of these traps in largescale projects. Conservation Minister Kate Wilkinson hopes that by cutting the annual cost of maintaining a trap from $96 to $14 we could save $800,000 in labour costs annually and D.O.C.’s annual budget of $20 million for pest control could stretch a lot further as a result. The stoat trap has been trialled near Wellington with very heartening results. As a result, the Henry Rat and Stoat trap has been passed for general sale at $160 plus GST. Next year four large-scale possum trials are being planned, including one in Northland and another in Nelson. Providing the trials progress well, the Henry possum version will be available from February/March next year and will be approximately $110 plus GST. Overseas interest in the new traps has been keen, so once again Kiwi innovation may help conservation as well as provide export opportunities. As public outcry against poison drops and inhumane trapping practices gains intensity this news comes as a great relief to … well, everyone except the possums and stoats really!

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they have received up to 30 calls a month,” says former Rodney District Council’s animal control bylaws manager, Wayne Knightbridge. Although the Council has now been taken over by Auckland City, the animal control division remains as it was, with the same officers and rural bases in Helensville, Huapai, Warkworth and the Orewa/Waitoki area. One officer works full time in the urban area of Whangaparaoa. “The rest cover hundreds of kilometres through small towns and rural property and are spending too much time chasing stock that shouldn’t be on the road,” Mr Knightbridge says. “We have had fatal accidents, for both the motorist and the stock, and severe injuries as a result of vehicles hitting stock, especially horses or cattle. The stock owner is liable for damage and if someone dies because of their stock on the road the owner could be looking at a manslaughter charge.” By Carolyn Howden

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“We have had some horrific dog attacks. In one instance north of Wellsford 183 sheep were killed in one night by two dogs,” Mr Knightbridge says. A local resident believed to own the dogs moved away that day and police were unable to prove it was his dogs that carried out the attack.

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The council is now receiving at least one report a month of dog attacks in the Rodney area. The consequences are usually horrific. Lambs or ewes are killed, distressed stock miscarry and lambs become mis-mothered because of the disturbance. Some stock are chased into water courses and drowned in an attempt to escape the dog attacks, others crowd into a corner and suffocate.

While the council keeps a register of troublesome stock and owners, it also maintains a register of all farm dogs. Too many farmers and lifestyle block owners are not registering their dogs. A recent campaign, ‘Knock, Knock, Woof Woof ’, gave the show away for many unregistered dog owners when an officer knocked on the door and was answered with a bark. Officers cover both the small rural towns and the ‘back blocks’. The problem of stray dogs ripping open rural rubbish bag collections is a hardy annual. Dog bites and dogs rushing

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“Lifestyle block owners are subject to the same dog fencing bylaws as urban property owners,” Mr Knightbridge says. Farm fencing is not enough. Dogs must be properly fenced and too often they are not. People often don’t realise what their dogs are up to while they are away at work. ”It can be any breed of dog causing the problem and sometimes it is not the farm dog but the little house dog, a bichon frise or a little terrier, causing the problem.” For farmers sighting dogs worrying stock on their property he has one simple piece of advice – “shoot them”.

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quite divided about whether the dog should have been put down or not. It went to court and the dog lived.

Santa is coming... and so are new owners for dogs at the Silverdale pound.

at pedestrians are problems more associated with urban areas but courier drivers and census takers also have their ‘dog’ moments in the rural areas. Mr Knightbridge marvels that society is so accepting of bad dog behaviour, regardless of where the situation occurs. “It is not acceptable for people to behave like that, yet aggressive or biting dogs seem to be tolerated.” He recalls one incident in Wellsford recently where a child was bitten at a family gathering. The family became

Some dogs are destroyed and officers do have the authority to shoot worrying dogs. They also offer new hope to dogs or stock which is not being properly cared for or no longer wanted. The council operates a pound in Silverdale, which can accommodate up to 40 impounded dogs. About 70% of all dogs held at the pound are eventually rehoused. When incidents of cruelty to animals are reported to the council they are referred to the SPCA. In summertime, and particularly over the Christmas holidays, the incidence of cruelty and abandonment of animals rises dramatically, but these cases seldom involve lifestyle block owners. It must be said that people who are negligent or cruel regarding animals are

in the minority and that in spite of the problems discussed here most lifestyle block owners look after their animals really well – this is why they have chosen to live on the land. Ed's Comment: Rural legal specialist Luke Kemp (contact details p18) adds that stock owner may be liable for damage if they are negligent and that negligence may include the failure to maintain an appropriate fence or shut a gate or similar. For wandering stock stray dogs or ring the council on (09) 426 5169. For matters concerning animal welfare, call Auckland SPCA on (09) 256 7300. If you’re concerned about any aspects of your own dog’s behaviour call Sue Murphy of Dog Behaviour Solutions on (09) 415 9038.

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