In '92 in the middle of a bad drought we got hit by some very cold weather just after we started shearing our sheep. Because they had been starving for many months the cold snap really affected them and during the night
Normally these sheep would not came within hundreds of meters of a man made structure without extreme persuasive measures. We found them there the next morning all frozen to death. They had tried so hard to push in as far as possible some of them were very difficult to dislodge.
They were all dead amongst the trees as well. Of the 330 sheep that were shorn the previous day only 20 survived the night. The image will remain with me al my life. During that '92 financial year over 1,300 sheep diedfrom drought. This happened on our property at Westmar on the Western Darling Downs.
Above: Sheep crammed themselves
into the farm shed.
Below: All these sheep have suffocated in the shed.
