Cattle in the Swim

For the first time in many years, a herd of cattle in the Poverty Bay district was dipped, at the Acton Stud Farm, Hexton, to control an epidemic of cattle tick.

Executed in a way similar to dipping sheep, except on a much larger scale, the beasts were driven into the large concrete dip, containing 3800 gallons of Delnav mix, totally immersed, and then swum to the other end.

×

 

• 

Cattle swimming along the dip watched by agriculture staff of Gisborne Sheepfarmers Ltd, and Acton Stud Farm.

×

 

• 

Cattle create a big splash as they submerge into the dip.

×

 

• 

Ron Virtue, of Cooper, McDougall, and Robertson (N.Z.) Ltd, tops up the fluid from a 400 gallon tank.