Teenage farmer's biggest success

Duncan Elliot (left) with Elders Primary Wool chairman Stuart Chapman at the Canterbury A and P...
Duncan Elliot (left) with Elders Primary Wool chairman Stuart Chapman at the Canterbury A and P Show. Photo by Susan Elliot.
Young Maniototo farmer Duncan Elliot scored his biggest success to date at the recent Canterbury A and P Show in Christchurch.

Duncan (17), from Lammermoor Station at Paerau, won supreme champion fleece with a Romney ewe fleece.

The young stud sheep enthusiast, who entered six fleeces in the show, also helped shear his sheep with elder brother Lachlan and a friend.

Roger Fuller, from Elders Primary Wool, said Duncan's winning entry was a very good character fleece, with good staple length and crimp.

It was also the right weight, which was crucial in a fleece competition and it stood out.

It was good to see breeds like the Romney ''coming back into their own'', Mr Fuller said.

It was also encouraging to see a young person wanting to go farming, he said.

There were more than 100 entries in the fleece competition.

Duncan, who has his own Romney stud, is a third-generation stud breeder on both sides of his family.

His foray into stud breeding began in 2007; he started crutching when he was 10 and began shearing his own sheep last year.

 

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