Kiwi Dopers: Is it true that the government gives you sheep when you turn 16?

And how does that work out for you?

If you are not able to accept your free government sheep, are you free to sell them at market value?

Do they bring them to you, or do you have to go and pick them up somewhere? How many sheep are we talking about? Five? Thirty?

Why does the government want to encourage you to keep sheep? If you were living on a sheep farm? ranch? wouldn’t you already be in a position to continue keeping sheep?

Yes they do. It is three sheep per MALE New Zealander, but you must first prove that you have the capability to keep them happy by demonstration of your flag flying capability to your school nurse.

Most guys keep them in their backyards. If you don’t have a back yard you can often trade the sheep in for a discount at sex toys r us.

Why do ask? Jealous?

I’m not a Kiwi. This just sings the word Spurious! I can’t figure what kind, though. :confused:

So what do sex-toys-r-us then do with the sheep bengangmo? If every Kiwi bloke with a backyard already has three, what happens to these excess ovines?

Can you hire them out by the hour, or can some guys lay claim to extra sheep because of their (ahem) extraordinary appetites?

Enquiring minds wanna know! :smiley:

This reminds me of the Australian who was hiking in New Zealand, when he happened upon a Kiwi having sex with a sheep. The Aussie said, ‘Where I come from, we shear those!’ The Kiwi replies, ‘Get your own!’

:stuck_out_tongue:

I’m really hoping this is a joke thread Johnny, but I fear the OP might have been dead-set serious with his/her question.

Mind you, I wouldn’t put it past those crazy Kiwi’s to have such a governmental policy in place. :smiley:

Correct. It has actually become a major sticking point in the arguments over the legal sexual identity of transgendered people. Do the female to male transgenders get the male quota of sheep? If so do they get all three or is it pro rata based on the proportion of life spent as a woman? (e.g., someone going through the sex change process in their 30’s might get 2 sheep, someone in their 50’s would only get one sheep, and if they’re in their 40’s they may be entitled to a sheep and a lamb.) Also does a male who becomes a woman have to forfeit his sheep? (All of them or only some?)

Sticking point?

My understanding was that ewes were always well juiced, so to speak.

They’re supposed to be but the quality has declined somewhat in parallel with the growing export market to places like Wales and Tasmania.

In some cases the quality of the domestic cuts has been so bad that some Kiwi males have been resorting to a lamb shank.

I think you are baaarking up the wrong tree.

Where is Hal Briston?

Damnit…well, here’s the post I was going to make:

"Hey, I should move there! Haw haw haw!

There. I beat all you fuckers to it."

Oh well…I beat nearly all you fuckers to it.

They don’t shag sheep in Tasmania, stoopid!
(unless they’s kin) :slight_smile:

The only free animal give a way we had in the USA was a free government mule. So they came close to giving away free ass in the USA. The farmer with good husbandry skills and a horse could have ass the next year.

Like I say, it’s a growing market. (Frankly I think they’re sick of the cousin-fucker thing and are willing to do anything to change the stereotype.)