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Local attractions & activities

Grays Hills is a central location for all High Country pursuits:

  • Fishing in Grays Hills Creek and in the surrounding rivers and lakes
  • Touring the South Island lakes
  • Sking
  • Climbing, tramping and walking in the Southern Alps
  • Hunting for deer, tahr, rabbits, choukor, ducks and geese
  • Cross country cycling
  • Motorcross

STUD DETAILS

Stud Principals: Sherie & Mark Urquhart
Gray’s Hills Station, New Zealand

Established: 1962 from Flock 116 (est 1938)
Stud Classer: A D Paterson
Ewe Numbers: 550 MA ewes, 100 2ths
Sale Method: Private. End Feb/Mar

PROPERTY DETAILS

Area: 22,000 hectares 
Rainfall: 400mm<
Stock Numbers: 6,200 ewes, 4,500 MA wethers, 1,000 wether hoggets, 2,000 ewe hoggets, 300 Angus cows, 50 replacement heifers

OVERVIEW

Runs 5500 commercial ewes under dryland conditions. 1200 are mated to terminal sires (Suffolk & Border Leicester). 3000 replacement hoggets and 4500 MA wethers are run on areas less suitable for lambing. Lucerne hay and grain are fed for long cold winters.

   
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