CATTLE & SHEEP DROVING
Once you get away from Coastal areas of Australia, and into the west and the outback more, you may run into Drovers with their Cattle or Sheep.A drovers' road, is a route for driving livestock on foot from one place to another, such as to market or between summer and winter pasture. You may come across quite a few in times of drought, when the farmer has no food left for his stock, so he takes to the road with his animals.Drovers' roads are often wider than other roads, so that they can accommodate large herds or flocks. Sometimes though, you will have to drive through the flock of sheep or cattle. By law, the travelling stock must travel 10 kms per day. This is to avoid all the roadside grass from being cleared in a particular area by an individual herd. Bores, equipped with windmills and troughs, may also be located at regular intervals to provide water in regions where there are no...
