What is the winter droving Penrith?
The Winter Droving is a magical festival in Penrith that celebrates all things rural, traditional and fun. The event highlight is a torch lit procession through the town featuring fire, lanterns, masquerade, music and mayhem.
What is Winter Droving?
The Winter Droving, the story so far… The festival encourages visitors to dress up and ‘join the herd’ by donning a mask, dressing up as a farmer and enjoying the entertainment. Traditionally The Ullswater Droving marked the beginning of the festivities, held the day before the Penrith town center Winter Droving.
What does a droving mean?
Droving is the practice of moving livestock over long distances by walking them “on the hoof”. Droving is used for moving large herds over long distances, sometimes several hundred kilometers.
When did droving stop?
Railways brought an end to most droving around the middle of the 19th century. Turkeys and geese for slaughter were also driven to London’s market in droves of 300 to 1,000 birds.
What kind of lifestyle did a drover have?
Drovers had to be tough enough to withstand years of riding and living in the bush. A drover also had to be able to control and manage livestock and horses, a skill that can take many years to acquire. Stock routes were used to walk and graze livestock throughout Australia for weeks, months or years on end.
What is an Australian cowboy called?
In Australia a stockman (plural stockmen) is a person who looks after the livestock on a large property known as a station, which is owned by a grazier or a grazing company, traditionally on horseback. In this sense it has a similar meaning to “cowboy”.
What was the purpose of droving?
Droving is the practice of moving livestock over long distances by walking them “on the hoof”. Droving is used for moving large herds over long distances, sometimes several hundred kilometers. It was carried out by shepherds. The earliest written evidence about shepherds and their dogs dates back to the 14th century.
What did Drovers eat?
Along the trail, the staples of a cowboy diet consisted of beans, hard biscuits, dried meat, dried fruit, and coffee. Occasionally, a type of bread known as pan de campo (or “camp bread”), which was cooked on a skillet was also available. These along with a little bit of sugar were the staples of the chuckwagon pantry.
What do they call cows in Australia?
Some Australian, Canadian, New Zealand and British people use the term beast. Cattle bred specifically for milk production are called milking or dairy cattle; a cow kept to provide milk for one family may be called a house cow or milker.
What do Aussies call sheep?
Jumbuck is an Australian word for a ‘sheep’. It is best known from Banjo Paterson’s use of it in Waltzing Matilda.
Did cowboys eat eggs?
Cowboys in the United States relished similar “chuck” (also called grub or chow). Canned and dried fruit, “overland trout” (bacon), beans, fresh meat, soda biscuits, tea, and coffee. Breakfast might include eggs or salt pork. Eggs, sometimes shipped west for considerable distances, sometimes went bad.