Wainuiomata, Lower Hutt residents were treated to the unusual site of a woman in a pink dressing gown and slippers with two large dogs herding a flock of sheep back to their paddock early on Monday.

Her beloved sheep were on the loose. She had no time to spare.

Certainly no time to get dressed.

So that is why residents of Wainuiomata, in Lower Hutt, were treated to the unusual sight of a woman in a pink dressing gown and slippers with two large dogs herding a flock of sheep back to their paddock early on Monday.

MONIQUE FORD/FAIRFAX NZ Wainuiomata sheep owner Barbara Field with Spring, one of the sheep that escaped early on Monday.

Barbara Field, who lives on a farmlet in the north of Wainuiomata, was that woman.

"A young girl came up and said, 'your sheep are out in the street'."

Wearing the at-home attire she followed the girl down her driveway where she found the flock of about 13 sheep following another neighbour home.

Nicole Jarvis/Facebook A herd of sheep on the loose in Lower Hutt.

The sheep had escaped through an open gate at about 7am.

"They have never done it before."

It was 9am when she went down with her two burly dogs and led the sheep back into another, more secure paddock.

Facebook On the same morning sheep broke free in Wainuiomata, not far away a chicken was found having a bounce

All but one of the flock – a young and troublesome lamb – were well behaved and got into the paddock without issue.

In their two hours on the loose, the sheep managed to destroy some crockery pots outside her front door, pull apart shrubs, then head off to neighbouring properties.

Nicole Jarvis got a visit when she got out of bed at 7am.

"I was having a look outside and there was a sheep mowing my lawn."

Soon after, about eight more sheep, including lambs, arrived.

Her 3-year-old son Ryan was excited but her 1-year-old Liam "kept calling them dogs".

A neighbour went out and managed to get the sheep to follow her to a property before Field arrived.

Meanwhile, nearby in Wainuiomata a rogue but unrelated chicken was spotted on a trampoline with its appearance shared for the world on Facebook.