Shearing Gear

Edited by Horses4Ever, Glutted, Ben Rubenstein, Dave Crosby and 15 others If you own 1 to 100 sheep, shearing can be pretty expensive. But is required for the health and comfort of your sheep. Wash the sheep to ensure there is no dirt in the fleece. Don't get soap in the eyes.

How to shear sheep videos. Video 1 explains sheep shearing tool use and maintenance. Video 2 demonstrates the six sheep shearing positions.

Sheep shearing is the process by which the woollen fleece of a sheep is cut off. The person who removes the sheep's wool is called a . Typically each adult sheep is shorn once each year (a sheep may be said to have been "shorn" or "sheared", depending upon dialect).

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Emily Chamelin was still a teenager when she took up sheep shearing. She'd convinced her parents to let her raise a few sheep on the family dairy farm in Maryland, but finding someone to shear them every spring wasn't so easy. The few shearers in the area usually didn't want to hassle with such a tiny flock.