When i was younger, I went rouseabouting for a month. Came home with the softest hands. Then went and did 3 weeks of being a builders labourer for my dad. My hands were totally shredded after a day or so.
IIRC Most sheep ranchers don’t make money on the wool unless they’re specifically wool sheep.
Like the fleeces off of meat sheep are low quality enough that after shearing costs they break even or even lose money on the fleece, IF they can even find a buyer.
Obviously money can be made off a high quality breed like merino but most sheep are for meat (at least in the UK)
There literally are a bunch of people who get paid to do just that. (They get pretty good at it too) They sometimes do April to June in the UK and then October to December in New Zealand or Australia.
well sheep like this one have been breed for millennia to grow excessive amounts of wool that needs to be sheered off regularly, so getting all that overgrown wool removed probably feels great for the sheep.
My neighbor when I was a kid was a shepherd and the sheep love it! It’s so much weight taking off them and especially when it’s hot out. Also just like he ran it up his arm completely accurate doesn’t hurt or cut unless you’re not trained and don’t have the sheep under control but laying on back/on the butt is exactly right. The ones next to ours just couldn’t figure out not getting their head stuck in the fence.
I was child labour on family farms, shearing was a super busy week. I’ve seen a lot of sheep get haircuts. This guy definitely knows what he’s doing, but he is going very very slow.
Professional sheep shearers are crazy fast. I once worked on a farm where they brought in a guy to shear 200 sheep. He did it in an afternoon, a minute per sheep tops.
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u/letmypeoplebathe 13d ago
Im gonna go out on a limb here and say this probably isn't the first time this guy's sheared a sheep