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    is shorn once each year (depending upon dialect, a sheep may be said to have been "shorn", "sheared" or "shore" [in Australia]). The annual shearing most...
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  • “gun shearers”. Gun shearers using blade shears are usually shearers that have shorn at least 200 sheep in a day. A learner (shearer) is a shearer or intending...
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    blade shearing than machine shearing. Around 17 million of the 29 million sheep in South Africa are still blade shorn today. Because shearers' wages...
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    footholds and preferably enclosed sides. After shearing the shearing shed may also provide warm shelter for newly shorn sheep if the weather is likely to be cold...
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  • to shear or cut sheet metal. An alligator shear, historically known as a lever shear and sometimes as a crocodile shear, is a metal-cutting shear with...
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    painting shows sheep being shorn with blade shears rather than the machine shears which started to enter Australian shearing sheds in the late 1880s. Art...
    24 KB (2,824 words) - 03:19, 12 April 2024
  • Moleskin and velvet are shorn materials in which pile is cut to a certain level. Other than imparting an aesthetic finish, shearing was also used to cut...
    7 KB (735 words) - 10:28, 13 November 2023
  • to know how sheep are shorn by machines. Before writing about them, it will be as well to say something of hand shearing. Shearing on a sheep station is...
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  • "Most sheep shorn in 24 Hours". shearingworld.com. Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 24 March 2012. "Sheep Shearing Records". shearingworld...
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    Golden Shears (category Sheep shearing)
    PGG Wrightson National Circuit, it is shorn in five qualifying stages in which points are accrued for shearing finewooled merino sheep, fullwooled strongwool...
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    softness and density and could also be dyed, plucked or shorn to look like other furs – shearing was also known as blocking. White pelts commanded a premium...
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    Wool (redirect from Animal shearing)
    in some people. Sheep shearing is the process in which a worker (a shearer) cuts off the woolen fleece of a sheep. After shearing, wool-classers separate...
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    to be eaten are typically shorn annually in a shearing shed. Ewes tend to be shorn immediately prior to lambing. Shearing can be done with either manual...
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    Jackie Howe (category Sheep shearers)
    had shorn 321 sheep in seven hours and 40 minutes at Alice Downs station, near Blackall, Queensland. This was a faster tally than any other shearer had...
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    capturing the typical working day inside the shearing station, with the timber floors covered in shorn wool and sheep being held in various positions...
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  • be shorn regularly, so leaving the sheep unshorn would have put the animal at great risk of infection and/or injury. Four-time Australian Shearing Championship...
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    being caught on 15 April 2004, the wether was shorn by a professional in 20 minutes on 28 April. The shearing was broadcast on national television in New...
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  • Kerri-Jo Te Huia (category New Zealand sheep shearers)
    sheep shearer from Te Kūiti, New Zealand. Te Huia is the youngest of five children, several of whom work in shearing. Her parents were also shearing contractors...
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    Dream". IMDb. Archived from the original on 2017-02-10. "Wish You Were Shear". IMDb. Archived from the original on 2017-02-10. "Baa-hind the Scenes"...
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  • East Warrah Woolshed (category Shearing sheds)
    whole run, 92,413 of which were shorn in the Warrah woolshed in 1875.: 294–295  Warrah woolshed began as a blade shearing shed. During the 1880s the race...
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