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    Shearing: Shearing Shearing Throwing The Fleece Skirting Ready For Baling Wool Bales

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    Shearing involves removing wool from sheep once a year using specialized equipment. A shearing team which may include shearers, wool handlers, and other staff bring sheep into pens, shear the fleece off in one piece, and sort the wool. The wool is then packaged into bales branded with information about the property and quality for sale.

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    Shearing: Shearing Shearing Throwing The Fleece Skirting Ready For Baling Wool Bales

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    Shearing involves removing wool from sheep once a year using specialized equipment. A shearing team which may include shearers, wool handlers, and other staff bring sheep into pens, shear the fleece off in one piece, and sort the wool. The wool is then packaged into bales branded with information about the property and quality for sale.

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    Shearing involves removing wool from sheep once a year using specialized equipment. A shearing team which may include shearers, wool handlers, and other staff bring sheep into pens, shear the fleece off in one piece, and sort the wool. The wool is then packaged into bales branded with information about the property and quality for sale.

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    Shearing: Shearing Shearing Throwing The Fleece Skirting Ready For Baling Wool Bales

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    Shearing involves removing wool from sheep once a year using specialized equipment. A shearing team which may include shearers, wool handlers, and other staff bring sheep into pens, shear the fleece off in one piece, and sort the wool. The wool is then packaged into bales branded with information about the property and quality for sale.

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    Shearing

    Shearing Shearing Throwing the fleece Skirting Ready for baling Wool bales
    Shearing
    Did you know? Glossary
    Shearing usually happens once a year on a wool • A professional shearer can shear a sheep every Bales — bags of wool that have been pressed
    property. Professional shearing teams travel 3–4 minutes. That’s about 140 sheep a day. and ready for sale.
    across Australia shearing sheep for a living. • The world record for blade (hand) shearing is Catching pens — small yards in a shearing shed,
    Depending on the number of sheep, a shearing held by Jackie Howe. In 1892, at Alice Downs which hold enough sheep for each shearer.
    team can include two or more shearers, one or near Blackall, Queensland, he shore 321 sheep Drenching — wool producers give sheep
    two woolhandlers and shed hands, a wool classer in seven hours and forty minutes using a pair medicine to protect them from worms.
    and a wool presser. of hand shears.
    Fibre diameter — the thickness of a single wool
    The penner-up • Every bale of wool fibre, measured in microns.
    The penner-up brings the sheep in from the contains a brand that
    identifies the property Shearing — removing the wool from the sheep
    paddocks to the sheep yards, ready for penning
    the wool has come from using specially-designed handpieces.
    up. They keep the catching pens in the shearing
    shed full of sheep, ready for the shearers. and also a brand that Skirting — removing inferior pieces from
    indicates the quality of the fleece.
    When the sheep have been shorn, they leave the fleece.
    the shed, are counted and may be drenched Branding a wool bale
    or treated for lice before being taken back to
    the paddocks.
    The woolhandlers
    The shearer The woolhandlers pick up the fleece and throw it More information
    Each shearer has a stand, electrically-driven across a large table for skirting.
    machine handpiece and a catching pen. Shearers To find out more about shearing, take a look at:
    catch a sheep from their catching pen and drag it The wool classer
    The wool classer sorts the skirted fleeces and • learnaboutwool.com
    to their stand, where they shear the fleece using
    the handpiece. wool pieces into five main categories — fleeces,
    necks, pieces, bellies and locks.
    First they shear the belly and then the body,
    which comes off as one piece of fleece. Fleeces are also sorted into lines (groups)
    according to their fibre diameter (quality). The
    fleeces are placed in nylon bags and pressed in
    Fleece a woolpress to make bales. The bales are sealed
    The bulk of the wool
    from the body. and branded, ready for sale.
    Wig
    Wool from
    the front
    of the face. • The fastest shearer in the shed
    Pieces
    Short or sweaty is called the ‘gun’ shearer.
    Necks edges from the fleece.
    Wool from
    under the chin to
    Crutchings
    Wool from around
    • It takes about 35–40 skirted Fun facts
    the chest region.
    the tail and back
    legs, which may
    fleeces to fill a wool bale. about
    Locks have urine
    Short wool pieces
    created by shears
    Belly
    Wool from the
    or manure stains. • Once pressed, each bale must shearing
    cutting twice over
    the same area.
    belly area. weigh a minimum of 110kg
    and a maximum of 204kg.
    Most wool bales weigh in the

    4_P_6430DG
    Parts of the fleece range of 170 to 190kg.

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