Excerpt from "OUR SUMMER IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND" available on Amazon.com
While at Avalanche Frank showed us the art of sheering sheep, of which he has about 1500. In the "before" photo you can see the dag, the area around the animals bottom, which is removed before the real shearing begins. Electric shears are used today, not the manual kind of yesteryear. In 1892 a fellow named Jacky Howe set a record by hand shearing 321 animals in 7 hours and 40 minutes, calculated at 1.4 sheep a minute. Jacky was not a man you would want to arm wrestle. He must of had forearms like Popeye!
The sheared sheep do not respond, nor do they seem to miss their coat. They are docile and immediately go about being the same old sheep.
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