Shearing the rams

[BellaDawnaa]

your sling has seen better days..u may need to wash it! :)

[rug63rat]

NICE JOB! I have angora goats that need shearing.... r ya busy? lol

I can't believe some of the questions from these people! It's just too funny! Where do sweaters come from people? Hello...

PS. Love the music in the background...

Donna from Lancaster County Pennsylvania, USA

[shanams1]

and why does the helper grab a handful of wool after your done and take it away?

[shanams1]

That was amazing i had always wondered about how this was done Really cool!!!

[leoninestar]

Thank you thank you! I just finished shearing school but they did not got over shearing Rams. Thank you for a great video that answered a lot of my questions! 

[666now32w77]

Nice job Byresy In my opinion one of the best shearing video's on youtube

Dave from Australia

[LindaIsGreen]

It doesent look like ahurting process..

the ram is just chilling.. getting some haircut.. u know.. :D

[thecarpender1]

I enjoyed this video over the others I have seen. I want to start raising sheep but before I do, I want to learn everthing that I can. You make it look so easy.

As for all the nay sayers, try wearing a wool coat when the temp gets to 90+ degrees in the hot fields without your little air conditioners.

[MinnesotaFlash]

What a pleasure to watch a pro. For you folks that don't know, not only is this guy excellent at sheering but he is kind and gentle in the process. Did you not see how gentle he was with the first rams "goods" ?? Maybe you did'nt know that round thing is what it is. I am sad to read some of the comments here. I am amazed that some people know so little yet somehow manage to get by day to day without hurting themselves. 

[koechiaki777]

i just love sheep...

[quacker2580]

there are so many dumshits in this world that dont believe in the use of animals for human consumption! my question to these people, how do you think the cave men survived, meat and that comes from animals, how do you think you were kept warm when you were a baby, a blanket. people need to appreciate the australian agricultural industry, go to school and learn something dumb asses!

[ochayeman]

@quacker2580 well put

[buzzbox2nd]

hahahaah great work man ya did it well really well done :)

[stevesd61]

Sheer Sheep to keep the cooler in the hot summer months. The wool can be sold and used to make clothes.

[officermom50]

Why does he take a small sample of wool? Do you use the whole fleece for something. I spin so I was wondering if you sell the feece or just throw it away?

Thank you ever so much

[ochayeman]

@officermom50 I'm shocked you dont know the answers when you 'spin'...

[officermom50]

@ochayeman I just started so this is all new to me.

[redrumsgal1]

i am kiwi shearer and a woman. never shorn merinos but have picked up a a cupla gud tips thru watching this. as for u god damn tree huggers spend some time on a sheep station, what we do for a job is done as humanely as possible. great vid.

[ochayeman]

@redrumsgal1 ha ha well said redrums :)

[rolfey334]

They're well shorn rams mate, what blood ayr you on?

[megan1675]

Fantastic video. As for all you so called 'DO GOODERS" out there, GET A LIFE!!! I bet half the people that posted negative comments here eat meat.Where the hell do you think meat comes from? Wear woolen articles of clothing in winter to keep warm, last i checked, wool doesn't grow on trees, & I bet you have pets that are microchipped, to either prevent theft or as a method of id etc. And as for being a cruel practice to shear sheep, go visit a farm & and see the benefits 'for the sheep' .

[ochayeman]

@megan1675 well put

[jimnclock]

bloody big wood heads, should be banned! them and metal ear tags

[DJCamYank]

The stain is the lanolin or grease/yolk from the wool. And no, this doesn't hurt them whatsoever. After a brief few minutes of awkwardness they have that heavy fleece off and their skin breath during the summer. They want to be sheared. They been bred for countless generations to be sheared.

[panicathediscoluvr]

Isn't it great that sheep have that reflex when you place them on their butts like that they just stay still? :) It's amazing. So convenient, especially for hoof trimming, vaccinating, deworming--and especially shearing!! Lol

[BCT911]

1:20 LOLLLLLLLLLLLLL

[mikkelperlt]

Nice job. Those are some relaxed rams. Are they sedated or just used to the drill?

[MrSeanodwyer140]

Ahh/I witnessed my father Accidently cut off the penis on one off his own rams when i twas 4 and rouseing for him. He tryed too glue it back on again with the p.A. glue that you use for the Emery griding papers.-sic.@ It worked.

[ochayeman]

@MrSeanodwyer140 aye right mate ;p

[seekerskeptic]

I bet he feels really good after having that heavy dirty coat removed from his body. Like when I bath my dog he runs around and is so happy to feel so good.

[cryptikmoon3000]

You bloody city pricks saying how it's cruel to shear a sheep or bloody mulse a sheep when it's not! We are doing it for there own good and for money in our farmers pockets! How would you like to be a sheep with a years worth of wool on ya, that's bad enough and then you see other sheep sometimes with about 3+ years worth of wool on them.

[sheepshearer100]

Anyone who thinks shearing is cruel has never seen unshorn sheep in late summer or fall 90 degree weather after the flys have laid their eggs in the wool and they are full of maggots. Shearing them is the humane thing to do. I've sheared 18 years, and nobody has ever called my work inhumane

[MANTLEBERG]

SHADOWK----I DONT HAVE ONE..LOL

[shadowknowsjo]

If i may, its because people dont need to know this stuff anymore. And its people like us who are the ones who will be able to fill in the gaps. If people wouldnt be so bone headed thinking either A. sheep are being mistreated when they are shore and B. that people that dont know otherwise are stupid, then we would all be better off! I love sheep shearing(would love to go into competition) and I love sheep!

[teeroynz]

lol yeah somepeople are so think the think They live in la la city land and think the movies like bambi are real lol

[BornAndBredScottish]

OMG this guy is ace at shearing tups...

i shear my Scottish Blackface Tups and it takes ages to get around the horns without clipping the ear a wee bit... welldone to this guy for sure.

im only a novice shearer and have arranged a 2 day course on how to shear properly and gain a certificate so i can shear all around the world with my cousin who done it.

[xxbabiieebooxx]

WOW, that was really well done. Smooth and clean with very little hassle to the Ram. Most people will never know hard it is to sheer rams. I have been shearing for 20 years and this guy has done a stellar job, congratulations.

[MANTLEBERG]

When they are older in U.K. they have to listen to some old rag headed religious wanker, whailing on about allan or something, while it is slowly bleeding to death, then its called halal, and used to feed terrorist arseholes, that drive taxis, and claim family family credits, from the tax payers.

[shadowknowsjo]

Wow, you cetainly know your stuff :P First, you are right in saying they are bleed, but it is not slow. Second, you are right in saying its called halal, but i laugh at your ignorance about who it feeds! Geeze, what would you do if someone started insulting your religion?

[DailyBrusher]

I've watched the video and read the comments. I'd like to say that I'm a life-long vegetarian, and I think this is fine. If this is standard, then I see no cruelty in shearing. Question: What happens to older sheep? Do they go to the butcher? For dog food? Do they get too old to produce good wool? Thanks for posting this!

[NZ500D]

When they get to between 6-10 years old their teeth are worn down to a point where they can't eat enough so they have to be killed. They are either made into food for the farm dogs or they are processed and exported as mutton. Wild sheep die before their teeth get worn down that far because they aren't cared for like farmed sheep.

[shadowknowsjo]

Some farmers will keep sheep until they pass of old age, and some are lucky enough to allow them to retire as lawnmowers on other people's farms. Others, however are eaten, dog food or as mutton for people. I have never heard of old sheep being "put out of their misery" unless they are very, very sick! There isnt a lot of money in wool in Canada, i dont know what it is like in the rest of the world though.

[DailyBrusher]

Thanks a ton for the post & the reply. I'm going to advise other veggies not to worry much about wool, the shearing is generally fine, and they have to die of something, some time. They are raised to live & produce wool, unlike livestock & poultry, raised unhealthily to die. Seems there is much, much worse stuff going on for animal rights folks to worry about, and the difference in the numbers is super-huge. So, wool being a superior material, I'll choose wool over petroleum-based synthetics!

[Davobeff]

the Live stock industry is not cruel, cattle, sheep and pigs will only perform if they a healthy and content. sows in farier pens are only there to protect their piglets and most cattle and sheep graze in padocks or feed in feed lots where they have ample food and water as well as medicle treatment if required. i dont totaly agree with the poultry industry, but cooks still task good.

[DailyBrusher]

Davobeff, I wonder if you're in Oz or elsewhere outside the U.S. The standards for the U.S. livestock industry are dirty and dangerous, as well as cruel. It's not uncommon for "downers" (cows so sick they can't stand) to end up in our food. More and more, livestock owners are getting away from filthy feedlots, back to grazing, and this puts them way outside the mainstream. Informed consumers will pay more for "grass-fed" beef, for instance.

[Davobeff]

their is nothing wrong with grain feed meet, all the ive ever seen in lot feed environments are in good health and look content. we do some lot feeding on my family farm, only our own weeners go on but our system is different to others in that we have trees in our pens and the animals arnt over crowded.

[DailyBrusher]

Davobeff if you're a farmer then you know more about it than I do -- and you will want to know what's going on in the industry, and how it affects markets. Cattle evolved to graze on grasses. Eating grain fattens them up quicker, but it also increases the E. Coli in their gut. When you put all those animals together in a pen, their standing in each other's crap, and there's just a shit-load of E. Coli around. (see next note)

[DailyBrusher]

That's why we're getting so many meat recalls these days - cause of the big factory farms where most of the meat comes from. Depending on where you live, you might be able to get more money per animal if you have room to graze them. Being a smaller farm (?) you guys could do better that way, if you're in a different market from the big guys.

[Davobeff]

do you understand how cattle's stomochs work. they they require bacterear(mind the spelling) to feed upon. and while there is an increase in E.coli there is also an ichrease in the bacterear their rumon turns into nutrition.

[Davobeff]

And on sick animals ending up in your food, it has to get a stamp on the carcass and be deemed fit for human consumption.

[Davobeff]

mind you i haven't seen any of the US cattle industry

[DailyBrusher]

That's the diff -- the FDA here (Food and Drug Administration) is run by "big agri-business" These are the ag corporations who have run all the family farms out of business. America is great for being able to buy crappy electronics, made in China, for cheap clothes, but the quality of life is crap compared to much of the "developed" world.

[DailyBrusher]

Anyway, try to see the movie "Food Inc" that came out last year in the states. It's not an anti-meat movie at all. The hero of the film is a livestock man from Virginia who raises cattle, pigs and poultry, all open range, no feed lots, and all his neighbors buy from him. He does very well.

[guitarfreak4ever92]

this is not funny!!!! why do you torture animals mann!!!!!!!!!!!!! how would like it if somebody did that to you

[byresy]

shearings not funny... your comment is though...lmao

[guitarfreak4ever92]

if its not funny why do you do it

[southparkwaldo]

It's not meant to be funny, Mike

And it's not worst for the sheep or something

They just makes whole jackets of it and stuff

The whole ( or how you write it ) grows back..

[Kurollama]

Shearing don't hurt em. Hell, the sheep are happy when they get that thick heavy wool off. You've obviously never seen them in the paddock afterwards, jumping like crazy things they're so happy.

[msjh14]

it would be worse for the sheep if it wasn't shorn - get you facts right b4 you go shouting your mouth of about something you know nothing about!!

[countrygal81]

For a start the shearer is shearing the WOOL off the sheep and then this wool is made into jerseys and socks etc to keep the people warm. End of story. And no the sheep was'nt drugged and the wool grows back.

[rmdowson]

omg i didnt realise some people were so thick!

[ThePeterlockhart]

@guitarfreak4ever92 I suppose you think wool is found in balls wrapped in plastic in shops. Sheep grow wool and it has to be taken off them for their health. He is NOT torturing that ram - he is helping him. City idiots like you do not have the first clu about reality.

[GregMendez9]

@guitarfreak4ever92 i sheer my lamb when its awake after i washed it i just put it on the sheering table tie its head so it cant get loose and it satys still

[AlexDevoy]

@guitarfreak4ever92 so your saying that instead of removing the wool, they should leave it on so it can get all knotted, dirty, and overgrown? Not to mention it makes them very hot.

[sarah777k9]

is the ram druged or somthing ?

[thenotebook7]

was the sheep alive when u shaved the wool?

[dogpup23]

it was alive, i dont think they shear dead sheep O.o

[internetmarketing1]

Hey Byresy! I would like to see some more shearing videos mate!

[Davobeff]

and his best tally on ewes was 320

[Davobeff]

My uncle used to she 30 rams a run

[turipaboy]

hey nice job man

merino rams arent quite easy are they

imma shearer my self imma kiwi

nice technique good job

[visualvirtue]

Thanks for posting, much appreciated.

[ochayeman]

it's hard work and that bungy makes a difference when you're over a sheep for a long time, like a big ram or a ewe with little rise! Keep up the good work mate.

[ariekert]

You are so sexy. Something about a sheep shearer...

Maybe it's all that ram pheromone...;D

[lillywolfsbane]

Very Nice rams! Beautiful. This is such a nice video and very informative. Although I did get a chuckle out of the pat you gave the first ram, as if to say "Sorry about that buddy, no offense..." Very cute. I can tell you care for your animals. I like your choice of music too. ^_^

[lillywolfsbane]

Very Nice rams! Beautiful. This is such a nice video and very informative. Although I did get a chuckle out of the pat you gave the first ram, as if to say "Sorry about that buddy, no offense..." Very cute. I can tell you care for your animals. I like your choice of music too. ^_^

[byresy]

lamb shearing is the same process, just much quicker and i am not sure how they extract the lanolin from the wool, but i get it all over me when I am shearing...

[wickednumber1fan]

thanks that is really helpfull do u know anything about merino lambs/sheep and if it is a similar process of shearing?

(I know all merino sheep are not killed for 'food') but is lanolin just squezeed from wool? thankyou

[wickednumber1fan]

I have a few questions i am very pro animal rights and vegetarian. I saw a video that stoped me wearing wool and using products with lanolin.

It would be extremly helpfull if you could take the time to answer these.

1. Does it hurt the sheep?

2. Are these sheep killed for 'food'?

3. Is the stain on the floor where the sheep is being sheared a blood stain?

4. On the second sheep is the dot blood that the guy daps with something?

[byresy]

1)

a) its just like getting your hair cut...

2)

a) that is a Ram I am shearing, you don't eat rams

3)

a) the stain is a drag mark through dust, the lanolin in the wool cleans the board(its a shearing shed not a slaughter house)

4)

a) the mark the farmer puts on his Ram is a squirt of dye, so he can recognize it when amoung the other rams...

[Deeno888]

wickednumber1fan, it's remarkable just how stupid people can be. You make a informed?? life change based on a video and are so ill informed as to ask such stupid questions as these

This is a video of a man taking great care of the welfare of his Rams, dumbo

Are you truly thick enough to think they shear sheep on a blood stained floor, or that they put sheep though a mangle to get the lanolin out

Arggh madness, sad thing, there are so many like you, Some where a village is short of an idiot.

[Kurollama]

What video could you have watched that would put you off wearing wool and using lanolin.

[buzzbox2nd]

@wickednumber1fan you really are a idiot if you dont understand what this vid is all about , what a lot of stupid questions

[berger2761]

I am a french shearer,that is a good job and good technique

[internetmarketing1]

I like your technique!

[byresy]

thanks , Ive been working on it for a while