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Sheep Sharers and Wool Classers

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Sheep Sharers and Wool Classers

As a person who grew up on a farm, here's some info for ya:
The sheep does need to be 'upside down for it to be less likely to wriggle. The sheep wriggling is what causes most cuts. It does seem like there are more cuts than I would expect here, though. If the shearer accidentally made a small cut, we would immediately spray it with antiseptic, which is marked with a purple dye so you can see it has been treated, and if it was any bigger than a tiny bit, we might put a kind of tape on it (like a sheep plaster). Most sheep we had would emerge without cuts.
Shearing is necessary because modern sheep breeds don't shed their wool in summer and are more likely to get heat stroke and undetected maggots (which eat the sheep alive) if not shaven, and would eventually find it hard to walk if their wool was left to grow for
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