Worst Sheep Shearer ever seen, Farming

My 2nd year of shearing. I decided to take on the task of shearing this year again after last year was my first year of it. Back breaking work but so rewarding when you see it done. hope you enjoy
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[@mochalab6286]

Love that you’re wearing The Sheep Game shirt!❤. I think you did a great job shearing.

[@sheepshepherd]

Cheers, Ya cammy is a great man. I met him last week at the hiland show in Edinburgh

[@johnthompson982]

Another great video Thats what I'd call back breaking work Watching you shearing You'd never think it was only your second year your fast and the one you did with your father's sheers that looked really good The lambs they done well their looking awesome

[@sheepshepherd]

Ya the old shears is still working fine, back breaking work is right, hopefully another week I'll be done, the rain is holding us up

[@frankwhite7641]

Great looking lambs. You are are handy enough lad at the shearing. You look like you have been at it for years.

[@sheepshepherd]

No then, I'm very slow, my father showed me last year how to do it and I went from there

[@frankwhite7641]

Lambs are great. Have a few myself and am a newby farmer especialy for sheep. You have very thriving lambs.

[@johnmcintyre800]

​@@sheepshepherdyou not slow just muscles you never used before u will be fit when you have them finished and then not doing for another year is the hard part next time

[@sheepshepherd]

​@@frankwhite7641cheers, their doing great

[@sheepshepherd]

​@@johnmcintyre800ya that's true.. I feel I'm getting better every day pity I wasn't like that from the start😅

[@BEB1958]

I thought your shearing looked pretty good. You know the saying “practice makes perfect”. Keep it up. Great video. Barb

[@sheepshepherd]

Thanks Barb, ya exactly. I'll keep at it👍👍

[@tikkathreebarrels]

good looking lambs. All that rain, no wonder your grass is so green!

[@sheepshepherd]

Cheers . Ya grass is very good the last month, very happy with it 😄

[@belindareitz9873]

John,your father’s shearing moto😢works great, your doing a fantastic just b, so professional. Awesome. B

[@sheepshepherd]

👍👍 thanks, we will

[@chessman483]

As an X shearer, heck u shore very well. Easy shearing sheep, but still u have to get them in the correct position or u can’t shear like that. Well done. The only thing I’d say to improve again , is really concentrate on tipping your hand over further to make sure your BOTTOM tooth on your comb is right on the skin. Would eliminate second cuts.

[@benburns5995]

Great Shearing video. You are getting pretty quick as you get more experienced. The sheep probably enjoy being Shorn as that wool is probably itchy. With having to move the sheep around and constantly bending over it has to be very hard on your back.

[@sheepshepherd]

Ya it's back breaking work, but very rewarding when it's done, the sheep love having the wool off, so uncomfortable this time of year with it on

[@keithronson2624]

Good job done!.Know zero about shearing but you did a fantastic job! 👍👍. Is there any value to the wool?. Can you sell it? Why is it not used for home insulation?. Thanks again. Fantastic video. Hope the rest of the shearing goes well.

[@sheepshepherd]

Ya years ago it was worth a lot of money now it's worthless. No there is no real buyers there for insulation, but something should be done

[@paulgilliland7288]

Another great video 👌.

[@sheepshepherd]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@garymadden2656]

Great video as always 👌

[@sheepshepherd]

Cheers Garry

[@belindareitz9873]

In America i make wool rugs. I spent spin, dye, cut wool. We pay $14 for a thin layer, maybe 1/8 or 1/16 of a yard of flat milled wool, 10x12 inches. This is a older art that is reborn like home-canning of all meats and food. Yes, there are so sheep here in America, or Canada, but why is it controlled like the diamond market? I make beautiful wool products and home can tasty foods, that over the world many people used to make at home? B

[@sheepshepherd]

That's great to hear, well done to ye, I'm looking at putting it into my house for insulation. I'm going building this year

[@michaelmcdonald2990]

Good job keep it up

[@sheepshepherd]

Thank you, I will

[@patrickhiggins3582]

you and your dad have a lovely place to live in the mountains for the summer, but it would be very windy for the winter i think

[@jimmy.....9446]

Fine lambs . The fertiliser on the mountain is working. You are right about shearers deserving every penny they get 👍

[@sheepshepherd]

Yes they do deserve every penny. Back breaking work

[@shanereaney3631]

Brilliant job...well done.your father is great for 90 years old...how dose he do it so fit bless him

[@sheepshepherd]

Thanks 👍👍👍

[@Jp12987]

You are doing good at the shearing. Practice is all you need. Lambs looking well coming off the mountain.

[@sheepshepherd]

Cheers James, very happy with the lambs this year, hopefully they will be a market for them. Exactly. Plenty practice

[@tomotoole7241]

Them lamb's have done very well all top quality 👍how many sheep would you shear with battery shears before it need a charge

[@sheepshepherd]

30 to 40 sheep and I'd change it then. It's an outstanding shears

[@emilyjayne77]

The ‘60’s sheers work fine! If it’s not broken, don’t fix it eh!

[@sheepshepherd]

Exactly. It's a hardy bit of machine👍👍

[@emilyjayne77]

@@sheepshepherd shite was built to last back in’t day! I bet your battery powered ones won’t last you two seasons of sheering 🐑 Great vid matey. Watching from Nottinghamshire England 🫶🏻

[@leannearmour1469]

With the feet , do you vaccinate against foot rot ? We do in Australia, saves a lot of time , can even get it made to protect against what ever strain you have on farm ..

[@sheepshepherd]

No we don't vaccinate for it. We footbath regular and inject any ewe with bad feet with an antibiotic

[@DianaDahliaBee]

Good job with the shearing. Good days work!

[@sheepshepherd]

Thanks 👍

[@azamyahmad]

Welcome back Sir .. Masha Allah that drone captured absolutely spectacular gorgeous, beautiful filming shooting captured with Green Green grass of all and you nailed it again, Keep it up Sir and I really appreciate and enjoy watching your lifestyle countryside documentary updated content video, and best of luck to you Sir in your coming successfully future and more blessing and subscribe to you on your way .. keep rocking my friend and Ur the best .. redgs from Montreal QC Canada

[@sheepshepherd]

Thank u

[@ellenmoore6841]

Really good looking sheep and you do as good a job shearing as anyone else! Have a great day

[@sheepshepherd]

Thanks Helen, appreciate the comment 👍👍

[@Hillfarmlamb]

👍👍👍Your doing a great job for a second year apprentice how many more years till your qualified 😂😂

[@sheepshepherd]

I'd say 10 😅😅 I'm happy enough that I can shear my own sheep, it's an extra cost if I couldn't

[@keithk1246]

Fair play! For only your second year your not bad at the shearing. You'll get wee tips from other Shearer's and it'll make it easier on you.

[@sheepshepherd]

Ya KZbin is very handy for watching shearers, great tips from it. I must do a course

[@sheepdogman1]

Your shearing is good. I will be 60 next year and am still shearing our own and go doing other peoples sheep although its getting harder every year. Keep up the good work its great content

[@sheepshepherd]

Fair play to you. That is serious going. What age did you start and where are you from

[@sheepdogman1]

@@sheepshepherd started late at 27 from Rochdale originally but have 660 acres in Shetland now

[@sheepshepherd]

​@@sheepdogman1you have a big farm. Hope you get good prices this year. We all need it

[@sheepdogman1]

Sent some last week to Lanark very poor prices but buyers know you can’t take them back so prices are poor but less mouths to feed

[@wendyrowland7787]

The sheep and the shepherds are both doing well.

[@sheepshepherd]

Thanks Wendy, ya the sheep are in really good condition and the lambs are thriving which is great to see

[@emmett1739]

Your shearing is more than good.its just a pity we dont get more for the fleece..but as long as your doing your own clipping its one less bill and the money earned will help to pay a bill..but the most important thing is to stopthem going over on there back and keeping the maggots in check.Lambs look great and we are all hard judges on our own stock and to be honest we never get a true picture of how good they are till the ewes are clipped.keep upthe content and your da' is great craic.

[@sheepshepherd]

Cheers Emmet, ya one less bill, it would cost me 3,000 to get people in. And nothing for the wool. Where you from

[@emmett1739]

Co Derry .Don't be too sore on us in the semi final

[@sheepshepherd]

​@@emmett1739😂😂 ye will be no push overs. But Kerry should win hopefully

[@richardmarshall5960]

I am curious you’ve mentioned that you participated in a government program to plant a portion of your land to trees. You were given a grant for this. Now, however, a population of deer live in the woods you created but come out of the woods to feast on your sheep’s grass. In hindsight would you have participated in the program? Are you allowed to harvest any of the deer for meat? Regarding sore back due to shearing, have you seen the harness set up that some use? Harness is attached via rope to overhead beam and therefore supports back while leaning over shearing. It is interesting how you mark your sheep so you know they are yours. I remembering growing up on a Missouri farm we marked our calves by cutting the tip of their right ear. Surrounding farmers marked their cattle by different markings.

[@johnmcintyre800]

His deer are a pest that have got out of control breeds like fuck and not enough hunters to control them in the last 20 years between September and February they can be hunted just not enough hunters

[@sheepshepherd]

Ya everyone here has their own markings. A harness is a good idea alright, might look into that for next year. Tbh I probably wouldn't have planted, it was my father's decision, but it is what it is. No you cannot shoot them unless you have a license and there is only certain butchers that can butcher a deer

[@sheepshepherd]

​@@johnmcintyre800ya no one hunts anymore .

[@dykehead1]

You are not so slow, about a minute and a half, well done. As you say them shearing lads deserve every penny that they charge

[@sheepshepherd]

Ya they deserve every penny. Toughest job I've ever done. Back breaking work

[@williecosgrove]

I will be down to you in September to sort out those deer for you🤞

[@sheepshepherd]

That's the stuff 👍👍

[@alanchambers9818]

Good on you how do you like the rechargeable sheers how many do you get out of one charge

[@sheepshepherd]

About 35 to one battery, I have two batteries. It's a super job

[@tonywalsh8704]

Your fast enough for only second year shearing, the more you do the tidier youl get. Those are good lambs for twins

[@sheepshepherd]

Ya hopefully anyway, the lambs are good this year, very happy with them tony

[@Snickeran]

You should of seen us yesterday 😂😂

[@sheepshepherd]

😂😂

[@Snickeran]

Yeah, it wasnt pretty😂😂😂

[@eamonnleonard9162]

Are there any Marino sheep in Ireland? They are popular here in Australia!

[@sheepshepherd]

No I never heard of them anyway. Have you sheep?

[@eamonnleonard9162]

@@sheepshepherd sorry I should have spelt Merino not Marino, anyway I think they are a Spanish sheep going back several centuries. The average price for a pressed bale of Merino wool at 18.85 microns was 1912 dollars Australian last year. The highest price paid for a bale of Merino wool was over one million Australian dollars back in 1995. The top price paid for a stud ram was 450.000 dollars back in 1989. The tougher the Merino sheep has it the finer the micron reading her wool will be. Invercargill in the south end of the south island of New Zealand is considered brilliant Merino country,as is the high country in Victoria Australia. The last time I fed sheep in Ireland was sixty years ago and they were Galway ewe's. I have a mate who ran about 1500 merino's out near Kargoorlie WA, man they were big ignorant brutes of sheep. Anyway regards to yourself and your father. Kind regards Eamonn Leonard.

[@sheepshepherd]

@eamonnleonard9162 you get around. Ya Galway ewes are native to Ireland, Thanks for that info, it's great to learn new stuff everyday on this. I lived in Sydney for 5 year's. I love Australia

[@eamonnleonard9162]

@@sheepshepherd did you find the winter's in Ireland very cold after five years in Sydney? Your father must have missed you something awful when you were away, you have a great bond. Did your Dad visit Australia?, I can picture him on a cattle muster up in the northern territory, he'd be a mighty jackeroo. I enjoy your videos, but tell your father to be careful on that quad!! Oh the Galway ewe's were on my fathers farm in Westmeath I remember feeding them during the big freeze of 1963. Ask your father if it snowed in Kerry that year.

[@sheepshepherd]

​@@eamonnleonard9162ya he checked his diary, it snowed for weeks here that year, No he never came. He would never leave the farm. I didn't mind the cold, Sydney was too hot for me in the summer. I prefer the cooler temperatures😂

[@aaronwolverson850]

Burn the wool 2023 Then you all will see what it is worth Farmers are getting ripped off Great job lads.

[@sheepshepherd]

You're right. Ripped off on a lot of things. Something needs to happen

[@seanodwyer4322]

as sheep numbers down in Australia and new Zealand - should use all those woolsheds and shearers quarters for accommodations. Farmers can rent them out too Paying Indians . - who know how too cook Vegetarian samosas

[@semm_69]

добрый день как называется эта машинка

[@sheepshepherd]

Thank u

[@semm_69]

@@sheepshepherd Извините возможно неправильный перевод название этой машинки для стрижки овец?

[@mikek7040]

You sick of the rain i have lot lambs in to o

[@jonathondunne1905]

Is there anyway of contacting you thanks 😊

[@sheepshepherd]

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[@saabsonsan]

A hundred dorsets and you would be earning your money then

[@sheepshepherd]

I shore one Dorset, I have never seen as much hair on a sheep in my life 😂😂

[@kevinmccrory845]

Top good crack boys

[@workmax6526]

Great watching the shearing work and you seem to be building a good bit of skill!

[@sheepshepherd]

Ya it's a skill really. But I'm not good at it. Hopefully I'll improve do 👍👍

[@claymonsterpottery]

Nice to see the days in perspective. About how many sheep can you sheer on a battery? You seem to be doing great with sheering being only you’re second year. (Nice shirt!) Hi dad!

[@sheepshepherd]

About 30 to 40 sheep per battery, it's a super shears, it's Tough work but very rewarding

[@RONAN3790]

Did ya have any trouble with fly strike on the ewes after the hot weather and now the humid weather

[@sheepshepherd]

Ya we have it every year but so far we have had none this year. We are quiet high up so not as bad here