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The Importance of Shearing Your Sheep

The Importance of Shearing Your Sheep

Shearing is the process whereby the sheep’s fleece or wool is removed using  shears called ‘handpieces’. The fleece needs to be removed regularly because it grows continuously.  Sheep should be shorn annually. Unshorn wool could eventually impede movement. Sheep can overheat and die in the summer months if not shorn, and become the target for parasitic species such as ticks, lice, mites, and the maggots that cause fly strike, a gruesome and even deadly condition.

 

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