[Frantzie]

I love it! I wish I was there but I could not be a rancher. Maybe shearing sheep.

[NVDave]

I’d much rather deal with cattle than shear sheep.

Most of the sheepmen now hire the spring shearing done by lads from NZ and Oz. The really good ones (when they’re sober) can shear a ewe in about one minute, and keep the staple long with no second cuts. They’re amazing to watch.

[goat granny]

Hi Franzie I use to raise angora goats and they get sheared twice a year like sheep...it takes a pro. If you don't know what your doing, they will kick the shit out of you before you have them on the ground...especially large rams. Worse than goats..

Had a friend that had the largest sheep herd in St. Clare county Michigan...her ram was in a very secure pen and he was LARGE. Depends on the breed of sheep. Her hubby opened the gate with a pail of grain to feed him, he charged the gate and her hubby lost a finger between the gate and a post...he shot the sucker, but first called the guy that usually slaughters goats and sheep in his barn and told him he had just shot a ram and would the guy still process it....took him and a neighbor to load that dead ram into a trailer.

No one process's an already dead animal. They don't know what killed the critter, maybe disease...

He got ticked off when I called him lefty 4 fingers. I only did that once....ouchy to the look he gave me..