shearing techniques

For this activity there are two distinct methods or techniques:

CREOLE  METHOD 
It is the oldest and most traditional method, where the animal is tied (hobbled) before starting to cut the fleece. Finished cutting release the sheep for shearing the belly and do the tear.

METHOD AUSTRALIAN

It is a method that performs the operations after cutting loose the animal for which the animal is located Shearer sitting and operates from behind it. We begin first by the stomach and ends in the head

Shearing, regardless of technique or method used, can be done by hand with scissors (shears manual) as shown in the images on the right.

They are simply used scissors without major variations from antiquity to the removal of wool from the sheep.

Shearing, regardless of technique or method used, can be done by hand with scissors (shears manual) as shown in the images on the right.

A variation brought by the technology after the Industrial Revolution is the machine to shear (mechanical shearing), which can be fixed or portable, whose images reproduced here.

This machine is used on farms with many sheep population where high productivity with a lower degree of physical demand.

Shearing is done once a year, then the wool is expected to grow again for twelve months, to return to shear in the following summer.

This period should provide adequate nutrition, good health management and even introduce improved genetics to the fold, for animals with higher quality wool.