Crossing over to the dark side!

[gatepost]

And who’s going to shear them in 20 years time. Very few young shears coming along, far to hard work to start out.

Probably true, sadly, when I was at collage, every one learnt/had a go at shearing, the collage turned out future shearers, virtually every one who worked on a farm clipped (in a fashion), hard work was just what you did, one of my 20ish year old neighbors was complaining about having to unload a ton of 20kg bags by hand.

 

[unlacedgecko]

You would get 7.5- 8 Shetlands for the price of a 2 tooth easycare!!

2nd year draft with March born easycare ewe lamb. They can wean some weight.

 

[CopperBeech]

I think when we ran a bunch of them, the best we were getting was about 60-65kilo of weaned lamb out of a circa 45 kilo ewe.