Shearing 2021

[MRT]

Will the shearers be charging less? I for one am sick of funding designer singlets and fancy wool wrapping Instagram chicks when wool is worth damn all.

They are charging 5% less due to the loss of wool value, but 100% more due to the rise in sheep values

 

[Estate fencing.]

Will the shearers be charging less? I for one am sick of funding designer singlets and fancy wool wrapping Instagram chicks when wool is worth damn all.

Do them yourself then if your not happy to pay good money for hard work.

 

[hill shepherd]

Will the shearers be charging less? I for one am sick of funding designer singlets and fancy wool wrapping Instagram chicks when wool is worth damn all.

Definitely wouldn't begrudge the shearers their pay regardless of what the wool is worth, them lads earn their money. Won't be any clipping here til mid July at the earliest

 

[Farmer Keith]

Do them yourself then if your not happy to pay good money for hard work.

Nothing beats the annual post fishing for bites off of shearers quite happy to pay the £1.20 having done it myself back in the day.

 

[MRT]

Strangely; got a call today to shear some ewes out of the blue, 20 odd Jacobs, did them last five years ago and they had creepy crawlies. Wonder what happened to the person who has done them since? Anyway, declined the opportunity, didn't even get to talking cash ££££

 

[MRT]

Nothing beats the annual post fishing for bites off of shearers quite happy to pay the £1.20 having done it myself back in the day.

Have you never seen the boomerang EBV thread/threads?

 

[CopperBeech]

Will the shearers be charging less? I for one am sick of funding designer singlets and fancy wool wrapping Instagram chicks when wool is worth damn all.

To be fair mate, they earn their coin more than most folk in farming.

I pay tax, you get subs. I'm fairly sick of funding inefficient farmers . . . . . . .

 

[shearerlad]

I’ve only done about 200 so far, pedigree tups and ewe hoggs, and they haven’t been anything flash.
Ive got 2 places booked in for the weekend, but the phone has started to ring now. It’s usually the 8th/10th of June before I do much at all.

 

[ianlucasshearing]

No!!!

Will the shearers be charging less? I for one am sick of funding designer singlets and fancy wool wrapping Instagram chicks when wool is worth damn all.

 

[Dangerous Dan]

We did a batch of dry hoggs, 2 had beginnings of strike, they were hard work. Flighty buggers!!! . Did the tups today, hardest part was getting them turned.

 

[Woolless]

Will the shearers be charging less? I for one am sick of funding designer singlets and fancy wool wrapping Instagram chicks when wool is worth damn all.

Best money I spend all year is the cash I give the lad who comes and clips my handful of Hampshire Down tups. He always gets £10 more than he asks for and I don't grudge him a penny of it!

 

[Fat Lamb]

Will the shearers be charging less? I for one am sick of funding designer singlets and fancy wool wrapping Instagram chicks when wool is worth damn all.

I'd like to think this is being said tongue in cheek and if so then we can all have a laugh. If that's not the case then I'd just like to state that the price of shearing has no relation to how little the wool is worth.

 

[unlacedgecko]

Will the shearers be charging less? I for one am sick of funding designer singlets and fancy wool wrapping Instagram chicks when wool is worth damn all.

Wool wrapping chicks are the best thing about shearing.

 

[Estate fencing.]

Wool wrapping chicks are the best thing about shearing.

They where in my youth, don't know how I had the energy!

 

[unlacedgecko]

They where in my youth, don't know how I had the energy!

Window shopping old son

 

[neilo]

To be fair mate, they earn their coin more than most folk in farming.

I pay tax, you get subs. I'm fairly sick of funding inefficient farmers . . . . . . .

Thank you anyway. I’ll put it towards all the costs incurred by those of us that aren’t just graziers.

 

[neilo]

Wool wrapping chicks are the best thing about shearing.

I clearly need to change my shearers.

 

[Northern territory]

Thank you anyway. I’ll put it towards all the costs incurred by those of us that aren’t just graziers.

That’s very true, everyone who thinks subs are wasted want to try and keep fences, sheds, drains, machinery, houses up to scratch. Whether an owner or a tenant.

 

[neilo]

Done the rams on Monday.
March lambing Charollais and dry hoggs all crutched, given Ectofly, then turned back to forget about until the end of the month, post weaning.
April lambing ewes getting half rate Clik at the same time as I do the lambs, then forgotten again until weaning.

Shearers phone got busy last week apparently, so easier for all to let them clear the panicers first.

 

[unlacedgecko]

Trading ewes were crutched pre lambing. They'll get dysect this weekend and the buyers can shear if they want.

Maternal flock pre lamb sheared end of April. They'll get dysect next month. Very much looking forward to getting 100% shedder.