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NZ/Australia are the antipodes. So antipodean means of that region
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Fleeces are graded and the veg matter/britch wool being removed in the shearing shed.
I usually end up set up on the end stand with the Longhorn and I get all the thin ewes pushed too me. It might take me 3x longer too shear the bad ones than they are flying the good ones off in but it keeps them going!I'd agree with @neilo
Blue spray is a waste of time. If there are no flies about the cut will dry up in two days and scab over.
It's flies that stop cuts healing and blue spray won't help that and neither will fly poor ons . Only thing I've found that will stop flies for cuts to heal is Stockholm tar.
Shearing cuts are down to, bad technique, bad gear and bad sheep.
Shearer training will improve your technique, bad gear can be hard to improve without the right guidance to where it's going wrong, again training, but bad sheep are equally to blame, and by that I mean sheep not ready or mixed sheep, either mixed breeds or mixed condition. You put a comb on to shear the majority in the mob, your gear may be going great but then you get a scummy sticky one or an odd ball and you end up cutting it as the sheep isn't ready and/or your on the wrong gear. If you put the right gear on for that one ewe you'd end up cutting all the others. As shearers we should just let unfit sheep go unshorn but no shepherd want to shear 20 themselves that the shearers let go as not fit to shear.