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Walter Godfrey Bowen MBE (13 February 1922 – 2 January 1994) [1] was a New Zealand farmer and world acclaimed sheep shearer.With his brother Ivan, he developed the Bowen Technique, which involved the shearer using his spare hand to stretch the sheep's skin, which improved the quality of the shorn fleece. [2]
Deucem's shearing feats include: consistently high tallies at a time when the difficult-to-shear Vermont Merino was introduced, shearing 290 stud merino two-tooth hoggets in a single day in 1936 at Mirrool Park, near Griffith, and; shearing 1430 sheep in one week with a broken right thumb.
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Gun shearers using blade shears are usually shearers that have shorn at least 200 sheep in a day. A learner (shearer) is a shearer or intending shearer who has shorn less than a specified number of sheep. [3] In 1983 the Australian shearing industry was torn apart by the wide comb dispute and the ensuing 10-week strike that followed. The ...
The Wolseley Sheep Shearing Machine Company This page was last edited on 27 August 2020, at 00:07 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Kerri-Jo Te Huia is a champion sheep shearer from Te Kūiti, New Zealand. [1] Te Huia is the youngest of five children, several of whom work in shearing. Her parents were also shearing contractors and trainers. [2] In 2009, she competed in the New Zealand Shearing Championships in wool handling and intermediate-grade shearing. [3]
Pages in category "Sheep shearers" ... William Smith (shearer) This page was last edited on 3 April 2018, at 00:51 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Chris had to be sedated throughout the procedure, during which the shearer removed up to 40.45 kilograms (89.2 lb) of thick wool after working about 42 minutes. [4] Australian sheep are usually shorn annually and their fleeces usually weigh about 5 kilograms (11 lb). [4]