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  2. Sheep shearing - Wikipedia

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    Machine shearing a Merino, Western Australia. The shearer is using a sling for back support. Shears and cowbells c. 250 AD Spain. Sheep shearing is the process by which the woollen fleece of a sheep is cut off. The person who removes the sheep's wool is called a shearer. Typically each adult sheep is shorn once each year (depending upon dialect ...

  3. Sheep farming - Wikipedia

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    Sheep farming in Namibia (2017). According to the FAOSTAT database of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the top five countries by number of head of sheep (average from 1993 to 2013) were: mainland China (146.5 million head), Australia (101.1 million), India (62.1 million), Iran (51.7 million), and the former Sudan (46.2 million). [2]

  4. Jackie Howe - Wikipedia

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    He shot to fame in pre-Federation Australia in 1892 when he broke the daily and weekly shearing records across the colonies. Howe was born at Killarney near Warwick, Queensland. On 10 October 1892, Howe had shorn 321 sheep in seven hours and 40 minutes at Alice Downs station, near Blackall, Queensland. This was a faster tally than any other ...

  5. Golden Shears - Wikipedia

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    The Golden Shears World championships is a global competition featuring about 30 countries, with Individual and Teams titles in machine shearing, blade shearing and woolhandling. The next World championships are at the Royal Highland Show, Edinburgh, Scotland, on June 22-25, 2023.

  6. Funny Pig Likes to Herd Sheep on Farm Just As Much As Any Dog

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    Kune Kune pigs are prized on small farms for multiple reasons. The first is their relatively small size and docile nature, which makes them an easy pig for hobby farmers or even children to handle ...

  7. Sheep shearer - Wikipedia

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    The Tally-Hi shearing technique reduced the time taken to shear a sheep by approximately 30 seconds. Kevin's daughter Deanne holds the Australian women's shearing record, having shorn 392 sheep in a day. [8] Henry Salter (1907–1997) MBE won the first organised shearing contest at Pyramid Hill in 1934 and in 1953 was a machine shearing ...

  8. The Wolseley Sheep Shearing Machine Company - Wikipedia

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    The shearing machines are worked on the principle of a horse clipper; there is a comb with slightly elevated teeth, made of steel, the knife works on the top of the comb; a three-horsepower engine will work 16 machines in the following manner:—There is a shaft running the whole length of the shearing floor, about 7 feet from the ground.

  9. How Trump won Pennsylvania’s Amish vote — with the ... - AOL

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    But in Lancaster, Chester, Lebanon, Dauphin and York counties, the vote count increased by 27,080 ballots — about 2.56% of the region’s 1,083,531 total votes tallied.