The biggest advantage is speed, it enables one shearer to get through many more sheep in a day. Speed is also an advantage for the sheep, the longer they are held for shearing the more stressful it is on them.
Sheep are normally dipped after shearing to treat for external parasites such as lice.
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By shearing them.
The Wolseley Sheep Shearing Machine Company was created on 1889-10-09.
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A shearing shed
Sheep Shearing in New Mexico - 1912 was released on: USA: 21 June 1912
Shorn sheep are dipped straight after shearing in a solution that contains a lousicide to kill lice.
Another word for shaving sheep is shearing.
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