Veteran shearing champion David Fagan has landed possibly the ultimate long-service award but possibly also one of his greatest challenges after winning his 17th New Zealand Championship Open Title in home town – Te Kuiti – earlier this month.
Reflecting on a lifetime of family involvement with the most influential sheep breed to come into the UK, Gordon Gray discloses his road to the Chairmanship of the Texel Sheep Society.
The Celebratory 50th Golden Shears, in Masterton, New Zealand, is one event female shearer Una Cameron of St Boswells will never forget. She made history, by becoming the first woman ever to qualify for the Top 30, in the most coveted shearing competition on earth.
Scottish female sheep shearer Una Cameron of St Boswells has shorn her
way into the history books by becoming the first woman ever to make the Top 30 in the Open heats of the New Zealand
Golden Shears.
Easy care is a term that we all hear regularly these days and to those of us who grew up with shepherds and stocksmen on the farm it was something which, if there were sufficient staff, was an unnecessary concern. Now, it means a way to manage a profitable enterprise with fewer members of staff, thus still allowing time for “other things” which are morimportant.
Most supplementary feeding effort is directed to the ewe in the 6 weeks before lambing. But in the latest SAC booklet –Year Round Feeding for Lifetime Production –
it is shown how this is too late to correct for cobalt deficiency at tupping.
Far North, New Zealand shearer Matthew Smith launched himself into the records book with a near perfect effort as he smashed the World eight-hour ewe shearing record northwest of Napier.
SAFE compartments to save newborn lambs are now available and easily attached to Solway Recycling lambing pens bought this season.
John Gibson has achieved a personal best of shearing 360 sheep in a day.
He’s been shearing sheep for about five years but despite his current rate heading towards that of many leading
competitive shearers he says he still believes in keeping up his shearing training.
The International Year of Natural Fibres has been one to remember for second year SAC student Andrew Houston.
