Shearers

What the job involves

• Selecting and preparing shearing equipment

• Catching and positioning animals for shearing

• Shearing and removing wool and hair from animals

• Identifying contaminated fibre and injured, infected and diseased animals

• Treating skin cuts

• Returning shorn animals to let-out pens for counting and checking

• May service, maintain and repair shearing equipment

• May shear stud animals with hand shears or special combs