Click go the Shears!

We grow wool on our farm and this week we are shearing some young merino lambs.

The lambs were born in May 2015 and this is the first time they have had their fleece shorn.

There are three shearers hard at work shearing the wool from the sheep. 

The weather is hot, I think the lambs would like having their woolly jacket shorn off!

The wool is soft and smells of lanolin.

  

After the wool is shorn from the sheep, it is prepared on the table by my mum and other shed staff.

 Wool that is short, coloured or has lots of grass seed is removed.

The wool is then ready to go into the wool press.

 

  The wool is pressed into really big bales that weigh up to 200kg.

 When all the wool is pressed a truck will take the wool away....

it is nearly ready to be sold!