LEARNING TO SHEAR SHEEP AGAIN!
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ABOUT ME
I’m 31 years old and I’m a sheep farmer from Ayrshire in South West Scotland, which is why I have such a strong accent! I was born and raised on a sheep farm watching my dad who was the shepherd.
At 18 I went away from farming to work in the city (something I still do) and at 23 (2013) I decided I wanted to do something for some extra money so I went on a sheep shearing course. The hardest thing I’ll ever do was learning to shear sheep. [shudders thinking about it]
I shore whilst on my holidays from work for 2 years and then in 2015 my dad died so I decided to get my own sheep so I could continue working with sheep as it was something I loved doing. From there it escalated quickly from my first 4 sheep in my mum’s garden to now running around 600 breeding ewes.
I shore over 15,000 sheep this season in UK and I also travel to Norway for shearing in March and September. (Covid messed it up this year)
A few years ago I bought myself a sheep pregnancy scanner and have been building up my run since then.
I watched a few farm vlogs on CZcams and decided I could have a go and now here we are!
Thanks for watching my videos and please subscribe if you want to see more in future.
Thank you for sharing! The last time I watched one of your videos, I was a wannabee... I wanted to have sheep. Now I'm the proud owner of a flock of 17 lovely horned sheep (and very likely a flock of 17 bruises from horns). I get a lot out of watching your videos, and other videos from people who do things many different ways. The perspective makes it easier for me to see many sides of the story. Thank you so much for helping me come to my epiphany that life is way too short to not try to realize your dreams while you can.
Amazing Sasheena thanks so much!
Thanks, Cammy. Looks like hard, back-breaking work. Good on ya for shearing so well. ❤️🐑🐏
Great video. The kids interview was a great ending to the video.
Glad to see your smiling face and hear that you, Lizzie and baby are doing well. Cheers!
Thanks Liz
YES! Another video! You have been missed. Glad everything is OK
Thank Sherry
Awesome to watch and not a ‘Nick’ in sight. I know it happens, but always lovely to see when it doesn’t. Good straight back Cammie, well bent at the hips. Keep up the great vids and work from New Zealand. Go Sheep Fans.
Thanks Dee! 😁
The sheep running by and jumping like rabbits made me smile!
Feeling fresh now they have their coats off! 😁
Thanks so much! I’m a big fan of yours.🦌💌❤️☕️🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑
Hey Cammy thanks for the package dropped at sandi Brock’s. You made my day brother
Cheers Charlie!! Let me know how that comb goes on those big girls!
Had a pro legend on today. But they were peelin pretty good. It one point I said I need a bent warrior or something wider for days like today. Then you sent me one hahah
Glad everyone is doing well. I enjoy seeing how you champion everyone around you, supporting others. It’s refreshing, that’s for sure. Keep up the good work and let us peek in every now and then. 😁
It's a great industry to be a part of and we all like to support each other. I believe it's especially important to encourage the beginners as learning to shear is very tough and the beginning and many would easily give up but with a little encouragement to get them over that bit and they are away.
Oh my gosh the sheep jumping so happy to be free of that heavy wool made my day :)
Haha, must be some relief to be a couple kilos lighter 👍
I'm always glad to see them all cleaned up for a while and watching them do there jumping. I'm not used to being able to see lambs. I'm in Montana and I think I saw on a sheep farm in Billings, MT. with my sister and my nephew's father looking at a horse I think it was twenty year's ago but I could only see one at the time and that I think was it to seeing sheep all my life and I'm 48 since June. I love anything animal that's a baby. I'll have to ask my 90 year old adopted mom my dad died in December 2015. We had farm animals growing up. Not everything but no ducks or geese. I held my first baby chicken on July 4th. It did'nt poop on me thank goodness. Lol. But I was raised in Washington State, U.S.A.
My biggest regret was not going to a learners course before I’d ever shorn a sheep, bad habits are bloody hard to stop,
My advice to young fellas , go to a shearing school, learn only good habits, and you won’t have bad habits, get you pattern correct, and take your time, the numbers will come,
And the first 10 years are the hardest
Spot on
Here's a question from someone who has never sheared a sheep. (I tend to get wordy, so I'll put the question here, details below)
If someone only has 8 sheep, and the cost to get a professional shearer out is about the same as the cost of buying shears and doing it myself --- and the wool has value and can be marketed to hand-spinners --- would you recommend a person does it themselves? And can a sheep be shorn while standing?
For context, I just got my first flock of American Jacob sheep. Newly shorn. So I won't have to worry about shearing for 9 months or so. At the moment there are 17 animals, but by spring I'm hoping to have only 8 animals (ram, wether, 3 ewes, 3 one-year-old ewe-lambs). I live out in the "boondocks" (very rural area in the USA). As best as I can tell, it might be as much as $100 to $150 to get someone out to shear them. I've been wondering if I should have a go at it, and wondering if it's possible to shear them standing instead of on their bum. The fleeces should have value and likely might sell for just enough to pay for a shearer to come out (If I'm lucky).
@@LadyLithias you will have to learn how to do it properly, it’s not something you can just decide to do,
Watching shearer’s working it looks simple, it’s far from it
I run about 20-25 ewes (started off with 6). I clip them myself but loath clipping them. I just hate it. It takes about 20minutes a sheep and I clip them laying down. If someone can hold the head then you can do it like me- poorly. It’s cheaper than getting a contractor in. The hardest thing is getting under the wool. It’s like trying to punch the wool off sometimes. I blame my clippers but deep down I know it’s technique I really should go on a clipping course.
@@olilastname8844 There are courses, but usually not local ones. What I have to do is figure out what makes the most sense economically and in the use of time. I was thinking about the goat/sheep stands that do hold the sheep still (more or less) but what I discovered was that even handling one sheep is way way more difficult than it looks when someone knows what they are doing. I'm guessing that it will sort itself out in time. In fact, it might not be possible to find a shearer where I live, so the point might be moot.
I truly enjoyed this video. I especially enjoyed the children. And the shorn sheep at the end.
Welcome back to my home. I miss you I glad you are back and well. Love granny90yrs.
Thanks Joan
I love this channel. I’m usually interested in the wool to yarn side of things but it’s amazing to also learn what goes into producing sheep and maintaining them on a farm. It’s truly amazing how much work is in maintaining happy healthy sheep.
Thanks, there is plenty to keep on top of with the sheep and always things to be learning
so glad to see you again!! like the hair too😘
Thanks, needs another trim just now seems to be growing at some speed!
Robbie is a god shear teacher. I always watch him and I get better with his video
Very interesting. As you said the big thing on minor tweaks is taking the stresses out of your own body. Longevity.
Yes definitely Clifford, making things easier for the season ahead and not feeling sore or having to put in heaps of effort all the time.
@@TheSheepGame
Wow! The muscles, the muscles!
Thank you an interesting and informative video. The kiddos are adorable!
Cheers Donna
Thoughts sheep are so patient! Lol. Good job guys!
Love how the sheep just sit there and know when there done then get outathere when there as fast as they can! Lolol
Naked sheep on the run! Lol
And the greenies say we are torturing them. 🙄
A lot of the way the sheep sits so well is how the shearing is handling it and always having it in a comfy position, the sheep will soon tell you if she is uncomfortable.
Awesome as from CRJ Shearing Australia
Really enjoyed the video, very interesting, would never have thought that your footwork and positioning was so important. Weren't those young lads brilliant, doing a very important job and doing it well, keeping the shearers busy. Glad you and Lizzie are both well.
Thanks Mags, glad you enjoyed the vlog, yes it's often very deceiving how much work the feet and doing to enable you to put the blows in the right place. Great to have the keen young boys hard at work and loving it.
Great video as usual. The young 6 year old certainty isn't frightened of sheep he can't wait to get stuck in.
Thanks Chris, aye he's a keen young boy 👍
Missed you! Love these sheep shearing videos - so fascinating! 🤩
Thanks Linda, I'm back 😁
Super clip Cammy.
Good stuff! 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑
Thanks Colette
Those "demonstration" sheep, especially the first one, had a look of "Why me? I must have woken up on the wrong side of the paddock."
Nice to see a new video and know that all is well.
Thanks, will try and keep the vlogs coming 👍
Great stuff , I’ve been shearing 40 yrs doubt my bad habits are too set in stone now !!
Never too late, could always make things a little easier 👍
Good seeing you Cammie good to hear that you are all well . Bet baby is growing happy for you all thanks for sharing
Great video! I need more videos like this. My husband and I just entered into the world of sheep this spring will be our first time shearing
Great to see you back x this video was brilliant x
Thanks Marilyn
Very much enjoyed it.
Grate vid cammy been missing them this last while
Thanks David, back home just now so hopefully be able to get a few edited.
Good to see you're learning smart techniques so you don't hurt yourself. Very informative video.👍
Yes always trying to make the job easier on your body, will not tire so quickly and will have more energy day in day out for the season (well that's the idea anyway) 😂
Another great video! I enjoy all of the content you put out on this channel. Thanks!
Thanks, will do my best to keep them coming 👍
Appreciated your skills ,you're presentation ! Thumbs up !
Cheers Robbie
Missed the vlogs cammy can’t lie 😂
Now I'm back at base I should be able to get a few more edited and keep them coming for you 👍
Thank you for sharing! Such an interesting video. Keep it up!
Thanks Kristin, will try and keep the vlogs coming now that I'm back at base.
Great to see you nice to know that you are well 👍🥰
Thanks Kathaleen, hopefully be able to keep the vlogs coming now that I am back at base 👍
Glad you are back and really glad Lizzy and the baby are fine.
Thanks, doesn't seem too long until the baby will be here!!
I enjoy your videos and really enjoy the background music.
Lizzie is a good lass & a hard worker. Glad she is on your team! The work she does with wee Fern is amazing! Does your family have a tartan?
Really great video.
Love your choice of music on this vlog.
Glad to see you again. Keep doing what you're doing. I will be waiting for more videos but I am patient. I know that you have a lot going on. Give my hello to Lizzy and Meg and the rest of the family.
Thanks Janine, there will be a video out shortly 👍
Always interesting. Love your background music as well🇺🇸 Hey Cammy, one day shear a sheep with waltzing Matilda playing and see if you can finish, like they do at the dinner theatre in Sydney😝
Thanks, could try and see if that would fit in a vlog in the future 👍
Cracking video as always cammy. Thi is the first video I’ve watched of yours in about 3 weeks. Sadly my mam passed away
Really sorry to hear that Paddy!!! Keep pushing on and try to stay busy!
Dear Paddy. I am sorry for your loss and hope the memories you have collected over the years will help to comfort you. Sending kind regards to you from 🇨🇦
@@cherylpryde3092 thank you so much for your kind words. Xx
Glad you're well x
Thanks Jill
We have missed you, glad your both well, you had a hair cut who sheared it 😆 wow lovely to see all the training
Thanks Trish, I'm back at base now and should be able to get a few more vlogs out. I had a professional cut my hair, wouldn't trust the boys on it! 😜
Great video. Always something to learn no matter how old you get. Take care!
Thanks Alice, yes always something to improve on
Yay you’re back!!👏👏👏
I'm back😁, sorry it's been a quiet spell with the vlogs, hopefully keep them coming now 👍
Great to see you ,stay safe
Thanks Mary, we're all good here👍
Glad all's well great video as always 👌👌👍👍
Thanks Matt
Hi Cammy. My back is killing me watching you bent over like that for hours. Hope Lizzie and your Mom are well. Sending you a smile from over here in 🇨🇦🐑🐑🐑🐑
It can be a little sore at the start of the season, but doesn't take long for your back to get used to it and then you won't really feel it for the rest of the season. Lizzy and mum are all good, holding it all together while I've been away 👍
Great to see you back cammy lad I didn’t know Lizzy had the baby congratulations I hope everything goes well for you and Lizzy 👍
Thanks Gary, Lizzy hasn't had the baby just yet (I probably didn't word that very well in the vlog) but all is well.
Good to see you doing well Cammy. You've introduced many of us to the world of sheep shearing, lambing and so much more. I see you finally got a wee bit of shearing done on your head. Again, I am surprised at how docile are the sheep as they are sheared. It's like they know how good they are going to feel after they get all that wool off them.
Thanks Michael, glad you've enjoyed the vlogs. It's all about keeping the sheep comfortable when you shear them and mostly they will sit quite well.
Great video. Glad everything is ok
Thanks Kathaleen
I loved it! You know me…the longer the vlog the better 🐑💙😊
Thanks Tammy
When I saw you trade mark I was soooo happy ......welcome back!
Thanks Cheryl, I know its been a little while
Love the channel Cammy! Starting to get into some shearing myself with old inherited kit. Would love to see some kit setup videos too! Even what combs and cutters you’re using! Keep up the graft! 💪🏼
Thanks Adam, will try and work a bit of gear into the videos 👍
this is a really high skill profession
Great video, Cammy.
I’ve learn somethings, thanks for posting it. I’ll watch it a few more times and to make sure I didn’t miss something. I’ve never been able to shear 300 a day, mostly due do to larger ewes I shear. Those 250-300 pounders just take to much time and effort.
It’s great more people are taking courses on shearing. We need to get wool prices up to help keep shearing profitable.
Thanks, I think most would struggle for 300 on those big ewes. It is great to see young people wanting to get in to shearing and hopefully stick at it.
Great video, have been keeping up on Instagram, glad you’re all ok. 👍
Thanks Alex
Like the videos ,keep peeling
Thanks Matt
Loved the video
Thanks Daniel
Oh hey I watch their channel too! Cool!
Gid video auld boy, there's always something new to learn.
That's the great thing about shearing Alex, there's always something to improve and get better at 👍
@@TheSheepGame true auld boy, me and ma wife are going to see a wuman about alpacas tomorrow night, she's wanting someone to knit for her using her wool, hopefully the alpacas are needing shorn and I'll volunteer. Wish me luck.
It's like rugby those that are good make it look so easy and have so much time. Robbie looked effortless .
Aye, makes your days, seasons and years at it easier if you have a good technique and use less effort.
I showed this vlog to my ewes cause I feel like they could learn a thing or two about how to behave during shearing. 😂 Time will tell how much they picked up. I came to the channel for shearing tips, but stay for the humor. Cheers
Very good Charlotte, fingers crossed your girls will sit well for you 🤞glad you enjoy the channel too 👍
So true when he said, "it's all about saving your body because once you're 40 you're f**ked".
Robbies style and shearing is very similar to Rodney Sutton nz pleasure to watch a man shear like that next year il do his course top vid 👍👍
A very effortless style and great placement of the blows, will be good to see you on a course next year 👍
Always interesting.
Thanks Judy
Great video! Loved listening to the explanations of how to do it. What happens with all the wool? Take care.
czcams.com/video/PL1t_3JYG8g/video.html
If you go back 9 months ago he did a 2 part series! ✌️
Thanks Melanie, the wool is all taken to the British Wool Board to be sorted and graded. As attached in the link below there are a couple vlogs where I visited my local depot and found out how it all gets processed.
Great to see u back cammy have u videoed the shearing vids and will you post them great vid
Might be one or two vlogs of scanning to look back on, but won't be any fresh ones until later in the year when scanning season starts again.
I COME FROM NEW ZEALAND AND WENT TO THE GODFREY BOWEN SHEARING SCHOOL.
Hislop is my maternal grandmothers maiden name.
Looks like you're flying low at 2:01. Don't know why my eyes went there. Ha! Maybe that's how shearers cool down? Great to see another vlog but especially impressed with the shearing instructors and how keen the fellows learning were. You're so fortunate to have the knowledge/technique from top shearers available to you on a one on one basis.
Thanks, was a great course with shearers keen to learn and instructors so passionate about what they do
That's a whole lot of naked sheep!!!
Should be plenty of naked sheep around the country now 😂
Hi camy 😁
Good video, was some of those boys on the course not shearing along side you at the Highland show?
You shore very well at that, impressed to see how well you hand clipped👏👏, Archie and Sean were savage to
Thanks, yeah it could be that one or two of the boys were shearing at the highland too 👍
Just set up the coral for shearing..doing 30 per day...but I only have 30 sheep so far! Artificial knees, two back surgeries and shoulder surgery coming...maybe I’m not a sheep shearer!? Getting a shearer here in the states requires a year advance contract. Critical shortage of trained labor here. Our govt is giving people money to not work!
Shame there is such a shortage, hopefully I will get the opportunity to come over one day and have a go 👍
Blessed Eid sheep fan
Cammie, sheep shearing looks like a combination of dancing and wrestling! Which category does your sheep shearing skills fall in to on the range you mentioned in the video?
It does feel a bit like that, hopefully a little less wrestling some days! I currently shear in the senior category.
Great video that's good shearing course to go no cheers keep up the good work.
Was a great course to pick up a few tips and make the season a little easier, thanks Sean 👍
Phew!!...I'm so glad that all is well with Lizzy and your baby, and that you are all ok...was getting a wee tad worried...
That course seemed so good and I'm happy to hear you say that you learned a lot from it...so...are you an ''Open'' yet?
Yeah we are all ok just a busy time of year. Was a great course and came away with some good pointers, still pushing for the "open" 👍
Really enjoy the videos. I also enjoy the choice of music. It would be nice if the name of the song or instrumental was listed.
Thanks Miko, will look in to adding the song names on 👍
Picked up a handpiece for the first time in 13 years ealier this year.
I could pretty much remember the blows but OMG I COULDN'T REMEMBER WHERE TO PUT MY BLOODY FEET!
Ah very good, foot work is the key 👍
Do many shearers switch the shearers behind their backs, like Sheepishly Me's shearer?
Hmm, thinking about some of the stuff he was talking about.
Hard to always determine whats advanced and whats basic.
But I guess there are a lot of people that dont think of foot work for a long time and muscle the sheep around vs moving the feet properly to get the sheep to move where you want it to.
I admit, teaching learners some of these things is difficult, they already struggling enough to keep the sheep still.
I guess too even quite experienced shearers can fall into bad habits and forget what they are originally taught that's why it's great to go on a course every year and be reminded of a few things. Learning to shear is super tough to begin with but very rewarding once you've been able to shear the first few 👍💪
@@TheSheepGame Yeah, I always enjoyed teaching. No more school now after the covid thing. quick 2 day class though, not a more proper class like you'd get other places.
The only classes that are longer and more in depth here are the rare occasions where we have a school that's 3 days, but no learners.
Usually 15 students for the one i'd teach here, and out of those 15, i'd get phone calls from 3 or 4 of them to come shear at some point.
In the 8 years I .. wow, was it 8? Maybe 6. We'll say 6, I don't wanna count, its early. IN the 6 years of teaching, I only know of 2 that kept shearing after the school. I've given private lessons to one of them, and the other kid really needs some private lessons, but he keeps going at it.
I should maybe try harder to get ahold of him.
This reminds me of Babe 🐖 (1995)
At end, why are sporadic sheep “leaping” for no reason?❤❤❤
It was my birthday on the 22 june and I had a jacket, jumper and T-shirt for my birthday and all of them are sheep game
Amazing, hope you like them Joe 👍
@@TheSheepGame thank you I love them there so comfy there top class
If hagret, crocodile Dundee and Woody Allen had a baby it would be Camm and I mean that with all the love in the world!!! 🤗
Missed your vlogs. I don't follow Instagram.
Just a busy time of year Terri, will do my best to get another one out soon enough 👍
How much is a course with Robbie
Enjoy watching some of those lads need to get better fitting trousers.
Some change in body shape throughout a season, often hanging off most of us by the end of the season! 😂
I think they were shearing rubber sheep. Anyone remember Gumby?
I don’t! A tv show? 😅
Would you hold the sheep the same way if using scissor shears?
Yeah, very much a similar pattern with the hand shears and you would move the sheep around the same way.
Thank you
I’m thinking that I should take a shearing course. Hand sheared a ewe lamb while she was standing and it took me about 90 min. Good thing she was a pet or she would have been completely stressed out ❗️ One down, 29 crazy Shetlands to go❗️😂
It's a great skill to have, and although learning can be pretty tough to begin with it will be rewarding to know you've shorn your own sheep.