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Subject: RE: BS: Click went the shears From: Herga Kitty Date: 09 Jun 02 - 07:55 PM It's the same till the sheep roll over, and you can fleece them without pain Many years you've been a drover, now the hairnets do the seine. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Click went the shears From: Art Thieme Date: 09 Jun 02 - 07:38 PM If it wasn't, it should've been.
Art |
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Subject: RE: BS: Click went the shears From: Mr Red Date: 09 Jun 02 - 04:42 AM Art Thieme as I said - Flick gone the shears. I remember that image - wasn't it in "everything you wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask"? see I wasn't afraid to ask! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Click went the shears From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 08 Jun 02 - 08:53 PM I suppose something of the same sort would work on humans too. I imagine it could be quite popular with some people.
But I'd think that putting a hairnet on a fully grown sheep would require all those tough qualities associated with shearers, and would be likely to guve rise to teh same kind of songs.
I can tell you it's enough to make a bloody shearer weep, |
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Subject: RE: BS: Click went the shears From: Art Thieme Date: 08 Jun 02 - 08:38 PM I keep picturing that scene in WOODY ALLEN'S movie----the one with the guy in bed with a sheep that was wearing a garter belt and stockings. Can't remember what that film was. It was just one o' those flicks that sticks with ya. Art |
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Subject: RE: BS: Click went the shears From: Art Thieme Date: 08 Jun 02 - 08:32 PM TRUE STORY !!! Uncle had a mule that had narcolepsy. We all thought the animal had died but it was just asleep. Uncle skinned it and amazingly the next morning the mule woke up and we found it walking around without it's pelt. Uncle freaked out and took the sheep skins he was carrying and tossed 'em over the pitiful creature. Fastened 'em firm-----with blackberry thorns. And I'm here to tell you that the mule is healthy today. Matter of fact we sheared 20 pounds of wool off him last week. Picked 10 quarts of blackberrys off him too. Art Thieme |
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Subject: RE: BS: Click went the shears From: Hrothgar Date: 08 Jun 02 - 08:14 AM They've been working on ideas for this sort of thing for two hundred years, and I haven't seen one that worked. Now, if they could find a way of making the electric shears safer, they might have something. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Click went the shears From: Mr Red Date: 08 Jun 02 - 06:57 AM Flick, gone the shears boys. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Click went the shears From: Nigel Parsons Date: 08 Jun 02 - 04:22 AM More labour saving 'advances'. This is like the idea of watering the lawn with a mixture of water and whisky. The grass comes up "Half-cut" *BG* |
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Subject: RE: BS: Click went the shears From: Sorcha Date: 07 Jun 02 - 11:32 PM Amazing. What's next, self-milking cows? Maybe they can teach the sheep to card and spin the wool, too! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Click went the shears From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) Date: 07 Jun 02 - 09:04 PM All the click-click-click was a long time ago. Electric shearing took its place. I have a pair of the old hand shears- nice for snipping off-- whatever. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Click went the shears From: GUEST,Dagenham Doc Date: 07 Jun 02 - 08:42 PM You're right about the featherless chickens JoeF and it's happening right now. In case you think there is no market for these naked little birds, the Japanese cannot get enough of them and prefer them nude. I s'pose they can't be plucking bothered. Doc |
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Subject: RE: BS: Click went the shears From: GUEST,Joe_F Date: 07 Jun 02 - 07:22 PM Some years ago I read that, in the U.S., chickens were being bred without feathers so that they would put a larger fraction of their feed into producing meat. As a result, they would have smooth skin instead of the little bumps people are used to, and market research was done to see if that was acceptable. IIRC, it turned out that the naked chickens had to be kept in an exquisitely temperature-controlled environment to keep them from catching cold, and the expense of doing so was greater than that of allowing them to grow feathers. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Click went the shears From: Herga Kitty Date: 07 Jun 02 - 07:12 PM Kat No offence taken - I honestly wondered for a moment if this was a 1 April item that had been broadcast late by mistake. But then it turned up this evening on "Have I got news for you" too! Thanks for the details. Kitty |
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Subject: RE: BS: Click went the shears From: katlaughing Date: 07 Jun 02 - 07:00 PM Herga Kitty, no offence, but this sounded so much like a hoax, I went looking for a news story. Unbelievable! This really beats all! The image of sheep wearing body nets for four weeks! Do you suppose the ewes will want fancy ones with sparkles in them?*bg* Here it is in detail: Shear Magic Australians Find New Way to Fleece Sheep Tue Jun 4, 5:50 AM ET By Michael Byrnes SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia has developed a way of harvesting wool that's as easy as falling off a sheep. Instead of the traditional back-breaking method of shearing, farmers simply inject a sheep with a special protein then attach a net to the animal to collect the fleece. The new method is being launched commercially later this month with packs containing protein injections and nets and is seen as a breakthrough value-added product for Australia's $2.3 million a year export industry. A quarter of a million Australian sheep, in the national flock of around 110 million, are already producing fleece by the new method, developer John Le Breton, managing director of Bioclip, told Reuters on Tuesday. "We're very happy with it. It's an easy way of doing the job," said woolgrower Liz Tomlinson, who trialled Bioclip on her 5,000 acre property at Narrabri, on the edge of the outback in northern New South Wales state. Le Breton, who developed the product from initial research by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) and marketing body The Woolmark Co, aims to have 23 million sheep producing 23 million kilograms of wool from the Bioclip method by 2009/10. Even in its development phase, Bioclip will produce 725,000 kilograms of wool this year from Australia's clip of around 520 million kilograms of greasy wool. Australia is the world's largest producer of wool. For A$3.70 growers can buy an injection of a naturally occurring sheep protein which causes the wool to fall from the sheep's back, and a fleece retention net the sheep wears for four weeks while the de-fleecing occurs. Le Breton told Reuters the cost was comparable with the cost of conventionally shearing of sheep. CLEAN PADDOCKS Many farmers say Bioclip is suitable only in protected environments, not open pastures. "It's a great innovation," said Simon Campbell, president of grower body WoolProducers, during a break from shearing 22,000 sheep on his 24,000 hectare property in the northern state of Queensland. But Campbell believes Bioclip would remain a niche product. "I wouldn't think to use it in a pastoral situation. You want reasonably clean paddocks. For us it would be sticks and bushes (getting caught in the sheep nets)," he said by telephone from his property 624 miles northwest of Brisbane. By 2009, Bioclip believes its invention could be used on 80 million "shearing units," or lambs and adult sheep, each year. This could mean that half of Australia's annual wool clip could be produced through this method. Bioclip is first focusing on a target market of 40 million lambs whose wool is removed at less than five months of age. Apart from reducing labor costs, the biological harvest also increased usable fleece length, avoids damage to the animal during conventional shearing and keeps skin pieces out of the wool, Le Breton said. Even if "jab goes the needle" becomes a common saying in Australia's woolsheds like "click go the shears," Le Breton says the country's 6,000 shearers will still have a job collecting wool from the nets and removing unwanted matter from fleece. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Click went the shears From: Deckman Date: 07 Jun 02 - 05:24 PM If this proves true, I wonder what the new song version will be ... "Click go the shears, boys, click, click click ... Bob |
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Subject: Click went the shears From: Herga Kitty Date: 07 Jun 02 - 04:43 PM I heard on the BBC this morning that Australian sheep are now being injected with a protein that causes fleeces to be shed when the new one grows, so all the shearers have to do is cover the sheep in a large hairnet, and wait for the old fleece to fall off. It was claimed that this benefits both the sheep (who aren't damaged by shears) and the shearers (who no longer have to break their backs shearing). But when I mentioned this at work a descendant of Jackie How (not sure if I spelt that right) said it has decimated the shearing business in Australia. Oh, the shearing's not for you...... |