shearly not

[Trillipse]

now that we can't get a decent price for raw wool anymore, should we gradually phase out sheep shearing? maybe there aren't enough hedges left to make this practicable....?

[horsestache1]

What!!!!

[RATTER15]

We have plenty of hedges in Devon!! but what difference does the hedges make??

[saanen]

This is a ******** trying to be clever by talking in insider speak to whoever his sad boring little group is. Ignore him.

[Trillipse]

oh.
dear.
saanen.
you clearly need no censorial intervention.
if you don't know anything about a topic, please feel free to SHUT UP.
if a topic is the sole domain of a few people, let them get on with it.
if someone posts a question that sounds odd, they'll eventually re-phrase it.
sheep are shorn, yes?
this didn't happen prior to animal husbandry by humans.
they used to get the wool scraped off by branches and hedges etc. do i have to go on?
if you DO NOT UNDERSTAND A QUESTION, or if the poster doesn't make it clear enough for you - please ask. don't be a d1khead by automatically assuming anything you're not privy to is stupid.

[shaneystar2]

Sheep shearing and wool production has been an important part of the UK's sheep industry over the last six thousand years. The earliest sheep had pigmented coats and moulted allowing farmers to collect the fallen wool as opposed to shearing them.
We are the seventh largest wool producer in the world and export a third of the yearly clip.Although wool is only about 50p a kilo so the export value doesn't really cover the cost of the shearing.
Plus there is a lot of snythetic wool product around now ....as a confirmed knitter upper of many years pure new wool has become very expensive to buy.
I don't think it should be phased out even though there isn't much profit in it for the large scale farmer..there are still cottage industries that shear ,spin and dye their own wool and the end products are amazing.

[B00]

Personally I'd also hate the idea of sheep having to wear their "coats" during the long summer months, the poor things would bake.

[wolf63]

yeah - we could do it for purely humanitarian purposes.

[teag1rl]

in additon to being boiling hot they get stuck on their backs when they have too much wool on them. If they're stuck on their back they cant eat, dehydrate and die. Shaneystar said the old breeds molted. Modern sheep moult a bit but to not shear sheep would be cruel. plain as, sod all to do with the cost

[Trillipse]

well to be honest, wolf (not in sheep's clothing) that was the crux of my issue, though i do have concerns about my sister's spinal health, because she shears so many of them each year on the farm. shaney, my sister does actually s(p)in a bit too, and BOO, my main concern is that, having grown up on a farm, i know how uncomfortable sheep get when not sheared. as for you, SAANEN, when you reach puberty, let me know.

[Trillipse]

Actually, Saananny, DON'T let me know when you hit puberty - (i'm sure this is a response you'll hear a LOT of when you start to meet girls...)
hi-jacking a thread can be fun, but hi-jackers rarely are: you proved yourself to teensy for the mold in any case. flip burgers.

[Trillipse]

too, too, too

[saanen]

My oh My Trillipse, I did rattle your cage, didn't I? So much result for so little effort. Judging by your tantrum, I'm not the only pre-pubertal kid around here!!

[Trillipse]

kiss kiss saanen, mummy will be here soon