Job Description

• 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