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Hi, this is Amy Vidal. I'm a California resident who sheared sheep professionally for 6 years. In 1991 I attended Washington Sheep Shearing School in Moses Lake, Washington. Never achieving a great deal of speed (43 in 8 hours, including catching the animal, trimming hooves, tying the wool, giving shots and spraying numbers on the animals included in that number) I focused on shearing small flocks, with a minimum of second cuts and flesh wounds, mostly for people who raised their animals for wool, as pets, or as lawnmowers. I retired from shearing in 1996, when I started a family, but I still harbor the dream of one day having an acre or two and a back that is still strong enough for a bit of shearing.

Breeds

The following is a list of breeds I have shorn.
I have classified them as Wool Breeds if they are
known for highly prized wool, Meat Breed if they have
poor wool quality but a fine carcass, and Rare Breed if
their numbers are few.

• Wool Breeds
  • Merino
  • Cheviot
  • Shetland

• Hair Breeds
  • Barbado
  • Barbados Black Belly

• Meat Breeds
  • Suffolk
  • Dorset
  • Southdown

• Meat & Wool Breeds
  • Corriedale
  • Columbia
  • California Variegated Mutant
  • Leicester
  • Lincoln
  • Polypay
  • Rambouillet
  • Romney

• Rare Breeds
  • Navajo-Churro
  • Jacob

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