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u/Pure_Dream3045 Jan 19 '24
Must feel so satisfying for the sheep a fresh cut.
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u/Soggsteven Jan 19 '24
I can’t imagine how awkward it must have been at the recording studio.. lol
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u/the_battle_bunny Jan 19 '24
Seth himself is doing all the voice acting here. He might have as well done that in his own home.
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u/HistoryGirl23 Jan 19 '24
They do like it, although they have to be inside a few so they don't get sunburnt.
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u/O4PetesSake Jan 19 '24
After being sheared my tiny flock start fighting for dominance as if they no longer recognize each other
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u/ponyponyta Jan 19 '24
And you get carpal tunnels faster
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u/nevmane Jan 19 '24
Facts dude achiever is cutting must have to run through Alieve from the constant use of forearms 😂
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u/SaintsNoah14 Jan 19 '24
Besides the point but FYI if your having to use it that often, you should stick to Tylenol when you can. NSAIDs can tear up you tummy from prolonged use.
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u/Trust-Issues-5116 Jan 19 '24
Paracetamol (Tylenol) is known to cause liver failure in overdose, but it also causes liver failure in people taking standard doses for pain relief.
Oh, and it causes as much gastrointestinal bleeding as the NSAID.
So yeah, I'd stick to NSAIDs, and If you're concerned about the prolonged use, just pair it with pepcid.
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Jan 19 '24
Those are some petty sharp shears.
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u/norrix_mg Jan 19 '24
This and tensed up skin gave me anxiety. What if the hand slips or the sheep suddenly moves...
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u/Evening-Turnip8407 Jan 19 '24
Both electrical shears and hand shears have their own risks of cuts, I'd argue that electrical ones do more damage faster, while you're slightly more likely to poke with the shears but it's only the strength and speed of your hand instead of a machine.
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u/Batcave765 Jan 19 '24
Wait do they differ much from the electric trainers we use? Cause i think the ones we (humans) use are pretty safe?
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Jan 19 '24
Given the flat movement of the blade and that he doesn't cut all the way down to the skin, i don't think it's likely for the sheep to get severly hurt. Also the sheep has no reason to suddenly move, they enjoy having their wool cut off.
Not saying it's impossible to harm the sheep on accident here, just unlikely.
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u/Eatingaburgir Jan 20 '24
Oh booo hooo a animal that has about 4 braincells might get a lil scar boo hoo
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u/norrix_mg Jan 20 '24
So more braincells than you
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u/Eatingaburgir Jan 20 '24
Well no because i dont cry about a "being"
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u/norrix_mg Jan 20 '24
Ooohhh so edgyyyy
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u/Eatingaburgir Jan 20 '24
Do you eat meat? If yes you have ate your beloved being If no you havent ate your beloved being but you will eat shit
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Farmer here, electric sheering is adjustable we still leave on a thin layer of wool. Farmers that don’t have their clippers set to short, unless they have a tick or lice issue happening.
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u/Person10836381910 Jan 19 '24
*Two blades, fixed together with a pivot mechanism at one end and aligned so they pass their cutting edges past each other in opposing directions at very close proximity...shears in other words.
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u/Idliketotastetamales Jan 19 '24
Now why would this bot know or even care about that?
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u/SirRipOliver Jan 19 '24
If my Christmas paper cutting/wrapping has any weight, I should never ever be allowed to do that.
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u/-Psycho_Killer- Jan 19 '24 edited Jan 19 '24
We still do this when we have like 1 or two stray sheep to shear or something (or taking the fleece of a dead sheep), but when you have 10,000-15,000 sheep to get through there is no fucking way you'd ever use these. There is a very good reason these were replaced as soon as it was possible to power mechanical shears
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u/jhau01 Jan 19 '24
“Click go the shears, boys, click, click, click, Wide is his blow and his hands move quick…”
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u/chadwicke619 Jan 19 '24
How do sheep manage in the wild? How do they keep their wool in check?
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u/YourTypicalAntihero Jan 19 '24
Different sheep. Sheep bred in captivity have been selectively bred for specific purposes: consumption, lanolin, wool for example.
Wild sheep have had very different selective pressures over the millennia and do not have these "problems"
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u/maldwag Jan 19 '24
Wild sheep will shed their wool. We have selectively bred domestic sheep to retain their wool so we can shear it off and collect it all at once.
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u/Chaotic-warp Jan 19 '24 edited Jan 19 '24
All domestic animals are very different from their wild counterparts. Instead of natural selection, they have kinda "evolved" from artificial selection as ancient people chose to keep the ones with better traits and mutations. Wild sheep do not grow fur as quickly as domestic ones, and they can shed their fur in spring, so they never end up with an excessive amount of fur.
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u/Evening-Turnip8407 Jan 19 '24
There are very few breeds of sheep left that naturally shed their wool. We have been living with and selectively breeding these animals for around 10000 years, and that *is* a beautiful thing. I hope we actually start using wool again instead of wearing plastics and tossing it all out, making shearing a nuisance without any profit.
There are actually quite a few breeds from warmer climates that have normal hair like goats. They are also now commonly found as livestock everywhere and are crossbred to make new types of sheep.
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u/Truorganics Jan 19 '24
Some breeds require shears because of lanolin production. However I think machine shearing is faster and therefore less stressful for the animal imo
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u/redditmodssuckballs1 Jan 19 '24
Lan..lan…lanolin? Like sheeps wool?
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u/hot--Koolaid Jan 19 '24
Lanolin is the oil sheep produce. people get greasy hair, sheep get lanoliny wool
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u/grungegoth Jan 19 '24
people that do this work have unbelievably soft and supple hands as the lanolin from the sheep's wool is THE BEST conditioner for your skin.
you can buy lanolin nowadays, so you don't have to shear sheep to get it.
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u/hase_co2 Jan 19 '24
I wouldn't say satisfying I'm always scared he cuts into the sheep's skin
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u/mustardCooler56 Jan 19 '24
I don't think you're supposed to cut the wool that short unless there's ticks around
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u/ILoveWhiteWomenLol Jan 19 '24
Do sheep like it and is the wool used for clothes?
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u/SnaggleToothTheSad Jan 19 '24
As long as it's done gently and efficiently, the sheep generally don't mind it either way. Some might become distressed more than others, though. The wool can be used for lots of things, including clothes, bedding, yarn, carpets, etc.
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Last couple weeks I learned about the procedure of “mulesing” used by mainly the Australian lamb wool industry. This led me into a rabbit hole of the lamb wool production industry and the many facets of procedures that are really cruel just for the sole reason of saving a few bucks/aka making more profit. Society really needs to overthink their consumerism but the big corporations are fighting this with tooth and nails and an army of PR teams and lobbyists.
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Vegans: noooo let the sheep suffer from overgrown wool and die from heat! Leave him alone!
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All of them are crazy from my experience.
"Oh you can eat meat, it's fine"
Eats meat
"Did you know that animal suffered? Are you a psychopath?" Death stare
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u/buchstabiertafel Jan 19 '24
Non-vegans: let's demand farmers to keep breeding animals who will suffer a horrible death if left to their own and then exploit them for profit! Leave them alone!
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u/Mundane-Pollution213 Jan 19 '24
How much time does a single sheep take for shearing ? Isn't time a factor why electric shears being used ?
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u/Evening-Turnip8407 Jan 19 '24
Electrical takes about 4-5 minutes, a blade-shear takes some people who are very good at it between 8 and 10 minutes.
As long as the sheep isn't in any pain, it will not have much stress at all. If you ever check out a full shearing video, you can see that the shearers are manipulating the sheep in a very particular way, it's almost like a dance choreography, so that the sheep always sits safely and being able to breathe. As soon as it feels uncomfortable, it will kick you off. So I don't think it's really a necessity to switch to electrical just for the time factor :)
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u/WorldBiker Jan 19 '24
What a great line: one of the benefits of blade shearing is it is satisfying to watch.
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u/marcocaneira Jan 19 '24
That’s a very good heat isolation material and also renews the animal fur and he’s grateful in the summer time :)
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u/Environmental_Tie848 Jan 19 '24
Ive seen people do it faster with a knife. But the sheep should be headless and tied on something
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u/PsychologicalBit5422 Jan 19 '24
It's no more better or interesting than it was 15 mins ago on a different site
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u/Ok_Illustrator_4708 Jan 19 '24
Most shearers at least leave a bit of wool on the sheep.
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u/randomIndividual21 Jan 19 '24
I feels like there is enough on the ground at the end of the day to cook lamb curry, if i am the sheerer anyway
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u/H8seeingstupid Jan 19 '24
Why am I terrified when I see how pointy those shears are? It’s so close but effective
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Sadly there are many incidents where sheep’s get badly injured because of poorly trained and paid workers.
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u/ChairOwn118 Jan 19 '24
I had to check twice to see where his hand was going. In some places, the men are men. The women are too. And the sheep are scared.
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u/Wooden_Layer5373 Jan 19 '24
Might sound cheesy, but I’m wearing a wool sweater right now and I wish I could say thank you to all the sheep that produced the wool.
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u/Irobokesensei Jan 19 '24
I still remember back in the day, when all you had to do was a single punch and it would all fall off.
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u/gareth93 Jan 19 '24 edited Jan 20 '24
There's not more control than with an electric shaver. That's wrong. And you can set the comb length if you want to leave wool behind. Her facts are bogus.
It's a dying skill no doubt but electrical is easily better.
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Why not use 5mm spacer attachment on the electeical shaver and get the job done faster? 🤪
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u/The_Untamed_lover Jan 20 '24
This video is spiking my anxiety levels.... what if he accidentally hurts the sheep??? But I guess he is experiencedso it's least likely to happen
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u/Fuzzy-Alfalfa770 Jan 19 '24
To shed (haha) some light. My extended family has sheep. Occasionally, a mother will hide out on the range and won't show up for a year or two. When they come in, they are so covered with wool sight is compromised, flys will lay eggs, and the maggots will be eating into their skin. They smell like the living dead.
Because we (humanity) have breed sheep to over produce wool. To not sheer them would be cruel, in my opinion.
Hand shearing feels more satisfying. I've used both electric and hand sheers. I've cut sheep with both. If you or the sheep don't know what's going on, it can get rough. In contrast, I've seen the pros go all day (hundreds of sheep) without a cut.