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Livestock => Goats => Topic started by: Old Shep on March 09, 2011, 04:58:46 pm

Title: Clipping Angoras
Post by: Old Shep on March 09, 2011, 04:58:46 pm

Hi - could anyone give me any advice on shearing Angora goats?  We only have 3 but they will need doing very soon.  We only managed to do one last September - it was so hard my son ended up with a bad back for a week!  Are there any battery clippers you could recommend? 

many thanks

Title: Re: Clipping Angoras
Post by: kaz on March 09, 2011, 05:49:17 pm

We have angoras which our sheep shearer now shears as my husband can no longer shear them due to his balance problem.
We had an electric set of shears with the combs especially for angora fleece. As hubby was no shearer the goats stomachs were shorn first and then we put them into a head stand and sheared the rest. His fastest speed was 2 a morning. Ideally they should be shorn twice a year.

Title: Re: Clipping Angoras
Post by: jinglejoys on March 10, 2011, 07:05:58 pm

Nah!Your whimps!...you ain't done nothing yet till you've shorn a Wensleydale with a pair of nail scissors!!!! ;D ;D ;D(It was an emergancy and all I could get hold of! ::)

Title: Re: Clipping Angoras
Post by: SingingShearer on March 10, 2011, 09:51:47 pm

You could try Horner shearing, they have motor in handpiece machines for sale at £130 and also stock angora goat combs for the machine http://www.hornershearing.com/index.html (http://www.hornershearing.com/index.html).
Hope this is of some use, if you need any advice please contact me as I shear some angora goats and might be able to offer some tips.

Philip :sheep:

Title: Re: Clipping Angoras
Post by: princesspiggy on March 11, 2011, 08:42:33 pm

we sheared our wensleydale, was really hard cos their skin is so loose and thin. much prefer hand shears. clipping horses is so much easier.