Sheep Shearing Day 2021
Report from Randal Repetto. Photos from Kelly Green & Shirley Swain
Sheep Shearing was held on Friday 3rd of December 2021. It was a lovely day and the children were very excited as it was Sheep Shearing Day! Everyone (mainly the children) enjoyed running and chasing, trying to catch the sheep and lambs. They then had the very tricky task of bringing them to the individual family pens, hoping they didn't get away. Everyone enjoyed their day out, and afterwards families gathered to have braais and relax after a hard day of chasing and shearing sheep.
View of bakkies and activity around the sheep pen
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| Penned sheep waiting to be sheared | Shearing a sheep with hand clippers |
Sheep being attended to in the family pens. Photo: Fiona Kilpatrick
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| Supervising! | The island's AI ram. Photo: Neil Swain |
Head of Agriculture, Neil Swain adds: Our one AI Ram (shown above right) is thanks to good work from Gavin Jack, a farmer who last year came all the way from Australia to revisit Tristan. As a young farmer at the start of his career, aged 22, Gavin worked on the island from 1972 to 1976.
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Scenes around the sheep pens
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