Shearing the sheep, llama and now alpaca is definitely one of my favourite seasonal chores. It's hard work and can be frustrating but for some reason I like it. It's tough to do well and as this is my third year it's becoming easier. I've now honed my technique for wrestling sheep to the ground and onto their backsides but placing my thumb in their mouth (in the gap between front and back teeth) and contorting them rather easily to their bum. It looked tough to do but now that I've got it down it's amazingly easy to bring a large animal down. Following is a short video on the shearing season.
