Shearing costs for 2025?

Bleating Lamb

Anyone have an idea of costs for getting hoggetts and Ewes clipped this Summer?

I think my man was €2:50 for doing ewes last year (full fleece on them)……

And was €2 for dry hoggetts with only the Winters fleece on them as I get ewe lambs clipped in September each year (by same man)…….as it means you don’t have to worry about getting them caught in briars through the Winter.

I would be pushing the sheep up the race for the Shearer,he does have a teenage son with him who gathers the wool and packs it well into Wool bags.Throw the son a few notes to keep him sweet.

Anyone clipped sheep yet this year?…..

roosky

paid 3 a sheep for shearing

I got 25 cent a kg for the wool

wrangler

My shearer charges €3 this last three years and getting more work than he can handle

eire23

In fairness 3 euro is probably cheap. Sheared some single ewes here yesterday and weighed a few as they won't fint in the scales once theres a growth or wool. lleyns ewes were between 80-90kg and the Suffolks between 85 and 105kg. Ya would earn the 3 euro shearing them all day.

Country lad

got ewes sheared yesterday 3 euro they deserve every penny lucky i had a shed to put them in as the weather is so changeable

Box09

Has anyone sold their wool yet and if so what price is it, looking back on last year it was 20 cent….

Sami23

3 euro a sheep

StoutPost

Think I'll shear them myself this year, can be awkward to get them all together for a set day as I've no shed to put them in if it's wet

Country lad

the wool is making 25 cent a kg up 5 from last year

Kevhog1988

Shearing my own. Do a few at a time. My biggest day so far was 9 🤣🤣.

Weighed one of the Dorset hoggets after shearing her. 92kg. It was like shearing a hippo!!.

Splitting My flock in half now and going easycare with half as a trial. Think they will do well on the middling land and keep my dorsets up at home on the better land.

Dickie10

€4 a head, they bring a young lad to keep sheep pushed up ramp . Very little labour involved . Happy to get it done with 2-3 hours . 160 sheep

kk.man

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123712452#Comment_123712452

3e n i thought i was being robbed. I did all the labour.

Dickie10

there’s 3 of them shearing so fly through them, hard work they need every bit of it I hadn’t much to do I had a few kids taking the wool away too. I do be just glad to get it done

Dickie10

I’m getting store lambs shorn in Kenmare mart shoukd be good to see what charge us per head

wrangler

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Lambs are cheaper than ewes €1.50 - 2.00 around here

wrangler

Anyone that ever tried shearing their own would usually gladly pay the price.

A fit person doing 2 - 300/day can make good money