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| Thread ID: 116668 | 2011-03-15 05:43:00 | Not Enough Sheep Shearers In UK This Year | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 1186225 | 2011-03-15 05:43:00 | Immigration rules abbreviate the number of imported temporary shearers this year. UK Sheepmen in furor. (www.telegraph.co.uk) Hundreds of shearers from Australia and New Zealand are being delayed from entering Britain due to tightened immigration rules which threaten the health of millions of sheep, farmers claim. Can sheep sweat to death? "The British sheep sector relies on the shearing undertaken by these very skilled gangs from the southern hemisphere. At a conservative estimate they shear about five million sheep in the Britain. I didn't know youse guys were a skilled gang. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1186226 | 2011-03-15 06:08:00 | Neither did we all our gangs have only one skill and its called Crime | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1186227 | 2011-03-15 07:41:00 | I have come across a few British shearers who come over here during our summer to shear our sheep. They most likely go back home for their summer season to shear British sheep. | Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1186228 | 2011-03-15 07:44:00 | Shearing is a very skillful art. Most of the ones who can afford to go over will probably be contract gangs rather than the seasonal maori blokes who spend winter at the works. Either way, the UK sounds a bit screwed |
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