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Shearing a goat

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Shearing a goat

Goats have bony rumps and so cannot be shorn sitting upright like sheep. They are shorn either standing up, with a head cradle to hold them still, or by leaning the animal well back or laying it on its side. The same shearing equipment is used as for sheep.

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Allan Gillingham, Goats and goat farming – Farming for fibre, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/16604/shearing-a-goat (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Allan Gillingham, published 1 March 2009.