Becoming a Shearer in Queensland

About this role

Shearers remove wool and hair from sheep, goats, alpacas and other animals.

What you might do day-to-day in this job

Typical tasks for a Shearer include:

• selecting and preparing shearing equipment
• catching and positioning animals for shearing
• shearing and removing wool and hair from animals
• identifying contaminated fibre and injured, infected and diseased animals
• treating skin cuts
• returning shorn animals to let-out pens for counting and checking
• may service, maintain and repair shearing equipment
• may shear stud animals with hand shears or special combs.