Shearing Record Update

Four female shearers remain on target for a target averaging about a lamb every minute per person in a new record attempt in South Otago.

At the halfway stage of the four-stand Women’s 8 hour strong wool lamb record attempt at “Melrose Station’ 948 Cairn Road, Owaka, the total; had unofficially reached 954, with projections the crew would pass 1900 by the time it ends at 5.30pm.

Te Atakura Crawford had shorn 262 averaging just under 53 seconds a lamb, caught, shorn and sent through the porthole. Ariana (Missy) Te Whata had shorn 248, Pagan Rime 237 and Rose Lewis 207.

There is no established record for this category in a register of more than 40 recognised by the World Sheep Shearing Records Society.

But on January 23, 2020 a four-stand women's nine-hour record of 2066 was shorn at Waihi Pukawa Station, near the shores of Lake Taupo in the Central North Island.

The shearing is monitored by society referees in convenor Mark Buscumb, from Australia, and New Zealand officials Neil Fagan, Bart Hadfield, Ronnie King, Alistair Emslie, Johnny Fraser, and Donald Johnston.

A wool-weigh on Monday enabled the attempt to go ahead, with 20 lambs sampled from the flock producing 24.56kg of wool, comfortably over the minimum requirement of an average of 0.9kg per lamb.

After an hour-long lunch break shearing resumed at 1pm, with the third of the four two-hour runs.

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