Irulegi Irratia

II-051b

  • Record: II-051b
  • Piece: A04
  • Time: 00:23:00 - 00:29:40
  • Themes: jobs: , animal husbandry:
  • Summary: (23:45") They began in the morning and they stopped at midday and they continued to come down in the evening. They needed about seven hours to bring the sheep down. The following day they sheared them. In the evening they would take them half way and from there they went on alone. There was no tradition of shearing up in the hills because there were no cars. The huts were far away off the road and it was costly to take the wool out to the road.They began to shear the sheep at six in the morning and they would do it quickly. Each shearer would do about twenty sheep. One shepherd sheared ninty-six sheep in a day on his own.They still do the shearing by hand. The new machines are very expensive.