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Super-competitive shearer goes for the big one

Summary by farmersweekly.co.nz

Reading Time: 3 minutes As a competitive young boy, Jamie Skiffington was just 11 years old when he crutched his first 1000 lambs. Now the 34-year-old is aiming to break the nine-hour lamb shearing world record of 872. At 5am on Monday morning while many are still sleeping, Skiffington will be shearing the first of those lambs at the Waewaepa Station south of Dannevirke. Unofficially he has sheared 913 in a nine-hour day, but this one will be fo…

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