A sheep shearer is captured by the capture pen and led his "stand" on the cutting board. It is then stripped with mechanical handpiece. The wool is removed by following an efficient set of movements, devised by Godfrey Bowen in c. 1950, (Bowen Technique or the Tally-Hi method). In 1963, the system of shearing Tally-hi has been developed by Australian Wool Corporation and promoted the use synchronized cutting demonstrations. Sheep fight less using the method Tally Hi, reducing strain on the shearer and there is a saving of about 30 seconds to cut each sheep. The shearer begins by removing wool from the sheep stomach, which is separated from the main wool rouseabout for a while the sheep is still being shaved. A professional or "gun" shearer typically removes a fleece without badly cutting and marking of the sheep in two or three minutes, depending on size and condition of the sheep, or less than two each section of elite competition. The sheep sheared from the board moves through a duct in the floor or wall, to pen an account, efficiently removing it from the ship.
The CSIRO, Australia has developed a non-mechanical method of shearing sheep using an injected protein that creates a natural break in the wool fibers. After mounting a safety net to narrow the wool, sheep are injected with the protein. When the network is deleted after one week, the wool is separated and removed by hand. In some breeds of a similar process occurs naturally.
