Gripping a sheep firmly between her legs, Vanesa Castillo holds its head with one hand while she tries to shear off its thick fleece with electric clippers.
“It’s scary,” said Castillo, 37, slightly unnerved by her first attempt at sheep shearing at a school for shepherds in western Spain.
“You have to pull the animal’s skin taut, really slowly, so you don’t cut it,” said Jose Rivero, the professional sheep shearer giving the course.
Sheep shearing is just one of the classes offered at the school in Casar de Caceres in rural Extremadura to counter the flight from the land
Several schools across Spain are trying to counter the flight from the land that has left large swathes of the nation thinly populated by bringing in people who love the countryside and training them in the most up-to-date sheep farming methodsBy Diego Urdaneta / AFP, CASAR DE CACERES, Spain
Gripping a sheep firmly between her legs, Vanesa Castillo holds its head with one hand while she tries to shear off its thick fleece with electric clippers.&nbs
CASAR DE CACERES (SPAIN) - Gripping a sheep firmly between her legs, Vanesa Castillo holds its head with one hand while she tries to shear off its thick fleece with electric clippers.
Gripping a sheep firmly between her legs, Vanesa Castillo holds its head with one hand while she tries to shear off its thick fleece with electric clippers.