Stanley Allingham broke the nine hour Irish lamb shearing record in Milltown, Co Cavan on Sunday afternoon shearing 708 lambs. The previous record of 669 lambs was held by Mark McGeown. \ Lorraine Teevan
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I farm: “Sucklers and sheep alongside my father Eddie in Garrison, Co Fermanagh. We farm 260ac of heavy land.”
The system: “We sell weanlings off the cows in Enniskillen Mart in autumn every year. We calve in spring and have mostly Charolais/Limousin cows and a Charolais bull. We sell lambs as stores in Enniskillen Mart and have Texel crosses and cross-bred ewes.”
Shearing bug: “I started to shear sheep when I was 19 and I travelled to New Zealand when I was 20. I wanted to learn how to do 200 a day and I gradually got the bug and I went back for seven years every year from November to March from 2005 to 2012. I then went for four seasons to Victoria in New South Wales in 2012-2015 shearing Merinos.
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Breaking records: “I broke the Irish nine-hour lamb shearing record in Milltown, Co Cavan, on Sunday. It took massive organisation and a massive effort from myself. I was training for about 19 months in advance of the day. I sheared 708 lambs in the nine hours averaging 45.7 seconds/lamb between shearing and catching from the pen.”
Training: “For the past eight months I was up at 5am every morning. I have a home gym and I would start with stetching, then move to cardio work and finish on weights for about 45 minutes, then go to the farm or shear for the day.”
Quotable quote: “I believe that life is all about setting goals and achieving them. A piece of advice I got from the previous record holder Mark McGeown was to leave everything on the shearing stage, both emotionally and physically, after the competition last Sunday and that’s what I did.”
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I farm: “Sucklers and sheep alongside my father Eddie in Garrison, Co Fermanagh. We farm 260ac of heavy land.”
The system: “We sell weanlings off the cows in Enniskillen Mart in autumn every year. We calve in spring and have mostly Charolais/Limousin cows and a Charolais bull. We sell lambs as stores in Enniskillen Mart and have Texel crosses and cross-bred ewes.”
Shearing bug: “I started to shear sheep when I was 19 and I travelled to New Zealand when I was 20. I wanted to learn how to do 200 a day and I gradually got the bug and I went back for seven years every year from November to March from 2005 to 2012. I then went for four seasons to Victoria in New South Wales in 2012-2015 shearing Merinos.
Breaking records: “I broke the Irish nine-hour lamb shearing record in Milltown, Co Cavan, on Sunday. It took massive organisation and a massive effort from myself. I was training for about 19 months in advance of the day. I sheared 708 lambs in the nine hours averaging 45.7 seconds/lamb between shearing and catching from the pen.”
Training: “For the past eight months I was up at 5am every morning. I have a home gym and I would start with stetching, then move to cardio work and finish on weights for about 45 minutes, then go to the farm or shear for the day.”
Quotable quote: “I believe that life is all about setting goals and achieving them. A piece of advice I got from the previous record holder Mark McGeown was to leave everything on the shearing stage, both emotionally and physically, after the competition last Sunday and that’s what I did.”
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