It’s the busiest time of year for sheep shearing sports as competitors fight to beat previous records. 

Megan Whitehead and Hannah McColl smashed both the women’s eight-hour solo and two-stand strong wool lamb records, shearing a total of 1,283 lambs.  

Doug Laing from Shearing Sports New Zealand says many rural kiwis are tallying their own shearing numbers on a regular day of work to see what they are capable of. 

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