The red/pink stuff is antiseptic, used on him after the shearing in places the heavy coat rubbed raw.
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This magnificent beast should have its own reality show.
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tar boy
Noun, English, Australia /NZ
A member of a shearing gang whose job is applying disinfectant (formerly Stockholm Tar) to wounds on sheep. The tar boy is typically a young rousie (unskilled farm laborer) and not a shearer himself.
The quality of a shear can be judged by the color of the sheep after
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