A sheep in eastern Australia is leaping about more lightly after being sheared of its massively overgrown fleece.
In a social media post that has gone viral, farmer Graeme Bowden shared pictures of the sheep dubbed โshriek 2โ. He said a friend found the sheep with several years of growth, which he sheared to produce 30 kg (66 pounds) of wool โ more than six times greater than the average fleece.
โHe cut 30 kilograms of wool, which was 13 inches longโ, Bowden said in his Facebook post, adding that the fleece was unbelievably clean.
โAnyway heโs light footed now, would be nice at the moment with the price of wool to have about 2,000 of them, gee Iโd be able to buy some hay,โ Bowden finished his post by saying.
Australian wool prices have been running at record highs this year.
Bowden is a farmer in Coonabarabran, a town in New South Wales state, about 450 km (280 miles) northwest of Sydney, local media said.
