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How to Clip a Market Wether / Wether Dam Goat | Andis
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hello i'm mike harbour i'm an
andis animal educator and today we're
going to
clip a weather dam this doe we've
selected to trim we're going to slick
sure her just like you would do your
weathers
in your market classes we do clip our
weather dams we leave some hair at some
shows or we slick shear them at others
today we're going to choose to slick
shear this doe
our blades of choice that we're going to
use today are our 4fc
and our 5fc fermandus these blades are
full
tooth they actually leave the hair
anywhere from a quarter
inch to about 3 8 of an inch
most of our weathers we don't shear them
slick to the skin we want to leave a
little bit of hair on them
so my blade of choice on shearing
weathers and weather dams is our 5 fc
it's going to leave it about a quarter
of an inch long we shear them a few days
out you know three or four days out
before the show
to me is pretty optimum that way
everything kind of smooths out once we
get them clipped if we have any gaps or
mess-ups right there then that gives us
a little time for everything to smooth
out
as we a few things that we use whenever
we're
we're getting ready to shear we always
have some
some cool care this product here yeah it
lubricates and cools our blades but it's
also a virus side
and fungicide and in these goats we all
know that
fungus is always an issue at these shows
i think a lot of times we don't
take care of our equipment at home and
so we clip a goat that might have a
ringworm or staff and don't know it
and that's how we spread everything so
we constantly use the cool care which is
going to help
you know prevent some of these issues
that we run along so
you know ideally we spray our blades we
also use this on the head piece before
we put the animals on the stands
uh we take it to the shows use it at the
shows as well on our head pieces
any kind of brushes combs that we use
just try to prevent it it's always a
a great preventative measure um one
thing we do before we of course we've
washed and conditioned this skull we
want to try to use
uh this dough has a lot of cashmere on
her cashmere's that real soft down the
fine stuff that's within the hair
and they handle great when they have a
lot of cashmere but one thing about it
is it makes it harder to clip
if you're using some large blades
sometimes that cashmere gets between the
comb and the cutter and the blades won't
clip
so we do have an andes shedding comb
right here
you can run it through her and you can
see how that cashmere is coming right
out
if you take a little time to prep this
dough before we shear it or your weather
we see it on weathers as well
we can get this cashmere off and it'll
just make the clipping process
just go a little bit faster we can see
that cashmere coming right off as well
as
taking some of those guard hairs out but
this is a really good tool to use here
we're going to start as we start
clipping this go we're going to start
clipping on the head
and that's one area i always try to
start with a lot of times
first place a young person or an adult
starts clippings right here right down
the back
that's actually the last place we're
gonna leave because that's the most
important on this show animal as far as
the judge's touch and handle
and so everything that comes off that
head and everything in the environment
the last place we're going to do is
sheer down the back so we've got a fresh
clean area right there
we can blow them off and put the blanket
on
on the head we're going to use our our
5fc again this is about a quarter inch
blade
on a doe
we don't really like peeling the whole
face down
uh breeding does what we want to have
the roman
or the rounded head shape head as far as
the boar breed character goes
so we're going to take some off the top
here i'm going to leave this
face right in here of course we've
clipped her cheeks and under her chin
before we put her on the stand and that
way it's done and we don't have to worry
about it later
we're going to take the top of her head
off right here as far as the hair goes
and give that dough that rounded hair
look what her head look
we'll also clip up the back of the head
around the ears and we're going to again
we're going to use the 5fc this is
about a quarter inch blade
we take the top off right here it just
gives that dough that rounded look to
her skull
which is desirable in the boar breed
even though she may be showing as a
market doe or
in with the market weathers i still
would like to do that
kind of give that her more of a feminine
and bored look to her
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clip a little around the eyes here take
some of that off
uh again right here on
from her eyes to her nose we're gonna
leave that area
as you can see all that hair is going to
be landing on her back
so that's why we
leave their back to clip last that way
it's good and clean
and we don't have a lot of excess debris
and dirt
some young people when they go the wash
rack they forget to wash the head
that happens a lot with any experience
especially
young people that don't do any of the
clipping so
if you're doing the washing you want to
always wash the head that's a great
place to dull your clippers
blades if you don't get the head washed
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all right after we get the head
completed
we're going to move around to the front
end i always like starting on the front
end on the body
that way if you've got a goat that
that's um
this is the first time you're clipping
your goat if you start back here they're
going to have a tendency to be jumpier
and fight you a lot more
we can always start up here on the front
shoulder as well as if we have excess
oil or anything on our clippers
i'd rather it come off on the shoulder
than back here on the hip or definitely
on there
we don't want it coming off on the top
line we're going to use this
5fc you can see the hair is coming off
extremely quick
i think this is a very desirable link
for our market goats
today we got them on our pulse zr2s
which is an excellent cordless clipper
has a great run time
changeable batteries re-changeable
batteries
a really good clipper you'll notice
right here i'm
i'm leaving this forearm
we're going to clip up the shoulder
we'll come back and blend this in after
we clip the shoulder get the chest floor
done and stuff
and we'll blend this forearm into the
knee
i think that kind of separates a lot of
people on a really high quality clip job
is how well you blend uh the knee into
the
forearm and then the hawk into the the
stifle
just get everything blended together
a good blend job you don't have any
lines you can't really tell where it
starts and where it stops
all right we'll come back and finish
that here in a minute
on a goat the hair grows down their side
it doesn't grow straight down it grows
at an angle from
from the ground level all the way up to
the shoulder and so when we clip the
side of this goat
you know we want to start pretty low and
then work at this natural angle we're
going against the hair
and it'll come off in a good
solid path there
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and if we go at this angle it really
makes it a lot easier to get this goat
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smooth
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you can see the cashmere coming off
we've taken a lot of it off with the
andis shedding comb
that is really smooth i think that's an
ideal length for showing these market
goats
oh
okay we'll go back here once again we'll
spend a little more time
come back to the back leg and
but uh and blend that in
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oh
okay we got the side of this dough done
or front end
um now we're going to go underneath and
and uh
trim the underline of this this doe will
also trim
uh between the front legs we want to
take that a little tighter as we get in
you know the natural width of these
goats we want them blown apart we want
them to stand wide stand wide and square
and so as much as we can take off
between these front legs when that judge
comes around and gets the front view of
your goat
we'll clean that chest floor out just
give that optical illusion that that
goat's
you know what as wide as we can make him
uh we'll take our underline just to tick
short back to the navel
we'll go a little shorter than our 5f c
we might use a t84 i don't like using a
tin blade and going
completely close to the skin we'll leave
a little hair there or you can use a 7fc
which is
about a 16th of an inch on that blade
but we'll trim
back to the navel from the navel back i
want to leave that just a tick longer
maybe
you know our 5fc or even on a doe we
want some more natural depth of flank in
this rear part of the goat
the rear flank here so we might go with
the 4fc
smaller the number the more the longer
hair you're going to leave
so we may go with our 4fc you can even
use a guard
like a 2 guard with a 9 blade on it
and to do this rear flank to add a
little more depth in this dough
but right now we're going to use our t84
i like
using this blade kind of from the navel
forward
the center part of the belly forward and
get between the front legs and and
in that chest floor
again always spray with the cool care
this
helps lubricate it helps uh fight our
fungus and our viruses
um we definitely want to oil our blades
that's not
my opinion that's not a total substitute
for oiling our blades we still have to
put a good high quality andis oil on
them
to get them oiled but we'll uh
come around and start clipping this
belly now you do
you want to always uh be observant of
your clipping rules it's a show you're
going to
some some shows have rules where you
cannot have
you cannot block your goats or have any
deviation in
in hair length you know from their knees
and hawks up
and then there's some that that you can
clip them however you want so you always
want to clip according to your show
rules
uh that way you don't have any issues
come up but
today we're going to take her belly a
little bit shorter in her chest floor
now i'm not going to go up high to where
you actually see a line
i'm just right on the underside about
that wide from from the chest all the
way back to the navel
we're going to take it shorter i don't
want it to come up real
high on the side in fact to make sure we
don't we're going to go back to our 5f
and take a little bit of that belly off
right there
so we can see where we're going with it
navel should be about right in here
the great part about clipping is you can
always cut more off you can't put it
back on
so you know we'll start a little longer
and then we can take it down and get
shorter as we go
we'll see right here this
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wow
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all right we're done with the 5fc for
now and we'll go to our t84
the t84 is a really good blade it's a
leaves hair a little bit longer than a
t10
or a tin blade we got the t
the t shape these are actually the same
width as like your wide
your wide clipper blades um
and so it just makes things a little bit
faster
when you clip the belly the hair the
hair on the front part of the
belly grows towards the back and the
hair in the back grows towards the front
so that's always a little bit of a
challenge trying to get
go the right direction and get
everything
clipped down even and smooth again i
don't want to come up and show a
distinct
line there i think that takes away from
the balance and look of your animal you
can kind of back drag that a little bit
to
blend in your t84 into the 5fc
up here on the front end we're going to
take this out and that chest floor again
we want them a wide
to stand really wide in that chest floor
and so i'm going to take all that hair
off
with my t-84
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we're going to back drag this down the
inside of the front legs
which it
comes real close to being you know the
same
shortness as if you just turn it around
and go the other way but
that helps blend everything in gives it
more natural look
versus just turning around and peeling
it off
takes a little practice but
that's what the six month feeding
periods for is we we practice clipping
these goats
we practice showing them and getting
them ready to go to a show and
and uh so the only way to learn how to
clip one is to get after it and
and learn and just
all right
okay we got the chest floor clipped our
side of
this does clipped we've got the neck uh
we're going to work on
blending this forearm in and getting the
rear flank trimmed up right there
the forearm the natural forearm and
muscle
you know a lot of judges look at that
that's your natural indicator of muscle
is
is how big the forearm is so ideally we
may not
take it down just quite as tight as we
would the body
we'll leave a little hair there a little
fullness you know i've seen kids that go
to a show and they've done nothing from
here down
and that doesn't add a look to your goat
it just makes it look like you forgot to
shear
i've seen where they forgot to shear the
head and we don't want to do that at all
it just
makes you look like you've showed up to
a goat show for the first time
and so we're going to blend this in
we're going to use like the 4f
you can also use a 2 with a with a 9
blade a 2 guard but
i like using a 4f and and try to blend
that into the shoulder
we're going to start blending down to
the knee about right here
right above the knee and just try to
make everything
blend and look as as good as we can
uh
this is the 4fc
i'm not going to go straight to the skin
with it i'm going to kind of comb this
hair and take
take a little off at a time if i can
he's she's got
a lot of cashmere right there so
you can get your shedding comb and pull
some of that out
and that'll help
as we go up the forearm i'm getting a
little closer to the body
and then eventually right up here we're
touching
skin to blade tip
all right we can go down you see how
that blended in there nicely we still
left some volume right in here
i think that's a real critical spot
because if we take this and dig it out
and get it close to the skin
that makes your goat look finer boned
and makes you go look like it's got a
smaller forearm
you know it's that little spot this
little area right here
i think can make a big deal a big
difference um especially we haven't been
uh working this gal's leg here lately
but if we were rotor brushing it or
popping it every day
we'd have some more volume to it and
that would that would help that
situation right there we can come back
like with a medium blending
this is a good wide tooth blade to get
those stray hairs
and knock them off pretty quick some
people use a super blocking but if she
stomps or moves
whatever super blocking touches it cuts
off and so
you know my blade of choice on this
still is a medium blending it's a little
more forgiving it has a bevel to it
and so if she does stomp into the blade
then then we won't gap or near as bad as
we would if we used a super blocking
when we can get this swirl every god has
a little swirl here on the back of their
forearm
get that taken off you can come around
use the same blade to
kind of take down the front of the knee
um that gives her a more correct stance
um that way she doesn't doesn't appear
to be
over on her knees just because she has a
little hair sticking out right there
so i'll take that out make that more
correct
all right well that's a good straight
front leg right there we've left a
little bit of volume to that
from her knee to her mid forearm
we didn't take it all all down and and
most of our selection on these goats is
done from the profile
you know the judge may come in and
handle them do above you to begin with
but after that
pretty much everything's done on the
profile or the side view
and so we want this leg to have more
dimension from the side
and just by leaving a little hair right
here and a little bit back here
that gives that front leg make it look
more massive make that forearm look
bolder and bigger
okay now we're gonna go back and tackle
the rear flank uh
you know today's trends uh it doesn't
matter what species we're showing
uh the trend today is we want them
shallower chested and deeper in the rear
flank
so they want to funnel back like that
and get deeper and that's why we don't
go in here and just peel that out
because when you do raise the flanking
one and make some high flank
that's something that's not desirable in
today's trends in the show ring so we're
gonna take this down really slow
again you know you can always cut more
off so we're gonna take our time on this
um i'm gonna take like a uh number one
guard and the nine blade
and we'll take that down and just kind
of knock some of the fullness out of it
and then we can get shorter and shorter
as we go when we
start using guards which guards here is
gives us space between the skin and the
clipper blade
the blade i prefer to use on with the
guard is a nine blade
a lot of people use tens and that's fine
tens there's more teeth and so if you
have a denser
uh hair coat on one or fleece on one
uh with a lot of cashmere it might not
feed through the guard
it'll feed through the guard but it
might not feed through the clippers
quick
and so a nine blade has less teeth so
there's more space
and and um it just to me it seems to
feed this
goat hair through a lot faster and a lot
easier
you can get a few tracks using a nine
blade uh which that's kind of lines in
the hair
but if you go over it a few more times
um
i think you'll be good but we're gonna
start out with like the one
guard which is leaving about a half inch
or
um or does leave it a half inch long and
so we're gonna
start there and and work on this rear
flank and
we can see right away that yeah we're
going to have to take it down some more
but this is a good place to start i mean
again we want to go by our rules make
sure that that you're able to do this
if if not if it says completely slick
from
hawks and knees up then we'll go ahead
and have to go ahead and take that out
but uh
right there i like back here by the
utter we may leave that
with the the one guard
and then this area right in here we're
going to take it down
we can go ahead and and go to the two
guard which
that's going to take that a notch closer
to 3
8.
now as we're taking it down closer it's
starting to blend a little better
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okay i like how we're getting coming
forward with
it we still are a little long right in
here
so i might switch over to my 4fc
which is about it's about a 3 8 as well
but i think we can get take a little you
can see a little more hair coming off
right there
now it's starting to blend together
you got to remember the hair is growing
this way so if we go against it it's
going to come off so
as i go back i kind of
move my clippers out that way we don't
take too much off further back and
all right i think that blended in pretty
good
take some off the backside all right i
like the way that looks right in here
we're going to clean this up as well
we'll go back to our original our 5fc
that we uh
started with we sheared the body with
now we can start cleaning this up
and then we'll tie this hawk into the
lower stifle
she's wanting to dance a little bit on
us
okay right now as i come up that lower
stifle from the hawk i'm not gonna dig
it out
i'm just gonna
try to take off what i want and leave
what i want and just be real smooth
about it
um you can even come back the other
direction
comb that hair with it you can see
something's coming off
but that helps blend that hawk together
again we don't want a distinct line and
we don't want to dig that out we want
everything to be smooth
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i'm just going with the hair right there
to kind of blend
comb that
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if you don't quite take enough off you
can go against it
all right i know a lot of people have
difficulty clipping between the back
legs and that's
you know you can tell this does dancing
around she don't want to be touched back
there
one trick that i use is just raise the
goat up on your leg
and then you can get under here and clip
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and that way they aren't fighting you
most of the time
we'll just clip around and get this
stifling try to
get them trimmed up as quick as you can
between the back legs and
you might not be able to get everything
off of her but
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um
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there we go
okay as we look at this doe we left a
little flank here in here
we'll probably come back with our medium
blending and clean some of those long
hairs up we've got our stifle done
we blended that pretty good right there
into the hawk and
and into those back legs
okay i'm gonna
i'm gonna take my medium blending now
and try to clean up around
inner udder and just get that long hair
this is
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okay
all right now we go back to the
we've got the front the neck the head
the sides done
we come back to the tail we've still got
the top line to do
there's a lot of there's a lot of
different ideas about the tail some
people will grab it and slick it down
and just clip everything off from here
towards the front of the goat
to me i like leaving just a little
fullness to this tail
i don't want it slick down completely
tight
so we're going to go with the length of
the hair or the direction of the hair
i'll go back to my my 5f that we clipped
the body with
we're going to trim up and and
shape up around here
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as you can see i'm going with the hair
just to take some of the fullness out
not peel it off totally slick
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okay
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now
okay now we'll uh go back and and trim
up around the tail we've taken some of
the volume out of it we're going to use
our t84
blade and again we're using the pulse
zr2 cordless clippers
probably my clipper of choice right now
i love these clippers they give you the
freedom
freedom of of a cordless yet they last
forever it seems like
um but we're gonna we're gonna
clip right under the tail right here on
the pin bones just take that a little
shorter if she'll let us
get some of this
hair on the edge of her tail again if
she she kind of fights he wants to dance
we may put her on her leg and
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get that cleaned up a little bit better
but i like under the crease of her tail
kind of taking that shorter
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you don't want to leave any lines or
anything but we can still take that down
just a notch there's some swirls
right here between the back legs that
we'll work on and try to
get them trimmed out just a little bit
okay that looks better
and again there's all different ways you
can do a tail um that's just my
preference and my personal way of doing
it if you want to slick it off well
feel free to slick it off but this is
kind of the way we do it around here
blend this it's got a little bit of a
knot right there
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all right okay we got the front leg
blended we left some flank here we've
got the belly taken down tighter we did
her side we've got her head and neck
done uh now we're gonna gonna trim the
top line again that's
to me the most important part when the
judge comes and handles your go because
that's about the only place they touch
them is right
down the rack and through the loin and
so we always save that to last
uh that way all this uh extra hair and
dirt that we're getting off of them
we can go ahead and shear that off when
we clip the top line again we'll go back
to our
our 5 fc we want to spray them
in case we hit any fungal spots or any
staff or bacterial
spots and didn't know it
we're going to clean these off we'll oil
them good or oil them a little bit
again the hair is going to grow straight
down the back
so we'll start out here on the edge
try to take it off in a good fluid
movement
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longer and smoother your passes are the
better clip job you'll do
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great thing about the 5fc you can go
back over them as many times as you need
to to get them smooth
if you've got lines
i like trying to get it as close as i
can down the center of the back
there's always that little ridge of hair
that grows and wants to lay
super tight against the spine and down
the center part of the back so you may
have to
kind of angle your clippers back and
forth just a little bit
just so we can make sure we get that
stood up and clipped off the same length
as everything else
all right well this is the way we'd clip
uh a weather goat or a weather dam if
you want a slick shear
again we've used our andis
uh pulse zr2 cordless clippers we've
used a 5fc
a 4fc we've had a t84 on here quite a
bit
we've gone to our 9 blade and used our
guards the andis guards
that clip on and
a medium blending so we've used a
variety of blades
uh to get this goat clipped out and and
hopefully
uh you learn kind of a smooth and easy
way of sharing your market
market dams weather dams or your market
weather goes thank you
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