WE all know animal husbandry is hard yakka, but enormous credit must go out to four Echuca sheep shearers who recently went above and beyond.
Not content to miss a day at work nor leave an animal in distress, the shearers recently took a boat across the flooding Murray River to help give a number of marooned sheep a life-saving trim.
The sheep are stranded by kilometres of water on the edge of a forest near Echuca, and were in desperate need of shearing, with concern from the shepherd rising about the welfare of his animals.
The group made the 4.5-kilometre journey in two dinghies to the stranded sheep to give them a fresh fade, leaving the shepherd to focus on protecting his home from the floodwater.