Mariacher Shearing Services

11/03/2025

Attention Please!!!

Its been brought to my attention that rumors, talk is going around that I'm retiring or semi retiring from shearing. Thats news to me. 😠 I have no plans on quitting shearing anytime soon.
I'LL SAY IT AGAIN for the folks in the back. I'M NOT RETIRING.

I don't know how / if my schedule may change because of my absence this past season. Ill be beginning the scheduling process earlier this year, so I can make necessary changes.

I posted in August that my Drs signed off on my PT and I could return to work. Since August I've shorn over 60 cria & a few adult alpacas along with about 300 sheep. Im able to do everything I've been doing. Ive kept yall updated along my injury, surgery and recovery. Ive NOT ONCE mentioned retiring. So wherever this comes from is upsetting to me. I truly appreciate the friends that's giving me the word on the streets (or in the barns)
Please share this with anyone needing shearing next spring/summer. Don't accept false information without checking in with me FIRST.

YES, I have "officially " bought my family farm in Pennsylvania. Yes.. at some point in the next year or two I'll likely move back to the farm where I was born and raised. But THAT doesn't mean I still can't travel shearing. We'll worry about that whenever it happens. But that's none of yalls concerns right now. Thanks for your time,
patience and understanding, Jay. Scheduling Emails will be coming soon after Thanksgiving. # mariachershearingservices.

06/25/2024

My shearing tour for main season is wrapping up quickly. I'll be heading south to SC, NC, GA, AL, TN, VA, MD, PA, OH. & Eventually back to New England.

If you have anything needing shorn, or herd health work done, message me in the next few days. Cria & Stragglers tour begins Saturday June 29th.

04/24/2024

03/09/2024

01/29/2024

Hey, Pennsylvania to Maine. My email for shearing should be in your inbox. If not, please message me. Pass it on to anyone who may be interested in using Mariacher Shearing Services LLC.

01/13/2024

Hey Folks just wanted to let you know that this page is being threatened to be permanently deleted. It's been 367 days since I posted anything on this page . Apparently somehow I've gone against community standards & hateful speech. Again. It's been a year since I posted anything here. I've appealed. Stay tuned. This is CRAP.

01/11/2023

**Urgent notice ***
To all my friends and shearing clients patiently waiting for my annual email blast beginning the scheduling process for the 2023 tour, my computer has crashed and its impossible to send 500 emails from my phone. My computer is being worked on. I am still shearing for yet another season. I appreciate the calls, texts and messages inquiring about my health and shearing schedule. I am alive, well and still kicking. Praying that my computer will be up and running in a couple days. Hopefully email blast will be in you mail this weekend. Thanks for your patience and understanding. Jay.

03/03/2022

01/10/2021

The 2021 edition of the Mariacher Shearing Services tour is or should be in your mailbox. Please reply with your information. Booking and Confirming dates will begin soon.

12/11/2020

Howdy,
I'm getting ready to begin the scheduling process for the 2021 Shearing Tour.
I'm looking for for a couple guys to join my crew.
The potential candidate must be able to travel/ be gone from home for 3-4 months. You must be clean, polite and be respectful of the owners and their animals. Understanding this is hard work and sometimes long hours. We travel from Georgia to Ohio to northern Maine. We shear alpacas, sheep, llamas and goats 7 days a week!!
All of your food and lodgings are provided.
You must be able to work well with your teammates.
You will learn the trade. Some of my former employees are now owning their own shearing businesses.
Job runs from late March to late June. The right employee may stay on till possibly late July .

Pay is based on number of animals per day. Average pay is $15,000. Plus tips. The more we work, the more we get paid.

Please contact me at 603-767-4533 or
Jaymariachershearing@gmail.com. Thanks. Jay.

07/26/2020

After 125 days, 19,417 miles, 22 states, over 350 invoices, and countless memories we made it through the 2020 edition of the Jay Mariacher Shearing Services Tour.

I'd like to Thank Rufus, Jim and Luke for your help and dedication, Especially when I had to leave for my Father's funeral. I'd also like to Thank my son Elijah for the last 5 weeks of filling in on the crew. We had some good and bad times together, but we got the clients animals taken care of. And that's what counts!!

Yes, I'm still shearing cria and stragglers, but I'm spending the foreseeable future in my own bed!!
I'm humbled by the kindness and generosity of my clients whom even through the pandemic opened your barns and homes for us to tend to your livestock. It's just a short 5 months until I begin the scheduling process for 2021 season.

Joel "Jay" Mariacher