The process of removing dags from the rear of sheep. Similar to crutching, but more restricted in area sheared.
Sheep accumulate faeces on wool around their backsides, and the wool and the associated faeces need to be removed, usually in late spring or early summer after weaning so that there is a lower risk of fly strike, and so that the rams can find their target with the ewes during mating or tupping.
Dags accumulate as hard accumulations around the sheeps' backside if early summer is dry, and if dagging is done, these can provide sheep farmers with some small early season income.
If dags dry out, they rattle when sheep run, this gives rise to the NZ and Aust expression rattle your dags.
In NZ where sheep rule (joke) dagging is usually done by shearers. The mixed sheep poo and wool produced by dagging is processed to make garden fertiliser and some low grade wool fibre.
Related definitions: rattle your dags
Sheep accumulate faeces on wool around their backsides, and the wool and the associated faeces need to be removed, usually in late spring or early summer after weaning so that there is a lower risk of fly strike, and so that the rams can find their target with the ewes during mating or tupping.
Dags accumulate as hard accumulations around the sheeps' backside if early summer is dry, and if dagging is done, these can provide sheep farmers with some small early season income.
If dags dry out, they rattle when sheep run, this gives rise to the NZ and Aust expression rattle your dags.
In NZ where sheep rule (joke) dagging is usually done by shearers. The mixed sheep poo and wool produced by dagging is processed to make garden fertiliser and some low grade wool fibre.
Related definitions: rattle your dags
NZ Farmer (Bruce): Hey Fred, your ewes seriously need dagging.
NZ Farmer (Fred, over the fence): Yeah I know, delayed as we had a wet summer.
NZ Farmer (Fred, over the fence): Yeah I know, delayed as we had a wet summer.
by southernart December 9, 2013
by steven malcay September 7, 2006
by Katrus91 August 11, 2020
1. A turd hanging off the rear end of a sheep (caught in the fleece).
2. Someone who is daggy, i.e. uncool. This can be meant insultingly or affectionately. (Much like that other well-known Australianism, "you old bastard".) On the face of it, it's an insult, but there are ways in which it is seen as admirable to be a dag – having one's own style, not caring for public opinion, being outrageous, being a source of friendly amusement, being original.
2. Someone who is daggy, i.e. uncool. This can be meant insultingly or affectionately. (Much like that other well-known Australianism, "you old bastard".) On the face of it, it's an insult, but there are ways in which it is seen as admirable to be a dag – having one's own style, not caring for public opinion, being outrageous, being a source of friendly amusement, being original.
1. "About time the farmer cut off those dags."
2. (a) Insulting: "I wouldn't go out with him, he's the biggest dag around."
(b) Affectionate: "She's such a dag, we always have heaps of fun."
3. Comedian John Clarke's character on New Zealand and later Australian radio, Fred Dagg, so named for obvious reasons.
2. (a) Insulting: "I wouldn't go out with him, he's the biggest dag around."
(b) Affectionate: "She's such a dag, we always have heaps of fun."
3. Comedian John Clarke's character on New Zealand and later Australian radio, Fred Dagg, so named for obvious reasons.
by SnakyPoet December 7, 2007
An Australian slang term.
A dag is technically the matted wool on a sheeps tail, but in typical useage throughout Australia, it refers to people who don't have a neat, tidy or cultured appearance. It can also refer to a person who tends to be quite informal.
It is not necessarily a derogatory term in modern useage.
A dag is technically the matted wool on a sheeps tail, but in typical useage throughout Australia, it refers to people who don't have a neat, tidy or cultured appearance. It can also refer to a person who tends to be quite informal.
It is not necessarily a derogatory term in modern useage.
by Random September 4, 2003
by Nick D February 22, 2003
by rpfeff October 4, 2003