A Merino that was captured after three years 'on the lam' has had a makeover.
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Woody is now unrecognisable after shedding his 10-kilogram fleece.
The male sheep was found grazing in a common at Woodstock, a town of 792 people near Cowra in NSW.
Volunteers from the Woodstock Rural Fire Service caught Woody on April 3 with the sole purpose of cleaning him up.
A scan of the sheep's ear tag showed that Woody's last recorded location was 20 kilometres away at the Cowra saleyards, three years ago.
After drying off from recent wet weather, local rouser Mathew Boyce sheared Woody and the fleece was estimated to weigh 10 kilograms.
The average weight for a Merino fleece shorn annually is 4.5 kilograms.
But Woody doesn't hold the record for fleeciest Merino. That record was set by Chris the Merino who spent 15 years on Canberra's trails and paddocks and shed a world-record 41kg of fleece. Chris was captured in 2015 and died in 2019.
Woody will be rehomed on grazing land outside the town alongside horses and fellow sheep