GALLERY: Shearing For Kids With Cancer fundraising event

Kicking off the fifth Shearing For Kids With Cancer fundraising event, Bill and Katrina Ogden and Bill and Val Barlow set their sights on raising more than $50,000 for the children’s charity The Room.

Mrs Odgen said after last year's efforts, My Room invited them to dare the former Hawthorn premiership player to shear a sheep.

“Shane being a country boy accepted the dare and we’re keen to see if he can talk the talk of shearing a sheep today,” she said.

The event, which is held at the Barlow family farm each year, moves 700 sheep through the clippers.

“Everyone in the shed works for free and Bill doubles the normal rate per sheep shorn and donates it straight into the My Room fund,” Mrs Odgen said.

“In return all his sheep are done and dusted and out in the paddock.”