On farm things are ticking over nicely and pre-lamb shearing is well through.

Sheep farmers in Central Otago are in the thick of scanning and pre-lamb shearing.

Everyone's break feeding stock, pre-lamb shearing's underway and a few early lambs are on the ground.

Dave Te Kapa's shearing gang is pre-lamb shearing 1000 ewes a day at Snowdon Station in the Canterbury high country.

Pre-lamb shearing's done on crossbred sheep so the gangs are moving up country to start on merinos.

Pre-lamb shearing starts next week, so the weekend is going to be busy bringing the ewes to the shed.