The House Boy is assigned domestic duties like dusting and vacuuming on weekends and serving refreshments to visitors on Friday and Saturday evenings at dinner parties and other special events. On weekdays (Monday through Friday) the House Boy is required to work 12 hours a day shearing sheep at the Master’s Ranch, “Baah Baah, LLC”.

“The Ranch”, as it is known to friends and neighbors, is a full-service livestock operation specializing in the breeding, raising, and processing of sheep for wool production. Presently there is approximately 563 head being raised on the 69-acre facility, and each day begins promptly at 5:45 am for the House Boy, except on Fridays when work begins and ends 30 minutes earlier to allow time for the boys to clean up and prepare for evening duties hosting in the Master’s luxurious six-bedroom country home.

The ranching operation raises sheep and harvests wool on a rotating basis, so there is always sufficient sheep needing to be shorn to keep the boy busy. To speed up the operation and ease cleanup, the boy is required to perform his duties completely naked at all times, regardless of who may be present and could observe. While there is an adjustment period during which the feel of fresh wool against the boy’s bare skin may be uncomfortable, the boy will soon adjust to the occasional itchiness and proceed with his duties without complaint, in part because complaining is only permitted during the three five-minute bathroom and water breaks scheduled every three hours. Violation brings a stinging rebuke to the boy’s bare buttocks, as explained later in the rule.

The first minute of each of the boy’s breaks is a combined ‘washing and consumption’ time where a high-pressure hose is turned on the worker for a quick rinse, and the boy is permitted to drink as much of the cold water as he is able to down before the horn sounds for return to work. To save time, the boy is kept on a liquid diet during the workweek and urinates unmonitored onto the ground (or down his own leg) as he continues shaving the wool from the fidgety animals inside one of the three ‘Cutting Barns’ on the ranch property. With summer temperatures averaging in the mid-90 degree range, the dripping urine usually mixes with the urine and feces of the fearful sheep, so it evaporates quickly. Any human or sheep urine that does settle on the skin of the boy is usually absorbed by loose wool that has been shaved from the sheep and sticks to the boy’s skin as he holds and turns the noisy animals. Boys who complain about the smell either have a clothespin installed over their nostrils (or duct tape over their mouths) to restore quiet and maintain a healthy work environment.

To maximize income for The Ranch, public tours are conducted daily one hour prior to the boy’s second five-minute break. Each 90-minute tour includes a Hay Ride around the perimeter of the property, a souvenir bag of wool and flyer describing the history of The Ranch, and a quick photo-op with the naked worker holding a partially shorn sheep. Tours for groups of more than 16 – including those for the Future Farmers and other youth organizations – must be arranged in advance so that the actual sheep shearing operation is not disrupted.

Each naked worker is given an hourly quota of 12 sheep, and efficiency and speed are rewarded through an incentive plan that allows the naked worker an additional five-minute break for each day that the total goal of 140 shorn sheep (12 per hour minus the three breaks and a five minute morning prep period) is met. Quality control is maintained through physical prompting via a supervisor and bullwhip that stings but rarely breaks the skin of the boy’s bare buttocks. Supervisors (who also work completely naked, but have independent living quarters and weekends off to enjoy as they like) are promoted from the ranks of former House Boys and must have shorn 150,000 sheep to be considered for promotion. Boys are sometimes assigned to weekend duties with their supervisors when the Master has no events planned for Friday through Sunday.

In the photo above, a House Boy is learning the proper way to position the sheep for shearing, which begins with the underbelly of the animal. It’s important that the boy insure that each sheep faces away from the boy’s body at all times since a fearful animal can occasionally lash out and attempt to bite the worker. Boys who have a smaller penis and testicles have less to worry about of course, but the Master emphasizes safe practices anyway because the cost of medical care is so high. Workers who are largely endowed or who are found fraternizing with the sheep will have chastity devices installed for their safety.