Nice day to shear sheep
Beautiful day today. Highs in the mid-50’s and it felt warmer working in the sunshine.
We’ve got a fiber show coming up in March and decided to shear a few sheep so that we could take along raw fleeces along with the processed fiber we have left from last year. We weren’t able to get anything sent off for processing this year due to the work we’ve been doing getting the Nursery up and running.
Eileen’s the shearer and I’m the catcher, dragger and holder. We managed to find 5 sheep that had fleeces long enough and nice enough to sell raw and two hours later, covered with lanolin, mud and sheep poop, we had some pretty nice ones. Everything from a dark brown/nearly black to greys and very beautiful long white. Still need a bit of skirting and cleaning up of a few second cuts, but I’ll get it done later this next week. Hope we don’t get any *real* cold weather, but everybody has access to barns so none to the sheared ones should get too cold.
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