Shearing Day, January 29, 2023 - Part 2...

…only a week late. Some of the shearing photos are in the first blog post about the day.

As the sheep are shorn they are turned out behind the barn. I like to get photos of as many as I can. One of these days I’ll show the before and after photos of some of them. This is a lilac ewe, Lupine. She has an interesting mix of light and dark patches.

Ewe lamb, Jazzie.

A four year old lilac ewe, Bessie.

Hillside Barrett has grown up to have a really nice set of horns. He will turn 2 in April.

Lilac ram, Townes is turning three.

I hardly moved sheep at all on shearing day. Farm Club members handled it all. They’ve helped enough times to know what needs to be done.

The last few sheep are getting closer to the shearing pen.

Our youngest member wanted to get to work. He kept his mom busy.

This post is supposed to be about shearing day so there should be a shearing photo.

This was the last sheep to be shorn—the ewe who had delivered twins as we were picking up my friend’s sheep on Saturday. She had stayed behind until today.

Some people had to leave before I gathered everyone for a photo. That heater was a new and welcome addition to the barn for this event. Can you tell from how we’re dressed that it was a cold day?

The sheep look so different after shearing I have to get used to who they are again.

We put straw down in the barn in several places so they could bed down together and stay warm.