Spring (again) chicks and shearing

We have had rain and rain and wind and more rain for AGES (a month?) and everyone started to despair of summer ever arriving. It finally has - but with spring like thunder storms because of all the wet in the ground. It feels even more like spring because the 2nd batch of chicks has hatched and we have been shearing the sheep (we normally do that in early June but it has been too wet to face doing it - it is important we do it quickly now before fly strike season)

Shearing Dagmar who is our most obliging sheep

Raasay looking natty

Dagmar finished. The pink is an anti insect treatment that we put on every 6 weeks in the summer - mostly to stop flystrike, but it deals with ticks too.