It’s that time if year again. It has to be times so that the break in the fleece that happens in spring is long enough, but before the hot weather comes and with it, the danger of fly strike (we spray at the same time as shearing).
We don’t enjoy it much - too hot, too many flies, unhappy sheep
The sheep don’t enjoy it - always a danger of bits of skin getting chopped off despite our best efforst
But it has to be done anyway
First get the sheep
Then put them in a small area where you can catch them
The lambs get wormed and sprayed, but thankfully we don’t have to shear them
Two done in the first morning, five to go. We will do some more this afternoon and hope/plan to finish tomorrow morning before the coming heat wave...
We won’t be winning any sheep shearing competitions as each one takes about 30 mins!
They can’t recognise each other once the fleece comes off. This lamb is standing right by her mum baahing madly. Muuuum muuum where are yoouuuuu?
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