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| Only 6 Sheep Left To Be Sheared! |
We finished the rest of the shearing yesterday here at Wild Rose Farm. Our shearer has his own flock of 100+ ewes, so he arrives here mid-morning after his chores are done. Mind you, after he finishes here, he heads home to do his own chores again. We split the sheep into 2 groups here now and do about half at a time.
How does the sheep that you're after know that she is the one? Rambouillet ewe #332 started to spin around just as the picture above was snapped ... she was next and she knew it!
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| Wild Rose Farm Rambouillet Ewe #332 - Very Nice Fleece! |
This is #332, but the tag you see in her left ear is her scrapie tag - we put flock number tags on the ewe's right ear as you see in the 1st picture.
Guess who got a full body clip this year? Yes, that's llama Snow White & she's standing pretty quietly for her clip job! Her early handling and showing career before she came to us certainly serves us well.
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| Wild Rose Farm - Snow White - Off Comes That Heavy Fleece! |
One thing that she didn't want to do was stand on the shearing board & carpet. Oh well ... I got some of the prime fleece as it came cleanly off & now what to do with it? For the record, by this afternoon, she had found the spot where we had burned brush over the winter. She enjoyed rolling around and taking a nice dust bath in the ashes. She is now a dusty gray color & no longer shows up as bright white against the green grass like the ewes ...
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She might have been standing where you wanted her to, but she sure is standing nice :-).
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