Sheep Shearing

Every spring comes the shearing of the sheep.  We used to get someone to do it for us, but he was kind of a creepy old guy who lived in his truck, and left the sheep with more cuts that we thought was necessary.  So about 3 years ago, Mark bought some shears and we have been doing it ourselves ever since.  It is not too hard to do, just hard on the back!  Mark does a great job and it's my job to hold them still while he does the cutting.  Not always easy with them jumping around.  But a rope comes in handy.  It usually takes us a whole day to do 20 sheep.  As of right now we are not keeping any wool, but that may change in the future. 



The ladies in waiting

 


getting to work



The wool from one sheep



All done for another year