Shearing Day

We sheared on February 3, almost exactly a year from shearing in 2017. This is such a fun day. Farm Club members are there to get their fleeces from the year, but they also do all the work!                                                   Our fabulous shearer is John Sanchez. We started with the rams. This is Peyton, the new BFL. His fleece sold right away.                 Next was the 2 year old lilac ram, Catalyst.                   Here he is afterwards and...                ...here is his fleece.                   A staple of Catalyst's fleece.            Catalyst's son, Cayenne, after shearing. You can see what he looked like before shearing near the end of this post.

                    One of the shearing day jobs is weighing and recording fleeces. Kathleen and Lisa did that job.

                 We had two skirting tables set up this year. Farm Club members skirted their fleeces and helped others skirt and sort.

                                                                   I set up the GoPro for some shearing video. That will be coming later.              Roy and Gina worked in the sheep pen.                   So did Deborah and Shelby. They all made sure that John never ran out of sheep.                Kathleen, Lisa, and Dona. Dona is our "official" Farm Club photographer because I'm always too busy to take photos on our Farm Days. She took some of the photos here.                  This is what a fleece looks like when you take the coat off the sheep.

                  Here is that same fleece after shearing.                  Locks from Jolene's fleece.                Another beautiful fleece on the table.                 Doris made Jacob sheep cookies for us.

These sheep won't be around long enough to need shearing.