Shear Pleasure

First bit of shearing today - just the three wethers.  It is earlier than we usually do it but things have conspired to make it impossible to leave it later or we will not get the girls done at the right times.  All the shearing equipment was new so it was a bit of a trial to see if everything worked as it should - and it did, perfectly!  Carl and Sam set everything out very professionally.

Shearing is not easy, although the real professionals like Colin Ottery make it seem like it is!  But the boys did an excellent job - they do need to work on the top knots and the tails though.  Caedmon now looks like a marine and Spike is a bit lopsided with what appears to be a parting - they were not terribly pleased with my comments and offered to improve by doing my hair - I declined as I have enough trouble with it as it is.

Carl doing Spike and below - Sam doing Caedmon.  All the boys were very good - no crying or spitting and getting them down in the harness was very easy.

Trouble is, once they are done they look so tiny and there was a lot of bottom sniffing where they were checking out who was who as they didn’t recognise each other.  Alf, the Suri, is not being done until later next month.

After we had finished everything was disinfected and cleaned and it is now time for baths and an early night.

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