the ewes have been in the barn all night waiting for the shearer blankets are removed to reveal this year’s crop the harvest begins! Wool Harvest – Shearing Day fresh shorn fleeces are quickly skirted a day or two later the fleeces are skirted a second time staple length and fleece quality is recorded the wool is now ready to ship to hand spinners or to the mill for processing into rovings and yarn. you can find our products in our Etsy store
Read Moreit’s shearing day january 26th – 12 degrees – no wind friends (great friends that don’t mind the chill) come to help and the sheep – full of lambs – are ready to give up their bulky wool coats burnese and tim shearing day ” red” getting her first hair cut the team – couldn’t do it without them – thank you guys! ewes waiting – seem to be ignoring me… “summer” “lavender’s” multi colored cvm fleece shimmering silver cvm fleece beautiful gray cvm fleece and the rewards are worth it all!...
Read Morethis is Tim the sheep shearer and that’s Birdie getting a new do it’s february and time to shear the sheep prior to lambing. always an exciting day if you love wool. early morning after shearing day coats of many colors
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