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Are you doing the shearing?
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No way. If I had to, I'd just sell them all off!
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Years ago, I tried. Hand shears.
The Babydoll ram, different shears that weren't as pointy or sharp. Took forever & didn't finish. There was another I did, ewe, also took forever, but got more done.
Then I bought super sharp shears. So sharp you can easily stab or chop off skin if they move...The Cheviot/bfl and Cheviot/bfl/Babydoll were nice to shear. Could get into the fiber without too much worry.
Tried the Corriedale, but fiber a bit more dense & all if the wrinkles made it something I left for the pro.
Either way, takes much longer than the 5min a pro takes!
I did the alpaca by hand, standing or laying, while I had them. Dry hair was super easy.
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You have a lot of sheep to hand shear! I’d call the pro too.
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It’s “easy” when there are only a few! 
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Must have dressed himself -- has his rf sock on his tail 
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Other than that, he’s a pretty sharp dresser! He must have gone partying last night and got sheep faced!Must have dressed himself -- has his rf sock on his tail
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Little dude & girls got tagged today.
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Setting up for shearing day.
I'll put sheep into that pen that I want kept separate.
Put up somepanels in the barn to direct flow. Still need to add a little gate to stop back-ups and block an area off.
And outside I need to install a couple of tposts to the curved alley that goes from barn out to where shearer will set up. If you saw last year's pics, you know roughly what this looks like.
Sheep panels are 200-250+ each for 4-6ft length. Lol, no, thanks! Idk how much they are now, because of covid, though. 16ft sheep panel used to be 60, are 100 now, so I assume absurdly expensive!
The shearer has an end box, shearing box? He'll attach it to the end of the alley & 6-8 sheep fit. Door opens in and self closes and he can pull a sheep out as I run around doing other stuff needed, sweeping up wool, pushing more sheep in, leading finished sheep into pen, so on.
Going to move another bale in today or tomorrow.
I'll put sheep into that pen that I want kept separate.
Put up somepanels in the barn to direct flow. Still need to add a little gate to stop back-ups and block an area off.
And outside I need to install a couple of tposts to the curved alley that goes from barn out to where shearer will set up. If you saw last year's pics, you know roughly what this looks like.
Sheep panels are 200-250+ each for 4-6ft length. Lol, no, thanks! Idk how much they are now, because of covid, though. 16ft sheep panel used to be 60, are 100 now, so I assume absurdly expensive!
The shearer has an end box, shearing box? He'll attach it to the end of the alley & 6-8 sheep fit. Door opens in and self closes and he can pull a sheep out as I run around doing other stuff needed, sweeping up wool, pushing more sheep in, leading finished sheep into pen, so on.
Going to move another bale in today or tomorrow.
