Sheep Shearing

Early in the month of June, Trey set about the task of shearing our sheep's coats. It is always an exciting event to watch Trey hand-shear our sheep. They become quite helpless when laid upon their backs. We did have a few stubborn ones who were new at being sheared, who tried to kick and get up even when on their backs, but for the most part, they laid there in quiet submission. The wool is on our front porch awaiting storage for later carding and spinning into yarn. There was a lot of beautiful blacks and lavenders in this year's wool. We increased the number of coats to shear from the two we had last year, to five this year. We had several younger ones who were sheared for their first time, so our wool count increased a lot.