He was waiting patiently (Graham-patiently that is ;-) for a haircut.
Marcel: "Please mister. Can you hold him down for a little longer? A few of us have some stuff we want to, um, say to him."
Marcel ended up one of my favorite shears. Look how dark chocolate brown he was underneath all those sunbleached tips!
Pretty, pretty. The first picture is truer color - more brown than red.
Petunia, our other moorit, is a completely different type of brown (and fleece - see how loose the locks are compared to Marcel's?). She turned "oatmeal" after her first shearing several years ago and she has one of my favorite fleeces.
Petunia is one of the most laid back, easy going sheep on the farm...but she ain't so into shearing. Worst sheep ever. I think she's been shorn four (or could it be five?) years now and there was only minimal improvement this time. Gavin spent some extra time with her, making sure she was more relaxed when they finished than when they started, even kissing her on the nose before he turned her loose.
"I don't care what you do. I don't like shearers and I hate getting my hair cut!"
Keebs isn't much into it either.
"I just hope you don't mess my hair up like that one time!"
Pretty Mia. Pretty fleece. Pretty tough to shear as well. Sigh. Always tip your sheep shearer.
And I wish I'd gotten a better wide angle picture of this huge fleece (see it piled all the way to the wall?). Who's sitting there all pretty, behaving herself like a good sheep should?
Yep, that's Renny!
Renny looks like she lost about 100 pounds yesterday. And it's the prettiest shade of gray. Very long, not super soft, but with great character (sheep and fleece). The very best kind.
And yes, it was wrapped in her green sheet :-)
Marcel: "Please mister. Can you hold him down for a little longer? A few of us have some stuff we want to, um, say to him."
Marcel ended up one of my favorite shears. Look how dark chocolate brown he was underneath all those sunbleached tips!
Pretty, pretty. The first picture is truer color - more brown than red.
Petunia, our other moorit, is a completely different type of brown (and fleece - see how loose the locks are compared to Marcel's?). She turned "oatmeal" after her first shearing several years ago and she has one of my favorite fleeces.
Petunia is one of the most laid back, easy going sheep on the farm...but she ain't so into shearing. Worst sheep ever. I think she's been shorn four (or could it be five?) years now and there was only minimal improvement this time. Gavin spent some extra time with her, making sure she was more relaxed when they finished than when they started, even kissing her on the nose before he turned her loose.
"I don't care what you do. I don't like shearers and I hate getting my hair cut!"
Keebs isn't much into it either.
"I just hope you don't mess my hair up like that one time!"
Pretty Mia. Pretty fleece. Pretty tough to shear as well. Sigh. Always tip your sheep shearer.
And I wish I'd gotten a better wide angle picture of this huge fleece (see it piled all the way to the wall?). Who's sitting there all pretty, behaving herself like a good sheep should?
Yep, that's Renny!
Renny looks like she lost about 100 pounds yesterday. And it's the prettiest shade of gray. Very long, not super soft, but with great character (sheep and fleece). The very best kind.
And yes, it was wrapped in her green sheet :-)
2 comments:
I'm glad all went well.. kind of. Maybe Rennie needs to give the sheep a workshop in shearing manners. Ha!
I agree, that the shearer needs a big tip.
Each and every one of those fleeces is dreamy!
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