Shearing Time
Shearing yesterday. Six ewes and the March born ram.
What an ordeal. I was wearing my Audax Paris-Brest-Paris tshirt and I don't remember feeling that tired or sore after that event and it lasted 84 hours ;)

One ewe got a cut in the neck that I had to stitch up, but they were all alive this morning. They're tougher than they look.

And looks. We've lost all our identifying shapes. Their lambs know their mums, but we'll have to relearn their looks.

But they're all done and doing it now might hopefully reduce the chances of flystrike. We only had the one affected last year, but they weren't shorn till late October.

We also put rings on the lambs tails so they didn't feel left out, so they were as sore as their mums.

And the youngest ram got one around his testicles so he was very sad.  ¶ 1:14 PM