Author Topic: My sheep turned into goats! (Read 4945 times)

Dans · « **on:** May 30, 2016, 12:50:55 am »

Well I come here so often with questions I thought I should post something different. We had the shearer for the first time last week, he took our slightly shedding sheep and turned them into goats for us. They were already standing on their back legs to get at low hanging branches, they really look the part now!

Dans

Bionic · « **Reply #1 on:** May 30, 2016, 08:03:45 am »

It's funny when they have been shorn. As you have said they look like goats. I don't recognise who is who and they don't recognise each other for a day or two either.

Buttermilk · « **Reply #2 on:** May 30, 2016, 08:33:53 am »

Mine have gone from Zwartbles to mismarked British Alpines.

Fleecewife · « **Reply #3 on:** May 30, 2016, 12:13:20 pm »

I remember laughing myself silly when I saw my first Jacobs after they were shorn. Poor things were mightily offended

The best was the tup with his enormous dangly bits suddenly prominently on display

nimbusllama · « **Reply #4 on:** May 30, 2016, 12:40:24 pm »

I think they look more like deer!

CarolineJ · « **Reply #5 on:** May 30, 2016, 01:18:50 pm »

Mine are in the trailer waiting to go down to the farm this afternoon where the shearers are set up. I got them in October, they definitely weren't done last year and possibly not the year before, so I'm looking forward to seeing what they actually look like without vast amounts of fleece on! (Other than fat, which they are - they're going in with the horses in a small field when they come back, rather than running around 4 acres on their own.)

silkwoodzwartbles · « **Reply #6 on:** May 30, 2016, 01:28:34 pm »

My girls look gorgeous shorn

Really pleased - they are so shiny

CarolineJ · « **Reply #7 on:** May 30, 2016, 04:56:41 pm »

All done! Horrible job for the shearers, they reckoned three years of fleece on them, hence a few nicks because the rise wasn't really there, but much, much happier sheep

waterbuffalofarmer · « **Reply #8 on:** May 30, 2016, 07:52:50 pm »

Quote from: CarolineJ on May 30, 2016, 04:56:41 pm

All done! Horrible job for the shearers, they reckoned three years of fleece on them, hence a few nicks because the rise wasn't really there, but much, much happier sheep

They're real beauties, are they Lleyn crosses? I would be paying good money for the ewe standing there, she is a real beauty!

clydesdaleclopper · « **Reply #9 on:** May 30, 2016, 10:50:42 pm »

I reckon I should get the shearer out to my toothless old crone so that I can enter her into one of the milking competitions

CarolineJ · « **Reply #10 on:** May 31, 2016, 07:51:15 am »

Quote from: waterbuffalofarmer on May 30, 2016, 07:52:50 pm

Quote from: CarolineJ on May 30, 2016, 04:56:41 pm
All done! Horrible job for the shearers, they reckoned three years of fleece on them, hence a few nicks because the rise wasn't really there, but much, much happier sheep
They're real beauties, are they Lleyn crosses? I would be paying good money for the ewe standing there, she is a real beauty!

Thank you very much! They're North Country Cheviots.

Fieldfare · « **Reply #11 on:** May 31, 2016, 08:50:44 pm »

Good looking Castlemilks!

Dans · « **Reply #12 on:** June 02, 2016, 09:54:45 pm »

I do agree, once we saw them out they look much more like deer!

Caroline yours mus have been very relieved!

I think freshly shorn sheep are my new favourite!

Dans

Buttermilk · « **Reply #13 on:** June 03, 2016, 08:41:21 am »

My sheep are not happy to have lost their warm coats now the weather has turned chilly.

CarolineJ · « **Reply #14 on:** June 03, 2016, 01:46:09 pm »

Quote from: Buttermilk on June 03, 2016, 08:41:21 am

My sheep are not happy to have lost their warm coats now the weather has turned chilly.

Mine either! I'm getting the "what did you do that for, you twit?" look every time they see me! Given this is what they looked like before and we were getting 18-20C, still think I got it done at the right time.

My sheep turned into goats! - The Accidental Smallholder