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Livestock => Sheep => Primitive Sheep => Topic started by: cully_c on July 22, 2015, 02:03:45 pm

Title: Baldy Shetlands!!
Post by: cully_c on July 22, 2015, 02:03:45 pm

After their first shearing! (Since I became a, well, a shepherd!)

Now we have a bunch of naked Shetlands!

(http://i62.tinypic.com/6ygkyv.jpg)

(http://i61.tinypic.com/2rohw61.jpg)

(http://i58.tinypic.com/21eovn7.jpg)

Title: Re: Baldy Shetlands!!
Post by: Fleecewife on July 22, 2015, 02:20:15 pm

Neat job  :thumbsup:  I always laugh at my sheep when their fleeces come off. :sheep: :sheep: :sheep:

Title: Re: Baldy Shetlands!!
Post by: kelly58 on July 22, 2015, 02:28:15 pm

Lovely colours  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Baldy Shetlands!!
Post by: Thyme on July 22, 2015, 02:32:42 pm

They look a bit tidier than my first shearing!  This year I'm calling it success as long as the fleece is (mostly) off and no-one is bleeding  :tired:

Title: Re: Baldy Shetlands!!
Post by: cully_c on July 22, 2015, 02:46:15 pm

Just re read that and believe I am misleading people!  :thinking: Have changed wording, which was surprisingly tricky, still not sure if gets it across!  ;D

It was my first shearing as a sheep owner, it was done by a friend of ours who's a professional shearer! I have tried shearing our goat myself - she's never spoken to me since  :-\

Although perhaps I should have kept quiet and have you all believe I'm a pro!!  :innocent:

Title: Re: Baldy Shetlands!!
Post by: Fleecewife on July 22, 2015, 05:08:01 pm

Aha the truth is out  :roflanim:

Title: Re: Baldy Shetlands!!
Post by: SallyintNorth on July 22, 2015, 10:32:49 pm

Nice sheep  :)  :love: :sheep:

Title: Re: Baldy Shetlands!!
Post by: devonlady on July 23, 2015, 06:21:27 am

Don't they look tiny after shearing!

Title: Re: Baldy Shetlands!!
Post by: cully_c on July 23, 2015, 04:00:37 pm

The one looking at my daughter is pretty tiny anyway.  She's a lovely little sheep, an adorable cross between dead nosey and dead nervous!