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cully_c

  • Joined Jun 2015
  • South Lanarkshire
    • Realising the Dream
Baldy Shetlands!!
« 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!






« Last Edit: July 22, 2015, 02:47:23 pm by cully_c »

Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
  • South Lanarkshire
    • ScotHebs
Re: Baldy Shetlands!!
« Reply #1 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:
"Let's not talk about what we can do, but do what we can"

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kelly58

  • Joined Mar 2013
  • Highlands, Scotland
  • Home is were my animals are.
Re: Baldy Shetlands!!
« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2015, 02:28:15 pm »
Lovely colours  :thumbsup:

Thyme

  • Joined Apr 2013
  • Machynlleth, Powys
Re: Baldy Shetlands!!
« Reply #3 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:
Shetland sheep, Copper Marans chickens, Miniature Silver Appleyard ducks, and ginger cats.

cully_c

  • Joined Jun 2015
  • South Lanarkshire
    • Realising the Dream
Re: Baldy Shetlands!!
« Reply #4 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:
« Last Edit: July 22, 2015, 02:48:49 pm by cully_c »

Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
  • South Lanarkshire
    • ScotHebs
Re: Baldy Shetlands!!
« Reply #5 on: July 22, 2015, 05:08:01 pm »
Aha the truth is out  :roflanim:
"Let's not talk about what we can do, but do what we can"

There is NO planet B - what are YOU doing to save our home?

Do something today that your future self will thank you for - plant a tree

 Love your soil - it's the lifeblood of your land.

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Baldy Shetlands!!
« Reply #6 on: July 22, 2015, 10:32:49 pm »
Nice sheep  :)  :love: :sheep:
Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

devonlady

  • Joined Aug 2014
Re: Baldy Shetlands!!
« Reply #7 on: July 23, 2015, 06:21:27 am »
Don't they look tiny after shearing!

cully_c

  • Joined Jun 2015
  • South Lanarkshire
    • Realising the Dream
Re: Baldy Shetlands!!
« Reply #8 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!

 

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