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3:33 pm
December 17, 2009
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Suzanne:
Do you shear your own sheep or do you have someone do it for you? I noticed yours are getting pretty wooly!
3:48 pm
May 14, 2005
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We have someone who does it. And very inexpensively. He charges $10 per sheep and also trims their hooves! In fact, he was here this morning. They WERE looking pretty woolly! They're naked now!
4:37 pm
December 17, 2009
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Do you think he'd travel to Nicholas County?
4:56 pm
May 14, 2005
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LOL, I don't know that he'd go that far! He'd probably charge more to do it. I know he shears in Calhoun County and Roane County. He's REAL old, by the way!
2:00 am
October 17, 2008
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Are you going to show pictures of shearing soon? and of the fleece? I'm removing the vegetable matter from some jacob wool (the name of the sheep is Sarah…), readying it for spinning. It is soooo soft and I can't wait to see what it wants to be.
7:49 am
May 14, 2005
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I posted a couple pics on my Daily Farm Photo page last week. I didn't hang around during much of the shearing actually--I was milking Beulah Petunia! He came in the morning. We haven't done a thing with the fleeces yet.
2:49 pm
October 17, 2008
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Suzanne said:
I posted a couple pics on my Daily Farm Photo page last week. I didn't hang around during much of the shearing actually--I was milking Beulah Petunia! He came in the morning. We haven't done a thing with the fleeces yet.
OK, thanks! – just wanted to make sure I didn't miss seeing the sheepies get their spring coats.
Spring is such a busy time for farmers, and I can get a bit anxious when wool/fleece is concerned. I just bought a used (my first) spinning wheel after drop spindling almost a year.
Spinning is my new passion…
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