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hardworkinghippy



Joined: 01 Jan 2005
Posts: 1110
Location: Bourrou South West France
PostPosted: Tue Apr 12, 05 3:36 pm    Post subject: Busy shearing and kidding. Reply with quote
    

Look what I got for my birthday today!

This is her waiting for her mum to eat the placenta. (Perfectly normal, full of vitamins and keeps foxes off the scent.)



We've been really busy shearing and sorting the wool, and of course now we've got kids to check up on every three minutes, I'll never get anything done!

HWH

tahir



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45389
Location: Essex
PostPosted: Tue Apr 12, 05 3:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

She's pretty, what breed?

Gervase



Joined: 17 Nov 2004
Posts: 8655

PostPosted: Tue Apr 12, 05 3:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Well done!
Do you shear 'em yourself of have someone in? Hand shears, clippers or electic thingies? Our sheep have got to be done in a month or so, and I'm going to cop out and get our ewes done with a neighbour's sheep by the jobbing team of shearers.

Gertie



Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Posts: 1638
Location: Yorkshire
PostPosted: Tue Apr 12, 05 3:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Hi HWH -

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

Aaawwww, what a sweetie - she's a pretty little thing. I was going to ask you what breed are they?

Bugs



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 10744

PostPosted: Tue Apr 12, 05 3:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Happy birthday HWH! I can't think of a much nicer present, isn't she gorgeous? Will you be keeping her to add to your stocks? Or to your stock

Loopy Lou



Joined: 02 Apr 2005
Posts: 263
Location: Northamptonshire
PostPosted: Tue Apr 12, 05 4:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Happy Birthday!

The kid is absolutely gorgeous, I just fell in love!

hardworkinghippy



Joined: 01 Jan 2005
Posts: 1110
Location: Bourrou South West France
PostPosted: Tue Apr 12, 05 10:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

She's an Angora kid and they are really adorable eh?

You don't see her mum's fleece because we shear them before kidding to help the wee one find the nipple and the mum to be a bit cleaner and more comfortable. (Also we want the wool for the spinners in April!)

This girl we'll keep because she's from a lovely Billy that we no longer own and I want to keep his bloodlines. I'm so glad it was a girl!

My boyfriend Fabrice shears them with an electric (solar powered ) shearer and I do the bits & bobs with scissors.

We don't shear our sheep, we have to catch them though, do their feet and teeth etc. and then we pass them on to shearers who take two minutes to shear them. At a pound each ewe, it's a real bargain!

HWH

moggins



Joined: 24 Feb 2005
Posts: 942
Location: Gloucester
PostPosted: Tue Apr 12, 05 11:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

She's beautiful, you lucky thing

Gertie



Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Posts: 1638
Location: Yorkshire
PostPosted: Wed Apr 13, 05 6:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Hi HWH

I'm pleased you are keeping her, she's so adorable. They appear to be very docile.

Good idea about shearing mum before the baby arrived - at least that is one less job for you to do when you are so busy with other things.

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