Friday night I finished rooing or hand shearing the last of the purebred Shetlands. Although I find plenty of things that I would like to improve on my sheep, I find that I'm pretty pleased with the wool that I got and the lambs that hit the ground this year. I started the long process of photographing and cataloging all my raw fleeces on Saturday. Since I skirted everything as I removed it from the sheep, the skirting process is complete, the neck wool is in one bag, the britch in another and the main fleece is in a larger bag. Some day I will have enough of each color in neck wool to send it to the mill for combed top..........but until then, it's just sitting in bags all over our place.
Here is a few of the samples that I photographed on Saturday. I have sort of a mixed bag of sheep represented here, some yearlings, some 2, 3, 5, 8 years old.
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| OK Acres Elvis (polled ram) 1 year old |
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| Elvis fleece closeup |
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| OK Acres Celine-1 yr old moorit/white flecket ewe |
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| Celine fleece closeup |
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| Sheltering Pines Anais Anais-3 yr old grey kat ewe |
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| Anais fleece closeup |
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| Sheltering Pines Catherine-8 yr old ewe |
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| OK Acres Sierra-2011 fleece (1 yr.) Black ewe |
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| Sierra's fleece closeup |
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| Sheltering Pines Salicional-7 yr. grey kat ewe |
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| Wintertime Garnet-3 yr old moorit ewe |
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| OK Acres Garth-1 yr old shaela ram |
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| Garth fleece closeup |
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| Sheltering Pines Ceylon-5 yr old moorit/white flecket ewe |
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| Ceylon's fleece closeup |
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| Temperance-3 yr old black ewe |
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| Temperance's fleece closeup |
It's all lovely, Kelly! When are you going to take a road trip this way? I know probably three of us who would buy sheep!
ReplyDeletePretty, pretty. And I love your documentation!
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