I met a very inspiring woman at the sheep conference in Monticello UT in the fall. She was raising her sheep without any outside help-she did the sheering and all of the vet work. Of course I thought, if she can do all of that so can I (we). I was all fired up to do all of our vet work and tackle the sheering in the spring despite never even having seen a sheep sheered. I figured all I needed to do was watch the sheering demonstration on the last day of the
conference and I'd be good to go. Unfortunately the sheering kept being pushed back and I needed to leave, so I missed that sheering. Thankfully there is U-Tube and I found several sheep sheering videos. It looked easy enough. Last weekend we had another opportunity to see some sheep sheering at the National Western Stock Show. The photo above was taken during the sheering competition. Our sheep will be glad to know that I no longer think it looks easy AND I found a relatively local sheerer. Top photo is Gilligan and Sister Theckla. Our sheep will not be sheered until later in the spring. Also, while we are doing a lot of the vet care, when needed, we were so thankful to have Gerelyn help us when Luthien had the cyst. That was a bit gross.
