Friday, March 06, 2009

My "Day Off"...

I LOVE this ewe lamb

But the mess in her fleece only got worse as winter wore on. Unfortunately, I bought 200 bales of hay, last summer, that were apparently full of burdock! GRRRrrr

I knew it was supposed to be a gorgeous day today so I planned on picking burdock out of fleeces and trimming feet on a few of the girls...

First I had to get everything ready. One bucket for putting the burdocks in. One for any fleece that I plucked off and wanted to keep. A scissor, foot trimmer, and hand shears. My camera, a dog brush and comb, halters, the sheep "chair" and a stool for me to sit on. And, of course, COOKIES.

BLUFF COUNTRY ANGEL volunteered to go first...
It took me a close to an hour to get all the burrs picked out. I had to use the dog brush on some areas where the burrs just split into little slivers that I couldn't pick out of the ends of her fleece. Angel was SO good!

Her "reward" (in addition to about a pound of cookies!) was a pedicure!

Somehow, Angel didn't really seem to appreciate the pedicure all that much.

DOESN'T SHE LOOK BETTER???

I managed to get FIVE ewes done today! I had only planned on doing three. I figured that would be enough to wear me out. But Sera and Rosie were hanging around so I figured I may as well do them while they were right there anyway.

Here Rosie....

Tomorrow it's supposed to rain. I guess I'll work on my taxes...

:-(

11 comments:

  1. I have often thought of buying one of those sheep chairs from Premier but always wondered how well people liked them....any advice? Looks like you were productive!!!

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  2. Angel IS a beautiful girl!

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  3. LMAO Nancy! You crack me up! Sunshine = sheep picking, Rain = taxes. THAT WAS NOT what I was thinking and you got me completely off guard! LOL

    These sunny days DO make a person feel good don't they?

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  4. I spotted the Miracle Grow bucket...now I know how come you grow the prettiest sheep! The secret's out Nancy.

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  5. SSSSSSSHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

    ;-)

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  6. Great makeover! Those girls look great.

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  7. oh my goodness Nancy, the before and after is unbelievable. Good job.

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  8. Anonymous10:10 PM

    Nancy,

    Wow, you really got a lot done and they look wonderful! Wish I could've been there, but at least at work I got to do inventory this afternoon--it was due anyway and it got me outside to the storage garages--it was HARD to sit inside at a desk in this nice weather. Tomorrow I clean house and babysit grandkids. I heard we might get snow Sunday but I'll wait and see. Are the hoofs you are trimming same ones we did last fall--some look like the same. How are they looking?

    Terry

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  9. Angel is beautiful! You had a lot of work to do on her - great job! I have no idea how much work is involved in cleaning stuff out of fleece or trimming hooves (I can't even cut my cat's nails!), but I think I'd much rather do that than taxes...

    Nancy

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  10. Your sheep are all so beautiful Nancy. I love pedicures too :)

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