Three of these goats belong together,

Three of these goats are kinda the same;

But one of these goats is doin’ his own thing…

 

Four more shearings today.  From left to right, above: Janet, Columbia, Beatrice.  Though who could tell!  Except Columbia is developing quite a curl to her horns.

Beatrice yielded 9 pounds; Zowie (not shown), 8 lbs. 12 oz.  Both of those will hopefully be sold straight to Green Mountain Spinnery; Beatrice and Zowie are the youngest at only 2 and 3 years old respectively, and they’d been coated all winter.

Janet yielded 8 pounds after I’d skirted (thrown away) a fair amount for filth and scabby skin – she had the bugs really bad.  Columbia also had bad bugs, but produced a yield that was beyond my little scale’s capacity.

Now just the big boys remain.

I can’t believe how much we accomplished this weekend.  We trimmed hooves on the entire herd, sheared this troublemaker, and unmucked the whole barn.  That’s like 2.5 weekends worth of work.

 

Particularly because it’s still November, the snow has been something, all right.