Zowie poses with her no-longer-needed overcoat, and three bags of fleece from her Mom, Aunt Janet, and Cousin Beatrice.

 

When that evening sun go down…

Off to Maine after just two more sleeps.

 

Zinnias & Zowie

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.