More shearing

[unicornduke]

I ended up being able to do some sheep shearing yesterday, squeezed in between work in the morning and the night class. It was just shearing the bellies of a bunch of pregnant sheep so they'd be ready to lamb in a month or so. I ended up doing 10 of the 40 and I would have been able to do a few more but I had to take a break in the middle of it.

My stomach has been super upset lately, not sure if it's a bug or the dinner I've been eating this week. I felt super nauseous and a little dizzy for a few minutes so I sat down and watched J do some of the ewes while I let my stomach settle. It was also after a particularly difficult ewe who fought me for the first several minutes of the shear, which meant it went longer than it needed to. I was able to get back into it just fine and do more sheep, I just made sure to take longer breaks in between. 

I am pretty sore this morning, I really didn't keep up enough over the winter with workouts unfortunately so ouchies. Oh well, now I know. 

We are planning to do a bunch of full shearing on Monday! Woot!

Comments

[graydon]

Yay success!

Shearing is brutal work.

Hope you figure out what the stomach things is and are OK soon-like.

[annofowlshire]

Super impressed by the shearing! A handful of sheep are on my... let's call it 5 year plan. Because I want the wool, but also because our pasture gets out of control in the summer and with the puppy I'm not as keen to borrow our neighbor's horse this year.